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ie ‘ CORNER OF WATER date of Nov. 12th, announces what 1s consider much hurried in veTy many instances. two INGS’ BUILDING, CORABL U4 d ed a most encouraging success for the NeW | dave ‘o. at midmght, a large four story AND GREAT GEORGE STREETS, lexperis.ent of quarts crushing by machinery building ‘ell ing yesterday, the 8th inst., ( harlottetow nh, P. FE. 7: land es craction of the gold by the quicksily ver another fell, causing a heavy financial loss; and * | process. At Barkerville the result of the first to-day the wails of another four story building Loe | crushing has been Placed before the public 2 fall in, aking with it most of the. walls of 2 TES OF SUBSCRIPTION : the shape of a gold bar} the face value ot another building enough to com letely des- “wt , . 3 an cing, © : ;

Six Months $2 59 | which 1s three hundred and forty one dollars troy thewhole; what remains w have to be wie + ‘ 1 25 leighty-three cents. Owing to the lack of re. taken down. ‘dhe cause is not yet made hree Mont 18, 0 50 lorting appliances 1% was found impossible to known. It is the general opinion that not One Month, : resort all the quicksilver used in the crushing ; enouzh Ime has:been used, and the work hur-

» — . : . . ao oe . One Week, 0 12 but a test of i¢ was made by the Superintend > go rapidly by the workmen (in thé

ax Advertising at most moderate rates.

C‘ontracts mk terly, ‘ cation.

W. L. J. W. MITCHELL,

COTTON, . “ih,” r Othce Sup 6.

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The Weekly Examiner

Is Published every Friday. OFFICE : INGS’ BUILDING, CORNER OF WATER AND GREAT GEORGE STREETS, Charlcttetown, P. E. i

Subscription price, postage prepaid, $1.00 per year, in advance. ge Rates of advertising, in the W eekly Examiner, will be as follows :

First insertion, per inch, $0 50 Each continuation, °° 012 Contracts may be made for quarterly, half- yearly, and yearly advertisements on t application at the otlice. | J. W. MircHen.,

W. L. Corron, Office Sup't.

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EXAMINER.

Tne DAILY ~ «DECEMBER 11, 1877.

Fall of Plevna.

Tue fall of Plevna and the capture of Osman Pasha—after a gallant struggle— are two very blows to the Turks. But the melancholy of the Czar will, in all probability, be thereby considerably re-

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A Burning and a Shining Light.

Few private individuals, certainly no professional journalist, ever had the knack of so completely disguising his talents as the editor of the Patriot. So far as he has pro- ceeded on his way of life, he has diligently hid his lights under a bushel; and had these lights been of the flickering or feeble sort, they might have remained long undis- covered under the opaque canopy in which their owner set them. But our editor's lights were of the fiercly glowing type, and world not be concealed. They burned holes in the bushel which the modesty of their owner placed over them ; and through the fissures thus wrought the astonished public discerns the intensity and brilliancy of the lights. Without any pretensions to an academical education or ‘‘ college breed- ing” he was put at the head of our Normal School, and displayed such tact and ability in the management of that Institution as to leave nothing to be desired. Greek and Latin are among the requirements for stu- dents in the ‘Deemed School, and nobody suspected that the Patriot Editor knew any- thing about these dead languages until he received the appointment. Why he was not re-installed. as Head Teacher in the newly-modelled Normal, instead of Mr. Har-

r,can only be explained on the theory that his talents as a journalist were more useful

to the Government than his abilities as a trainer of teachers, or an expounder of Pagan classics. Again, who would have imagined that one so severely literary would know anything of the value of land or the the prospective benefits or damages result- ing from a line of Railway. Yet here ain the community was taken by surprise. The Editor of the Patriot was appointed Secretary to the Commission that estimated the Railway damages; and again, in this capacity he won for himself undying laurels. Never, since Virgil penned his Georgics, has there been such a wonderful union be- tween literature and tillage as in the person of Henry Lawson. Horace Greeley, in his little book entitled, ‘‘ What I Know About Farming,” may have approached a little to the eminence occupied by the Editor of the Patriot ; but we doubt if the Editor of the Tribune could have managed a Normal School. Greeley is, in this, inferior to our Island hero. We feel confident that the Editor of the Patriot would not hesitate for a moment to decide, after ten minutes’ thought, the authorship of the Pentateuch, and cast a flood of light on the origin of the Pyramids of Egypt and the Round Towers of Ireland.

