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SINGLE Corres Two Crents,
CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, FRIDAY. MARCH 7, 1884,
VOL 14.-—NO0, 91.
SEER & COFF’S.
fare TEA is giving splendid satisfaction. Prices, retaitl
+) . . * . ‘ ‘ ¢ of >». ® 24cts., 30cts., and 36cts, Prices, wholesale, very low.
FIVE POUND TINS, (screw top), excludes the air, pre-
serving the flavor and strength of the Tea. Just what is wanted.
+ tee Derr + ee 8 em _ 1) ‘ ‘ \\/ 4 i re, . ie ) ij £3 . i $ i \ ry ’ , \ A Lu Li IsLiit i \ Ue ra n ' < ‘ 50 : rates, LM ANAS FOR MARGA, i884. #in y » 2U.0 a. mM lth a >n. 7 om I Lu 7 } s 27th in Un ; nt n morn) hm § 435 42 32 0 42)10 & £0) 3 9 1h} 1 264) ; ti é a 2 lb : 7 ih'i0 45.3 ] ‘ s 458.11 42 4 34 i ; is 6 >| b4 ~~ y 3 Ge 4 Be j 0 44 8 2A 21 ay »>90i 2 aU 0 Jay ~ + v 2| 27 Li | 6.6 81034! 31 i2' Wedaesday 22 Mids 3 35 I sday | 20 58' $ 12/11 35} 38 : ay 1g 9' 9 12'a 7} 41 15 8 . 176 1/1011) 0 46) = 44 ! 15 ziti 9 13! 47 17, Monday 13 3imorn} 15t! 50 18| Tuesday ll 5) 0 2 38 54 19) Wedn eacday 9 6) 05 2 33 57 ) Tharsda 7 7| 1 421 44212 O 21, Friday 338° 3 3 22 |Saturday i 3 ies G7 2 7 23|Nanday r+ 2 343-81 10 24! Monday 559| 13/4169 1 4 25 Tuesday 677i 141 449 9 44 17 Wednesday 56) 16 5 21/10 26 20 27 | Thursday 64' 17\; 6 S411 & 23 28) Friday §2 1ISs' 6 £8 ll 46 26 2° ' Saturday §2 i9' 7 JT. morn 2¢ 30 Saaday 43; 211 7 dl! QO 25 33 81) Monday t? 22' § 40; 1 14! 30 JAS. HE. GQRANT,
Sole Agent for P. E. Island for THOS. CONNOR & SONS, Repe Manulacturers,
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Halt chests very cheap to the trade.
SEER & GOFF. a:
Wholesale and Retail, Cheap.
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230 boxes very choice Valencia and Layer RAISINS,
30 half-boxes choice LAYERS, 3,000 pounds CURRANTS,
200 boxes prime FIGS,
5 cases choics PRUNES, 200 barrels hard WINTER APPLES, No, 1, 20 kegs GRAPES,
AND MORE TO ARRIVE. BEER & GOFF.
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NORTH BRISK & MERCANTILE
Fire and Life Insurance Company, OP EDINBURGH AND LONDON, ESTABLISHED IN 1809,
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: is _ |Subseribed Capital - » e 0.788.882.6060 sT. JOHN, N. B.|Paid UpCapital - : : 1,216,666.00 ° e : efalle 0 OS ; a < te from the trade respectfully TRANSAOTS EVERY DESCRIPTION OF Ch’tewn, Feb. 29, 1884.—l1m
hicleod, Morson & MeQuarris, BARRISTERS
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Office in Old Bank,
UP STAIRS). Ch’town, Feb. 21, 1554. oe es DR. MACKAY,
OFFICE: ROCKLIN HOUSE, Kent Street, Charlottetown, P. &. I.
“SULLIVAN & MAUNBILL, ATTORNEYS - AT- LAW
Seliciiors in Chancery,
NOVARIES PUBLIC, Xe. _ OF FICES— O’Halloran’s Building, Great George Street, Charlottetown.
Gas’ Money to Loan, W. W. Sontrvan, Q. C. | Curstsx B. Macurin
SHiP AND HOUSE BUILDERS,
. oe \ Will find every requisite for the trace at
DUCIIEMEANS STEAM FACTORY, Reer’s Wharf,
Jan. 16 F
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FIRE, LIFE AND ANNUITY BUSINESS
IN THRE MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. Settled With Promptitude and Liberality.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT. Resgrved Funds (Irrespective of Paid up Capital) over - $6,000,000.00
Insurances effected at the Lowest Current Rates, ‘0:
TIFE DEPAWTMENT.
