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ANAMINER.
NO. 28
MORE NEW CLOTHS!
BEER & SONS’ Custom Tailoring Department,
June 19, 1S79 ee
TO LET
, FENHAT.STORE AND OFFICE lately oceu. pied by Mr. John Gillan, in Hyndman’s Brick Building, corner of Queen and Water streets. Immediate possession given. Also, SEVERAL he IOMS, suitable for ottices, ete. ip upper stories same building. Fu terms,
sic.. apply to :
JOHN INGS, House to Let
ON: HALE that desivable Two and-a-half Story Dwelling Mouse situate ou the eastern side of Upper Prince street, adjoining the grounds of the Hon. Jadge Hensley,
Possession given immediately. Apply to —
KE. KR. BROW,
at Messrs. Hodgson & McLeod's, Water st.
May 7 eo COMMERCIAL
Union Assurance Company, OF LONDON, ENCLAND.
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CAPITAL - - $12,593,000.
NSURANCE effected against Fire on all
descriptions of Property thronghout the Island. s@® Low rates and pRomper sectlement oi
losses.
HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P. EF. Island.
Ch’tewn, Dee, 20, 1878
“STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
FAN OWT S:A.2 BM,
Will be held in the Y. MC. A. Hall, in aid of St. Perer’s Caurcn, by the members of St. Peter s Church Sewing Society, on
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WEDNESDAY, 2nd JULY,
Doors epen at 2 p.m. Admission 15 cents children 5 cents.
Contributions for the Sale will be thankfully received by the Society at its meetings on Thursday afternoons, in the Church School room, or by
MRS, KE. J. HODGSON, Pres’dt.
MRS. ALEXANDER, ‘Treas.
MISS JENKINS, Secretary, Clitown, May 26, 1879.—2aw
MOORE & M°DONALD,
¢ABINET-MAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS. ETC.
“MHUAMBER-SETTS, in Black Walnut, Ash,
/ &e. ; Parlor, Hall and Dining-Room Fur-
niture, in the latest styles.—We are prepared
to meet the wants of our customers with punc- tuality and despatch.
REPAIRING neatly executed.
PicrureE Frames and Mouldings constantly on hand or made to order. All kinds of Household Furniture furnished. 2a Don’t forget the place: Opposite Mrs. Robertson,s Hotel. Souris East, P. E. Island.
April 12 —2m eod
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E. C. HUNTER, Italian and American Marble,
Monuments, Tablets, Headstones,
Manries, Centre Taste Tors, Bureau anp Commooe Tors, Wasu Bow. Straps, &e., &c.
Prices to suit, amd satisfaction guaranteed. aw Designs furnished on application. “8 Corner Hillsborough and Kent Streets, Char lottetown,
November 6, 1878.
No. 35 Water St.,
Charlottetown.
Prince Biward Island Branch
—OF THUE-—
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE.
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INSURANGE 60.
Subscribed Capital, $9,733,332.00 Paid up Capital, - 1,°216,666.00
CHIEF OFFICES—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street.
Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ace Business are divided every Five Years. ‘Tae Tables of Rates are moderate.
Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LOWEST RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk,
Losses settled with promptitude and liber-
alisy. G. W. DeBuors,
Genera) Agent. Dec, 14.
Queen Street.
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Ex ‘* Prince Edward” and Other Steamers,
All carefully selected in the Best and Coeaprest Markets.
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* Cotton at 4c. and upwards.
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White Cotton at Ge. Towels at 4c.’and upwards.
Print Cotton at 6e.
Grey
BLACK >
DRESS SILKS!
Best Value ever offered in the City.
FROM 6C. PER PAIR. SEIRTS,
LINDERS & DRAWERS, SUSPENDERS, &c., Cheap
ADIES’ COTTON HOSE,
GHITTS’
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EMBROIDERY, From 4c. per yard, a creat selection.
LADIES’
DRESS MATERIALS!
all at Old Tariff prices.
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Millinery,
Hats, Feathers & Flowers.
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Lace Curtains
at prices to suit all customers.
Best Value Yet Offered.
