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! Ie aii l 1Sii . : i nf A ‘ i N OF the DD p-48 Ol 7 on a writ il } . S ’ tnere I many i _ . . ; wes pp? bye vA : Lis at to the great nnport ] an A no the « will ) ow a? > 1 ~ ¢ eS oe +A t Winter Communication. We regret that we cannot, on benall of } * . ; ‘ : Past i t , pul cummplunent the hail | pent on their ** Winter Arrange- | aaa * mon Aft-r all the money spent on the ‘ . . , Railway and 1S expebsive Siaii, OUT peopze 1] st Chica “Riad ot Ge spouiu be anie to travei fastel than at tire

ten and a half miles an hour. | rail, from Tignish to| Charlottetown is 117 mules ; and the time t. be occupied on the way is ten hours and five minutes ! The «distance between | Geargetown and Charlottetown is 35 miles, | and the tailway time’ is to be three} hours and thirty-tive minutes! ! The dis-| tanée between Souris and Mount Stewart is} 33 miles, and the ‘‘Railway time,” through-

rate Ol Vhe distance, by

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out the winter, is to be three hours all but tive winutes ! ! Remembering the ex-

treme difliculty experienced last winter in getting the trains to go slow enough, and the long stops, made repeatedly every day, ions along the line, ‘°° waiting for

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at sta . we must own toa feeling of Surprise | |

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time, that, quickened. way trains dash along

time has not been

lntercolonial Raal- at the rate of fhfty and sixty miles an hour, the trains of our Railway cr ep along at the rate of ten! The i great to be accounted for |

winter, the

, THis

While the

diilerence is too by a few crooks mm the line.

But slow trains are not our only cause ef complaint. We complain because we can- | not trave! from one extremity of the Rail-}

wav to another, in one day.

a “3 1 the moderate rate of twenty mies an hour, | this could be accompkshed, without giving

, . ? 7 ¥ ° too much trouble to train hands. We fear

thet the official mind does not yet grasp the fact, that the *° Railway is for the people.”

Then there is the Northern Ligh t. Why cannot she, during fine weather, ply to and from Pictou every day instead of every other day? Does the Government, after having} spent so much money upon the boat, wish to save money by paying her crew full wages and keeping her in dock half the time? Surely, when there are so many stormy| days, advantage should be taken of every‘ fine day.

Then there is another ‘‘ arrangement” which is still more outrageous.. The ‘ Na- poleon of Railways” has taken it into his head to delay mails and passengers from this | Island for New Brunswick, Quebec, On-| tario, Maniteba, Keewatin, Governor Laird’s | large domain (worse than all), British Columbia, the whole of the United States—- in short, for the whole American Continent —jn the town of Truro twenty-four hours ! The trains conveying Island mails and pas- sengers miss connection with the Northern Express going west by one hour and a quar- ter; and consequently they are warehoused and hoteled at ‘'ruro—a rather pretty town, by the way—for a day and a night. The atrant stupidity or deliberate injustice of this arrangement is so evident that it must be changed.

In respect to winter communication, we have all along been humbugged and cheated by the Dominion Government and its offi- cials. It is time the people, by a strong ex- pression of opinion, showed these gentle-

i not be con-

men that such tactics must

tinued. What are our representatives do- ing ! Indignation Meeting. At the Sturgeon meeting on November

29th the following resolution was unani- mously adopted:

That whereas, the government at the last session passed several acts which are not satis- factory to the people in general,

Resolved, That the poll tax on clergy and old men is unjust.

Resolved, That the school teachers’ salaries be increased and paid in full by the govern- ment; and that itis the opinion of this meet- ing that there should be an alteration made in the road service; and that the steamer now plying on the Georgetown ferry be removed, as she does not give the public the accommoda- tion whieh one sailboat did. ‘

Therejore resolved, that our representatives nse their influence to have these amendments settled to the satisfaction of the people.

