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“OOTORER 10 1572
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Some Civic Matters.
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Merertnes of the City Council were held en the nights of Tuesday and Wednesday. But as Exhibition news occupied our columns, and as nothing of importance was done at them, our reports were held over. We now propose to offer a few brief com- ments.
1. The pay of each of the Clerks was —on Tuesday evening—reduced to $600 per year. It was admitted by all the Coun- eillors who spoke that two better officials could hardly be found, Their work was regarded as highly creditable. This being the case, they will not likely be long re- tained by salaries on which they can barely live in respectability ; and it a question whether or net the reduction was a measure of real economy. It is best, we think, to pay good officials good salaries. Inferior men inight, in a very short time, so muddle Mivic affairs, that it would take twice the amount of the pittance saved to get them straightened out again. One of the great- est comforts we, as citizens, have now-a- days is the knowledge of how much we, as a Corporation, owe. Put a muddler into the office of City Clerk and this com- fort would be speedily removed.
2. Light! The contract with the Gas Compgny had expired and the City was in darkness. A Committee was appointed, and behold there is light again. But the Cominitte have to look further into the matter and report before another contract is finally made. Owing to the ignorance er negligence of a former Council, the City has for the last few years been paying far mere for gas than it might have paid. Two proposals are now made: (1) To enter into another and better agreement with the Gas Company ; (2) to make an arrangement with Mr. Charles Millner for lighting the city by by means of Gaseline. Gaseline makes a very geod light, and it is held that it can be supplied much cheaper than gas. It has not yet, however, (we believe,) been tested here in winter. It is a question whether or not it would burn exposed on on « lamp post with the thermometer in the vicinity of zero. There is much too, in the contention. that the city may lose less by paying a higher price for the home made article than by paying a lower price for that which is imported, If, as Councillor Murphy states, only twenty per cent of the cost of gas is paid out of the city for the raw material, (coal), while the balance of eighty per cent. is expended in the city for labor, etc, and distributed among the citizens generally, and if nearly the whole cost of gasoline be
id out of the city for the nefit solely of the foreign exporter, it
would be well for our City Fathers to con- sider whether, in this case it would be best for the City to get the cheapest. On the other hand we would not advise contracting with the Gas Company to supply the city for any length of time, unless a satisfactory bargain can be made, and a large reduction obtained in the price of light.
5. ItseemsthattheCity Fathers ave over- drawn their account at the Union Bank by about $12,000. They require about $5,500 now. But the Bank refuses to advance more without a satisfactory guarantee that the amount will be recouped by the Ist of January next. There is due the city about $22 000 for arrears of taxes ; and some of the Councillors are not pleased because tke Bank fails to accept that fact as a good and suflicient reason for lending the city more money. The Bank, they say, has ‘‘no bet- ter account on its books than that of the city.” True. But the Counciliors should remember that a few “‘good accounts,” sich as that of the city, might be the ruin of the Bank. The existence of a Bank de- pends upon keeping its money moving and being prepared for ‘‘a run” at any time ; and it therefore requires to have its ‘‘gocd accounts” paid up at certain fixed dates. In view of the fact that the city has not, hitherto, squared its accounts at the dates agreed upon, we cannot blame the Bank for now reqniring a guarantee before mak-
la afurther advance. Let the citizens at once pay up their taxes, 50 that the over-
Teawn account may be squared and that
‘may save the thousand dollars of fn-
vest now being sunk year by year. This is our advice.
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‘The Trouble in Ireland.
| ‘Tue more moderate men of Ireland ad- voeate, as a practical move out of the land difficulties, the concentration of all the country’s energy in procuring a total change of the existing system of Irish land tenures, and in making the farmer either owner of the soil, er part owners with the landlords.
Mr. William Shaw, M. P., has declared that the results of the present harvest were not so bad as the past two years. He says the crisis is exaggerated by selfish men for their own private purposes.
A meeting of sympathizers with Ireland was recently held in Fanuel Hall, Boston. Resolutions, pledging substantial support to the tenant iarmers, were adopted.
