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ir is pleasing to note that inereased terest is being manifested in the projector

tunnel under the Strait It has beet amply demonstrated by recent surveys that the natural conditions are m™ favor “ . nnel- for the work ; and we all know that tunne

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ling is not now the « Xpensive ¢ peralt was some few years ago. Any additional surveys necessary should be made at once, and a statement of the probable cost pre-

While in Montreal a short time

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ago, Senator Howlan submitted the plan of

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the gevlogical structure of the Sir William Dawson,

pared by Mr. Bain, to

. «* , , : the eminent geologist, and Sir Williams opinion regarding it is given in , letter to ) Senator Howlan, a copy of \ hich was fre-|

: a ceived by Mr. Bain yesteraay. In his let-

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ter own per ter, sonal opinion as to the feasibility ol undertaking. Here is the letter: | COPY McGrit University, Montiea!, Jan. 9th, Hon. Senator Howlan : My Dear S1rx,—I beg to say that 1 have read aud examined the report and sect prepared by Myr. t}

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the proposed tunnel from Cape Carieton to |

Cape Jourimain which you were kind enuugh to show me, and that from my knowledge of the geological structure of t!

locality L have no hesitation in stating that I believe the report and section fairly > | present the character of the beds to be} penetrated by the proposed tunne/ nd that these will not present any serious G:fi

culty, the ground being, ia fact, as favor-|

able as could be desired for such a work. Yours truly, (Sed.) J. W. Dawson,

An Ottawa despatch to the Toronto

Empire says :

“Premier Neil McLeod, of Prince Edward Island, and Hon. D. Ferguson, a member of the l-land Government, are in town and are to interview Sir John Mzecdonald in reference tothe question vf communication be\ween the Island and the mainiand. The winter set in early this year, with the result quantity of produce is lying at different stations along the line ready for export, ard the delegation say there is enough business to keep two vesse!s going stevdily. The Stanley has not been able to keep ap daily communic- ation, and the deputation is therefore here to} urge the G vernment to cause an estimate to} he made of the coat of a submarine tunne!

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YESTERDAY mecrning, January 15th, .7 Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated in St. pose of the ard, |

the Reverend Mother St. Bernat

nera) ot the Congregation | -d at the Mother}; Villa Maria, near |

late Superior [Ge de Notre Dame, who die

House of the Order, Montreal, in the seventy-ninth year of her His Lordship Bishop Melntyre, a!

1 of the dece»sed, oc- eupiea the throne, the celebrant being the De. Morrison, with Rev. Vathers 'Reid and McAulay as deacon and sub- Father McE}meel acting as The altar was lemn Gregorian

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and master ot ceremonies. ed in bl ack, and the seo

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wae was rendered with much feeling by thec or. Upwards of live hundred pupils, from the Convent of Notre Dame nd St. Joseph, with their teachers, were present, a8 were also a large number of the friends of these insti- tutions. Both the convents in this city, wa well as several ctbers in the dio- cese, were founded during Rev. Mother St.

Bernard’s term of Superiority. She for

i whom the pastor and flick united in sup-

lication. was known in the world as Marie

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Sol : Richty endowed by nature and by

grace, she became a member of the Society of the Venerab e Margaret Bourgecis in the bright springtime of her existence, and during the long period of fifty-nine years devoted her-

all the energy of her nature great work of the Congrega- Notre Dame—the education of -outh. Her tender and enlightened piety, her lovable nature, ber large-hearted kind- ness and nobie-souled generosity, joined to rare prudence and deep penetration, gave her a place all her own in her community.

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mportant charges af the Qrder, ever prov- ing herself a valiant woman, a devoted religions, an indefatigable missionary, a The needy and the afflicted jalways found in her « kind, compassiunste | friend—a wise, sympathetic consoler. No one who ever conversed with her could retist the charm of her affsble manner, her winning smile, the persuasive eloquence of her words to draw souls to the practice of virtue, te gain them to the love of Jesus and His Blessed Mother.

{t was during the last term of office as Superior General that this admirable woman had the rare privilege of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of her religious profes- sion; and at the celebration of this golden jubilee she congratulations and well-merited tributes of respect and grati- tude from all parts of Canada and the United Srates.

