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It Proved the Downfall of Negley and His Pals

The following incident, which, at th time, cansed much talk, and is still told by the children of old settlers wh: heard it from their parents, has nev to my knowledge, appeared in print

and the only object in telling it now 1 people are intcrested i inything of an historical nature pertain ing to the days of our grandfather

My ancestors were among the gottlers of western Pennsylvania, ; grandfather being one of the garrison cf ld For® Pitt, dying there during th

Revolutionary war. . The incident refer

that so many

first

red to was told me by my mother. wh ending 2 sc! lL in Pitts im antinother

son, who was a resident of the city for

Was at the time, an many yoars and who died there in 1864 at the age of S9 yoars

About the first of this century a1 named Negl east of Pittsburg on a road running east and west, n n the All ghany and Monongahela rivers. It was a tavern and use combined reamsters, drovers und travelers stopped m their way to l from thecity to } a meal or stay overnig)it

These wayside inns were numerous in

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RI BUUATLY parts of thec

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pleasant places to st . had occupied his tavern a number of years the place was named Negleyvi afterward Rising San and later Kast Liberty.

Negley was as bloodthirsty a villain as could have been found on the fron- tier and had associated with him a number of men as bad as himself, who made his tavern their headquarters, and whose business was to rob and murder unfortunate travelers who might stop there. The undoing of these men was brought about in this way:

A poor woman with her two small children started afoot from some point east of Liberty to walk to Pittsburg. In the evening she reached Negley’s tav- ern, and as her children were too tired to go farther she put up for the night. Soon after entering the house she began t feel uneasy, as there was something mysterious about the actions of the in- mates. Before she retired to rest a trav- eler rode up and dismounted, and after seeing his horse cared for entered the house. He seemed to be a drover return- ing from the city after disposing of gome cattle.

Concealing her alarm, she followed the landlady, a coarse, brawny woman, to a room up stairs, whose door was without fastenings and which contained only a bed and stool. Retiring with her children, she was unable to sleep. An hour or so later she heard the traveler being escorted to an adjoining room and heard him complain that his door could not be secured, and the landlord assured bim that he was as safe as he would be in his own house, an assertion the trav- sler evidently believed, as his heavy breathing soon told that he was asleep.

Near midnicht the woman, who was still awake, heard stealthy steps pass her door and several persons enter the adjoining room. In a few minutes there was a heavy blow, followed by alow ory and then a short struggle. A little after the murderers came into her room, but seeing that she seemed to be asleep left ber, and she heard them carry the dead man through the hall and down etairs.

In the morning they were very po- lite, inquiring how she rested, etc., stating that the drover had got up early and gone on.

After breakfast she and the children started for the city, but were soon met by a man coming from there, who stop- ped her, inquiring who she was and where she was going, where she h:d staid the night before, etc. Believing him to be one of the band, she answered truthfully, but told him that the people at the tavern were very nice people and had treated her very well He passed on, bat she met another coming from the city who made the same inquiries, and still another; but she told the same story, and they, believing that she knew nothing, let her go.

On her arrival at Pittsburg she in- formed the authorities and the place was broken up, but whether any of them were brought to justice I am unable to say.—Sarah P. Farmer in Pittsburg Dispatch.

A Brave Woman.

Mrs. Lizzie Goodman lately walked 400 miles, from: Memphis to St. Louis, carrying in ber arms her crippled 5-year-old son. Her husband had died in poverty, and her granduancle, a farm er living near St. Louis, offered to give her and the child a home. The soles were worn off her shoes long before she reached the end of her journey, but the farmers all along the road were kind to -her, giving her food and a night’s lodg- ing whenever she asked for it. In St Louis some compassionate Women sup- plied her with shoes, and she set ont courageously to walk the few remaining miles to her uncle’s home in Baden. — Boston Woman's Journal.

Not to Be Seen. “I wouldn't be seen smoking a ciga- sette !’’ exclaimed the princess earnestly. Accordingly she summoned her good fairy and bade that functionary lend her a match and render her invisible. —De- troit Journal.

