.

ei my mae 7 f Con ae eee iia mia r ' Local and Other Items, | Correspondence. = —_ ~<aignse=asiaignennmnnennne qoearen ; — 7 = so — - Souris’ Harbor is free of tee: no ice) ar Ww (lo not hold ourselves responsible for

south of Kast Point.

Tur Patriot’s tardy defence of Mr. Me- Kenzie is much too weak.

THE ice Is how mn a very dangerous con- dition, and hauling is suspended.

Numerous flocks of

wild geese passed eastwardly over the

city last evening.

Ar London, Ont., Thomas Tower is sue- ing D. MePhail for $2,000 for biting his pose off.

D. BANKS McKenzie lectured in St. Stephen, N B., Saturday last on “ Fathér Mathew. |

New Oranges and Lemons, and Cape Cod Cranberries just received at ‘‘ The Confec- tionery.”’~~2in

Tue regular monthly meeting of Hook & Ladder Co. will take place in their rooms this evening at 7.30.

To-pay being the Annunciation of the B. V. Mary, services were held in the St. Dun- stan’s Cathedral.

Tur Jury in the case of the Queen ¢s. McCannell on Saturday evening returned a verdict of ‘‘Not Guilty.”

By Cable to Peake Bros. & Co. :—Bark ‘* Ralph B. Peake” arrived at Queenstown from Callao on the 25rd inst.-— 83 days.

Ar the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court thié morning, Patrick Mulligan, drunk and incapable, was fined #2 and costs or 8 lays.

Tue regular monthly meeting of the Ss f -

Caledonia Club takes place at St. Law- wrence Hotel, to-morrow evening, at 8

o'clock (sharp).

ss

Naw McLeop, Es@., is the acting Sti- pendiary Magistrate in the absence of R. k. FitzGerald, Esq., who will be absent from the city for a week.

‘4 poy named George McDonald, son of James McDonald, carpentar, accidentally broke his leg while playing with a number of others atthe ‘“ Four Gun Batiery,” Victoria Park, on Sunday.

4 Horse broke through the ice at the west end of Richmond Street this forenoon, and. atter the usual amount of harness cut- ting and sleigh breaking, he was rescned from his nneomfortable position.

Tue parties arrested for stealing hay from the barn of John Longworth, Esq., were handed over to Theo. DesBrisay, Esq., J. P., to be dealt with, the robbery being perpetrated outside the Stipendiary Magistrate's jurisdiction.

Ar Halifax on Monday Hugh Jones, boat- swain’s-mate of the ‘‘ Moravian,’’ was mias- ed rom the steamer. Yesterday his life- less body was found floating in the dock at the wharf. He must have fallen into the water when returning to the steamer. He was a native of Scotland.

Heavy Punisument.—A Fredericton, N. B., despatch of the 22nd says :—John Dris- coll, who resisted the police, and Boulter and King, who destroyed the tombstones in the» Roman Catholic Oemetery, received their sentences this morning, the former to four and the latter to eight years’ impris- onment in the Penitentiary.

Sevex men are reported missing from théir homes in Toronto since the Monday riot. They are supposed to have been killed, or are ly wounded’ and in concealment. Some of them were seen at the riot and known to have been hit. William Clegg, who was shot in the shoulder while on is way home, lies in a dangerous condition. The injured policeman is progressing favor- ably.

A despatch from London, Ont., says :—-

“Hargraves was brought before the Grand

Jury and a true bill found against him on two cases of cruelty and torture to his ap- prentices. The indictment charges felony. 4 mob of several hundred assembled outside the City Hall. Extra precautions were taken by the police and a strong constabu- lary escort was formed to convey him back tm jail. On his re-appearance a tremendous howl was set up by the crowd. Groans, hisses and howls were mingled with cries of ‘Hang the scoundrel to a lamp-post, ’ ‘* Lynch him,” ‘‘ Give the rongh a halter.” ‘The prisoner displayed abject fear, trem- bled violently and required the support of two constables to enable him to walk along. Were he to appear in the streets unprotect- ed his life would not be safe. His trial was put off till the next Assizes owing to the absence of his late partner, Jarvis, who has abseonded. Jarvis and his wife also are in- dieted for felony.

