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THE DAILY EXAMINER,

THE DAILY EXAMINER.

APRIL ,10 1888.

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End of the Tragedy.

THERE is but one theme to-day—the con- summation of the tragedy which began in John Tuplin’s kitchen on a January. night about fifteen months ago. It is a dreadful lesson. Let it be remembered that Mary Tuplin and William Millman were cut off in their youth, and have been lost to the community as a direct result of the baneful custom of young men and women sitting up together alone at night ; and let the custom be prohibited by the head of every family, and let the authority of parents over chil- dren be more carefully enforced.

It is comforting to know—it will comfort the relatives and friends of the last victim to learn—that, however much he may have erred, he behaved at the last like a man— a firm, intrepid Christian man ; and that his great and only regret, as expressed by himself to a clergyman who visited him a few days before the execution, was that he ‘* carried so small a sheaf into Paradise.”

City Council Meeting.

Tue regular monthly meeting of the City Council was held last evening, His Worship Mayor Haviland presiding. His Honor the Recorder and all the members werepresent.

After the usual routine business had been disposed of,—

The Clerk presented and read a copy of the estimates of the Fire Department for the ensuing year, which had been forwarded to the Council for their consideration, and also read a letter from a committee of wardens asking the Council to appoint a special committee of three to confer with them in reference to the providing of pri- vate rooms for the firemen in the new city building.

On motion the estimates were referred to the Finance Committee for their considera- dion, and a committee consisting of Messrs. Crabbe, Byrne and Horne were appointed to confer with the wardens’ committee on the subject set forth in their letter.

The Clerk read a bill from James Egan for opening drains in the vicinity of Fitzroy and Cumberland Streets during the winter months, since 1872, at the rate of $3 per year. :

On motion the bill was referred to the Finance Committee.

The Mayor presented a letter from Peters & Peters, on behalf of Wm. Harris, whose son had been injured by falling stones inthe neighborhood of West Kent Street School in 1885, which stated that unless the Council take steps towards zecompensing. their client for the injuries his son had sustained, they would com- mence proceedings against the city at the next session of the Supreme Court.

On motion the letter was referred to the committee who haye the Reid matter in hand, with instructions to report upon at an early date. pee The Clerk read a petition’ from John Bolger, D. O’M. Reddin, L. M. Poole, J. T. Jenkins, W.. E. Dawson and others, complaining about the defective state of the drainage on Water Street, in the neighbor- hood of the Railway Station, and asking that steps be at once taken to remedy the evil complained of. :

On motion the - petition was ordered to lie on the table till next meeting of Council.

Councillor McRae seconded by Coun- cillor Douse, moved that the services of H. B. Smith, as City Surveyor, be dispensed with.

A good deal of discussion ensued over the resolution, which was lost on a division of 6 to 4, :

Councillor Crabbe gave notice that at the next meeting of Council he would introduce a by-law fixing the rate of assessment on real estate, personal property and poll tax ; and also.a by-law providing for a rate of discount on same. He moved that a special meeting to receive said by-laws be held on Monday evening next, 23rd inst.—Carried.

Councillor Davison, from the committee appointed to consider Park-Keeper Mc- Quillan’s application for an increase of aslary, presented a majority-report adverse to the petition, and moved that it be adopted.

Councillor McCarron moved in amend- ment that the Park-kespers salary be $250 from and after the Ist May next.— Carried. :

Councillor Douse drew the attention of the Board to the fact that he had been sued for horse tax, while the collector was owner, part owner or controlled a horse for which, according te the city report, taxes had not been paid. He also said that the books in the City Court were not audited as they should be, and suggested that the Collector be responsible for the collecting After some remarks upon the manner in ‘which the market tolls were at present collected, he moyed the following resolution which was seconded by Council- lor Davison :—

Resolved, That tenders be called for up to Monday, 30th inst., for the leasing of the tolls in the Market House for one year.

After some discussion, —

Councillor Crabbe moved that Councillor Douse have leave to withdraw his motion. —Carried.