The following resolution was passed unanimously at the meeting held at Mount Stewart on Wednesday last:—

Whereas the assessment act passed by the government is arbitrary and oppressive, and

Whereas many of the other acts also passed by the government are obnoxious to the vast majority of the people, and

Whereas the administration have been ex- travagant instead of practising economy and retrenchment,

Theregore resolved, that the government have justly forfeited the contidence hitherto reposed in them, and they should resign.

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Frienrenep To Deatu,—Burglars en- tered the house of Hugh Boyle, of Spencer- ville, Ont., on the 17th, and Mrs. Boyle died suddenly from the fright.

Tur Evangelical Alliance of Ottawa, met on the 17th, and ceased to exist. The min- isters of various denominations being unable to agree.

Jus Maritime Union de'egates from Nova Scotia, consisting of Hon, P. C, Hill, Hon. Robert Boark, representing the Govern- ment, and Hon, Simon Holmes, and Dr, Parker, representing the Opposition, went to Fredericton on the 17th, where they will ponfer with members from the Now Bruns-

Travelling at}:

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on te eet Superannuaticn Officers.

a t y rom a i¢

‘unto Meil. | Superannuations or “State pensions ’ were denounced by the old Liberals, and the Rouge party some ) cars ago m erted an nti-superannuation plank in their plat- “Hut the views ef the so-called Lib- is on all other questions re-

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ng to the government of the counuy ‘have radically changed since the parly took oilive. ‘Lhe superannuation account trom

i871 to the last fiscal year stands as iol-

LOWS: PPP Sse PETS &: $12,880 ce ree Pes as 38,842 el Day gaa pb ay 54,026 as uahak oases 64,442 SR alas ke « old aA 771,293 eet a 101,627

For the year ending the 30th June, 13.7, we have of course no official figures as yet, but we venture to place the amount at $130,000, an increase of $80,000 under the

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gentlemen who in opposition denounced

Siate pensions.

; ( '‘’he system was established for the bene-

fit of deserving public servants; but the men now in power are using it almost wholly for party purposes. What more indefens- ible act ean be imagined than the su-

| perannuation of Mr. LeSuceur, the head of

the money order branch of the Post Office

Department, an excellent officer, and to-day |

as strong mentally and physically as ever he

was! it had a purpose, however, which it would be too barefaced to reveal at the moment. Or take the case of Mr. Warren,

the Customs Officer at Whitby, who was superannuated in the prime of life to make room for Dr. Carson, a local liberal of great ‘‘ mesmeric” experience and therefore hav- ing strong claims on the party. For months after Dr. Carson’s ap- pointment, so we learn from a local paper, he employed Mr. Warren at the govern- ment’s expense to do the work of the ollice ; in other words, Mr, Warren was receiving for the time both a pension and a salary for enabling Dr. Carson to enjoy a sinecure ! here was a case at Hamilton, too, the other day where a public ofiicer was super- annuated on the ground of old age or de- érepitude, and who the week after was ap- pointed valuator at $1,200 a year by a pub- lice investment institution, whitch would scarcely offer su responsible and lucrative a position to one unable through mental or physical debility to do the placid and not overpowering work of a Government office. in the Lower Provinces also this system of superannuating public servants on the pre- tence of debility, but in reality for no other reason than situations are wanted for hungry partizans, is being vigorously pursued. It was shown last session that an ofiicer in Victoria, N. S., had been super- annuated because being nearly sixty he was considered too old, and a Liberal, aged 79, appointed in his place. A fortnight ago a Collector of Customs, taking with hima Liberal to fill the vacancy, was sent to su- perannuate a light-house keeper at Cow Bay, Cape Breton, and the latter only es- caped until spring by refusing under the plea of stress of weather to’ come ashore this winter. The North Sydney, C. B., Herald says the man who thus evaded the writ of superannuation, is actually younger, healthier, and stronger, than the Liberal who is waiting for his shoes.

The conduct of the Government in this respect is unjust to those superannuated, because if an officer has been drawing $1,- 000 as salary, his pension seldom exceeds $600, and unfair to the country which has to pay $1,600 where $1,000 would suttice.

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Mr. Bright and the Bishops.

