THE DAILY EXAMINER.
JULY 28, 1888.
Editorial Notes.
The prohibition league of Halton, Ontario, has addressed letters to the two candidates asking them whether they will vote for the prohibition resolution of .1887, and announcing that in case both reply in the aflirmative the league will take no part in the contest between them. If, however, one declares for prohibition and the other refuses, the members of the league are in- structed to vote for the former, while if both refuse a prohibitionist will be nomi- nated.” This, everyone will admit, is a reasonable and proper course to pursue.
—In the month of June, this year, 42,229 persons lett British ports, as against 37,621 in June of last year, and of these 6.787 were bound for Canada as against 5,266 last year, an imcrease of 1,521, while the increase in the emigration to the United States was 2,870, in a total of 81,000, and for Australia the departures were less by 240. In the six months of the present year 32,909 persons have emigrated from British ports; or 8,250 more than in the corres- ponding period of 1886, while to the United States the increase has been 13,300 which is relatively much less than the gain by Canada.
—The Red Polled Cattle are coming to the front in England as dairy stock, and American breeders of these cattle are much encouraged. During the year ending April 30, 1888, several English herds of Red Polls averaged fully as much milk as Short- horns or Jerseys. The Red Poll’s milk was remarkable for its richness, containing from 3 to as high as 6.80 percent. of butter fai. In one test it tock only 10 pounds of milk to make 1 pound of butter. This cow wes Bridesmaid 10th, owned by Mr. Lofts, and the test Was made at the last Suffolk (England) Agricultural Show.
For Prohibitionists the most comfort- ing words of ex-Governor St. John’s lecture were those with which he stated that pro- hibition had practically stopped the liquor traffic in Kansas. Boys on the streets of Kansas City, he said, never saw a drunken man. But a press despatch announces that ** An investigation has resulted in the dis- covery of 250 saloons in Kansas City, Kan., in open violation of the prohibitory laws.
They are marked as barber shops, pool-|
rooms, harness sops, laundries and grocer- ies. The saloon sign is in the modest words * For Reut.’ ” If this be true, the comforting words of St. John are not true, and the promoters of prohibition have not been .nore successful in Kansas than the promoters of the Scott Charlittetown.
A Denial.
The story to the effect that the Nun of Kenmare had left the Roman Catholic Church caused this estimable lady some annoyance, and aroused the good people who beiieved in her to wonder if the report was founded on fact. The Herald reporter failed to confirm the rumor, and those who are credite@l as authorities as to the actions of Sister M. F. Clare Cusack were as much inclinéd to believe it to discredit it. Now comes the Sister with her own denial. written in the spirit of forgiveness and with
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malice towards none. ‘* Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall inherit the earth.
FLORENCE, Mass., July 18, 1888. ** To the Editors: of the Country :—
** Your statements about me are malicious libels. I have not left the Roman Catholic Church. 1 demand the name of the writer of the articles-and the original copy, as every paragraph is false.
** Sister M. F. Cusack.” [Known as the Nun of Kenmare. } _——— ne ii.
Mo.asses ApvVANCED.—Cables received from Barbados, state that molasses has been nearly all shipped from the Island and what is left is of inferior quality. The price asked was seven cents up from the lowest point this year, which would make it cost ten cents more here, and higher prices are Jooked for on the Island for what small quantity is left. Prices now quoted at St. John are Barbadoes 40 cts.; Antigua, 36.
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A Narrow Escare.—The Windsor, 7ribnne says: “‘ Mr. F. O Curry, while in “his gar- den at Curry’s Corner lost Sunday, in looking up was horrified to discover his 19 months old boy hanging by one hand from the window sill, 20 feet fromthe ground. The child’s mother, who was in the house, discovered him the same time, and ran and. rescued him from his perilous position. It appears that the little fellow was in the habit of crawling out of a window on the ground floor, and no doubt, wastrying the same trick from the upstair window. When discovered his little feet were dangling as if trying to ‘* touch bot- tom” before letting go with his hands,: and it was this pausing that saved him, for he would have fallen on the top edge of a barrel.”
