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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND,

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 678

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NO, 487.

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THe Datty EXAMINER)

{s Published every Evening. OFFICE: INGS’ BUILDING, CORNER OF WATER AND GREAT GEORGE STREETS, Charlottetown, P. E. L

KaTes OF SUBSCRIPTION :

Six Months, $2 50 Three Months, 1 2 (me Month, 0 50 One Week. 0 12

a@ Advertising at most moderate rates. Contracts may be made for monthly, quar- terly, or half-yearly advertisements, on appli- cation. W. L. COTTON, J. W. Manager.

PRINGE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. II.

Winter Arrangement.

ON AND AFTER

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1878.

Trains ‘Going ‘West.

MITCiIELL, Otfice Sup’t.

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STATIONS. | No. 1. No. 3

Uh’town

Royalty Jun. re Oe * | * oa" N. Wiltshire

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4.45 Hunter River “ta”? Breadalbane eo ee * County Line “10.18 ** | * G.5l Z Kensington | Lee * 1 Gee ° ; \ jar 11.30 “* jar 7.00 ** Summerside dp 2.40 pm Wellington | “* 332 “* Port Hill 1% 4a5:* 0’ Leary i? oa er ar 0. A¥Pberton lap 6.40 “ss Tignish jar 7.25 “

Trains Going East.

i { |dp 8.00 am) Dp 3.30 pm | ;

COMMERCIAL

‘Union Assurance Company, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

CAPITAL - - $12,500,000. |

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| PNSURANCE effected against Fire on all descriptions of Property throughout the | Island. _ mr Low losses.

rates and rpromrr settlement of

HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P. EF. Island. Ch’town, Dee, 20, 1878—

QUEEN INSURANCE CO'Y.

| OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Vessels on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences. Losses settled promptly. GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 18S77—

No. 35 Water St.,

“‘harlottetown.

Prince Hdward Island Branch

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| wnotu g 9 nay] i unit Hy EBL y PCRLA: iL relpgn aa 2 2°> (** f& wi P ee. Fintct AND LIFE

INSURANGE GO

a Subscribed Capital, $9,733,332.00 Paid up Capital, - 1,2716,666.00

CHIEF OFFICES—Edinburyh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street.

Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ance Business are divided every Five Years. The 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.

Lossas settled with promptitude and liber-

nears ; ality. ‘ : STATIONS. No.2 | No.4 G. W. DEBLOIs, | Express. | Mixed. General Agent.

Tignish _Dp 7.00 au Der. 14. ss meng pet Alberton i Qaeey yee JAMES HOBBS Port Hill ee a 3 Wellington ete « CABINET-MAXKER, Summerside > 4h

See | ap op Peis | UPHOLSTERER, ETC, Kensington iy <p 4, OEE am County Line a pa a... JJ 48 REMOVED trom McPhell’s Corner Breadalbane pt ac ee ‘10.08 “ to the premises just vacated by Mr. Hunter River ha 4.28 ns ‘10.47 «, | JOHN STrumBLxs, Prince Street, where, with N. Wiltshire he 4.45 = ‘11.02 << |imcreased facilities, he is prepared to attend to Royalty Jun. 5.40 ‘ 11.55 the wants of his customers with punctuality Ch tows ) at ae i arl2.15 pm | and despatch, and on reasonable terms. itn 7 315 * Carpets cut and laid.

oyalty Jun. ar 4.30 “ PaInTING and Repairing neatly done. Mt. Stewart dp 4.40 “ Picture Frames and Mouldings constantly Cardigan Se A 6.00 “ ou hand, or made up to order. _ Georgetown lar 6.25 “ | All kinds of Household Furniture made to

SOURIS BRANCH.

order, cheap and good. New Pattern School Desks made at short notice. A first-class article.

sar Don’t forget the place: PRINCE STREET

Going West. Going East. Laan ay new Baptist Church in course of ag) ne | _ Staeeitetown, Oct, 9 207 — STATIONS. | Mixed. | STATIONS.| Mixed,

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BOOK & JOB

a. M.|| M Souris Dp 7. Mts tw’tJnel Dp 4.40 Harmony ‘eee 7.23) Morell - 622 St. Peters | ‘* 8,42/|St. Peters | ‘* 5.54 Morell ** 9.13}| Harmony “ 7,12 : Mt S’tw’t Jnec} ar 9.55}|Souris ar 7.35

WM. McKECHNIE, Supt. P. E. I. RB,

C. J. BRYDGES, Gen. Sup. Gov, Railways “th’town, Dec, 27, 1878.

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PRINGE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

A SPECTAL TRAIN, in connection with L% the Winter Steamship Northern Light, beginning December 24th, 1878, will ran as under :—

Leave Charlottetown, 5.25 p. m.; Mount Stewart, 6.37 p. m.; arriving at Georgetown, 7.55 p. m.