Try us fo rstaple dry goods. Fiannelletes 5e, print cottons 4c, dress muslins 10¢.—

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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JULY 12 1898.

PROMISE VS, PERFORMANCE,

Great Increase of Public Expenditures by the Liberals,

A CAPITAL SPEECH BY SENATUR FERGUSON.

HON.

[From the Senate Haneard.]

Hon. Mr. Ferguson—My bon. friend in submitting these estimates to the Hovse bas indulged in comparisons, But /| notice, as hon. gentlemen will have m>ticed, that he confines his comparisons altogether between the estimates for the incoming year and the estimates for the current year and a vers slight comparison with the estimates for the year 1896 and 1897 which were also submitt d by this Government to the House. It is true my hon. friend in a qniet way attributes these estimates of 1896 97 to the Conservative government tbat preceded him, but this point I wich to note, that mv hon. friend does not venture to go beyo d wmsking comparisons betwern the various -esti- mates of the present administration. He does not maka any comparsor with the expenditures of the late sadmin-stration. That is a very strange change which has come over the tactics of hon. gentlemen in the Government. They used to be very fond of comparisons, but they were cowprisons between the administrative record of the Conservative administration aud that of the Liberal government be~ tween 1883 and 1878, and they were able 'y show in the last year of the Conserva- tive administrétion that the expenditure had gone up during the 18 years after the ti ne the Mackenzie government bad gone out of power by the amount of about twelve million dollars. These were the comparisons with which they were accusiomed in those daye to deal when discussing the financial position of the country, and we have not forgotten how strongly they condemned that increase from twenty-four millions when the Mackenzie government went out to thirty<six millious when the Tupper administration resigoed as being perfectly unjvs itiable. t at it was an expenditure which had its fouodatiou in evtravagance and corruption. These were the grounds he took. Now we all remember that in 1898 my hon friend the Minister of Justice and bie friends met here in Ottawa and they tramed a _plat- form for their party. They came together in great numbers and they laid down their policy. They saidwedo not want to be bound by what Mr. So and So said in this part of the country, but we are willing to be bound by what we solemnly declare iu this Ottawa conference as onr policy 1! wecome intopower. Here arethe word- of that platform ae agreed upon ai the Ottawa convention ;

“We cannot but view with alarm the large increase of the pnblic debt, and the controllable annual expenditure of the Dominion, and the consequent undue taxation of the people under the guvera ments that have been contiouously in power since 1878, and we demand strict economy in the admipistration of the gov- ernment of the country.”

Here was the solemn conclusion of the party arrived at after grave consultation and after bringingal! their wise men to gether from the shores of the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean inorder to put their heads together and devise a platform, by which they were all tobe bound. Follow- ing this platform we find that Sir Wilfrid Leurier, the leader of the party, spoke in Toronto onthe 23rd of August, 1894, and he made use of these words-

“Has the expenditure gone duwn? No, it has gone up. It went up two, three, five, ten millions and more until it is now $°8,00,000. And the Co servatives do not shrink from it, but swallow itall. li we come into power, we wiil follow the example ot Mr. McKenzie, and I say that although we may not be able to bring the expenditures back to what they were. we can reduce the amonnt two, yea three million dollars a year.”” (Applause )

The same hon. gentlemen spoke alitt’e later in the same year in the city of Brant- ford. Here is what he said:

“Do you imagine there is any justifica- tion for this increase ofexpenditure. The Conservatives tell us that there is justi fica- tion. The population bas increased they say. Ob, yes, it bas increased nine per cent, but the expenditure has increased 100 percent. There can be no j-stifica. tion for such an expenditure when, as has been stated, the great bulk is a corrupt ex- peoditure. Moreover they tell us that if we were in power we could not retrench and economize. ButI dono: believe that it will be a very difficult task. (Hear,hear)”

lt would not be a very difficult task co the ¢xtent of one, two, three, and Mr. Mills. the present Minister of Justice, told his constituentsa tew days ago that it war possibleto retrench to the extent of fous millions a year.