Both in literature and religion the editor of the Patriot is self-taught. His creed 1s said to embrace few tenets of easy observ- ance, and wonderfully pleasing in the ob-

ervance. The modesty and humility which

characterizes our editor only bring out in stronger lights the lustre of histalents. He affects to consider himself a subordinate to George Brown, while anyone can see that the Patriot is far im advance of the Globe. Asa sample of the modesty and concealed strength of Mr.

recent editorial ;

‘The opponents of the present Government | ‘‘ When these things you speak of were doing): By far the greater number of them exhibit an ig- Upon my Lord Spencer retorted somewhat! norance of public affairs which, in men under- | taking to advise the public, is positively dis-

are not at all accurate in their statements,

graceful,”

- We may soon expect to have a flood of | - Hight poured on public affairs which will! . blindand probably confound the community. | series ¢f meetings in St. John on Saturday |

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ivy be made for monthly, quar- . half-yearly advertisements, on apph-

ent and it proved to contain one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Talking into consideration the fact that the new machinery absorbed at least three hundred dollars, the total result has greatly exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine here. A pool of about thirty was made upon the face value of the bar. The guesses ran from one hundred and fifteen to ten hundred and eighty dollars. Mr. Forest won on four hundred and fifty. Messrs. Mea- cham and Nason obtained fourteen hundred and thirty-eight dollars fifty-nine cents from three tons of sulphurets put through the mill recently. Two assays from the Bononza ledge averaged $90.21 to the ton. It is expected that the result will bea rush for the forma- tion of new companies, and the commence- ment of extensive operations with the very earliest opening of the season of 1878.

At Cherry Creek some spiendid nuggets were found lately, a few of eight or nine ounces each, and many more ranging in value from $60 down.

At Nanaimo the Vancouver Coal Company have commenced running on their track a twelve-ton locomotive, lately imported from England,

While gold mining is receiving a fresh im- petus from the inauguration of quartz crush- ing, agricultural settlement is also making pro- gress, and there are many new comers into the country lying back of New Westminster on the mainland. Recently one Mr. Williams and family arrived from Santa Clara, California, to settle in this district, bringing with them cat- tle, horses, implements, household goods, ete. It is believed that draining and dyking along the Fraser river will convert large tracts which are now useless into valuable farming land.

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A fish cannery on the Fraser, belonging to Mr. Deas, is thus deseribed: ‘‘’The buildings alone cover two and a half acres of grotind, and inelude all the requisite space for. the various branches of the business. it was quite a novel sight to witness the busy hive during the height of the fishing season, when every human being about the premises—and even the shore —was occupied in some kind of work, ail con- nected with the canning or salting of salmon, Mr. Deas employs 110 Chinamen when the benches and tables have their complement, and about sixty .fishermen. He makes all his wooden. boxes or cases by horse-power. Mr. Deas,.in the successful management of this extensive cannery, during the last seven years, has shown arare amount of energy. -He is happily endowed with the still*raréer’ know- edge of how to make himself popular with

l everyone. ‘The quantity. exported this year will reach 11,600 cases of canned and 400 bar- rels of salted.salmonm

On the morning of Wednesday, October 24th, during a terrible gale of wind, the roof of the Methodist ehurch at Fort Simpson was blown off, and only by great exertions was the build- ing saved from becoming a total wreck.

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The Prayer of the Ottoman Empire.

