a eas we Te eee Engtish Iron Trade. A Romance. | THe Dairy EXAMINER. sea ) - ; | he London Iron of the 24th ult. in an!“ A case in which the two passions of love |

a A the depression in the iron. tra le! an lerime are brought into play will prob- |

l EMBER 1 : in Mnelawd sa all hone of the m rail! ably come up befoxe the Police ure Dials

beers ’ e. has been given up,” and ** the cast tinorniny. Bred. B. Scholes is a young! a

43) tra ig NO lioht castings from {detely trom Simmer ae; ns: t., who |

xuC iad Lidconsi 110% ET ’ by imax ' y} ca ne o St. John ins neah | Lpho ment.

‘ ; a ; iflord . nereasing quantiti itytte left behind him’s member of tne op-) Tho tf ory ; a pee , ‘Ron mast declare that th | po ite sex, te whon I had’ to some iy at pro of 7 1 to our paiice'). trale of & Heid has not been in sue ith en paying his a vious. Mie is 4 Wow satisfacto mditiva as at present,and has two children. Perhaps, like pam We plead guilty to the soft impeachment. | singe {845. uny of the mills are stand-| Weller’s spouse, 2s 2 wi low she 1s charm: Peudent outiay is, we hold, often the wisest | jng still, and mere than half of the blast-|ing. To be brief, trea. and the widow ecsonow\ nd crime should be put down | furnaces are out. ‘he British Mercantile | parted vowing eternal faithfulness. Now it at any co i Wo police men to patrol OUY | Gazette of the same date s bys ‘“ Tn Aus-! seems that Fred’s eal v education had been streets, during night, were just as good—no | tralia and New Zealand the United States} neglected, and he was compelled to es be iam 1 The addition which! }ouses, we are assured, are carrying all be- | municate with his Dulcinea by proxy. ihe ha en made admits of organization. }fore them, and at he present rave of pro-ia nanuensis was a youth named Mckenzie, ¢)-operation, and effectiveness. Though! «ross it will evidently not be many years | who played false to the conidence reposed | t.e commission of crime has not increased | Hefore these spl ndid and expanding mar- ‘in him, and wrote words to tae widow which gince the ‘* recent addition ;” the discovery | kets are entirely lost to the manufacturers | caused her great uneasiness. ie informed and punishment of crime has incréased very | and merchants of the old country. her that her darling Fred. spoke slightly of materially a3 the records ef our Police | eb Bil. i her; he said she was “* got xd to lark with but Court prove. tpt tiin Wind aed Seketoné 4 not to spark with,” ete. The perfidy of ee Crooked 1hings and wtraigar. this ** mutual friend” set the widow upon

The Argus says Tue EXAMINER ** sympa- thizes with the distressed and down-trodden people because they are made to subinit to

a tax.of 352,000. How he whines over the number of otficials in the employ of the Lo- cal Government,xndthe big salaries they are

wae public CHESL.*

permitted to draw from vhine. It de-

fur Examiner does not

sary ollicials in the employ of the Local

gece? Government. A Provincial dsnagineer at a ‘* big salary ;” a Commissioner ol Public

Works, at a ‘‘ big salary,” to look after him; aGovernment—t!n e+ members of which are on * bis watch the Com- missioner ; thirty members of the House of Asssembly.at ‘* big salaries’ to look after the CGoverninent 0 the Legislative Council, at ‘* big salaries *

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to look after the House of Assembly—ana | most all to look after the merely local affanrs of a | mor

Province ninety times smaller than Ontario —_it is to this that Tue Examiner objects. If this enormous staff were reduced a half— as the Clerks of the City Council have fe- ently been reduced—and as it is the policy te Mayor to reduce the civic statf

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& Or and ; < tributed, ‘Tue Hxamiver would applaud and te country rejoice. We do not, however, a‘lmit that—even with the present enor- mous cost of Local Government—the Tax Act was necessary.

