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New F ali Goods.
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NEW DRESS GOODS, very Cheap,
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For NEW MANTLES
For
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NEW WINCEYS and CLOTHS
go to J. B. MacDONALD’S
For
NEW HATS and BONNETS
go to J. Bs MacDONALD’S
For
NEW FLOWERS and FEATHERS
vo to J.B. MacDONALD’S
For
MENS’ and BOYS’ CLOTHING
vo to J. B. MacDonaLp’s
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Queen Street, Charlottetown, Sept. 15, 1879.
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LOOK HERE!
BRITISH WAREHOUSE.
As we intend to make a change in our business at the end of the year, we are now closing out our
Large and Well-Assorted Stock of
DRY GOODS
At Unusually Low Prices.
Which,'we are Sure, Will
Meet the Hard Times.
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Dress Goods from
6 cents upwards.
Grey Cottons from 4 cents upwards. Prints from 6 cents upwards. Hemp Carpeting from (2 cents upwards.
Tapestry from 59
cents upwards.
Brussels from $1.00 upwards.
All other lines we are -clo
Competition. W.
Charlottetown, June 30, 1879.
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TEA PARTY
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PIC-NIC = SUPPLIES !
BEER & GOFF'S
Lemon, Raspberry, and Pine Apple Syrup Sold in bottles and by the gallon.
Plain and Fancy Biscuits Sold in Boxes & Bbls. and by the pound.
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Iceing Sugar, Raisins, Currants,Pastry Flour, Essence of Coffee, Confectionery, Nuts, Oranges, Potted Ham, Drivelled Ham, Potted Tongue, &c.
BEER & GOFF
MAIL NOTICE.
AILS for Great Britain will be closed at M 10 o'clock, p. m,, on THURSDAY in each week, to be forwarded via Rimouski, and also on MONDAY, the 4th and 18th inst., at 4 o clock, a. m., to be forwarded via Halifax.
Mails to be forw: Shediac and also for all. Summerside and in Prince
ed via Summerside and places on the route to County, will be
velosed daily at 5.30 o'clock, a. m., also for
Summerside direct, at 5 p. m. Mails to be forwarded via Steamers to pi will be closed every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR- DAY, at 50’ clock, a, m. : : Mails for Georgetown and Souris East, and -all pl on those routes, will be closed daily at 6 o'clock, a, m. Post Office open from 8, a.m., till 9, p. m. &, A. a
Post Office Charlottetown, rs. 204, 1979,
sing out at Prices that Defy
& A. BROWN.
| BRITISH AMERICA
Assurance Company.
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| FIRE AND MARINE. ‘Cash Capital & Assets . $1,176,491,
| INCORPORATED 1833. Head Office, - Toronto, Ont.
Risks taken on all descriptions of Property at lowest rates. ‘
PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE HASZARD, Agent.
Office, South Side Queen Square. July 10, 1879. |
' FURTHER REDUCTION
IN PRICE OF
Albion Mines (Pistou, N. 8.) SLACK COAL.
“LACK and ROUND. COAL can now be : obtained at the above mentioned Mines.
Slack Coal, only $1.39 per (tons; [Round Coal, $2.00,
For orders, apply to
G. W. DeBLOIS, Sole Agent for P. E. Island.
Orrice : No. 35 Water street.
Ch’town, June 23, 1879—patsj kca h sp2m
ee a ink every village and township of P. E. Island not yet u- | pied, onz active, intelligent Lady or Gentle- man can obtain a most le and — profitable engagement. Address, with particulars,
D. DOWNIE & CO., : Box 1964, Montreal
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Fire, ifs. Marine, HORACE HASZARD. General Insurance Agent,
LEPRESENTING : Commercial Union Fire Assurance Company, of Loudon, England, Capital, £2,500,000 stg. British-American Fire Assurance Company, of Toronto, Ont., Capital (paid up in full), $500,000 09.
Sun Mutual Life and Accident In- surance Company, of Montreal.
