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VOL. 1. nts ON THURSDAY MORNING - - - NOVEMBER 15 1877. NO.157 - A. RACNEILL, Prince Edward Isiand EXCU rsion Tickets. LORD BEACONSFIELD’S SPEECH. |

| quctionger and Commission Merchant STEAME RS,

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1QUEENSTRET. |

YB. ISLAND |

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HALLCLTLGORD.

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AUCTION SALES, of all descrip- ! attended to jin city and country at tions, a" ' moderate rates. May 21, 1877.

ROYAL HOTEL, |

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7a VE mt » in informing my nu VE much pleasure ino in l Seth friends and the public generally, that - ased the Hotel ot wea) Ak gh as pr iT ovate ‘TINENTAL, aod thoroughly ren tei making it, as the ROYAL always had ‘he reputayon ot being, one of the best Hotels in he Provinces. “és . a ean Bill of Frere, First-class Wines Liquots and Cigars, and superior accommoda

sion. ; . 3 -ery Stable attached. Blackhall's Livery Os. F. RAYMOND.

have le

July 3, 1s77—6m

QUEEN INSURANCE. C0.

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Capital -- (wo Millions Steriing,

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NSURANCE effected on all kinds 0 Buildings, Merchandise, and Produce Aiso, om Vessels on the stocks.

Specialfrates for isolated residences. Losses settled promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union*Bank), — Ageat*for Prince Edwardj Island

H. VINNICOMBE,

PIANO FORTE REGULATOR

LL parties teaving their orders for Tuning A at Bremner Bros. will receive the best attention.

All who have Pianos in Charlottetown would do wellto have them tuned by the year, keeping their instruments in perfect order all the time.

A visit ooce a year at least will be madet all paris of the Island, or oftner if required

Ch’town, July 18, 1877.

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American & Foreign Patents.

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Gilmore, Swith & Co., Suecessors to Chipman, Hosmer & Co,

ATENTS procured in al! counwies. No fess

in advance. No charge for services until the Patent is granted. Preliminary examinations ree. Qur valuable pamphlet seat free upon re ¢ipt of stamp.

GILMORE, SMITH & CU., Washington, D. C.

ARREARS §0F PAY, BOUNTY, ETC.

NEDERAL Officers, Soldiers and Sailors ot the late war, or their heirs, are in maey ¢aes entitled te money trom the Guver > ment, which has been found to be due siuce finai pay- ment. Write full history of service and state amount of pay and bounty received.

Certificates of Adjutant Geueral U. S. A. showing service and honorable discharge there- from, in place of discharge lost, procured for a) sinall fee.

Euclose siamp to Gilmore & Co., and full re- ply, with blanks, will be sent free.

PENSIONS. PENSIONS.

LL Federal Officers, Soldiers and Sailors,

Address,

SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.

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Nova Scotia.

Leave Charlottetown for Pictou every Monbay, Wepnespay, THURSDAY, & SATURDAY mornings, at 5 o'clock, con- uecting there at 10 a. m., with vrain for Hatifax. Fare to Halifax. $4.10. Picnic Parties of Twenty and upwards cau obtain Return'Tlickets at Charlotte- town Office to Pictou and back same (lay $1.00 each.

Returning to Charloitet own.

Leave Pictoa every Tuespay, WepweEspAY Frapay and Saturpay, about 2.30 p.m. On arrival of evening train from Hali- fax.

CAPE BRETON.

ave Pictou for Hawkesbary every Mon- bay and TuHourspay, on arrival “of morning train from Halifax, connecting both ways with stage aud Steamer ‘* Neptune,” to and from Syduey and Bras d’Or Lake.

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Returning ip Pictou same nights, connect- i.g with 10 a.m. Train Turspay and Fri- DAY tor Halifax.

New Brenswiek, Canada and United Siates, Leaves SUMMERSIDE every day (Sunday sxcepted) on arrival of morning train from

Sharlottetown, connecting ati Sgeprac with trains for each of above named places,

rIONAL Co. for PORTLAND and Boston, Also, leave Charlottetown for Summerside every Monday morning, about 3 o’clo¢k. Returaing, leaves SHeprac every day (Sundays excepted) on arrival of day train

lottetown. Charlottetown every Saturday evening, about 6 o’elock.

Hawkesbury - HANFRD|Bros., St. John. F. W. HALES

ONLI DIRECT LINE

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Steamers Carroll and © Worcester

Boru Steamers are fitted with new. Boil

ers, aud their Passenger accomodation arranged for every convenience and com- fort, and fitted up in elegant style.

a3 low as by avy otuer route.

the greatest care. SAVING TIME, only one business day

Hal.fax, and arriving at Boston Monday morning.

