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lles writes to the Globe and says: ‘* No Canadian has any notion of his country who simply toddles round Ontario and Quebec.” True ! -A_ correspondent marks that, *‘ The difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of Eng- land consists in the fact that the one is in- fallible and the other always right.”

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— It has been suggested that the Gov- ernment should purchase the site of the Revere House —now in the market—for a

station house for the P. E. Island Railway. The site would be an excellent one; and a new station house will, no doubt, be requir- ed ere long.

Referring to the launch of the steamer Halifax, to ply between Charlottetown and Boston, the Empire says: ‘* This is virtual ly the establishment of a new Canadian steamship line, for the service has up to the present time been solely performed by a United States company. It is believed that when the new steamer Halifax aud her consort begin regular trips they will greatly improve the service and give greater satis faction to the travelling public. A Cana dian enterprise of this kind deserves to be successful, and the prospects are that it will be, for where Canadians compete on equal terms they are not afraid of the result.”

Sale of Shropshire Sheep. Yesterday the annual sale of Mr. Joseph Beach's celebrated Shropshire sheep took place at the Hattons Farm, near Wolver- hampton, when there was a large attend- snee of breeders from diferent parts of the

country, Ireland and the United States. ‘Lhe catalogue included four two-sheer rams, 53 shearling rams, and 40 grand shearling ewes. Among the two-shear

rams was Royal Jubilee, the first priz Wher Reyal shows at Newcastle

and Notiingham and several county shows

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Thisauimal, which has never been beaten in a show yari, was hired for the ensuing

season fur 5O guineas. Another two-shear rat was bought for 50 guineas for Ireland, aod tue first prize wineer in the shearling class at the Roya! show at Nottingham was hired ior tive season ai 8d guineas. The

other rams were s ld at prices ranging at

from 50 guineas wn to seven guineas each. The bidd ius the ewes were very spirited. Two pens were sold for 130s. per

animal, and the remainder were sold at from 80s. to 120s. each. Some of the finest rams were bought for shipment to Michigan, United States. The rams realized a total of about £750, and the ewes £220. The sale was considered very satisfactory. Lond yn Mail, July 25.

Destitution in Labrador.

Lion. Senator McDonald, of Toronto, who has just returned from Labrador, reports great destitution among the fishermen, par- ticularly the hook and line fishermen, to- wards the north. Some, he says, have not caught more, during the season, that one and a half quintals of codfish; others have been living upou mussels and sculpins. Clothing and food are scarce and seimi-star- vation prevatis im some quarters. Some fishermen have caught no fish for two seasons, and they and their families are in extreme destitution. One man, it is re- ported, cut up the sails of his bo&t to make clothing for his children, and now has to row out to the fishing grounds. Women and children have scarcely enough clothing tu meet the demands of decency, while others are bordering on the verge of starva- tion. These people are wholly dependent upoo the sea during the summer for their food. In winter they may secure, at times, a littie game if they have ammunition to use. The earth is sterile, covered in places with short, scrubby bushes, but there are places so utterly destitute of covering that the bare rock alone “is to be seen. The Senator makes a strong appeal for aid for these people.

i Life in Irish Jails.

Mr. Line, M. P. for Cork, writes to the press that when he was in prison he was unable to eat the prison food, alchough sturving. Dr. Ridley begged him to go into the hospital, ‘* because,” he said, ** if you do net, they will starve you to death here. Ridley then brought better food, and said ; ** Il must either defy the Prison or have an inquest upon you, and as I don’t

went « verdict of murder against me, 1] will vive you exercise despite them.” A few days afterwards Ridley came to Lane’s

cell in an excited state and said he had re- ceived a terrible reprimand from Dublin for allowing Lane ‘to exercise. He also suid he had orders to sign a certificate authorizing the infliction — of punishment which would certainly kill Mr. Lane: He again b+gved Lane to go into hospital and he acceded. eo Good Health of London. he health of a great city like London is doubtless affected by a large number of causes, but, on the whole its good system of drainage Jand its wonderful hospital re- sources keep down the death rate. Con- sidering the ‘‘ slums,” of which so much has been recently written, and the vast number of poor who starve or die from the effects of poverty, London continues to. bear a good reputation in the matter of death rate. Figures dealing with the vital re- turns for the past three months, and just published, place the rate during that period at 16.9 per 1,000, :which is below the average in the corresponding periods for the last ten years. Thus does the world’s “reatest city Maintain its reputation in this respect. One week recently saw 2,520 births and 1,288 deaths; so that London aids te its population largely by its natural increase, as well as by foreign accessions. 22m -—— ' TRovsLe AMona tHe Frremen,—There is penling trouble amongst the hose com- panies in the fire department. Members assert that if the council does not make provision for the payment of . parties’ who haul the hose wagons to fires, they will not be taken out some time when the alarm is sounded.— Montton Times,

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Arrived by express to-day, Henry Disston & Sons’ Bricklayers’ Trowels, at the City Havdware Store.—Norton & PENNELL.