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The Argus cries out: against “ nineteen policemen.” nk The Argus forgets that of this number are a bailiff for the City Court, who, at least, is self-sustaining,—a messenger—who cannot attend to police duty—and the~ Marshal, who does not, and ought not to be, required to “take a beat” and perform the ordinary duties of a policeman. The sixteen men remaining are none too many, we think, to watch and guard etticiently a city with up- wards of twenty miles of streets and cover- ing an area of hundreds of acres. The Agus says the City Court costs : Stipendiary Magistrate,

$1,000

Salary of Clerk, SVU

’ Kighteen Policemen at 3300 per year, 6,040 Cost of clothing the same, 720 500

Marshal's salary,

" clothing, 50 Printing, Gas, and incidentals, 180 39,525

Very nearly one-third of the amount of the Assessment of the whole’ Island, paid directly by the citizens of Charlottetown to maintain the Court presided over by the Stipendiary Magistrate !

This statement is largely incorrect; and the Argus fails to give the City Court credit for upwards of $4,000 fines and penalties ‘paid by the City Court into the City Treasury ‘

In conclusion we may say that, while we

‘regret that erime and lawlessness is’on the ‘increase in our city, We hope it may never increase to such an extent as to render the City Court. ‘ self-sustaining.” The protits ef the City Court mean loss to citizens -dimancially—and morally.

- ereaemitit ie I, A pr temmmamrenge

Prince of Wales College.

_ Prorgsson AnpeRrson has been ably as-

“Bisted, during the past term, by Messrs. Ale« under and Brothwick ; and the institu- tion over which he has presided, through evil and through good report, never was, we ‘think, in a more flourishing or satisfactory condition than it is at present.

The Christmas examination was held to- day. There were present: His Honor Sir Robert Hodgson, the Chief Justice, Daniel Davies, M. P., Revds. David Fitz- Gerald and John Lathern. John Ings, and Miss Ings, Mrs. Anderson, Hons. L. H. Davies, co. W. DeBlois, W. D. Stewart, and John Longworvh, Miss Davies, Messrs. Farquharson and Cathoun, of the House of Assembly, Principal Harper, of the Normal School, Dr. Dawson, Henry Lawson, Fsq., e: the Futriot, Wm. McKechnie, Esq., Supt. of the P, £, 1 Railway, and others. The classes were orally examined in the Latin and Greek languages, Greek history, geometry and other branches—to the ap- parent satisfaction of all present.

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—> 000 Mr. Goschen on Novel Reading. * Mr. G. J. Gosehen, M. P., First Lord of the Admirality in the late Government, de- livered the prizes at the Liverpool Institute, and met wit a cordial reception from an overcrowded audience. The Right Hon. gentleman devoted his address on the occa- ‘gion to advocacy of a judicious culture of ‘the imagination. He deprecated the study ‘of romances, which simply gave details of the everyday life which they — saw, for them-

:2 +] lari ‘tablw dis- | 1 ij the salaries were more equitably dis-

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Under the above heading the Northwestern

Lamberman publishes an admirable article, 4 . i . :

eally on commercial morality, which may

be deserving of attention’in Canada, though

| happily matters are not yet so ~ crooked ”

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. 2 } ine. cidedly objects, however, toa number of ui-

four contemporary writes as follows :

, CLO yked protection.

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here as they are admitted to be across the Of the actual situation in the Union —or at all events in the Western States—

Commercial integrity is one of the things that, in this country at least, the drive aud rush of modern civilization have about swept oué of existence. Phenomenal instances of it now and then turn up in the world of trade, but their advent is usually so soon followed by their disappearance that, either as_opportunt-

t+. fourteen members oOfities for study or example for emulation, they

are nearly valueless. in place of the now al- t obsolete characteristic of honesty, once e often the rule than the exception, there now prevails a disposition to crookediness in our affairs and transactions that is well nigh uni- versal. We live under a crooked Goverument, run by crooked oflicers, and affording the peo- ple from whom its power is deri el ouly We have crooked laws, made by crooked legislatures, and administered oy 2 more or less crooked judiciary. We gain our livelihood by uieans of crooked enter- prises, conducted usually in a crooked «sort of way, and resulting in crooked prosperity or ruin. Our money is deposited in crooked banks, Ioaned out on crooked securities, and lost by crooked mistakes, We insure our lives in crooked companies, operated by crooked presidents, and speedily wound up by crooked management. Our business men make crooked {ailures, conceived for crooked ends, and con- summated by a series of crooked manceuvres. (here is crookeduess everywhere. We find it in high places, aud those which are lower. It

is the rich man’s reliance, and the poor man’s »

hope. “‘M crops out im our courts of justice, a

and. runs riot mm our streets.