Council adjourned.

BIRTH. On the 7th inst., at Wyther Grange, the wife of A. W. Holroyd, Esq., of a son,

DIED.

Entered into rest at Charlottetown P. E. I. on Monday evening 9th inst , James Coleman Superintendent P. E. I. Railway.

uneral. tomorrow, Wednesday, at 3.30 p. m., local time, to St. Paul’s Church thenee by train to Sherwood Cemetry. Friends and acquaintance are respectfully invited to attend without further notice.

Lots of new rubbers at, Jas. B, Hall’s. ‘ap 10 —>— Sxatina. —Excellent ice and gaod music a the Excelsior Rink to-night,

REMEMBER the sale of the lease of P, G: Fraser’s Corner tomorrow at 12 o’clock’ —G. M, Harris, Auctioneer,

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Y. M. C. A.—Orchestra will meetin the

new parlor this evening at 7.30

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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Capital Punishment.

S1r,—The question is often asked, ‘Is the State justitied in taking the life of a citizen?” To this question I think that the better class of men will answer that it is not 3; and what can be of greater injury to the State than to have the feelings of its best citizens hostile to the law. Public feeling ought to be in unison with the law. Especially is this the case with criminal law, for when itis not the influence of example is lost. Men respect and obey the law while they consider it founded upon justice; when it exceeds justice, sympathy is excited towards the criminal. Will it be said security of human life depends upon capital punishment? If so, I think it very little to the credit of the large portion of mankind who live and die without committing murder. No, the security of human life is not founded upon such a useless barbarity ; it depends upon higher and nobler feelings ; upon that veneration for life which a Supreme Being has planted in all mankind. Though several persons are publicly strangled every year in Canada, yet 1 do not think that crime is on the decrease. If anything, murders are en theincrease. Therefore capital punishment is nota deterrent. It does not make men better. Tf we want to see a decrease in the number of murders in Canada, we must do everything to foster a reverence for human life, and that is what capital punishment does not do. Indeed it rather tends to take away all rever- ence for human life by imitating crime while it pretends to punish it. I find that in countries where capital punishment has been abolished murders have decreased. Of this we have evidence from the pen of Sir James Mackintosh who, writing from Bumbay, says: “Tt will appear thatthe capital crimes com mitted during the last seven years (1804 te 1811) with no capital executions have in pro- portion to the population not been mnch more than a third of those committed in the firs seven years (1756 to 1763) when forty-seven persons suffered death.” The Hon. J. S. Lewis, late Governor of Wisconsin, says: “The death penalty was repealed in the State of Wisconsin in 1853. No legislation. has since re-established it and the people find themselves equally secure, and the public more certain than before. The population in 1850 was 305,000, in 1860 it was 775,000. With this large increase of population we might expect a large increase of criminal cases, but this does not appear to be the case.” But perhaps the chief argument against capital punishment is the liability of the innocent to suffer so extreme a penalty, and be placed beyond the reach of the pardoning power. The present state of the law affords no means for a judicial appeal, and should the verdict of the jury afterwards turn out erroneous, and the innocence instead of the guilt of the accused be established, the nature of the punishment precludes the idea of any benefit to the sufferer. And through the in- tense ignorance of most jurymen an innocent man is as likely to be found guilty as not. It the offender is on trial for an offence punish- able with death, jurymen, often unable or yn- willing to discriminate between the facts and the law, leave all to the direction of the judge, and if the judge charges that the law is against the prisoner, the jury bring in a ver- dict .of guilty, and there anend. Judges are very apt to err in a criminaltrial. Especially is this the case with judges advanced in years. It is the result of mental weakness; arising from old age. Upon this point Sir Samuel Romilly has observed that ‘‘ Judges soon after their promotion, are generally inclined to great lenity, and that their practical princi- ples alter, or as it is commonly expressed, they become more severe as they become more habituated to investigate the details of human misery and human depravity.” It is not sufficient that there ia cause for the severity of the punishment. It is very neces- sary that the public should be satisfied that the condemned is guilty, for if he be not, to punish him with death is not an act of justice —it is murder. I think it will be admitted that the punishment by death is less a deter- rent than the example of a culprit condemned to repair, by labor, the injury done to society. With your permission, Mr. Editor, I will re- turn to this subject again.