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Over to Pictou.

Tne steamer St. Lawrence left Charlotte- town, as usual, at seven o'clock. It was a bright, breezy morning, and the dappled blue of the harbor flashed a living sheen of jewelry amid _ its soft-lined swells of sum- mer ureenness. The noble boat quickly swept us out of the entranee where the rustling groves and green fields came closer to our side on the summit of the red-lined

cliffs. Outon the Hillsborough 4! the scene was delightful. The fresh breeze

chased the foam all over the broad surface. lea Hill stood bold and beautiful along the northern shore, and the white roois of Pownal clustered down by the wave. To the westward were the hills of Cumber- land, shadowed with groves and the fairer tints of cultivated fields ; and at their feet, where the rich verdure stoops to kiss the foam-flecked wave, the lines of great red cliffs all aglow with the morning sunlight, ind St. Peter’s Island out amid the waters. The low swells of Orwell Zand Belfast and Point Prim stretched a great crescent to the eastward, all softened by ereal blue and the mystic veil of sea air that threw gentle shadings round every sunlit feature of the scene.

As we passed Governor's Island we could see quite distinctly that the low cliffs, sur- mounting a ribbon of grey sand, were not red in color, but a rich umber brown. Chey belong to the Lower Permian, and ire the oldest rocks on P. E. Island. In- deed, as the steamer sweeps on amid the surf and the sea breeze we are making a grand geological progression up the tide of time, and the monuments of ages are round us. The low blue hills of the inter- ior peeping through the harbor opening are Triassic, and represent the dynasty of Reptiles. Tea Hill’s cultured bulk, swell- ing its sunlit meadows over the Bay, is Permian, and represents the line of death between primary and secondary time Across the Straits, the low jumbled hils are Carboniferous, and bear the iuonu- ments of that great age of vegetable life. While towering over them, the dark frown- ing balks of Mount Dalhousie and its coin- peers are of Silurian and Archean, and represent the very dawnvf the world’s history, when, in ocean's depths, the simplest form of beings laid the foundation of the sublime pyramid of life. Rounding Point Prim,we have in succession the wood- ed hil's ot Selkirk and Belle Creek, aud the more cultivated district of Wood Islands, snd then White Sands, where the grey dunes rise, like ocean’s surf, all along the coast line. On the other hand, the Cobe- quids swell blue and purple and shadowed against the summer sky. Between rolls the far-stretching silver highway of the Straits. How strange to stand on the deck of the steamer in mid Strait and reflect that some tive or six thousand years ago the ground over which we sail was dry land and noth- ing but a babbling fresh water stream drain- ing the adjacent hills, separated our Pro- vince from the mainland. Such a retro- spect prepares us to contemplate the grander revolutions of past geological ages. The entrance to Pictou harbor is pictur- esque. The light’ house on the white sand-spit, projects right out into the blue waves, in the foreground. In the middle view, to the righ, the spires and tasteful dwellings of © Pictoa town straggle up the steep front of a greca carboniferous bluff. On ‘the other hand, in front of the reugh hills, the great, lofty coal loading stages jut out into the water, surrounded by numbers of smaller craft and the huge black hulks of ocean steamers; between, stretches away the sunlit sheen of the narrow harbor, till it appears to meet the blue and shadowed wall of the towering Cobiguids that rest their frowning dignity against the glowing beauty of a cloudless sky. Pictou is just a handred years old, having been begun in 1788. First the lumber trade and then, when the forests disappeared from the surrounding hills, the coal business have been the source of its prosperity. It is more noted, however, for its education than for its trade. The names of Dawson, Grant and Forrest will long make Pictou remembered in the field of science and literature. Pictou Academy is one of the oldest, as it is one of the best institutions in the Provinces. The build- ing 1s a handsome brick structure, beauti- fully situated on the high gtound overlook- ing the town. We had the pleasure of seeing Principal McKay and being shown through ‘the valuable museum of the Academy. The geological and mineralogi- cal deparcments are well filled, including a nice collection from the tertiary beds of Caroliva. The Zoological collection, under the special direction of Mr. McKay, is very beautiful. As we went through the halls of this admirable institution, stored with specimens and apparatus, we could not help reflecting how far behind the important capital of our own Province is in any- thing of this kind. The Scheol of Science was holding its session here, and we were favorel with listening to the lec- ture of Dr. Waddle on Geology. Mr. McKay’s zoological lesson was a treat. With true scientific method he furnished each of the students with a boiled lobster on a dinner plate and taught them the struc- ture and relation of parts in the class under consideration by actual dissection. On the afterncon of the 26th the school had an ex- cursion to the steel works of New Glasgow. They were taken in an awned barge up the hill-shadowed stream of the romantic East River.

