Local and Other Items,
TemPERANCE DEMONSTRATION at Vietoria | Park on Dominion Day.
Tue Lacrosse Club will practice in full! dress on Victoria Park to-morrow evening. | }
4 pine assortment of dialogue and reci! tation books opene Lto-day at the Diamonp BooKSTORE.
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Ir has been said that Alexander Kenzie, Premier, is a se/f-made man. ‘the adores his maker :
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Asvaraaus, Green Peas, Rhuburb, Ban- | annas, Spanish Oranges and Lemons, just received at ‘‘The Confectionery.” 21
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Ow1ne to a break in the telegraph lines on the New Brunswick side, we are unable to present our readers with the usual tele-| graphic news
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fuer grave of the mnurlerer George Dowey was yesterday visited by a brother- in-law of the deceased, and a plece of the tombstone taken therefrom as a memento.
Tur members of St. Joseph’s T. A. Society are requested to meet in &St.
Patrick's Hall, on Saturday morning, at | 9.30, to attend the funeral of the late Mr. | Michael King.
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CAMBLING.
To the Edito of the Examiner.
Dear Srr,—-Will you allow me a small space
'in your valuable paper to place a few remarks
before some of the parents in this city? Some time ago the Reform Club passed a resolation refusing to allow any young men under age to play or take part in any of the games connect- that Club without the consent of parents or guardians. What good has those games done tor our young men? Whi, Sir, it has educated some of our young men in that branch, unknown to their parents; it has in- creased their love for such that they have titted up a room to educate them still higher in that branch of gambling; they are bringing some of
) our respectable young men on the way to ruin;
they have billiard and card playing to its fullest extent, anc quite a number of players to begin with. Perhaps we will hear something more on this subject. Beware, parents, that your sons do not spend their evenings in Dor
Thanking you for the above insertion, | remain,
Yours, etc., PARENT.
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Encourage Home Manufacture.
| To the Editor of the Examiner:
Ir has been very shrewdly remarked that) there must be a large amount of truth in| the Editor of the Patriot. This remark has, | ho doubt, been provoked by the fact that he never lets any out.
Tue Island Park Hotel was not sold on Wednesday. It was ‘‘bid in” by Angus|
McMillan, Esq. ,for the Executors,at $7,500. ,
The steamer frank ran a few pleasure trips | between Summerside and the Island Park | yesterday. Sprixna Miturwery.--Flowers, Feathers,
Ribbons, &c., Spring Stock now open. W. | A. Weeks and Co. respectfully inform Ladies that they have engaged a _ fashion- able Milliner in this department,and invite
a vigit from those about to order spring | millinery.—6in eod
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Tue police succeeded in arresting Ann) Callaghan, the proprietoress of a well-known house of ill-fame, yesterday evening. She was arraigned before the Stipendiary Mag- istrate this forenoon, and was sentenced to sx months’ imprisonment with hard labor.
From England direct, by steamers | ‘‘ Prince Edward,” Fresh Drugs,“
Medicines, Chemicals, Perfumes, Drugyists’
Sundries, &te., &c., received at Dopvp's
Mepicat Hatt, Dodd’s corner. -
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It is disgusting to notice, from time to time, the ‘‘ cheap flattery’ bestowed on our railway officials, from the Superinten- dent down to the ordinary brakesman. In no other place on the continent do we see such ‘‘ soft-soaping.” The officials do their duty—*‘ only that and nothing more’’—and are paid for it. An outsider reading such notices would consider that we have heroes to run our railroad.—Com.
Tur Patriot of this morning abuses Mr. Pope because he returned from Ottawa a few days before prorogation ‘‘while his col- league, true to his duty, remained.” It is universally conceded that all the members —with the exception of Mr. Pope—would be just as valuable at home, were it not that the Premier required five votes, which he can always have for the trouble of pointing his finger upwards.
