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THE oii L\

ANUARY 7, 1890..

A GENERAL ELECTION.

A GENERAL ELF mbers of the

House ol

held on Thursday, the 30th

rION ior mi

} > eal } Assembly in this Province will be

January, inst.

The nomimation of candidates Ww ill Lake

place on Thursday, the 23rd January.

Phis appeal to the people is this first 1m-

' portant official act of Mr. McLeod's Admin-

istration. It will, we believe, be admitted that good tact and judgment have been shown in postponing the issue ol the writs

; o: 9 ry} } t] . until afcer the holidays. The peopie o1 this

Province did not want to be bothered

with politics while they were buy- ing and iving their Christmas and New Year's gifts, and passing the com- pliments the season. They will now h ive e best part « f am mith ik which to discuss Provincial issues and Cecide which

° } ¢? , hs e of the two political par they will have

to manage the public business. We believe

} } A = ehi« ar that they will find so dificulty whatever

in arriving at the conclusion that they will

be wise if they give Mr. McLeod’s Admuinis-

Y EXAMINER. |

a | ed, was

DAILY

The tire, when first discover- e the kitchen ; how | it originated no one seems to know. For- tunately it was a wet nightand the fire was ic mitined to the Eure ka House. The bnild- ling was insured for $1,500 and the furni- | ture for $500 in ny Glasgow & London In- surance C > Fs Hyndman agent.

| the furniture. ia a room ab ry

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Rew Books,

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"amplhilets, ete.

The latest adv — made in stenography is the publication, by Mr. Arthur Doughty, of Montreal, of the ** ldyls of the King,” in shorthand. The work has just appeared. It is illustrated by Henry Sandham, and has met with the literary approval of Lord Tennyson as well as that of all the members of the craft. The book is used as a text in the business colle and is, besides, a literary curiosity of unique value. Every page is printe d froma plate engraved from Mr. Doughty's trans cript ion, and im the} preparation the work has entailed an end- less amount of pains. It is one of the latest and most curious additions to Cana- dian literature.

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OGddfellowship.

On last evening Mr. Theo. L. Chappelle,

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. Deputy Grand Master, installed the officers tra na fair tria Lt may, Of course, De of St. Lawrence Lodge, No. 8, for the cur- expected that Mr. McLeod's Lead ship | rent term. Following is the list : will afford a sullicient change ol pork to N. G.- Charles Lawson.

V.G —John T. Hardy. meet i langing reumsvancesa rt re R. S 4 Samu l Ne lson, P. G. : , > } r. oh H. Seller. ments of Lhe I vine and, at ti Satie een oui M. Moore, PG t } rive t 108t Sati ‘tory gu anrees W arder ~W m Small. : Con.—Ewe : Mac Mill an. tora ¢ LDUAHRCE ee I i bi 4a 1S Chaplain Re v. Fre d. E. 2 Lloyd, tration Marshal —Samuel Lowe. cciaiiiiiaaiaaebins amp oes siieatieaillin ae Organist Fred. H. Heartz. Notes and Comments. es a a x -| R.S. N. G.—H. M. Pavison, P. G. : The J ee fears the contagion of l &- 0 O «cleat Seeneia. ‘The Dread a but the people fear, > oY. GO. - 5 ee with greater reas yn, snother Grit Govern- L. S. V. G.—Daniel Macleod. ment. R. S. S.—A. C Parsons. -The E says : Lf it be true, as re- L. S. S.—David Plews. ported, that the Winnipeg Sen has passed J. P. G.—Wm., N. Riggs. into hands hostile to the Manitoba Govern- iid ane ment, there will be no Grit organ in Win- ‘ “fea nipeg to play the Dead March at the fua- Sons of Temperance.

» Greenway ministry.

The situation in Brazil, says a report, is alarming. The 1 avy appears to be op- posed to the new government, and many sailors h been imprisoned and shot for c) e Zz tor D I } ro The soldiery are i snowing 8} | mas of discontent. The cit ~ ire protesting against the milary maovellen it als > Sal a that the o iment 1s I ecomung ila med, and one province has refused to accept the governor assign 1 to it. It is also stated the Czar refuses to recognize the new Republic, and has broken off relations with the Brazilian minister of St. Petersburg

favor of churches disestab- cert uinly

arguments in that their |

This has

the

lishment is

—Ore of church disestal progress eV . lishment than before.

been true of the Church of Ireland. The other day anew Church at Riheny, near Dablin,» s dedicatedfor worship,it having been the gift of Lord Ardilsun, and apropos of the celebration the Irish Tim $ Trem irks: ** It is now twenty years since the Act of Disestablishment was passed and through-

been continued encouraging

out that long interval there has never a Year wit rout evidence of vitality and progress. These eadfastness and