We visited, with Professor’McKay, an elevated ridge of clay, filled with rounded boulders and gravel, called the ‘‘ Boar’s Back,’ which stretches for miles across the country in the rear ofthe town. Some difficulty has been felt in accounting for its origin; but there can be little doubt that it is the terminal moraine of a great glacier which,in the Post-Tertiary, descended from the steeps of Mounts Tomand Dalhousie, filled the valley of the West River, forced itself -across the harbor, and terminating here, left this conspicuous ridge of debris. Its whole track. from the mountains is strewed with abraded material, but only at its termination is it accumulated into a very noticeable ridge. As we stood on the summit of tis ancient moraine and looked up the shadowed valley of the river, twenty miles, to the mountains, and thought of the scene 10,000 years ago, when that now varied seat of industry and culture was sunk under the frozen giare of a wide | Spread torrent of ice, that hung a crystal | pall from the mountain’s brow to the sea, i we felt how grand, if sad, read some pages jof the deep, rock-written history of the past. Before we left Pictou we traced out ! the eastern termination of the Boar’s Back, a little east of the Trotting Park. The

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western extension goes beyond Mill Brook. Returning home by the steamer nex even- ing, as the gentle swell of the Straits gleamed with the reflected light of the evening sky, we watched the shoals of jell fish, glassy Avrvlice and purple Cyanee, with long crimson streamers, undulating in the resplendent waves, with fleets of silky fringed Plewrobranchia. In the Bay, shoals of mackerel were quite abundant. It was interesting to watch their ‘ schooling. Circular patches of deeper blue appeared at distant intervals over the surface of the water, as if it had been brushed by mina- ture whirlwinds. Then came the glint of scales in these, and, finally, the flash of polished-skinned sporters vaulting into the sunny air. B

ee a eo mmm < The School Board.

Str, —The Patriot of yesterday asks what has become of the Board of Trade ? It would be quite in order to inquire next what has become of the City School Board Although meetings are required to be held monthly the Secretary appears to have completely ignored thatrule. I learn on good authority that the members of the Board have received no notice of a meeting for the last two months.

OBSERVER.

Barnum Sheuld Have This Man.

For several days a strange colored man has been in Vincennes, Indiana. He per- forms feats that are simply wonderful. He drinks a bucket of water without stopping, with apparent ease. When he has swallow- ed the water he bends forward and _ begins a pump-like motion of his arm and literally pumps out or vomits up the entire volumn

of fluid. He eats glass, chews it up and swallows it with apparent relish. He actually devours beer glasses, bites the

necks off wine bottles, grinds them to atoms with massive molars and swallows the glass ravenously, acting meanwhile like a boy eating a stick of candy. This pulverized glass he retains and allows it to pass away with his food. He gulps down a pint of boiling water with as much satisfaction as a German swallows a glass of beer. The scalding Water seems to give him no pain and does not in the least interfere with his vigorous digestion. He seizes a full grown hen alive, bites off her head, and tearing the fowl to pieces, devours the entire mass,

feathers, bones, entrails, meat raw and bleeding. When eating undressed fowls he

says he *‘ pumps’ or vomits up. the dis- gusting mass. His appetite is good and he relishes his regular meals, of which he always eats a great quantity. He performs divers other singular and marvellous feats such as sticking a pin through his cheek and drawing it out on the other side with- out flinching.

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DIED.

In this city, on the 7th inst., Shea, in the 65th year of his age.

{Funeral from his late residence to-morrow morning at 8.45 o'clock, to St. Dunstan's Cathedral. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.

In this city, on Saturday evening, the 4th August, Mary, beloved wife of Capt. Turn- bull, aged 58 years.

me

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Household Furniture, BY AUCTION.

I WILL SELL AT MY ROOMS,

On Friday Next, 10th Inst.,

AT 2 O'CLOCK, P. M,,

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, censisting of Parlor and Bedroom Setts, Carpets, Mats, Pic-

tures, Chairs, Tables, one Sewing Machine, &c., &e. GEO. M. HARRIS, augs Auctioneer.

