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Winter Arrangement.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1878,

Trains Going West.

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| Express. G eorgetown Cardigan M.Stew’t Jan

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1879,

Hl. W. Vinnicombe,

Resident Piano Tuner d: Regulator,

eT AS adopted the Doliar system of Tuning 2 Six visits a year, at one dollar per visit. This system is much more economical and satisfactory than any other, as the cost is less, and the instrument is kept constantly in tune and repair.

A visit will be made to all parts of the Island once a year, or oftner if desired. Pianos tuned by Hamilton’s system of even temperament.

wa” Orders may be left at Mr. Fletcher’s Music Store, or at Bremner Bros., Queen Street.

Jan. 6, 18S79—

FRANK COX, M.D. G.M.,

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OFFICE APOTHECARIES HALL. Residence : Capt. Mutch’s, Water Street, next door to St. Lawrence Hotel. N. B.—Particular attention paid to diseases of the chest and stomach. Ch’town, Nov. 16, 1878—3m

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a RKRANCE effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Vessels on the stocks.

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November 6, 1878.

WAGSTAPF'S HOTEL.

FPNUE Subscriber having fitted up the Hotel formerfy known as

THE RANKIN HOUSE,

in first class style, is now prepared to give comfortable accommodation to

Permanent and Transient Boarders. Tourists and others will receive every atten- tion at the Wagstaff’s Hotel. WM. WAGSTAFF.

May 25, 1878

DR. CREAMER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,

Kent Street, Charlottetown, (Three doors from Dr. Johnson’s). Rx ENTRANCE BY SIDE DOOR. “@& Oct. 15 —3m

BROADWAY HOUSE,

BY MACKENZIE,

FYXWE former ‘City Hotel,” now the

Broadway House, Great George Street, opposite the Catholic Cathedral, is now open for Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders.

The rooms have been thoroughly renovated and newly furnished.

The tables will be supplied with the best the market affords, and fares reasonable.

A Suite of Rooms convenient for a small family, together with board &c., can be had in the Broadway House.

Nov. 23, 187S8—tf

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. EL

J. 3. DAVIES - - - Proprietor

(Formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Pictou). HIS well-known Hotel is now open under the present management ; and, having been newly furnished throughout, it offers every comfort to the travelling public. Suit- able Sample Rooms for commercial gentlemen.

Oct. 15, 1878—35miz

- JAMES HOBBS,

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NEW MARKETS WANTED—A LINE OF ERS PROPOSED.

To the Editors of the Island press : GENTLEMEN,—Will you kindly give the following a place in your columns :—

STEAN-

The writer had occasion last winter to ask insertion for a letter on potato culture; since that date our farmers have sold last year’s potato crop for a remunerative price, but as usual the shippers had te accept prices varying from ten to twenty cents per bushel less for our blue potatoes than more desirable varieties, proving that a change of seed has become a necessity. Individual enterprise cannot be expected to expend any very considerable sum for the public bene- fit; and if we are to have a general impor- tation of fresh seed, such importation will have to be made by the Local or General Governments. What a chance for a pat- riotic member to make his name famous !

The object of the present letter is to di- rect attention to the necessity that exists for opening up fresh markets, and to sug- gest how some of those can be made ayail- able.

It is not generally known among our farmers that the condition of things in the United States, as regards the sale of farm produce, has altered very much since the Reciprocity Treaty was repealed. Previous to that date we could ship nearly all or any of our farm products to their markets and get remunerative prices. Now it is differ- ent. I will illustrate: our staple, oats, for instance ; one hundred bushels cost in this market twenty-eight dollars ; freight, ten dollars ; insurance, commission and charges, five dollars more, or, in all, forty-three dol-

ars, delivered in Boston, exclusive of duty. At the same time oats were selling there at from 30 to 36 cents per bushel, showing a loss of ten dollars on every hundred bushels shipped to that market. ‘The previous year the loss would have been greater. In years of searcity, lL admit, they supply our best market for potatoes, but is it prudent for us to depend almost entirely on that contin- gency? The fair criterion is a shipment made during a year of plenty.

In the fall of 1877 I had a lot of potatoes which I had prepared for shipment tu Liverpool, G. B., per S. 8S. ‘‘Prince Ed- ward,” but being disappointed in the means of transport, I picked out the most saleable kinds, and shipped them to Boston per steamer, and although I received average market prices, I sustained a loss of ten cents per bushel (first cost on the Island being about 26 cents per bushel.) The fol- lewing spring potatoes seld as low as 35 cents in Boston. Eggs sold at 10 cents in Boston and 9 cents in New York last spring. For our horses there is practically no market. The same may be said of beef cattle, and there is but a limited demand for sheep. In the United States their facilities for internal transit have opensd up the vast prairies of the west,—regions which bid fair to become the granaries and stock-yards of the world. The many lines of railroad competing for business, have enabled the western grewer to crowd us out of the eastern markets. Pork is cheaper in New York than in Charlottetown; lard about a third less. Butter is about the same price as with us, and cheese is cheaper. They are shipping vast quantities of farm produce to Europe, several steamer loads leaving New York weekly.

I herewith beg to propose a way by which we cau find a profitable market for all our surplus farm products :—A_ sufficient sub- sidy is required from the Government to establish a line of steamers, sailing from Summerside and Charlottetown, connecting with the Intercolonial R. R. at Pictou, thence to Liverpool via Hawkesbury. Those steamers could be fitted with refrig- erators, and a profitable trade done in fresh meats. A shipment of live stock ceuld be made each trip, the balance of cargo could be made up of potatoes and grain.