STs

sigus of st pious purpose have been witnessed ia all parts of the country, and even in districts where the

Protestant

pro P ‘TOUS.

people were not numerous or The King of Portu; gal said at the open-

ing of the Cortes: ‘‘The pat rictic aspir- ations of G Britain to extend her vast possessit Africa had been met at sev- eral points by the fixed design of Portugal autoority over those re-

-ortuguese the first to to Christianity and Portuguese author-

JUS ib

to Maintain her PIOLS. The j aiscuvetr ah i

commerce,

were ope fi

} th where ne

ities have exercised jurisdiction and influ-

ence suthcient to indicate inconteatable pos- 1 . — Ze

Bession, Chis Co.i1slon pI woked ailfierence

in views and led to diplomatic

dence, Which Ww

corres sDpon- is also dealing with the dif-

ference of opinion re garding the conflict between the natives of the Shire country, and the Portuguese scientitic expedition were supported by the two chambers. My government will endeavor to convince the Brit sh government of our right to rule the

territory north and south of the Zambesi river, hoping to obtain an equit -ble adust- nt of all the legitimate interests which tnay, as 1 a _ prompt'y restore Pp rfect .ceord betwee nations ]

2 united by bonds of ir landahi and tradition for cen- tl urie Ss.

ime

two

-The epidemic of diphtheria in New- foundiand which began in March, 1888, and has continued, but with steadily decreasing virulence, to the present time, has made fearful inroads. During this period there were in and about the city of St. John’s the disease and 427 deaths. The cases now are of a milder type, and the medical men give it as their opinion that! the plague is slowly dying out. Since the | outbreak, all the means that human skill and scientific knowledge suggested were put in’operation, An active buard of health, hospil 7 accommodation and medical aid for the poor, closing of the schowls fer two months, their opening even now being at- tended with extra precautions w prevent contagion, strict isolation of the inmates of infected premises-—all these preventatives and others were not effectual in stamping out the disease. The Empire remarks that the lesson is one just as important for ‘us as it is for the Newfoundlanders, because it was lack of sanitary reforms which invited the epidemic, and made it difficult to handle afterwards. No community can afford to neglect its sewage and othér samttary ar- r mgements unless it is prepared to pay in life ant money for the reckiess privilege. aieebedis A ear«filled with women ane children gent over an 80-foot bank at Helena, Mon- a, the other Gay.

2,170 cases of

=. h excitement prevailed in the Glas- Se market on Friday. The price of irrants advanced to 66 shillings, iat reached since the Dov

The ofticers of Victoria Division, No. 4, for the current quarter are as follows :— V. P. —C. F. McLean,

W. A-—A. Sabine. R. S.—J. J. Chapp ll. A. R. 8.—A. Down. F. S.—R. B. Kerr.

A. W. Tanton.

pay an official visit to this Division on Mon- day evening next.

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Examination and Presdataticn.

The semi-annual examination of Tryon School took piace on the 3d inst. The two departments were examined before quite a anumber of parents and visitors by their respective teachers, Mr. McDonald and Miss Alexander.

The visitors noted, by their remarks at the close, that the pupils showed by their quick and correct answers to the questions asked, that both teachers are very careful and painstaking in their work, and that they are doing their utmost to advance the interests of the school under their charge.

When the examination had concluded, Master Ernest Crawford, on behalf of the senior department, with a few very appro- priate remarks, presented Mr. McDonald

with a beautiful photograph album. Mr. McDonald made a suitable reply Z. Tryon, Jan. 4, 1890.

News Notes

Twenty thousand people in Chicago.

The population of 40,000,000.

A new nihilist society has been discover- ed in Russia.

have influenza

Japan is just under

The revolution in San Salvador has been suppressed.

Armenians in Turkey are preparing to emigrate to Persia.

Detriot has now a natural gas supply from the Ohio field.

The New York world’s fair fund now amounts to $5,237,238.

Chicago is tu build a magnificent Masonle Temple, tu cost $2,590,000.

The new year was us shered in by disagree- able weather in Ontario and Quebec.

La grippe is increasing to an alarming extent in New York,, Brooklyn and Jersey

City. A farm near Macduff, Scotland, has been handed down from father to son for

ia

300 years.

The Austrian Government will reinforce | its staff of secret agents in Italy, watching the irredentists.

In New York on the 4th inst., delirium, resulting from an attack of the influenza, caused awoman to commit suicide by throw- ing herself out of a window.

It isa Jittle rough on the criminal. In the States they get the weakest minded, most ignorant men possible for the jury, and then speak of.trying the poor unfortun- ate by a jury of his peers.