On Saturday @vening the traversers, John Thornton, Patrick McGuigan, Thos. Smith, Thomas McCloskey, Gerald__Sweeney, Nicholas Collins, Martin Carroll and Angus McDonald, found guilty of riot, appeared before the Bar of the Supreme Court to reoeive sentence for that offence. Mr. Pal- mer, counsel for the defense, moved for a yule nisi to quash the indictment. The ob- ‘ection was: that the Grand Jury who found ‘t were not competent—one of twenty-four Mr. Donald MeKenzie—being an Orange- man. He read Mr. McKenzie’s affidavit showing that he was a member of Boyne I », the windows of which Lodge was broken during the disturbance, and that the expenses of the damage done to the hall was paid out of the treasury of the Boyne Lodge, into which Mr. paid-his fees. Mr. Palmer also read the sworn objection of the traversers to Mr. McKenzie as a Grand Juror, and said that the very fact of Mr. MeKenzie being an Orangemen was enough to disqualify him as a Juror. Mr. Hodgson also moved for a rest of judgment on the ground that a num- ber of the demurrers to challenge were not good, ‘The rule was granted, and the argument svill take place to-morrow,

os = i To the Editor of the Examiner.

McKenzie regularly |

ithe opinionsor statements of correspondents.

— ee we p-niipe~ ape. —_——— >? ne ce on ~ ~~ om -_- -oS7

|. SiR,—-If the writer of the letter published in this morning’s Patriot, signed “ One of the Congregation of St. Paul's,” had attended the meetings of the Congregation called to con- )sider the Chureh Bill, he might haye saved himself the trouble to imform the congregatlon ,of a fact already known to them—or at least | to all whti.take sufficient interest in the well- being of the Church-to attend its meetings. | | will not here offer any opinion on the ques- tion at issue, it being one that does not con- cern the general public, and should therefore not be made a dabject for newspaper contro- versy. But I cannot retrain from refuting the statement made by the Patriot's corres- pondent, viz. : that the said Bill is now being j|rushed through the Legislature, which is not ‘consistent with the facts, inasmuch as the Bill was in the hands of a grant Committee for several months before it was presented to the Legislature, and has also been submitted and

} approved of by all thie parishes in the Island. ) Bridges’ Act.

Yours, &c.,

i CHATRMAN,

j : - — “-

|The Toronto ‘‘ Globe” vs. the ‘* Patriot.”

| To the Editor of the Bxraminer :

i

Mr. Pope isa Protectionist because he voted for Sir John A. MeDonald’s resolution in favor of a readjustment of the tariff. The editor of that paper is well aware that there is no foundation for his assertion ; but presuming

making assertion with surprising energy. Surely the opinions of the Toronto Globe on the trade matter are as relible as those of the Charlottetown Patriot.. The Hon, George Brown, who owns the (‘/ohe, is one of the lead- ing statesmen of the Dominion. Its chief editor, Mr. Dymond, is a member of th

House of Commons and a strong supporter of the McKenzie Governmeut. The owner and editor and supporters, belong to the so-called Free-Trade McKenzie Party. If, as the Patriot asserts, the resolution for which Mr. Pope voted was a Protectionist one, it is hard to see what object the Globe could have in view in declaring that it was not a Protec tionist Resolution. The Globe, with all its knowledye of the facts and circumstances un-

iy) ° Gio > its

der which the vote was taken, says :—‘ It is called a Protection Resolution by courtesy,

but it was really nothing of the sort. Mr. Pope, the champion Free Trader, might safely vote for it and boast himself with perfect con- sistency the champion Free Trader _ still. Again, the Globe says Mr, Pope will go back to Prince Edward Island and boast himself to be the champion Free Trader of that Province still ; and he will be justified in doing so, be- cause if a change of government were to take place at once there would not be any change worth mentioning made in the tariff.