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CamiLtaA Urnse.—The Camilla Urso Con- certs in St. John are pronounced by the Daily Sun of the 25th inst., as *‘ magnificent enter- tainments"" The Sua says: ‘“* When Mdme Urso made her appearance she was greeted by a burst of earnest applause, and the an- ticipated delight of the audience was fully realized in her splendid performance of the fantasie Othello, which was rapturously and most deservedly encored, the distinguished performer responding with *‘ The Last Rose of Summer, played in all its simplicity and in a manner that could not well be surpassed. When this lady made her second appearance, playing ‘‘ The Witches Dance,” by Paganini, the enthusiasm and delight was so great that she received the compliment of being recalled three times. Her control of this difficult in- strument issimply wonderfal, and she well deserves the title bestowed upon her at an early age of Queen of the Viviin. Among the audience were people who had travelled miles to hear the greatest of living violinists.
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Prof. W. K, Burr, M. A. Ph. D. has been conducting special services for the last few days, at the Christian Chureh, at the Cross Roads, Lot 48. Notwithstanding the unfav- orable time of the year, quite an interest has been awakened, and the church greatly en- couraged to faithfulness. Six, in the pride and beauty of youth, were baptized in the Hillsborough River, and others are expected to follow. During the special services the Prof. conducied here in the city, altogether twenty-three have united with the Church. bince he came, a few weeks ago, the congre- votion at the Christian Church has been
‘ged and strengthened, and ean activity. :
new style—just
Act have been inj
Varia.
Tue German Emperor is now ona visit to the Emperor of Russia, and the eye Europe is upon him. He is cultivating the friendship of the Emperor of Russia, in accordance with the wish of his grandfather, William 1., who, on his deathbed, said : ‘* The triendship of Russia will be good for Bley unsettled condition, too much importance sent along the telegraph various capitals on the continent.
It
can- will not make especially when it is borne in mind that well as reigns. But there is not very much to indicate that these changes will be in the direction of war. The Emperor and Prince Bismarek are on the best of terms, and the German Chancellor knows by experience what war means. William Il. will visit ‘the Emperor of Austria later on in the
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The sickening wrangle over the body of the Emperor Frederick has broken out afresh. A medical report has been pub- lished, according to which Sir Morell Mac-
kenzie was wrong in Ws _ original diagnosis of the Emperor's disease, and was criminally guilty of misleading him as to the fatal nature of it when that was placed beyond doubt.
These statements have been contradicted by Sir Morell McKenzie. The report was published by Professor Bergmann, who was dismissei from his attendance upon the late Emperor, together with some other doctors who tock his part. Therefore it may be assumed that Bergmann did not act from disinterested motives when he published his repo t. It is remarkable that it has not been sicned by Drs. Schrader, Virchow, | Leyden Kranse, Mark Hovel, and the other distinguished Germau specialists who were lin attendance during the late Emperor's | illness. Public feeling ran so high in Ber- | tin after the publication of the report that | it required some courage to speak: in favor |of Sir Morell or the Emperor Frederick; |and it is asserted in the columns of a lead- ling English newspaper, which is noted for | the accuracy of its continental information, ‘that the Empress Victoria was practically ‘under arrest at Friedrichskron, and that ‘not a scrap of paper written by the late | Emperor was allowed to remain in the pos- | session of itssoriginal recipient. * *
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News of another little trouble comes
‘from Servia. The King of that little State
| desires to be divorced from his wife Natha-
‘lie. The Queen is of Russian birth, and it
| is alleged that she has been mixed up with
| political plots against her husband, who is supported by Austria. The King, it is said, has been unfaithful. It is well known that he is a despicable coward, and it there- fore appears that the case is as bad on one side as on the other. But it is not likely that a decree of divorce will be pronounced for such slender reasons asthese. Nathalie
‘intends to ask the Czar for proteetion, but the difference will be hard to adjust, be- cause the Queen is on German soil and has
'with her the Crown Prince, whom she is required to hand over to the King’s officers, and the German authorities offer her no help to resist them. The proposal reminds one of a dark page in English history, when Henry VIII. succeeded in gaining from a time-serving and unfaithful clergy a divorce
from his faithful wife.
