Olic Craminer.

CURISTMAS.

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A napPy. MERRY, CHRISTMAS TO ALI OCR REA! even to those who have not yet paid in

all be happs

ERS Our good wishes extend

their subscriptions. Let baliowed d 'y ‘ hard

es :’’ we have all had our troubles and

let all be joyfu . on this

Vie have all felt the pinchings of

nxieties during the year that is well

ch spent. But what’s the use of fret ti / J ¢us do our duty, trust in God e now For this is ‘* the day t rd hath made”: this the sacred morn whieh tl ngels proclaimed, “* peace

n h. eood-wi.! towards men.”’

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WINTER COMMUNICATION. |

Government shall

‘That 1 Dominion

a ne ind’ defray a the charges of the wing s The Pe !

‘Efficient Steam Service for the convev- ence of mails and passengers to be establish- ed and maintain vetween the Isiand and

Ma rnd ¢ » Dominion, winter and nmer. —7 5 f/f Union agr ced to, June

THREE years of patient waiting! We have not yet seen the Penitentiary. But we have seen the Northern Light. We

have seen this costly vessel laboriously

entting her way through four inches of

ice at the rate of a mile in about ten heurs! !

We do not condemn the vessel—for she has not yet been tried “in three feet of

We de not blame Mr. Sewell

his business te experiment ney of any Government green

We

ensure the Captain or the Engi-

upoa the m enough to furnish him with funds. do not neers, for we believe they performed their duties to the best of their abiliti-s ; do not deaounce Mr. Mitchell, alchough we

we

think he might, under the circumstances,

have shown little more “ back bone.”’

But we d> condemn, blame, censure, and deaounce the ine ip ible, embecile and di st combination which has for three Fears cheated us out of our rights. If Mackenzie aud his Government (save the mark) had honestly desired to provide

Communication y would, in 1874, have

means of Wioter Steam for this Island, the chartered a eood stout steam sealer—such asis used in Newfoundland Fisheries, This course was pointed out for them.

I: would have suggested itself to the minds of able earnest and practical men. | It would not have entailed $70,000 or | 50,000 expense upon the country for no

thing. It would have shown the difficul-

ties, and the dangers of winter navigation in the Straits. It would have suggested

means and appliances for overcoming those difficulties, and escaping those |

dangers. Then (with the experience | gained) a steamer could have being built which would bave relieved our Proviace | from the ice blockade at least a month! later in the fall, and a month earlier in | And, even had | the experiment proved a failure our peo- | ple would have cheerfully submitted ~ satisfied that the experiment had been fairly tried. |

But the Mackenzie Government listens | ed neither to the suggestions of its friends, the protests of its foes, nor the dictates of | @ommon sense aod cemmon honesty. Mes | Keszie had secured Laird, and with him | the votes of five silent followers. He could | well afford to ignore our interests one | year; toinsult us with the Albert the | next; and, capping the climax the third

the spring of every year.

year, to send us a steamer as capable of

, Creates discord,

| strained, which has the effect of keeping |

PORN TOOLS

THE MAILS

The statement, in our lust issue, that ‘our people were cbliged to put up with whole week’? was pot -trictly Oo Monday the S*

Lawrence brought from Pictou the mai

for the

correct.

one mail

which, owing to the storm, she was unabis to bring on the previous Saturday, and on Thur-day. a few hours after the Northern

Shiai

i mail, the “Pe

iS Dot

Light arrived with the

St. Lawrence uriived With

yincial mail, ‘Phe mis-statement

un Very tipportebl one, but, iv justice tu

the Stesm Navigation Company we make

the «

On Weenesd ‘iV

yrrection,

last, the Albert brought don Thurs

On

1 large mail to Georgetown, i to

. : oe dav took a large mail Pictou, Frid iy th > couriers toc k 4 mati across the straits to Cope Tormentin They we:

however, unable to return on S.uiurday The ridiculous performances of the Nor thern Light are detailed eleewhere, After thumping the ice a day and a night, and getting about a mile beyond the block~ house she returned to port—a good deal faster than she went out. =? -

THE PROTESTANT ACADEMY.

Ir the literary and musical eptertain-

rer eT TS EH

LORD BYRON’ 3 LOVE.

4 sToRY AS TOLD BY MARY CUAWOR

SERVANT.