The Bishop of Peterborough ata church meeting at Loughborough made a_ very amusing reply to Mr. Bright’s recent Roch- dale criticism on the Church of England. Mr. Bright, said the Bishop, was something like Lord Chaneellor Eldon, who seldom came inside a church, but boasted that he supported it as a buttress from outside. Dr. Magee advised any clergyman coming to a new post of duty to fix his eyes steadily on Mr. Bright and imitate all his many excellent and noble qualities ; to imitate him in deep and earnest sincerity of his convictions, and in the devotion of heart and inind which he: gives to that which he believes to be right and true. But he would entreat such a clergyman, if he wished to bring back dissenters to the Church, not to imitate Mr. Bright’s mode of speaking of those who differ from him. ‘‘Do not, for instance, too hastly assume—or speak as if you assumed—that all virtue, excellence and wisdom, vest in yourself and those who agree with you, and that those who differ from you do so differ because they are extremely stupid or extremely dishonest. Do not too hastily classify those who differ from you by the somewhat broad distinction of knaves and fools ex- cepting always that small residum—Bishops and the like—who may be botn knaves and fools.” — London Spectator. oe <——

The Rebellion in Cuba.

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The rebellion in Cuba is not yet ended, and, if the reports now being received irom the island are true, the insurgents, instead of lay- ing down their arms, are fighting desperately and achieving victories. A letter from Ha- vaua announces the capture, on the 20th ult., of a valuable Spanish military train, composed ‘of 106 ox carts, in charge of 800 men. The Spaniards fought well, but soon were com- pletely demoralized and became panic-stricken, their commanding officer having fallen, pierced by bullets early in the battle. Overwhelmed by numbers, after fighting desperately, the Spaniards were wade prisoners, and the whele train captured by the enemy. The attacking force was under the leadership of General Go- mez.

menced.

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Cuartes CurMaNn, a noted American forger, of Georgia, was arrested in Fredric- ton on the 18th. He is known to have forgered $100,000 on his father’s banking

ick Legislature, : ,

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of Public!

‘The capture js one of the most impor | tant made at a single blow since the war com- |

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Latest by Telegrapa.

WAR NEWS.

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[Py Telegraph to Reading loom and Daily Examiner. |

LONDON, Dec, 21.

General Todleben has been appointed Commander of the Russivn army before

Rustehuk. lt is rumored that the Hari about to retixe.

The Parliament is to be summoned in or- 'der to increase the armaiuent to a war foot- ine, vote the purchase of the | urkish fleet, the Khedive’s shares in the Suez Canal, and 'the Porte’s sovereignty over isgypt, The Duke of Manchester succeeds the | Earl of Dufferin as Governor General of the Dominion of Canada.

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Correspondence.

parr Wedo nol hold ourselves responsible for the opinions or statements of Corres pondents,

To the Editor of the Exaniner:

Sim, —The Government organs have at last been roused into an attempt to deiend their patrons. In articles feeble and labored, em- vellished with dreary columns of figures, they endeavor to prove that they were no worse than their predecessors. ‘This discussion of comparative merits will not now satisly the people; the fact that the present party first resorted to direct and heavy taxation is un- questionable, and we wish their apologists to show that, before resorting to a measure which should only be adopted as a last resource, they had made ever y etiort. at retrenchment; that they had reduced the number of officials; that they allowed no man to accept an office for which his antecedents totaliy untitted bin, and draw a large salary for doimg next to nothing ; tuat they took measures to prune the cumbrous and expensive machinery ot ley- islation down to a point dictated by our actual wants; pubhe buildings that could possibly be ¢dis- pensed with; that they passed no act placing a burden on the Province which should be borne by the Dommion; that they gave

uo grant to a public work which it was the duty of the General Gov- ernment to attend to. When they have

