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Sales Agents of the Daily Examiner.

Tus Datty Examryer is for sale every day

on the trains east and west, and at the follow-|That he has earned the money we have |

ing places .—

H. A. Harvir, Charlottetown.

A. D. Haszarp, _

T. O'CoNNELL,

T. L. CHAPPELLE,

S. T. Netmes

G. A. AITKEN, Georgetown.

D. SUTHERLAND, Souris East.

A. McAvtay, Head St. Peter’s Bay.

D. Ecan, Mount Stewart.

H. Bere, Southport.

Gro. O’Neitt, Halfway House.

Morton J. Hvenes, County Line Station.

LpmunD CamppRELt, Prince County Book- atore, Summersiie.

W. D. MoNxitr, Aiberton.

Jonn J. ARSNEAUX, Tignish,

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- DECEMBER 21. 1878.

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City Schools.

ACCORDING to the report of the Secretary of the School Board, there was expended upon the schools of this city during the year ending June 30, 1878, the sum of $20,726.44. This is apart from that portion of the teach- ers salaries paid by Government, ameunting to $5,916; and swelling the expenditure of one year to a grand total of $26,643,94.

Whether or not the ‘Utilization Scheme,” favored by a very large minority of citizens, would have yielded equally good results at a much less cost, is a question not now to be asked. A majority has, after a free dis- cussion and a keen contest, decided in favor of the system in operation ; and, as in duty bound, the minerity submit, cease agita- tion, consider the question settled, and vie with the majority in promoting public education—which is a public good—on the principle adopted.

Nor do we think it necessary or expedi- ent just now to dwell upon the tyrannical invasion by the Local Government of the City Charter. It will, perhaps, be time enough to discuss the unwarrantable se- questration of the city’s rever.ues for school purposes when that arbitrary act is at- tempted to be made a precedent for further exactions.

Our business now is to discuss the results of the large expenditure of nearly twenty- seven thousand dollars. And first, as to school hguses. The city has ‘‘ utilized” the Wesleyan Academy building and the St. Patrick’s School building. Both of these are well situated and well adapted to the requirements of the city. But, on the whole, they present little real improvement on their position prior to the large outlay under discussion ;—unless, indeed, the transference of the burden of their main- tenance from the shoulders of the parents whose children were therein educated, to the shoulders of the general public be deemed an improvement. Then, we have

the old Normal School building, also well adapted to our educational requiremenis. But we get it in exchange

for the upper flat of the Wesleyan Academy building. And the exchange is undoubt- edly mutually beneficial to the country at large and to the city. With Scott’s Hall and the large hall in which Miss Annie Lawson teaches we have no particular fault to find. They are, per- haps, as well adapted for educational work as any others the School Board could ob- yain. But when we consider that we pay in rents yearly $2,187.92, we have a right to claim and expect that the buildings shall be, in every way, first-class. Then there is the unfinished schoo} building. We think the City School Board should be cailed upon to explain why they selected an out-of-the-way and unwholesome site for this building ; and why they permitted it to be erected in the style of a cotton factory, when, at little or no additional cost, it might have ministered to the esthetic tastes of the children of Charlottetown for all time tocome. The School Board have sunk over nine thou- sand dollars in an ugly building very disad- vantageously situated.

In the furniture and apparatus of the schools, there has been a decided improve- ment. ‘The old benches and long desks have been thrown away, and each pupil has now a neat desk and chair. Maps, Globes, blackboards,etc., have been added to many of the schools, to the benefitjof both teachers and scholars. The items of furniture 91: apparatus cost the respectable little aii.ss::: of $3,698.25. If the articles have | cen purchased at the best advantage,—and we have no evidence to the contrary—the citi- zens who foot the bills have not just cause for complaint.

In the staff of teachers, too, there is amarked improvement. Of the twenty-four teachers employed, there are, we think

only three or four who might be exchanged for better. The allow- ances of

the city, range from $60 to $112.50—and are not, in our opinion, un, daly large. A good teacher deserves a good aalary ; and cheesoparing in their regard is

HE Datty EXAMINER.

‘lator Haviland, E. J. Hodgson, Esq., Hon.

t “ . not economy. Mr. Harper receives an al-

? e 20% show fe ene #3 anains | ,4owance of $390 a yeai for superintending

}the schools, looking after the grading, etc. little doubt. Out of the chaos which existed two or three years ago, it was no easy matter to evolve a system. Harper has succeeded fairly well. We may, however, be permitted to hope that

; ' Siine si ‘the system will soon be so well established

ithat the expenditure of $390 a year for!

superintendence will be unnecessary. * he

mere

One of the most notable changes of the}

a £ e z , F es “eee |past few years is the change walca jas re ’

taken place in public sentiment.

