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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. Ii.

Winter Arrangement.

ON AND AFTER

MONDAY, DECEMBER dOth, 1878,

Trains Going West.

STATIONS. go Ne No.3 | Express. | Mixed. Georgetown | Dp 8.10 am Cardigan | 8.35 * | s \jar 9.55 ** M.Stew’t Jun \dp10.05 cc | voyalty Jun. aan ¥ | Cb come ; lap 8.00 am) Dp 3.30 pm Royalty Jun. fre. .2e | 73.00 "4 N. Wiltshire ; ee 1 ae Hunter River iene i “20 4 Breadalbane | 30.06 ** | ** S41 “ County Line aoe. Tee * Kensington | 11.00 “ | © 6.30 * Summerside lar 11.30 “ear 7.00 *° ? { \dp 2.40 pm Wellington |“ 332 « Port Hill “46 U’ Leary ‘* 6.53 ¥* Al lar 6.35 berton ldp 6.40 * Tignish lar 7.25 °°

Trains Going East.

CHARLOTT!

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H. W. Vinnicombe,

Kesident Piano Tuner & Reguator, H* adopted the Dollar system of Tuning L.A —sixX 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 [sland once a year, or oftner if desired, Pianos tuned by Hamilton’s system of even temperament. :

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

Jan, 6, 1879—

FRANK COX, M.D. C.M., Physician, Surgeon & Accoucheur. OFFICE 7 APOTHECARIES’ HALu. Residence : Capt. Mutch’s, Water Street, next. door to St. Lawrence Hotel.

N. B.—Particular attention paid to diseases of the chest and stomach.

Ch’town, Nov. 16, 1878—3m

WAGSTAFF'S HOTEL,

rENHE Subseriber hay ing fitted up the Hotel formerly known as

THE RANKIN HOUSE,

in first class style, is new prepared to give

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comfortable accommodation to

-}Permanent and Transient Boarders.

Tourists and others will receive every atten? tion at the Wagstaff’s Hotel.

WM. WAGSTAFF, May 25, 1878

DR. CREAMER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Kent Street, Charlottetown, (Three doors from Dr. Johnson’s). be ENTRANCE BY SIDE DOOR. ~@a

Oct. 15-—-3m

E. G. HUNTER, [talian and American Marble,

Monuments, Tablets, Headstones, Cyntre Taste Tors, Bereav ann ComsMopr Tors, Wasi Bown Srass, &., &c. Prices to suit, and satisfaction guaranteed. B& Designs furnished on application. @a

Corner Hillsborough and Kent Streets, Char lottetown.

November 6, 1878.

JAMES HOBBS,

CABINET-MAZKER, UPHOLSTERER, ETC,

AS REMOVED from McPhail’s Corner

to the premises just vacated by Mr. JOHN STUMBLES, Prince Street, where, with inéreaved facilities, he is prepared to attend te the wants of his customers with punctuality and despatch, and on reasonable terms,

CARPETS cut and laid.

Parntine and Repairing neatly done.

Picture FRAMES and Mouldings constantly on hand, or made up to order.

Alf kinds of Household Furniture made to order, cheap.and_ good.

New Pattern School Desks made. at short notice. A first-class article.

s@ Don’t forget the place: PRINGE STREET (near the new Baptist Church in course of erection).

Charlottetown, Oct. 26, 1S78—

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STATIONS. No, 2 No. 4 Express. | Mixed. Tigni ~ (Dp 7.00 am Pate ~ +o QO’ se 8.47 e Port’ Hill **10.05 ** Wellington a “é ; ar ll. ” : ,fommersidp ' } dp 2.30pm) Dp 8.45am Kensington 43.00" | ** 9.15 * County Line «3.490 « | 957 « : lalbane $¢ 25D. ** | I OR fF River ° Boe ** TS rt "Ny Wiltshire “4.45 * | 671,02 « Royalty Jun. “5.40 “ | “11.55 ‘Oh town | iar 6.00 ve ar12.15 pm Pp ~ Royalty Jan. we ey ss ar 4. ™ Mt. Stewart ay 440.« Cardigan “6 6.00 sé Georgetown lar 6.25 «| f ———— SOURIS BRANCH. Going West, Going East. | MEE] «| gS STATIONS. | Mixed. ||STATIONS.| Mixed. {. AM} rant { P.M Souris Dp 7.00}; MtsS tw’tJne|Dp 4.40 Harmony ** 7,23}; Morell “ 5.2 St. Peters ‘* §,42)/St. Peters ‘© 6.54 Morell ‘© 9.13}| Harmony a Mt S’tw’tJnc] ar 9.55(|Souris ar 7.35 ©. 3. BRYDGES, WM. McKECHNIE,

Gen, Sup. Gov. Railways Supt. P. BE. 1. R. ’ CWtown, Dee. 27, 1878. — “p née ar h pres kca sp 8} ap 61

QUEEN INSURANCE CO'Y

OF ENGLAND. CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLINC,

NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Baild-

ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Veuin on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences. Losses settled promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island

June, 1877—

COMMERCIAL

Union Assurance Company, OF LONDON, ENCLAND.