MARINE INSURANCE ALSO EFFECTED. Ofiice, south side Queen Square. Sept. 16—lw eod
UNION HOUSE, @ueen Street, Charlottetown.
P. P. CILLIS, . .. . PROPRIETOR.
CHOICEST WINES & LIQUORS. NEW YORK LAGER BEER,
NABLES set at all hours,-with every luxury of the season. Fresu Oysters received daily, tooms large and comfortably furnished. Coacues from this House meet all Trains and Steam boats. First Class BARBER SHOP.
July 4, 1879—3m
No. 35 Water St.
Charlottetown.
Prince Edward Island Branch
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NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE.
INSURANCE CO.
: [oS [119i Vl apd of eisa bdee = § Subscribed Capital, $9,733,332.00 Paid up Capital, 1:8 1,216,666.00
CHIEF OFFICES—Eiinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 6! Threadireedle Street.
ine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur-
ance Businéss are divided every Five Years. The Tables of Rates are moderate.
Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the Lowkst RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of
the risk. Lossrs settled with promptitude and liber-
ality. : G. W. DEBLOIS, General Agent.
Dec. 14.
QUEEN INSURANCE CcO'Y.
OF ENGLAND.
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CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING,
[Ree CE effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, op Vessels on the stocks.
Special rates for isolated residences.
Losses settled promptly.
GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1S77—
TAKE NOTICE.
‘4° ALPINE, our Directory Publisher in- tends publishing, about tne beginning of 1580,
A BUSINESS DIRECTORY
of the Maritime Provinces—Pocket Edition— to contain jl persons in business throughout the Provinzus, even the remotest parts or the smallest business in Professional, Mercantile, Mechanical, Milling, Manufactories of every description, ete.
About 500 pages for the year 1880-81 ; price only 75c. or $1, to continue for two years be- fore publishing next edition. The circulation will be SOME THOUSANDS, and the price being so small, will make it
A MOST VALUABLE MEDIUM FOR AD VERTISING.
If sufficient support is given, will add New- foundland, St. Pierre, Magdalen Islands.
The publisher also intends canreing On- tario and Quebec; also Boston, New York, Portland, Philadelphia, and manufacturing districts of United States for subscriptions to the work.
Any parties wishing to advertize will please send instructions to D. McALPINE,
St. John, N. B.
Sept. 3, 1879—1m
ANTHRAGITE GOAL.
ryxO ARRIVE about the 20th inst. 150 tons of the best Philadelphia, Chestnut and Egg Coal. Parties wanting to be supplied will please send in their orders at once, as the first in will be first supplied. There will be no two prices, Orders left at the Post Office or at the subscriber’s will be attended to. THOMAS CASELEFY.
Sept. 4, 1879—w stf
INER.
Corres sondence.
ae Wedo not hold ourselves responsible for the statements or opinions of our correspondents
More Grit Oppression and Mal. practices.
To the Editar of the Examiner. Str,—Constantly are coming to the light, the iniquituous impositions and malprac- tices of the late Davies-Stewart regime. It is high time that the disreputable out~ comes of that defunct Government should be stamped out of existence. The ‘‘ tax curse,” so far as at present possible has heen ameliorated. But fraud and malpractices are still perpetrated under cover of the in- famous poll-tax. I think it is universally known and acknowledged that the poll-tax Act was passed to realize a road money fund, or in other words, as at least a substitute fer Statute Labor. Contrary to all past practices, precedents, and statute laws, school teachers have been, and _ are still, called upon to pay this unjust tax. And, sir, 1 ask, are teachers amenable for the non-payment of this abominable imposi- tion? I ask not whether they are exempt from the performance of, or payment for statute labor? It is patent to all that they are. But I do ask, was it the spirit or in- tent of that Act that teachers should come under its exactions? Ido not believe that there is a properly trained member of the bar in the city who would haszard his repu- tation as a lawyer by asserting publicly, that any licensed teacher employed as such, is legally liable to pay poll tax, either under present or past local laws. But in face of all this the miserable minion of the late Government appointed to demand and col- lect this tax, has succeeded in compelling every male teacher in the city to pay this fraudulent impost. But I have not yet revealed the worst. Only last Friday, a man employed by this tax-gatherer called at the residence of a city teacher in the absence of the latter, and re- presented to his wife (either truly or falsely) that he (the man) held a writ to seize her husband’s body or chattels for poll-tax and and costs. ‘The teacher’s wife insisted— and with truth—that no account demand- ing the payment of such tax, had ever been served en ther husband or any member of
the family. But this availed her nothing.
