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_ CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1879,

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NO. 486.

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Tue Dairy EXAMINER Is Published every Evening. OFFICE;

INGS’ BUILDING, CORNER OF WATER AND GREAT GEORGE STREETS, Charlottetown, P. E. L

Six Months, Three Months, One Month, One Week,

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aw Advertising at most moderate rates,

Contracts may be made for monthly, quer- terly, or half-yearly advertisements, on appli- au Nl.

Ww. L. COTTON,

* W. MITCHELL, Manager.

Office Sup't.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. tI.

Winter Arrangement.

ON AND AFTER

COMMERCIAL

Union Assurance Company, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

CAPITAL - - $12,500,000,

KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION :

NSURANCE effected against Fire on all

descriptions of Property throughout the Island.

losses.

HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P. E. Island. Ch’town, Dec, 20, 1878—

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QUEEN INSURANCE CO'Y,

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build-

ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on View on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences.

Losses settled promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island

June, 1877—

No. 35 Water St..,

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1876,

‘Trains Going West.

‘4.28 *

| “10.47 “ | <* 4.45 “

ad nas *31.86 ** ari2.15 pm

Hunter River N. Wiltshire Royalty Jun. ** §.40 ** = ar 6.00 ‘ Un town ‘dp 2.55 “ 3.15 ** |

i STATIONS a oe | No. 3 | Express. | Mixed. Georgetown | Dp 8.10 am} Cardigan “tae * ‘ é 9.55 sé M.Stew't Jan dp10.05 a Royalty Jun. | 11.90 « | ei. ite” awn dp 8.00 am) Dp 3.30 pm Royalty Jun. “ 6299...“ Gay N. Wiltshire Ls ae 4 106 Age Hunter River "ae 1 ae Breadalbane ieee Sa “ County Line | 3. WS St | ** 5.51“ Kensington | “33a. | ** G20 * cs { lar11.30 ‘* lar 7.00 ‘ sulimerside } ‘dp 2 40 pm Wellington ie 3.32 ” Port Hill oe 0’ Leary | * &3 * (| bao ° Alberton lap er ‘s Tignish lar 7.25 trains Going East. ees STATIONS. No. 2 No. 4 Express, Mixed. Tignish — | Dp 7.00 am Alberton os 7.455 " O’ Leary ee 8.47 sé Port Hill | “20.05 ** Wellington "10.48 ** Pe - | lar 11.40 a maaan eeteties { jdp 2.30pm) Dp 8.45 am Kensington tage”. coe: ae County Line " 3.40 v2? : Breadalbane “ia **10.08

Royalty Jun.

4,30 *¢ Mt. Stewart dp 4.40 ** Cardigan | “* 6.00 *

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SOURIS BRANCH.

Going West. Going East.

ee | NoS ij No.6 STATIONS. Mixed. | STATIONS. Mixed.

a. M.|/ r.M Souris Dp 7.00||MtStw’tJnciDp 4.40 Harmony | ‘ 7.23/|Morell *-§,22 St. Peters ‘« $,42/(St. Peters -" 6s Morell ** 9,13|| Harmony *s 6712 Mt S’tw’tJnc} ar 9.55)|Souris ar 7.35

C. J. BRYDGES, Cen. Sup. Gov. Railways «'h’town, Dec. 27, 1878. ; :

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

SPECIAL TRAIN, in connection with the Winter Steamship Northern Light, beginning December 24th, 1878, will run as under :—

Leave Charlottetown, 5.25 p. m.; Mount Stewart, 6.37 p. m.; arriving at Georgetown, 7.55 p. m.

On arrival of Nothern Light from Pictou, a Special Train will leave Georgetown for Char- lottetown.

These Trains will stop at Royalty Junction, Little York, Bedford, Mount Stewart, Peake’s, Baldwin’s and Cardigan, only to take on and leave off passengers, and will run only to con- nect with trips made by the Northern Light. C. J. BRYDGES, W. McKECHNIE, Gen. Supt. Govt. Rw rs. Superintendent.

Charlottetown, Dec. 27, 1878—6i ne ieee ey COAL. COAL. OUND AND NUT COAL cheap for

cash, by s W. W. CLARKE, Agent. Head Lord’s Wharf, Charlottetown, Nov, 23. |

WM. McKECHNIE, Supt. P. B. 1. RP.

| Charlotietown.

Pringe fuiviard Island Branch

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| WORTH GRISH & M FIR: AND LIFE.