Yours, &c., F.C. L.

What About the Doctors ?

_Srr,—A man or woman seeking the situ- ation of teaeher has to produce testimon- ials from our Board of Education. This is law, and ’tis well that it is so, A clergy- man seeking a charge has to. produce cred- entials required by the church to which he belongs.

The law faculty compel every man ‘‘to toe the mark,” or open an office at his peril. Strange, then, that the medical pro- fession, which, humanly speaking, has human life in his hands, allows any. man to. assume its duties and responsibilities with- out demanding his legal right to do so. The wrong inflicted upon the public by this laxity is an unlawful one. Men who have failed even to matriculate, much less ‘to graduate, settle down with the utmost coolness, and are base enough to accept, for the nonce, the time honored title of ‘‘Doctor.” Heaven knows that in America it is too easy to creep into any profession, through it to certain chan- nels, and the man who attends College and fails to graduate lays himself open to the suspicion of being below par morally and intellectually.

Our talented and honest young men who have graduated at first-class Colleges are thus cheated of their birthright and have no protection. :

I suggest, sir, that you open a column in Tur EXAMINER, in which every medical man may vindicate his right to practice. This may seem, and, inthe case of an honorable majority, no doubt is superflu- ous. But let our Taylors, McLeods, War- burtons, Conroys and others pocket their dignity for the nonce, so that the rest may follow suit, and thus by elimination enable us to spot the quacks.

Those ‘whose claim to practise is. doubt- ful—will, by their silence, condemn them- selves. Let us know who have passed the entrance examination required and accept- ed infull bythe Royal Collegés of the Mother Country, the term of preparatory study, number of sesions in college, and de- gree or degrees obtained and when. Fathers in the profession, come out, or the young ones will be slow.

Pro Bono Pvstico.

nh eee

B. I. S.—The regular meeting of the Beneyo-

lent Irish Society will be held in their hall

this (Tuesday) evening at 8 o'clock, F, Curran secy, :

ee Conorrt.—Old Folks coneert practice this evening at 7.30, all expected, Meeting at

usual place, —_.——_

Frrx ! Frere! Oh, see the smoke. Get D. Howlett to whiten your ceilings. Residence Edward St, ap 10

'Furnitnre, Carpets, etc.

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I WILL SELL BY AUCTION,

AT MY SALESROOM,

Friday, 13th Instant, AT 2 O'CLOCK, P. M.,

Parlor, Bedroom, Dining Room and Kitchen Furniture, Carpets, Crockery, etc.

G. M. HARRIS,

Auctioneer.

The Charlottetown Board of Trade

HE GENERAL QUARTERLY MERTING of

this Corporation will be held at the Board Room, on WEDNESDAY, the lith instant, at half-past Seven o’slock in the evening.

J. MACEACHERN, Secretary.

‘tw DERS.

EENDERS will be received up to the 20TH T INST., for PAINTING AND. REPATRING THE MANSE OF ST. JAMES’ CHURCH. Specification to be seen at the office of A. Ken- nedy, Queen Street.

Trustees do not bind lowest or any Tender.

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themselves to accept the

_A. KENNEDY, Chairman of Trustees. ap9—2w tues sat

TO LET.

Two NICE HOUSES on Pleasant Street, with Stables and Water. ALso—One House on King Street. ee WILLI AM le April 4, 1388—tf One

Desirable Business Properly in Town FOR SALE.

