emer eats ali ais NEN SEES a

eee eee ey as SRE

+e

VOL. 5. CHARL

LOOK

HERE!

BRITISH WAREHOUSE.

<< — — *(

1: ——_—_-——

As we intend to make a change in our business at the end of the year, we are now closing out our

Large and Well-Assorted Stock of

DRY GOoonDs

At Unusually Low Prices, Meet the Ff

as eam ® {

Dress Goods from

Which, we are Sure, Will tard Times.

Ve

6 cents upwards.

Grey Cottons from 4 cents ugwards. Prints from 6 cents upwards. Hemp Carpeting from (2 cents upwards.

Tapestry from 59

cents upwards.

Brussels from $1.00 upwards. All other lines we are closing out at Prices that Defy

Competition.

W.

Charlottetown, June 30, 1879.

& A. BROWN.

ae Se —

SEASIDE HOTE

—"

RUSTICO BEACH, P. E. ISLAND.

fPFVUE ABOVE BEAUTIFUL WATERING PLACE HAS BEEN MUCH IMPROVED this Season and is now open for the accommodation of Guests.

for UHARMING SCENERY, INVIGORATING and BRACING ATMOSPHERE, and

splendid Surf Bathing, this Hotel has no equal

in the Dominion, Terms, $2.00 ani $2.50 per

day, $10 50 per week, Special arrangements mae for Families, Pic-nic Parties, &c. To get to the Seaside Hotel : get tickets from all points for Hunter River.

BY TRAIN :—Trains leave Ch’towa for 5.25 p. m. ¢ .m. Coaches meet trains from all points and Moderate —distanee between 7 and 8 miles, BY COACH, DIRECT :—Coaches leave calling for Guests at all points in City limits at 9 o'clock, on Thursday and Monday morning.

Trains leave Summerside for Hunter River at 9.05 a. m.; 12.40

Hunter River at-6.20 a. m. ; 10.05 a. m. ; and

p. m.; and 5.30 convey passengers to the ‘‘Seaside.” Charges tarough a beautiful country.

Ch'town Weduesday and Saturday evenings

6G o'clock. Returning arrive at Ch’town about Fare, $1.25, distance 18} miles. Address :

JOHN NEWSON & Co, Ch’town.

July 8th, 1879.—-2m, pat. & arg.

J. B. MacDonald

HAS JUST

RECEIVED

NEW FANCY DRESS GOODS, NEW BLACK LUSTRES,

NEW BLACK & VELVETEENS &

COLORED CORDS, SILK VELVETS,

NEW FLOWERS AND FEATHERS, New Straw Hats, (Fall Styles.) FRILLINGS, FRINGES, AND RIBBONS,

AT THE LOWEST PRICES,

J.

Queen Street, Charlottetown, Aug. 22, 1879

‘PICKLES.

50 Dozen Chow-Chow. CARVELL BROS.

Ch’town, Aug. 25, 1879—3in eod

Cash! Cash!

LL PERSONS indebted to m are re quested to make immediate payment. All accounts remaining unpaid on the 10th of September next will be handed over te the Court for collection. HENRY A. HARVIE. Aug 23, 1879—eod 5in

QUEEN INSURANCE C0'Y. OF ENGLAND. ‘CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING,

P paig CE effected on all kinds of Build- > Merchandise and Preduce. Also, on Vv. on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences, Losses settled prom i GEORGE MA D (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island

DB. MACDONALD.

—her

~ BRITISH AMERICA

Assurance Company. FIRE AND MARINE.

Cash Capital & Assets $1,176,49145

amen

‘

d INCORPORATED 1833,

‘Head Office, - Toronto, Ont.

ee

Risks taken on all descriptions of Property at lowest rates.

PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE HASZARD, Agent.

Office, South Side Queen Square. July 10, 1879.