$12,000,000. 00
Losses
Nine-tenths of the whole Profits of the Life Branch belong to the Assured 0:0 Profits of previous Quinquennium divided among Policy Holders, $1,158,500.00 me 50: New and Reduced Premiums for the Dominion of Canada,
Copies of the Annual Report, Prospectuses, and every information, may be obtained at the
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND BRANCH, No. 35 Water Street, Charlottetown.
GEORGE W, DeBLOIS,
March 16, 1882— ana Gengrat, AGRNT,
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MERCHANT TAILOR,
S OVER-STOCKED with the tollowing GOODS, and offers
them ata
REDUCTION OF TWENTY PER CENT.
Always on hand, a complete stock of Geats’ Woollen Underwear, Flannel Shirts, Fur
Ship’s Biocks. Deade Yess
steering W heels,
—AL3S0— Mouldings, in great variety, Cornice, Base Pavel, Door and Window Finish, Spouting,
Cou iuctor and Handrail, Newel Posts, Baias te. s and every description of Tarning.
ret, Circular and Jig Sawing, Planing and M wuiding turned out neatly and with des-
patch. Satisfaction guarantecd Don’t MoMillan's Coal Depot.
Albert Duchemin. Ch'towa, Jan, 2, '834,—wkiy 6t.
»yet the place, Becr’s Wharf near
Caps, Kid Mits, Sleigh Robes.
OV ERCOATINGS, WHICH: YOU CAN HAVE MADE 'rO YOUR MEASURE Cheaper Than Imported Reacy Made,
r. A, BRUCE, 72 Queen Street, Ohurtettetown
Dee. 20, 1889.—eod whiy
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THE CLIPPER BARK
“MOSELLE,”
500 tons Register, classed ten years Al at English Lloyds,
Alez,. MoLeod, Commander,
WILL
Sail from Liverpool for Charlottets wn, ABOUT THE 25th MARCH.
Followed by the well-known fast-sailing barkentine
“ETHEL BLANGHE,”
400 tons Register, classed ten years Al at Lloyds,
John Graham, (NOW ON THE BERTH)
Sailing about the Ist April.
Also, the clipper Barkentine
“ER EMA,”
300 tons Register, classed nine years Al at Lloyds,
R. RENDLE, Commander, (NOW ON THE BERTH).
Will Sail from Londen for Charlottetown
ABOUT THE Ist APRIL.
The above vessels will carry Freight at through rates to Pictou, Georgetown, Souris, Summerside and Shediac.
For Freight or Passage apply in London to John Pitcairn & Sons, 16 Great Winchester Street; in Liverpool to Pitcairn Brothers, 51 South John Street, or here to the owners,
PEAKE BROS. & CO.
Ch’town, Feb. 14, 1884.—eod
JUST RECEIVED,
ALL SIZES ENGLISH
Tron Bedsteads and Cribs,
MARKED LOW.
Largest and best assortment of PICTURE MOULDING in the city, selling by the foot or made up very cheap.
500 LOOKING GLASSES, every variety and price, from 6x8 to 24x60. New Plates for old frames,
FANCY GOODS, in every variety, vis :— Brackets, Music Stands, Easels, and Canter- burys, Fire Screens and Tables (combined), Flower Stands and Light Stands, Folding Chairs and Rocking Chairs, Chess Table and Ladies’ Work Table (something new), Smok- ers’ Stands, Parlor Easels, etc., etc,
Two very fine BAGETELLE BOARDS, FRAMED CHROMOS,
MANTEL MIRRORS (new patterns).
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Upholstering Department,
Under the management ot MR. DREW, a veteran in the trade.
We have just received our Fall and Winter Stock of Goods, comprising forty-five different pieces of Furniture Coverings, Gimp and Buttons to match, Hessions Tickingr, Hair Cloth, imitation of Leather, etc,, etc. In this department to give satisfaction, as our stock was purchased in the cheapest markets and marked accordingly.
HAIR MATRASSES, FLOCK do., EX- CELSIOR do., STRAW do, FEATHER BEDS,
Every variety of Spring Beds, Dominion Wire Matrasses, best in the market, every bed wayranted, price $8.00.
We have now on hand (and are manufac- turing daily) a large and varied stock of Household Furniture, comprising many new and beautiful designs. Particular attention given to ordered work.
KILN-DRIED STOCK and BEST WORK- MANSHIP, every time,
Venetian Blinds, Inside and Outside Shut- ters, School and Church Furniture,
Machine Jobbing, Wood Turning, etc., ete. Prices low.
Factory, @ffice and Showrooms, King Square.
Branch Show Rooms, Queen Street.
MARK WRIGHT & G0.
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Ch’tuwn, Nev. 1883,—saw
London and Liverpeol,
Commander,
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By Crarles Reade. —__> CHAPTER LX.