When it is recollected that this endorsation of Mr. Pope’s vote is from a paper politically opposed to him and the party he supports, it is all the stronger. The Patriot’s iaisrepresen- tation of Mr. Pope can only be accounted for onthe ground that no matter how Mr. Pope votes he is to be the object of the spleen and malice of that journal,

Yours, &c., Ferre TRAper. March 25th, 1878. —_—_—___-ooo- 8 epee ——_—_—!

Imprisonment for Debt.

ed

To the Editor of the Examiner:

Srr,- -J shall feel obliged to you for space in your daily for two or three letters on the sub- ject of imprisonment for debt. I deem any preparatory remarks uncalled for, further than to declare my disapproval of an Act that is a disgrace to our Statute Book. In the course of his rewarks on the address in reply to the Lieutenant Governor’s Speech, the Hon. Mr. Sullivan said: *‘ There was the abolition of imprisonment for debt, which had been prom. ised by the Leader of the Government, when in Opposition, and he was astonished that no men- tion was made of this measure in the Speech” ; to which the hon. Attorney General replied as follows : ‘‘The hon. Leader of the Opposition had spoken of an amendment he had moved last session ; but his memory must have been defective on this poimt. Perhaps he had thought and turned over some resolution in his own mind ; but if he did, he had had pru- dence and wisdom enough to keep them to himself.” Now, Mr. Editor, J challenge any man to produce a more evasive reply to a truth. ful statement than the one here made by the Leader of the Government. Your readers will not fail to note. that Mr. Sullivan charged the Leader of the Government with having prem- ised, when in Opposition, to abolish imprison- ment for debt; but Mr. Davies, instead of manfully replying to the charge, and honestly confessing that when in Opposition, during the session of 1876, in his place on the floor of the House, he denounced in the strongest lan- guage th. then Government for retaining on the Stati te Book a law to thrust into prison a poor man, for no other crime than that of being poor, he equivocates by substituting ** last ses- sion” for ‘* when in Opposition.” As asupport- er of the present Government, I am surprised to find its leader guilty of such unpardonable quibbling. For proof that Mr. Sullivan's memory is not so defective on this point as the Attorney General would have the public be- lieve, I beg leave to reproduce, from the Par- liamentary Reporter of 1876, what Mr. Davies actually said on the subject of imprisonment for debt. ‘The following is a verbatim report of Mr. Davies’ speech, delivered on the 16th of March, 1876: ‘‘Now, sir, there is a subject in which I have taken a deep interest. 1 al- lude to that of imprisonment for debt. Let | anyghon. member of this House visit our Jail and see the number of strong, able men incar- earated there who ought to be home earning food

Sir, —The Pavrioi labors hard to prove that. lic road, may be required to prove that the

on the ignorance of his subscribers he keeps on |

weapon

~

this Island. added materially to the po wlarity of Mr,

Tam confident that it would have

Davies had he intawduced an Aet this session to abolish imprisonment for debt; but, to use Mr. Davies’ own words, ‘‘while the present Government is in power | entertain small hopes that this desiral.le reform will be brought about.” I shall not further trespass on yout valuable space to-day; in my next J shall make startling revelations respecting the prac tical effects of this iniquitous law, and leave your intelligent readers to julge whether a more inhuman law obtains in any Christian country than that of imprisonment for debt, which at present stands on our Statute Book—- a souvenir of the ‘dark ages.” W. March 25, 1878.

PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE. « House of “Assembly. | er

Marcu 26, 1878. ROADS AND BRIDGES.

_ House in Committee of the Whole, to con- sider the Bill to amend the Public Reads and

One of the amendments provides that all men between the ages of sixteen and sixty shall be liable—at the discretion of the Super- visor-—to turn out and break the roads—-except feachers—who are entitled to receive Legisla-

London House

rO0OD

Hx 8. 8, Northern Light,

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| tive aid as such—and clergymen. Another provides that persons who have, or | are supposed to haye, encroached upon a pub- |}

‘ j

road was not intended to be of the width of | sixty feet; and, if he cannot do so, he may be | | compelled to move his fences back to the| i proper line without compensation. } Sa — en LP ~—— ———-

Expensive Government.