INSURANCE CO.

$9,733,332.00 1,216,666.60

CHIEF OFFICES—Edinburch, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street.

Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ance Business are divided every Five Years. The Tables of Rates are moderate.

Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LOWEST RATES vf Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk.

LossEs settled with promptitude and liber-

ality. G. W. DEBLOIS,

General Agent.

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Dec

JAMES HOBBS,

CABINET-MAZKER, UPHOLSTERER, KETC, HY REMOVED from McPhail’s Corner

to the premises just vacated by Mr. Joun SrumBwes, Prince Street, where, with increased facilities, he is prepared to attend to the wants of his customers with punctuality and despatch, and on reasonable terms.

CARPETS cut and laid.

Parntine and Repairing neatly done.

Picture Frames and Mouldings constantly on hand, or made up to order.

All kinds of Household Furniture made to order, cheap and good.

New Pattern School Desks made at short notice. A first-class article.

s@ Don’t forget the place: PRINGE STREET (near the new Baptist Church in course of erection).

Charlottetown, Oct. 26, 1878-—

BOOK & JOB

PRINTING!

neatly and expeditiously executed,

AT THE “EXAMINER” OFFICE under the careful supervision of

J. W. MITCHELL,

We are now in a position to execute orders for all kinds of Printing, such as

LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS, CARDS,

PAMPHLETS, DODGERS, HANDBILLS, POSTERS,

AND ALL KINDS OF

Bank and Legal Blanks,

ke, &o. &€. AT MODERATE PRICES. Office :—Ings’ Old Stand, Corner Great George and Water Streets.

UBSCRIBE for the DAILY EX AMINER the Cheapest and most newsy Paper published in the Province,

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0 8 NORTHERN LIGHT

Wit MAKE DAILY TRIPS, unti further notice (Sundays excepted), | leaving Georgetown at SIX a. m., and leaving | Pictou at HALF-PAST ONE, p. m., weather ' permitting.

WILLIAM MITCHELL, Agent of Department. | Ch’town, 24th Dec., 1878—

RANKIN HOUSE,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. kh. I.

J. 3. DAVIES - - + Proprietor

(formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Pictou),

r¥Niis well-known Hotel is now open under the present management ; and, having been newly farnished throughout, it offers every comfort to the travelling public. Suit- able Sample Rooms for commercial gentlemen. Oct. 15, 1878—3_ mu

BROADWAY HOUSE,

BY MACKENZIE.

YHE 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 Breadway House.

Nov. 23, 1878—tf

‘WAGSTAF'S HOTEL.

HE Subscriber having fitted up the Hote! formerly 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

DENTISTRY. YENHE cry of ‘Hard times” and “No

money” is universal. Yet people lose their teeth, and in consequence their health. Again, recent improvements have cheapened the cost of Dental materia] ;—considering which I have decided to reduce my prices, and for three months from the date of this I will make a sett of teeth for Ten Dollars. Parts of setts correspondingly cheap. More than this—I will use good material and guar- antee, in every case, a perfect fit.

C. L, STRICKLAND. th’town, Jan. 4, 1879—

a 2 H. W. Vinnicombe, Resident Piano Tuner & Regulator,

: i AS adopted the Doilar system of Tuning,

~Six visits a year, at one dollar per visit. ‘This system is much more economical and satisfactcry than any other, as the cost is less, and the ‘nstrument 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.

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

Jan. 6, 1879

ER. CREAMER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Kent Street, Charlottetown,

(Three doors fir

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NHE Subscriber, having obtained the Con tract to remove night soil from the City, no one else is authorized to do so. Night Soil only removed between 8 p. m. and 6 a. m.,—at 75 cents per hogshead. Payment to be made only to me. a 6Orders left at the Police Station will be promptly attended to. DANIEL GORDON, Charlottetown Royalty, } 3m wed & th Nov. 13, 1878 jn epatm & tues

E. G. HUNTER, — lialian and American Marble,

Monuments, Tablets, Headstones,

Cenrre Taste Tops, Bureau snp Commopg Tors, WasH Bow. Sass, &c., &v.

Prices to suit, and satisfaction. guaranteed. R&S Designs furnished on application. @a

Corner Hillsborough and Kent Streets, Char- lottetown.

November 6, 1878.

A Royal Death.

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(From the London Standard )

Tarry ! dear daughter of a Royal race !

Our teet are following on thy fading track,

And love is calliiig death to give us back

What love gave death, in one too rash em- brace.