[Fi om Li} pines i's Magqezi Nottingham—— -I have been w ynder fully entertained by the story of ol —- tary Cueworth s servant, ‘hend man at Annesly Park [ should much like to <now if any on so bad been so tortunate is to hear tue | ciouseld man’s account 1 byron y love Wien one ears as y like f » the lips of 4 amt eto cons! ler ‘ bie er uli g t tions are not tt?s : ay ‘ hirelings nd nm not t too readiiv branded by the vorl sp } bal lemn our fal ure s to ap ul iments. Lord y ns let not g ) -3s cons 5 but M ‘ sorely inate in her confident Gependence on aservant’s faithiuiness.

Chet was a funny sum-total of .,——s when I asked his opinion of Byron’s charac- ter :——- Oh, his Lordship were a fool, He didna knaw—grass from—grass. An’ he

never give me naught. But many’s the

pun’ note Mr, Musters gie me for a chance

| to speak wi’ Mary Chaworth.

So! and who knows if, but for the trick

| the old man confessed, Lord Byron would

ment in the Protestant Academy affords |

an index ef the progress of the pupils io graver studias, the standard of cul.ure is was

surely raising. The entertainment

much better—both in the selection of of pieces and their reading—than apy previously given in the institution. A

large number of ladies and gentleman were present; and all were pleased WINTER PORT.

We are pleased to learn that Sir Hugh

THE

Allav’s experiment of carrying the mail- and passeugers to aod from Halifax, in connection with his steamers, by means of a tug,has failed. The weekly English mail steamers now come up to the wharf. This isa grand point gained. Already we hear that one the steamers has a hun, dred and fifty tons of freight for Hal.tax ; and we hope that, ere long, Halifax will be the “ Winter Port of the Dominion,” not ouly in name, but in fuet.

mom +

SUNDAY SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT |

The Methodist Sund:y School Scholars of

basement of the trick Church, on Wednes- day last. The entertainment was. on the whole, a success. Many of the performances especially those of the smailer children, elicited hearty applause from the audience.

with the coronet, accompanied by Miss Morris om the piano. were well received.

Several eolos with choruses were sung by |

ladies and gentlemen of the choir. The solos were rendered with taste and were very pleasing. We cannot, however, say so much for the choruses which formed part of the pieces. From some cause, the words were entirely drowned by the sounds, which were not always in harmony. Our opinion respeciiog the rendering of a piece of music in which a number of singers are engaged, is, that the words -hould be distinctly heard, so as to give effect tothe piece. All voices should blend in one strain of har-

mony. Tae loud singing of some, who have |

strong voices, by the side of weaker ones, The sxill and taste of the performers are tested by the degree of dis- tinctness with which the piece is heard. We have observed, at more than one enter- tainment given in Charlottetown, that the

ae : , enough to spy Miss M this city, gave an enter ainment in the |

| voice chokit wi' rage, she said, ' M

Th he, * | fhe performance of Mr. Pepe Fletcher | what does this mean ?

choruses form the least pleasing part of the | }

musical performinces. We noticed the Other evening, that the choruses sung by

the children, were rendered with clearness |

and distinctness.

Perhaps this may be.

accounted for oy the natural bashfulness of |

children. While singiag before an audience

of growu people, their voices are rather re~ |

cutting her way through ice as he is of | them ali in unison; and we do not hear the

maponureny nomena me paste ag of each one struggling to ba heard : ac ‘ : We venture the | etng .

fairs of this Dominion, assertion that a good schooser—with a favored by fair would, without the assistance of ove ounce of made better through four inches of ice than tho

raking bow,

steam, have progres-

Nor-

thern Light with her seven hundred |

horsepower engine and her twelve and a half tun serew.venture the We that many hodmen in this city could have pertormed the duty of providing this Pro- viece with Winter Steam Communication much more satisfactorily than Mickenzie and his Goverument.

assertion

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THE NORMAL SCHOOL.

A public examination of the Normal

School took place on Thursday last. The |

classes were examined in History (Roman and

Geography, Latia Grammar and Read. |

log. The way ia which they acquitted

themselves — particularly the class iv

Roman Histor y— Was highly creditable.