the ‘‘ ragged edge” of anxiety. However, Mac’s falsity was discovered and his dis- charge from the honorable position of a ‘‘oo-between” followed as a matter of course. Fred’s next selection was a young man of twenty-two or twenty-three years, named Edward Parsons. Through Parsons’ aid a fair understanding was established be- tween the lovers and the course of true love ran smooth once more. Buta cloud was: gatherd. Fred. _ became involved in financial difficulties, and requested assist- ance from his’ adored one. She responded to the extent of %. Now comes the un- kindest cut of ali. Parsons drew Fred’s letters from the Post Oftice, and the answer received to the letters requesting the money he kept and opened,-extracted the five dol- lars, and altered the reading to make it suit his purpose. Two days after, on the 6th inst., another letter breathing the most ten- der sentiments was received from the fair widow, and this also was detained by Par- sons. On Saturday night the latter got drunk, and while in that state he gave ex- pression to some remarks which led Fred. to a suspicion of the deception that had been practiced towards him. He informed the Polite of his suspicions, and on Sunday morning Parsons, who is a married man, vas taken from his bed to the Police Sta- tion, and on his person were found the two detained letters. And now justice waits to avenge Cupid’s wrongs. —At. John Freeman. perdi lth Al

“Vanderbilt.

Poor Vanderbilt! At the will trial on Thursday one of the witneses ‘called by his dutiful children who are trying to prove that he was insane,was a phrenologist, who

It permeates our| testified that the deceased’s ‘‘ passion for

system of government, and manifests itself in} accumulating money was so enlarged that it | dwarfed every other meral sentiment and

our.laws, It finds a home in the counting- rooms of our merchants, and flourishes amid the:busy hum of our mills, No profession is free from it, and even the tiller of the soil, proverbially the most staid and upright of our workers, not unfrequently allows it to creep into his dealings. None seem able to escape its direful influence. Crooked lawyers plead crooked cases for crooked ghents, Crooked doctors, possessing only a crooked knowledge of their profession, help crooked mortals into cropked graves. Crooked politicians, by vari- ous sorts of crooked expedients, elevate them- selves intd crooked offices. Crooked business men ofall kinds gain crooked advantages over their competitors, In short, srookedness holds sway in every department of our social and political economy. It surrounds and oyer- whelms us until it might well be said that we area most hopelessly crooked people, living in the crookedest era the world has ever seen.

If the above facts are worthy of the tention of Canadians, still more so are the following arguments of the Lumberman, for on these points a spurious humanitarianism has led us farther astray from the right way than in dishonest dealing :—

There is much need for reform in our meth- ods of dealing with thieves and swindlers who are sharp enough to cover their operations with asemblance of legality. Such offenders are rarely punished, and as for the disgrace which once attended the accumulation of wealth by questionable means, in these latter days it seems to have entirely disappeared. The, man who successfully engineers a gigantic embez- zlement or defaieation finds nearly as many of his fellow-men to shake hii by the hand after as before its discovery, and in case he is enough of a genius to wind it up by a clever compro- mise, sufigrs no present or future inconven- ience. And so ia it with dishonest failures. Instead of regarding the crooked manceuvres by which a man frees himself from liabilities purposely or recklessly incurred as a species of fraud not one whit less culpable than down- right theft, most business men look upon them merely as business transactions, smart it is ad- mitted, but not in any way discreditable. It is owing in a large measure to this sad degen- eration of public opinion that fraud and dis- honesty are so common, and hence we eannot reasonably expect any less of these evils until we learn to regard them differentiy. It is Just here that we can profit by the example of the slow-moving Dutchman. _Dishonorable trans- actions in his estimation are crimes, and treat- ed as such are comparatively unknown.