J 2™ instructed by Mr. Robert Bridges to sell by - Auction, on the Premises, on MONDAY, 30th inst., at 12 o’clock,noon, all his valuable Property situated on the West side of Hillsborough Street, and at present occupied by himself asa Meat Store and Pork Packing Establishment, as well as Residences. The Premises have a frontage on Hillsborough Street of 75 feet 2 inches, and extend backwards 173 feet. Terms easy, and made known at sale. For farther information apply to cee HARRIS,

G. M, za uctioneer, ’ ap6—dy eod tlsle wky pat

For Sale or To Let.

THE undersigned willsell or let for aterm of years the Property situate at Orwell, and known as ‘Finlay Store.” The Dwelling House

.and Shop arein one, and there are Stables and

half an acre of land. A very desirable site for country business. —ALSO—

The Dwelling, Stables and Blacksmith’s Forge at Orwell Cross Roads, lately occupied by Mr. S. Jardine. Terms liberal. Apply to CAPT. A. McLEOD. ; Orwell. mch26—3w 2aw wky li »

Farm Stock and Implements,

am instructed by Mr. Robert Bridges to sell by . Auction, at his, Establishment, Hillsborough Street, on MONDAY, 30th inst., at 1 o’clock :—

_ All his Farm Stock and Implements, consist- ing of 1 Horse, 4 years old; 1 do., 3 years old; 1 “Mare, 4years old (Percheron); 1 Horse, 3 years old (Stockman); 1 Colt, 2 years old; 4 Oxen, 1 Milch Cow, 6 well-bred Heifers, and several Pigs. Implements—2 Plows, 1 Gang do., 1 Moulding do., 1 Scuffler, 1 Hay Rake, 2 setts Harrows, 1 Truck Wagon with Pole and Harness, 2 Carts, 1 Express Wagon, 1 Double Seated Wagon, 1Single Wagon, 1 Single Sleigh, 1 Double Sleigh, 2 Wood Sleighs, 3 setts Carriage Harness, and sundry other

articles. G. M. HARRIS, ap6—tl sle Auctioneer.

AUCTION.

I am instructed by Mrs. Mary A. Bevan, to sell by Auction, on the Premises, on WEDNKS- DAY, 25th inst., at 12 o’clock, noon, all her inter- est inthe Property situated on the Malpeque Road, and held by her under lease for jhe term

of 13 years. G. M. HARRIS, ap6§—tl sle Auctioneer,

Lease by Auction.

I am instructed to sell by Auction, at my Sales- room, on WEDNESDAY, lith inst,, at 12 o’clock, noon :—The Lease of P. G. Fraser's Cor ner, with privilege of purchasing the Property at any time. ‘ This -offers a splendid opportunity for invest: OTe sectinad iy t ‘or particulars apply to ; : G. M. HARRIS,

Auctioneer.

FOR SALE,

5 Choice American Fruit Trees, suited for this climate—3 years old. : WM. HEARD. The Cedars, March 29, 1888, zr : mch29—dy 4i 2aw (tues fri) wky

FOR SALE.

[THREE ACRES OF LAND inthe Village of Souris East, fronting 33 chains on the Main Street, and bounded on the north by land of Stephen A. McDonald, on.the east by lands ot Marshal‘Paquet and William Cantwell, and on the west by Souris River, at pens in the pos: session of Michael McCormack, Esq. = For particulars apply in Charlottetown at the office of a McLBOD, MGRSON & McQUARRIE,

Solicitors. mchi38—dy & wy law (tues) tf

DR. TAYLOR

ILL devote a PORTION of his time to the Treatment of the following Specialties : Diseases of Women (Gynecology), Diseases of Eye, Ear and Throat, Surgical Diseases and Operations.

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WANTS, LOST, FOUND. dc.