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The Pacific Railway.
Iv seems that Burrard Inlet has been fixed upon as the terminus of the Canada Pacific Railway. The people of Vancouver Island will not, of course, be pleased ; but a better route could not, after months of search, be found. And the Opposition will now be satisfied on that point, at least.
By advertisement in another column, it will be seen that the Government, having settled upon the route, are going on with the work at once. Tenders for the building of 127 miles of railway in British Columbia are called for.
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Bnfranchisement ot’ Indians.
Rev. J. Jacops—an educated Indian of Sarnia, Ont.—recently had an interview with Sir John McDonald, Minister of the Interior, on the subject of the enfrachise- ment of Indians. It is pleasing to note that ‘‘our brothers” look forward to the time when they shall take an active part in affairs of State. There is no good reason why an Indian of good morals and educa- tion, who has settled down and is willing to pay his taxes, shduld not have a vote as well as the ‘‘ white man.”
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English Grain Trade. A special despatch to the New York press quotes a leading Liverpool grain cir- cular as follows :—‘‘The continuance of wet weather completely interrupts harvest ing. Atthe country markets, during the past few days, there has been an active trade in wheat at advancing prices. A large business has also been done in car- goes for shipment at an improvement of fully 1s per quarter. Business here and in the neighboring market since Tuesday has been rather large in wheat, both for arrival and on the spot, at 1d to 2d advance. Oats are dull and unchanged. Te-day’s market was wel! attended, and there was an active business for consumption at an advance of 3d son wheat, and parcels to arrive were taken to hold over at that improvement. Flour was freely dealt in at 18d per sack ad- vance. Corn was quiet.” nnn = ee «ena
The Prosecution of the Consolidat- ed Bank Directors.
The St. John News says: The prosecu- tion of the directors of the Consolidated Bank of Canada, for making, as is alleged, false returns to Government of the con- dition of that institution, isa highly sensa- tional event, which, however it may termin- ate, cannot but be followed by important results. Most of the directors are men of considerable mark, and some of them move in the highest social circles in Canada. The most distinguished of them, Sir Francis Hincks, has passed through a long politi- cal career, occupying high position in the service of Canada. He has also re- presented the Queen in a position of considerable importance. One cannot but view the prosecutien of such a man in his old age on such a charge without very much regret. Nevertheless it is to be hoped that the precise facts of the case will be elicited and simple justice done without fear or favor. If the issue of the prosecu- tion sheuld ba the acquittal of the accused fairly on the merits, all right minded peo- ple will rejoice. If the reverse should hap- pen, painful as the fact may prove, every right thinking man would feel constrained to admit that justice should be done.
No doubt the accused will be ably de- fended and the case against them will have to be made out very clearly to secure con- viction, as indeed it ought.
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It isan open secret in London that at the
meeting of the Cabinet after the recent prorogation of Parliament, Lord Beacons- field declared his desire to retire from the Premiership, though willing to remain in the Cabinet without office, and expressed a strong wish that Lord Cairns, his Chan- cellor and friend of thirty years, should be his successor. There is no precedent for a Chancellor being Premier, but this would not stand in the way, had not Lord Salis- bury declared his tixed determination not to serve under any one else, or waive his claim in favor of any one.
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One hundred and sixty-nine siooks of
tire, on their premises, on Sunday morn-
work of an incendiary.
| Fountains of Refined Oil and Ice Vater.
Some months ago a party of oil operators from Titusville and St. Petersburg began operations in the newly- discovered oil region of Trumbull county, Ohio. They have struck a vein of petreleum of a character heretofore unknown in the oil business. It is lubricating oil of the finest quality, and it comes from the earth refined and ready for use on the finest machinery. This well is flowing five barrels of this oila day, for which the operators have a ready sale at $16 a barrel. Ordinary oil in the Pennsyl- vania regions is now selling at 63 cents 4 barrel. The tract in which this phenomenal well is located is near West Mecca. Two thousand acres have been leased at en- ermous prices by other speculators. The disceverers of this refined lubricating oil are putting down other wells on their land.
