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IAL LIT AD ON a

. Leeal and Other Items,

gE. A. Sorwern, the actor. is dead,

Hav and fuel are scarce at Summerside.

Norra Bepegue has a lively Debating Club

Haurrax haa a branch ec: the Irish Land Leag':¢

@wean not at all, but if you mutt swear, e

gwear

1 of for

Satur.

\ rroTrixe mat h is spoke day on Hiilsboroug” tee. the Gove cnor General io

Tae ram thas + HOXt summer is

tends to visit British Colamb

| ; . dation. | . : \ without foundst | fear the new syndicate is the progeny of | “*'**4 d world where au injunction testraining — . es i — : : i itow. Ma. Bor, whos eda Capt. Har political exigencies. | *S*cam manufactory from running would be ’ r) to the (ro mr-General has |} . © .1) #ranted, and where it would be eonsidered bord as A. 1). ; Saale Pe Mr. McDougall characterizes the new | *‘ nuisance” if } ad r private d . ito the apital 1} Bgland, off-rias + t: 2 ’ ia ‘ li ISCHRLEG Nea ivate GwWeilil retarnec : ; mm A POLLLICAL dodge and rather +t} en i r ives: } it evidentl edhe inne at hott) ae i. ; . ve Patri « apt ently injer the dene PSE tue scheme for putting the building } your Courts a long wav behind In th ie pressiog sat astringency of (he money mar- } 8nd operation of the Canada Pacific in the | city, 1 romember, al hte L al 908100 it d ul l Lie ' at ‘ y ; n rit th . : y * « : . 2 ; : : Reick f sd thing ; bat th 1ajority think hands of a private mpany should bo | ort was made by many persen verburden- lk » ) ’ ¥ - ‘ . djfferently | balked, 1 > heartily sny rts the contract. i with nerves, to have the steam \ tle of . . . : ; é } — toe entiiers’ strike in the porth of England | He evidenily cons : ut it is” better Wsons tanner) i Tus eoihess : | hans thei es . \w baci p ‘ oe spreading so rapidly that oal famine is bear the tis of the present contract Sei... this State : t s ne 5 : : oft. ae ‘ } r moCce? | kx * ll wote for inant sleas the masters an Nliers come to | TSK fying tot 1S boat would exist should 2 ze eerie a - a tear i “3. 0 Ludrew Jacl . ae ‘ if iaGntG yernment con sm? nO ‘ ‘ it ‘ “ Li Si terins. Bi elie a in powe ie , j 1 : a Ms ts jt ‘ i m of t ay — wefent bibs a ae af. s2 en- | ° m Ir is repor om oe ¥ | tinued as a Government y : : ya w ¢ t , + » Oo WwW i LOovi “ he are . > be able t . i e House mm Aue iii ia lie Ottaw rre on- : | tz the ; + te ’ i ; this ) MON’ writes ihe t of the lou gj So Ot ms where # handred pri 1 ‘ 7 i ef She spesehes i tue fon. Wm. Mael ral re ru se the i t rate of } nay t and pews + ed y the pro aud Hector ¢ MueTOn, . gra vor neu ALG i never-endiy ri 4 ‘ —T ; ost i ‘ ; f by ¥ one : TT: asta the two | ® preity full mary ef the former's. The nd felt bY every on : : papers a pmalga | universal verdict he Mir. M | whe complained would be looked upon | i? ? ; ' Dougall rep: sents the sober ; ke e-spirited and pro |, RK VAtnors, Sj., Of immerside, has | iy : Pi ign u sive izvens. sheuld raise a fund - wii 9:0) 0 be country The Grits ar ‘ hiv : ; . ’ ’ ge purchaser SS terest in the Mill Valley | 5: : — ; F © ter ‘VY | enable the defe iancs to rry the case to a ; +." at Y ’ 7 . ; j ‘ 1 } : : : ; Wool-n Vills Success to the Mills—and to | Gisappointe na Gisguste iiey Were | higher court, w el stice wou! surely be ; ; t, i istice would surely be Mr. Cathoun. } sure that Mr. MacDeuvall would en port | done ’ >» ' > sae¢ +. ’ F : | Blake’s ‘amendment in two volumes He } Jonusx B. McLean,