CAPITAL - - $12,500,000.

NSURANCE effected against Fire on all descriptions of Property throughout the Island.

s® Low rates and rrompr settlement of

HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P. E. Island.

Ch’town, Dee, 20, 1878—

RANKIN HOUSE,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I,

J. J. DAVIES - - - Proprietor (Formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Pictou).

HIS well-known Hotel is now open under

the present 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—3m?

ITALIAN WARRHOUSE,

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res PLATING a change in our busi- ness, we offer for sale, at Reduced Prices, our Large Stock of

WINES,

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GROCERIES, MACEACHERN & CO Dec. 19, 1878—2m 2aw

BROADWAY HOUSE,

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The rooms have been thoroughly renovated and newly furnished.

The tables will be supplied with the begt the market affords, bites reasonable. ~~ — “A Snite of Rooms eohvenient for 4 small family, together with board &c:, can be had in the Broadway House.

Nov. 23, 1878—

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Threatening Attitude of Nihilists.

We hear that in consequence of the threatening attitude of the Nihilists in the larger towns of Russia, the political police is about to receive an accession of 1,200 men, for the most part selected frum the Imperial Guards. Two hundred of the gendarmes are to be posted at Kharloff, where the revolutionary party musters very strong, and it is stated to have at its dispo- sal stores of arms concealed in varieus parts of the town. One of these stores has been brought to light by the police since the dis- turbances broke out at the Veterinary In- stitute three weeks ago. wcinthndhinghiLida el adi tesich dds enc

Increase of English Shipping.

The increase of iron-built ships in the

merchant navy during the last seventeen

years has been vory remarkable. In 1860,

181 iron vessels were built—a number which

rose to 503 in 1864, when a check was ex-

perienced. For nine years the number

fluctuated between 300 and 480, but in the

last two or three years it has passed the

previous maximum, and the last year 545

iron vessels were built. The increase in the

size is most remarkable, for while the num-

ber of vessels built has multiplied three-

fold the tonnage is six times as great. In 1860 the tonnage of iron vessels built was 94,699; in 1864 it was 283,169; in 1870 the

457 vessels built were of 372,520 tons; and last year the tonnage of 545 was 390,- 953. To put it shortly, in the first half of the period under review, 5,105 vessels were built, and in the second, 4,264. But while the numerical increase in the second half of the first was about 37 per cent., the in- crease in tonnage was 93 per cent. With the increase of the number of iron vessels afloat there is a large increase in the num- ber of those annually lost. In 1860 there were only seven iron vessels recorded as lost, and the tonnage of 1,288 assigned to them shows that they were comparatively insignificant in size. Until 1860 the num- ber of iron vdssels lost yearly was under 100, but in that year 104 were lost and the tonnage of 53,483 shows that the averagesize was greatly increased. In 1874 the highest number was recorded as lost—159, the ton- nage being 104,339. If the figures that have been gathered for the present year from some of the chief shipping and ship- building centres preve applicable to the whole conntry, the iron’ vessels built and lost in 1878 will be found both in number and tonnage in excess of those for its pre- decessors. There are now indications that the use of iren in shipbuilding may be in some degree superseded by steel; ut several shipbuilding centres vessels have been built of steel which are now running.— Pall Mall Gazette.

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The editor of the ‘‘ Scottish Banking and Insurance Magazine,” having requested Mr. Gladstone to write an article for his peri- odical on the present financial distress in England, Mr. Gladstone sent him the fol- lowing reply: ‘Sir, [ much regret to be unable to comply with your wish. My in- formation on the economical state of the country is not such as to warrantit. My political convictions as to the disturbing and exhausting effect of the policy now pur- sued might unduly colour my argument, nor am I able to solve the nice question whether these are altogether, as before, passing dif- ficulties, or whether in any or what degree they are connected with canses of perman- ent operation. —Yonrs, faithful and obedi- ent,—W. E. Guapsrong.”

Whoever may have the blues now-a-days, the City Auditor of Montreal has them not. That gentleman—and he has a tolerably hard Scottish head too—paints a roseate picture of the position of the commercial metropolis. Although millions of dollars worth of property is exempt, the taxation of the remainder is probably lower than in any other large city throughout the civilized world. The total ex- penditure for civic purposes will amount for the year 1878 to only about a million anda half. ‘he rate of taxation on propefty is but one per cent., plus one-fifth per cent. school tax. —Monetery Times.

’ InneaaL Enegacemenr or SsamEn. — A Naval Court has been held by Commander Boyes, H. M.S. Pelican, at Mejiilones, Bolivia, to try Henry Everett, master of the British ship Anglo-India, for a breach of the Merchant Shipping Act, in having taken seamen to sea from Calloa without first having the engagement sanctioned by the British Consulate. The master was fined £15, and ordered t» pay the expenses of the Court, amounting to £4 193 more.

