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NEW SERIES.

Tije Daily € Fxauniner

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The Examiner Publishing Co.

From their office, corner of Water and Great George Streets, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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ALMANAC FOR MARCH, 1286.

MOON'S CHANGES. New Moom 5th day, 5h, 51.8m, p. m. W.

First Quarter 13th day, 9h, 4.7 « m, E. Fall Moon 20th day, I2h, 14 2m, a m, 5S 27th day, 6h, 31. 7m, a. m. S,

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This is true Liberty, when Free-Born Men, having to eas the Public, may heal FUNG -~EuRIPIDES,

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1886,

STANDARD GOODS

ances A TD ahaha iyesT PRICES

= PERKINS & STHRNS’

LARGE STOCK OF SEASONABLE GOODS: 400 Pieces Grev Cottons, 220 Pieces White Cottons, 150 Pieces Priat Cottons,

55 Pieces Hessians, 48 Pieces Table Linea, 140 Dozen Towels.

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AWONDERFUL REMEDY

Adamson's Botanie Congh Balsam.

It is as pleasant as honey. Conchs, Colds, and Asthma, which lead to Consumption, have been speedily cured by the use of ADAMSON’S BALSAM after all other medicines have failed. Sufferers from either recent or chrome coughs or bronchial affections, can

resort to this great remedy, confident of obtaining speedy relief, Do not delay, get it at once. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS, Bottled at St. Stevens, N. B., by the proprietors, F. W. KINSMAN & CO., Druggists, $43 4TH AVE., N. ¥.

200 Bris. No. 1 FAT FAT HERRING. 200 Half-barrels do 50 Quarters do do 50 Quiatal CODFISH, cheap for cash or trade, DAVID SMALL.

COTTON BUCK—COTTON DUCK Notice to Shipowners & Builders.

HE Subscriber now offers to the trade, Yarmouth Cotton Duck, at manufac- turer’s prices. Has on hand a supply of light and heavy ducks. DAVID SMALL, Agent, Hyndman’s Buildinge, Corner Water and Queen Street

Ch’tewn, Feb. 16—2i wky 2 mos

h mh m morniaft'n |h m e ond & 4315 i § aiid & ‘ sti: IMondey | 43/5.41/ 4 10) 8 A5{10 esa and Colored Knitting Cotton, 3, Wednesday 40, 44] 5 24) 9 37 4| Thursday 38 44) 5 56/10 14) ion -Oo—_—_-— §\ Friday 36; 47) 6 25/10 46 €, Jatur lay 34: 49) 6 52/11 18) oe Be ! Large Stock of Colored Dress Goods. Herring. g. Herring, &| Monday 0; 51) 7 46) morn | 9, Tuesday 29; 53) 8 15) 0 25 | 0—_——— 10 W ocneniay 27 54, 8 * ’ 5s 2 11. Th c 25; 56) 9 22) 31} 12| Friday 2 so « 2a) 33\ Black French Merinoes, Biack Cash- 3 d 2 910 51} 3 2 35 ‘ To a talSmnday” | 19/6 Olt 47} 4 37 a1] meres, Biack Cords, Black Nuns’ Veil- ‘ 7 mae | ~ ios i oe alt bol 743} a7 ing, Black aon ane Cloth, &c. 17| Wednesday | 13) 3) 3 13|835| 50 — on aro | ” 5| . a 25 ee | ves: { t ieeay” | 's claw & Brussels, Tap d Wool ¢ 90| datard ay 7, 7| 6 58ILO 5012 0 PUSSEILS, apes ry an 00 arpe 5: 21 Sanday 5 8} 8 LILLE 32) >| 22) Monday 2 9| 9 ZWiaft 10 city (2 2287S ¢ ORLOLOTHS LINOLEUMS. 24 We e dl y BS Panel 3 ; | 20 25 iar” | 56; 13)m on 217 & i 26) Wriday | 54 14| 0 28) 3 5 20 Oh dniiinietil 27) taturday 52 a 1 20; 4 9 l an ‘ ran s Qij3unday | 50) 16/2 7] 5 24 23 Cocon, China and wine Matting. 29| Monday | 49) 18] 2 48) 6 23) 29) 30, Tuesd | 48) 21) 3 25] 7 38; 33) 31| Wednesday ‘6 46/6 22] 3 57) 8 27/12 36! a7 re

L. ARTHUR & CO, GEN HRAL

Gommission Merchants, 12] ATLANTIC AVENUE,

BOSTON, MASS.

Eggs and Produce a Specialty.

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CAUTION.

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Oct, 20.

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BOSTON.

SPRING ARRANGEMENT.

THE PALACE STEAMERS

OF THE

INTERNATIONAL S.S. CO.