‘Forcerties!’ cried Helen, with innocent horro:.
‘Rank forgeries!’ repeated the expert, coully.
‘Forgeries,’ cried Helen. can printed things be that?’
‘That is what [ should like to know,’ said the old lady.
‘Why, what else could you cali them? said the expert. ‘They are got up to louk like extracts from newspapers. but they
‘Why
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were printed as they are, and were never
‘in any journal. Shall I tell you how found that out,’
‘If you please, sir,’ said Helen.
‘Well, then, I looked at the reverse side, ‘and I found seven misprints in one slip and five in the other. That was a great ‘number to creep into printed slips of that length. The trial part did not show a ‘single erratum. ‘Hallo,’ said I to myself ;
‘why. one side is printed more careiully than the other.’ And that was not natural. The printing of advertisements is looked ‘after quite as sharply as any other part in a journal. Why, the advertisers them- selves cry out if they are misprinted
| ‘Oh, how shrewd !’ cried Helen.
‘Child's play,’ said the expert. ‘Well, from that blot I went on. I looked at the edges, and they were cut too clean. A gentleman with a pair of scissors can’t cut slips out of a paperlike thir. They were cut in the printer’s office, ing them to the light, I found they had not been machined upon the plan now adopted by all newsyapers ; but worked by hand. In one word—forgeries !’
‘Oh,’ said Helen, ‘to think I should have handled forgeries, and shown them to you for real. Ah! I’m so glad; for now | have committed the same crime as Robert Penfold ; I have uttered a forged docu- ment. Take me up, and have me put in prison, for ] am as guilty as ever he was.’ Her face shone with rapture at sharing Robert’s guilt.
The expert was a little puzzled by senti- ments so high-flown and unpractical.
‘I think,’ said he, ‘you are hardly aware what a valuable discovery this may prove to you. However, the next step is to get me a specimen of the person’s handwriting who furnished you with these, The chances are he is the writer of the forged note.’
Helen uttered an exclamation that was almost a scream. The inference took her quite by surprise. She looked at Mrs. Undercliff.
‘He is right, [ think,’ said the old lady.
‘Right or wrong,’ said the expcrt, ‘the next step in the inquiryis to do what I said. But that demands great caution. You must write a short civil note to Mr. Hand, and just ask him some question. Let me see: ask him what newspapers his extracts are from, and whether he has got any more. He will not tell you the truth; but no matter, we shall get hold cf his handwriting.’
‘But, sir,’ said Helen, ‘there is no need for that. Mr. Hand sent me a note along with the extracts.’
‘The deuce he did. All the better. Any words in it that are in the forged note? Is Penfold in it, or Wardlaw?
Helen reflected a moment, and then said she thought both these names were in it.
‘Fetch me that note,’ said Undercliff, and his eyes sparkled. He was on a hot scent now.
‘And let me study the genuine reports, and compare what they say with the forged ones,’ said Mrs. Undercliff.
‘Oh, what friends I have found at last!’ cried Helen.
She thanked them both warmly and hur- ried home, for it was getting late.
Next day she brought Hand’s letter to Mr. ere devoured his counten- ance while he mspected it keenly, and com- pared it with the forged note.
The comparison was long and careful, but unsatisfactory. Mr. Undercliff could not conscientiously say whether Hand had written the forged noteor not. There were pros and cons.
‘We are in deeper water than I thought,’ said he. The comparison must be enlarged. You must write as I suggested and get an- other note out of Mr. Hand.’
‘And leave the prayer-book with me,’ said Mrs. Undercliff.
Helen complied with these instructions, and in due course received a civil line from Mr. Hand, to say that the extracts had been sent to him from the country by one of his fellow-clerks. and he had locked them up, lest Mr. Michael Penfold, who was much respected in the office, should see them. He could not say where they came from; perhaps from some provincial paper. If of any value to Miss Rolleston, she was quite at liberty to keep them. He added there was a coffee-house in the city where she could read all the London papers of that date. This letter, which contained a great many more words than the other, was submitted to Undercliff. It puzzled him so that he set to work, and dissected every curve the writer’s pen had made: but he could come to no positive con- clusion, and he refused to utter his con- jectures.
‘We are in deep water,’ said he.
Finally, he told his mother he was at a standstill for the present.
‘But I am not,’ said Mrs. Undercliff. She added, after a while, ‘I think there's felony at the bottom of this.’
‘Smells like it to me,’ said the expert
‘Then I want you to do something very clever for me.’
‘What is that ?
‘{ want you to forge something.’
‘Come ! I say.’
‘Quite innocent, I assure you.’
