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ALMANAC FOR JANUARY, 1887,

MOON 3 CHANGES,

First Quarter 2nd day, Sh, 8m., a m., N. E. (helow horizon.)

Full Moon 9th day, 6h., 19.8m., p. m., S.E. Last Quarter 16th day, llh., 9.5m., a.m., W. New Moon 23rd_ day, 10h, 46.8m., p. m., N.

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Fare from Chariottet class ; 30.50, Ist clase, . For tickets and other information apply to . ASHARP, F. W. HALES, P. LL By. P. KE. L Steam Nav. Co. or to your nearest Ticket Agent, Nov. 1. 1386—eod wky

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Far Capes at 85.00 for $4.00.

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Fur Capes at $3 75 for $3.00

Fur Capes at $3.06 for $2 4.

Par Capes at $2.40 for $1,990 -ALSO—

Pur-lined Cloaks,

Kyrie Cloth Newmarket Coats,

Childs Cloth Jackets.

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ECEIVED via Northern Light, direct to Charlottetown :

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ATTRACTIONS,

W* will make the following reductions during the Xmas and New Year's trade :=

Fur Caps, worth $18.00 for $14.00 Boys’ Overcoats, worth $4.75 for 3.50 Fur Caps, worth 12.00 for 9.00 Boys’ Overcoats, worth 4.00 for 2.75 Fur Caps, worth 10. 50 for 8.50 | Boys’ Suits, worth 7.00 for 5.00 Fur Caps, worth 7.50 for 5.00 | Boys’ Suits, worth 6.00 for 4.50 Fur Caps, worth 6.75 for 4.75 | Boys’ Suits, worth 5.00 for 3.75 Fur Caps, worth 4.75 for 3.75 Boys’ Suits, worth 4.00 for 3.00 Boys’ Overcoats, worth 7.10 for 4.75 | Boys’ Suits, worth 3.00 for 2.00 Boys’ Overcoats, worth 6.75 for 4.10 Boys’ Su:ts, worth 2.30 for 1.75

JOHN MCLEOD & CO.

UPPER QUEEN ST., (Op. Roger’s New Brick Block.)

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Letters of Condolence.

To Mrs. Ralph Mabon.

We, a committee appointed to represent Company No. 4, 82nd Battalion at its first meeting after the death of oar Captain, your husband, desire to extend to you an expression of our sorrow in losing so worthy a commander, and of our sympathy for you jin your sore bereavement. His success in controlling the Company was owing not to an undue exhibition of military authority, but to his always seeking to win the respect and affection of those under his charge. Nor was he known in his own Company alone, but the whole Battalion feels his loss, as he was one who always ‘took an active part in promoting anything that tended to its efficiency. You will always have the satisfaction of knowing that in whatever public capacity he served he al- ways performed his duty faithfully, gaining for himself the approbation of ally and the illwill of none. His intense sufferings during the past few years did not fora moment deter him from atending to his duties with prompt- ness and dispatch; and even when laid on his death-bed he was not unmindful to direct others in the discharge of duties which physical disabilities prevented him from performing. With you we rejoice to know that he found that peace which passeth un- derstanding, that he knew that he had passed from death unto life, that God was with him as he was about to pass through tle valley of the shadow of death, and that he could exultingly cry, O, Death, where is thy sting, O, Grave, where is thy victory; and that he is now free from pain in the presence of his Captain, the Captain of his salyation. Grorce Crocker, Ist Lieut. Davin Harper, 2nd Lieut. Rosert THompson, Sergeant. ABRAM Brown, Sergeant. Joun M. Crocxerr, Corporal. In behalf of the whole Company. NT ae The P. E. Island Railway. In a lengthy article on the P. E. Island Railway, the Aailway Age closes au ad- mirably written sketch as follows: ** To close this article without referring at some length to Mr. Coleman's connection with the Prince Edward Island Railway, would be like publishing the play of Hamlet with- out making any reference to Hamlet him- self. Although Mr. Coleman has been connected with the road a little less than four years, the time has been sufficient to establish the fact that he is emphatically ‘the right man in the right place.’ Thoroughly practical, honest and concien- tious, industrious to an almost exceptional degree, modest, kind, economical and simple in his habits, he has naturally enough now, not only the entire confidence and high esteem of the Dominion Govern- ment, of which he is an officer, but of the people of the Island, with whvuse substan- tial interests and everyday life he is so in- timately connected, He has not brought the road to its present excellent condition without first. overcoming many obstacles and difficulties, some of them so annoying as often almost to discourage even one possessed of his perceiving disposition. Every dollar of expenditure is necessarily guarded with as great care as if it were the only one certain to be relied on, and every scrap of iron, every coupling pin, every spike is preserved as if the supply had been exhausted and there were no more material from which to make others. ‘“‘Mr. Coleman began railway work away back in 1861, since which year he has been constantly in the service of the railways of New Brnnswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. His first service was in the capacity of baggage-master, express messenger, etc., alter which he rapidly passed through the various grades leading up to his present highly honorable and re- sponsible position as general Superinten- dent, or in effect, general manager of the Peinen Edward Island Railway. + << KE Dominion Finances.

The statement of revenue and expendi-

Y.}/ture forthe month of December and for

the first six months of the fiscal year con- tinues to show a most gratifying increase in the former and decrease in the latter. The revenue receipts for the month are :—Cus- toms, $1,756,946 ; excise, #567,130; other sources, $523,914; total. $2,847,990, as compared with $2,302,630 for the same month in 1885, showing an increase of $545,360, of which $448,044 is in customs, $41,916 in excise, and the remainder in postoftice, publie works, ete. The expendi- ture for the month wa: $2,297,168, being $548,924 less than for December, 1885.