Ameng the sand rock taken from Tew
& Thurston’s new oil well near State Line, at a depth of over 16,000 feet, was a piece thickly studded with sea shells, and bearing the impression of curi- ous fishes. * Four miles from Clintonville, Venange county, a well was sunk three months ago to the depth of 600 feet. No oil, buta heavy vein of gas was found. The owner of the well attempted to remove the casing. It was raised a foot. The fresh water at the top of the hole rushed into the space at the bottom. It was caught by the great rush of gas and thrown one hundred feet in the air. This natural fountain has been gushing at the rate of 2,000 barrels of ice- cold water a day ever since, with no indica- tion that it will ever cease.
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Weather Bulletin.
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Probabilities for the next 24 hours for the Maritime Provinces.
Toronto, Oct. 10, 10 a. m.
Moderate to fresh winds ; cloudy to partly
cloudy weather, with showers. ES
A THREE-YEAR-OLD gelding owned by Mr. Wm. 8. McKie, sired by Mr. A. N. Large’s ‘‘Messenger Boy,” and damed by ‘‘Lady Carlton” was purchased to-day by a gentleman from the Unlted States for $200.
Henrietta McDonatp appeared at the Stipendiary Magistrate’s Court this forenoon on charge of being drunk and disorderly. Henrietta was discovered by the police while entertaining a large audience at an open-air ‘free and easy” concert of one of the thorough- fares of the Eastend. When arrested she was dancing a lively jig. She was sentenced to twenty days’s imprisonment. James Murphy was arraigned on charge of stealing a pair of pants from the dry goods store of Mr. Owen Connolly on Queen Street. The only evidence against James was to the effect that on Tues- day week a woman entered Mr. Connolly’s store and informed a clerk that three men had run off from the store door, and that one of them took a pair of pants. The clerk pur- sued the thieves and caught the prisoner Mur- phy near St. Dunstan’s Cathedral. He de- nied the larceny, and refused to give the names of his accomplices. The Magistrate re- manded him to jail eight days for further evi- dence in the matter. Patrick McGuigan, Patrick McKenna and John Toal were sum- moued for assaulting John Joseph Hogan while he was at work at the Boston boat on Wednesday. Mr. Hogan preferred the charge very pointedly, and in concluding lectured the Magistrate for not dealing properly with and punishing the blackguards who assault him without provocation. The charge was proved against the first two-named, and they were fined $4 or twenty day’s imprisoment. Toal was discharged. John Deyle, a boy about 15
years of age, was sentenced to one months’ im- prisonment for being drunk and disorderly.
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Tue Market to-day was small. Sales brisk at the following prices: Beef (small) from 5 to 12 cents per lb.; beef (qr.) from 4 to 7 cents; mutton, from 4 to'7 cents per lb.; lamb, from 4 to 9cents per lb. ;chickens, per pair, from 30 to 50 cents ; Geese, from 45 to 55 cts.; ducks, 45 te 55 cents per pair; butter (fresh) from 15 to 17 cents per lb.; butter (tub) from 13 to 14 cents; eggs from 15 to 16 cents ; potatoes, from 20 to 25 cts. ; oats, 33 cts.; hay, from 30 to 38 cts.
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The assessment of Ottawa for 1880 is $10,295,635, as against $11,053,437 for the present year.
Hon. Mr. Langevin is acting Secretary of State during the absence of Hon. Mr. Aikins.
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Barkertine ‘‘Annie,”’ Davis, master, from Maderia, arrived at Port Hill, on Tuesday, the 30th inst. She is now being loaded with oats at Port Hill Wharf by the Hon. John Yeo.