Ma. Fixrcasr lectaced in’ Ludiow Hall, Sammerside, last evening ; an:l be will lecture again in the same place to-norrow evening Tnis evening he lectures at K nsinyton,

Tue steamship ‘‘ Prince lidward,” which sail from Baltimore fer Li erpool on the Bist ul all well, St. Michaels, Aasores, a she put in to coal ep

» arrived w days ago, wher

Tay Bank of Eugland rate ef discount is

. ; es : he lat + . » : | : - : -_y now J} per nt., and ¢ - lat.st financial ex | of Chancery law is particularly galling. | intormed—for the author of the article hibits of the bank, as well as the latest Ye- mm. © | clippad is a man of wide experience-—lovl venue returns are m favorable han they | The St. John Sun's reporter save: t a es y k ien c

as met es ad get” aie ps ae re », | upon the Alley-Ducheman itrag ! have been for some time past, A pomt in Ho». Mr. Macdongall’s - : ; ; ; : . ‘ Stich 1€ 18) perpetrated upon twe of

on ' ei | 3 eech which has aitracted m wh attention! ae —

Tut Diamond Beokstore man says chat al- | fig Pg eat us iottetown's beat citizens, by Thomas ‘ , . ' as thi ith reterence to tl : . a. ‘ though it is well at times te be seen and not | } re gait ; t : , e at the instigation of his son George : heard ie Genk wes Covet shortly afted | which would be entaile: on the Sy a adi : i j ‘wo o'clock, Tuesday, when o:e of the candi. |i the disposal of their lands. The \ Se ae Pte “~ _wre - . wan Gs Ses a s,s t. . 1: con Ap yraph published in the (harlot dates for the Mayeralty was Heard and not | postition have been taiking as li (Pri Edward Talan Mvstsinen: oF os on would be necessary for the Company but to ; “ee a as PO ae ; >

| . « e = - as rer uat o ul ate Juity t ai a set down quietly, and rake in from 125 to > us . 7 rren all the misrepresents tions, etc., etc i" 50) *y ae . . 8 : ‘ o condemned Messrs, Albert and ’ ¢ : lane at lellay a, eir + hn - . ‘ ete., the Anti-Syndicate petition which went | 7° eee ere Ars jor thelr stosiGy. | and Edmund Duchemin to jail ‘for working wp from this Province, contsined but four | *“ % COPVersation with one of the mein- | at their trade of blockwakers in the eld home- thousand names, and it is siid that a very | “CTS OF the Syndicate on Satur Ay, he) st of their father Che paragréph farth large p: tion of these, wer those of dead | Stated t at, viewed im a@ finaneial way, | couveys the information that the Me: men and children. Well! well. |}they would have been perfectly will- | tru in had been previously ‘ driven , . } - of . | om ) q 1) ing to accept twenty ihillion§ dojlars; ter shop, erected on the site of the oid fa . 2 fisht — + : je: ae , ; . wa ” A € ’ ri ‘ A rags fight occurred the other night at a cash in lieu of the 25 million acres. but he | tory in which their father and themselves surprise party in Adelaide towaship, Ont. It id wot deme + th ; ¢| worked as good citizens for upward of . . : iid not den tab the FOUL re of | : eam : : ; was provoked by a collision between two} a. a. , «| thirty yoars, and were compellec to great Dennt to them 1! t . :

rivals fer one young lady's attentions. Sev- eral bruised and cut heads, a >roken leg, and genera! smash-up of the furr.ture were the |

results of this most agreeable :rrprise narty.

Cesvicrion.—Oaga the Ith inst., before J. H. Bourke, J. P., Mill View, John McLean was convicted and fined in the sum of $4.13, with costs, for eutering the house of Hugh McKenaie, Lot 50, and there doing damage to his deors and windows, whea in a state of mtoxication.

Tux Patriot is informed that Donald Far- quharsoa, Esq., is about to start a Starch Factory at Loog Creek, and tht he intends to call a meeting of the farmers in that vicinity in a few days to place before -hem an agrce- meat fora supply of potatoe: which is now prepared. Sueeess te Mr. Ferquharson and this cuterprise.