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The Count of Paris has issued a letter to |the Mayors of the thirty-seven non-Repub-
lican Communesof France, in which hestates | that the liberty of the Communes has often | been restricted by the Republic, and after dwelling on the manner in which the Re- public has falsified its promises, especially as regards religion and education, he pro- | mises on behalf of the Monarchy that the | priest will be left free in the church and |the teacher in the school. The Count ‘might have left the letter to be published ‘through the newspapers, for the seizure by the Government of a few copies has in- sured its insertion in every French journal. The letter isin no wise remarkable. Its 'appearance is not regarded as opportune, hor is thought to be well devised as regards | the influence it is intended to exercise. + * .
I have lately been endeavoring to collect proverbs on national characteristics. I was ifirst lel to this’in the endeavor to find | what country we are indebted to for the proverb that ** England is the paradise of woman, the hell of horses, and the purga- tory of servants.” It seems to be current in both Italy and Germany, and I have iseen it stated that it is considered by | Italians to be a proverb said of Englishmen | by themselves! I give some of the pro- verbs which I have come across in the _course of my investigations, some of which may be unfamiliar to your readers :—
1. A liohemian legend, according to which ' when Lucifer fell from Heaven he struck the earth with such force that he was dashed to | pieces. His head rolled into Spain, and that is why Spaniards are so proud; his heart rest- 'ed on Italy, that is why Italians are so filled ‘with the passion of love; his feet sprang upon France, that is why Frenchmen are always | running after women; Germany received his | stomach, that is why Germans are so fond of ,eating; and Turkey his hands, and that is | why Turks are so rapacious. | 2. The Bohemians say of themselves that | their heart is made of tinder and their head of flint, and that between them they readily , take fire.
5. A variant said to emanate from Germany of one current among ourselves: ‘Scratch a Russian and the bear in him begins to growl.”
4. In Bohemia and Galicia, all objectionable ' creatures, €. g., rats, are called ‘* Germans,”
and Slavonians call frogs ‘German shrimps.” |. 5. Fins deciares that the oath of a German is not worth having, and his words are all lies. , The French call all involved expressions | **German,” and give the German a character | for violence and injustice (no proverb is cited for this).
6. Italians say, ‘‘ An Italianized German is a devil incarnate.”
7. Among both French and German the | word ** English ” is synonymous with ‘‘ money- ' lender. | §. Russians say that the Englishman has
his wits at the tips of his fingers, and the Frenchman has his at the tip ot his tongue.
9. Three Turks and three Greeks, say the | Servians, make six scoundrels.
10. The Greeks have a corresponding pro- verb: * Beware of am old Turk and of a young Servian.
11. Russians deelare that a Greek teils the trutl more than once a year.
12. They also have a proverb which says that the gypsies are deceived by the Jews, the a by the Greeks, and the Greeks by the aevil,
' 13. A Polish proverb runs thus; Itajians reflevt before they commit an att of
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!Germans while they are committing it, and Poles after the event.
14. Another Polish proverb says that the French pirate his inven- ‘tion, the Germans sell it, and the Russians | fileh it.
15. Another says the serpent deceived Eve in Italian, Live deceived Adam in Bobemian, God cursed them in German, and the Angel drove them out of Paradise in Hungarian.
16. Many nations have some proverb or other, the upshot of which is that you must wet up very early to take in an Italian,
The * Times "-Parnell Inquiry.