The present is a favorable time to start a line of steamers, as suitable vessels can be bought at far less price than they cost to construct. As most of our business men have been heavy losers lately, it is scarcely probable that enough of capital can be spared out of our small community to pur- chase suitable steamers about the size of the ‘*Prince Edward,” but with a smallsubsidy, I have no doubt a company could be formed to operate them under a tariff of rates that would admit of the profitable shipment to Europe of any of our farm products, as well as the produce of our fisheries.

Ultimately, I believe, such a line will pay a dividend; but the first consideration is the adoption of a tariff that will foster the

public interests.

I remain, gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, Iiznry Coomes. February 7, 1879.

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In the French army, cavalry bands have been suppressed, and uniforms are neither so varied nor so brilliant as they used to be. With compulsory service, the bait of gundy trappings is not required, and, with the new arms of precision, showy colors afford too fair a mark to the enemy. Even white horses are being eliminated from the army services as far as possible. There are no zouave regiments now except in Algeria.

NO. 515,

Kixported Leprosy.

The Provincial papers refer to a case of leprosy discovered in Prince Edward Island and to the fact that the leper formerly be- longed to Caraquet. We regret to know that the report is but too true. The person referred to is the wife of a Frenchman, who, in some way, managed to have her released from the Lazaretto at Tracadie after she had been placed there as a leper. Her maiden name was Pluid, lic: father being a Lower Canadian Frenchmau and her mother one of the Gionets of Lower Caraquet, and now married to her second husband, Thaddy Gold, who is said to be somewhere in Prince Edward Island. We believe the woman claims that she contracted the disease by sleeping with a girl named Commeau at Tracadie before her marriage. The matter is one that should have the attention of the Dominion authorities, who ought, long ago, to have taken the leprosy under their charge, instead of imposing the duty upon the Province of New Brunswick. —Chatham Advance.

If the above be correct, we think the Port Hill Board of Health should take every means to ascertain the true nature of the disease said to exist at Squirrel Creek. Let not the loathsome disease of leprosy be allowed to spread, through the negligence or indifference of the Health authorities. Increase of Sudden Deaths.

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We never remember having seen so many suddeu deaths reported as having taken place in Canada as during the past few months, Every day er two our Canadian exchanges re- port the occurrence of new instances. The story comes from all sections of the country. Ontario has contributed its full share to the retord, Quebec has furnished many iustances, and the Maritime Province list is a somewhat startling one. In many cases the persons passing away so suddenly have been men in middle life. The causes to which death has been attributed, in the great majority of cases, has been heart disease. The facts would seem to warrant the conclusion that that form cf disease has of late been more prevalent than usual. It is not to be wondered at that it should be so. The storm and stress of life for some years in Canada, as elsewhere, has been painfully severe. In the conflict heart and brain alike have suffered, though, judging from the apparent increase of sudden deaths as colaingeed with the increase of mental de- rangement, we should suppose the heart to have been a greater sufferer than the brain, The return of good times—times of quiet, healthful prosperity—will bea great boon to all classes, but especially to men suffering the wear and tear of anxious business life.— News,

The present is the severest winter they have had in California for a long time, and it has increased the mortality, chiefly among persons of middle and advanced age, fully twenty per cent. At the same time, when their weather is compared with Eastern winters, it becomes difiicult to understand why they should find it so trying. For about two months, with occasional rain, they have had a white frost every morning, but as soon as the sun was fairly up that has disappeared. A beautiful sky was over- head: there was only just wind enough to give motion to the atmosphere, and when the sun was up doors and windows could be left wide open, to let in sunlight, air, and the odor of flowers. At night, however, grate fires were pleasant, and extra blankets servicable. The increase in mortality is attributed to the lack of precaution of old residents, who are not accustomed to find heavy clothing necessary.

Cardinal Manning, in an article in the Dublin Review, complains that ‘fas yet no high office of trust is held in England by a Catholic. The traditions of prejudice and social exclusiveness will, no doubt, go far to account for this; but if our rising men have equal force of character and equal cul- tivation with their non-Catholic country men they will break through these barriers. That they have net yet done so seems to point to defects either in force or in cultiva- tion, or perhaps both.”

At Montville, fifteen miles from Portland, Me., on Saturday evening, John McFar- land, a respectable farmer, his wife and grand daughter, were killed by one Rowell, an insane man. The lunatic was afterward shot and killed by a neighbor, whom he had attacked.

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The Death-rate of

Our country is geiting to be fearfully al- arming, the average of life being lessened every year, without any reasonable cause, death resulting generally from the most in- significant origin. At this season of the year, especially, a cold is such a: common thing that in the hurry of every day life we are apt to overlook the dangers attending it and often find, too late, that a Fever er Lung trouble has already set in. Thou- sands lose their lives in this way every win- ter, while had Bosshee’s German Syrup been taken, a cure would have resulted, and a large bill from a doctor been avoided. For all diseases of the Throat and Lungs, Bos- ehee’s German Syrup has proven itself to be the greatest discovery of its kind in medi- cine. Every Druggist in this country will tell you of its wonderful effect. Over 950,- 000 bottles sold iast year without a single failure known.

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VALENTINES have just arrived at Kent Street Book and Stationery Store. Nice Scented Satchels. Between Great George and Prince

Streets, near Mr, Sellar’s Grocery, Feb, 7—

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