A stx-pays walk between m. Vaughan, of Chester, England, and Danivl O'Leary, of Chicago, and a six-day go-as-yu-please race between Charles ‘owell, «o! (hesterton, Cambri¢geshire, and John Dob er, of Chicago, have been arranged to take place in New York the second week in Apr! for £1,000 a side.

t

Saran Baavearotrs Ears) es.—Ia fifty- seven performances Sarah [Berhardt, cleared the sum of $206,959; that is ts say, « grand average for cach performanee of a little over $3.639. Of the total amount tie great actress bas reerived as her share no fewer th§ ~ $70,- 090 in round nambers, which is » mach “seater sam than any ether dramatic ar iste, lirjug or

| the exposure by Sir John of his ignorance

} the interest of the ralliway

Political Notes. i al Notes Worrespondence.

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[nun Municipal Council of Gloucester

County ie eich ee : - a Esc ace

Mi ya ago Sane akan Nee aente ot ae Fn wot he ia ourselves responsible for (From the Toronto Mail )

to support the Gin omnia nts Pacific ares a Se oie ees wit ce tmeni Mr. Gladstone w as indentared to the Tories,

Policy, and vote for the ratification of the The Aillev-Duchemi ‘ ; ae ry oy = 6p aa pag en

Coutract. Mr Anglin has not con “3 ed Atley-Duchemin Case. pont . oe Disraeli’s long years es both

with the request. = ies eases, however, the process of couversion was comparatively slow. ve fact is, Britieh |

HOW IT IS VIEWED IN NEW YORK. ry friendly to Mr. ai

herto ve - r, anye that ‘+h To tha Editor of the Examiner.

A journal | Biake, the Montreal Sta

os if at susnis ton out the prairie lo-night’s mail has brought me the Examr- Section syndicate, it trusts that the sus- | Nur and Patriot. ‘The most interesting thing I p ‘©

picion is unfounded, but feels constrained | find in them ig an account of ah gai wanting evi- | tween Mr. Alley and Dy

: ; fight be- to admit tha there is not wiih bros (har- (@WR Always was a stick-in-the

iS pr ybably

dence that the rival scheme was conceived | '©* mud town, m insincerity and born in deception. We | ®®: ‘3ere no other pla n th

New York.

The Alley-Duchemin Case.

' 60 Barclay Sireet, put de tlared that it meant ’ } me : : would end in less, that in fact it was simpiv . + > ’ ° $ 7 & synopsis of Mr. Blake’s speeches in

was not only opposed to the amendment | nothing and}

; ana |

out of Parliam: nt, and besides meaning | Yo the Editor of the Hxaminer. nothing, was, properly speaking, out of } Sirr,—The fellowing article, clipped from n . } . “at order This being a deliserate blow be- | the Journal of the 11th inet., the most |

tween the Blake's

eyes to | popular paper published in this city (Bos- Parliamentary law, coming so soon after | ton) will, to a eertain extent, give your readers an idea how the well-

: . 2 . KRHROW! yy t ; cape. ¢

i | nuinerous

turn their dwelling house into a workshop.’ The facts in this case make it appear as though the people of Prince iidward Isiand are obli : ged to live under laws the impartia! execution that it would cost a large amount of money | of whieh would repress every kiud of mechani- to plant settlers along the road, but re-| cal industry. During the first half of the pre- pudiated the idea that the lands would be! sent century Mr. Watson Ducheminr establish- locked up and held for higher prices, as| ed himself as a pump and block maker in this would have the effect of depriving the | Charlottetown on the spot where, until recent- railway of an enormous amount of traffic. | ly, the workshop occupied by himself and in-

The Monetary Times:—In connection herited by his sons has stood. Some years

: : f later a dwelling house was erected upon the with the Syndicate dehate, some one has | 4

sailed att , ayy weg ur t} | adjoining lot ef iand. After the death of called attention to the fact tha’, when t ae their father the linckemin brothers built a last census was taken, all

