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OCTOBER 15,

The Government and the Spoils

System.

A CornreEsronpent of the Patriot asks i 1h EXAMINER tO name a few Lberais who held office under the Sullivan or MeLeod Adwmiuistraticns. We reply that Mr. .

J. McLeod, who was thought worthy to supersede Mr. Nicholson, was retained in ottice by those Governments ; and that Mr. Peter McCourt, who was, just before his appointment, a member of the Patriot staff, was eppointed by Hon. Mr. Su'livan and Mr. MeLeod,

mentioned. In fact, the

retained by Hon. O.her names might be Liberal-Conservatives gave the Liberals (so- called) precedents according to which the latter might have proceeded still further to break down the spoils system. of adopting a moderate course, weeding out | incompetent officials, and retaining those | who had proved themselves to be painstak- | so promoting the

But instead

ing and eflicient, and

public good, Messrs, Peters & Co. bowed |

‘ — down before the oftice-hunters of their

party. Not content with making «clean | sweep in respect to the road service, and dismissing many of the best officials of other departments, not stopping short at Mr. Roche, the widows weeds of Mrs. Ledwell, it went on to invade the department of public edu- men like Arbuckle and Cain—men of experience and proved ability—and finally Mr. Nicholson, a young, energetic, and well educated cial of great promise. received general public condemnalicn. But what will be said when it that the Government have actually made & pasition inthe Registry Oflice for the special benefit of Mr. W. C. Hobkirk. The Guardian’s Summerside correspoudent reported yesterday that Mr. Hobkirk went west for a day's shooting—-in company with We must presume that there is no work for Mr. Hobkirk to do— else, how can he find time to go sporting about the country? Or, if he had work to do, how can the Premier—the guardian of the public interests—dare to take with him, on his shooting expeditions, a paid official of the public, whose services are needed ?

or respecting

cation and to dismiss

efi. | These outrages have |

is known

the Premier !

It is not possible to conceive a course of

Governmental conduct which is more in-

juriousto the public service, and more detrimental to the public interests than that which has been pursued, from be-

ginning to end, by the Peters-McLean- Farquharson combination.

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the Markets.

Tue West India market for white oats will be pretty well stocked by the time the cargoes now being shipped reach their des-

tination, and the larger part of the white oats raised in this Proviuce will have been sold. The prices ob-

tained for these oats by our farmers have ranged at from 32 to 34 cents per bushel ot 34 Ibs. As the oats of this Province are, this year, much over standard, the prices | per measured bushel have ranged from 34 to 40 cents. In respect black oats, Ecomparatively few have yet been marketed. There is little demand for them anywhere in America. But in Eng- land and Europethere isafair prospeet. We should not be surprised if good prices were obtained for black oats later in the fall and in the spring. At present they sell at 30 cents pet bushel. As to potatoes, a good crop inthe States and the McKinley bill make shipments to the Great Republic an impossibility. Butafew might, perhaps, as the season advances, to the Upper Provinces. The Globe (Oct. 12) reports that “cars on track to- day would bring 40c.; they sell out of store at 50c. to D5:.,”" and that supplies are short, the probability being that prices will advance.

Concerning pork, the prices in Montreal i are: Canadian choice family pork, $16 to $16.50; Chicago short cut mess, $17 $17.50; Chicago extra clear mess, $17 to $17.50 ; and the Empire of Toronto re- ports : ** Dressed hogs were steady with a continued demand for packers’ weights, 140 lbs. and upwards, at $6. A few selected weights sold at $6.25. A bid of $6 was made for a car to arrive with none under 130 lbs. and nene over 250 lbs.

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be sent Toronto

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Products

were unchanged. Long clear, firm and in

good demand at 9. at $15 to $15 50. New Canadian short cut offers at $17.25 to $17 50 per bbl. Smoked meats quiet; hams easy at 11 to Il4e, Lard firm at 10} te Ile. for pure Canadian; compound offers at 8} to 9c.”

There is a buoyant feeling throughout Canada. It is believed that the outlook is most favorable fur all engaged in com- merce. ee

Mess, quiet and easy

~The Rev. E. M. Saunders, an able and popular Bap isi minister, censures the Government for nut standing by Sir Hee- tor Langevin, seeing that nothing was ad- duced in the evidence tu implicate him in the guilt of the McGreevy robberies, and adds : **We have had a national thunder- storm. It will purify the atmosphere. Lot there be eternal vigilance. Punish wrong doing in high and low places; but save us from a panic in which all the gold will be thrown into the sea, because a few spur- ious coins have been found; and all the pa- pet monay inthe fire, because here and there Seaciols has made its appearance. ere 18 no nation under heaven in which

rte tage Rreater cause for calm, honest ae in citizenshj an i oa of © zenship than in the Dominion

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Horse Notes.