LEAVE CHARLOTTETOWN Eivery panctually at 5 p.m.

LEAVE BOSTON

Every Saturday,

unctually at noon.

CARVELL ROS. ,Ayent.

Ch'town, June 7,)1877

Parks? Cotton Yarns.

wounded, ruptured, or injured, in the line vilduty in the late war, and disabled thereby, #0 obtain a pension. Widows, and minor children of Officers, Sol- | ders and Sailors, who have died since discharge of disease contracted or wounds and injuries re vived ia the service and in the line of duty, can

WARDED the only Medal, given to: COTTON YARNS of Canadian Manu factura at the

Procuré pensions by addressing Gilmore & Co, | Increased rates for pensiovers obtained. | Bouaty Lasd Warrants procured for service in/ Wars prior to March 3,1855. There are no war- | fants granted for service in the late rebellion. | Send stamp to Gilmore & Co., Washington | D.C., — full instructions. | July24 1877. i VIOLIN CLASS. \ R. VINNICOMBE has opened a Violin ~~~ Class over Mr. Fletcher’s Music Store. Ages of pupils preferred—from Eleven to Fifteen years. TerMs—$10 a quarter, half in advance, | I'wenty- four Lessons a quarter, each Les- | son one hour’s duration. Orders for TUNING may be ieft at the |

above Store. October 13, ’77. ,

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CEN.ENNIAL EXHIBITION. Nos. 5’s to 10’s.

White Blue, Red, Orange, an Groen

Warranted full length and weight.

Stronger and betler than any other Yaro n the market.

~Cotton Carpet Warp. No j12’s a)epLy IN at, CoLors. VWitrepiee fast.

WM. PARKS' & SON,

trom St. Jon, for Summerside; connect there, without delay, with train for GChar- Also, leaves Summerside for

_ASents: ALMon & Macinrosn, Halifax ; Noonan & Davirs, Pictou; A Grant & Co

FREIGUT carried at moderate rates apd

EGGS in boxes and barrels handied}with ‘

used in reaching Boston, by leaving here Saturday Morning and catching steamer at

‘hursday,

TO BOSTON AND RETORN

PEW

STEAMERS CARROLL & WORCESTER,

Kor $15.00. CARYVELL BROS

SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES !

The Perfection of Mechanism. So Light and Simple that a Child can Work them,

So Durable that they last

A Lifetime,

Kight Thousand Machines now Manufactured every Week.

To be had only from the Authorized Agent,’

‘ Robert Younes, South Side Queen Square. Ch'town, Sept. 13, 1877.

STADACONA fire and Life Insurance Company,

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AY Ho is era iv 4 ind-at St. John with Steamers of INreRNa-| |\ oe ea creby given thet the Board

of Directors of this Company have made a further call of

our rsialments, ot Five per Cent. each,

oa the Subscribed Capital of the Company,

payable at its Office, No. 93 St. Peter Street,

(uebec, as follows :—

Five per Cent. on or before the Tenth dy of August, 1877; .

Five per Gent. on or before the Tenth day of November, 1877 ;

Five per Cent. on or before the Eleventh day of February, 1878 ;

By order of the Board. CRAWFORD LiN DSAY, Secretary [jle 13

DR. WILLIAM GRAY’S SPECITIC MEDICINE. ~ The Great English bm-. Sy edy is an unfai

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A eal L : in sas Dack, Dimness of BeforeTaking. Premature Old Age, er Taki many other diseases that lead to Jnanity or

sumption anda Premature Grave.

LS ad , $1 ver package, or six packages for $5, by mail postage. Pull particulars in our ation which we desire to send free by mail to every me, Address WM. GRAY & CO., Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

’@~ Sold in Charlottetown by W. R Watson, P. Fraser, C. D. Rankin, Dr Dodd, and a Apothecaries’ Hall, and by ul druggisteanywhere

ROBERT YOUNG

HAS JUST RECEIVED,

Per 8. S. Prince Edward,

A MAGNIFICENT ASSORTMENT

NEW GOODS,

Which he is offering at

EXTRAORDINARY LOW PRICES

October 1, 1877,

MELLEL MOUNT STEWART.

(Pee Subscribers are prepared to take orders for dimension Lumber of al kinds, in Oak, Elm, White Pine, Pitch Pine Spruce or Birch; also, Spruce Kaees Trenails, Wedges, Deck Plugs, and Ship's Blocks of every description—al! delivered at short notice. LONGWORTH & CO., Water Street. N. B.—Spruce and Fir Shingles very low. Aug. 15—3m

vo ee TEA. Strong. Fine Flavor.

WHOLESALE & RETAIL. Rt. |

BEER & SONS

| May last a week.