At the close, the pupils in Mr. Mont- |

gowery's reom presented him with a hand- some gold Mr. Roache

pen

I und pencil,

was the recipient of a valuable book |

After short addresses from Professor Anderson, Mr. McKay, Hon. W. D

Stewart; T. Foley, Esquires, ia Which the speakers thanked

: : a the scholars for their attention, apd wish. | a merry Christuas and hap; y |

ed them New Year, the school broke up for the Christmas holidays. There are enrolled on the registers of the Normal School th names of one hundred and seventy-six pupils. About a hundred were present at the examination, The teachers are painstaking and popular. Lately the school has greatly risen in public esteem.

THE SULLIVAN ESTATE.

We regret that the Supreme Court of Conada has been so tardy with its judg- ment on the Sullivan Estate case that the tenants of the estate have become liable for another year’s rent. The case was argued last summer, and it was confident- ly expected that judgment would have been rendered in October. But no de- cision has yet, we believe,been arrived at. The purchase money has mot yet been paid the proprictor ; and the tevants are yet, under the law, liable for rent, so that the proprietor may eustain no loss. We learn that the proprietor’s agent is now collecting the rest. While sy wyathis~ ing with the tenapts,our friendly advice to them is to pay it without undergoing the «ditional cost of legal proceedings.

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Tar inon Ace.—Experiments at Belie ville, Ont., for smelting iron ore with pets fr leum, are reported entirely successful.

wind |

Noglish), Arithmetic, Geometry, |

and Pr. R. Bowers, |

discor iant notes which is invariably the re~

above the rest,

The literary part of the programme was, to us, the chief attraction. Some of the children recited their pieces with pathos and feeling, euch as is rarely displayed by those more advanced in years, while those

We cannot refrain from mentioning the names of Miss Barr, Misses Georgie Lowden, jand Weeks—the two latter, very young girls, who excelled in the execution of their pieces. Eich hada story to tell and she told it well, reflecting credit upon the teachers, ‘The entertainment was closed by «& few pleasing remarks by the Rev. Mr. Lathern, The object of the concert was to | raise Money to increase the books of the library, The effort was successful; the umount taken at the door being $44.00.

| torts of those who seek to place in the

literature. Those of the audience on Wed- nesday night, who did not feel repaid by | the entertainment, might return to their ' homes satisied that their money would be | expended for a good object.

GEMS OF THOUGHT,

The wife makes the home and the home } makes the man.

Help others when you can. Never give | what you cannot afford, simply Lecause it's tashionable.

| Systematize your business, and keep your eye on small expenses, Small leaks sink great ships.

When a man dies, men enquire what he | has left behind; angels enquire what he | tas sent before him,

‘There is this difference between hatred

seldom feit; hatred isa thing often felt | but seldom avowed. { The mind of childhood is the tenderect. holiest th ng of earth. Let parents stand as watcbers of the temple, lest any unclean thing should enter.

True grea:ness consists in doing what

happier and better for your life.

It is foolish to expect the five following things from the following persons: a pre- sent from a poor man service from a lazy man—succor from an enemy —counse! from

prude,

everything around it; @ selfish one identi-~ fies everything with itself. The generous seeks happ ness in promoting that of others; the seltish man reduces all things to his own interests.

Never sit down and brood over trouble of any kind. If youare vexed with yourself or the world, this is no way to find satisfac- tion. “md yourself employment that will

it, this will furce out unwelcome thoughts. -~————_7+ oo

cannot be cured ty imprisonment is being tried in Newfoundland, and last week three prisoners, Melendes, Andy Kearny, and J. Condon, wer3 privately whipped in St.

lashes, and the other twelve.

keep your mind active; and depend upon |

whose Vieu was comic,succeeded adnsirably. |

, Dy mind his lord-hip

We are always pleased tochronicie the ef~ |

hands of the young a pure and wholsome |

not have married one whose affectionate

disposition and self-immolation for the

object of her devotion might have saved to the world a pure and elevated poet, un- , and

on despatr

sullied by the mire of wan

to Mary Chaworth a heart that loved her

for herself 2? Jobn Musters’ triumph was

cheaply purchased, I will record 16 all as

eld J mun related it t+»

‘Ay, | remember well when his lordship

wud come riding ke mad into Annesly

Park, and his two great dogs flying along im. * My word,’ old Mrs. Clarke wud

) there doesn't come his lordship, and those nasty brutes sre with him to You

see, the brutes‘ always slep> outside o' the

spoil my nice white counterpines!’

covers On his lordship’s bed,

- One fine day, when [ was laying the cloth for dinner, Miss Mary sat in the great hall wi’ her back to the lawn, sv’ she didn’t see his lordship coming.’