'citizens were lethargic, to a degaee, vespect- line the City Schools. Few | m2 )

‘ 7 heat p . 5 > | porter for the ExaMINnER—eve! thought of '

attending a public school Now it is not beneath the dignity

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of such inen as the Justice, Sen- A. A. McDonald, Hon. L. H. Davies and others of equal prominence to visit the schools, and take an active interest in the grand work of educating the rising genera- tion—the men and women of the future. Indeed, this seems to be the most gratify- ing result of the recent agitation and that large expenditure consequent upon it.

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A. FORGERY.

The Union Bank Victimized—The Forger in Safe Keoving.

Axovur three weeks ago Mr. Angus Mic- Donald, of West River, discovered that the following check was passed in the Uhion Bank of this city and the amount marked on its face entered against him :— $155.42.

NOVEMBER 22, 1873. Union Bank of P. E. Island.

Pay to James Burk or bearer, The som of one hundred and fifty-five dollars and forty- two sants,

Aneus McDoNaLp.

He immediately informed the Cashier that the check was bogus, and that he had no suspicion who drew it. Mr. Macleod, the Cashier, instructed him not to write further checks; to keep the forgery a per- foct secret for the present, and to wait, intho hope that a further check might be present- ed. The Cashier also kept the matter per- fectly secret, and till the meeting of the Directors—after the second presentation— this morning, he did not mention it te them. At the time he received the first in- timation of the forgery, he ordered the Teller not to cash further checks signed by Mr. McDonald without his instructions. Then for three weeks he remained in suspense, quietly waiting the return of the forger; and until a rustic youth entered the Bank this forenoon and presented the following check, there was little hope of his return :— $120.64.

NovEMRER, 22, 1878.

Pay to the order of James McLean or bearer The som of one hundred and twenty dollars and sixty-four sants. :

Axneus McDona.p.

The Teller, mindful of the Cashier’s or- ders, went to him for instructions in:medi- ately on receiving the check. On the first glance the Cashier saw it was identical with the previous forgery, and ordered that.the person who presented it be shown into his office. The young fellow, without any hesitation, walked in with such cool- ness as puzzled the Cashier. After enter- ing the room a general conversation took place, during which the Cashier left the

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r V7, % Poerald. ) (Fro » the New YXor«c herd. } ar oe ‘ no : } Tovnd Marv. j The deceased Princess, Alice Maud J i ’ hk. seert hila ; oe « tinire ' ‘ -as the second daughter and third chia 0! te . , . 1 AThiart (Albr cit) ! he late Prince Consort Albert (sAlorecit), | } a $2.28 -Aleews norin: i * ~~ S ‘ 1 Ar f ‘ lof Saxe-Coburg Gotha, ana oi Alexanarina is . on tees and lLre- | Victoria. Queen of Great Britian and ire Lue Us x . . .

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Gy 5! 71 it, Aust! OF 2642 anda jaf Windsor Castle, Aprii <u, 1O4u, é , lf 1o«9 Jater the happy ther wrote as} \few days later the happy mother wrove &s/ be ty ’ a3 eG ee te. follows to her uncle, King Leopold :

‘‘ Oar little baby is to be called Alice (an old English name), and the other names are

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‘to be Mand (another old English name), except the 're-|and Mary, as she was born on Aunt Glon-

iecester’s birthday.

The sponsers are to he ithe King of Hanover, Ernestus Primus, noor Princess Sophia Matilda and Feodore, and the christening is to be on the 2nd of June.’

The King of Hanover, it is chronicled, arrived too late to be present at tho cere- mony, which, nevertheless, as the Queen duly reported to her uncle, ‘‘ went off very brilliantly. Nothing could be more an- stundig, and little Alice behaved extremely well.” The Princess Alice seems to have been devoted from her cradle to the especial affection of the people of England, as her elder brother was to the Principality of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh to Scotland and the Duke of Connaught to Ireland. At all events, she soon became especially dear to the English subjects of Her Majesty, and her fair, sweet face was familiar in nearly every Village in England.