Although nearing her four-score years, Mother St. Bernard enj-yed exceilent health till the day previous to her death, when she was struck by appoplexy, and, after afew hours Of suffering, passed from

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Senator Howlan, who came up wiih the deputation, is as enthusiastic as ever over the tunnel +:@ +-me Hejsays further enquiry shows that a submaria¢ tunnel of brick built through the shale strata, which stretches the } entire distance between Capes To menutine | and Traverse, would be better than a subway. | The estimated cost is $5,000 000, and the in- terest on this money at 4 per cont. would be | less than what it costs tu keep up one

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communication,”

A later despatch to the Montreal Gaz etter] SAYS ;

“Hon. N. McLeod and D. Ferguson, of | Prince Edward Island, had an interview with | Sir John Macdonald to-day in reference to the question of winter communication. They | atrougly urged the desirability of the Govern- | ment adopting Senator Howlan’s scheme for | the construction of a tunnel under North- berland straits. Mr. Palmer, an English engineer who came out for the purpose of sur- veying the route of the proposed railway, made a survey for # tunnel during } the summer and his report is said to be of the mest favorable character as to the feasibility of the project’”

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With such eminent and geologists as Sir, William

highly capable

Dawson, Mr.

Palmer and cur own Mr. Bain testifying

to the great natural advantages in favor of

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with two such

McLeod and Hon. Donald Ferguson assisting Senator

the construction of a tunne ?

able advocates as Premier

Howlan in his noble efforts to secure for us | this boon ; and with a kindly disposed Gov- | ernment in power at OttawaTue Examiner | must assume that the advent of the tunnel ! is

buc a matter of time,—and a very short

time at that. i

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Notes and Comments.

-—The members of the Provincial Govy- ernment now in Ottawa telegraphed Mr. R. ¥. DeBlois to-day, advising him that the | steamer Stanley wii! continue plying be- | tween Pictou and Georgetown during the winter menths. She will many trips as possible for the special accommoda- tion of freight and passengers. |

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~The Boston Pilot bas this to say about the Canadian method of ' justice :—~

‘The year just closing will be remembered | in criminal annals for three celebrated mur- | der cases, in as many different countries— France, Canada and the United States. The | treatment of the accused was characteristic of each country Eyraud, the Paris strangler, was bullied and brow-beaten by the court, and after his guilt had been fully established was sentenced te die by the guillotine. Bir. | ceball, who decoyed and slew bis countryman near Nisgara Falls, C.aada, was given a quick but impartial triai, sentenced te death and promptly hanged. Sawtelle, of Boston, ac cused of fratcicid, has able lawyers whu are trying hard to prove that if he did murder bis brother, the crime was not committed in New Hampshire, where he is on trial. but in Maine, where the death penalty is abolished. The judge addresses him as ‘Mr Sawtelle,’ and asks bim, ‘How do you do” The prisoner caresses the danghter of his dead brether during recess, and is generally regarded as a sert of hero, On the whole we are compel'ed to say that our Canadian friends manage this sort of thing better than it is managed either in France or the United States.”

Yes ; as the Halifax Herald remarks, our | cousins over the way might learn a good | many things from Canada with advantage to themselves. They have copied a few! things. they call them after some other country.

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Mrs. Elizabeth K. Sherwood, of Grand Rapids, has secured a verdict for $15,000

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life shortly after midnight on the 21st De cember last. The funeral took place from the convent chapel on the 30th, when the remains of the regretted Mother were laid to rest ian the nuns’ beautiful cemetery, close by the tomb of the saintly Margaret Bourgeois, foundress and first Superior of the Order. ie = he Mayoralty.

At an informal meeting of citizens held in the Y. M. C. A. last evenivg, the following gentlemen were appointed to wait on His Wership Mayor Haviland, to ask him to

again nominate for the civic chair; viz: Messrs

F. T. Newberry, A. WW. Sterns, John Mce- Phail, Wm Brown, L. E. Prowse, D. Small, W.W. Beer. D ewart, C. CU. Gardiner, Horace Haszavrd.

Mr. C. C. Gardiner intreduced the delega- tion and tendered Mayor Haviland the nomin- ation. Afcer some remarks by other gentie men of the committee, His Worship thanked the citizens for the confidence reposed in him and stated that he would be happy to meet their views snd would again offer for the

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Supreme Court.

Fripay, Jan, 16,

The Mann Manufacturing Co. vs. Henry T. LePage.—A rule nisi having been grant- ed against the cefendant to show cause why he should not be committed for con- tempt for breach of an injunction already issued restraining him from the infringment on seed sowers. The rule argued lastterm. The Chief Justice delivers a written judgment, making the rule absolute againt the defendant, and orders that he be committed unless he pay (he costs within six days after taxation and enter into an undertaking against any further breach of the injunction. Mr. Justice Hensiey in written judgment con- curs. Mr. Justice Peters also concurs in written judgment, which wasread Peters & Morson for plaiatifi’s ; Davies & Stewart for defendant.