. : the land in ecul- | new factory upon the site of the old shop, and tivation in Canada was less than eighteen | and had prepared for carrying on their busi- millions (17,780,921) of acres. If it has | ness with improved facilities, when Mr. Thos. taken so loug to bring these lands under | Alley, the owner ef the adjoining property, cultivation, how long will it take to make | sued out an injunction to prevent their carry- arable the twenty-five million of acres; img on their business on the premises. The which the Syndicate isto get? The past, | ground for action was that the noise from the it is fair to say, is but a poor guide to the | fctery constituted an annoyance to Mr. future ; for prairie lands brought under the | Alley’s family and detracted from the value operation of capital, can be cultivated with | of bes pooperty. The sass was tried before ‘ — * Judge Peters, whose decisions throughout a rapidity quite unapproachable when wood | have been so.contrary to the popular concep. lands have to be turned inte grain-fields by | tions of justice that one of them was followed settlers almost wholly destitute of capital. | by the holding of an indignation meeting. Mr. Still, in valuing the twenty-five millions of | Alley, however, has been relentless in his pres acres, we must make allowance for the long | ecution, aud Judge Peters has continually de- time that must necessarily elapse before | cided in his favor. Finally the matter has they will be in demand for cultivation. The | gone se far that the Duchemin Brothers hav- value, when they ean be sold, is the only ing removed their besineas into their dwelling

+ wo iba

would enable thein

wate and carry | outa thorough

ug system of immigration in

He

idmitted

, : | fone ¥ eparated from Mr. Alley’s realizable value for the holders ; their vaine | 2°" Soe is separated from Mr. Alley . ; : ous , } t t y lave eel concene now is arbitrary and must be deduced from | }0¥s¢ by the faetory, have been conden " to jail for disobeying the injunction, in that

some estiwate of the rate at which thsy can

earry on their busi be sold,

| they have continued to

dead, has ever earned in the sa me time, ditt ; oe npoa the premises desiguated tl: 2d. ig . . : t wou'd scem thong! h luchemin ix 15856 the averaged asse sed value ef Kensington. re 3 ee ad 3 V tet “Figlt t or it ; oft ° Y TOULETS Hat CSLeu ert tpainta ieir twenty two wards of New York city was 314,- | Te ort im & iecaki wi ees wT ‘d 4 ; Cc ' é SATION * i ac seer ' 671,980. The average value of the same in| Donald Montgomery, E+q., Superintenden upied for the bus : ‘ ‘ a" « ow occupied for the business to which 1) was de 1880 wae $33,218,°37. Two wards having now | of Education, visited - ‘ : b Gran voted. but Judge Paters} le ther ore . . ? » DUS Judge Feet S Das ce : tne @a assease| real estate value «o 322,901,935, | on Thursday las} Phere was ; pumt oi Sakon th. a ‘ <. fica . a ¢ ise. nder the cireumstances rt cliflie have been added to the city's ‘erritery since | of 5 lars in encan u a] te see why anv factory srlottet om . . . . ‘ ¢ e@woy al act i tet 1856 [he tetal asacssed valie of the real | junior departments, and q ea number ot sot tn oles hos ah se . ; a z . ren 10t be shu oe s wi 1008+ estate of the tweuty-four wards. as apy. ars by | gents assemble to hear tie exammatic to build dwelling house besid: on sesame bue 0 £904? 5 at ; scl 2CQU e j : ‘ : : £ i ; ‘ tae assessm ks of 1880, is $942,571,690. | T a ." i : : compisia of it asa nuisance. From this part - | shewed \ bed acy a © F oh. ~ 3 4 Loxy D S, in a work o> Ireland, sug | la omen a . : the world it looks as thougii a gre at- gees ar y forthe agraria: tr ne. | smat ries » wes b . ve rage naa | a com nittea. Proposes th=t the Government ald buy in 4 evenis ; AS ine - die hour ovat, Servais, and, at : obtain repayment by means of an | a v UST . 7 a \ nter : L aol r : ann tax thereon. 1t if th: tenanta wi! ite ations 4 ton, Mass., Jan. 15, 1581. pot p t to landlords, wou they pay it | ; “ Spier se : - } i the p c bai Z a i ; SP 4 4, 4 j ‘ ss to the Governm at, in the forn atax? If le 1 + have been ro } re Vo the iiditor oy the Lanme ver. : g : they found t the would, by mying become | ... bs present say oe ee t Sik in your paper ~ this evening i —_ ? ¢ . : : . {| PErsuLs os A 130 ct es =)" rw i+ vye tance} TT » tha wine yar ys < owners of the land, subject to this tax, they | 4; hours. and was well delivered, The int with much pleasure, the following paragraph : : Z - q hours, at a i uciivered, © inte s i li might make an effort to pay. Hut most people | Gat wae well. chatained thrcachoet as mani “Itis stated that the Royal couseut was pay voveraments more unwillingly than they | fusted by the perfect att ntion of the over. | refused to the first draft of the Queen’s speech