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Correspondence.

pay- We do nol hold ourselves responsible for the opinions or statements of Corres pondeuts.

To the Editor of the Daily Heaminer:

Sir—I would like to know the reason the Charlottetown Reform Club do not hold pub- lic meetings as they did when first organized. At that time a rule was made to hold a public meeting every week, but we have heard nothing of it since the departure—or shortly

selves, and argued for the benefits to the | after—of D. Banks McKenzie, This is a sign imagination conferred by reading history | that the club is moving downward, I would

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‘and other solid works.

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Zion. Cuvrenh Bazaar.—To inte purchasers of Christmas gifts we would say attend the Zion Church Bazaar m _ he Market Hall, this and to-morrow eve lng,

d make your se Sacks ot useful articles which will be found there.

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: enliven the work of reform. nding } |

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suggest that public meetings be he held once a fortnight, not once a week, as they serve to

ENYUIRER. ->o——_ -—

laozes Sue tts.—The shipping of frozen

lection from the large es-|smelts to the cities of the United States

from the ports along the north shore of New Brunswick has commenced, \

intellectual power, Commodore Vander- bilt’s bump of acquisitiveness was in a state of chronic inflammation all the time, and all his intellectual faculties ministered to the gratification of that passion to the neg- lect of everything élse. Morally and reli- giously his mind was a howling wilderness. His love of money amounted toa mania, which would render any act-of his void, if it eould be show to be the Offspring of the delusion under which he labored,” This sort of thing is calculated to dishearten would-be-millionaries.

— - ——-- iary Magistrate’s Court.

Dec, 19.—Daniel Callaghan, on complaint of Gregory Snake, for stealing an axe- handle, was discharged, to appear when re- quired ; Wm. Stapleton, drunk and inéa- pable, was fined $3 and costs, or 8 days; Malcolm Power, for the same offence, was fined the same; Thomas Connors, and Mi- chaei Connors, on complaint of Timothy O'Connell, for being drunk on his premises, was fined $2 and costs, or 8 days, James Murphy, drunk and -disorderly, was fined $3 and costs, or 14 days.

N GRAND BAZAAR,

THE

*

Stipend

IN AID OF

Building Fund of Zion Church,

WILL- BE HELD IN THE

MARKET HALL,

ON

Wednesday & Thursday,

19th and 20ih December, Commencing at.2 o’clock on the 19th inst., at which alarge and ~*

VARIED ASSORTMENT OF

PANGY & USEFUL ARTICLES

will be offered for sale, equal, if not su- perior, to any ever exhibited here on such an oceasion.

There willl also be a Refreshment

\ Table, at which Hot Tea and Coffee and ail

the usual accompaniments will be served. \

Admission, 2@ cents; Children under twelve years of age, 10 cents.

Excursion Return Tickets, good from Wed- nesday till Friday, will be issued at the follow- ing Stations: ~ Summerside, Kensington, Hunter River, Souris, St. Peters, and “Mount Stew art. '

JOHN A. LAWSON, See’y cf Com. Dec. 18, 1877.

V TRAPPING PAPER —Allsizes, best

quality, and cheapest in the market, CARVELL BROS,

ents N, B. Paper Co, Dec, 5—pat 3i “e Fe

: 2 64 QUEEN 59

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j ; Ss us ey + zs *, WS ia me Bis 1 eee eR RY i aL A585 0%

SELLING UFF

FDUSEB PRICE FANCY DRESS G00DS, - AT COST.

A LOT OF LADIES’

FANCY DRESS STK S.

LESS THAN COST.

Black or Colored Silks,

LOW, TO CLEAR.

LOT OF LADIES’

French Merinos

ae ae

Cashmeres,

OF BEST MAKES, OF EXTRA VALUE, FROM 45c.

BLACK LUSTRES,

From 15c to 70c.

PAISLEY SHAWLS,

$4.70—WORTH $5.