A thirteen-year-old boy, brother toa | witness who testified in the case of a man named Daly,who was tried at Castle Island, | Ireland, for murder, has been strangled to death at that place. A man named Connor | has been arrested on the charge of being ithe murderer.

| In Mitchell County, North Carolina, ! twelve miles from Bacusville, in a drunker | row vu Christmas Day, three men were killed. mn Friday morning Munroe Gar- land, a brother of one of the murdered men, rode up to a crowd in the same place and fired imty it, killing three awd Wound- ing tw ele.

i : Ea ; ar Ch.—W. P. Colwill. Graphically he deseribed the, young man | C.—John Goll lof the period, led on from his first glass in A * “zr nr tackem 'the drawing room to the midnight orgies ee W. Sabive lof the saloon and the drunkard’s grave; or O.S B. Varren rom the playing of a harmless game with a W. p. N. ohn untley. 'friend to while away the time to the de- | ; ° . _ The Rev. George Steel, G. W. P., will er adation of the gambing den, where, with

EXAMINER, ata

City School Nicene.

At a meeting of the School Board, held on Monday evening last, being the first regular meeting since the date at which

Miss Barr resigned her position as Prinei- pal of Prince Street School, the following resolutioh was unanimously passed :

“Resolved. That as Miss Emma Barr is about to retire from the position of Prine 2 of the Upper Prince Street School in this city this Board cannot accept her resignation with. out placing on record an expression of the high esteem in which she has always been held by them, and of their ap preci ation of the valuable services rendered by her during the period in which she occupied the im- portant positions to which they appointed her. By her indefatig rable devotion to her dut “al 1d her manifest determination to succeed in her profession, she has won for her- s:lf a reputation as a suc cessful teacher and disciplinarian especially in connection with her successful management of the Girl's High The Board de ire to say that they regret being de prives d of her services, and belie ve this feeling is shard in by the teachers and pupils of the Prince Street School and the community generally; and

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Sechoo',.

with her

will her their warmest and best wishes h ippiness and = pros- pert y.

Carry

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[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Whist, Wi ine and Women. | —

Sir,—Sunday sich I had the pleasure of being one of the large audience which sat under Rev. Mr. Read in the Methodist Church. He sp ke from the text, *‘I will think on my ways.

It is refreshing, he said, to tind a man who really does think. This is not an age in which people use their brains for them-

One sees so many own grappling with the day, and scattler-

within reach of all,

selves as they used to. abler minds than his the great questions of ing their conclusions, that he is apt to say, ‘*‘What need 1s there for me to bother my head thinking about these things? I willadopt the opinion of some leading authority on the subject, who will more likely be right than myself.” | And so people make cranks of their minds, and allow them to be wound up by others, But we cannot thus get rid of the duty which rests on us.as reasonable and respon- sible beings. According to the abilities and powers he has received from God, every man must an account of his actions.

The preacher then proceeded to denounce the evils resulting from the frivolous amusements of society, and _ particularly lthose flowing from drinking, card playing land dancing. While not finding fault with as wrong or sinful in themselves, he objected to them mainly on two grounds : ist, that they are dangerous; 2d, that they of time.

give

these

;are a waste

| glaring eyeand fevered brow he sees his last iollar swept away, and with it his honor and good name; or drunk with the pleasant intoxication of the dance learnt in the par- lors of the respectable and elite of society, going down to a miserable end in the masic halls and slums of the great cities.

There is danger in them all, said the preacher, and though not more than one in the hundred may fall, itis our duty to avoid them altogether.

He then pointed out the loss of time oc- casioned by becoming engrossed in these things.

Now, while heartily agreeing with Mr. Read as to the evils resulting from excess in these amusements (and, in fact, the same may be said to an extent of going too far in any pleasure), and as to the danger to some of intalbion in them at all, and while allowing that a great deal of time is lost by people who give themselves up to these things without restraint, | cannot follow him when he condemns in toto, and puts the ban on these practices and all who en- gage in them.

There being no harm in the thing itself, simply that an amusement is dangerous, seems to me no valid objection to it. Did the fact of a hundred children being crush-

ed to death on an Irish excursion train, last summer, put a stop to our picnics / Does the knowledge that each year many

and foot- for those add a zest to

are maimed and killed at cricket ball keep our boys from going in games / Does it not rather their enjoyment of them ?/

We cannot shut ourselves up in glass cases inthis world to keep the dust and rain off our spotlessness. It is not the tree sheltered in a nursery that grows to be the

king of the forest; but the seedling that has bent tothe blasts of winter, and felt the heaving of the frost and the burning of the sun, isthe one that grows strong and upright, and defies the storm. And if

we look at men it is much the same. Whence have sprung those mighty intellects and chayacters of grandeur that have elec- trified, reformed and renovated our world ? Were they theresult ofatraining which kept them out of sight and touch of the evils of life? No. The world, with ali its hard- ness and roughness, wastheir school; it was in the hot fires of trial and temptation that those characters were forged.

