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wy iold anybody how very, very near | was to death that nig | year ago, but as [can now calmly recall each thoucht, ench word, ret. L think [ will write down asa o all who may find themselves cireumatanced, hoping with | vart. that the number may be

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Inthe first place my name ts I rod— | erick Putnam. I am and have been for | the last ten | the foreman and! bookeeper of the large lumbering @s-| tablishment of William Winston & Co., | and hope to be for another decade, un-; less something better turng up. Mr. Winston is the resident partner and manager of ths manvfacturing part of the business. The other members of the firm, of which there are two, live in| the city, at the foot of the lake, and at tending to the sale of lumber, which we, send them by vessels.

VORrS,

' This is by far the largest share of| what the miil cuts, although the amount: : ; °

of our sales directly from the mill, to supply the country to the west of u ‘sis | quite larze. Vall, ire justas [ was preparing for home l heard footsteps on the creaking snow |

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outside, and proseatly the office door}

cold December

flew open, as though somo one ia haste had given it a push, admitting a tall, stout, well-dressed maa, witha travelliny-bag in one hand and a thrown over one arm.

[ wasalone, Mr. Winston having gone | to the house some half an hour before, ; locking the safe, in which we kept our hooks and papers, and taking the key with bim, as usual.

[ had already closed the damper to the steve, pal on my overcoat, and Was, in the ac! of turning down the lamp— | but of course [ waited.

‘Good evening, sir, saidthe man; bustling up to the stove, and kicking the damper opea with his right foot. ‘Has Winston zone to the house?’

I answered that he had.

‘When? I was afraid of it.’

lle drew out his watch—a very fine one L thought.

‘[ shal! not have time to go said. ‘ The train is duo in fifteen minus! tes. ;

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‘T, asked. ‘I wanted to leave some moncy with Winston. I intended to stop in towna day or two, bat I have just gota des- patch that calls me home.’

‘What name, sir?’

‘ Anderson of Andersonville.’ |

I knew him then, though | had seen} him bat onee before. He had been ene best Western customers, who had the past year so prompt in In fact, he was consi:d-

Winston had that very day tok! to write him, an ‘punched up a little.’ as he exprossod it. Tho letter was then in the breast-pockct of my overcoat.

‘You can leave tho money with me sir, and | will give you a receipt.’

He seemed to hesitate, which nettled me somewhat. Ihave never blamed anybody since, however.

‘Wow much is my bill?’ he asked, evenig mo sharply.

[ ans‘vered promptly, for I had atruck the balance not more than half an hour before:

‘Eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-three cents.’

‘Humph ! lessthan l supposed. Write outa receipt for that amount.’

Ho left the stove and came and look ed over my sholder while I wrote.

‘It is all right, Mr. Putman. I koow you now. You’ve been with Winston alongtime. I can tell your signature any whera.’

He drew from an inside pocket a large black wallet, very round and full and counting ont eleven different piles of bauk notes, he told me to run them over. Ut was ashort and easy task, for | each pile contained just ten ene hundred dollar bi is.

The balance was ia fives, tens aod twenties it toox more time to

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and it count thom; but atlast we gotit so that both were sati: fied.

At this moment we heard the whistle for the station." Anderson sprang for his travelling bag, and giving me a hasty hand shake was off on the run.

I did not feel quite easy to have so much money about me; but as Wine- ton’s house was at least a mile distant, ] concluled to keep it until morning, when [ could deposit it in the bank.

! closed the damper again, drew on my gloves, took the office key from the nail just over the door, and stepped up to putoutthelight. AsI did so,I saw a bit of paperon the floor, which, on picking up, I saw was the receipt I wrote for Mr. Anderson. He had drop- ped it.ia. his hurry. I put it in my pocket, snd theught ne more about it, only that L would mail itto him. I would have done it then, but as the Jast mai! for that day had gone out on the train which took Mr Anderson, T could do it just as well in the morning. To be Continued,

CONTINUE TO OFFER

EXTRA GOOD VALUE

IN ALL KINDS OF

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RY GOODS.

Our Stock of the following Goods is complete, and marked at the very lowest prices :

White Cottons, Grey Cottons, Printed Cottons, Fleecy Cottons, Cotton Battings.

NEW SPRING

TWEEDS.

We have just opened our New Spring Tweeds, and can say we have the

Vary Best Value in the ity,

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Immense Variciy of Patterns to Choese froin.

ROOM PAPER,

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English and Canadian Manufacture,

A large variety of Patterns, and very Cheap.