The track of the Charlottetowa Driving Association is a good one. Strangers who visited the Exhibition were unstinting in their praise of its merits and syp>riority as

fast track compared with apy in the Kast. Ja the interest of the breeding and of the trotting herse (40d who

qgeve.opmneh

wa not admire a fast horse ?) it is quite in advantage to have in our midst # race urse so excellent. Wemay s«y that the

breeding of good trotting stock is only mn its infancy in this Province, but it is not a smail matter that, during the two first sea-

suns of this track three mares’ made themselves and their offspring stand- an® by their performances under the rules reguiating admission to standard rank. This is quite a consideration, even rf only viewed from _ the standpoint of their Increased value as brood mares. Before the season closes it is just

possible that some more mares of plebian birth will take their places among those of the patrician order.

When we look abroad and see what a reed smashing year this has been so far, ve can form some estimate of the heights

» which we have yet to climb in the world of speedy trotting. Every eye is now turned to the sunny slopes of California. There is joy on the great Palo Alto ranch of Senator Stanford. On one afternoon the world’s championsh p for the yearling and two-year-old records was lowered. Arion, the two-year-old son of Electiuneer, measured the mile off in 2.15%; and the

| Electioneer yearling tilly Boll Bird trotted

in 2.273, beating Freedom's mile made last year in 2.293, the first yearling to trot into the 2 30 list. Everyone is familiar with the breeding of Electioneer, the great sou of Hambletenian. Arion’s dam is Manette, a daughter of Nutwood 2.18}, e0n of Belmont and Miss Russel, dam of Maud S., 2.083. The dam of Manette was from a son of Ham- bletonian 10, and the granddsam from Harry Clay, 2.29, sire of Green Mountain Taid, the aam of Kiectioneer. It is also

‘worthy of note that Belmont, the sire of

Nuiwood, one of the top crosses in Arion’s pedigree, is by Alexander's Abdallah, a son of the ever famvus Hambletouian, Manette has no record herself, but she is full sister to the great Woodnut, six-year-old record of 2.165, and the mare Marion, 2.22; she 's sister to Maple, the dam of the Electioneer mare Hattie D., three- year-old record, 2263 Manette is thir- teen years old and was bred by J. W. Kuox, California, former owner of Nut- woud, and is now owned at Palo Alto; her dawn Addie, is twenty-three years of age, and was bred in Orange County, New York,

The great yearling Bell Bird, 2.273, by Kiect oneer, is owned by Stanford. She is out of Beautiful Belis 2.293, now dam of five in the list among them Bell Boy, 2.19}, that was burned, St. Bell, 2.244, asa four-year-old, who died a few weeksagu; two others are Hinda Rose, 2.193, at three years, and Palo-Alto Belle, 2223 at same age. She isthe only mare dam of three three-yoxur-olds, that have trotted in Jess than 2.50, and now comes a yearling to do the same feat. Another great sun of her's is Chimes, without a record, owned by C. J. Hamlin, of New York.. Beaau- tiful fells was sired by The Moor, the son of a horse called Clay Pilot, that traces through C. M. Clay, jr., 20, to Henry Clay, 8, the founder of the Clay family. The dam of Beantiful Beils is the equally famous Minnehaha, dam of five with records

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from 2.205 to 2293, all (except Beantiful Bells) by Sultan, a son of ‘The Moor.

Minnehaha was sired by Bald Chief, sou of Bay Chief, by Mambrino Chief, who, with his sone is a great sire of brood mares. This great mare has a'so a cross through her dam to Henry Clay, 8.

