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‘THE EXAMINER.

VOL 2.

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, THURSDAY, JANUARY

10, 1878

NO, 203

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he most beautiful style of Photograph known, possessing a softness and delicacy ef coloring that has never been equalled. This elegant picture has become deservedly popuar elsewhere, and cannot fail to be- eome #0 here.

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ROSS BROS,,. Cor. Queen and Dorchester Streets, opposite Connolly's Bank. Sept. 19, 1877—3m eod

Coarse Salt for Packing. IFTY TONS Coarse Salt, three hundre

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SWEET ORANGES,

PPLES, Lemons, Grapes, Figs, Nuts, < Onions, Raisins, Currants, Spices. All kinds Crackers, Preserves, and the largest as- sortinent of Confectionery to be had on the Island. Fancy Toys, Flour (by the bbl or lb.), Tea, Sugar, Soap, Candles, Pepper, Mus- tard, Vinegar, and a variety of Groceries.

ALEX. McKENZIE, Queen Street. Ch’town, Dec. 27, 1877.—tu&fr3w } aad LD TYPE.—About 500 lbs. on sale at Tue Examuven Orpics.

‘To Trustees of Country Schools

VHE Trustees of several Districts have been applying for school furniture, and in every instaace consider the American and Canadian Combination Seat and Desk too ex- pensive. I have just got up a Combination that is stronger, neater, and one-third cheaper than those that have been imported. Call and see samples of the different sizes. City School Trustees fully approve of them,

MARK BUTCHER Dec. 18, 1877—-ex 1m ne a pat pres 4i

GENERAL AGENCY NOTICE

I BEG to aunounce te the Taape of this

Citv, and the Island generally, that om the 14th of JANUARY I wiil have a com. plete

ASSORTMENT OF SAMPLES,

of the following lines of Goods for Spring avd Summer:

English & Canadian

TWEEDS & WOOLLENS, BOOTS & SHOES, AMERICAN COTTONS,

Readymade Clothing

AMERICAN

RUBBER GOODS,

IN GREAT VARIETY

Tobacco & Cigars, Confectionery,

Coff2e & Spices, Naval Stores, Teas, Sugars.

I am also Sore Agent for the Lower Provinces for Wyatr & Co's (London) CELEBRATED

Pickles, Sauces, Jellies, Ete,, —aND— E. James & Son's (Plymouth) celebrated

STARCH, BLUE & DOME LBAD.

This Notice is only to the Trade—no Re- tail orders being solicited or accepted. Sample Rooms at No. 9 Queen St., ever the Office of Messrs. Hyndman Brothers.

JOHN H, CATHRAE,

Ch'town, Nov. 23, L:77—w &ALlsw o H. VINNICOMBE,

PIANO FORTE REGULATOR

LL parties leaving their orders for Tuning at Bremner Bros. will receive the best

attention,

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|Gigh Gambling in London Clubs.

Gambling is a vice which thrives and grows in spite of the police regulations, legal . prose- cutions, and daily illustrations of its coals and miseries. army, had to fly his country in disgrace for cheating at cards. A well known gentleman about town was ignominiously kicked out of a West End Club with two aces up his sleeve. Two or three young men of family were ruined at a Club where play was understood not to “‘run high,” and a disgraceful case of card sharping came before the courts. For a time it seemed as though these exposures had a deterrent influence on high stakes and unfair pera but the old vice 1s rampant, and the atest development of club gambling is the formation of a ‘‘bacarat” proprietary club, which is beginning to excite public attention, and is likely, I hear, to come under the atten- tion of the police. I have it, on reliable infor- mation, that recently a young “Scotch laird,” a Colonel in the army, whose name I withhold for the present at all events, lost at his ‘*bacarat ’ club, at one sitting, $350,000. His opponent had played with him from nine on Saturday night until four o’clock Sunday morning, when the losses of the young Colonel stood at this enormous sum. ‘1 will go you double or quits,” he said with the nerve of a Scotchman, though lacking the proverbial prudence of his race. ‘‘ No,” responded the winner, ‘‘I don’t think J will; let me ask you one question first, at all events.” ‘* Proceed,” said the loser, ‘‘Supposing I go you double or quits, can you pay £140,000 if you lose ?”’ *“* Frankly, I cannot,” was the reply. ‘Then we will not double or quits, but we will coa- tinue to play until 10 o’clock if you like, and then I leave off.” ‘The game went on until 10 o'clock, when the young Scotch laird had re- duced his losings to $30,000, which he paid.— London Letter to the New York Times.