Thy mother and thy children head the chase, And a whole people sweil grief’s piteous pack ; | Tarry ! we shall overtake the monster black | That hath throned darkness in thy shining |

place. Ah ! fondness foiled! Death’s footprints death destroys, ‘

And of his theft no touch surrendereth !

And grief’s sweet solace for embittered joys

Must be, O martyr-mother? that thy breath,

Parent twice o'er, both saved and soothed thy boys,

| Aud thou wert kissed immortally to death !

ALFRED ATSTEN. Dec. 18, 1878. me san aalliasimis oe

Terrible Tragedy.

MAN AND WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH AT BROCKTON, ONT. (From the Toronto Mail.)

in a neat, rough cast cottage, on a side- line, about one hundred yards from Dun- das street, directly north of the White Bridge, lived James Larmour, an old pen- sioner, and his wife. He is described by the neighbors as having been a quiet, good-natured man, at times addicted to liquor. He was employed as a flax-dresser in a rope-walk at Brockton, owned by Mr. McGregor, near which, about thirty feet from the road his house was situated. He was seen on Thursday afternoon passing the Brockton Club House with a lead of wood, and was afterwards seen unloading the wood at his own door. Those who saw him did not judge from his appearance that he had been drinking, the opinion being that he vas perfectly sober during the afternoon. Little is known of his action during the day, his house being some some distance from any other. About nine o’clock on Thursday night the inhabitants of Brock- ton were alarmed by acry of fire,and a lurid reflection in the sky of a conflagration. Larmour’s house was in flames. Many of the inhabitants hurried to the scene, but their efforts to extinguish the fire were of little avail, as it had gained great headway, having seized upon the entire building. When the fire had nearly burned itself out, one of the spectators discovered the remains of two bodies in the ruins, County Con- stable James Woods, who was present, was informed of the circumstance, and after satisfying himself that a couple of persons had been burned to death, he secured a vehicle and started to inform the coroner. The drive was one of the most distressing that Woods ever had, the wind and snow beating piteously against him for seven miles. After undergoing great suffering he reached Dr. Beaty, the coroner at Lampton Mills, and informed him of the occurrence. The coroner visited the scene early yester- day morning, and called an inquest at the Brocton Club House. The witnesses ex- amined could not tell of the origin of the fire, the testimony being mainly as to when Larmour and his wife had last been seen, and as to their intemperate habits. The jury, after_considering the evidence, re- turned the following verdict: ‘‘ That two persons, supposed to be James Larmour and his wife, were buried ina house near the white bridge, in the township of York, on Thursday, the 2nd day of January, but how the tire originated there is no evidence to show.”

eee ee eee The Vanderbilt Estate. BROTHER CORNELIUS ENTERS A SUIT TO SUPERSEDE TIE EXECUTORS.

WILLIAM i. CHARGED WITH RECKLESS EX-

TRAVAGANCE AND RASH SPECULATION.

A petition has been filed in the Surrogate Court of New York by Cornelius J. Vander- bilt, in which complaints are made against Wm. H. Vanderbilt and the other executors of the Vanderbilt will. ‘The petition prays the Court to issue a citation requiring the executors to show cause why they should not be superseded, and that they may be enjvined trom further acting until the mat- ter in controversy be disposed of | The pe- tition charges Win. H. Vanderbilt of specu- lating in stocks on a gigantic scale, and to a. greater extent than has ever been known, and that to carry on such speculations he is using the assets of the estate to a very large extent as collaterals to loans or otherwise, and has borrowed and is owing over $18,- 000,000 tor speculating purposes; that he has lost in speculations several millions; that he is of an excitable and reckless tem- prament, and in endeavoring to sustain the will, expending large and unnecessary sums to procure and intimidate witnesses; that he is not only wild and reckless in financial operations, but 1s enlarging his railroad in- terests by paying more than the interests purchased are worth, and is using the assets of the estate for this purpose, greatly to its hazard; that he is contracting a large debt to varieus railroad corporations, of which he is President, by withdrawing for his own benefit large sums of money from them, t? which their creditors or stockholders are entitled; that such money is withheld by him and appropriated to his own use by va- rious contrivances; that the aggregate of the sum thus diverted is very large and is recklessly invested, and does not increase the value of the estate, while subjecting him to large liabilities which may be enforced against him at any time, and that his habits, associations, speculations and expenses are auch as to create a belief that the property

he controls will ultimately be wasted,

Corresyondence,

wi” We donot hold ourselves responsible for

the statements ov opinions of our correspondents

Tke North River Scandal.