The Merchants Bank of Halifax vs the town of Summerside. The Bank of Nova Scotia vs. the town of Summerside—These two cases wereremoved to the Supreme Court from the judgment of Mr. Justice Kelly acting for the Stipendiary Magistrate of Summerside by way of certiorari and appeal. The appeal aud rule for certiorari were dismissed with costs.

Wim. A. Porter vs. Norman A. — Action of debt. Case settled,

Stew art, Morson

for plaintiff; Metlish for defendant.

The friends offthe little girl EvaGay who was unfortunately killed last Dominion Day at Lot 43 by a shot tired from a

'gun in the hands of George Henderson, be-

ing dissatistied with the decision given by J. T. Mellish, J. P., in the matter, again brought up the matter and had witnesses examined before the Grand Jury, with the same result, the dismissal of the charge against Henderson. _—_- Prince Edward Division.

The ofticers of Prince Edward Division, N.. 1, S. of T.,for the ensuing quarter are as follows :

W. P.—Albert 8. McLeod.

W. A.—J. Anderson.

R. 8.—Wm. H. Clark.

A. R. 8.—Jno Kennedy.

Treasurer—I, W. Wadman.

F S.—J. E. Taylor.

Chap.—J. Rhade.

Con.—A. Taylor.

A. ©.—F. Davis.

I. S.—S. Matheson.

O. S.—Wm. Newson.

P. W. P.—E..C. Carson.

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People.

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Exodus of 10,000

DISTRESS AND DESTITUTION IN NORTH- WESTERN KANSAS.

A recent despatch to the Boston Globe from Stockton, Kan., reads as follows: A correspondent has just returned from a trip through Rocks, Phillips, Norton, Graham, Decatur, Sheridan, Thomas and Rawlings counties, where an investigation has been made of the condition of the people of the northwestern part of the State

teports of distress and destitution have been sent out from time to time, bat the tenth part of the truth has not been told.

For four years past this part of the State has been afliicted with severe drought and no crops have been raised,

Each succeeding spring saw the farmer less able to prepare his land for the seed and the autumn brought him no relief. One by one his horses and cattle were sold to provide means to carry his family through the winter,

When the same drought came last sum- mer, and the crops were dried and withered in the fields, there began an exodus from the God-forsaken country, and all those who had any means left to pay travelling expenses started to get away from the sterile land.

‘In most instances the farms were mort- gaged to their full value, and in leaving the settler simply left the roof which cov- ered him, as he owned no equity in the place and his stock and utensils had been sacrificed to k-ep a food supply on hand.

Fully 10,0. 0 people have left their howe after putting there the best days of their lives in hopes of building a fortune, . or at least a competency. They now go to other places with their energies weakened and their constitutions ruined by the privationa and hardships of the past. ~

But all did not go. There were many who could not get away. Their horses and cattle had been sold to keep hunger from the door, and as summer waned these peor people saw dire want staring them in the face. Their fuel was scant, their food poor and meagre and their clothing barely sutti- cient to keep them protected from the bit ing wind.

This was the condition when the loag Indian summer abruptly ended witha blizzard that carried death in its train, The hungry and worn out frames of fhe settlers could not stand the additional drain on their vitality, and to-day nearly every house has its dead.

This is no fancy sketch, but the bare and appalling facts. .

From the Blue Hills in northern Rocks county clear around tu Atwood in Rawlings county there is the same desolate country, thinly peopled with men, women and chil- dren, who must have relief or die. They are in such abswlute need that the food is parcelled out asif it were among ship- wrecked mariners or on a raft in mid ocean...

Far from timber and coal they have been compelled to destroy, first their wagons and farming implements and last their furniture for fuel with which to keep a scant fire in their homes,

In many houses nothing remains except perhaps a bed, no chairs, no tables, nothing but ‘he bare walls and floor which serve ag a home to a famishing family of four or five. ,

The food supp'y has been reduced to un? ground corn, and this is all they have te keep body and soul together until relief is furnished from the outside. Should this aid be long delayed the e will be no more need of coffins than of clothing.

Already many deaths among the children are reported, and the recent finding of the Clifton family, some deid, some dying, shows what is to be expected thronghourt the whole northwestern part of the state.

So far there has been no concerted action looking to the relict of these unfortunates, but there has, onthe other hand, been an effort to prevent the publication of the tme condition through fear that such publicity wonld be a detriment to the state at large and deter immigrants from coming in,

The fact remains, however, and grows patent each succeeding day that bundreds of people are slowly dying of want and ex- posure in the very land where immigration is solicited. The people are in abject want and their distress ean only be relieved by large donations or by regulated State aid.