MAGLEAN & MARTIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Newson's Building, Opp. Post Office,

Charlottetown, P. E. 1. A, Ae McLEAN, D,. C. MARTIN,

‘June, 1877--

June 18, 1879,~—ex2aw

— en ne

OTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, THUR

a

~~~ — _ . — -?— -

C

eee ee

[SLAND, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER.

UNION HOUSE, NEWS BY TELEGRAPH:

Queen Strect, Charlottetown. P. P. GILLIS, . . . PROPRIETOR. :

CHOICEST WINES & LIQUORS. NEW YORK LAGER BEER.

ABLES set at all hours,-with every luxury of the season. FRESH OysTErRs received daily. Rooms large and comfortably furnished. Coacuks from this House meet all Trains and Steamboats. First Class BARBER SHOP.

July 4, 1879—3m

FURTHER REDUCTION

IN PRICE OF

Albion Mines (Pictou, WN, 8.) SLACK COAL.

{LACK and ROUND COAL can now be )_) obtained at the above mentioned Mines.

Slack Coal, only $1.30 per tons Round Coal, $2.00,

For orders, apply to

G. W. DeBLOIS, Sole Agent for P, EK. Island. Orrice : No. 35 Water street.

Ch’'town, June 23, 1879—patsj kca h sp2m

No. 35 Water St.,

Charlottetown.

Prines Edward Island Branch

—OF THK—

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE.

INSURANGE GO.

Subscribed Capital, $9,733,332.00 Paid up Capital, - 1,216,.666.06

CHIEF OFFICES—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 6: Threadneedle Street.

Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ance Business are divided every Five Years. The Tables of Rates are moderate.

Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LowEst RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk.

Losses settled with promptitude and liber-

ality. G. W. DEBLoIs,

a gs General Agent. TEA PARTY PIC-NIC + SUPPLIES ! codes BEER & GOFF’S Lemon, Raspberry, and Pine

Apple Syrup Sold in bottles and by the gallon.

Plain and Fancy Biscuits

Sold in Boxes & Bbls. and by the pound. Tceing Sugar, Raisins, Currants,Pastry Flour, Essence of Coffee, Confectionery, Nuts, Uranges, Potted Ham, Drivelled Ham, Potted Tongue, &e

BEER & GOFF

MAIL NOTICE.

Mi for Great Britain will be closed at 10 o'clock, p. m., on THURSDAY in each week, to be forwarded’ via Rimouski, and also on MONDAY, the 4th and 18th inst., at 4 o'clock, a m., to be forwarded via Hajifax.

Mails to be forwarded via Summerside and Shediac and also for all places on the route to Summerside and in Prince County, will be closed daily at 5.30 o'clock, a, m., also for Summerside direct, at 5 p. m.

Mails to be forwarded via Steamers to Pictou will be closed every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR- DAY, at 5 o’clock, a. m.

Mails for Georgetown and Souris East, and all places on those routes, will be closed daily at 6 o’clock, a, m.

Post Office open from 8, a.m., till 9, p. m.

A. A. MACDONALD, Postmaster.

Post Office Charlottetown, } Aug. 2nd, 1879. {

DOMINION EXHIBITION

at Ottawa, 22nd September.

FEW COPIES of the Rules, Regulations and Prize Lists for the above exhibition have been sent to the Hon. F. Brecken, as one of the Commissioners for this Province. Full iculars can be had on application to Mr. IMON W. CRABBE, in Charlottetown, who has kindly consented to afford all possible in- formation, Aug. 4, 1879~

THE CABUL OUTRAGE. Siuia, Sept. *).

The Governor of Candahar has expressed his absolute devotion to the British and offered to raise a contingent of troops.

Lonpon, Sept. 9.

Sir Stafford Northcote, speaking at Ex- eter yesterday, said the outbreak in Cabul appeared unpremeditated, so far as could be judged. The Ameer was entirely true to the British, and it was certain that assistance would be implored and not be re- fused. There seems to be great doubt, he said, whether a prompt advance was possible.

The military correspondent of the Times reviewing the situation, says that 25 per cent. of the native troops on the frontier have gone on furlough. The season has been unusually sickly. The hospitals are full of men unfit for service by fever and the hardships of the campaign. There are but very few infantry regiments in the trans-Indus provinces which could muster 500 men.

There is probably not a cavalry regiment in the Punjaub which could put 300 men on parade. The transport departments will be broker up and their reorganization will he difficult. Upwards of 60,000 camels are officially reported as having perished in the late campaign. Gen. Roberts may have sufficient mules and camels to admit of a hasty advance of the brigade in light march- ing order, but the government of India will have to strain every nerve to guard his com- munications and keep the train pro- visioned.