pay imdividuals.

A crime which has not a purailel in tha | history of this Province was commiited; a} few days ago in a wretched h: vel situated | on St. Peter's Road, near this city. It was committed by a truckman iamed White | apon his wife, and ita details are so repul- sive as to prevent publication. We under- stand that the authorities are in possession of the facts of this case, and «although they | are of the most criminal nature, no attempt has yet been made to arrest the brutal assailait.

Rose-Becvorps’ Canavan Montuty for | January is at hand, It contains severaal ar- ticles worthy of careful stady ani a pleasing | assortment of light literature. ne or two of | the poems are really poetical. (Che poem en- titled “ Memor et Fideles,” by C.J. D. Peters of Windsor, N. S., eontains «=; lines of rare beauty.and en the whole is mui above the average of magazine poetry. Tb. second per- tion of Mr. Bourinot’s paper on ‘‘ The intel- leetual development of the Cana‘ian people,” |

history of our commun ystems, and | sting, 3

;

gives the

»YOory iv

A COVPL® went to an Auburn | Me.) parson to be daday ortwosince, The parsor did the natural thing ander the cireum- stances-—married them. After *e ceremony the man said, ‘‘ Parson, what's yer biil?’

mart

ist

The clergyman said there was n> regular fee. “Wall, what do you usually charge?’ agsin asked tle fellow. The clergyman

y:—“‘*A_ gentleiaan usual-

said in reply: iy pays ian to how mach he thinks of his wife. Perhaps you'd better wait a while aad find out how much you think your wife ws worth.”” The man thought seriously for a while, then brightened upand sail: ‘* Wall, parson, I guess | will wait and give her a trial. I guess ‘twill be the safest’ way.”

The energetic management of the Inter- colonial, in transmitting European freight promptly from Halifax to the West,

uickly defeated the scheme of landing Cana-

#0 freight at Boston instead ef Halifax, im-

owrters having ordered their fraght to be

wuled here. Goods discharged |icre from the * Moravian,” on the litn, were received at Torsate the 16th, the goods land -d at Beston not having arrived. The ‘** Sarmacian,” which reached here on Friday the I4th. discharged over 700 tons of freight for the Upper Prov- loees, and, notwithstanding tie extreme severity of the weather on the orth Shore ana the St. Lawrence, the freigh trains with their goods reached Montreal o: tae 17th, ealy twelve days from Liverpool, The Gazette jnstly says thie is ‘‘a feat which is highly creditable to the Allan Line. | atercolonial and Grand Tronk Railways.” (lc. Herald.

Presentation To Dr. Ontaesar. —The Lan- ert Bax the following: * On retir ng from the offce of Kesident Medical Offices at the Vic- tora Park Hospital for Diseases «' the Chest, Dr. Uriebar was presented with handsome ink-stand and writing case, and ». beautifully bowad Bible, while the porters am! servants of the Hospital have taken the op) ortunity to Kive as their present a very coniplete letter Peper-case for the table. The fee|ing that in- duced sisters, nurses, porters od servants thus to mark their appreciation of the ser- Yiees of one who is leaving the Hospital to the great reyret, but with the -imeere good | Wishes of the whole medical staf, cannot but | speak well for the efficient and harmonious | Carrying on of all the work con eeted with | the care of the patients in the v ards of the | Institution.” The Dr. Orlebar r ‘erred to is | Seon of Admiral Orlebar, forme:ly of this |

now of St. Leonards.