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Iv appears from the recently issued report of the Minister of Mines of British Columbia that the estimated yield of gold from 1858 to 1875 aggregated the enormous sum of $38,196, - 970. To this is added the probable product of 1876, swelling the sum for eighteen years’ pro- duction to forty million doilars. During these years the average number of miners em- ployed is given at 3.220, and the average earnings per man per year $668. Many por- tions of the country are admirably adapted for the cultivation of fruits and cereals, Cattle and horses winter out from the 49th parallel to Fort Fraser, in lat. 54”, a stretch of 450 miles,
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Boschees German Syrup
can now be purchased right at home, it is the most suecessful preparations ever introduced to our op. t works like a charm in all cases of Consumption, Pnuemonia, Hemorr- hages, Asthma, severe Coughs, Croup and all
other Throat and Lung Diseases. No person has ever used this medicine without getting immediate relief, yet there are a great many poor, suffering, skeptical persons going about our streets with a suspicious ph and the
wheat, belonging to Stewart and Spence’ voice of consumpti i i ption coming from their ] ‘ Green, of Summerside, were destroyed by that will not try it. Ify ae it is ear ra
jfault, as you can go to your druggist and
ing. The fire is supposed to have been the/ get a sample bottle and tryit; three doses will
relieve any case, Regular size ouly 75 cts.
Attractive Sale of Apples,
W. D. STEWART, Auctioneer,
WILt. BELL AT THE
Queen Street Auction Rooms,
TO-MORROW, SATURDAY,
at ll o’CLock, A. M.,
140 buls. choice No 1 Apples,
(hand-picked, )
In Gravensteins, Ribston Fippins, Blue Pair Maries, Chibucto Beauties, Fall Jennettings.
98 1-2 bbls Louise Bonne Pears
This fruit wlll arrive to-night per Steamer ‘“St. Lawrence,” direct from the celebrated orchard of JUDSON HARRIS, Cornwallis, whose fruit received the King’s County Col- lection Prize at the Halifax Exhibition.
A good chance for families and dealers to put in winter stock.
W. D. STEWART, Auctioneer. Oct. 10. 1879.—li
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ANTHRACITE COAL FOR SALE. At $4.50 per ton of 2000 Ibs,
RIGT. ‘*‘SHAMROCK” expected to ar- rive here about 20th inst., from Philadel- phia, with 150 tons Anthracite Coal, which will be sold on arrival. OWEN CONNOLLY. Ch’town, Oct 10, 1879. —tf
S A. BH’ Bi. NE of the best FIRE aad BURGLAR
proof Safes to be found in the ‘city, will be sold at a bargain if applied for at once, at
HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE. Ch'town, Oct. 10. 1879.—eod tf
LADIES’ SAGQUES,
ALI PRICES.
A CAPITAL LINE opening this day. BEER & SONS.
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HEAVY & MEDIUM WINTER SHAWLS,
Choice Patterns. BEER & SONS.
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FELT HATS,
STRICH FEATHERS, ‘traw Hats, Ar- tificial Flowers, New Kid Gloves, Fril- lings, Laces, Ribbons, Hat Ornaments.
BEER & SONS.
Oct. 10, 1879.—lw
Organs and Pianos,
EVERAL ORGANS AND PIANOS of the best make will be sold much under cost if applied fer immediately at HARVIE'S BOOKSTORE, Oct. 10, 1879.—eod tf
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A FIRST-CLASS MACHINIST, at
BRUCE & McKENZIE’s, Oct. 9, 1879, —tf Queen Street.
COAL. COAL. JUST ARRIVED,
ARGE AND SMALL COAL, per schrs. ‘*Wm. Philpot,” **Sea Breeze,” and ‘*M, W. P.” Willbe sold cheap while landing. WM. KOUGHAN. Ch’town, Oct. 9, 1879,—4i
NOTICE!
SLAND STOCKHOLDERS in the Beliveau Albertite & Oil Company who have not paid the 6th call of 24 per cent. due on the 5th inst., will please pay into the Bank of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, on or before the 15th inst.