The late Princess was, perhaps, the best known and loved ef all the daaghters of the Empress-Queen from the tender care which she lavished upon her father during his last illness, ‘‘her name becoming synonymous with a father’s farewell and a mother’s con- solation.” She was also of all tho royal children the one who most resembled her mother both in person and character. Her elder sister, now the Crown Princess of Germany, having been early destined and trained for her brilliant marriage, and the Price of Wales being notably the nation’s ward, Princess Alice was the first of the children of the Empress-Queen in whom the royal mother could fully realize a sense of personal maternal* ownership, and it was, perhaps, for this reason, aided by an es- pecially affectionate disposition, that she became the favorite of both her parents and ultimately of the whole British public, in so far as personal qualities were ever al- lowed to outweigh the claims of primogeni- ture. The ‘‘Memoirs of the Prince Con- sort,” so large a portion of which is made up of the private correspondence and jour- nals of the royal parents, bear ample testi- mony to the affectionate fondness with which Princess Alice was regarded by them from her infancy. Of the particulars of her education we have as yet no accurate formation, but it is known that she was an apt scholar in all the usual branches of princely study, and was particularly accom- plished in instrumental music.

At thetime of .the death of her father, the Prince Consort Albert, -which occured on Saturday,-December 14, 1861, just sev- enteen years before her own death and on the same day of the week, Princess Alice was the member of the royal family who, next te the Queen herself, excited the uni- versal sympathy, mixed with respect and admiration. During the long, weary days of watching at herjfather’s bedside she was his chosen attendant, companion and confi- dant, and seemed *o be endowed with a preternatural calmness and fortitude. Her father used to speak with her openly of his dying conditiomand of his desires for the future, even when he did not deem it expe- dient to speak with the same certitude of impending death to the Queen herself. Day by day she sat at his bedside, nerving her- self to look cheerful, and whenever the agi- tation of the moment proved too strong for her emotions she would repress her tears until she could gain the quietude of her own apartments. All this time it was her try-

room ; and, after placing a ‘‘sentinel” in’

the person of aclerk at each door of the |

bank and sending for the City Marshal and | an officer, returned and resumed the saul versation as follows: ‘‘ That check you| presented is a month old ; why did you not | present it before this?” Forger—‘‘ Oh, Mr. McDonald told mo it would do to

present it at any time.” The Cashier in- formed him that it would not; and if Mr. McDonald had to withdraw his fund three days after he received the check he would have to go without his money. The forger then said : ‘‘Mr. McDonald must have been trying to fool me.’ He remained so cool and collected during the conversation in the office that, had the forgery not been so clear and distinct, the Cashier says that he would doubt very much of his being guilty.

The Marshal and Officer Cameron shortly arrived, and took him in charge. On the way to the Police Station he made an un- successful attempt to escape their custody. When searched in the Station another check was found on his person. It was drawn in favor of James McLean for the ‘‘ som” of eighty dollars amd ‘‘ninty sants,” and, signed ‘‘ Angus McDonald.” He had also} on his person a bunch of fourteen keys of a

very peculiar cut. They were various

sizes, and among them could be found a key

which would open any commonly

locked door.

The forgeries are first-class—almost iden- tical with the writing of Mr. Angus Mc- Donald. The — too, as well as the style in which Mr. McDonald writes his checks, is accurately imitated.

The forger is an intelligent-looking, well- dressed young man, apparently about twenty-two years of age. He is rather heavily built and is of a brown complection. He gives his name as James McLean, but his real name is Charles Harroll. He will be examined before the Stipendiary Magistrate

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ing task to display her usual cheerfulness

‘to her royal mother, to brothers and sisters

and when all was over it fell to her lot to be the chief stay and consolation to the widowed Queen. These circumstances be- came well-known and were not readily for- gotten by the loyal peoplo of Great Britain, who knew, moreover, that the dark winter of mourning was the period of all others which ought naturally to have been filled

with joy as the crowning season of her life. it was, in fact, no secret that for some

months before the death of Prince Albert she had become engaged to her second cousin, Prince Frederich Wilhelm Ludwig Karl, generally known in England as Prince Louis of Hesse, now the Grand Duke of Hosse-Darmstadt under the title of Ludwig IV. The marriage was one highly approy- ed by both her parents, and. though not

uninfluenced by the usual political consid- erations, was chiefly one of affection. Her intended husband was six years her senior,

having been born September 12, 1837, and was the eldest son and heir apparent of

Grand Duke Kari Ludwig Wilhelm, who died last year (June 13, 1877), his mother being a Catholic Princess, Mathilde, daugh- terot King LudwigI. of Bavaria. The marriage, first postponed in consequence of the death of Prince Albert, was a second time postponed on account of the death of Prince Louis’ mother, which occurred in