Of Him who is our pattern and example, do we not read that He was ‘‘ tempted in ail things like aa we are;” and has He not prayed for us, not that we should be taken vut of the world, but that we should be saved from the evil that is in the world.

Asto the waste of time, I would say that everything we do takes some time. And men are so constituted that they must have some amusements. is not waste of time, unless carried too far,

The Puritans, under Cromwell, tried to get along without any of these frivolities. Chey cut down the May-poles, struck Christ-

Therefore amusement |

mas Day out of the calendar, and puiled a long face on all occasions.

Bat that did not alter mens’ nature, ! They took their joy in defacing churches ! and striking off heads; and ran into tha t | hypocrisy and phariseci ism which disgusted | the nation, aud ended gin the rebound from their austerity which found vent in the profligate times of Charles II.

Use, Nor Aruse.

hoiiaa ore

The Spanish ministry has resigned. Senor |

on the basis that will reconcile the Varpous |

jideral groupe. ; |

TUESDAY,

Week of Prayer.

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Tuesday Baptist Chureh : subtle Cl, ‘Nations and Rulers :” Rev. Me. Carruto ers. Same day—Y. M. ©. A. Hall ; sain subject ; . - speaker.

Wednesday—Prince Street M ~ subject, ** The Rising Geueration ;

Mr. Sutherland, speaker.

Thursdsy—St. James’ Church ; aubje: ‘Jews and Mohammedan Rev. M1 Read, speaker.

Friday-—Prince Street Methodist ¢ hureb; subject, ** The Heathen; ’ addresses b ry lay men,

Saturday—Upper Prince Street Me h Church ; subject, ** Thanksgivin

WwW. W. Brewer, speaker.

the P. E ala |

Services begin

dist Rev. Collections in aid of Hospital at each meeting. at 7.30 o’clock. a p> a Horse Notes.

The St. John Telegraph reports : “The standard bred mare Mainspring, four years old, now at Vanwart’s stable, North End, is offered for sale by her owners. = has a notable pedigree, and would be a desir able a equisition to the lovers of a good ho se

The great Sunol has grown an inch ring, and now stands 153° hands high, being two inches higher in front than aia 1. M.vud S. is the same heighth as Sunol, bnt is only one inch higher in front than she is behind.

One of the most

since

iast §

remarkable features of

q een ° . Goldleaf, the California pacer, is that she is not only a developed mare herself, but she possesses,as much, if not more, devel-

oped speed than any horse on the turf. As ad year-old, she. obtained a record of 2.15, and this year, asa 4-year old, she record of 2.11}, and is now the second fast- est pacer, livingor dead, Beside her re- cord her sire, Sidney, has a record of 2.193; her grand-dam, record ot 2.21}, and her grandsire, Santa Claus, is a notea campaigne r, with a record of 2.17. <i> + <p + <tEa—

Gdds and Ends.

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Swe etness, has n

Tongue cannot tell the words nor express the astonishment of the erippled soldier who awoke to find his wife using his wooden leg to pound the beefsteak for breakfast.

The ‘‘constant reader” of the daily newspaper is never compelled to sit on a jury through days and weeks of a_ tedious criminal tmal. Now is the time to sub- scribe,

Live within your income, because it is very inconvenient to live without it. -

Unlike the queer world, are gone,

majvrity of things in this fogs are always mist until they It is better to be wise, and not than to seem wise, and not be so. mea -&- <a -- Sir William Harcourt’s friends are new booming him as Gladstone’s successor, on the ground that he is the rough-and-tumble tighter in the Liberal party. Aad above ail

seem 80

hest

things else the Biilish democracy is fond of a fight ! Harcourt is essenti ‘lly a self-made man. He wasastudentat Trinity College,

Cambridge, the age

graduating with high honors. At of twenty-seven he was called to the bar, where he soon won professional distinc- tion. Afterwards he became professor of in- ternational law at Cambridge; and it was not till his forty-second year, in 1868, that he obtained a seatin the Commons, Subsequent- ly he held office as sclicitor-general secretary of state in twosucce-sive Gladstone administrations. His second wife isa daughter of John Lothrop Motley. :

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and as

Charlottetown Markets.