On arrival of Nothern Light from Pictou, a Special Train will leave Georgetown for Char- lettetown.

These Trains will stop at Royalty Junction, Little York, Bedford, Mount Stewart, Peake’s, Baldwin’s and Cardigan, only to take on and leave off passengers, and will run only to con- nect with trips made by the Northern Light. C. J. BRYDGES, | W. McKECHNIE, Gen. Supt. Govt. R’ways. Superintendent.

Charlottetown, Dec. 27, 1878—6i

ne omen COAL. COAL.

OUND.AND NUT COAL cheap for as yw. W. CLARKE, Agent.

Head Lord’s Wharf, Charlottetown, Nov. 28.

neatly and expeditiously executed,

AT THE“ EXAMINER” OFFICE under the careful supervision of J. W. MITCHELL.

We arc now in a position to execute orders fer all kinds of Printing, such as

LETTER HEADS,

BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS, CARDS, PAMPHLETS, DGDGERS, HANDBILLS,

POSTERS, AND ALL KINDs OF

Bank and Legal Blanks,

&. &e. Ke. AT MODERATE FRICES.

Office :—Ings’ Old Stand, Corner Great George and Water Streets.

UBSCRIBE for the DAILY EX

AMINER the Cheapest and most newsy Paper published in the Province,

\ TILL MAKE DAILY TRIPS, vot further notice (Sundays excepted), leaving Georgetown at SIX a, m., and leaving

Pictou at HALF-PAST ONE, p. m., weather ;

| permitting.

WILLIAM MITCHELL, Ageut of Departinent.

Ch'town, 24th Dec., 1878—-

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RANKIN HOUSE,

| GHARLOTTETOWN, PB. I.

J. J. DAVIES - - - Prapricter |

(Formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Pictou).

FENHIS well-known Hotel is now open under

the presevpt management ; and, having been newly furnished throughout, it offers every comfort to the travelling public. Suit- able Sample Rooms for commercial gentlemen.

Oct. 15, 1878—3_ um

BROADWAY HOUSE,

BY MACKENZIE.

FYNHE former ‘City Hotel,” now the Broadway House, Great George Street, opposite the Catholic Cathedral, is

now open for Permanent and Transient Boarders. The rooms have been thoroughly renovated

and newly furnished.

The tables will be supplied with the best the market affords, and fares reasonable.

A Suite of Rooms convenient for a small family, together with board &c., can be had in the Broadway House.

Nov. 23, 1878—t

WAGSTAFF'S HOTEL,

‘ie Subscriber having fitted up the Hotel formerly known as

THE RANKIN HOUSE,

in first-class style, is now prepared to give comforteble accommodation to

Permanent and Transient Boarders, Tourists and others will receive every atten- tion at the Wagstaff’s Hotel. WM. WAGSTAFF.

May 25, 1878,

DENTISTRY.

{E cry of ‘‘Hard times” and ‘‘ No

money” is universal. Yet people lose their teeth, and in consequence their health. Again, recent improvements have cheapened the cost of Dental material ;—considering which I have decided to reduce my prices, and for three months from the date of this I will make a sett of teeth for Ten Dollars. Parts of setts correspondingly cheap. More than this—I will use good material and guar- antee, in every case, a perfect fit.

©. L. STRICKLAND.

Ch’town, Jan. 4, 1879—

H. W. Vinnicombe,

Resident Piano Tuner & Regulator, i j AS adopted the Dollar system of Tuning, —six visits a year, at one dollar per visit. This system is much more economical and satisfactory than any other, as the cost is less, and the instrument is kept constantly in tune and repair.

A visit will be made to all parts of the Island once a year, or oftner if desired. Pianos tuned by Hamilton’s system of even temperament.

s@ Orders may be left at Mr. Fletcher's Music Store, or at Bremner Bros., Queen Street.

Jan. 6, 1879—

OR. CREAMER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Kent Street, Charlottetown, (Three doors from Dr. Johnson’s), ae ENTRANCE BY SIDE Oct. 15-~3m

DOOR. “S

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NIGHT SOIL

FENGE Subscriber, having obtained the Con tract to remove night soil from the City, no one else is authorized to do so. Night Soil only removed between 8 p. m. and 6 a, m.,—at 75 cents per hogshead. Payment to be made only to me. s@ Orders lett at the Police Station will be promptly attended to. DANIEL GORDON, Charlottetown Royalty, } 3m wed & th Nov. 13, 1878. {n epatm & tues

E. G. HUNTER, Italian and American Marble,

Monuments, Tablets, Headstones,

Cenrre Taste Tors, Burgau anp Commope Tors, WasH Bow. Sass, &c., &c.