The.Constantinople corresporrdent of the Politische Correspondenz writes a translation of the prayer directed by the Scheik-ul- Islam, and to be readin all the mosques throughout the Ottoman Empire, which we transpose to English :

Graeious. God! have ‘pity tipon us and pro- tect who are thy faithful people. Almighty God, spare not the infidels. Good God, strengthen the hands of the Ottomans. ~ Break down and shatter the pride and” infidelity of the godless with thy powerful arm. May the blessing of God and the peace of His Prophet rest on the faithful. 0, God, strengthen ‘Thy servant-the Sultan, the chief of Thy favored people. Protect us and our land, and sweep from the surface of the earth all the infidels who make war upon us and Thy hely and only true religion. Efface, O Almighty God, every vestige of the impious Russians, and of Bul- garians and Greeks, equally impious, who wal- low in the darkness of iniquity like hogs in a dunghill, and who have dared to lift hands against Thy faithfnl peeple and Thy Prophet, Mahomet. Dissolve their alliances, disperse

upon their hearts the fulness of Thy anger and rage, and punish our enemies as Thou hast hitherto punished them. Make their blood tlow in torrents and let their heads roll to the feet of thy believers. Bow the heads of their sovereign, dismantle their fortresses. Exhaust and annihilate their forces, Make their child- ren orphans, their women widows, submerge their mothers in vas confuse their intellect. O God, scrape off from the face of the earth the race of the Muscovites, the Greeks and the-French (Germans ?); who are their allies and who testify to their sympathies for them. Spread among them innumerable plagues that they may become victims of Thy terrible an- ger. Let them succumb through fire, massa- cres, shipwrecks, thirst, pest, hunger and the terrors of war. May their villages a depopu- lated and the inhabitants extermmated through Thy angel of destruction. May all those God- less ones who seek us to suffer all/over with their wives and their children and‘die. May their wealth fall as prey to those who believe in Thee and in Thy Prophet Mahomet, with whom be the grace and peace of Allah.

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their troops, crush their arms, © decimate } their ranks, annihilate their forces and plunge them imto the depths of hell. Heap

ried alorg ‘ absence pf a suitable imspector), that the out-

side of the building to~all “appearance is fin- ished before the mortar has actually settled. And besides the frost acts very much against the wrk. The mortar in many cases is frozen as som as used. (eat fears are entertained of maay more serious accidents from similar causes” meee mee i i All i lo lp

EXEMPTIONS.

The Bellville Intelligencer says, quoting from a Liverpool paper, that ‘‘ M¥. Potter,

M.:P., on behalf of a Toronto Committee, has submitted to Sir Stafford Northcote, questions with a view of ascertaining what exemptions from taxation were allowed in the old country. The right hon.. gentle- man has courteously replied, that by law all property occupied for the public service is exempt from local taxation, but is assessed and pays a poundage, so that it shall bear a fair share of local burdens; that churches, but not church property, are exempt ; that colleges and other educational institutions and charitable institutions have to pay local taxes; and no incomes of any taxpayer whatever are liable to be assessed for local taxation, only for Imperial purposes, and that no official salary is exempt from in- come tax except that of the Sovereign, whe, however, pays it voluntarily.”

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A Boy’s Death from Alcohol.

The Sunday following the big fire on Sneed and Second Streets,a number of children found a barrel of whiskey nnder the’ ruins. “Aécus- tomed to seeing their parents-all of whom live on and-around the river front—drinkntg liquor with great relish, they imitated the ex: ample given them and did likewise. The bung was removed, and while one sucked the others held the barrel in proper position for him or for her, as the case might be. ‘ And so they drank themselves drunk, becoming ulti- mately so helpless that they rolledand wallow- ect on the bricks and other derbis, uncenscious of everything and everybody. Among their number was Tommie Creed. a lad eight years. The alcohol he consumed so soaked it- self into the boy’s body as to aftect his brain and poison his entire system. Heufiered hor- ribly in consequence. Monday. night he had convulsions, suffering more than half a hun- dred ere the coming of death relieved his ag- ony. .The boy’s brother remained , with him and a physician attended jhim in his dying honr. hen Coroner More called yesterday to hold the inquest he found the y m an old, dirty basement on the river front near Second street. The surroundings indicated un- mistakably the signs of poverty of the worst kind... The face of the dead, shrunken and shrivelled by the f ‘to recéive proper nourishment while sickness existed, appeared doubly ghostly in the absenee of life, the eyes from the depths of their shallow-like sockets showing the impress of agony ‘n the extreme. The mother objected with much demonstra- tion to the holding of the inquest, and after she had been induced to become quiet her hus- band came in full of drink and desired to clear out the room.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