WILLIAM PATRICK. Manager. Oct 9, 1879.—lw
“THE JEWS.” s Hii REY. JACOB FRESHMAN, son of a Z converted Jewish Rabbi, will Lecture in 1e ¥. M. €. Association Hall,
Gn Monday, Evening, the 13th inst.,
AT § o’cLocx,
Subject: ‘‘The Jews—their manners, cus- toms, religious ceremonies, literature, ete,”
The Lecturer will appear in the garb of a used in Jewish worship, such as Phylacteries,
a ete.
Sabbath School workers and all whe are interested in God’s Ancient People should not fail to be present.
Admission 25 eents. Tickets to be had te the stores of Mr. Harvie, Dr. Dodd, th
Apothecaries’ Hall, and at the door.
APPLES. PEARS.|
Jewish Rabbi, and will exhibit all the articles ¢
A Large Consignment
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DRY GOODS!
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CLOTHING
RECEIVED AT THE
(ueen Street Auction Rooms,
Ordered for Immediate Sale Without Reserve.
AM instructed to sell at Public Auction, at my Auction Rooms,
On Thursday, the 16th inst.,
At 11 o’clock, and to continne from day to day until the entire Stock is disposed of:
A consignment of Dry Goods, consisting in part of Dress Goods, Grey & White Cottona, Shawls, Flannels, Fancy Goods, Crapes, Mantles. Velvets, Silks, Scarfs, Ties, Umbrel- las, Shirtings, ‘Tickings, Gloves, Hosiery, Car- pets, Window Hollands, Furs, (in Muffs, Boas, Collars, Caps, &c.,) Ulster Cloths, Corsets, and a large assortment of small wares.
ALSO—A FULL LINE OF Readymade Clothing,
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20 CHESTS CHOICE TEA.
These goods are all in first-class order and will repay inspection by intending purchasers.
A first class chance for country dealers to fill up stock.
Great bargains may be expected as the con- signment will be cleared out without reserve.
TERMS—AlIl sums under $50 cash; over that amount and under $150, 3 months; and over $150 four months credit will be given on approved joint paper.
W. D. STEWART, Auctioneer,
Ch’town, Oct. 8, 1879.—tl sale—pat
N. B.—The stock will be open for inspec- tion on Wednesday, the 15th inst.
FOR CHARTER
FOR POTATOES.
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TEAMSHIP ‘‘ PRINCE EDWARD” will be! due here from Liverpool, G. B., about the 18th November, next, and will carry POTATOES on freighteither'in barrels or boxes, provided a full cargo can be engaged.
Parties wishing to avail themselves of thie opportunity had better apply at once in order to secure rcom.
If this arrangement is completed the ‘Prince Edward” would sail about the end of November for Liverpool, direct.
For particulars apply to
PEAKE BROS,;& CO., Oct. 8, 1879 —tf
Herring |
Potatoes !
HAVE in store 100 barrels Labrador Herring which I will sell at reasonabie rates in exchange for Potatoes.
HENRY COOMBS, pat era
Oct. 8, 1879—3i
Mr. W. DOUGAN
E prepared to give instruction during the
coming winter on the Violin, Violincello, Claironet, Flute, Cornet and all instruments used in a brass band. Instruction given te arrange music for bands under Spohr’s system. For terms, etc., apply at his shop, Dorchester street. [oll 4i 2aw
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TO LET.
MELLAR AND WAREHOUSE to let _/ suitable for storing Potatoes and Oats. Apply to W. W. CLARKE, Hd. Lord’s Wharf. Ch’town, Oct, 8, 1879. ~6i
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“‘Lorweé Hicutanp Wuisky.—Sole pro- prietors, Greenlees Brothers, London and Argyleshire. This Whisky is a pure unadal- terated 'spirit, very mellow, in quality excel- lent, and in our opinion perfectly wholesome. Where a stimulant is required, it is to be pre- ferred to brandy.”—London Medical Review.
Agents: .- MESSRS. QWEN CONNOLLY & CO., Charlottetown, P.E.I. June 24, 1879.—6m
— FELT HATS JUST RECEIVED, and for sale; will be sold much below regular prices. F, LEPAGE & Co.,
. 53 Queen St.
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