Leave St. John for Boston, via Eastport and Port- land, every Tuesday and Thursday, at 8.00 a. ms. Fare from Charlottetown to Boston, 36,50, 2nd class ; $9.50, Ist class. For tickets and other information apply to

G, A. 4 ARP, F. W. HALES, ro im & ote P. E. L’Steam Nav. Co.

er to your nearest Ticket Agent. Feb 8, 1886-—-eod wky

REMOVAL.

\ ACMILLAN’S COAL OFFICE has been Removed to foot of PRINCE STREET. A Large Assortment of

HARD AND SOFT

COA Lh

Kept Constantly on Hand,

R. McMILLAN.

Dec. 24--3m eod & wky

YU BSC RIBE & for THE W EEKLY EXAMI. NER, Che latest local and foreign news 4 always be foun theretn.

Largest Stock of ROOM PAPER on B &.

Island.

PERKINS & STERNS.

Ch’town, Feb. 23, ’8

JOHN M ACLEOD & co. MERCHANT TAILOR.

E are offering the balance of our winter goods at lower prices than have ever been offered the public.

A lot of Men’s and Youth’s Overcoats from $5 to $8, worth from $8 to $14

Overcoats made to order, from $12 to $18, worth from $18, to $24.

Men’s Heavy Shirts, Underwear, Fur Caps, Gloves, & at the same rates.

Worsted and Tweed Suits at very low, prices.

Island Tweed Suits from $19 to $12.

JOHY MACLEOD & CO. Ch’town, Feb. 9, 1886 —tf —* wky

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: EVERYONE CAN

call and examine the Jargest stock of Household Furniture, &., &c., ever shown in Charlottetown, and also discover that they

i SAVE MONEY

and get Good, Reliable Home-made Goods of andisputed value, fine finish and good honest workmanship

BY BUYING

Staple Furniture, Bedding, Mattresses, Fancy Goods (for Xmas), Picture Frames and Moulding, Mantle- mirrors and Mirror-plates, Bagatelle Boards, Handsome Oil Paintings, Framed Chromos, and One Thousand and One other articles,

FROM

THE P. E, ISLAND FURNITURE WAREROOMS,

MARK WRIGHT & CO.

Ch’town, Dee. 3, '85—eod wky

BOOK-BINDING, PAPER-RULING

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BLANK-BOOK MAKING, OVER BOREHAMS BOOT & SHOE STORE

—__- |) — LL kinds of BOOK BINDING executed at Lowest Prices and with Quick Despatch? Ruling, Numbering and Perforating for the Trade promptly attended to. BLANK BOOKS A SPECIALTY. g@ A Share of Patronage Solicited,

JAMES D. TAYLOR,

EEN SQUARE.

Ch town, Feb, 23, —_

TENDERS.

Crry or CHaRLotretown, P. £&. I. EALED ‘LENDERS will be received at the Mayor's Office, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, until noon of WEDNBES- DAY, the 3lst day of March next, for the placing and maintaining of

Sixty Fros(-Proof Hvdrants,

having a preseure of not less tha sixty pounds to the square inch, for fire and civic purposes, according to plans and specilica- tions to be seen at the City Clerk’s office.

The Council do not bind themselves to avcept the lowest er any tender.

By order, A. H. MACPHERSON, City Clerk,

Feb. 23--3w eod

Fish Sale.

50 quintals CHOICE CODFISH,

20 do do HAKE,

50 barrels LABRADOR HERRING, 10 cases CANNED SALMON,

10 do do LOBSTERS,

10 do do MACKEREL,

FOR SALE BY

HORACE HASZARD, Ch’town, M arch 6—Im» eod

WE HAVE SOLD

NEARLY ALL OUR

Siell-Winding Rocklord Watches,

which are giving good satisfaction, and as the Company, in the interest of the public, say they will not send any watches by mail, we shall defer getting a full supply until we can safely do so by express.

In the meantime we have several Key- Winding Rockford Watches on hand, accu- rately timed, and purchasers of any of these can have the privilege of exchanging fora Stem-Winder, when they arrive.

in stock, a nice assortment of Waltham & Elgin Watches, in heavy silver or gold- filled cases.

— we. A oe oe CAMERON BLOCK. Charlottetown, March 5, ’86.