| four

| very pleasing to

crowded audience. After the lecture, several | presented by Mr. Gladstone to Her Majesty.

gentlemen preseat,among whom were teachers, remarks on the subject of

By this I am encouraged to hope that the

made some Royal Perogative, held by the Sovereign, for

eat inter | erty, and the property of British subjeets, is

the

which is being taken by parents and the | pot dead and buried, in Eagland, whatever it |

this impo

por congratuis

tant | may be elsewhere; and as it certainly has that the } been, with regard to preperty, ia this Colony

| Let the three *‘ F's,” as the modern phrase

publie geuerally in and itis cause for ion Island has secured thaservices of such a com-

is | the purpose of preserving the lives, the lib- |

petent person as Mr. M

ntgomery for Super- intendent. He seems to be very popular in this part of the Island. and, indeed, in every | part of the Island which he has visited, and | he certain'y shows by the deep interest which

he appears to take in the schools and their

prosperity that he thorouzhly understands | and appreciates his position. = | V [SITOR,

| '

tin = i The St. Peters Penny Readings. | The second night of the course passed off in | two of the readers were unablé to fulfil theirg engagements, on Inds position, Major Freeland was interesting and amusin both reading and song. Miss barr was v eceived by the audience, and read in a quiet hamorous manner, the trou. ics and drawbacks of choirs, Mr. Bambrick »:

account of

had- a superabuadance of demons. »pium, razors, and suicide in it, and consequeusly was rather de- | pressing.

The music of the eveniag was first rate. | Foremost were Messrs. Worth and Earle, who | played with their accustomed accuracy and taste. Miss Palmer sang her song splendidly ann deservedly reeeived aa encore. Masters McNab and Cummings, s-ag a duet written specially for them, and hea i for the first time at this Reading; the your fellows received quite an oration from the .adience and were obliged to repent part of th duet. Miss Loch- head's voiee was very sw: et in her song and shewed a clear and telling power for chamber music. “The instrument.) piece played by Mrs. Brown was exécuic iaa very thorough manner, and shewed that the lady had a com- mand both of the technicalities and the taste of the selection; her song of * a Ma- vourneen ” was sung with much feeling. Tie ‘* Beautiful Mountain Home” of Mrs, McNab and Miss DesBrisay was as happy and bright as the combined voices of those ladies ceuld make it; the echo in the duet was very finely rendered. The quartette, an old French alr, was a pleasing composition, and consider- ing that it was in the minor key and without accompaniment, it was sung acceptably by the voices,

The next ‘‘ Readings” will take place on Tuesday, February 8th, and a strong pro- grammme is promised.

annie: | lliiidlibanicoticaciain

A correspondent of the Araus, writing from Bothwell under date of the 18th inst., says: ‘* This section of the country has just been visited by the grandest and yet most destrective silver thaw that ever was seen here, even by that much belied person | ealled the ‘oldest inhabitant.’ It com- | menced raining and freezing on Friday | night, about 10 o’cleck, and continued al-

reading

most incessantly until midnight last sight,

(Monday) and the destruction caused by ) the ice forming on the fruit and ornament: | al trees is simply complete, for those that) are not stripped of their limbs are broken | off at their trunke. Even the forest has suffered. The sight is simply grand as well | as melaneholy, for the ico is about two | inches thick on every tree and twig, which |

to look at this morning in the light of the| grow beets ata price that the Maine farmers |

sun's rays was grand in the extreme,”

| rich and peor, landlord and tenant, and

| a very agreeable manner, notwithstanding that | submitted

Ole

| runs, be applied impartially to high and low,

? eI

all would be well; and not, as the Londen Punch says, to mean France, Farce, and Fanaticism.

}

Alderman “ir Wilham Curtis, the friend an

boen companion of King George the Fourth, |

once gave, as a toast—either at the London Mansion House-(the Mayor's nest,) or at Carlton Palace, now no more existinzg,—‘‘ the three ‘ R’s-—Reading, R and Rithmetic, with three times three, Hip, Hip, Hurrah !’