* How was she dressed ?’

‘Oh, she was dressed in a white silk gown, Very low on the shoulders, an’ a high An’ it

could

belt under her arms, like. were

very long behind, an’ you see her

wee smiull feet in tiny slippers in front.

* Well, tie great hall windows opened on the lawn, an’ his lordship were quick Ayn’ soli like through the room, and

Lefore she knew it, he leaned over her and

iry vitiin’ there, he came

kissed her beautiful white shoulder. ‘Oh, dear, will I ever forget how she

flired? She sprang to her feet, and witha

y lord You never have so | much as touched the bem of my girment.

and you never shall!’ Then it were awful

to see the fire in her eyes; she were the

picture of her grandfather, who were killed in aduel wi’ his lordship’s grandfathe

across that very table. But she needna teon so mad, for his lordship were a nice

man enouvh but for his nud foot. Poor fool! she didna know John Musters were only after her money, an’ his lordship loved her for herself. Mr. Musters were a |

bandsome man, too, an’ he always gied me apun’ note; once he gied me a fi’ pun’ note, but I never told him I saw a five on it when [ gothome. I helped him to get rid o’ his lordship, and | fixed all the meetin’s wi’ his man man Aenesly heiress rode out it was my place to ride

after her, au’ Mr. Muster’s

You see, [ was head Hall, an’ when the young man would ride | after him, an’ we'd always go the same road,’

‘But how did you manage about Lord Byron ?”

‘Oh, he were like his mother—afraid ot | the bogies!’

‘Bogles ! and pray what are they?

‘Oh, the people out o’ the kirkyard, that couldna rest alter duels an’ that,’

‘Qh, yes; well go on, please.’

‘ An’ it were for that his lordship always kept one o' the mea waiting half the night next to his bedroom till he read himseif to sleep. Well, one night it were my turn to wait, an’ [ waited till it Were near morning, any long:

Keen “AWAKe

an’ at last [ oouldna

er, an’ { jast out an’ said, ‘I think, your | lordship, it’s time for reasonable folk to have done wi’ crack reading an’ go to sleep.’ *Fellow! he shouted, like one sturk mad, fellow! do you know to whom

‘Ay, I'm afeard

you are speaking ?’ your tord-hip that I do; but of neither lord duke, earl or kings—for the

naught— !

matter o° that!

‘I doubted I'd lose my place, but Mrs. Clark begged his lordsbip’s forgiveness for me, and i wasna dismisssd. Bat | made up houldoa sleep more nor one hight again at Annesly Llail.

‘Mrs, Clark,’ I said. ‘ you'd rather the not your white counterpane ?’ ‘Ah, ‘but | dare not offend his lordship,’

brutes would spol

J ——-,’ she said,

‘Well, L didna say aught. but I just went about it, and :his is how [did it. The great led In his lordship’s 100m had heavy cur: tains, an’ they were hung on brass rings that run on brass bars, and they made a deal o’ noise an’ rattlin’ when they were drawed. I found a big bail o’ pack thread

(and Lrun one end throughall the rings on |

|other side; and when [| | ends down the post along the floor I cut a)

one side, and th’ other through all the |

cirried the two

‘clean slice off the bottom o’ tbe bed room

door, so the thread would be sure too pull

| easy~like; an’ [ putibe rug over the thread

| the next man to

| and pity, pity is a thing often avowed, but |

an’ then I coulda’t ha’ told myseif aught Was wrong.

‘ Alter me tellin’ his lordship a piece o’ my mindabout his crack reading, they took me to wait on him for that night, an’ I thought 11 would be morn- ing beture he ever would have done, he Was so intolerably long. But at last i heard

the door ef his lordship’s room open, an’

)s00n as everything was quiet, | peeped

| ter an’ the brutes were all sleepin’.

deserves to be written, in writing what de- | serves to be read, and in making mankind |

an envious man—and true love from a/!