There is one point about the breeding of Arion and Bell Bird which cannot afford much consolation to those who cling to theory that the thoroughbred cross must be close up to produce extreme speed. Che pedigrees of these two youngsters are atrictly trotiing lines. At Palo Alto the thoroughbred theories were supposed to be much cherished, but when such marvellous records as Sunoi’s and Freedom’s at two and cne year cld respectively had fo be broken ; it is the trotting-bred material which did the work. It is something worthy of note that the blood cf these two world- breakers is to be fjonnd in the stock of not very distant relatives in this Island. Perhaps we may not have to wait many years before we see an Island bred herse trotting into the 2.20 list over the Charlotte- town track. SHAWMUT,

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—The Educational Review—commenting upon the dismissal of Mr. Nicholson— SAYS :

‘**‘We do not profess to know all the facts of the case, and accordingly reserve judg- ment, schol! officers are appointed for any other reason than their special fitness for the positions held, the teaching profession should unanimously support a new govern- meut in the unpleasant duty of giving the posts to the propermen. But on the vther hand, if efficient cflicers should be re- moved simply to make way for no better men who thus want payment for their political services, the Gov- emment should receive no quarter, The public interests demand, especially in education, that appointments be made solely on account of the fitness of the indi- vidual. If political considerations should be shown to determine these, it is a direct request by the government, that the able men of the profession who seek promotion, should do so, not by endeavoring to excel as educationists, but to intrigue as_politi- cians. What would be the effect of such a stimulus on our already staggering educa- tional advancement ? I+ is sad to contem- plate. There aremany reasons why, under ordinary circumstance, teachers should completely repress partizanship. In order to protect the profession from malign gov- ernment influence it shonld be done. The lesa partizan aman is the more his influence is felt when the occasion for its exercise arises With the teachers of our Provinces »s a unit in favor of a true educational policy independent of other political questions, a steauy and continuous improvement in our educational conditions would, normally, always exist. Let usin the meantime hope that the drastic treatment of the educational depwtment in our island Province has for its object the appointment of the very best mén in its service to the important posts of inspectors anc superintendent of education.”

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Jy You are suffering trom a teeling of con. stant tiredness, the result of mental worry or overwork, De Williams’ Pink Pills will promptly cure you. Give them atrial. lw

tmada at this very a.

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A FULL supply of fancy market baskets at Oao. Carter & Co’s, oct5 Si eod

But we may say generally, that if

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS,

SperoraL Despatoues TO Tug Examiner,

uct Visor

First Sitting of the Royal Com- mission.

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Mercier and Pacaud Still Unwell !

The Attorney-General Beside Himself With Fear,

Starting Developments Soon to Follow.

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GRIT RULE EXEMPLIFIED.

QuepeEc, Oct. 14.

The Royal Commission opened yester- day. All the interested parties were pre- sant, but Premier Mercier, who is unwell, and Pacaud, who is much depressed. Grenier, Clerk of the Executive Coune'l, produced some pspers bearing upon the matter.

C. N. Armstrong was the only witness examined, and he will be on the stand pro- bably for two days longer. Very little that Was new transpired. But he had just reached the payment of five checks of $20,- 000 each to Pacaud when the Commission adjourned,

There is great excitement here, and startling developments are sure to follow as soon as Garneau, Pacaud and others are put gu the stand. A portion of Mercier's followers are endeavouring to force him to resign, while Attorney-General Roddesux is beside himself with fear.

SENSATIONAL VARW, Alleged Wreck of a Steamer.

DRUNKENNESS THE CAUSE. Very Like a Fake.

Hawirax, Oct. 15.

It was reported around the city late yes- terday that the steamer City of Rome had been wrecked off the coast of Newfound- land. There was considerable excitement, and further information was s#nxiously awaited. In the eveuing the following cable despatch from St John’s was re- ceived :—** Steamer City of Rome, from Montrea! for Dundee, laden with cattle, flour and Indian corn, was lost at Marine Cove, St. Mary’s Bay, on Monday night. Only one man was saved, and he says the crew and _ oflicers were drunk, The weather was clear at the time of the disaster. Tho survivor is now on his way to Sc. John’s.” It was subsequently learned that this man’s name is Brennan, and that the crew numbered 43 or 45; that the steamer had 500 cattle on board, and that the captain, officers and all the crew were in a state of intoxication. It was learned = from Montreal that no steamer of the mame given had sailed from that port. In fact there is only one steamer in existence named City of Rome, and she belongs to the Auchor Line. This ship sailed from New York for Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday, and is reported to have passed Cape Race, Newfoundland, on Tuesday. The story looks like a fake.

SMALLPOX.

A Few Cases.in Northern New Branswick.

Moncton, Oct. 15. Smallpox is apresding in northern New Brunawick, on the Quebec boundary. A second case has broken out at Dalhousie and there are two cases at St, Moise, on the line of the Inter-colonial Railway.

Powder Explosion.