proved all this 1 shall cease tv look upon them as culpable in thrusting heavy taxation upon the people, though | can but consider them grossly incompetent as legislators im having passed for that purpose the most blundering and tyrannical law ever enacted in a tree country, whose only merit consists in its ab- solute and complete unfitness, through which it will prove a qlessing in disguise, by rousing the people from their apathy and by opening their eyes to the fact that they have been made the tools of political agitators who raise religious and party cries to serve their own seltish ends. Should the storm raised by this act have the effect of clearing the political atmosphere, and of inducing the people to take a spontaneous and healthy interest in elections, they will not have to pay in the shape of salaries to greedy ofiice hunters, the price required for canvassing and drumming them up to the polls. Let the electors choose aman tor themselves (and bear in mind that it does not need a genius, still less an orator) to make an efficient representative, and bind themselves to elect him without expense ; then they will haye a member to represent them unfettered by promises to needy hangers-on, and independent in every sense of the word.

I am told that Mr. W. D. Stewart has held me up at public meetings as a political agitator, stirring up the people. I need scarcely say this is ike most of his statements—uincorrect. That man must be blind imdeed who fails to perceive that the existing excitemert is the spontaneous feeling of indignation in a people awakened to asense of the fact that they are ruled by a selfish, reckless and incapable party. My experience of politics has not been such as to induce me to re-enter public life, and should I ever do so it will be in opposition to beth my inclination and interests; never- theless I shall, as one of the people, always hold it my privilege, and never fail to take the liberty, to express freely and without fear of the result (though I hope without asperity), my opinions of public men and their political actions. J. T. JENKINS,

December 21, 1877.

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An Item in favor of the Darwinian Theory.

Mr. Eprror,—Some years ago I had a sister killed by a snowball! This may appear in- credible to some, but it is a positive fact. The missle struck her directly on the jugular at the throat. A transfusion of the blood through the whole body was the result; and in a few days she was a corpse. I have been reminded of this disaster by the monkey pranks of some juveniles of this town last evening. .At 8 o'clock I was passing up Prince Street, and as [ approached a low corner house opposite Mr. Hutchison’s grocery. store, | saw a lady coming to meet me. Just as she caime in front of the said corner house, down came a volley of snowballs on her devoted head. I don’t know how many of the snowy pellets hit the target, but the lady could not have escaped them all. J looked up, and, popping from the opposite side of the reef, I saw two juvenile | skulls, the faces of which I recognized. Their play was to fire a volley of well hardened balls at the passers by, and then adroitly dodge be- hind the ridge of the roof.. I knew my turn would be next, and fortified my back to meet the result. Sure enough, down came the nive- ous shower, but only one shot took effect, but ‘it did not prove fatal. How many more than | the two hopefuls I recognized were so amusing 'themselves, [ don’t know; but these two | _ have marked, aad if I cateh them at the-same play again, I shall put them under police dis-

ate ng antl

that they entered into no contracts tor,

cipline, which I might have done ere now only |

| for my respect for the feelings of their parents. Our police should have a gx jd eye after these young gentry ; for they give a great deal of annoyance, and sometimes damage to persons ,Unsuspectingly passing by. i. A CITIZEN. Ch'town, Dee. 21,

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|, A Temperance Reform Club was organ- ,ized'at Princetown on the 12th. H. 8, Me- Nutt is the President,

' BEER & SONS,

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. |

CHRISTHAS GUTS,

A CHRISTMAS SALE

wil be held in the Lecture-Room of the . Wathadic (8, eneeal Prince-st. Methodist Caurca, - =e.

Friday, the 21si December,

Sale to commence at 2 p. m.

HOT SUPPER FROM 8 TO 10 P.M

Some very handsome Christmas Presents will be sold at low prices. Come and see them.

ADMISSION, - - - 10 CENTS.

Dec, 20,.1877.—2in

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i CHRIST MASS {\78 Ni NEW YEAR.

pres RAISINS, CURRANTS, ALMONDS, PURE SPICES, NUTS, GENUINE ESSENCES. HERBS, CANDIED PEELS, GELATINE, MARMALADE, JELLIES, DRY SWEET GINGER. MACCARONI, VERMICILLI, PICKLES AND SAUCES, PURE PORT & SHERRY WINES. HENNESSY’S BRANDY, &e., &e. W. R, WATSON.