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JAS. D®BRISAY
May 31, 1879.
| Corresponsencee.
ga” Wedonot hold ourselves responsible for the statements or opinions of eur correspondents CIVIC.
To the Hditor of the Examiner.
Sir,—As economy is now the order of the day, our Local and Dominion Governments are going into the matter to its full extent. | But our City Council have not yet done any- | thing in that way. People are beginning to cry out against any necessary improvements that are asked for, indeed the usual repairs of the roads and gutters, sidewalks, &c., are not at- tended to; and when the City Surveyor is at- tacked, his reply is, ‘“The Mayor will not al- low men to be employed, and the work cannot be done without men.”
Now, Sir, I would as: you, and through vor, the City Gouncil and the whole pubhe, why is this, with the taxes we are compelled to pay? 1 have an answer at hand: Because our taxes are all eaten up by officials? Let the staff be reduced. The City Council began at the wrong end when they attacked the police force. A good police force is required when properly controlled and directed ; but this cannot be done by a head living two miles off. But what is required is economy at the head. In Mayor Haviland’s, and his suc. cessor, Mayor DesBrisay’s time, the whole ma. chinery of the city cost but little. Buta few individuals in Mayor Rankin’s time, in great haste, got up a_ petition to the House of As. sembly, then in session (in consequence of an indiscretion of His Worship in fining some miscreant who had broken into some of: the business places on the south side of Queen Square instead of imprisoning them, and thus enabling those miscreants to walk out of Court paying the fine out of those dollars he had stolen, and leaving them a considerable margin) ta take from the Police Court as then estab- lished the jurisdition, and to have a police mayistrate appointed. The House passed the Act in accordance with the prayer of the petitioners. This added $1,600.00 to the ex- penses of the city, and we have since had a clerk added. In all the years of Mayors Haviland and DesBrisay nothing of this kind happened, and might never again have happened. ‘The cost of the City at that tinue was : Mayor, $324.00; Recorder, $324.00 ; Clerk, $400.00 and the salaries of the Police Force. What is it now? Mayor, $324.00; Recorder, $324.00 ; Police Magistrate, $1,009 ; two clerks, $1,700; (this is the cost for the past year) besides the Police Force, and itis quite clear why there is no money to pay for the
ruts. It is quite time that the citizens woke up and put an end to this state of things. Let the Mayor and Kecorder transact all the business and Jet the Stipendiary be sent to his law office for 1am quite sure the City would be better without him ; and I think that you will be pazzled to tind in any other Province or country, whatever, a practising lawyer sit- ting as a, judge exhibiting all his red tape ideas. Why not amalgamate the Police Clerk and the City Clerk’s office. and have the same head to both oflices same asin former years. Yours, etc. A CITizen. June 25, 1879.
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Our Manitoba Letter.
June 12, 1879.
Some person has compared Manitoba toa pan-cake, that, when a person saw one part of it, be knew what the rest was like; and; from my own observation, the simile is a good one. There is very little variety— little or no scenery to please the eye of the lover of the beautiful and picturesque— but a monotonovs prairie surface on all sides. Still, where the land is sufficiently dry to admit of cultivation, it is productive bevond comparison, and roots have been grown from this black niack without any artificial stimulant, «ue ‘argest that has ever been known. ‘: 2 ccantry on both sides of the Pembina Pranch of the Pacitic Railread from Emerson te Winnipeg, is altogether of this deser_ptivn. Portions of it are covered with s:mali willows, other parts of it are entirely x. iskey, the remain- der of the prairie is free from anything in the shape of wood. Netwithstanding those natural disqualifications, iur anything like successful farming, the land within ten and ‘fteen miles east is all taken up and nearly all settled upon. The inducement offered of giving 160 acres for $10, and 160 more for onf& dollar an acre, was such a temptation to individuals who never pos- sessed one foot of land they ceuld call their own, that they would settle upon it no mat- ter what the quality might be, as long as they were assured the land existed beneath the waier, and conld be determined by sounding. Many of those settlers are young men who have been clerks, bovk- keepers and artizans, of various kinds, in the cities ef the Dominion, and whe read Horace Greeley’s advice to young men, act- ed upon it, and came West, but with a tan- gent rather north. They live, in most