April 1862, and still further delayed by the dangerous illness of the King of the Bel- gians. But four years preyiously her sister, Victoria Adelaide, Princess Royal, “ the Rose of England,” as she was called, was wedded in royal state, her father giving her away and the holiday cheers of merr

crowds bidding her Godspeed. How differ- ent was the Princess Alice’s bridal day! The ceremony was privately performed at Her Majesty’s marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight, by the Archbishop of York, on a day snatched from mourning, with not a color and searce a shade of brighter hue to mark the exception to the uniform

on Monday forenoon.

| spectators, no long train of bybloaniatts> | but such moderate and needful attent ac » as would be thought fit for the most retiring couple in some private walk # Te a | There was, however, one Orig — ‘There was not that utter separation whic

; x mgr istruck ail so pe infully when the Princess Surucn ow si Lil 3

Oe ee ae | Royal left ¥ EET en comisen ot lstrangers and 1oreiguets re ae >: is not such. as to Neng ay residence in his paternal esamagert og tN was with general satisiachon that it aoe found the happy couple would take up het

in Engl: They had a villa resi- abode in England. ‘They hac : dence on the Isle of W ight, not far rom lthe favorite dwelling place of the Princess li if there they passed much in earlier life, and there they passet © es of their time for severai years 10 the socie y of the Queen. The Princess thus sn fully identified with the land of her bir i ied a happy married life and was oe with seven children, five girls and two boys. The eldest son, Prince Ernest Ludwig Karl Albrecht, was born Nov. 29, 1868, — consequently now ten years of age. co younger son, Prince Friedrich W anes August Victor Leopold Ludwig, born € > tober 7, 1870, was accidentally killed by falling from a window, May 27, 1873. oa surviving Princesses are Victoria Eliza eth Mathilde Alberto Marie, born at Windsor Castle, April 5, 1863; Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice, born at Bessungen, Novem- ber 1, 1864; Irene Maric Louise Anna, born at Darmstadt, July 11, 1866, and Victoria Alice Helene Louise, born J une 5, 1872; the youngest of all, Marie Victoria Feodore, Leopoldine, born May 24, 1874, having died of diptheria a few days betore her mother, as before mentioned.

The Princess Alice made herself popular in Germany by her activity in promoting hospital arrangements during tue Franco- German war, when she was a constant visit- or at the ‘‘ Alice Hospital’ at Darmstadt, and President of the ‘‘ Alice Frauenverein,” or Woman’s Association for Charitable Pur- poses, affiliated to the. Berlin * Vater- landischen Verein.” Her husband, now the Grand Duke, was a titular leutenant gen- eral in the German army and colonel of a regiment of Prussian Hussars, and served in the late Franco-German war with the rank of captain in the First Regiment of the Prussian Guard. He received the title of Royal Highness and the Knighthood of the Garter from Queen Victoria on his mar- riage in 1862, along with a dowry of £30-, 000, and a Parliamentary grant of £6,000 per annum was settled upon the Princess.

The coincidence of her death on the an- niversary of the death of Prince Albert, when most of the Royal family were as- sembled at Windsor Castle for the custom. ary memorial services, attracts much atten- tion.

Christmas Presents

for the society of

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HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE,

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- Turing the Holidays !

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Five Gents to Five Dollars !

will be presented to each purchaser of Goods, at Retail Prices, fer every Dollar’s worth bought for Cash, during the

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS,

—AT re HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE. ‘The distribution will commence on Monday, the 23rd inst. Charlottetown, Dec. 21~— li

christnas, 18781

NEW YEAR, 879!

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The Confectionery Is the best place in town for the sale of Fruit, Coniectionery,

Cake,

Pastry, S&€ec.

A Large Assortment of Holiday Confections, Cakes, &c., for the little ones, at reasonable prices.

Dec. 21, 1878—

PRESENTS. PRESENTS,

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If you require anything in the

Watch or Jewelry Line,

—FOR—

CHRISTMAS 0% NEW YEAR,

We have a large and varied assortment on hand, and will endeavor to suit you in style and price. E, W. TAYLOR, South Side Queen Square.

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MITCHELL, Agent.

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| Ch'’town, Dec. 2]

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ew Styles and Patterns, Ejust the thing for

Ghristmas Presents.

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF

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FIETY DIFFERENT STYLES OF AMERICAN & FRENCH

CLOCKS!

AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL.

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