A large lot of

WINTER SHAWLS

Fancy and Plain, to close lot from $1.10,

Beaver, Pilot & President COLOTELS,

(Cheap).

PLAIN AND FANCY

WOOL 'TWEEDS

From 60¢e., (for Ulsters).

Grapes, Fringes, Ribbons,

Feathers and Flowers, (cheap).

WOVE HOSIERY,

PLAIN and FANCY BAIN IN Ls,

A LOT OF

LADIES’ TRIMMED HATS,

From 75 cents,

Velvet, Plushes, & Velveteens,

Black and Fancy Shades, (very low),

Ladies’ Stays & Corsets,

From 36 cents.

TABLE LINEN, SHIRTINGS, SHEETINGS and COUNTERPANES, MIRROR CURTAINS and DAMASKS, (Extra Cheap.)

WOOL, UNION, FELT and HEMP CAR- PETINGS, (cheap); STAIR CARPETS, STAIR DAMASKS, (very low).

Good, All-Wool 10-4 Blankets,

a $2.907-@a Floor and Table OIL-CLOTHS.

oe

_MENS’ REEPING JACKETS, (Good)

from $4.00. . OVERCGQATS, (Good) from $5.70. ‘$ ULSTERS, from . >

Ju. .D. MASON & CO,

Charlottetown, Deo, 18, 1877, i

; oa NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

nance

Labrader Herring |

aa f

JUST RECZ

BBLS. LABRADOR HURRING., O4 Hf, Boils. do. B. WILSON HIGGS. Ch'town, Dec. 19, 1877.

TEA. TEA:

Sf Chests and half chests CONGOU TEA,

and Boone Bay

B. WILSON HIGGS. Ch'town, Dec. 17, 1877—3i

FLOUR.

BBLS. FLOUR, in Fancy, Spring Extra and Superfine.

B. WILSON HIGGS,

600

Dec. 19, 1877—3i

Intarnational Hotel |

Corner of Pownal & Sydney Streets,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I.

Private and permanent Boarders can be ac- commodated on very moderate terms, during the winter season, at the International.

D. MMICISAAC, |

Proprietor. Dec. 19, 1877—2m

ANTHRACITE GOAL 1

A FEW TONS

ANTHRACITE GOAL

For sale at reduced prices, to clear ont the shed.

F. 8. HANFORD & CO. | Ch’town, Dec. 19, 1877—2i

GET 1, THE NEW AUTOGRAPH ALBUM,

CONTAINING

Fac-Simle Signatures of all Prominent Persons,

AMONG WHOM MAY BE FOUND CORRECT AUTOGRAPHS OF

Queen Victoria, Prince Alhert, P sident Hayes, Abraham Linco Boss Tweed, Victor a J. Whittier, H. W. Longfellow, A, Feeereems Wm. Carleton, ete, eCice.

ONE DOLLAR EACH, Theo. L. Chappelle,

Diamond Bookstore, 85 North Side Queen Square, Ch’town, Dee, 18, 1877—3i

City School Examination,

HE Board of School Trustees of Char-

lottetown beg to inform the public that the Semi-annual Examination of the Publie Schools of Charlottetown will be held on FRIDAY, the 21st inst.

The usual work of the Schools will be car- ried on between the hours of ten and twelve, and afterwards all Visitors are invited to assemble in the Hall of the Upper Prince Street School.

By Order of Board,

ISAAC

OXENHAM,

Secretary, Ch’town, Dec. 18, 1877—pat pres li

NOW WALK INI

AN TD

V Tay W THE LOWEST PRICED

IN THE GITY ! THEOPH. 1. CHAPPELLE,

Diamond Bookstore, 85 North Side Queen Square, Ch’town, Dec. 18, 1877. 2in

To Trustees of Country Schools

HE Trustees of several Districts have been applying.for school furniture, and in every instance consider the American an Canadian Combination Seat and Desk too ex- . L have just got up a Combination

that is stronger, neater, and one-third cheaper than those that have been imported. Call and see samples ofthe different sizes. City School

Trustees fully approve of them. MARK BUTCHER, Dec, 18, 1877—ex lm 13 a pat pres 4j

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