Your paragraph pleases meso much that it has inspired me with the following ()uatrain, for your acceptance. I am, by nature or inelination, a Lieutenant rather than a General;so l am proud to follow in the track of my Sovereign, when I can consistently do so, as in the present case:—

ting ing,

»me the day, as come it may, when Roy- alty once more Shall hold its ewn upon the Throne, above sedlition’s roar ! When England's wealth and Scotland’s Peers, once more shail bear the sway ! O! may 1 live, while yet on earth, to see that glorious day! ! I have much more to say; but your space is limited,and [ must not too far imtrude upon it, Your constant reader, Vich DHoMNUIL NAN ORD. P. 8. —As to the three F’s., freedom of pur- chase implies freedom, and not compuisicn te sell, Fixity of tenure should apply to the owner as well as to the occupier of land. Fair rents, moely or exclude (by no unreasonable exteusion) fair taxation, and nut a redoubled penal tax upon wilderness land, levied for the express and avowed purpose of confisca- tion. Fair play is a jewel.

Card of Thanks.

To the Editor of the Knaminer.

Dear Str,—Permit me, through the col- umns of your useful journal to thank the Agricultural Insuranco Company of Water- town, New York, for taeir prompt and fair settlement, through their Agent, Mr. J. Des- Brisay, of my elaim for loss by fire of my barns ard their contents a short time since. [ underetand that there has been destroyed within the past four months, in this Proviuee, about twelve thousand dollars worth of farm property, and I am the only one who had any insurance, | must say, from experience, that it is a great mistake to go uninsured and trast to chance, when protection can be had fora small consideration in such an old and re- sponsible Company as the Agricultural, which covers against loss from lightning as well as ire,

Yours respectfully, James STEWART.

Kensington, Jan, 10th, 1881.

a eee RE YE 1

Tue Maine Beet Root Sugar factory has |

been given up asa bad job, and the machin-

ery, @ report says, has been moved sway. |

Whether any better success will attend the movement in Quebec, remains to be seen, Maine is rather a poor farining district, how-

| ever, and itis claimed that besides superior

jand, the French Canadians will have the ad- vantage of cheap living, enabling them to

could not hope to approach,

The “Circumstances Have

Changed.”

Canadian brit oarsmen the science of

Cireum-

statesmen are as far hehind cians in polit are behind Hanlam and [oss in

driving

tal athletics a

boat t! the water.

l every day in political life. A statesmen maintains iy October, 1873, that it is scandalous that a peo four millions

should thirteen Cabinet Ministers;

reneate :

' . ne OF

re quire

yet in November he bseomes the fourteenth member of the Ministry. 39% ienot that he is atilictedd with the curse of Reuben ; it is sim- ply thatio one revolving unon circumstances hay hanged, Another gentlean makes j My tee bealee : eg ee yee a Ht | st : », ua mM | 1876 speaks with equal foree and cloqnence in | wba} ali « the me cosmenpolita kj a oT ree } ty ; rit a hi cw t ‘ | | : : | i t in } i | ltary 6 van ‘ l t Bsmt Y iD »f 1c | : i R: ; j fe 5 | } | t t "61 il | 1 t roa | i Lt} i man | i ssophers are never un } } ‘ | Ln ‘ nge | i ve hich he hae » m- | trol le ) « ‘ ? } » J a kt will preba ve said by Eoglishme tues extran ary phenomena ofl Lt must render it somewrat difficult for the

lian electorate to tell jast where thei representatives are, We admit that there is some force in this. When a member doses his constituents with Horace Greeley in the spring, and Administers Adam Smith in the fail, their minds are tenrperarily unsettled. sv also when a politieal party offers terms for the construction of a great publicwork in i877, and in 1880 denounces a much more ad- vantagéous bargain as ruingds, infatuons, and so forth, its supper interest. for the iscussion of public vflairs,

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The British War Office.

