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To the Editors of the Island Press : GENTLEMEN,—The writer has had a little ex- perience in the potato trade, and would be glad to have room in your columns to call at- tention to the extent of the potato culture and to make some suggestiors which would in- crease its value in foreign markets. By refer- ence to Customs returns I find the shipments for the fall 1876 and spring 1577 would be about one million seven hundred thousand bushels, but as the Customs returns only cover a part of the exports, it would be safe to put the quantity available for export for that sea- son, say, at two million bushels. In the fall of 1876 [ was in Boston, and at one of wharves I found our friend, Capt. McKay, of Rustico, busy selling a cargo of potatoes, largely com- posed of blues, and on enquiry as to prices | found that while early rose and whites were in demand at from 66 to 70 cents per bushel, it was hard to sell blues for more than 50 cents, In the fall of the same year the writer and an- other loaded a brig for Demerara, W. I., and a'though the vessel made a good run, and the cargo, largely composed of potatoes, came out in fair order; stillas the potatoes were blue, we had to sell at $2 per barrel. At the same time a vessel from the United States was discharging a cargo of white po tatoes, for which I understood he got from $2.50 to $3.00 per barrel. The white potatoes seem to keep better and they certainly sell for more money. I have been shipping potatoes to the United States for several years past, and have had invariably to sell at from 10 to 25 cents per bushel less money than rose and whites were selling for in the same market. As our blue potatoes were, and generally are, equal in flavor to those supplied by American growers, it was only fair to suppose that the prejudice against them would die out, but on the contrary J find by reference to agent’s circulars that at the present time early rose and Jackson’s quote at trom 50 to 60 cents in Boston market. Blues, as they call them chenangoes, are hard to sell at from 35 to 40 cents per bushel. Last autumn a number of shippers loaded -cargos of potatoes for the English ports. Here again the color of our potatoes and their ugly shape operated against them so much in the London market where sound white potatoes were seil- ing at from £7 to £10 per ton, and quick sales, P. E. Island blues were hard to sell at from £3 to £4 per ton. It seems impossible to over- come the prejudice of the foreign buyer to out blue potatoes, and a change of seed has become of vital necessity. If our farmers wish to get higher prices for their potato crop they, or the Government acting for them, must import new seed. If we hada Reciprocity ‘Treaty with the ,United States now, we could not

_ hip blue potatoes to that market and return

the grower more than 15 cents per bushel. I know a case of a shipment of a cargo of 2,500 bushels made to New York last fall, and the owner got just $93 for the whole cargo. I would suggest that the Government import from England and the United States say from one to five thousand bushels of the most sale- able kinds of potatoes, selecting two or three different varieties, and distribute them among the farmers, the farmers agreeing to pay the Government in the autumn the first cost of the seed so Gistributed. It is just as easy to grow potatoes that will sell at from 30 to 40 cents per bushel as to persist in growing an article that rarely sells for more than 25 cents, and often dear at that to the shipper.

Trusting, Mr. Editors, that you will give the foregoing space in your columns,

1 remain yours, respectfully, Henry Coomes. Ch’town, April 25, 1878,

30, 1878

NO. 284,

A Strange Affair.

SALOON-KEEPER CHARGED DUCTION,

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At the Police Court this morning Thos. A. Scott, more familiarly known as Tom

Scott, was arraigned on a charge of abduc- tion. The Magistrate on calling Scott in- formed him that he had been arrested on a very serious charge at the instance of Mr.

daughter Alice about 9.30 o’clock on Wed- nesday evening last. It is alleged: that Scott with another man named Edward Me- Neil, who is still at large, procured a horse and carriage and drove about thé streets in search of Miss Piercy, whom they found in company with her sister. entering her fa- ther’s house near the corner of Leinster and Carmathon streets. Scott jumped from the carriage, seized the girl and attempted to drag her towards the carriage. Her smal- ler sister immediately came to her assist- ance and through their combined resistance Scott was checked for a moment.. McNeill then leaped from the carriage and mate- rially aided Scott. The girl was at last overcome but not before it is said she had received from her abductor a severe blow on the head, and drove off in the carriage to an empty house in the Adelaide Road. The sister immediately gave the alarm at ee but it was too late and the course of he party was unknown. However, the sister recognized the party who assailed them, and accordingly a warrant was issued and Scott was secured as above stated. The whereabouts of Miss Piercy was dis- covered through a little girl who came to the station this morning and informed the police that a girl giving her name as Alice Piercy was locked up in a_ house on the Adelaide Road and wished her parents to come and get her and that she was starving. The police were sent in search of her, and she is probably by this time restored to her parents. Scott is 25 years of age, and keeps a saloon on Union street. He and the girl have been old friends He is a married man, whose wife has left him. Miss Piercy is the daughter of James Piercy, engineer of No. 2 Fire Engine. The penalty for an offence of this kind is very severe, being from 2 to 14 years im- prisonment in the Provincial Penftentiary. The Magistrate gave the accused a severe reprimand, and asked him how he could hold up his head if he were guilty of such a felonious act. ‘‘Why,” said his Honor, ‘thas it come to this in this enlightened day that a girl cannot go to her home through the public street without being waylaid. If 1 werg her father, and if you are guilty of this act, I would pursue you to the ends of the earth in order to bring you to justice.” The prisoner was remanded to jail, bail being refused.—St. John Globe. <=>

The State of Business.

Tue Toronto Mail says: Messrs. Dun, Wiman & Co., furnish a list of the failures for the first quarter of 1878 as compared with the corresponding periods for 1876 and

1877. The record stands as follows: UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES.

: Amt. of Year. No. Liabilities. OTS Ge. 2335. ..3,555 $82,078,896 Be eS a 2,859 54,538,070 1876... . 2,086 * 64,644, 56

CANADA, 1878. 555 9, 100,929 eet iT) ee 572 7,576,511 1876 447 7,417,238

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‘Tue “Great Morar Suow.”—The Toronto ‘“‘ Telegram” in referring to the disgraceful exhibitions in the House of Commons on Fri- day night and Saturday, suggests that ‘‘in future the best thing that could be done under the circumstances would be for the Speaker of the House to hire a brass band and charge an admission fee to future performances. We have no doubt the.railway companies would readily run excursion trains and that people would flock from all parts of the country to

legislative hail in the country.

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In order to cover the expense of suppres- sing the late rebellion, which amounted to $43,000,000, the Japanese Government has resclved to issue $27,000,009.in paper money, and to make large savings in the ordinary civil expenditure. The national debt of Japan at present amounts to $350,- 000,000, of which $219,000,000 consists of bonds in the hands of daimios. er nobles, repayabie in thirty years. These bonds were issued to the daimios in lieu of the life annuities which the Government was formerly bound to pay them. The foreign debt consists only of $15,000; the re- mainder is paper money, which has hitherto been readily accepted.

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An Unwstcome Orrrrinc.—An amusing incident, which occurred in London, Eng- land, is related to Mrs. Scott Siddons :— The hot evening produced a torturing thirst, to quench which one of the boys was des- patched for a mug of porter. Before he returned, Siddons was obliged to go before the audience. The boy inquired for her, and was pointed to the stage. Lady Mae- beih was walking in her sleep, when, te the horror of all, the boy walked up to her, and, unconscious of any impropriety, pre- sented the porter in full view of the whole house. She waved him off with a magestic | gesture, but all in vain. When he finall appreciated the situation, he made his exit _amid amused uproar, which it needed al] | the dignity of the finished actress to quell,

Charles Pierey for the abduction of his ‘

Witness the great moral show in the chief