PLEASURE YACHT. By @&UOTION.

am instracted by JOHN WALKER, ESQ., to sell by Austion, at the Sieam Navigatica Company's Wharf,

On Saturday Next, t1th Inst.,

AT 5 O'CLOCK, P. M.: The fast sailing Centre Board Yacht ‘* PURI- TAN,” finished in first-class style, measuring 16

feet keel, 8 feet beam, and 20 feet overall. Will accommodate about fifteen persons.

GEO. M. H ARRIS, Auctioneer,

HURAITURE, FURAITURE. I have received another Consignment of

Bedroom and Parlor Furniture, BED LOUNGES,

Hair and Flock Mattrasses, &e.

The general public are respectfully invited to call and inspect same. Prices moderate.

GEO. M. HARRIS,

Auctioneer.

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Niortgage Sale.

To be sold by Public Auction. on WEDNESDAY the Nineteenth day of September, A. D. 188% at the hour of T'welve o’ciock, noon, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, in Queen’s County, under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in an Indenture of Mortgage dated the twenty-third day of June, A. D. i886, and made between James Murphy, of the one part, and Jane McGregor, of the other part :—

LL that tract, piece and parcel of land sitn- ate, lying and being on Lot Twenty-one, in Queen's Ccanty, in Prince Edward Island, bound- ed as ivilows, that is to say :~Commencing at a stake set in the north side of the Milivale Road, und in the south-west angle of Plot Number Three in the possession cf Peter Murphy, and rupning thence by the magnetic meridian of the year ‘764 north fifty cheins; thence west ten chaibs; thence south to s:id read, and along the same casi to the place of commencemert, con- taining fifty acres of lunc, a little more or less, knew: and distinguished as Plot Number Five, and is thus described in a Deed Poll bearing date the I'wenty-sixth day of Juiy, A.D, 1573, and made dy the Commissioner of Public Lands to — en vr ‘urther particulars apply at the office of Mr tdward J, Hodson, Solicitor, Chariotte-

town Dated this 8th ay vo: August, A. D. 1898,

JANE McGn ; aug8—dy edd tisle wky PG-RG@OR,

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MASONIG PIGNIC

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Moonlight Exeursion.

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

Victoria Lodge, No 2, AF. & A. M.

GRAND PICNIC will be. beld at BIRCH GROVE, POWNAL, on the beautiful rounds of Alex.M, Machae, Esq., Waterside, on

Thursday, 23rd August, Inst.

STEAMER “SOUTHPORT” will leave Ferry Wharf at 9a. m, and1p.m., returning to Char-

lottetown at 7 p. m. . ” Dinner and thefreshments will be provided on

he grounds. , ‘Amusements and Games are inthe hands of first-class omnqeeeeee and an enjoyable day may be expected.

‘A MOONLIGHT EXCURSION will be held in the Evening, Steamer “Southport” leaving Ferry Wharf at 8 p. m. : d

The ARTILLERY BAND will furnish choice music for both occasions. i

Tickets for Pienic, 25 cents each; Children, 15 centseach. Excursion, 25 cents each; Children,

15 cents each. A. H. MCPHERSON,

E. R, BROW, Sec’y. Chairman. augs—wed sat & wky tl 23rd

Piano! Fiano!

BY AUCTION, AT MY SALESROOM,

On Friday Next, 10th Inst,

AT 2 O'CLOCK, P. M.,

ONE FIRST-CLASS ENGLISH PIANO.

G. M. HARRIS,

REAL ESTATE

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QUEEN STREET.

I NESDAY, August 15th, at 12 o’clock, noon, on the premises :— That valuable four-story Brick Building and

Land next to Watson’s Drng Store, fronting 28 feet on Queen Street, and running back 86 feet.

—ALSO—

The Land and Building in the rear, and adjoin- ing the above, fronting 22 feet on King Street, and running back 44 feet.

The House—owned by Mr. Alex. McKenzie— is one of the best built and finished Residences in the city.

Terms—One-half the purchase money, cash ; the remaining half on interest at 6 per cent. for

five or more years. A. McNEILL,

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ANTHRACITE COAL.

T° ARRIVE, ex Schr. Robbie Godfrey from New York, due here about 12th inst. :—

270 Tons of the celebrated JERMYN COAL, which gave such good satisfaction last year.

R. McMILLAN.

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AUCTION SALE

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Household Furniture.

am instructed by MR. G. A. SHARP, to sell by Auction, at his Residence, King Square,

On Tuesday, 14th Instant,

AT 11 O'CLOCK, A. M.:

All his Honsehold Furniture, consisting of Par- lor, Dining Room and Bedrvom Setts, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs, Cornices and Curtains, Crock- ery, Glassware, etc., etc.