‘Gur Carpet and Oil Cloths

GOOD VALU BH,

TRLNS & SEVIS

March 2, 1380.

‘T know how its raade.

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A Great Conspiracy Case.

PRETENDED WIDOW OF A MILLIONAI

CONFESSES HER FR AUD,

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On the witness stand of the United States District Court at Trenton, NN. cs last Friday. a Woman of comly appearance, lady like and self-possessed, recounted the full history ot what seems to have been one of the most ro markable conspiracies in the records of crim: inal cases, Her accomplice—the originator of the conspiracy, indeed, if her story 1s to be helieved—is a physician of unusadal intelli gence and force of character. The plot, if it had been successful, would have put a sum hard on $o a million of dollars into the hands of these two. It was conceived with mar- vellous skill and carried to almost a’success- 'ful issue by means of a series of adroit devices. ‘giving to every objection sufficient explana- The case of the conspirators seemed when they were contronted

gion. | * ‘almost proven,

‘with an unexpected discovery, against which even the consummate care and ingenuity ol the plot could hardly have guarded, The his- tory of the ease reads in allits details like tic- tion. Joseph H. Lewis, an ell man, discev- ‘ered in the course of the proceedings to be the illegitimate son of a Hebrew trader and a neyro Woman, amassed a fortune of nearly two millions of dollars in business and fortu-

‘nate specylations, Before his «eatu, ana ‘doubtless with the consciousness of the negro

blood in his veins, he made a will bequeath

Hing almost his entire “fortune to the Unites | States, to be devoted to paying a part of the idebj created by a war that achieved he abolition ef slavery. To the know-

his friends, he had not a relative in he werld. He had been a miserly old yachelor ; he had never referred to father o1 nother or kin, except two nephews who i were nephews only “by courtesy.’ Bunt when ithe will came up fer probate a woman appeate d who claimed that the old man had married her twenty years before, had starved, maltreated, ‘and finally driven herfrom hishome. In sup- port of her claims a marriage

jt | ledge of it

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certificate was

roduced, witnesses swore that they had ‘known the two when living together as hus- -band and wife, eminent counsel were secured who seemed ecenvinced of the absolute justice of her cause, and her story was so plausible that it was likely to carry any jury. On Friday this weman declared that she had never ‘to her knowledge seen the man she claimed to be her husband, and that the certificate, testi- mony and claim to was a” entire fabrication that was conceived by a Dr. Park between the death of the old miser and the day of his burial.

Ihe first blow to the conspiracy was the diseovery that after the date of the alleged marriage certificate certain minute alterations in the plate from which it had been printed had been made by the engraver. These alter- ations appeared in this certificate. ‘The ex- ecutors of the will, in behalf of the United States, secured the services of detectives and experts who, with extraordinary perseverance and skill, proved, with almost absolute cer- tainty that the certificate was in the disguised handwriting of a notorious forger, and that the witnesses to the alleged marriage were perjurers. Then these witnesses came into court and confessed that the detectives aid the experts were right. Oneof them declired that he made the confession because he was cn the threshold of the grave. He was a dying manas he gave this testimony in the court room. He died in eight days after.

it appears that the woman who made this confession was an adventuress who happened

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to have the same name as the millionaire, Lewis. She had been the patient of a Dr. Park. Seizing oa the eoincidenve, he rapidiy

tured his plob to get possession of -one-half of the old man’s property. ryyt ‘ a Bee ankec aw “ hein The doctor and his party are DOW veinyg tried for fraud and perjury.-—. Y. - HAH ——— cue tackles a man with ld boy ; glad tosee you,”

Sun,

a hearty

Faber, the pencil maker, is very wealthy and a great philanthropist.

‘* Soft Snap” and ‘* Phat Purse’’ are the names of two Leadville mines.

Mrs. Partington says Ike has bonght a horse so spirited that it always goes off ona decanter.

The Prussian diet has adjourned. We ‘suppose the American Minister at Berlin will have to starve tlien.

The young Emperor of China has seventy

-wives to begin with, and it may be necessary ‘eventually to resort to a draft.—Himira Free

Press.

—Doctor—‘* You must drink claret to build up your system.” Patient—‘‘Oh, don’t ask ne to do that, doctor, I am a wine merchant ; v7

Beecher says that if he had a thousand boys he would make them all gunners by the time they were ten yoars old. <A thousand sons of guns inone family! Pshaw ! —Phila. delphia Bulietin.