'n the House of Commons Mr. Mathews stating that Mr. Parnell objected to the scope of the enquiry because it embodied the action of the League, Mr. Parnell rose and said that he had no objectiog to any enguiry into the League's affairs, but an enquiry ought to be by a separate com- mission.
were inseparable. Doubtless when seeking to inflict punishment charges against the
accused could be most speciftie and defined,
but when the ubject was limited tothe dis- covery of the truth such a defining was un- necessary. The charges had now been public some months. The Parnellites themselves had demanded an enquiry be- fore acommittee of the House. present attitude caused suspicion that they wished to envade an enquiry or hamper the commission, The enquiry would be a farce unless it dealt with such men as Sheridan, Byron and Egan. The Government, there- fore, could not consent to limit the enquiry. They cheerfully consented, however, to let Mr. Parnell have every facility and to appear by counsel or otherwise to conduct his defence. (Cheers.) Mr. Gladstone now treated the charges as ancient history. Why did he in April last demand a Parlia- mentary enquiry! It was impossible to settle this dispute without investiyation.
Sir Charles Russel said Mr. Mathews con- tended that the Parnellites were not en- titled to the protection extended to the meanest criminal of having the charges defined. For his own part he would preter a libel action before the most bigoted jury in London toa trial by a tribunal such as the uniavorable commission appointed by the Government, the object of which ap- peared to be not to bring guilt home to in- dividuals, but to discredit a party.
Mr. Labouchere said he had as low an opinion of the Tlmes as most people could have, but that it was not so low as that of Mr. Mathews, who seemed to think the Times would plead the right of privilege re- specting a certain letter, on the ground that the letter had not been published in the Times but only read by Mr. Webster in the court during the trial of O'Donnell. The commission, he said was not as good a tribunai upon these matters as Parliament. No three judges on the bench could so well adjudicate these questions as the House of Commons. It was a fishing commission intended to evade the real issue tu be de- cided. The circumstances showed, for instance, that Mr. Egan and Mr. O’Brien could not appear. Yet in their absence the commission was to investigate their conduct and to listen to charges while these gentlemen had no sufficient chance to rebut the testimony. Mr. Matthews had said the widened scope of the enquiry might reveal some undiscover- ed murder. Did that mean that the mem- bers of Parliament against whom the bill was directed were murderers? (Hear, hear.) Would the House tolerate these vague insinuations ? Never was the effrontery of the Government so complete as when they said the commission was granted at the request of the Parnellites, while in the meantime the Government was arranging with the Times what sort of a commission should be propused and what ought to be the scope of the enquiry. The Commission Bill was actually formed by the Times and prompted by the Govern- meut in order to divert attention from the mischievous proceedings in Ireland. They wanted to know about the murders at Mitchellstown and abdut the murder of Mr. Mandeville. (Hear, hear.) He had pro- posed moving the second reading of the bill this day six months; but Mr. Parnell, anxious to bring about the investigation, had urged him not tu do so. Though he had no hope that the bill would be revised in committee the question would be serious- ly considered at its third reading whether Mr. Parnell and his friends ought to be al- lowed to walk into a-trap.
Mr. Chamberlain said that Mr. La- bouchere was, as usual, cynical in imputing to his political opponents mean and un- worthy motives. He (Chamberlain) had a high opinion of Mr. Parnell’s charaeter, had aided in securing his release from Kilmain- ham, and would be slow to accept the charges made against him. The only thing that could shake his confidence was Mr. Parneli’s reluctance to face them. (Cheers and shouts of ‘* No.”) Why, Mr. Cham- berlain asked, should Mr. Parnell not trust an English jury / Surely such a jury could be trusted to du justice. If not Mr. Parnell could have gone before a Dublin jury, and it was surprising ‘that he did not do so, How were Mr. Parnell’s friends to prove his innocence of the crimes charged, unless the enquiry covered his relations with members of the House and outsiders accus- ed of crime? Regarding the idea of definite charges being necessary, Mr. Chamberlain said that toformulate specific charges would make the Government a party to the in- dictment, and whatever the Parnellite inembers might say in the heat of debate, he did not believe they thought the Gov- erniient a party tu the Times’ ‘accusation.