GOOsE BOATR.—We have only a few Goose A Boats left, and will challenge any party-on P- E. Island to produce one ‘that will equal them for speed and being noiseless, Will hire them for harbor use.—SLacKFORD & HAYDEN, Boatbuild- | eos, Steam Navivation Co’s, Wharf. ap 113i**|

WANTED:-4 Janitor for St. James’ Church | Applic®4ion to be made to A. KENNEDY. |

Chairman of Trustees, from’ whom all informa-

tion can be obtained. 2w tues sat—ap9

To LET.—A large Warehouse on Sidney Street. Apply to Mrs. GAHAN. lw eod—ap7

WwW ANTED.—Between now and the first of May,

60 Men and Boys to come and leave their orders for Clothes made from the Island Tweed, all wool, ranging from $6to $12 per Suit. Good Pants from $2 to $3.—P, J. FoRAN, Queen Street, Ch’town. : 4i—ap6

4 LET.—A House on Richmond Street (near Hillsborough Square), containing 8 rooms.

Good Yard and Stables. Rent moderate. Apply

to J. B. MACDONALD, Queen Street. 3i—ap6

‘WANTED. —A Girl for general housework, Apply to Mrs. J. B. MacboNnaLp, Dorches-

ter Street. 3i—ap6 WANTED.—A Girl for general housework in a small family, Enquire at THE EXAMINER

office. ap6é W ANTED.—A Housekeeper for a Farm House. Apply to WM. OWEN, Keppoch Farm, Lot

48, or St. Peter’s Read, City. eod—ap4

WANTED.—A Furnished House in the city for the summer months. No children. Address ‘A Z,” this, office. apl2

po LET.—A Cottage situate on Sidney Street, opposite the Brick Church, known as the Ducheman Property. Possession given 16th May next. Apply to John Kelly, Esq, Water_ Com- missioner, or to the owner, KDWARD KELLY, Southport. apl2

;0 LET.—A House situate on Prince Street, site the Brick Church, at present occu-

FACTS! FACTS!

A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY has been made in the Dry Goods Store of the late Owen Connolly ; a discovery that many may profit by, because from ‘

25 to 50 Per Cent. can be Saved

by all those who buy their Cloth and take it there to get made and trimmed.

A PERF&£CT FIT GUARANTEED every time. ~~ will convince you all. : sf LADIES’ GARMENTS Cut and Made in the

Latest Styles. P. J. FORAN.

A trial

Ch’town, March 6, 1888—2aw & wky

Paper Hanis ior this Seasoo,

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Our Immense Stock of Room Paper is now ready for sale.

WE HAVE OVER 30,000 ROLLS ON HAND,

Bought ia England, Scotland, United States and Canada,

Patterns and Lowest Prices. Staple & Fancy Dry toods, Garpets & Oil Cloths

VERY CHhAr.

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Newest

PERKINS & STERNS’.

Charlottetown, March 12, 1888.

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eae White Cottons, Dress Goeds, Print Cottons, Cashmeres, Grey Cottons, Merinoes, Pillow Cottons, Piushes, Silks, Sheeting Cottons, Brocades,

Shirting Cottons, Gloves, Corsets, Tabie Linens, | Hesiery, Embroideries, Towels, Towelling, - Collars and Cuffs,

And a Well Assorted Stock of all kinds of

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BROWN’S BLOCK.

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Wa Boot & Shoe Pactry

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oppo’ Y pied by A, A. McLean, Esq. Possession given the first of May next. Apply to John Kelly, Esq., Water Commissioner, or to the owner, EDWARD KELLY, Southport. 1m eod—api2 Wares Plain Cook. Apply at_ Mrs.

CHURCHILL’s, corner Hillsboro and Fitzroy Streets. pd 3i—mch28

ro LET.—Those commodious Stables on Graf- ton Street, Charlottetown, lately occupied by

Mr. John F. Powers, adjoining the premises of

Mr. J. D. McLeod. Possession given immediate-

ly. Apply to EpwaRrp J, HODGSON.

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WANTED.—A Housemaid. Apply at Chief Justice Palmer’s, mehl6

WANTED.— by the Ist May, a House with four or five comfortable rooms, centrally located. Apply to “D. R. H.,” P.O. Box 537, | City. £4 feb24

BOARDERS ACCOMMODATED — At Mrs,

McLean’s, Hillsborough Street, chester and Ising.

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dealing with us.

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