Tue City Bye-law respecting the sale of butter will hereafter be stringently en- forced. In the market to-day the City) Marshal and officer Cameron examined and weighed every print of fresh butter which they suspected to be short of eight ounces. Many of the prints were much over weight ; vthers scarcely turn the balance ; while a few weighed but seven anda half ounces. The women whose prints were short of weight received avery appropriate lecture on the matter from the Market Clerk, while those whose prints were over weight leetured the officers very sharply for haying the audacity to question their honesty.
THomas Roonrty, a Waterloo veteran, died at Hope River on the Ist inst., at the advanced age of eighty-two years. ‘The de- ceased was a native of Ballanagh, County Mayo, Ireland, and joined the British ser- vice in the year 1813, when only seventeen years of age. From that period until the time of his discharge, in the year 1840, he took part in many of the conflicts which agitated the European continent, including the famous battle of Waterloo. During the last thirty-seven years of his life, he was a resident of this Island, and was much re- spected for his many virtues, prominent’ among which’were his loyalty to his country and reverence for the flag under which he ao long and manfully served. His death is regretted by his many friends and acquain- | tences.
Svicrpe. —An inquest was held on Satur day, the 11th inst., at Cardigan, Lot 54, on view of the body of Mary, wife of Angus Campbell, before Dr. McKeown, one of the Coroners for King’s County. It appeared on evidence that she had been complaining for some time past, but not so as to require any particular attention, er cause any suspicion
{it is their business.
ithe conclusion of the The Asylum foundation is an exquisite illus-
of mental derangement. Her hasband, on Saturday morning, went to a well some dis- | tance off to water his horse, and in his ab-| sence the unfortunate woman procured i! razor, and going upon her knees in her bed- | room, instantly cominitted suicide by cutting
her throat from ear to ear. A servant boy, | who was attracted by the cries of a child, ' gave the alarm, but on the arrival of her’! husband she had almost expired, and lived: only a few moments afterwards. The Cor- | oner’s Jury returned a verdict in accordance
with the foregoing particulars. The de- | ceased is highly spoken of by those residing | in the neighborhood for her piety and in-|
dustry, and much regret is felt for the sad)
occurrence, —Adve/tiser.
Str,—I felt much moved the other day, in behalf of our city mechanics, on seeing such quantities of imported furniture at auction on our streets. We do not blame the auctioneers ; But we do blame the purchasers for buying, not that it is not law- tul for him to do so, but if this is patronized what will become of our city factories ? This is a good way to close them, and then how many will be thrown out of employment. | would not buy a single article of it. Just
| think it over, and you will see the injury it is
calculated to do to the city at large. Whether the furniture is cheaper than ours, is no mat ter. Itis the love of our country that ought to inspire us with better views than those small, seltish ones—buying because we think we get a better bargain. | remain yours, CHARLES Herarrz.
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The Asylum Job.
To the Editor of the Examiner
Str,—The foundation of the new Asylum has been the subject of very serious and prolonged disputation and newspaper correspondence, and the result is that very grave doubts exist in the public mind respecting both its material and workmanship.
lam free, Sir, to confess, judging fom al that has transpired, that the tax-burdened peo ple of this Island have no just cause to con- gratulate themselves on the choice of the men to whom they entrusted their interests. ‘This applies especially to the head of the Public Works Department, a man who, by his ante- cedents, is pre-eminently distinguished for in- aptitude and utter incompetence for the posi- tion which he now occupies; a man whose genius and instincts more eminently fit him for cowstructing a fleetwing than building a lunatic asylum. But while this is true of Mr. Stewart, his colleagues cannot be relieved from their just share of the responsibility which at- taches to this infamous and suspicious transac- tion from first to last.
Why was it that Mr. Stewart chased the resent contractors ‘‘from Don to Beersheba?’ Why did Mr. Stewart and his clique evince so much anxiety to give these outsiders the con- tract? Was it because they were more sus- ceptible and easily impressed with Mr. Stew- art’s proposal than our Island builders and
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mechanics? Or was it because private interests were paramount to the general good? Or was it because our Island
builders were ignorant of the axiom that in structures of every kind the lower parts should have the firmest stability? Or was it because our Island men and mechanics, who contribute to the public revenue, ought not to have any of its disbursements? Whatever caused the bread to be taken frem them and given to strangers, One thing is certain that it is a most glaring outrage on the tax-payers of this Is- land and a gross libel on the skill and labor of its artizans.