(from the Moneton Times. }

‘ft said,” says the St. John Globe, ‘that | Ear] Dufferin’s salary, the cost of his resi-| dence, and the expense of his annual, excursions foot up $130,000 a year,” and! adds :

diam purposes we want such expensive Gov- ernors. The sum of $130,000, or even $100, - 000, is a high price to pay for a Governor General, no matter how good he may be. * * Could we not be governed for one-half the money’ Is it not possible to get a Canadian | Governor who, say for half or quarter the sum | of $130,000, would suit all our wants as well as Earl Dufferin? Well, no, not quite as well, but well enough *

. . , ‘ ;% t lt isa question, however, whether for Cana-}

i The Moncton Times pertinently remarks | that this is pretty cool, proceeding from) the organ of a ‘‘reform’ Government— |} an ‘‘economical > Government —a Gov- ernment who came into power to amend, revise, correct, and curtail the errors, abuses, extravagances and wasteful expen- ditures of what they were pleased to call ‘‘their corrupt predecessors |”

Fresh Halibut and Codfish

yo RECEIVED at the Fish Market, e I. ©, HALL.

Ch’town, March 22—2i

1878.

Oe

Ocean Steamship Co'y

SPRING TRIP.

The First-class Iron Screw Steamship

“Prince Hdward,’

1364 Tons Register, Cassed 100 Al, which is the highest class at Lloyds,

Robert Fraser, Commander,

Will be on the Berth at Glagow to re- ceive Cargo about theloth March,

Leaving Glasgow for Liverpool, about the 5th April, and will leave

Liverpool for Charlottetown

On or about the 15th April,

Carrying Freight at through rates from Lon don, deliverable at Charlottetown, Pictou, Georgetown, Summerside, Souris,

Alberton and Shediac. oe

For Freight or Passage, apply, in London, | to Joun Pircatrn & Sons, 69 Cornhill; in Glasgow, to James KeEtso, junr., 134 St. Vin-! cent Street ; in Liverpool, to Pircarrs Brotg | ers, Brockley Buildings, 51 South John) Street ; in Picton, N. 8., to Noonan & Davies!

or here, to ‘ PEAKE Bro’s & Co,

Managers |

Charlottetown, Feb. 2, 1875,—stew

Maring Insurance Gompaiiy

for their families, and he will be convinced that imprisonment for debt should be abolished. Of | ‘course due regard must be had for the rights | ‘of ereditors who have become such under the lexisting law, but for the future they should \not be permitted to deprive a man o his lib-

}erty merely ! | deltur, , sur, | for dent las \horing Proyinces

system of imprisonment

hic 41s

and im_ alinost

‘civilized country. There is no real necessity | o’cloc ; ; d it should be abolished. \for the ensuing year and. the. transaction of

While the present Government is in power, Ij other business,

for it in this Island,

entertain.small b that this desirable resorm will be brought about,” The sentiments ex- pressed in the foregoing will find an echo in the breast of every

because he happeus to be their) J

been gbolished in the neigh- | . t every Thursday, the 25th March, at Eleven, ’

liberty-loying subject in }

—f¥- PP. He. TSLAN D.

TEYHE ANNUAL GENERAL MEE TING of the Shareholders of the above Com- pany will be held in their Office, corner of : Great George and Lower Water Streets, on

forenoon, for the election ef. Directors |

By order, F, W. HALES, Secretary.

Ch’town, 12th March, 1875,

W TTL,

BE SHOWN ON MONDAY.

+

a oe

s spe nacee peas

‘Auction Sales.

|

HERRING & HAKE

30 bls. No. t HERRIN . 25 dis. WAKE, ”

For Sale Cheap at

A, McNEIL’S AUCTION ROOM.