Bank Breakers.

Robert Scott and James Dunlap, the noted New York bank-breakers, whose latest effort was the robbery of the Northampton Bank of $1,500,000 in money and negotiable securities, celebrated the advent of 1878 by commencing a career of twenty years’ incarceration at hard labor in the Massachusetts State Prison. Their crime, committed two years ago this month, we with the attending circumstances and subsequent events of two trials, was one of the most remnarkable of its class on record. The robbery was committed on the night of the 2/th of January, 1876, when the burglare e:- tered the house of cashier Whittlesey, masked, and, under cover of pistols, persuaded him te repair to the bank, unlock the vaults, and sur- render the contents. The cashier was then conducted home, and, together with his fam- ily, securely bound and gagged, when the rob- bers made good their escape from the quiet and sleeping town: It was a long time before any trace wae had, but at length Scott and Dunlap were arrested, through the efforts of some New York detectives, who were put on the track of them through an associate of the robbers, named Edson, who turned State's evidence and secured their conviction and his own escape. This Edson, it should be ex- plained, probably conceived the idea of the robbery upon information of the bank and premises, which he gained some months before while acting in the capacity of a mechanic in repairing the locks of the vaults.

THE PLUNDER STILL HELD BY THE ROBBERS

One remarkable feature of this robbery is that the proceeds of it are still retained by the prisoners or their friends. Not a single dollar of the $1,500,000 has been ‘‘turned up,” nor is it likely to be unless the accused are granted a full pardon, which, of course, is not probable, The bank officers and numerous private depos- itors who lost heavily by the affair, were anx- ious for shme sort of a compromise looking to a restoration of the funds at the expense of a mitigation of sentence, but the sudden action of Judge Rockwell, in pronouncing sentence, cut short all overtures in this direction, The bank people and other sufferers feel very sore over the matter, but the general communit

can hardly fail to rejoice at it as a signal tri- umph of iustice over the temptations of large private interests.

A CAREER OF CRIME.

Although so young both Scott and Dunlap,

as well as Edson, through whom they were convicted, have been identified with some of the principal bank robbers in the country, and Scott once ‘‘did time” in the Illinois prison for ajob in that State. During a three years

compact the gang made attempts on the El- mira (N. Y.) Bank, the First National Bank of Quincy, LiL ; the First National Bank of Sara- toga; the Long Island National Bank of Brook- lyn, the Covington (Ky.) National Bank, the ‘Third National Bank of Syracuse, the Rock- ville (Conn.) National Bank,the First National Bank of Pittston and the Northampton Na- tional Bank. At Qunincy, Covington, Pitts- ton and Northampton the thieves were suc- cessful The Wilkesbarre Bank was at one time under consideration, but Edson, on in- spection, found that the chances were not very ood and told his fellow burglars so ; while Nantucket escaped visitation through a storm which nearly shipwrecked the thieves. Edson got $7,600 out of the Quincy robbery, $1,200 from Northampton, and only $850 from Pitts-

and again last year after the Northampton robbery.

The World's Fort Walsh special gives par- ticulars of a treacherous butchery ot five Nez Perces by Assiniboins, who welcomed them after their escape with two women and chil- {dren from Chief Joseph’s camp. One of the | children was also killed and the women were subjected to fearful torture and outrage. One woman escaped and the other was protected by the Canadian police.

Don Carlos—who is travelling incognito in Italy—has been robbed of his Collar of the Golden Fleece, an ornament valuable not only in the pecuniary sense, but historically, as hav-

Burgundy, on the occasion of his founding the order in celebration of his third marriage.

the case empty.

An otticer, high in Her Majesty’s |

ton. The thieves had a falling out in 1874 |

A Body that was Really Petrified.

From the Raleigh Observer.

Asheville, N. C., Dec. 25.—It is a fact not generally known that the cemetery of the Methodist Church in Hendersonville, N. C., contains a petrified human body. About the pie 1836, Miss Adeline Byers. lived with her ather, Francis (’. Byers, fifteen miles south of this place, in Henderson County. She wasa bright, sweet girl, much beloved by all who knew her, and her hand was won y Wm. Pinkney Murray, whom she had known long and well. Soon the nuptials were celebrated, and the bride and bridegroom at once set out in search of a new country, following the set- ting sun to the Mississippi Valley. There they located and began the journey of life together in real earnest. Prosperity and happiness came to them, until at an unexpected moment death cut down Mrs, Murray in the very prime of life. The disconsolate widower, con- signing the body of his deceased wife to the dust, as he Pauper sought ‘‘ surcease of sor- row” in the wilds of Texas, A few years af- terwards Dr. Josiah Johnson, intending to re- turn to North Carolina, whence he remov- ed with his brother-in-law, Mr. Murray disin- terred the body of Mrs. Murray for the pur-