Now, Sir, how are we laymen to decide as to the character of this celebrated Asylum foundation? I answer, by the same rules that questions of fact are determined in a court of law—by the evidence of competent and disin- terested witnesses-—by just such men as Mr, Charles Heartz; and here | would ask how is it that the evidence of Mr. Heartz, touching this lovely and beautiful foundation fraud, has not been impugned, not a single exception taken, and why % because Mr. Heartz is mas-
his subject, and knows’ what he says, andl whereof he affirms; and he positively and unqualifiedly condemns the whole affair, both in material and work- manship. Now, I would ask the public is the voluntary evidence of Mr. Heartz to be relied upon? Certainly it is; for the following among other reasons : Mr. Heartz has retired from the sphere of competition as a master mason and bricklayer, and therefore could have no motive for tinding fault if none ex- isted ; and secondly, Mr. Heartz was a stern and uncompromising supporter of the present party in power. These facts taken together give additional weight to his testimony. Now, whole matter is this:
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tration of Grit purity, economy and retrench- ment; or,is it not,rather,a standing monument of Grit folly, extravagance, corruption and jobbery, such as pre-eminently distinguishes the whole Grit fraternity from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Yours, &¢., ‘ One WHO THINKS.
Ch’town, May 17, 1878.
P. S.—Since writing the above I noticed some scribblerinthe Patriot blaiming Mr. Pope for the Assessment Act. Poor, forlorn scribe, can’t yon blame Mr. Pope for the Asylum foundation scandal ?
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ON SALE, At the Charlottstown Steam Bakery,
LOW FOR CASH, 525 Barrels Navy Biscuit,
150 “* Medium “* 200 * No.1 Pilot (thick).
JOHN QUIRK, Charlottetown Steam Bakery. Prince Street, April 1l—ne & pat Im
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AY CASE PRICES. W. A. Weeks & Go. HAVE JUST OPENED New Dresses, Hats, Feathers, Flowers, Mournine Goods.
Crapes, &e., We. All CASH BUYERS should call and examine our Goods before buying elsewhere.
oa W. A. WEHEKS & CO. S. S. PRINCE EDWARD,
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Geo. Davies «& Go. AGENT!
— ena .* ++I a? j y . ° Our Agreement with W. John, N. D., has this day terminated by
“a mutual consent. In the meantime, parties desiring Machinery can obtain information
Charlottetown, May dy pat 31
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AMOS FISHER, Truro, N. 8, or
RBOTH PRACTICAL ADVICE
MEN WHOSE JUDGMENT CAN BE RELIED ON.
ow Tailoring Department.
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AUCTION SALES.
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BOAT BY AUCTION
7 be Sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, at ; Peake’s No. lt Wharf, on MONDAY } next, the 20th inst... at 12 o'clock, noon,
One Whale Boat,
'27 feet in length, formerly used in H. M, Sur- ivey. This Boat, with a few repairs, would be ‘suitable for a Ship’s Fishing or Pleasure Boat. | For particulars apply to CAPT. MAXWELL, Queen St. fF. S. HANFORD & CO., Auctioneers.
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Ch’town, May 17, 1875—2i
KING SQUARE HOUSE
GENTLEMEN Are
Invited to Call and Look at —-THE
NIGE NEW CLOTHS
JUST OPENED UP
LATEST PATTERNS: EXCELLENT VALUE!
BEER & SONS.
Ch’town, Marcel 23, 1875.
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ROOTS & SHEDS. pos GLANT ASPARAGUS ROOTS, »)f 4) 100 DAHLIA ‘“
100 GLALDOLUS “ SOO Varities FLOWE!’ SEEDS,§ Vegetable and Ficld Seeds of evePy
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H. OLIVE, from us direct, or through “
JOHN WELSH, St. Martin’s, N. B. PRICES REDUCED!