Lord Beaconstield’s speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet disappointed many. It was said that the Premier would in this speech state explicitly how far England | would allow the Russians to proceed with. out interfering with ber, and when she must stop if she would not force Eagland to take s'des with the Turks, but he mere» ly repeated what he and his colleagues have so often said, that when the interests of England are endangered, England will do whatever may be necessary for their protection. When or under what circums Stance the Ministry would regard Eng- land’s interests as involyed in the war, or affected by the Russian advance, tbe Pre. mier did not even hint. There are many now who say that England néged not care though the Russians made the Black Sea a Russian Lake, obtained possession of Constantinople itself, and control of the Dardaneiles and became masters of Asia Minor. If Lord Beaconsfield and his Gov- ernment share these views they will not find it necessary to do much this year or next for the protection of British interests in that part of the world. The Premier made a statement which it required some courage to make, He told his audience and the world that England, by maintain. ing neutrality, gave tue Turks a fine op portunity of displaying a vigour and force which demonstrated her right to be recogs nized amongst the Ssvereign powers, and that whatever may be the for tune of war hereafter, her indepens dence is now undoubted, These fine words will help. poor Turkey very lit~ tle, and if she be left to the tender mercy of the Russians all her vigor .and force will not be sufficient to maintain her independence much longer. ‘This part of his speech will probably remind many of a speech made by another eminent English stateman about the Southern States, which he imagined had by their own united ef- forts, ‘their vigor and force,’’ attained such 4% position that there could be no doubt of their independence ; but very soon after they were overpowered and compelled to abandon all hope of independence. Pro- bably the British Government, standing, as they de, alone in Europe, are quite right not to invove their country in this war, but then there is room to doubt the wisdom of their indulging in what may be ‘& Vain Unnieaning threat of doing some- thing or other whenever it became neces- sary to defend English imterests. If Eng~ land meant to take an active part in the struggle atall it would be wiser to set to

Kivi per CE "SHC TCTOPENED Eta ent wer yen basere dd uekey.ia-complaialy broken of May, 18°78. “down «and exhausted. ven now. the

Tarks have much vigor and force left, and the active assistance of England slone may turn the tide in her favor. She still holds Pievna and Rustschuk and Silistria and Kars and Erzeroum and indeed all her strong places, and even since the great disaster in Asia Minor Mukhtar Pasha has repelled a Russian attack on Erzeroum; but the evidences of her growing weakness and of her exhaustion have been numerous of late, and a few months hence she may be completely at the mercy of Russia. What can England do in that case but remon- strate, expostu'ate and, perhaps, threaten, unless Germany and Austria tind their in- terests identical with English interests and act with her? The general impression is thatthere is an under-tanding between the three Emperors. and that England cann t hope foraid from any of the Nor. thern Powers or indeed from any Power, and alone she will not go to war with Rus sia. The idea still prevails that at the last moment she wiil, if ltussian success in European and Asiatic Turkey seem as. sured, seize Egypt and make it an Englisb Province or dependency, garrisoned by British troops, and some atill imagine that the British fleet lies so quietly in Besika Bay ur some neighbcring harbor, in order to seize the Dardanelles the moment there was danger of their falling under the coa- trol of the Russians. Itis even surmised that Constantinople itself may be occupied by the British, but this may lead to a great~ er war. unless Germany and Austria con- sented to the occupation. Lord Beacons- field concluded by expressing the hope that the time is not far distant when the Other powers can intervene and effect a settlement of all difficultiesf so aa to secure a iasting peace and the independence of Turkey. This might be if all the other great powers desired peace as earnestly as Great Britain does, if Russia were as disin- terested as she professes to be.

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The Government steamers ‘‘ Druid ” and “ Napoleon III,” leave Quebec in a day or two totake up the buoys on the Lower St. Lawrence and in the Gulf, which in. dicates that the season’s navigation is pretty well over.

A Rome speciai states that the Pope Was restless jast night, but in possession of his reason when be awoke at times. Emi» nent physicians say he cannot recover, but In case of the Pope’s death the Italian Government has ordered a strong guard around all the approaches to the Vatican to prevent its being pil- laged.

A merchant taughtalad in his employ how to manipulate the scales so that a few ounces could be gained upon every pound of g ois weighed. The lad is now an old man, snd confesses that this trick, prac- tised by his master’s instructions to the disadvantage of his customers, enabled him (the lad) to cheat his instruc‘or to ihe extent of tive hundred dojlars. Such dishonest tricks, says the Windsor /tecord, are like two-edged swords—the cut both ways,

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MisecHaneous News.

Sir Edward Thornton 73 again to return to Washington. notwithstanding the ports to the contrary,

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A severe hurricane has occurred on the British coast. Numerous disasters to sbip- ping ere reported.