cases, by ‘‘batching it,” in—well, we cannot call their places’ of abode houses, unless that a _ hovel
built of sods, with a thatched roof, can be called such. This clar« of settlers know as much about farming - hen knows about raising @ flower garde... - uese are the fel- lows whe write the ¢) .-«. accounts of this country, Wishing to exiice .s many to it as possible, on the principal that ‘‘misery likes company ;” ev, perhaps, with a more selfish and mercernary motive—that the more that come to country the better will be their chances of selling out to some vit- tim, and leaving it themselves. ~There are to be found here, squatted on those bleak plains, trying to eke out a miserable living, the unfortunates of every class, and from
clearing out of the gutters and filling up the
every country, having come hoping to find
a panacea for their financial maladies, losses, crosses, and misfortunes of every kind. In fact there are too many of this class here, who have come with barely enough means to settle them ; but who will be unable, fer many years to come, to do anything towards the public imprevements which are so much required in this coun- try. Here are found the Englishman who once in his day summered it at Brighton, or perhaps lost his thousands at the Epsom, now living inhis mud cabin. The Mennon- ite from Russia is here, but he is in his element, in fact he can live anywhere. The cannie Scot is here from fair Midlothian or ‘‘auld Reekie,” like Cain, tilling the soil. The Yankee is occassienally to be found here, striving hard to build a home after the fashion of his neat and beautiful New England cottage he left behind him. And the Irishman ‘‘from sweet Killarney’s shore,’’—well, no, he is net here. He pre- ferred the town, and went to Winnipeg, or stayed in Chicago, and he will look after the sanitary improvements in those places and be a useful adjunct to those growing towns. Amongst the representatives of the different Provinces, the Ontarions are the majority.
Winnipeg—or, as some delight to call it, the Chicago of the North-West—is situated near the confluence of the Assinaboine and Red Rivers, and is similar to Chicago by being built on a low, flat and muddy prairie. Fort Garry forms at present the south-western point of it, inside of which was perpetrated one of the bloodiest trage- dies in the annals of the whole Dominion of Canada, in the murder of poor Thomas Scott. That his cold and _ blood-thirsty murderers should be allowed to live and breathe the pure air of heaven, is a stigma on Canadian justice. Winnipeg has grown very rapidly during the last four or five years, and is destined, nu doubt, to bea place of considerable importance. It will be the nucleus of several railreads in the course of time, to bring the productions of the country from south and west, to be transhipped to the Atlantic seaboard. The principal street is long, crooked and wide— in fact, too wide, as the citizens will find when they come to pave it. The public buildings are not very imposing. There is a nice market-house, which contains the police station also, and some offices belong- ing tothe town. The upper flat is used as a publichall. The Presbyterians occupy it in the mean time on Sabbath days until theirchurch is completed. The Presbyterian Church which is nearly completed is the largest and most beautiful building in the town. I would infer from this that they are the strongest body. The town is always full of people, as all who come into the country to go west stay in Winnipeg a day or twe. Your correspondent paid a visit to the meat market on several occas- ions, where Red River beef was on full ex- hibition. But perhaps the least said about this the better, as the black, stringy stuff they called beef is rather a tough subject te write about, and by leoking at it weuld lead a person to conclude that the animal died through other agency than cold steel.
More Anon.
a
Terribie Adventure.
One night recently Mr. E. Albee Skeels, a well known citizen of St. Albans, Vt., retired at his usual hour, his family being absent ona visit. Shortly after he heard the noise of a vigerous snore under his bed, which sound no sooner reached his ears than he leaped from his bed and ran to the house ef a neighbor, Mr. McGiff, a tele- grapher, who hasa line running from his house to the depot; Mr. McGitf at ence telegraphed to the depot for assistance, he and Mr. Skeels keeping watch in order that the intruder might not escape. A couple of officers arrived, and the quartette proceeded to Mr. Skeel’s house. Reaching the bed-room, the officers. pulled out the bed, and, behold, there lay the prostrate form of the hired girl, sleeping the sleep of youth. It seemed that prior to Mr. Skeels’ arrival she had beceme frightened and sought safety under the bed. Mr. Skeels left town for a short visit the next day.