Great Lnprovements in our Saw [rons—PorranLe Grist Mrtius—-PortTanir Saw MILLS. Address r ry. wre "mt a ry are <4 . WATERGUS EXGINE WORKS ¢9., Brantford, Canada.
April 17, 187s.
OUTFITTING WAREHOUSE,
CUSTOM TAILOR. 50 QUEEN STREET.
NEW GOODS. NEW GOODS,
Under Captain Finalyson’s Skillful Command the “ Nerthern Light, well spoken of by bummers, has landedus
iZ Gases Men’s Wear, LTHoeE LATEST OUs.
WORSTED COATINGS — SUPERIOR FINISH
Spring Tweed — Newest Designs !
LATEST STYLES,
SHIRTS (white & colored) Men's Hard and HATS, CAPS, Ke.
C. ROBERTSON.
Ch’town, April 6—3m
soft Felt and Fut
Ts 7 Iw 10; RESERVE your Spring Order, and get our Low Quotations --
EVER BEFORE.
GARVELL BRO’S, acents.
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LOWER THAN
Ch’town, March 23
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Managing Director. CHARLOTTETOWN P. £. ISLAND HONQRARY DIRECTORS: HON. :L. C. OWEN, HON. J. F. ROBERTSON, DANIEL DAVIES, OWEN CONNOLLY, Ese, Messrs. JENKINS & McLEOD, MepieaLr EXAMINERS,
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This Company issues Policies on all the APrprovep Metruops of Life and Accident Business,
Its Motto is ** Economy AND Security.”
HORACE HASZARD, Agent P. E. Island,
Jan, 51, 1878—
description, fresh and pure, at
Haszard’s Agricultural Store.
West india Warehouse,
NOW LANDING,
EX Briet. “Fleetwood.” direct from Barbadocs,
CHOIGE MUSSOVADA SUCAR “ —Y¥. PAN
(in Hhds., Bbls. and Tierees).
‘Bright Retailing Molasses, ‘The Favorite Queen Syrup,
(in Hhds., Tierces and Bble. Will be sold low, whilst landing. HASZARD BROs.,, 6L Water Street. pat 3i eod
Ch'town, May 6
en eee Sa
A GOOD HORSH,
about 6 years old, weighing say 1,200 pounds, Wy ite at once by Ch'town, May 13 —2i
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WRIGHT & MACGOWAN, Queen's Wharf. BREMNER BrRO’S
| AVE to inform those who are indebted _ to them, whose amounts were due the 3ist December, 1877, that if paymen is not made on or before the 20th May, inst., they will be sued without further notice. '
May 6, 1878—pat 2w 3taw
FOR SALE
\ VERY SUPERTOR ha
NEW SQUARE PIANO.
Maker: Wm. Currier, N. Y. cash or good paper.
Cheap for MARK BUTCHER. May 2—lin
A SBCOND-HAND PIANO !
N GOOD ORDER. Maker-—Chickering, Both very cheap for cash or short credit,
MARK BUTCHER,
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For Sale or to Let,
HOUSE on Pownal Street. Also—-One on Grafton Street. Apply to
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HUGH MONAGHAN, Grafton Street. fs ca 30- tf Wants, Lost, Found, <r.
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| Advertisements under this heading, in space not exceeding half an tweh, will be insert-
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\ @OST—A GOLD SEAL off a watch chain.
The finder will be suitably rewarded by {leaving it at R. Snecston’s, Jeweler, north side ‘Queen Square.
May lj7—31 eod*
1 poor SALE —A comfortable BUGGY, ia good repair. Apply to P. G. FRASER,
Ch'town, May 15--3i*
‘ TANTED.—A Boy about 14 or 6 years of age to learn the Printing
Business. Apply at Examiner Office,
Uh'town, May 14, 1878.
OUSE TO LET On Great George Street, opposite LeWis’ Photograph Gal- ‘lery. Possession given immediately. Enquire ,at DORSEY & JUOST’S,
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