Tue whipping system for criminals who |

} j i

'

{

through the crack an’ made sure the mas- Then { pulled the thread. It was an awful | shrieking the rings made over the brass

bars, an’ in a second, crack went a pistol,

and the dogs barked; crack went another | pistol, and the dogs howled, and his lerd- | ship called, ‘Help! heip! thieves! thieves !’ |

‘I ran to my bed as fast as my legs!

i j i ; d carry me, 25’ in a minute all the | A generous mind identifies itself with | would carry me, a

doors in the house flew open, an’ candies were flarin’‘ an’ women screamin’, an’ ail | the men poundin’ on his lordsbiv's door | and callin’ * Open the door, my lord. There | be tive o’ us here, an’ weil soon make | sure Oo’ the rascals!

*‘ Some one came and tried to waken me, | but you knaw I had my breeches on, an’ if I'd got out o’ bed they'd koawn I was at the bottom o' the mischief,

‘*Go ‘long to the great room, an’ [11 | come,’ I ecaid at last, yawnin’, and then | makin’ as if I had just hawed on my clothes | I joined the men at the door, and after bis | lordship was convinced we couldn't burst!

John's, the two firstnamed receiving twenty the door in he opened it, and such 4 rush«

ing of men and dogs was never seen afore,

, ** Mosel.”

_and explosive force. _ discovered it was «lso learned that he had

Looking up the chimney and under the bed at the danger [°

1 were renlly frightened was in ©” bein’ found out, and shaking all over, when I said; ‘ Tuere be naught here, your lordship—neither thieves nor mur- devers—an’ | doubt it was the bogles from the kirkyard yonder.’

‘My word! no one ste; t any more in the hall that night, and it was the last time his lordship ever went to bed at Annesly Park.

* But you are sorry now, J , for the

trick you pl.yed, since Miss Chaworth |

COMMUNICATIONS, =|: NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

To the Editor af the Examiner. S NTA (J Us) ao Witenes : ) A )

Sin :-—Allow me the privilege of inserting a few lines io ys ur Veluable columns for the | purpose of setting people [more indignant

| than reasonable] right respecting the North- |

ern Light. Tne Northern Light, it will be} Dolls, Drums,

| remeni vered, was constructed to go through

{* three foet of green ice.”

might have married bim ifshe had known |

Lord Byron better, and had not been de- ceived by Mr. Musters?’

‘Ay and that I be, an’ it often gied agin my cou-cience when I waited till all the fo k vould be aste@p in the hall and then bring Miss Chawortn down to meet M usters in tue dining hall, an’ leave 'em a bit to that: an' when I'd knock some-

ebat an’

times he wouldn't go, an’ I'd have to tell |

him he oust, for the folk would soon be stirring in the hall, And oh, the picnics we kad in tae groves! hampers by the men to the blacksmith’s

an’ they never knewed what was in them,

and Musters’ man would get them, and lay schooners make better progress through four

I'd send out the!

TRUMPETS, TOYs,

IN GRYAT VARIETY, AT

Then how can &C. hany man be SO Unreasonable as to condemn |

| her because she was not able to make goud |

way through three inches? Some men are ; rTr’s ly ? absur tly shania. When the Northern HARVIE © BOOKS LORE,

Dec. 25

i. fiom

Light bas filed in © three feet of green ice,”’ tien let her be condemned—not before, Yuurs tivly, FAIRPLAY.

1 g :y Y ‘ CAPEL HGUSE ! December 23, 1876. rier

To the Editor of the ‘Examiner. their patrowage in the past, and begs to inform the pubic that she has made such

Hnprovemeuts ty her howse as will insure to all

Sin:—-The whole coun'ry is indignant with the

additional courfort.

vears’ ae : Mrs. C is prepar d to receive permanen!

Dominion Government. Three

thinking about fullilling the terms of Union” or transient Boarders at her house, o! _ : : “av 4 , ;

in the matter of Winter Communication; Great George S.reer.

and then sending a steamer just as good as) Cli” tu wu, Dec. 25, Laie. 3in

Christmas Presents,

|@ first-class schooner! Sir, | have seen

the cloth on the sod, an’ such long merry | "ches of ice than the Northern Light is |

talks they'd have while we strolled away a | 2pable of making; and I have seen steamers |

bit; an’ then they'd go off together while | [constructed for the purpose] make good way | through a foot of ice.