. AEG A Berlin despatch says that a telegram from Rome reports that the Pope has re- ceived threatening letters from the Social- ists, in counection with his recent Encycli- cal letter, and intends to call the attention of the Powers thereto.

naib ot el The Bishop of Meibourne has given up a fifth of his income rather than abandon some outlying sections, where, owing to the distress, funds for the clergy were not forth- coming.

The ravages of diptheria at Brookfield and Middle Stewaicke, Colchester Co., N. S., dur- ing the winter, have been terrible. In Brook- field, with a population of 709, there have been forty deaths.

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Donald Nicholson, a wealthy and aged farm- er residing on the Gulf Shore, left Pugwash on Saturday evening for home, in the storm, and has not since been seen or heard from.

a According to the police returns, there are

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seventy-one unlicensed taverns in Montreal.

NO, 509. SUPREME COURT.

The Murder Case—The Defence.

Fes. 3, 1879.

Afternoon Sitting, JAMES CarMAN, called by the prosecu- tion, sworn—Examined by Mr. Peters—I keep a record of the time the mail arrives in Charlottetown. Mr. Hodgson objected to the admission of the witnesses evidence. The Judge allowed the witness to pro- ceed. Mr. Peters—What time did the train arrive at the depot on the 14th of August last ? Mr. Palmer objected to the question. The Court ruled that it be put. Answer—The mail arrived at 9.30 that night. It takes about three minutes for the mail to go to the Post Office. I went up with the mail that night. Crosa-examinead by Mr. Palmer--This is the original and only record—submits memorandum. I will not undertake to say when the wickets were opened or closed that night. Nicuotas Warre—i am a Post Office lerk. The delivery wicket closes at 9 o’clock inthe summer. It is not opened between 9 and the opening of the mail. When the mails comes in late we open the

wicket after the mail isopened. The short- est time in which a mail can be opened is from 10 to 20 minutes. We were short-

handed that night, and were a little longer than usual in opening the mails.

Cross-examined by Mr. Palmer—lI re- member the night Kelly was shot pretty well. I don’t know exactly, who made the record that night.

Mr. Hodgson’s Address to the Jury (Condensed).

May rr Puzaszs Your Lorpsnir; JENTLEMEN OF THE JuRY,—The time has now arrived at which it becomes the duty of the Counsel for the defence to examine, as far as possible and as well as they can, the evidence in this important case. I need hardly say that I feel very deeply, indeed, the heavy responsibility which reste upon me. The issue of this trial is lifé or death to my clients. You, gentlemen, con- stitute their sole earthly tribunal. You stand between them and their life or their death ; and it is now my duty to say toyou all that can be said for them. In theper- formance of this duty I shall try to forget everything around us—ail the spectators in this crowded courtroom—and to think only of you. I will have regard to you alone and to my clients. Such, indeed, has-been my constant endeavor since -ever this:trial began. In my waking and in my sleeping hours, the responsibility of the duty I have undertaken has weighed upon me in awa which may be felt but cannot be ee . And I have no doubt that your duty has weighed upon you as mine has upomme. You are called upon to give a true verdict according to the evidence. IL do not. think anyone can look at the prisoners and re- flect npon the awful circumstances in which they and all those connected with them are placed, without having his sympathies aroused. You would not be human — could do so. Bat you must not Ww yourselves to be governed by your sympa- thies. As you know fall well, you most give a true verdict according to the evi dence. We must see that the evidence comes up to the required standard, and warn you if it does not. ©° That» is the rule. As you regard the evidence, so will you give that verdict which shall send these young men to their eVer‘asting doom or restore them to their families. Now, I may say that { do not think the prosecution has been unduly pressed. A very great number of witnesses have been examined. It becomes necessary to see what degree of credibility ought to be at- tached to their statements. In order that this may be the better and more easily done, I have endeavored to’ divide them into more classes than one. In the first place ttere is the class of honest and res- pectable witnesses, who really knew very little about the case. Of this class are Higgins, Lourie and others. Then, gentle- men, comes the strong battalion of thieves and prostitutes from the lower end of the town. They are simply what they are. I never before saw such a medley of waifs and strays as gave evidence in thiscase. They have been steeped in iniquity from their in- fancy. From young Cusack, whe oceasion- aliy gets drunk, to Flood, who seems to think highway robbery a thing to be langhed ai—from poor little Emily Byers to those poor degraded women, the types and sym-.

things tossed about like wrecks om the ocean. We must take them just as they are, and as they are so must we judge them. Then, gentlemen, there is another class of witnesses who haye been forced upon our consideration. These are the policemen. I hesitate to place them under either of the categories under which I have placed those

are neither among the sheep nor among the goats. Poor lambs, we must. erect a fold and place them by themselves under the care of their Chief Marshal Flynn, When the time comes [ will take them out, one by one, and exhibit them in their true colors. Now, gentlemen, yeu know the cireum- stances of the case. It is not necessary for me to recapitulate them. You are already well-acquainted with them. But you must

bols of sinfulness—just look at them. Poor

whom I have already men- tioned. They stand neither upon the right nor upon the leit. They —

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