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| ‘All depends en the object. This is to itake in a forger, that is all.’ | The expert’s eyes sparkled. Be had al-
ways been sadly discontented with the ‘efforts of forgers, and thorght he could do | better. ‘T’ll do it,’ said he, gayly.
(To be continued. )
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; Bank of Nova Scotia.
| re The Monetary Times says the annual
| meeting of shareholders of this established jinstitution was held on the 20th February ‘last. A large business has been cone, cur- jrent discounts standing at $3,834,969, and circulation $1,152,300. The paid up capi- tal hes been increased from a million dollars to $1,114,300, by the issue shares of new stock to the shareholders of the Union Bank of Prince Edward Island, which, as our readers re- member, has been amalgamated with the ‘larger Bank. The net earnings of the year fare $103,963, after allowing for bad and |doubtful debts. There, one might have |been led to suppose by newspaper para- igraphs, were very serious, about the time ‘of the Shaw failure, in Bosten. But their extent was much _ exeggerat- ed. Out of the earnings eight per cent. diviveud hes been paid, and about $22,000 added to Reserve Fund. There is, besides, placed to credit of Reserve $48,000 prem- ium at the rate of forty-two per cent. on the Union Bank stock mentioned above. The Bank has had several good yeers, and has added almest $200,000 to its rest since 1880. But there ere some
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indications in the cendition of business in the Maritime Provinces—dulness in lumber and in shipping, and over production in some branches of manufacture—that it will be more difficu!t to make money this year. The Bank is in good shape, hoewever, hav- ing strengthened iis reserves. The avaii- abie assets exceed a million and a quarter, out of six millions and three-quarters total assets.
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Nova Scotia Caving In.
The Lunenburg Progress notices a singular phenomena which cccurred in that town recently. It says :—‘‘Last Friday after- noon a large hole was discovered on the public road in front of Wm Rerringer’s house. It appeared to be caused by a sud- den sinking in of the ground, and extended in depth to an unknown distance, and at an angle of about 75 degrees, apparently ex- tending in width the farther it went down. Some people probed the opening with a pole measuring over forty feet, but could find no bottom. About a hundred loads of stone were put in before the hole was filled up to the surface, and on Monday the ground on top hed sunk in several inches. The people in the vicinity are somewhat alarmed at the strange in- cident, fearing that the crust of the earth may break through, and they and their houses be engulfed.” A similar phenomena was reported from Cape Breton a few weeks ago, and another on the marsh rear Wolf- ville.
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The Foreign Sugar Market.
Refined sugar has touched a lower depth than a week ago, and 74c has been accepted in New York for granulated, The low prices for raw sugars are unremunerative to the Cuban planters, and itis supposed that most of the sugar in Cuba is in a position of collateral, with no equity re- maining at present prices, And in_ spite of the dull market in the United States, Cuba appears to be steady, money- lenders holding on to their colJaterai, There has been a large movement in ex- porting refined sugars to England, and granulated can be bought by exporters in New York for less than 4} cents per pound. Receipts of raw sugar are heavy for the season, large quantities coming from Eng- jand and the continent amounting already to about twenty thousand tons this year. Deliveries are large, and stocks continued to be below those of January. The London market is again quieter after a slight show of firmness. There is now some prospect of a check to the in- crease of the sugar production in Germany. It calevlated at the present rates of tax and drawback the loss to the German trea- sury upon exports of raw and. refined is £1,750,000 a year, or over $8,000,000, It is now proposed to increase the tax and reduce the drawback to an extept that would bring the bounty upon exports paid by the treasury down to about £500,000, or $2,500,000 per annum. ~This would increase the cost to foreign buyer by about te. per Ib. and would put an end to the unhealthy stimulus under which the Ger- man sugar production has been growing during the past eight years, in which their crop has risen from 300,000 tons to 925,000 tons. The abnormally low prices of sugar all over the world can be direct.y traced to the pressure to sell this great mass of sugar in Germany.— Boston Advertiser.
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A good story is told of the practical ap- plication of his phrases and principles which Henry George is said to have recently ex- perienced in London. Coming out from one of his lectures on the equal distribution and nationalization of property he had his watch stolen by a clever pickpocket. On ascertaining his loss he exclaimed indig- nantly, “Some one bas stolen my watch !” Upon which one of the crowd quietly said, “No, not stolen, only nationalized.”
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A GENTLEMAN aged 65, writes:—“I heartly thavk you for the great boon I have obtained through the use of your wonderful rejuvenator known as Mack’s Magnetic Medicine. I am fully restored—feel like a young colt.” Read the advertisement in another column. Sold in Charlottetown by Apothecaries Hall Co.
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