ALso—Choice lot of Oil Paintings and Steel

Engravi h eg RGEC G. M. HARRIS, aug7 Auctioneer. AUCTION SALE

Household Furkitirs.

I am instructed by MRS. HAYDEN, to sell by Auction, at her Residence, corner of Great George and Water Streets,

On Wednesday, 15th August,

AT 11 O'CLOCK, A. M.,

All her HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consist- ing of Parlor, Dining Koum and Bedroom Sets, 1 Mahogany Extension Table, Chairs and Side- board, Carpets, Mats, Oil Cloth, Sofas and Bureaus, Feather eds and Bedding, Crockery and Glassware, Window Poles and Curtains, Pictures, Flowers, Stoves, etc., etc,

ALso—One Piano, Music, Violin, one Improved Singer Sewing Machine, Fishing Kod and Basket, Double Barrel Gun, Hand Painted Placques.

One Kitchen Range (Stewart, No. 9), Kitchen Utensils, etc., etc.

Sleigh, Water Cart and Harness, and one good Milch Cow, 6 years old (Ayrsaire.)

GEO. M. HARRIS,

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COAL! COAL!

THE Subscriber is now prepared to supply at short notice :— ANTHRACITE (Keg and Chestnut sizes), ACADIA NUT and ROUND, SYDNEY ROUND (Old Mines), CALEDONIA SLACK, and BLACKSMITH’S COAL,

At Lowest Cash Prices. CAPT. JOHN HUGHES,

ST. PETER'S SCHOOLS, CHARLOTTETOWN.

BOYS’ SCHOOL.

Head Master—Rey. James Simpson, M. A., (five

ears Assistant. Master at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ont.)

Assistant Masters Rev. Fred E. J. Lloyd; T. H.

Hunt, Esq., B. A. GIRLS’ SCHOOL.

Teachers—The Misses DesBrisay.

Michaelmas Term opens on Monday, ‘These are several vacancies in both Schools The cvurse of instruction includes Classics, Mathematics, English and French. Pupils prepared for Matriculation Examina- : tions at the Universities. Attendance at Scripture Lessons is voluntary. { For particulars apply to

REY. J j aaa AMES Grereou,

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A SWEEPING AVALANCHE

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BARGAINS

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JAMES PATON & CO’S.

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We Challenge Comparison with the following Goods : Black Cashmeres, Black Merinos, Colored Dress Goods of all kinds,

CA RPEHTS,

Prints, Sunshades, Gloves, Hosiery, Underclothing,

Millinery and Mens’ Readymade Clothing, nee (Jere

PATON & CO., MARKET sQUARFR,

Ch’town, July 25, 1888—eod & wky

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BS, DAVIES & G0,

CUSTO!T TAILORS,

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Dealers in Mens’ Furnishing Goods.

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Large Stock and Very Best Value for your Money,

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Large Lot of Summer Underwear, very cheap, # Straw Hats, 7 Helmets, Coats for the Hot Weather, All the Novelties in Gents’ Neckwear and Furnishings, ALL AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH. B. S. DAVIES & CoO.,

CAMERON BLOCK, OPP. POST OFFICE.

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June 22, 1888.

E. W. TAYLOR,

Agent in Charlottetown for the sale of the Celebrated B. Laurance Spectacles and Eyeglasses.

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AVING received .a large assortment of Pebble and other Spectacles and Eyeglasses direct from Mr. Laurence, and also purchased the entire stock of Goods in that line

from Mr. Theo. Chappelle, the former Agent, together with my former stock of Optical

Goods, gives me the largest and most complete assortment of Spectacles and Eyeg:asses

ever shown on P. E. Island.

We use a most scientific and practical instrument in fitting Glasses, and some of the cures

we have effected to impaired vision have been, to say the least, remarkable.

Testimonials on application.

BH. Ww. TAYLOR,

Jeweler and Optician, Cameron Block, City. Ch’town, June 11, 1888.

Sept. 3rd. ;

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WHOLESALE AND REVAIL.

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Hardware, Carriage Goods,

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MILL SUPPLIES,

Paints, Oils, Varnishes, &e.

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N HAND AND ARRIVING—A FULL STOCK OF THR FAMOUS

GOODHUE LEATHER BELTING

NORTON & FENNELL.

May 29, 1888~2aw & wky CHARLOTTETOWN,