Prices to suit, and satisfaction guaranteed. aw Designs furnished on application. Se

Corner Hillsborough and Kent Streets, Char- lottetown,

November 6, 1878.

Killed by his Sister.

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/ROMANCE OUTRIVALLED IN A PENNSYLVANIA

FARMER'S GOOD AND ILL-FORTUNF. (From the Johustown 7's dune. )

| One of the saddest of tragedies was that

on Friday evening, at the home of Mr,

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\daughter Mary, aged 19, and two other ‘daughters, 9 and 11 years of age, respoc- jtively. In the evening Joseph attended a ispelling ‘‘bee,” cautioning his sister Mary, 'as he went away, to beware of tramps. At ‘about nine o’clock he started for home, ‘and as he approached § the house i tie barking of the dogs alarmed his sisters, as Joseph was not expected back at so ‘early an hour. It is probable the young man intended to test his sister Mary’s cour- age, for he pulled his hat over his face, and otherwise disguised himself. When he was within a few reds of the house, Mary ap- peared in the doorway and hailed him : ‘‘Is that you, Joe?” But he did not answer, and continued to advance. The girl, now worked upto the highest point of excite- ment, again hailed the advancing figure with, ‘‘ Who are you?” Still no answer, and Mary shouted again, ‘‘Is that you Joe?” and ran into the house and armed herself with a shot-gun. teturning to the door, she discovered, to her sur- prise, the strange man standing on the steps, and as soon as_ she appeared he advanced toward her. ‘‘ Stop,” she shouted, ‘* stop,” or I will shoot you !” He took another step, and, at the same in- stant, the girl raised the gun and fired, and he sank down on the porch groaning, ‘Oh, my dear sister {’ *‘ Ol, my dear brother, if have killed you!” the poor girl screamed fas ahe threw down the cun and carried him into the house, where he scon died. Richard Hotham, the father, is the man who, in 1861 or 1862, picked up a fortune en the railway near his home. He was walking alengtheroadand sawa folded news- paper, and on picking it up found enclosed $50,000 in bank notes. He took the pack- age to an attorney and sought legal advice. Advertisements were inserted in the news- papers throughout the country, in the hope of discovering the loser of the money, and for over a year diligent search was made far and wide; but no one appeared to claim it, and Mr. Hothem eventually appropriated it to his own use. A short time previous to the finding of the money a large express robbery had been perpetrated near Harper's Ferry, and it was the general belief that be- ing closely pressed by pursuers, the thieves had thrown their money from acar window, intending to return for it on the first op- portunity after eluding the detectivés.

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Irish and Yankee Stories.

(From Harper's Magazine.)

A friend of the Drawer during the past summer visited the Lakes of Killarney and passed a little hut or cabin occupied by a descendant of the far-famed Kate Kearney, that dangereus beauty of long ago. As he approached it, the guide began his legends about the locality :—

“Do you see that mountain,” said he, ‘behind the cabin there?—I mane Kate Kearney’s descendant’s cabin. Well, it’s no less nor 2,500 feet high, and it is well that whin Kate Kearney from the top of it unloosed her hair, it touched the base there fornint ye.”

‘*Tg it possible ?” said our friend.

‘‘Indade, thin, it is, sir; but shure I see that yo’re from America, and as for stories, it’s not worth while to be tellin’ thim to one of your people. Didn’t I come wid some gentleman from the States to this place a short time ago, and the devil such stories I ever heard in my life as they gave me. I wondher if they could be thrue? And wondering I have been, ever since I heard thim, what wonderful places and things ye must have there! I wondher if the stories were thrue /’ again said the guide as if carried to the depths of doubt and re- flection.

**What are the stories /?” said our friend.

‘‘Shure,” said the guide, “I couldn’t be tellin’ all the stories in a short ride like this; but one of them has struck my heart and soul, and I'll niver forget it—niver, niver ! .

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I wondher if it can be thrue!

‘‘Well, let us hear it,” said our friend, ‘‘and we will decide.”

‘*Well,” said the guide, ‘“‘afther I told them some of my tales, shure they began to give me back the wondhers, and one of thim —a very dacent-looking man he was, and not given, I should think, to courtin’ the devil by lyin’—began to tell of the splendid hotels yez have in America, and—I’ll niver forget it—told me that there was one in New York called the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and that it was three miles and a half long ; not only that, sir, but that the waithers rode round on ponies sarvin’ the guests! I wondher if that was thrue "”’

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A beautiful girl in lowa, named Jemima, recently committed suicide because she could find ne diminutive for her name end- ing in ‘‘ie.” A few hours afterwards came a letter from a classmate, beginning, ‘‘Dear, darling Mimmie,” but it was too late, and she was borne to the grave by eight com- panions, named respectively, Abbie, Bessie, Carrie, Dollie, Ettie, Florrie, Georgie and Hattie.