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Dec. 11.—Angus McKachern, drunk and in- capable, was fined $2’or 8 days; Peter Me- Mahon, Thomas Inman and Robert Miller, for stealing mits from Mrs. E. McLeod, were re- manded for seven days for further evidence.

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AUCTION PRICES

AVING Purehased a Large Lot of BANKRUPT GOODS, at a Great Sacrifice, we propose selling them

at Aucrion PRICES :— 7 Cts. per'ydi iT

Heavy Winceys for Good Black Lustre 12. Fancy Dress Goods 8.

Heavy Gray Flannel 20 "' 7 AN Wool Y—- 2 z

Tweeds for Boys 30 Heavy Cand’an Tweeds60 °°’ Shirts and Drawers 40 cts. Horse Blankets, Strapped, $1.20 Boys’ Fur Caps, 380 cts. Men's " 50 cts,

All other goods equally cheap, Buyers should call and ¢xamine our stock before purchasing.

Apropos of the recent marriage of the Duke of Norfolk, it is interesting to read what an/| old writer says of them. is words are :—| “‘A courtiy, gallant, and chivalrous race have | these same Howards proved themselves from | | generation to generation. acted in Ben Johnson’s | when it was acted at

‘Masque of Hymen’ Court.” Another Earl |

Lawson, we quote from a/ distinguished himself in the Lords by a pas- : Said he ---i4 for the past half-year, payable at its oflieehere

sage at arms with Lord Spencer.

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| your ancestors were keeping sheep.” Where-

2 ene tee Vee % , ‘ y weakly, though to the point:—‘‘When my jancesters were keeping sheep, yours were plot- | ting treason.

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ROBERT ORR & CO.

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Merch DEVIDEND at the rate of Tex Pm

ants Dank of A CENT. Per ANNUM has this day been

declared-on the Capital Stock of this Bank

on demand. at ' , . WM. McLEAN, Cashieér.

‘h’town, 3d Dee., 18772442in Gaw aw)

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Ti For SALE AT W. W. CLARKE’.

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FANCY CLOCKS

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JUST RECEIVED AT

J. F. M’KAY’S,

NORTH SIDE QUEEN SQUARE, consisting of :—

ATCHES,

Ladies’ and Gents’ GOLD CHAINS,

LOCKETS, CHAINS, STONES, ENGRAVED and. PLAIN RINGS,

SILVER-PLATED WARE, in Butter-Coolers, Cake-Baskes;,

Cruet Frames, Napkin Rings, Fruit Knives, Butter Knives, Vases, Goblets, Mugs, &., &e.

ASSORTMENT OF

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

| NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

St, James’ Kirk Social.

Kirk will. holdaSocialin the Athenzeum, on Thursday Evening, the 15th instant, at 74 o'clock, ‘All in connectio to attend. Admission 10 cents. Dec. 11.—2i

P. E. ISLAND Steam Navigation Coy.

A SPECIAL MEETING of the Share- holders of the above Company will be held at their ,Office, cor. Great George and Lower Water Street, on FRIDAY, the 20th inst., at 7 o'clock in the evening. By Order of D. Davres, Pres't,

F. W. HALES,

Secretary 8S. N. Co. Ch’town, 10th Dec. 1877. :

The members and adherants of St. James’ |

n with the Kirk are invited |

Sometuine New:

Sets of Silver-plated DASHER RAI‘3 of the latest; pattern, for sale by Was!” P. H. TRAINOR,

opposite the ‘* Rocklin House,” Kent Street, Dec. 11th, 1877.