‘The money or chattels he would have, and walked away with double the amount of the doubly illegal tax, save ten cents. Now here has been a two-fold: violation of law. First, in demanding meney for which no account had been ever readered ; second, in levying an imposition when there existed no positive legal authority for doing so. It is the determination of the teacher who has been thus imposed upon to place this ne- farious matter befure the proper legal authorities and obtain redress, in order, if possible, to stamp out of our civilized Pro-
vince such arbitrary and illegal villiany. By inserting the above in your independ- ent and useful journal, you will confer a favor on your humble servant and others.
A Lover oF JU3TICE..
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A Good Place for a “Town Clock.”
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To the Editor of the Examiner.
Sir,—Strolling in the direction of Upper Prince Street, to day, my attention was di- rected to the tower of the new Baptist church edifice, and the remark made, ‘‘What a splendid place for a clock.”
The tower rises to a height of 126 feet, and being on one of the highest sites in the city, can be seen at a very great distance. A clock on such a building would be of great value to that part of the town, and, indeed, to other parts; for our brilliant ‘‘ town clock” is placed in such a position that, with the exception of those who are so fortunate as to be near the square, the citizens have to remain in blissful ignorance as to the hour until the hammer falls.
Now, we can hardly expect the Baptists to provide aclock. They have done. their part in the erection of the the building, which is not only a credit to the denomin- ation, but an ornament to the city. Could not a sufficient sum be raised by subscrip- tion, and a clock placed in the tower? It would be a public benefit, and meet a want greatly felt by those who dwell in that part of the town. Hoping this may be acted upon.
Yours, &c., UNKNOWN. Sept. 18, 1879.
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A Russian nobleman, Panteleef, who died in 1875, bequeathed one million roubles to a body of peasants, to be used for the special purpose of purchasing land from their former masters. The relatives of the deceased nobleman tried to break the will, and brought thhe case into court, where it has been kept for four years. At last the Czar himself has confirmed the original will, and on the 8th of August directions were issued to fulfil its provssions. As the capital is not sufficient to benefit all the peasant re- ferred to, lots will have te be cast to de- termine who shall be recepients of land.
CARLYLE, according to the London corres- pondent of Dundee Advertiser, is not long for this world. ‘‘ He may,’ says the letter- writer, ‘‘ linger on for days or even weeks, but he is not likely evermore to be seen
ys thoughts have
m theend, and he ‘that Phe should be buried as quietly as le in the choir of
laid his wife a dozen years ago.”
22, 1879.
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| A Highlandman’s Good Cheer.
SHERIFF M’KELLAR’S CHRISTMAS TO THE MARQUIS OF CORRESPONDENCE
PRESENT LORNE —GAELIC
When Mr. Sheriff McKellar, of Hamil- ton, who is an Inverary man, heard of the Marquis of Lorne’s arrival in Canada, he succeed-d in procuring—through the kind offices of Major Martin, of Tilbury East, county of Kent, which Mr. McKellar re- presented in Parliament for many years—- a brace of the finest wild turkeys that could be had in that region. These were for- warded to His Excellency in time for his Christmas dinner, with a Gaelic letter, a copy of which is subjoined, together with the reply which his Excellency was gra- ciously pleased to make, in the same lan- guage.
SHERIFF McKELLAR’S LETTER.
Do ’N Ard Piuin-Uasal, Sir Tan Caimbeul Moirear Lathairne, Agus Ard, Uachdaran Chanada:
Gum Birueapn £ TAITNEACH LER N-ORIDHE- ARCAS :
Tha mi gabhail danachd a chur dur r- ionnsuidh fa chomhair Latha Nolfaig, a tha dluth air laimh, da Choileach Fhrangach, a chum agus gum faic sibh a ghne eunlaith fhiadhaich a tha annus an tir so.