Governor Hubbard. at the said Texas is gettinig rich at the rate of $100,000,000 per annum. ‘The taxable property of the State is now $350,000,000, against $250.000,000 in 1876. This is progress with a vim. And in 1880 it wil be 700,000,000, 3,000,000 ot people and some twenty odd members of Congress.

_ A letter from Lieut. Walsh, says the Canadian Government has decided that Sitting Bull and his tribe shall remain where they are, as it is feared that trouble

will ensue if they are sent near the Black.. feet,

‘There were shipped from the port of Pictou during the last week of Octeber 4 962 tons of coal. as follows - Halifax Co., 1236 tons; Itercolonia, 1880: Ac idia, 1597 ; N. S., 142, Vale, 107.— Total ships ments to date this season 159 575.

An analysis of the trade of Montreal from the opening of navigation to the ist November shows the number of arrivals ot sea-going vessels to have been 487 of 355... Ti7 toms, say 72 vessels and 15.500 tons less than last year; while of “ inland” yes. sels the number was 5700, which is a slight increase over the arrivals of (1876. She reveaue of the Montreal Harbor board up to 30th October this year wa: $178 654, a decline of $27,850 as compared with list year.2

A Halifax correspondent of the Toronto (Flobe, likely to be weli informed on Local Government affairs in Nova Scotia, writes that the most eligible person for the vacant office of .Chief Superintendent of Educa- tion in Nova Scotia is President Allison of Sackville Coliege, and that the office is no doubt, at his disposal,

It is reported that the fisheries have proved as great a failure this season in Eastern Nova Scotia as in Western New. foundland It is said that not for many years has the condition of the fishermen in the Connty of Guysboro been so dix tressing as‘it now it.’ It is a sad “draw. back to the fishing industry that success in it is sOuncertain and its profits so pres ¢ wions,

A band of tramps robbed a freight train op the Pennsylvania Railroad, at West~- yonesiag Junction, on Saturday night, the

10th inst., and fired on the employees, who

tried to rescue the property, Subsequent. ly more railroad hands arrived, and on Sunday morning raided the camp of the tramps in the woods. A fight ensued: and two railroad men were badly injured, Fou tramps were also shot and wounded, and they, with twenty-two others, were cap- tured, locked in a freight car and guarded. Two trains were boarded and stopped ‘near Lewistown, on the 11th, and on'y after a desperate resistance of the conductors and assistants the robbers were driven oft. One thousand to fifteen hundred tramps aie wandering through the country tras versed by the Pennsylvania Railroad be. tween Downington and Pittsburgh.

Boiton Fair.

PLavna “ THE LweREGNABLE.’—A German paper remarks that it is probably not gen- erally known that Plevna has long borne both among the Turks and the Bulgarians, the epithet of “the impregnable,” in the sime way that Genoa is distinguished by the ‘talians as ‘‘superb,’’ Fiorence as ‘‘the beautiful,” etc. In the case of Pievna the addition of the adjective dates back to the time of Buijazid the Great. When this monarch overan and subdue: Bularia and drove the Bulgarian Emperor from his throne, the garrison of Pleyna under the command of Michael, made such an obstinate and determined resist- ance that the invaders were unable to pos~ sess themselves of the town. For six-and- sixty years —so runs the legend as related by the country folk—every effort made by the Turks to reduce Plevaa was ineffectual : the town and its gallant g urison, although at times hard pressed, still held out. Its commander, Michel, received from his enemies, who recognized his courage and ability, the title of “Ghazi,”’ or * the Conqueror ;"’ and it was only after his death that Plevna ultimately fell into the hands of the Turke.

Jessie McLachin, sentenced to death aad then to imprisonment for life at Glas- gow, in 1862, for murder, has beep res leased on ticket-ofsleave and taken up her abode at Greenock, her dwelling being only known to herself and the police, ghis merciful precaution being taken to baffle the curiosity and unfriendless of her neighs bors. In conversation after her release she said, when told there was great anxiety at Perth to see her leave the prison, “ Ou ave! ite ® wonder tuey badna a grand stand among them aijlto seeme, lI have suffered sorely through ali these years, and now I might have peace ; but I had al- ways the comfort that my conscience told me { was innocent and wronged. The ways of God are strange ; they have jookea hard to me. but having come through so much I have only to wait a little longer now to have myselfcleared ” The convict went on to speak of the murder, saying that she is the last left living who knows about it. and remarking “/j could makea full deciaration of my innocence it it was worth my while, but itis not now. [em waiting now the last great day of account,

when befcre the great commnn:ty of the world my innocence will be shown,”

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