The news received from Allahabad, through some reliable sources, gives assur- ance that Gen. Roberts will be at Cabul in a fortnig’it.

It is said in military circles at Simla that the 9th of October is the probable date of commencement of the forward movement, because of the deficiency in wheeled trans- portation.

Lonvon, Sept. 9.

It is reported that, in consequence of the proportions which the outbreak in Afghan- istan have reached, officials consider it pro- bable that Gen. Roberts will await the co- operation of the other columns before ad- vancing on Cabul.

EUROPEAN. Sr. Pererspuns, Sapt. 9.

A local paper states that Tobolsk, the capital of West Siberia, is threatened with incendiary fires. Soldlers are patrolling the streets.

The Czar has arrived at Livadia.

BERLIN, Sept. °).

It is reported that Baren D’Qubril, the Russian ambassador, has suddenly arrived here charged with the duty of bringing about an interview between Bismarck and Gortschakoff.

Owing to persecutions by the Goyvern- ment the number of students in the Rus- sian universities is rapidly decreasing.

The harvest prospects in Russsia are un- favorable.

Puitiiropous, Sept. 9. it is reported that Aleko Pasha has com- municated to the International Commission a resolution to resign. Paris, Sept. 9.

Theophlie Christopher Harless, a German theologian, is dead.

A Constantinople despatch says that the Sultan has disbanded the entire reserve of Rediff’s 62,000.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 9.

Sunday’s meetings of the Greek frontier Commission were stormy, and it is feared a rupture is imminent.

Lonpon. Sept. 9.

Sawyer & Co., merchants, of Bradford, have failed, with liabilities of £30,000.

It is announced in Dublin that Charles Parnell (Home Ruler), Member’ of Par- liament for Meath, and other. persons in- terested in the land question, contemplate, shortly, to issue an appeal to the Irish people in all parts of the world to aid in the creation of a class of peasant proprietors. in Ireland.

ASHTON-UNDER-TyNnE, Sept. 9.

One of the greatest struggles ever known in the cotton trade here will probably be entered upon at the end of this week. The employers refuse to withdraw notices of 5 per cent reduction of wages, and the spin- ners and weavers are determined to resist the reduction. If the strike ensues, nearly all the working people in Ashton district will be involved, and the strike be pro- bably be a protracted one as tho Spinners’ Union is amply provided with funds.

UNITED STATES. New York, Sept. 9.

A bale of eld paper, while being unload- ed frem the European steamship Castle- wood, yesterday, suddenly burst into a blaze. The fire was extinguished with great difficulty and the discovery made that the bale had been prepared with combusti- ble fluid and matches, with the evident purpose of firing the ship.

New York, Sept. 9.

Ths Norwegian barque Columbia, from London for Quebec on the 14th felt a sud- den shock. Looking over the side the tain and crew saw the water discolored with blood, and either a fish - a sea monster making away. ‘The vessel began to fill mmediately, and being unable to — eak they toek to the boats, Half an hour ater the ship sunk. They were picked up

11, 1879,

ER.

NO. 96,

Lby Steamer P. Colond, and brought here to-night, Twelvein all. New York, Sept. 9.

Commissioner Osborne has rendered his decision in the case of Urban Catlow, charged with the murder of Owen Jones, steward of the steamer Arizona, on the 15th of last month, on the voyage to this coun- try from Europe. Catlow was a steerage passenger, and, while, insane, stabbed Jones. {lis extradition is now demanded by Englund. The Commissioner denied the application and dismissed him, holding that where a man, charged with murder, put in a plea of insanity, the Commissioner could find no precedent for that case ; that under the treaty with Great Britain all he had power to do was to examine as to crim- inality.

PortLann, Me. Sept. 9.

The indications now are that Davis may be elected by the popular vote. At any rate the republicans have a majority in both branches of the Legislature.

i ee

English’ Farmers and Hard Times.

The Weekly Times, of London, of August 31, explains the hard times in the Agricul. tural districts as follows:-—