Picrov, Oct. 15. The powder magazine at the Ford pit, Stellarton, exploded last night. The

shock was felt all over Pictou County. No one was hurt.

A Breeze.

Orrawa, Oct. 15.

There was a heavy southeast storm here yesterday. The steamers were detained. No damage, so far, has been reported on the coast.

ne - Oo Gereenceee Personal.

Detective Skeflington and Policeman

Macdonald left for Amherst this morning with Thomas Davison in charge. _ Mr. and Mrs, Frank Hayden left thia morn- ing by first train for Vancouver. Mrs, Hay- deu spent the summer with her relatives in this city.

The politieal friends of Mr. L. H. Davies, M. P., presented him on Wednesilay evening, with an address and a gold watch. Certainly, Mr. Davies must feel the need of some encouragement.

Do you want a dinner set, tea set, cham- ber set, glass table set, water set, toilet set. If so, now isthe time to call, as we are giving liberal discounts, At the cheap- est crockery store. —W., P. Colwill,

Oct 1 dy wky 4wks.

j tiel body of men in the Dominion. | Blackburn Harte,

with the names of the men who make their newspspers ! And yet there is no more important and no more earnest and intluen- Walter who served a long ap- wenticeship on the press of this county, will contribute an article on ‘The Journals and Journalists of Canada” to the New England Mayezine for December, and wi:! contain portraits of all the men who have | nade, and are making, thee mark in Can- adian journalism, There will be no pol, tics in the article, and Conservatives, Lb. | erals and Independents alike should read it. Itisthe first time in the history «1 American periodical literature that an at: | tempt has been made to give an accurate account of Canadian journalism. Mr. | Harte is admitted even by those who dis approve of his attitude in politics, to be, at least, a perfectly candid writer, and in this article merely the abilities of the } urnal-) ists treated of have been considered; friends and opponents have been judged as | men, and from a literary standpoint on!y, | without the l:ast reference to their politi- | cal sflilistions. The leading French-Cana- | dian journalists are included with their) English confreres, and the article is prefac- | ed with an interesting review of the me-! thods of Canadian journalism, It is an | article which should interest a very wide | circle outside of Canadian journalism, for | all the world is curious about the myster- | |

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ious **we,”’ who discuss the sffiirs of the nation and the world in every day's news- |

paper.

' < ’ Swallowing the Camel. |

Sm—The editor of the Guardian is very quick to speak about a poor drunken man } in the street, and to denounce the free:

rum seller; but he hes not a word to say about yesterday's orgies in the Cameron | Block. CONSISTENCY .

CHALLENGE.

To the Bieyclists,of Prince Kdward Island. ENTLEMEN,—As there seems to be

several ‘*Champions,” so called, among you, all claiming to be the fastest, I hereby | chailenge any or all of you to a one-mile race on the Charlottetown Trotting Park, for a purse of $25.00 and gite receipts, which will | doubtless be large. I wili not race against Safety machines, as I do not believe in con- testing racea with a goat.

JOHN ALBERT SMITH, Jr, octl5B—dy li wy li O’ Leary.

SPECIAL GAR OF APPLES

Auction on Steam Navigation €o’s, Wharf, on Saturday, Oct. 17th, {

at half-past 10 o'clock.

‘7 E are instructed to sel] in trade lots One Car of specially selected No. } Gravensteins, consigued to this market by mistake, and will be so'd in lots without reserve. Sale on the Wharf.

E. H. NORTON & CO.,

Auctioneers.

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NEW FURNITURE.

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SITIVE AUCTION of the Largest As- |

sortment of Furniture cffered in this |

Town for years, at our Sales Room and / Platform,

On Friday, October 16th,

AT HALF.PAST ONE O'CLOCK. | 30 new and elegant Bedroom Suites, in | walnut, cherry, ash and oak; Extension Tables, Easy Chairs, Lounges, Hall Tabies, Hall Stands, Piano Stools, and a genera! assortment of new and expensive Furniture. Above large consigument is direct from the factory and for positive sale.

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An assortment of our new Cooking and Heating Stoves, 2 Pianos and 1 Sewing Machine.

Terms cash on appeoved three months’ paper, with discount added.

E. H. NORTON & CO.,

oct 12 Auctioneers.

Pugwash and P. E. Island

STEAMBOAT COMP’Y.