In Rooks and Phillips counties over half of the farms have been abandoned to the mortgagees, who had placed large sums in worthless land and have property upon which they cannot realize one-half of their ban and for which they can get no tenants,

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Irish Affairs.

Fully 20,000 persons assembled at Limer- ick on the 11th to greet Mr. Parnell. Mr. Parnell made a long speech, in the course of which he held that Gladstone was the cause of the present trouble, and dealt with other matters connected with Irish affairs,

Archbishop Walsh has written a reply to certain statements nade by Parnell! in bis speech at Limerick. The Archbishop re- buts the assertion of Parnell that the oppo sition to him manifested by the bishops of Ireland was not based on moral grounds

Archbishop Croke has also written a let- ter resenting the imputation which Timothy Harrington cast on the Irish hierarchy dur- ing his recent speech at Limerick. The Archbishop says : ** For myself I have been a Nationalist tor 40 years, and never found it necessary to simulate patriotism or traftic in it for emoluments.”

A despatch has been sent to Gladstone in regard to Parnell’s statement in his Limer- ick speeca that McCarthy communicated to the ex-premier the substance of Parnell’s manifesto before it was published. | In reply to this, Gladstone telegraphs as fol- lows: ** Parnell’s assertion is untrue. Mc- Carthy told me he had a manifesto, but ho did not desgribe its contents.”

McCarthy authorizes a denial of the re- port that serious differences arose in the Boulogne conference He says the state- ment that the McOarthyites ** demanded O'Brien's unqualitied support of their leader and O'Brien repelled their demand, thus leaving a loophole for Parnell’s re- turn,” is a pure invention. is

The Paris Siecle announces that Jobn Dillon is te be chosen leader of the Lrish parliamentary party.

_ Balfour's fund for the relief of the poor in Western Ireland now reaches £14,000. Qeeen Victoria sent £200, and Hon, C. J. t — Chancellor of the Exchequer, + EO.

Disastrous Fire at Bompay.—A_ digas.

against the Chicago and West Michigan Railway, for the death of her husband two y 21s «go.

It is reported that a syndicate is being ormed to buy up all the flour mills in the north of England. The syndicate is said to command a capital of £2,000,000,

astrous conflagration has occurred in Bom- bay, 200 houses being burned to the ground. Hundreds of families are homeless and there is much suffering in the city

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Letter from Rey. Mr. Lioyd.

Sin, — Your correspondent ) writes as if he considered Oddfellowehip and Socialism to be one and the same thing In reply, permit me to fay, as an official member of the Order impugned, that such is not the cage, and that so high- ly and so sacredly do the members esteem the Order that there are few of them who do not hold it in the same regard as they do their church.

Friendship and Love bind us cloeely to e ch other (and no atiack from any quarter can harm us)and Truth is our watchword. Would to God that some few members of our community whose disessed imaginations so seriously impair the peace aud good-will of others were within the beneficent sway of its teaching !

Faep. BE. J. Lioyp,

Chaplain St. Liwrence Lodge, No. 8, i ©..0. ¥,

Jan. 16, 1891.

Our Capes Mail Route.

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Sia,—Can you inform us why our out- ward mail did not cross to the mainland yesterday? A fine day, with moderate temperature, and our wails allowed to re- main at Cape Traverse, savors tuo much of the age which we hoped we had outlived. We should like to know if the mail service at the Capes has been fully completed for the winter's work, and if it is a result of cheese-paripg in the supply of men and boats that no crossing was effected yester- day from this side.

We merchants find it almost impossible to transact business satisfactorily with the outside world, being hampered in our mail service a3 weare. It is hard enough to

is impossible, from rough weather, to make a crossing; but, as matters were yesterdxy, the best of good natures rebel. ‘The boast- ed enlightenment of the list decade of the nineteenth century has certainly not yet reached Prince Edward Island, and we are fully ready to exclaim, ‘‘now patience ceases to be a virtuc, and tolevance becomes a crime.” MenrcHanrT. re -

That “Base Accusation.”

Sin,—I noticed in yesterday’s ExaMINER that Mr. Theo. L. Chappelle, with fierce indignation, denies that he is the author of the little pamphlet entitled ‘Society as it is in Charlottetown,” and defies anyone to prove such a base accusation. I have not read the book, but I think there certainly must be something vile about it, from the fact that Mr. Chappelle feels so bad because some of his friends say he isthe author A great many people are asking the quea- tion, how is it that Mr Chappelle is the only one out of the three booksellers in the city who is found willing and anxious to sell it over his counter? No respectable bookseJler would, in my opinion, sella hook, of which he says it is a “base accusa- tion” to consider him the author.