—~ A LSO-

50 BBLS, NO. 1 APPLES !

IN PRIME ORDER, SELLING FAST AT A McNEILL’S AUCTION ROOM. No. 11 Queen St., March 20—G6i eod

AUCTION! | Fishing Station at Rustica,

TO BE SOLD, ON yy 9c ; é Thursday, the 9th May next,

at 11 o'clock, on the premises,

a FISHING STATION of the late

i. E. Churchill, which comprises all thet tract of Land situate on Rustico Beach, in Lot 24, bounded and described as follows : Com- mencing at a stake set in the west side of Water Terrace, and in the northeast angle ef Fishing Station No. 1, in possession of R. BR Morrison. and running thence by the Magnetic Meridian of the year 1764, south sixty degrees west, two hundred feet, to the shore of Rustico Bay ; thence north sixty degrees east to the said ‘Terrace ; and thence southwardly along

the tth March.

i '

200 PATTERNS

CUNADINN TWEEDS,

West of Kngland and Scotch Makes

ALSO | ;

BLACK & BLUE BROADCLOTHS,

Worsted & Fancy

COATINGS!

; ,

SINGLE GARMENTS and SUITS made up in the best stylesand | at the shortest notice.

oo ene

OUR TAILORING = DEPARTMENT

A GREAT SUCCESS.

Utéal Bargalls

the same to the place of commencement—te gether with Buildings thereon. si AISO { Fishing BOATS, § DORIES, 38 PUNCHEONS., Lot of Fishing Gear, Baits. Barrels. &e.. &e., &e, Terms at sale. J. S. CARVELL, Administrator. Ch’town, March 11--eod wkly t sale

THE GREAT

BANKRUPT SALE

OF THE

STOCK iN TRADE S. KEITH & CO.

WILL ONLY BE

Continued for a A Weeks Longer.

Few

MAY BE EXPECTED,

as the whole Stock must be sold

Regardless of Cost. Now is the time to get

CLOTHING

MADE TO ORDER, CHEAP FOR CASH

Cc. V. McCRECOR,

ASSIGNEE,

A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT =

Ch’tewn, March 12, 1878-—2aw

Wen's and Buys’ Hats, CARRIAGE BUILDERS

ATTENTION!

a |

i We offer Spxetat [NpUCEMENTS in House | Furnishing Goods |

DAMASKS,: REPPS, CRETONNES,

; ‘ '

MOREENS, ETC. |

SHEETINCS, | PILLOW COTTON, | WINDOW HOLLAND,! White & Grey CALICO,ZETC.. CARPETINGS, HEARTH RUGS,

MATTS & MATTING,

FLOOR Cii CLOTH, ETC.

\ CNOICE ASSORTMENT OF

Paper Hangings

GEO.

* March 2—1m 2aw

S

“a

DAVI ES & C0 | opposite Bridges’ Pork: Store. .

ce ee ee

We have the Largest Steck of Spokes, Rims, Hubs, Shatts, Wheels, Ete.,

ever imported in this City, which we are selling at least 10 PER CENT. LOWER than any house in the trade,

We have also a Large Stock of

AXLES ; American and Canadian

SPRINSS be th side and Elliptic ; Americans Canadian, apd the celebrated Camphbel & Fowler make.

Fifth Wheels, Shaft Couplings, Clips. Bands, Tire Sieel,

fron, Bolts, Castings,

and everything required in the line, at Pant

PRICES. Npecialj inducements to CASH BUYERS. Call and inspect for your- selves, DUURKE, SON & CO., 4 “City Hardware Store.” Ch town, Feb. 25--2w law ne & ar 2w

NOTICE —

» PERSONS having leit Umbrellas or Pare. sols at the Subscriber's Kstablishment for repairs, are requested to call for the same within two months from date, otherwise th will be soid to pay expenses. Establishment

| JOSEPH CUNEO, Hillsboro’ St.. March 18—~4i