Why Pay Higher When

WoOODILLS

Tins Retail 7 Cents

GERMAN

Moz. Fins Retail

BAKING

Sez. Tins Retail 22 Cents

POWDER

Quality Equai te Any. March 1, 1886.

i2 Cents

The Cunarders.

i | Until Sunday of last, week the Cunard

\line, although the oldest of the «trans- | Atlentio lines, could boast that it had never Jost either a vessel or a passenger. The sinking of the Oregon, however, within a \few miles of port, makes one-half of this boast no longer possible. The history of the Cunard line is an interesting one, Its first. vessel ran from Liverpool to Boston forty-six years ago. Previous to that, in 1838, the wooden paddle-wheel steamer | Great Western had made several trips be- tween Bristol and New York, and the Bri- tish Government was so impressed with the fact that it issued circulars inviting tenders for asteam mail service between England and the United States. Samuel Ounard, then a merchant in Halifax, came across one of these circulars. He went to England,and with George Burns, a large ship owner, and his partner David Melver, raised

7,000, and then arranged with the Gov- orntibet to run a line of fortnightly steam- ‘ers between Liverpool, Halifax and Boston, 'with a eubsidy oi £81,000 a year. The first four vessels werg the wooden paddle- wheelers Britannia, Acadia, Caledonia andi Columbia. Their average speed was eight; and a half knots an hour, and the Britannia | started on the first trip on Friday, July 4, ,1840, ‘ihe passage occupied fourteen days and eight hours. Four years later, in February, the same vessel was ice- -bound in Boston harbor, and the merchants, at their |ownh expense, cut a passage for her through the ice seven miles long and one hundred feet wids. The business of the line in- creasing, the Hibernia was added in 1843 and the Cambria in 1845.

In 1847 the company made a new con- tract with the Government, with a subsidy of £173,000 a year, to estabiish another mail service between Liverpool and New York. The route was opened in 1848 by the America, and the Niagara, Canada Europa, Asia, Africa and Arabia were afterwards added. For ten years, until the establishment of the Collins line in 1850, the Cunard Company had a monopoly of the Atlantic trade, and in 1852 they began to build iron screw steamers. The first of these, the Australian, Sydney, Andes and Alps, were the first steam vessels fitted with ac- commodation for emigrants. Passengers, however, still preferred the paddle-wheelers and the last of these, the Scotia, was built as late as 1862. Her fastest trip from New York to Liverpool was eight days, twenty- two hours. The company’s contract for carrying the mails expired Dec. 31, 1867, and owing to the competition of other lines, the subsidy allowed was only £80,000, which was reduced to £70,000 later on a seven years’ contract, The latter expired Dec 31, 1876, and a new system of pay- ment came into force, under which the Cunarders have ever since carried the English mails from Liverpool to New York. An immense fleet of iron and steel steamers has since been built or bought by the company, the latest additions being the Oregon, Umbria and Etruria. These magnificent vessels have been aptly de- scribed as the “greyhounds of the At- lantic.” The Oregon had enormous steam- ing power, and her fastest trip wes made from New York to Liverpool in six days, nine hours and forty-nine minutes. She held the record for the best round trip, her speed throughout being 21.6 statute miles per hour, and her best day’s time 454 miles. She burned more than 300 tons of coal in each twenty-four hours.

The original shateholders in the company were gradually bought out by the found- ers, until all the stock became vested exclu- sively in the Cunard, Burns and Maclver families. In 1865 Sir Samuel Cunard died, and his son, Sir Edward, inherited his shares. Upon the death of the latter in 1869 the Cunard interest went to his brother, William. When George Burns retired from business, twenty-four years ago, his interest fell to his eldest son John, the present manager, who with his brother James owns the stock once held by their father. In 1878, a limited joint stock com- pany ¥ was formed, with a capital of £2,000,- 000, of which £1, 200,000 was issued and taken by the families of Cunard, Burns, and Maclver as part payment for ‘the pro- perty transferred by them to the new company.

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Pocket Money for Wives.

Marion Harland says: ‘‘If I were asked, ‘What is the most prolific and general source of heart-burnings, contention, harsh judgment, and secret unhappiness among respectable married people who keep up the show even to themselves of reciprocal affection? my answer would not hait for an instant. It has been ready for thirty years. It is the crying need of a right

mutual understanding with respect to the ownership of the family income.” If cases like the following, told in the Hvening Record, are of frequent occurrence, Marion Harland is probably right:—

The New York Woman’s Club ‘Sorosis,’ has been discussing the question whether or not a wife ought to receive regular pay for her services as house-keeper. Women who have to implore their husbands regularly for money for current house ex- penses will be interested in the outcome of tho debate. A country lady telis the following story, which seems to prove that the meanest man has been fonnd at last :

“One day I was shopping in our village store. A neryous,hesitant little woman who was buying a few things with her husband at her elbow ready to pay for them, so that she might not even touch his money, turn- ed shyly to her liege lord and said:

‘¢ *There’s one thing I must have that I didn’t put down on the list, I forgot it.

‘* ‘Porgot it. Umph!’ growled the man;

‘what is it!’ ‘¢ A paper of pins.’

Where's the paper I bought for you last |

summer! ’ Thia story is absolutely true.

‘* ‘Another paper of pins? Well, I swan!

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Srneie Copres Two CEntTs.