Now, Sir Richard Cartwright spoke lat - er in the house of Commons in 1896, when the budget was delivered by the Conserva« tive party. He made use of these words in the speech he delivered in reply to the thea Minister of Finance. He said :

“I say itis a disgrace and ashame to the government that have been intrusted with our aflairs that they come down to ask for an expenditure of $38,300,000a year tor federal purposes. Sothe thing is utterly uDjustifiable.” .

on. Mr. Dever-—So it was.

Hon, Mr. F erguson—I hope my hon. friend is of the same opinion yet,

Hou. Mr. Dever—Yes.

Hon. Mr. Fergueon—Ser Louis Davies spoke in the same session in the same de- bate and he says:

“Now, what is the policy cf the Liberal party? Summed up ina few words, its

to reduce the exnenditure of the country

to the lowest possible point consistent with an eflicient service. You tell ue that can- not be done. We have spent hour after hour on this side going into details ard showing how it can be done. In reply to challenges which came from the other side g‘rt'emen on this side undertook the la- tour of pointing out the particular depart- ments of the service in which money can he cay-d and those are al] upon re- cord.”

Not only cond they do it, but they had

shown Low they ccu'd doit and they bad

ned out tbe particular places in the mublic service where they could bring

heir prince ples of economy into practice. sir Louis Davies continued :

“We are ready to go tothe country with that statement on which we pledge our- eelves that very large and important re~ duetions can be made in the expenditure of

the country withont the — cfficient admicistration of its affairs. Hon. gentlemen, we know that the

Liberal party went to the country, as Sir Louis D vies said they would, with this as the prin zipal point in their platform, and on that platform they received the support of the people of this country and were re- turned to power. When they met parlia- ment in 1896 they brought downa rather swollen estimate,the amount was lerger than had been presented during any pre- vious year except, | think, the vear of the

North~west rebellion in 1885, and when the eentlemen in opposition had pcinted out to ile government that they had gone back va their promises, that they were presenting to the country and parliament larger es-

timates than those which thev bad prev-

iously vondemned as beingj ehameful ex- travagance, they were answered in this way by the goveroment. Sir Louis Davies said, that the facts—which had (Continued on page 3 ) LOCAL NOTICES. Another lot of butter crocks, cream

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The amount of money expended by tourists in Europe has, if official records abroad are to be accepted as authentic, increased enormously of late years. There has been recently filed with the Swiss minister of finance aad customs at Bern a detailed statement of hotel receipts in that country, from which it appears that the gross receipts of Swiss botels rose from 52,800,000 francs in 1880 to 114,333,000in 1894. The entire annual expenses of the Swiss republic amount in.a year to between 80,000,000 and 90,000,000 francs (the budget for this year is given at the latter figure), and it would seem, therefore, very much as if the hotels of Switzerland take in in a year more than the goverument it- self does.

The Swiss figures are not the only ones furnished in Europe recently on this point. A French record shows that every year there are 270,000 foreigners who pass from a fortnight to a whole winter en the Riviera. Every person ia supposed to expend on an average 1,000 francs, or $200, in the eountry. In oth- er words, the foreign visitors spend in the country every winter the sum of $54,000,000. The English are put down as contributing one-third of this amount; the French themselves contribute anoth- er third; Germans, Belgians, Dutch, Russians and Americans contribute the remainder. From being a poor country when it was annexed to France in 1860 Nice has become one of’ the richest de- partments of the republic.

Some figures recently compiled ef the revenues to hotels from tourists in Paris show the average number of foreign visitors to be 60,000. It is customary to estimate at 10 francs, or $2, a day the hotel bills of strangers in Paris. Estimating at $2 a day each the hotel bills of 60,000 tourists and at about as much more their other outlays it is to be seen that tourists in Paris can be put downfor an expenditure of nearly $250,- 000 a day.

The total sum expended by tourists in Europe in a year is probably not very far from $700,000,000, and a very con-

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