ONLOOKER.

rs eee Piof. Wiggins ridicules the idea that geo- logists know when an earthquake is about to occur. He says the next big quake in Canada will take place on August 17, 1904.

A Fancy Dress Carnival THEG 0 .GBTOWN RINK

WILL BE HELD IW Wednesday, January 28th.

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HE GEORGETOWN BRASS BAND will be in attendance. Each person in cos- tume will please hand in a card b-aring name aud character The managers reserve the right to reject any objectionable character. Excursion tickets issued at all Stations east of and including Charlottetown. Ticket holders in costume, free ; non-ticket holders in costume, 25 cents. Promenade :—Aduits, 25 cents; Children, 15 cents. Decors open at 7.30 p. m.

Georgetown, Jan. 16, 18°l—dy 16 24 wy 23 REPORTER WANTED.

E require a Young Man, fairly eduea.-

ted and acquainted with the city, to act in the capscity of Reporter: on the Daily. A good opening. Apply at once, *

GUARDIAN OFFICE

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POSTPONED.

“HE MEETING which was to have taken

place on Wednesday, 14th iust., at Cor-

ren Ban Bridge, apropos to the question of a

Breakwater at Tracadie Harbor, notice of

which was given in the DaiLy Examiner of

last Friday, has been pee‘poned till WED. NESDAY, 2iat inst., at 1 o’clock, p. m.

TERENCE CAMPBELL, Secretary.

Grand Traeadie, Jan. 15, 1891—dy wy

W000 FOR SALE,

BX AUOTION.

Fifty Acres of Hard and Seft Weed for sale on “t Peter's Road, Lot 34, only feur mites from Charlottetown.

O BE SOLD BY AUCTION, on WED- NE-DAY, 2ist Jaruary, 189], at 11 a. m., on the land adjoining the Farm ot Wil- liam Miller, Esq , St. Peter's Road, Lot 34, about 50 acres of standing wood, consisting of a splendid growth of hardwood (beech, maple, birch,) and a heavy growth of spruce, auitable for scantling, fence poles, ete,

The above wood will be sold in quarter and half acre lots. The sale will begin at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, sharp.

Terms cash, or approved joint notes at three (3) months.

Should the day prove stormy, the sale will take place the following day.

A. B. WARBURTON.

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Luadies’ Ulsters and Jackets, Age trakan Jackets, Children’s UWisters, A fot came late and will have to be— slaughtered.

Mens Overcoats, Mens Fur Coats, Boys’ Overcoats. Vic want to clear our tables of these .goeds and they will have to go regardless of price.’

Our Second Floor is one of the: best lighted rooms in the city. and you can see well what you are buying.

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DISSOLUTION OF PSRTNLASHIP - aaa

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-_"o partnership between the undersigned, a8 Barristers end Attorneys, under the | style of PALMER & McLEOD, having ter-| . | 1

We are sen‘ ing out our Anneal ‘Statements of Accennts, and in | Wishing our numerous Customers & Pprospereus New Vear we hope they will be able to make prompt —

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minated by ixpse of time, is dissolvea fiom this date. ' Dated at Char] ttetoan, the 3lst day’ of December, A, D., 1890, Ee MALCOLM McLEOD, H. J. PALMER, D, C. McLEOD, jan7—a!l Is!and prs dy 3w wky 2m

NOTICE.

; HE undersigned have entered into partner- , ship as Attorneys and Solicitors, under the name of

M. & D, €C. NeLEOD,

uc continue the practice of the profession at | the offices of the late firm, Dank of Nova Scotia Building, Charlottztown, P. E. 1.

MALCOLM MecLEOD, D. C. MecLEOD.

Charlottetown, Jan. 2, 1891. jan7—all Island prs dy 3w wky 2m

H. JAMES PALMER,

(of the late Pirm of Palmer & McLeod),

Barrister and Attorney-at-Law,

NOTAKY PUBLIC, &e. OFFICE—O Halloran's Building, next door

Y y WOOD! WOOD! (YING to the scarcity of Cost 1 have ' started a Wood Yard, and am prepa to supply Hardwood at «a ress nable price,

cut up to suit stoves, and delivered to points in the city.

A. DOWN, Pownal Wharf.

W. &. TURNER,

Queen Street, Charlottetowr.

TRYON CLOTH DEPOT. |

C. and see cur pew patterns ia Clothe Positively the best thet have ever been

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tuined out in Domestic Tweeds, WOOL taken in exchange for Cloth. CARDING done on short notice.

W. C. TURNER,

hy — of Nova Scotia. Money to Loan.

jan6 Agent Tryon Woolen Mi \s-