VOL. 18--NO. 102

The Great Jubilee o* the Former Serfs of Russia.

BY P. J. POPOFF, PH.D.

On the third day of March (Feb. 19, O. S.) the former fserfs of Russia cele- brated. a great jubilee of their own—the twenty-fifth auniversary of their liberation, As if in compliance with the first sentences of the famous imperial manifesto of 1861, written by the weil-known Philaret of Mos- cow, ‘* Cross yourselves, all yo Orthodox people, aud pray to Giod that he would bless the great work of liberation,” the Russian peasants since then have of their own will abstained from work, dedicating the day of their liberation to thanksgiving and prayer. Thus the 19th of February (O. 8.) became ‘‘the 4th of July” of the Russian peasantry. At length the Holy Synod, a few years ago, found it advisable to sanction the people’s day of prayer, declaring it to be a regular holiday, Oa that day, in all the churches of Russia, after a Requiem in memory of the late Czar-Liberator, a solema J'e Dewm is sung, when the peasants, perhaps once for all, know and feel why they are called to ** Praise the Lord.”

Up to the seventeenth century Russia knew no serfdom, her least peasant having been as free as the mightiest of Boyards. Though most of the lands belonged either to the Government or to Boyards and con- vents, yet the ‘people cultivating those lands were perfectly free to go whenever and wherever they pleased. But Czar Boris Godunoff, of Tartar descent, waa of the opinion that the itinerant peasantry were incompatible -with the interests of the state; for he found a great difficulty in collecting taxes and levying recruits for the army, Therefore he made up his mind to attach permanently the peasants to the land. Certainly, the state interests would have been better served if the Czar had distributed forever the Government lands among the farmers, But, being un- der the influence of and obligation to his electors, Boyards and Monks, Boris attach- ed the peasants to all Jands on which they

were found at the time of the manifesto being issued (about 1600), Thus the free farmers of Russia

were turned into the state serfs, the Boy- ard’s serfs, and the convent serfs, At first, however, the serfs were only the involun- tary renters of land, but in the course of time they were transformed into veri- table slaves, as if they were of race, nation, and religion different from those of their masters. Peter the Great, for instance, found it necessary to issue a ukase forbid- ding to sell the members of the same serf family to different masters. However, the great Czar himself was considerably under the baneful influence of serfdom; his letters to his mother he used to-sign not as ‘your loving son, Peter,’ but as ‘‘ your slave Petrooshka (bad Peter).” Like his predecessors and successors, he used to give villages with their population in serf- dom te Generals, civil officers and courtiers. Like the Negroes in this country, the serfs in Russia have been sold from the auction biock, and treated in general as chattels. Masters could and did send their serfs to Siberia or inte the army for no cause, exchanged them for cattle and dogs and things, gambled in them, made and un- made families among them according to their own caprice. Thus two centuries and a half passed.

Czar Alexander II. realized that serfdom was incompatible either with the interests of the state or with those of justice, mor- ality and humanity, and so he tore asunder the chains forged by another Czar, 260 years ago. His manifesto of Feb. 19th, 1861, by which he freed twenty-four mil- lion serfs from private masters, and as many from the state, will forever remain his unwithered wreath of glory.

The Panama Canal.

The newspaper correspondent who accom- panied M. de Lesseps on his recent tour of inspection of the Panama Canal, tells much that has not hitherto appeared in the ofli- cial reports. He saw, for example, five cemeteries near the Culebra full cf dead workmen, the newest one, opened only two years ago, containing 3,057 graves. This tells the ghastly tale of the frightful mor- tality that prevails among the Jaborers. As for the work itself, according to the com- pany’s own uhowing, 600,000,006 francs have been already expended, and only one-tenth of the excavation is accomplished. More exact estimates are as follows: The work was commenced five years ago, 15,000,000 cubic metres have been excavated (along the easiest part of the route), and 600,000,000 francs have been expended. There remain 135,- 000,000 cubic metres to be extracted. At the same rate it will take forty years more to finish the work, and even conceding that

a large part of the expenditure hes been he preliminaries and plant, the total cost will far more than exceed the further sum of 600,000,000 fraacs for which M. de Lesseps i is now asking. Some of the great- est obstacles are yet to be met, notably the Chagres river, the risings of which must be controlled. M. de Lesseps himself professes to be confident that the canal will be finished in 1889, but he wants money. His own friends are talking of twenty years while experts with nothing at stake assert that it may be done in forty years or it may not be done at all.

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The last words of John B. Gough are worthy of constant rememberance by every man, young andold. In his intense way, after picturing the downward road to ruin, he said, ‘Young man, keep your record clean.’ As he uttered these words his | head fell forward, and he dropped to the floor, and did not speak again.

The meanest man in Louisville geta up early and cuts the dry goods advertisements | out of the morning paper, leaving nothing

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