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Molasses and. Sugar,

UNS. Choicé retailing Molasses, Hhla Bright Vacuum-pan Sugar, Bags English refined Sugar, just received and for sale by

HASZARD BROS.

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Painter, Carriage Manufacturer, ete,

~— FITTED up suitable Shops and engaged competent Workmen, I am prepared to do all sorts of

Carriage and Sleigh Repair- ing and Painting

Stipendiary Magistrate’s Court. at short notice and on reasoriable terms.

I am also manufacturing some

First-Class Sleighs & Carriages, |

_ whieh I will Sell Cheap for Cash.

P. H. TRAINOR, posite Rocklin Honse.

Kent St. , Dee. 11, ae COAL. ‘COAL.

8QO TONS INTERCOLONIAL LARGE

COAL, landing from Schr. ‘‘ Mary and Charles,” at Peake’s No. 1 Wharf.

For sale at $3.60 per ton, cash on delivery.

Apply at KOUGHAN ’S SCALES. Dec, 11, 1877.—2in 4

Fancy Woods for Fretwork.

yo RECEIVED, a consignment of Boards, oF consisting of the following varieties :—

Walnut, Birds’s Eye Maple, Ash, White Poplar, Maho ; Cherry, Pople Spanish Cedar

oplar, Spani A

ite Wood, Oak, Satinwood, Cocubola, White Holly.

Also, a quantity of Walnut Boards, 4, 3? and 1 inch thic 8@” WHOLESALE OR RETAIL VERY CHEAP, F. 8S. HANFORD & CO.,

| ite Rankin House. Ch’town, Dec, 10, imfenas eod

BLANK BILL - HEADS,

_ BLANK STATEMENTS,

BUSINESS CARDS! buntinad WW aor : a ‘

EXAMINE INGS’ BUILDING, Corner Great George and Water Streets.

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Flour and Tea.

BBLS. FLOUR (choice brands)—Ploug), oo eee Our Brand ; ee in, , Fruit, Ginger Nuts;

No. 1 Ship Bread, Chests Tea—a very oneal

quality. For sale by : HASRARD BROS,

Tobacco and Cigars.

LACK CHEWING, — Princess Leaiaa, Lorne, Sweet Sixteens; Halifax Twist — Boxes, Half-Boxes, Caddies ; Bright Smoking —Gold Bar, Fancy Twist, Solace ; Cigars, ta all the various brands. For sale by

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ls _.. . HASZARD BROS. __ New Fruit. eS RAISINS, Layers and Mase tels; Dates and Dried Apples. HASZARD Bit03._ Soaps and Washing Crysizis ONDON PALE, White Lily, [British

: Crown, Silver Soaps, Toilet Soaps, Puck- stone’s and Hofmann’s Crystals.

. For sale by HASZARD BR 33.

Paints, Oils, &e.

ASKS COD & HAKE OIL, Casks Ameri- can Kerosene Oil, Raw, Boiled and Olive , Paints, Drugs and Putty.

HASZARD BROS. _

Codfish, &e. XES and half-boxes selected Codfish, Quintals good retailing Codfish, Bbls, Preserved Lobsters.

HASZARD BROS. __ Woodenware. BoE. Bnekets, Tubs, Washboards Clothes Pins. = : HASZARD BROS. _

Sundries.

OOR’S wee Baking Powder, Cream Tartar, Pepper, Ginger, ’ Coffee, Bartlett's Blecking and Blueing, able

Salt (in ee | BROS.

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B Labrador Herring, cases For sale by

G , Coarse Salt for Packing.

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Bogs TONS Cozrse Salt, three h r " HASZARD BROS.

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e by |: Dec. 8,.1877—I1m eod | CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. A LARGE ASSORJMENT

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