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BR i Le

PAISTHAS GETS | THE VERY LATEST, RECEIVED THIS DAY,

—AT—

HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE.

Dee. 20, 1577.

FANCY TABLE

OF

ARTICLES SUITABLE POR Christmas [rssents,

WILL BE SHOWN AT THE

LONDON HOUSH,!

ON

SATURDAY WEXT,

AT EXCITING PRICES,

Dec. 20, 1877.

,

Dec, 20, 1877.

NOTICE!

NEVER in the history of the “Loxpon House” have we been selling Dry Goops so LOW as at present, and we’ would invite these in Town and country, who have not participated in the ExrTraor- DINARY BARGAINS we are giv-

ing, to call at once,

We only ask a personal inspection to shew that we are, in good faith, SELLING OFF at the LOW PRICES advertised.

GEO. DAVIES & 69.

Dec, 13th, 1877.—eod2w

(SEER Boxes excellent quality. } CARVELL BROS.

Dec, 5—pat 3i

re BEANS—20 Barrels in stock. } CARVELL BRos, Dec. 5—pat 3i

ENKE’S GIN—On. Consi t H Casks, bo Qtrs. and 100 Casta * CARVELL BROS.

45 TONS

IR OW !

ALL SIZES, at.

Dec. 5—pat 3i

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emunraniineaieanedienaa ane NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

NTA CLAUS.” 1878! Cheap, Stylish, = Uniguet

Having purcliased a choice lot of

ANCY GOODS!

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and

Pea at auction, at a tremendous discount on Cost, i aia now: ofiering the same at prices thag defy competition, the Goods bx ing marked

/rom 23 tv 5® per cent, cheape han : ; oe © r any withers ia the City, —_

The Stock Embraces in Part:

Photo and Scrap Albums, (newest and latesi styles), Purses, Porte. monaics and Pocket Books in endless variety, Field G Opera Glasses, Paintings, &e,

Every Article Suitable for a Amas Gift.

FREO'K LEPACE,

Glasgow House, Queen St., Dec. 2] —5j pat %

DIGBIES!

LOO BBLS. FRESH DIGBIES, For sale cHEAR

F. 8S. HANFORD Ch’town, Dec.~21—2i & CO,

Codfish Sounds.

K" of CODFISH SOUNDS (choice), for

sale by

F. S. HANFORD & CO, Dec. 20, 1877.

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Tea. Tea, A FEW CHESTS of good CONGOU, very

cheap. - F.-S. HANFORD & CO.

Ch’town, Dec. 20, 1877-2

SPECIAL “ INDUCEMENT.

cr ORDER to. obviate the crush which must take place on

MCNDAY NEXT A LIBERAL DISCOUNT WILL BE AL- LOWED ‘TO ALL PURCAHSERS AT Haszard’s Bookstore THIS WEEK.

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS NEW YEAR’S GIFTS!

IN GREAT ABUNDANCE, AT HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE.

Ch’town, Dec. 20, 1877.

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TOYS! (IN GREAT VA RIETY.) ALBUMS, All Prices.

CHSISTMAS CARDS |

&C., &C-

Cheapest and Best in Town.

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HASZARD’S BOOKSTORE,

West Side Queen S mL St ; ~quare, Ch’town, Dee. 20, 1877, ’

‘Labrador Herring

JUST RECEIVED, BBLS. LABRADOR and Boone Bay

HERRING,

23 24 Hi. Bbls. do. B. \\ IL ¢ YN HIGGS.

Ch’town, Dec. 19, 1877.

TEA. TEA.

S() Chests and half chests CONGOU TEA

* B. WILSON HIGGS. Ch’town, Dec, 17; 1877—3i

‘FLOUR.

BBLS. FLOUR, in Fancy, Spring

Extra and Superfine.

B. WILSON HIGGS.

60

Dec. 19, 1877—3i

International Hotel!

(FORMERLY RANKIN HOCSE)

Corner of Pownal & Sydney Streets,

, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. L.

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

D. MEISAAC,

Proprietor. Dec, 19, 1877—2m “

On at oii. Sait

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