General Grant said in the longest speech he ever made that Lord Beaconsfield seemed to him to see as far into the future as any man hew knew.

SOMETHING OF HER DEATH. Te fullowing are some of the particulars of the iltness and death of the late Princess Alice :

Aiter the death of the youngest child, und during the illness of the Grand Duke, the other children had been sent to Old Stadtschless to be out of the way of the in- fection. Princess Alice had herself been far from well for some time past, but went to the railway station to see the Duchess of Edinburgh pass on her way from Stutgart to London. At tlie station she felt the shivers premonitory of fever, and on return- ing home took to her bed at once. Next morning her doctors discovered the first symptoms of diphtheria. The Grand Duke, though then just declared out of danger, was still confined to his room and in a state of great weakness, but was able to be with her during the last days and until death en- sued. He was utterly broken down and prostrate from the shock. The Princess was not allowed to see her children any more after the malady declared itself. She sut- fered intensely, and was at her worst on Friday afternoon; then she rallied, seemed better, and was able to take nourishment; but suddenly collapsed into total uncon- sciousness at two in the morning, and passedl away calmly at half-past seven pre- cisely.

The grief of the Crown Princess of Prus- sia and the Duke of Connaught upon re- ceiving the criel intelligence was of heart- rending intensity; they both and the Crown Prince wanted to start at once for Darm- stadt to be with the Grand Duke and chil- dren, but the Emperor put his absolute veto on their project on account of the great risk of coutagion. The Emperor and Empress of Germany felt the shock acutely. The Crown Princess’ devotion to Princess Alice was great; she was her favorite sister, and they had many tastes in common.

On Sunday, (Dec. 15) following the re- ceipt of the news Her Majesty remained in the strictest retirement in the Castle. A short service was held by Dean Stanley in the White Drawing Room, the only persons present being the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.

The “ Standard” points out that, though “‘ naturally full of spirit and possessing a cheerful interest in the thousand topics which life offers to a young and ardent in- telligence, these who observed the Princess Alice closely were conscious that her mind had a pensiveness somewhat akin to that of the Prince Consort in his late years, and not unnatural in one whose mind and heart a severe strain had been so early put. The Franco-German war deepened this earnest- ness——for sadness it was not. Those long months of separation from her husband, who was in the very heart of the hard work and dangers of the campaign, would of themselves have told on her finely strung and sensitive nature. But she was brought face to face with the ghastly horrors. In the crowded hospital for the wounded at Darmstadt no one was more active, more helpful with kind thought and gentle hand, than the Princess Alice. To many a brave and suffering heart she brought sclace be- yond all the skill of the most skilful surgeon could have wrought.”

The Queen bore the shock with less pros- tration of spirit than she might have been expected to show. The Prince and -Prin- cess of Wales had already gone to Windsor in order to accompany the Queen in her annual visit to the mausoleum of the Prince Consort, and to join her in the service which isheld on the anniversary of his death to his memory. On the evening be- fore (Friday), however, it was decided that. in consequence of the unfit state of health in which her Majesty then felt herself to be, the service in the mausoleum should pe postponed. After the sad news had reached the Queen, she so far recovered from the first burst of her poignant grief as to take a journey to the mausoleum to drive also to old Windsor.

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Failures in New York and England in 1878.

The Sun says that the failures reported in New York City the past year numbered 917, the largest for any year since the panic. The liabilities amounted to $68,- 958,000, and the assets $18,695,000. The large amounts are largely due to the repeal of the Bankrupt Act, as the failures the last quarter were less than usual.

The number of business failures officially announced in the United Kingdom during the year 1878 have been 15,059, of which 2,643 were in the financial and wholesale manufacturing branches of trade, and 12,416 in retail trades, professional pur- suits, builders, publicans, working classes, &c., against 2,172 and 8,850 under the re- spective headings in 1877, showing an in- crease of 4,037 last year over the preceding year.

Tuz St. John ‘‘News” says: ‘*The Prince Edward Island Legislature will recommence work ere long. Its proceedings will be marked by lively scenes. The Coalition Government, having been dissolved in consequence of differ- ences among its members relative to Dominicn politics, and a Liberal Government, pure and simple, having been formed, and the Province having been swept from almost end to end by the Conservative re-action, peo will he curious to learn how the Davies Government will fare in the Assembly which previously supported a Coalition Administratio..”