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Lord Loftus. Lord Augustus Loftus, the predecessor of Lord Dufferin in the post of British Am- bassador at St. Petersburg, is visiting Niagara Falls, en route to New South Wales, of which he will be Governor. The distinguished ambassador has represented his sovereign at Berlin, St. Petersburg and other important diplomatic centres, and is now sixty-two years of age. His grand- father, the first Marquis, was the greatest borough-holder in Ireland, and to no one had Pitt and Castlereagh to pay so large a compensation for his support ef the Union. Lord Ely received $56,000 for his suppress- ed boroughs, a Marquisate in the peerage of Ireland, and a Barony in that of the United Kingdom. He had been accustom- ed te send members to that sink of corrup- tion, the Irish Parliament. The Gover- norship of New South Wales is nominally worth £7,000 a year, whic is £3,000 less than that of Victoria, but allowances given to the Governor bring it up to the same value. , ——— —o 008 ee Re-openep--Ramway Horer.—The sub scriber having increased facilities for accom- modating the travelling public, now offers to them as good board as can be obtained in the city. His stock of wines and licuors are not excelled in Charlottetown. JoHN BoLarr, May 27, 1879.—pro Sin 2aw
A FINE ASSORTMENT
SCOTCH TWEED & ENCLISH WORSTEDS
GEO. E. FULL'S CUSTOM
Tailoring Department !
which we will make up at the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES, and guarantee Also
A LARGE ASSORMENT OF
CHRISTY’S London - Made Felt Hats!
CEO. E. FULL. May 28, 1879—4w w & s
every garment to fit,
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TEA. TEA TRA. 1 Q Stock.
Packages Now in and at very Low Figures.
Something very superior, BEER & SONS.
Mey 22, 1879.
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Glass. Glass. Glass.
2()0) BOXES, all sizes, VERY CHEAP. BEER & SONS.
iP SEED.
May 22, 1879.
‘TURN
LOT of that special kind which it gave such excellent satisfaction last year. Also, Laing’s, Skirving’s, and Green
Top.
+ BEER & SONS. BEST
Wow London White’ Lead, Turpentine, AN Oils, Colours, Gold Leaf, cheap.
BEER & SONS.
June 10, 1879 —
EYE GLASSES
I Oe imported a large lot of Spee-
tacles and Eye Glasses, with assorted cases to suit, | am prepared to fit them with the assistance of a ,*‘ Optometer,” to suit the eyes of anyone requiring them, at reasonable prices.
W. W. WELLNER, 81 North Side Queen Square. Ch’town, June 11, 1879.—4itw wkiy pat 4sja
Iron. Iron. Iron.
; — TONS Refined, Assorted Sizes. BEER & SONS.
FURNITURE REPAIRED
A ND RE-PAINTED- Chairs Re-Caned— LX Looking-Glass Frames Refittec, and all kinds of Machine Work done with satisfaction and promptness, at JOHN NEWSON’S. Apul 1, 1879—3m
iRON BEDSTEADS. —
GS NGLE & DOUBLE—Best kinds—Cheap.
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JOHN NEWSON, April 1, 1879—3m
UPHOLSTERY WORK.
ODERN STYLES—Best Finish—Cheap- est-Promptly delivered. JOHN NEWSON. April, 1, 1879—3m
Looking Glasses and Mirrors, N*®* STY LES—Cheap. JOHN NEWSON.
April 1, 1879—3m
100 PARLOR & DRAWING-ROOM
SUITES, in raw Silk Poil, Silk Cota-
line, Silk Repp and Hair Cloth—Styles un
rivalled—Stock large—Prices at cost.
| 5 BEDROOM or CHAMBER SUITES ' —Every variety of design and price—
Never before so cheap.
JOHN NEWSON, April 1, 1879—3m
FURNITURE.
a STOCK—Greatest *aniety — Best Quality—Cheapest in every grade. Call and examine.
JOHN NEWSON, April 1, 1879—3m .
Bedding, Matrasses & Pillows EST MATERIAL—Hair, Flock, Excel- stor, Straw. JOHN NEWSON,
April 1, 1879—3m
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