we'd lunch a bit. The very last time we were fexsting in the groves Musters’ man said: ‘So many bottles are strawn around, an’ these be nice ones J ; One for you an’ one for me;’ and we put ‘em in our great coats; and there they are; you can have “em both if you want them, Ah, little did the poor young thing know what was coming !

ried Mr. Musters, an’a month from that she paid £100,000 to the money-lenders that were only waiting all the time for his promise to pay them when he married the And oh, she was the most un- Lappy woman alive when he openly treated her badiike! an’ all he wished of ber was money! money! Never will L forget the day his lordship s funeral was coming to the inn at Nottingham. My poor mistress

heiress,

_C:me into the town an’ up to the very door

before she Knowed whose funeral it was. She was so stricken with trouble an’ illness that the folk thougbt even then she were sometat daft, An’ two years more was ali she could manage. She died from the mad house.’

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ADDRESS TO THE OWNER OF 17H |

“ ALBERT. *

To James Kiyo E-q.

Dear Sir.—We the undersigned passens vers on steamer Albert, on her trip from Pictou to Ge wrgetown. on the night of Des 1876 to express our sincere gratitude to you for your untiring

cember 20, desire

perseverence and todelatigable efforts in

q

| farcial, Hoping that the Government [« hich | might easily,at a small cost, have procured

| Winter navigation of tae Straits in 1874] will

|

i

The day she was of age she mar- |

bringing us safely to the [stand av this in. }

clement season of the vear. We are aware

of the nuwerous ob.tieles whieh stood in

the way o! the succe--ful accomplishbmeut |

of this praiseworthy object. lt was reason- ahivexpected that the dangers and diffi. Cullies attending the winter navigation of

the straits Wouli have been overcome, to after the Dominion Goverumenu!t bel weot to the trouble and eXpetice of providing what was represented but recent intelligence has ed us to veileve that, for the present at least, she has signally failed to accomp- lish her object. [t was under these circum- stances that you 80 mantully exerted your.

some eXtent at least,

lo be 4 Ster¢tuper:

| self on our behaif, to extricate us from our

unenviable position, and-for these and other reasons that need not be mentioned we again assure you of our thankfulness fer your kindness to us personally, and our most ardent hopes the* you may be equally successful in all similar undertakings, Signed, —aA.Arthur Birtlett, Ryerson Ritchie John Fraser, Rev. Mr. Bayne, Geo. Clarke. Henry Bovyer. Francis Mc- Nuily, Bersby Atkins, Wm. P. Lewis, James Jenkins, W. McKinnon James Hewitt William Sherman, Nathanial Gay, George Carey.

| Georgetown, P. E. L, Dee. 2), i876.

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HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.

One day about three weeks ago, a strange

customer came to a Patriot avenue grocer.

fle wanted some goods and paid cash down. The nextday he made another purchase and pail cash, and as the days went by bis face and his cash became familiar. One day he returned with the change given jim and said :—

‘I believe [ am an honest man. paid me 20 cents too much,’

The grocer received it and was pleased.

You

Two days after that the stranger returned

to say “—

‘Another mistake on your part; you overpaid me by forty cents.’

The grocer was glad to have found an honest msn, and puzzled to know how he could have counted so far out of the way. (uree days more and the stranger picked up a dollar biil on the floor and said to the #recer :—

‘ his is not my bill; I found it here and you must take charge of it.’

The grocer’s heart melted, and he won- deved if the word was not progressing backwards te the old time honesty. A skip of one day and then the honest man brought down & wheelbirrow, ordered $18 worth of groceries, and would hive paid cash had he not forgotten his wallet. He | would hand it in at noon as he went past, he said.aud it wasall right with the tender-~ hearted grocer.

That was the last of the honest man; m rning fades to noon mets in darkness, tut he

. ; There are nO More wisirkes ia change—

noon. and away no more dollar bills on the floor, and the! procer’s eyes wear a way Off eXpressiun as to seco some one for about two

if years minutes.—Vetroit Free Press. eee ieee ANOTHER DYNAM/TE FIEND.