Tha dochas agam gu’n gabh sibh iad mar chomharradh air an urram agus anc dilseached a tha mi g’ altrum araon rthaob’h ur N-Oiran hearcas fein agus “ur Cile Rioghail, nighed ar Ban-righinn gra dhaichte.
Gum bitheadh sibharaon a ‘sealbhachadh slainte agus mor-shonas re iomadh bliadhna, is e iarrtas cridhe.
Ur Seirbbiseace umhr. GILLEASBUIG MacELLarr, Fear de mhuinntir Inbhir-Aoradh. Baile Mor Hamitron, An treac la fichead de’n darne Mios deug, 1878. HIS EXCELLENCY’S REPLY. TieH AN RiaGHLarDH, Orrawa.
An ceathramh la thar fhichead de’n dara Mois deug, 1878.
Tha ’m Priomh Uchdaran ro thaitneach le litir chaoimhneil Mhaighstir ‘ic Eallair, agus taingel arson an fhailte Ghaidhealach a chuire da ionnsuidh. Tha e cur meas oirremar ghibht *o aon de mhuinntir Inbhir-Aoradh a cxoisin cliu da fhineadh daainm anns an T-’sao- ghal Ur; agus inar dhearbhadh air a ghradh do
n Bhan righinn, a tha air altrum le sluagh na duthcha so. LornE,
Lieutenant Carey. a the Power of Prayer,
The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Christian by Lieut- Carey, apparently in reply to the address of welcome presented to him by the people of Devonshire :-—
Sovrnsga, August 25, 1879.
My Dexr Sir,—May I ask you to kindly insert a request for praise on my behalf in the next number of your journal.
Since the first moment of my arrest I took the whole matter to my heavenly Father. I left it in His hands, reminding Him constantly of his promise to help. He has borne’my burden for me. He has sus. tained me, my wife and family in our dis- tress, and He has finally wiped away tears from our eyes.
There were certain circumstances at first that it seemed, owing to the bewildered statement of the survivors, difficult to ex- plain ; but, though my faith wavered, His promise endured, and He in His good time brought me to the haven where I would be.
I feel that it.would be very wrong to keep from my fellow believers such a wonderful example of God’s goodness and power in in- fluencing the hearts of men; and, though I hate publicity, I feel compelled to add my testimony to the power of prayer. . Believe me, dear sir, yours very faithfully
BRENTON Carey, Captain, 98th Regiment.
nent tli agitemrennaa
The Short Credit System.
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The system of giving short credits is being generally adopted in Chicago and other western trade centres! many wholesome firms there are working upon a purely cash basis. Dry goods, hardware, boot and shoe, hat, cap and fur houses, which until lately extended their credits to three, four and six months, are now invoicing at thirty and sixty days, and such has been the successful working of this plan already, that well-to-do firms which were wedded te the old system, and averse to the least in- novation, are now represented to be fol- lowing the example of those who first reaped the benefit of the much-needed re- form. There are others who are cultivat- ing a strictly cash business by allowing the usual discount, which many buyers are availing themselves of. —Ezchange.
The Prince of Wales will leave Ports- mouth next week in the ‘‘Osborne” for Copenhagen, where the Princess will joi him, and they will subsequently accompany the Bacchante on her course for some dis- tance; but the duration of this part of they expedition will depend,on the weather. Before leaving Plymouth the Prince of Wales ‘“‘received” on board the Osborne the champion female rower of the world, the venerable Mrs. Ann Glanville, of Sal- tash, who is now nearly ninety. The Queen and Prince Albert once saw Mrs, Glanville win a race at Cherbourg, and afterwards “received” her in the Victoria and Albert, when she amused her Majesty by dancing a hornpipe. The Prince’s invitation to the old lady has given much gratification io
the old cathedral at dington, where he the people of the ‘“‘three towns.”—T) uth,
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