Sir William Harcourt said that in defence of the bill offered in behalf of the Govern- ment there was the least possible reference to the teiters. The Government had evad- ed the question of the letters and tried to render the enquiry so as to make it an at- tack upon its political opponents. He argued in favor of specific charges, and de- clared that if Mr. Webster believed one single charge which he had tried, as counsel for the Times, to affix to Mr. Parnell, it was his duty, as Government counsel, to indict Mr. Parnell. He denounced the bill as now framed, as a violation of every form of judicial enquiry.
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Clipper schooner Elisha Crowell, Captain Butier, from Port au Port, Newfoundland, with a cargo of canned lobsters to Hon. 1D. Davies, called at Georgetown yesterday for orders, and has been ordered to Charlottetown.
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Aquatic.
SWEEPSTAKES RACE FOR SAILING BOATS,
A MEETING of those interested in boating was held, as announced,in Slackford’s boat- house yesterday evening at 7 o'clock.
Mr. Hayden, who was called to the chair, announced the object of the meeting to be for the purpose of calling a race for sail boats, as a preliminary step toward a
J. Me-
Carey was appointed Secretary. The fol-
lowing motions were carried : _ 1. That the race under consideration be knewn and conducted as a sweepstakes race
| for sai! boats.
2 That boats20 feet keel and under, only, be allowed to enter.
2. That the entrance fee be $5.
4. Providing ten boats or less enter, the first boat takes two-thirds of the entrance money,and the second boat one-third—less, one entrance fee, which will be given to the third boat.
5. That amounts received fur entrance from any number of boats over ten be divided equally between the three first boats.
6. That this race take place on Saturday, August 11th.
7. That three judges be appointed who will decide upon every particular other than the fit state of the weather for start- ing.
8. That all entries be made with the Secretary before noon on Friday, the 10th prox.
9. That there be no limit to the time for finishing the race.
10. That the majority of captains of boats decide on the fit state of the weather for starting.
11. That any boat acting in contraven- tion of these rules forfeit her entrance fee with all claims to the race.
12. The following course to be sailed over twice :
Around buoys placed off Brickmaker’s and White’s Points and Asylum Wharf.
Motions were made and seconded by the following —
J. Slackford, J. F. Walker, B. Findley, A. Snelgrove, J. Lane, Dr. Robins, J. Snelyrove, R. Fraser, J. Coombs.
Judging from the interest evinced by those in attendance it is only necessary for the public to encourage the movement to ensure the success of a first-class regatta before the close of the present season.
GooseBEeRRIES. — Nine half barrels improved cultivated Gooseberries, cheap, at A. Mc- Neill’s Auction Room. jy28
GRAND DAY'S TROTTING
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TICNISH Driving Track
TUESDAY, AUG. 24st.
FIRST RACK—Purse $50, open to all Stallions owned on P. E. Island- $25 to first, $15 to second, $:0 to third.
SECOND RACE--3 minute class—Purse $25; $i2 to first, $8 to secend, $5 to ' bird.
THIRD RACE —Four-year-old—Purse $20; $10 to first, $6 Lo second, $4 to third.
FOURTH RACE ~—For Green Horses— Purse $15; $4 to firsi, $5 to second, $4 to third.
All troittiag to be done according to Nationa Rules, vest three in five to harness. Five to enter in each race, and three or more to start. Entrance fee, 15 per cent. of purse. Races to begin ai 1! a.m. sharp. All entries to be accom- Panied with cash, and to be made with the undersigned on or before FRIVAY, the 17:h August.
First-class Refreshments will be provided on the grounds, also Daucing Booths and other attractions.
Asthe lignish horses are always to the front. and having th: promise of some of the fastest stallions on the Island toenter, a grand day’s sport m+y be expected.
AD MISSLON TO GROU ND3—Gents, 25 cents ; Ladies. free.
The following Committees have been appointed to conduct the races, which is sufficient. guaran- tee of their good manaxement -—E. O'Connor, James Cuaristopher, James Platts, Thomas O’Brien, George Conroy.
P. BRODERICK, Proprictor.
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