h up in the French service,

friend of England

says, he learned days, has been

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and her army, which, he

to respect in old Crimean speaking some wholesome truths of the policy of the British War Office. He says: | —‘* As there is hardly a family of the mid- | dle or upper class that has not at least one member in the army, it is amazing to me that they do not see that the system is so utterly wron it must lead to disaster. You have to keep India, where your pres- tige, having suffered from your retreating from Oabul, and your reported intention to evacuate Candahar, may at any moment lead to another iusurrection. You have serious business in hand in Ireland. You have this unfortunate business at the Cape ; and at the same time you meau to hold your position in Europe. All I can say is that, with your army, you cannot do that. The other day, when my old friends of the 94th wet with a disaster in South Africa, just illustrates what I mean. You send out two hundred and fifty men when you should employ two thousand five hundred, and waste valuable lives simply because you will not realize the fact that your army is numerically too weak to enable you to

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enforce the policy and vindicate the posi- tion which, as a great power, you are entitled to carry out and assure. People

give England full credit for her power, but in military affairs credit goes fer nothing, and two hundred and fifty men, whatever their training and courage may be, inust be beaten by five thousand.” There is mere fact than fiction in these remarks. << ee A Great Telegraph Scheme.

THE IMPORT OF THE RECENT COMBINATION— AN ALL ROUND THE WORLD CONNECTION.

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a 1roug ‘ stances change here with appalling suddeness, Paul’s adveutvre on the read to Damasens is |

The Credit System.

REFLECTIONS OF A COUNTRY SCRIBBLER,

BY J. MC.

! Writing, writing, ever writing Morning, noon and night, Writing without ever ceasing, Till mine eyes have lost their sight. From the day-book to the ledger, Always posting—ever will, From the ledger then to paper, Steady goes the good old quill.

First in winter comes the lumber, Most abominable stuff,

Timber-dealing, late and early, Always puts me in a ‘‘ hoff.”

Then again the oats and ‘taters, And the eggs and butter.toa, Makes an awiul pile of trouble— 1 inna ken what I shall do.

But I think I vet could fix it, If I could but have my way

No more credit [ would give them, Make them pay from day to day.

. Pie of labor—

To ali parties it would save,

What an endleas lot

liewe it Would be better tor ‘ tick folks would net crave. But Im heart k re aud weary, i this sera } pine for days acomi: ne credit there will be.

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Latest News Notes.

The Cyprus garrison has been reduced to 500 British troops.

The revenne of England increased by over £1,000,000 last year.

There are 6000 British solidiers of all ranks in North America and the West Indies.

{tis said in Washington that Secretary Evarts opened the season with a cork- screw,

In Ireland alone there are 31,000 sol- diers of all arms, including marines, and 12,000 armed constabulary.

About three hundred of the employees of the New York Post Office are mem- bers of the Temperance Society, and it is unpopular there te drink or swear.

Sir Garnet Wolseley will be sent to India in a few months to reorganize the Indian army, whose expense is continual- ly growing, while its efficiency is constantly diminishing.

Further reports coniirm the news of the great distress among the Russian peasants. In on» province alone a million people are said to be in absolute want, while in the Province sf Saratoff 750,000 peasants are reported to be starving.

The German Emperor has made a doctor a Count for bringing him to his eightieth year, and offers to make the Count a Prince if he shall bring him to his nine- tieth. The old fellow does not go about humming : I would not live away.

A German eorresdondent of the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette” writes that the financial dis- tress in Germany is very great. Selling prices and land rents are falling fright- fully low. The result is that debtors on mortgage cannot pay the interest of their debts, and are dispossesed and their prop erties frequently sold at half the value they had some time ago. This depreciation can- not be attributed to foreign competition, as the importation of corn and other produee has been taxed. It is generally believed that the fall in prices is due to the scarcity of cash.

Indiana is to have a compulsory educa- tion Jaw which should both enrich the State and compel the children to become learned. Under its provisions all children between the ages of six and sixteen who are physic- ally able to attend school, and who do not attend a private school, are required to go to the public schools, and the parents or guardians will be fined not less than $2 or more than $5 for each child not attending school, and the same fine will be collected for each day that each’ child is absent. That is something like a compulsory law, and won’t the truant be brought to his senses when the pater has to hand over five dollars for the child’s disobedieneée !