‘*No,” said a Philadelphia undertaker, ‘*business has not revived as it should. What we want in this country te make things boom is the cholera, yellow fever, or some other epidemic.” —-Philadelphia Chronicle. Herald,

Hanlan offers to bet $2,000 that he can beat any man five secondsin five miles. We will bet Mr. Hanlan $4,000 that he has talked more and rowed less during the past five years than any twenty live men in America.— Hawkeye.

Elizabeth of Austria, is one of the most cul- tivated sovereigns in the world. She draws beautifully, is a good musician and speaks fluently all the language of modern Europe. Sheis fond of literature and among her attend- ants has readers in various languages.

in his latestlucubrations, ‘‘ Notes on Prout and Hunt,” Mr. Ruskin urges lady painters to paint ‘‘ poor country people in far-away placcs rather than high-bred prettiness or fend im- aginations.” in the same work he announces that ‘‘a butterfly as large as a swan would net be graceful.”

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MENIATURE ALMANAC,

PRIDAS 0 *.. cs MARCH 12th, 1880, Son Riszs......6.23 | HicngWarer.1i.41.;m

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Mortgage Sale.

[fo be Sold by PUBLIC. AUCTION, at, the Court House, in Charlottetown,in Queen’s County, in Prince Edward Island, on TUESDAY, the Sixth day of April next, 1889, at the hour of twelve o'clock, noon, by virtue of a Power of Sale in aa Inden-

ture of Mortgage; dated the first daw of

Alexander Stewart, of the one part, and Peter Murchison, of the other part,--

A LL that tract, piece and parcel of land LX being in the parish of Bedford, in Queen's County, and fronts the narrows of the en- trance of Charlottetown Harbor, commencing at a white birch tree on the south side of Muddy Cove, adjoining lands devised to Mary Stewart, and running thence due cast for the listance af seventy-seven chains, thence due uorth for the distance of thirteen chains, thence due west into the narrows of the said Harbor of Charlottetown, thence round the courses of the shore of Muddy Cove aforesaid co the place of beginning, containing one hundred (100) acres, a little more or less (agreeable to a plan thereof annexed to a cer- tain Deed, dated the 26th day of April, 1865, made between John Stewart, Charles Stewart ind Robert Stewart, executors and devisees of Peter Stewart, deceased, of the one part,

the other part), said piece of land being part of Township 48, in Queen’s County aforesaid. Messrs. Honcsox & McL&op, Solicitors, Charlottetown, Dated this 4th day of March, A. -D. 1880. PETER MURCHISON, finar 4, t!\} Mortgagee.

, 0 7 Th? a} Jaluable Property for Sale. "GVAAT FARM lately owned by John and

Peter Meikle, situate on Lot 23, in (Jueen’s County.

For further particulars apply at the office of Messrs, Hovpeson & McLeop, Charlotte town,

Jan. 9, 1880—eod

Bones. Bones.

TEXHE undersigned will pay fifty cents Cash per cwt. for all bones delivered at the Bone Mill, in the Royalty. No quantity iess than one ewt. (112 lbs) taken. FRED. W. HYNDMAN, Agent.

Ch town, Dee, 1, 1879

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PEXENDERS for a second 100 miles section & West or Rep River will be received by the undersigned nntil neon on MONDAY, the 29th of March next.

The section will extend from the end of the 48th Contract—near the western boundary of Manitoba—to a point on the west side of the valley of Bird-tail Creek.

Tenders must be on the printed term, which, with all other information, may be had at the Pacific Railway Eaginecr’s Offices, in Ottawa and Winnipeg, om and after the Ist day of

March next. By Order, F. BRAUN, ; Secretary. Dept. oF Rattways & CaKA.s, ) [fe 19, 2aw Ottawa, llthFebruary, 1880. | till27 mar.

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Probabilities for the next 24 hours for the Maritime Provinces.

Toroxto, March 11. Northerly winds to-day, backing towards the east to-night ; partly cloudy cokl weather, followed gto-morrow by cloudy weather and snow.

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Noveinber, A. D. 1878, and made between :

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For further particulars apply at the office of

8, § “NORTHERN LIGHE”

\ ILL MAKE DAILY TRIPS betweeg

Georgetown and Pictou, until further ‘notice, (Sundays excepted) leaving Georgetows at 6a. m., and Pictou at 1.40 p, m., weather permitting.

uae ¥ aud.

MITCHELL,

Agent ° De * Ch’town, Dec. 19, 157°. pt

FINKE DOG TAX, new overdue, if not im. mediately pail, will be sued for with. out distinction of persons. City Court, February 24, 1880.

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