eel (emeit) per 1D... .. .+ +5256 $0.08 to 0,12 Beef (quarter) per lb.... 0.45 to 0.06 OONE 4. coves: eee reeds 0.03 to 0.09 Butter, fresh, per Ib.......... 0.22 to 0.24 Butter, tub, per EE pric ae! C.19 to 0.20 Brant, per OO sks 0.00 to 0.00 Celery (per head)...........:.. 0.03 to 0.00 CE BR icecassa ss kces 0.15 to 0.17 ee eee 0.30 to 0.60 Car rots, Se I nko edka-stins 0.40 to 0.0

CN os 25s 5 ss a4 0,20 to 0.40 Codtish, (corned) per doz..... 0 00 to 0.00 Ducks, per pair...... enthcewet 0.40 to 0.00 Eggs, per doz....... baa eee s 0.26 to 0.28 dn W nibeninaie ee Perr tee 2.50 to 2.70 SHWE oc ese ys sevgces | 9.50 to 0.55 ONOE isis chee od tu tks ous 0.45 to 6.60 ee 2 rere ere Peeve 0.15 to 0.16 a, Se BOD ON, . viens oc tckeien 0.34 to 0.38 RAN ETI 0k oss 3 Sc ac saneas 0.05 to 0.08 SEO bride sc ve'bl shee s os 0.14 to 0.18 PE BO 50s nan ohne ens 0.05 to 0.07 Oats (black) per bush.......... 0.00 to 0.33 CmtGAl, WOE OWE. 5.6 6s ases seen 0.00 to 2.40 PUNE, WINES sdk cdo c dec (se tna 0.07 to 0.10 Pork (carcass), per lb.......... 0.05 to 0.54 POUMOCS OOF DUR. so oss cose 0.20 to 0.22 POrsreiee, Or MAI... oa es ss 0.00 to 0.50 ONE ONE DADs ican sid ence 0.00 to 0.20 Rhubarb, per bunch........... 0.06 to 0 10 Squashes. - cach Rew sees i ad 0.06 to 0.12 Wenste, IGT MOE oc. os bb hes 0.00 to 0.15 SECA, DOT BOR os vene eens ves 1.50 to 2.00 SOON OTs 5 ss nn ose cecbexed 0.50 to 0 55 Turkeys (each)........ pee cscs 0.80 to 1 10 Bi eg ee ee .- 0.17 to 0.00 WAG SIU ag 0k foes ioe ok so as 0.80 to 0.00 Wild Ducks (per pair).......... 0.50 to 0.00

PUBLIC MEETING.

T a meeting of the Liberals of Southport, held on “Friday, the 3rd inst., it was resolved that ‘A Public Meeting be "held at Southpo:t Schoolhouse on MONDAY, the 13th inst., at the hour of 4 o’cluck, p. m., for the purpose of consicering the political sicua- tion, and. particularly the question of the state of the Southport Ferry.” The present representatives of the Third District, and all candidates who intend to contest the ¢ election for that District, attend,

coming are requested to

J. B. DOCKENDORERP, Secretary ot Meeting.

Charlottetown Board of Trade,

as members in arrears to eo Corporation A for fees and dues are respectfully re- quested to make immediate payment,

J. MACEACHERN,

Secretary.

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BRAN.

I be STORE AND TO A TO ARRIVE: aetatte | Roller Milis Bran, excellent quality, |

Segusta will attempt to form a new cabinet S¢l‘ing low.

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2 STOCE-TAEIS NOW GOIN

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aUONG See Maer ezss

THIRTY-NINE MILLION DOLLARS,

ASSETS, Doing a GENERAL FIRE INSURANCE

Are now giness on the Islan?,

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at Lowest Rates. Apply to

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Risks taken Liberal Policies issued.

Prompt Settlements made,

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THIRTY DAYS ONLY.

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HE | DEPOT,

CHARLOTTETOWN

before their

WOOLEN MILLS

Annual Stock-taking,

CLOTH vill, during

the month of January, offer their immense stock of Tweeds,

ress Goods, Homespuus, Druggets aud Fiannels of their own :

make at cost. . Y All desirous of purchasing Heavy Winter Goods, fer Men d;

and Boys, are invited to examine our stock. |.

These goods are offered at the present low prices to { make room for New Spring Patterns. - 49 Aso ~ Five Hundred Pairs of Custom-Made Pants, from ; our own make of Cloth, which will be sold low Charlottetown, January 4, 1890—Im mS

KMIAS IS

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iS NEW YWiAAR’S.

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. IN RED WRAPPERS, :

s What is Called For. § MOND <> POTASH & Is ALL THE RAGED.

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P. co. ISLAND SOAP WORKS.

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