For the first six months of the fiscal year the result has been as follows:—Reyenue, $17,027,898; expenditure, $15,380,315; surplus, $1,647,583. For the same period last year the figares were:—Revenue, $14,- 755,705; expenditures, $17,571,054; de- ficit, $2,815,349. Or to put it in another way, the revenue has increased about two millions and a quarter and the expenditure decreased more than two millions. A de- ticit of over two and. three-quarter mll-

‘lions has been,converted into a surplus of

nearly one million and three quar- ters. The greatest increases have been in customs, $1,617,337, and excise, $332,248, but post-office and public works, including railways, show cunsiderable increases, Taken altogether, the result of the first six months is highly satisfactory, and indicates that, after making allowances for the half yearly subsidies to the provinces, which were paid in advance on the first of this month, a very handsome surplus is likely to accrue before the close of the fiscal year. aie A gang of foreigners have been arrested at Stamboul while engaged in forging coupons of internal loan bonds. The potice seized the counterfeiting machinery and coupons to the amount of $30,000. es -

Sir William Richards has returned to Oitawa from New York, where he hae boca

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VOL. 19. NO. 18

Whai is a Cousin ? AN IMPORTANT CASE DECIDED IN AN ENGLISH COURT.

‘‘What is a cousin ?” is the latest of the many mysterious issues submitted to the decision of the British courts at law. A dictionary would answer it off hand; but dictionary might find itself overruled, as the late Mr. Justice Pearson has just been by a court, consisting of no less than three eminent Lords Justices. Botten, Bowen and Fry. The London Times tells the story thus: —A lady, it appears, died, leaving a bequest to her ‘* cousin, Harriet Cloak.” Now, there were two Harriet Cloaks, or rather a Harriet that had been a Cloak, but had married and ceased to be so called, and a Harriet that had not been a Cloak, but had become one by marriage. The

had « wife called Harriet and a sister called Harriet, who, when the will was made, had already for some years abandon- ed her patronymic and become Mrs. Crane. Which of the ladies was the person designated in the will? They brought the matter before Mr. .Jtstice Pearson, and he decided in favor of the cousin ly biood

the Harriet who was certainly a cousia, but was no longer a@ Cloak. The cousin by marriage appealed—she who was unques- tionably a Cloak, but only doubtfully a

cousin, ‘The full learning of the judicial bench has been brought to bear on this knotty question, and the result, by the voice of two

lord justices against one, has veen to give the legacy to the lady who is now be- yond all question Harriet Cloak—that is, to Thomas’ wife, aud not to Thomas’ sister. ladeed, though the miti> sapientia of Lord Justice Bowen dissented, it is very difficult to see how there could be any real question

about the matter. When the testatrix died she well knew that her cousin by blood had long been ma ried, and was Harriett Crane, not Harries Cloak at all. Would any one in such a case think of describing her cousin by ber maiden name!’ Lord Justice Bowen thinks that the convent ons of language extend the terms ‘‘ nephew ” and ‘‘niece” to nephews and nieces by marriage, but that they do not so extend the term ‘‘cousin.” We should have thought that the case was, it anything, the other way. A man whose nephew by mar-

riage is nearly his own age hesitates about calling him nephew ; he does not hesitate about calling a cousin of any age cousin. Cousinship is so — a relation by the mere fact of its elasticity. It is as wide or as narrow as anybody chooses to make it. Certainly it includes cousins’ wives or hus- bands, if they are agreeable to us ; and if we go so far as to leave money to them it may be assumed that they are agreeable. For once, we should venture to say that in this great cousin case Lord Justice Bowen had been over-subtle, and that his col- leagues, in differing from him, were deci- dedly in the right.

es tt The Hard-Worked ed Queen of Spain.

The ee le of Spain is probably the most over-worked woman in her do- minions. She rises at seven, and as soon as she has made her toilet, she sends for her little son and the members of the Royal Family, and spends an hour or so with them. At nine she attends to her house- hold affairs, goes over her accounts, gives her orders for the day, reads her letters, glances through the newspapers and is ready by ten or a little after to receive the report of the Captain-General of the garri- sion. He is succeeded by the Prime Minister, whe has a long interview with the Queen on affairs of state every day but Monday, when he pre- sides at the Cabinet Council instead. At 12 the Royal family sit down to dejeuner. at which meal the little king always assists —though only as a spectator, of course. At 2, one of the Ministers presents himself with the decrees and State papers of dif- ferent kinds which await her signature. Twice a week she holds a levee, and it is rarely over before 6. The other days she takes a drive without an escort or any other show of State. After dinner the Royai party amuse themselves with cards, or talk literature and art with Count Morphy, who is an accomplished musician, and at 11 the Queen retires to seek the rest to which she is so well entitled after her fatiguing day's work,— At. James’ Gazette.

A Trained Thief.

The New York Herald publishes an ac- count of the arrest of a child in New York city who had been regularly trained to thieving by a weman who was not her mother. Her story reads like a romance, and one is struck with the ease with which the robberies from the person may be com- mitted and the large sums of money which may thus be secured. The Herald speaks of the child as bright and adaptab’e and one that should not be given over to crime without an attempt to save her, but they point out that to send her to a reformatory would be to continue her association with those to whom crime is a profession, An appeal is made to private benevolent institutions to take the girl, in the hope that with kind treatment and good teaching, her past may be obliterated and her moral character reformed. But judg- ing from the story told by the New York Herald, it would almost seem as if the child had been a born thief. A more pain- ful story has seldom been given to the public.

The Burmese ruby merchants maintain friendly attitude toward the British. A proclamation has been issued ordering all the inhabitants to surrender their arms within fivedays. It is expected the troops will be compelied to leave the ruby mines in consequence of the scarcity of water and the prevalence of fevers. The camp of a native prince has been surmived by the

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