The causes of commercial and of agricul- tural depression do not lie far apart—if, in- ded, they are not one and the same, viewed from different sides. The vast extension of the railway system in the Western States of the American Union brought to market vast quantities of corn, already accumulat- ing in districts hitherto beyond the range of English markets. The effect ef this be- gan to be felt in the price of wheat in 1873- 74, and the next effect was to produce re- action and collapse without parallel. A great surplus of unemployed labor was transferred from the manufacturing towns in the Atlantic States to the new districts opened out by railway extension, and corn- growing increased enormously. The ag- gregate production of wheat in North America increased from 100 millions of bushels in 1849 to 365 millions in 1877 and 420 millions in 1878. This surplus, after their home wants were supplied, was sufficient to meet the whole excess wants of this country; but dogs it necessarily follow from these premises - that the cultivation of wheat here in

Our bad harvests have been balanced by ex- ceptionally good harvests in the United States and Dominion. We have yet to learn what will be the result on prices here of different harvests in America, where a diminished product of one bushel to the acre will at once strike off one-third of her exporting power. Wheat seems to have reached its lowest point, and prices are going up. If this continues, the English farmer's case is not hopeless—not beyond what may be. met by a comparatively slight reduction of rent and wages. Farming is a business which cannot long be carried on without such a rate of profit as will induce capital to embark in it. The farmer is get- ting tired of permitting the landlord to live on his capital. He prefers giving up his farm and living on itself until he finds bet- ter occupation. This can only come from an equitable readjustinent of profits, rent,

in a great measure on the tenants them- selves at the next general election.

It would appear that the English farmers themselves do not take so rosy a view of matters. In fact, many of them object to remaining ina country which has experi- enced four bad harvests in succession and where the price of their products depend not upon their quality or the labor put upon them but en the harvest in America and the transportation charges from America to England. We read in the same London paper the following :—

“The National Steamship Company’s steamer Helvetiu sailed from Liverpool on Wednesday for New York, and among her passengers was a party of no fewer than eighty farmers. Dissatisfied with the pros- pects of agriculture at home, they have de- termined to try their fortunes in Texas. With few exceptions, the emigrants have been drawn from the northern districts of Yorkshire and from Durham. They com- prise various classes of agriculturists—from the ordinary small tenant.farmers upwards; severdl of their number being persons of good position and commanding capital to the extent of £500 and £600. Several of the farmers have united in the enterprise by clubbing together. -One party is said to have raised a capital of about £1,200, The selection of South Texas as the locality of their new home has been due to the exer- tions of Dr. Kingbury, who was a year or two ago sent over to England by the Texas railway company to lay before the farmers and agriculturalists of this country the ad- vantages of taking up sites along a line of railway than i eing constructed.

What is influencing hundredsin regard to Texas will influnce many thousands in re- gard to Canada and Canada’s North West. The English tenant farmer reasons wisely. He asks himself if it is not better for him to be one of those whe sapply England with breadstuffs at first hands rather than be at the merey of the foreign competitor ; who had better not be a foreign competitor himself, located on the natural wheat field of the world, where the harvest seldom or

Cap-| never fails, rather than run the risks of

such weather and competition as the Eng- lish farmers have suffered for a series of years ?

_ ~ ”

A variety theatre was burned at Chicag: ion Friday night. =

England is to be evermore unprofitable ? °

and wages. {Hew soon it will come depends ,

be on Soe a a

ae

a NIRS a A te

C2

Senet ntene

a ey cera aan

=

agoegpeelecsere se —=

ee agg ——

=k Fo seen

carer we

Sea Meee eaprenes se to gee ee

— Se

Rehan cmt ae IRR MR Or am pee TE = mettn peerings g ae

+ scenes =

panne

a ceatigtac cecinaenaincS Gs SiaeaStc otoe

mai ne em tng a en i ee

—oneemmsreaeigera

eres

pn ern apm

peal ee

ee eG ee eS

ie eae a - hemp