\ WRONG IMPRESSION CORRECTED.

To the Editor of the Examiner:

Str,—Having watched the North River movement in the Sellar case with interest from first to last, I strongly feel for Mr. Sellar, on account of the treatment he re- ceived there. But I am sorry that Mr. Sellar stated in his evidence that his dog was roasted in the Baptist Church. He should of known better; and must have known that the place where his dog was set on fire, did not belong to the Baptists. It was sold to the Sons of Temperance more than five years before the dog was roasted. It is not my intention to screen the conduct of those guilty persons; and I hope that the law will reward them according as they de- serve. But, at the same time,Ido not wish a slur to be cast on any Church when people should know better. The former evidences show that the dog was set fire to at the old Baptist Church. It appears that the Court took the wrong view, for in sum- ing up the affair, and laying the heavy charges against the North River people— one of them was the burning of the dog in the place where Divine Worship was held. I wish to correct thiserror. It was in the Sons of Temperance Hall, and not in the Baptist Church. It could not be the Baptist Church, when it belonged to the Sons of Temperance, :

Yours, ete., A Looker On.

January 9, 1878.

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The Experiment with the Big Gun.

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To the Editor of the Examiner .

_ Srz,—In my last letter I left your readers in suspense as tu the result of testing the wooden cannon at Brackley Point. Every- thing was arranged, and dare-devil Me- Donald stood at the end of the fuse with a lighted match in his hand. We were all behind some ditch or fence with our faces to the earth. You must acknowledge that it was a moment of anxious and terrible suspense. Even the descendant of the man who, single-handed, faced three bears and a wildcat, trembled like an aspen leaf. All felt that the lives of, at least, toc human beings was in great peril. That the un- suspecting Frenchman in the front, or the scapegrace Scotchman in the rear must fall a sacrifice, was felt by all to be a foregone conclusion. After anxiously waiting for some fifteen minutes, some of us ventured to raise our heads and look around, when McDonald was seen at a considerable dis- tance gesticulating wildly and making signs to us to keep our places. At last, when our patience was well nigh exhausted, the crash came. We immediately rose to our feet, and all eyes were directed to the spot where the Frenchman and Scotchman were last seen. They were both alive, Indeed, one :uan, a celebrated goose shooter, whose eyesight is partienlarly good, says that the Frenchman was in the act of caten- ing a smelt, and that his face wore a placid smile, His story, however, was not be- lieved, for, at the time, his mouth was so wide open with astonishment and fear that a sinelt might have gone down his throat without his notice. As for McDonald, he was swearing like a Portuguese at the Brackley Pointers for being a set of cowards to be afraid of anold pump. As soon as we got over our astonishment at seeing the two men in jeopardy alive, we all rushed to the gun, or what McDonald irreverently called the old pump. On examining it there was a general exclamation of ‘‘ Well, well, did you ever?’ followed by 2 universal shout of, ‘No, I never.” The ball and grape shot were in the exact position in which they were placed; and to all appearance this wonderful piece of ar- tiliery. was the same as when brought forth with such pride by the inventor, with the ex- ception that the touch-hole was larger. There was one thing 1 noticed with regret, While the trial of the gan was in progress every Brackley Pointer claimed an interest in the invention, and for some two hours the in- ventor was a very god come down among men, Bat uo sooner did it fail in trial than they re- viled him as an old fool who had wasted three years in trying te make a cannon out of an old pump. Yours, ete., \AMBLER.

January, 8, 1879.

Number of Words in Use.

The vocabulary of the ancient sages of Egypt was about 685 words. A well- educated person seldom uses more than 3,000 or 4,000 in actual conversation. Ac- curate thinxers and close reasoners employ larger stock, and eloquent speakers may rise to a command of 10,000. Shakespeare produced all his plays with about 15,000. Milton’s works are built up with 8,000.

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Kaiser William wil) celebrate his golden wedding some time this year, that is pro- vided the Scocialists will let him.

The Napanee “Standard” points out to temperance advocates that, while Mr. Me- Kenzie’s Government did not include a single total abstainer, publicly known as such, the present Government contains no less than four pronounced abstainers, viz. : Hon. Dr. Tupper, Hon. 8. L. Tilley, Hon, J. C. Aikins and Hon, M. Bowell,

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