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STEAMER ' MAYFLOWER,”

J. W. Welling, Commander,

EAVES Charlottetown every Tursday,

Thursday and Saturday Morning, at

10 o’clock, connecting with Train at Uastord Junction.

Returning, leaves Puogwach every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Morning, on the arrival of Express Train that connects with the Chicago Express at Oxford Junction, artiving in Charlottetown about 3 p. m.

This is the shortest, most dir-ct and cheap. er than any other route to or from Prince Kdward Island.

Through Freight and Passage sol.cited to any point.

W. W. CLARKS, Agent. Ch’town, Oct. 14, 1891 ~dy tf pat

MONEY TO LOAN,

b ggg eney desiring to borrow money on either City or Farm Prope-ty, in sums of from TWO to THREE HUNDRED DOL. LARS, can obtain the same on the most reasonable terms and at a low rate of interes by applyjng to

JAMES H. REDDIN, oct2—3m Solicitor, Camerou Block.

NOTICE.

jy: Second Course of Lectures for the * Training School for Nurses” will open at the P. E. [sland Hospital on MONDAY, eon 9th, 1891. or particulars apply to MISS SHERA. TON, Matron at the Hospital. N. B—AN persons desirous of attending

the Course of Lectares should apply at once. | octl4— pat guar dy 2i (wed sat) wy 2i

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A SrPrEeoCi AL re QUALITY

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We invite everyone to see cur New siock of Furs. a3 been spared to precure

GOODS MAD ia

PERSIAN LAMR,

call and No trouble THE Bggr

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ASTRAKAN, SOUTH SEA SEAL, ete., ete,

VARIETY

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Ladies’ Astrakan Jackets, SUIT Ladies’ Corsican Jackets, EVERYONE, Lasies’ Capes and Mulls, ; Ladies’ Storm Collars, — Ladies’ Caps and Gauntlets, EVERY Misses’ Mutts and Boas,

Misses’ Storm Collars, Men’s Coon Coats, Hen’s Bulgarian Coats,

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TO BE Men’s Caps and Gauntlets, tt avai Men’s Collars and Cafis, Sieigh Rebes, AS

Foot Mufis, Fur Trimmings,

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Le amship Agencies,

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$.. FASTNET, fli:

Hija i! BE. N. Crewes, Commander,

AAJILL sail for Halifax every ruurs. Intermediate Ports, ¥ ememenences

DAY AFTERNOON, at 4 o'clock,

calling at the following ports :— yr ; ; & CASTLE for the above ports on THURS- S pic > 3 S > , : , Sour iS, Port tT astings, Port DAY ; September 24, calling at Bermada, St. Hawkesbury, Arichat & Canse. (Thomas, St. Kitt’s, Antigua, Guadaloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados ind Trinidad. Returning via same porta,

W. W. Clarke’

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: intended to sail the 8, 8. TAYMOUTH

Returning, will leave Halifax every MON DAY EVENING, at 6 o'clock, making the same calls,

Taan De S. ALPHA,

NEIL HALL, COMMANDER, WILL SAIL FOR

London and Halifax. j:ij2, Turi's [ilaad aud Jai

The 15th of Every Month.

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FROM LONDON.

L & HISTORIAN: ....... September 16th} “ @DPARMARALS:. ...2. heme October Ist. ant Bb Hy} A, “« OPTAWA .. os “ eat. — r - | A. N, SMITH, COMMANDER, VNDON. me sa a 7 wie vember ou, Wilt Sail for Havana the Ist of a. é +i aet den dacs é ve mober “«~ HiIstTOmaN..*..°-. October 10th Every Month. , *” DAMARA “6 10th

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AI RMR oh vk css November 7th!

The above steamers have first-class sccom- OAT OGbEtOWN {0 Pugwasl,

modation for pasengers, with saloon amid | ships, carry a stewardess and do not carry) cattle,

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London Agents ;— make trips between above ports ad

THOS. RONALDSON & SON, _—Pther day. é 3 Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. | Freight solicited and carried at lowest rate PICKFORD & BLACK, W. W. CLARKE,

Agents at Halifax. Agent at Ch’town, P. EL

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room. The long evenings are here. Your friends and neighbor will be dropping in to spend the evening. Young fo

to get together. Your WIFE will be pleased %0 have . a |

everything smart and new. Our Bedroom Suites are and cheap—three chairs and table with every Suite. HARDWOOD SUITES at $16.00 and upwards, made and reliable. When ready to buy get

our prices To select, SEND YOUR WIFE AND FAMILY

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