Another “dynamite fiend” has been discovered, fortunately before his devilish p ile is a German, and baturalzed American citiren. What is there in the Gesman wind that connects itself more than in other minds with this dread- ful trade’ This wretch, named Schartz, | has been arrested in Frankfort-on the» Main, and was found to possess among other implements denoting a professional criminal, an exact duplicate of the clocks work used by Thomas in the construc tionof the internal machine which he intended for shipment in the steamship A very large number of letters were also found in his room, and among them were several from menufacturers of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, and other high explosives, written in reply to his requests for samples of their manufacture, and giving*intormation in regard to their effect, From other letters

sna were matured.

ordered a fac simile of the plaster cast taken of Thomas’ face, the original of which is deposited in Berlin. Sebarts bas been a resident in Chattanooga, Tenn, where strange to say, he bore a good reputation ; aud he has also resided in New Orleans, Jacksonville, Flo. St. Louis, Mo., and Little Rock, Ark.— Boston Piiot. _———>D> . oe Mititary.—The 97ta Regiment has taken up its quarters in Halifax.

the 750 H. P. engines were put into play,and

NEW YEAR'S GIFTS | IN GREAT ABUNDANCE, AT Harvie’s Booxksrore,

QUEEN SQUARE, Dec. 25, 1876.

The -xhibition of the | Northern Light on Tuesday iast was simply |

a Newfoundland steam sealer to test the

receive the just censure of every man in the Province for not even making a reasonable allempt to carry out the terms of Usion. I remain yours truly, COMMERCE,

Get the Best,

To the Editor of the Examiner.

Last Tuesday will probably be celebrated for ever, in the annals of Island Ilistory; | for on that day was really consummated | the glorious union of the Maritime Provin- | ces. ‘The problem has been solved. Now, in winter time, in the course of a few short | days or weeks, one can leave Charlottetown and expect to reach Nova Scotia or New | Brunswick. ‘The illustrious and immortal | Sewell has demonstrated vhat science and | genius can perform. The Northern Light} —the new ice boat, is comparatively small | for the service—but what ceuld be expected expected from a $70,909 or $80,000 boat.

The ice was extremely thick, being as | much as four inehes in some places. But everybody was convinced, judging from the triumphant looks of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries and other officers, that the re- sults of this expedition would eclipse any- thing ever performed by the * A/ber(.” All that the enthusiastic throng of spectators | set ght ai regretted, was: San; Ahe Er Mrs. A. Kenneds Mrs. F.W.Hyudman, gantic intellect which had planned this) yoo yaci “wT Mrs. A. Le Brown, triumph of novel architecture, was not) Mr-.J F. Kebertson. Mrs, Frazer, present. With only 120 lbs. of steam on, Mrs. J. McPherson, Miss Dann,

Mrs. P. W. Hyndman, Miss Morrison, Mrs. Rankin, Miss MacNeill, Mrs. George MacLecd.Miss Murray. A. NILLISTON, Secretary. Ch’town, Dec. 23 1896.

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the steamer rushed at the ice. It was really wonder ul. Occasionally a gap of from 10 to 15 feet long wonld be made. In about eight hours she reached Three Tides, where | she remained all night. In dhe morning she returned, it being discovered, so they say, that something was left behind, but history does not say whether it was solids or liquids. | Another rumor was that the ice outside Three | Tides was at least 6 inches thick, and this,of | course, would make it impossible to pro- | | ceed further.

I must not forget to mention there being a dozen oftravelling patriots on board, one } of whom when they got back to town, com- | posed this gem of poetry. This does not | bear on the subject, but may be interesting | to a few.

THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS.

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John Herbert Reid, and others, Executors, Vial tifts,

And Johu Matthewson, Defendent.

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and places, the porth edge of the Road (alias) Possesiing honest and good bright jovial | Anderson Road, at the west boundary of faces, | the glebe Jot; thence (according to the

To keep in memory their prolonged meeting | magnetic meridian of the year 1764) running and stay, north for the distance of one huudred (10)

Its happy termination and the time spent chains ; thence north seventy-two degrees

80 gay | West, twenty-one chains, to the West bouu- In Charlottetown at ** RANKIN HovuseE,” | dary of said farm; thence following the please remember, | course of said west boundary south one

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| FES HONOK the Licutenant Governor wil hoid a Levee at Goverument House, on Monday, ibe flistday of Jauuy | weXt, at Lue duur ul oUE ¥ Cluck. we | buch gecticwsau is requested to be pro- Vided wiih @ card, lv ve handed wy the | Aide-de-camp in waiting. Geuliemen paylug lacir Tespeciy to Hig Houor on the vecasivn Will please ty eyier | Uy Lhe easterp door,