pose of git back with him. Imagine how maekien was to find it in the coffin just as he had seen it there years before! The same features—almost the very same expres sion! But what he saw was not flesh—it was solid stone? The whole body had petrified. In that condition he carried it to North Caro- lia and delivered it to the aged father, Mr. Byers, could hardly doubt that his daughter had come back to him asleep! The news spread that Adeline’s body had had been turned into a rock, and great was the desire of everybody to see it. Attempts were made, it is said, to steal it out of the cellar where the old gentleman had carefully concealed it, but they were unsuccessful. An h the war it was guarded by the father as the most sacred trust, but few persons being allowed to see it. About six years ago. however, it was Sa buried in the Methodist Cemetery in endersonville.

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Killed by a Maniac Son.

THE TERRIBLE FATE OF A SUPPOSED NEW YORK LEATHER DEALER.

(From the Kansas City Times.)

There came in on the Kansas Pacific Deputy Sheriff Knowlton, of Sherman County, Kansas. He had in charge a young man named Arthur G. Wells, a maniac. In 1875 a young man arrived at M weather's ranche, on Beaver Creek, and applied for work as herder or cow boy. Not wanting any assistance, Col. Merryweather referred the young man to some Texans who were herding about ten miles west. He returned a few days afterwards and applied for board, and offered to attend the cattle herd gratis, if he could be permitted. Being a quiet, honest looking youth, he was permitted to remain in the du t or cave, and subsequently engaged in herding. He would remain out at mght and be absent sometimes for two or three days. He had an abhorrence for writing oy reading, and ap- peared to be alwaysin dread of somethi On his return from one of his long trips from the ranch, he brought an old man whom he introduced as his father. They then went away, and after a few weeks’ absence returned and seemed to be engaged in purchiasing cattle and in herding. They did not want for money, and the old man made frequent trips to Wal- lace for letters. They soon ceased to excites remark orcuriosity among the herders,and were left to themselves. About three weeks ago the Wells herd, numbering about 150 head of cattle, was then scattered, and withoutaherder. Last Sunday three cattle men rode down to the Wells camp, in a ravine on Beaver Creek, and were surprised to find three dead ponies and several dead dogs lying in front of the cave, or dug out in the bank. No sign of life was visible outside.

> | The door was found unfastened, and on enter-

ing, a terrible scene was witnessed. The headless body of old man Wells was found near the entrance to the cave. The yo man was reclining ina berth or bunk in the furthest end of the dimly-lighted den, evi dently asleep. When aroused, he sprang from the bed with something in his arms, which was wrapped ina blanket. He attempted to shoot the intruders, but was promptly seized, and in the struggle the head of his father rolled out of the blanket. He was a raving maniac.

An examination of the papers and corres- pondence showed that the old man was L. A. Wells, formerly dealer in leather and hides, New York City. His son had been accused of some crime—the correspondence and the papers found seem to indicate murder of his wife. His father had followed him out to Kansas and was endeavouring to reclaim his boy, but lost his life in the attempt. He is being taken to New York by direction of his mother, and will be a inan asylum. He is violent at times, but is closely gnarded.

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Tue King of Italy is very ill. The first ‘intimation was dated Rome, Jan. 6th, and represented that his illness was not serious but prevented his going to Turkin. A tele- ‘gram dated 11.30 p. m., says it has now ‘transpired that the King on Saturday was ‘attacked with a violent fever which pro- duced pleurisy in the right lung. The symp- _toms cause apprehension, and it may prove a complicated case of miasmatic fever.

A Cuban, charged with wilfully setting fire to the International Hotel, in Port au | Prince, has been tried and convicted and ‘sentenced to death. The Spanish Consul interfered and also the commander of the Spanish frigate. The Haytien Government is nevertheless firm in its resolution to car- ry out the sentence, and it has now been

ing been made in 1430, for Philip, Duke of notified doy tthe Semiah representative thet

if it does the Spanish fleet will bombard

Carlos al carried it about Rim, aud Port au Prince in retaliation. Prepara- ca ho abened hie trunk at Milan, he found tions for this contingency are being made

‘in the town.

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