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L. ARTHUR & CO. GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
121 ATLANTIC AVENUE, BOSTON, MASS.
Eggs and Produce a Specialty.
July 15—dly wkly
CAUTION.
EACH PLUG OF THE
MYRTLE NAVY
MARKED
T & B.
IN BRONZE LETTERS. None Other Genuine.
Oct, 20.
BOSTON.
SPRING ARRANGEMENT.
THE PALACE STEAMERS
OF THE
INTERNATIONAL S.S. CO.
Leave St. John for Boston, via Eastport and Port- land, every Tuesday and Thursday, at 8.00 a. m. Fare from Charlottetown to Boston, 36,50,2nd
class ; $0.50, Ist class. For tickets and other information apply to
G. A SHARP F. W. HALES, P. B. L. By P. E. LtSteam Nay, Co.,
or to your nearest Ticket Agent. Feb 8, 1886—eod wky
REMOVAL.
N ACMILLAN’S COAL OFFICE has been iV Removed to foot of PRINCE STREET. A Large Assortment of
HARD AND SOFT
COO A LL
Kept Constantly on Hand,
R. McMILLAN.
Dec.24-—-2m eod & wky
ALMANAC FOR MARCH, 1836. |
fises sets | rises water|len’h. ; wh mh m morn aftn ih m/s Ch town, Feb. 16, ’86—eod wky
8 15/10 58, =
Largest Stock in the City ; Lowest Figures in the Do- minion, Come and see the Cheap Goods.
“i EF PROWSE:
Sign of the BIG HAT, 74 Queen Street.
H. MYRICK & CO.,
J) HOLESALE and retail dealers in CANNED GOODS, FLOUR, TEA, GROCERIES, &c. also; PORK, LARD, HAMS and FISH of all kinds, Grafton Street, Charlotte- town, P, E. I. ____1a our Fish Market we offer COD FISH —boneless, KEREL, SHAD —pickled ; DIGBY HERRING,
In Canned Fish we offer SALMON, FINNAN HADDIES and LOBSTERS. We wish to direct special atttention to our
Fresh Salmon and Codfish,
dried, pickled ; HERRING, MAC-
which we receive and have on sale every day. — 30: Our GROCERIES will be found fresh and reliable and our stock is complete in all departments. Our prices will compare favorably with those of the best grocers. PORK, BACON, SUGAR-CURED HAMS, LARD, FRESH BEEF, CORNED BEEF and SAUSAGES, Our SAUSAGES are fresh made every morning, from the best material.
By dealing with us house-keepers can obtain everything they require in the house- keeping line without trouble or unnecessary ruoning around.
Orders by mail or telephone will receive prompt attention.
J. H. MYRICK & CO.,,
Fish Market, Grafton Street. ‘
Charlottetown, Feb. 9, 1886—1 mo eod
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JOHN MACLEOD & CG. MERCHANT TAILOR.
E are offering the balance of our winter goods at lower prices than have ever been offered the public.
A lot of Men’s and Youth’s Overcoats from $5 to $8, worth from $8 to $14 oo made to order, from $12 to $18, worth from $18, to $24. = Men’s Heavy Shirts, Underwear, Fur Caps, Gloves, & at the same rates, Worsted and Tweed Suits at very low’prices.
Island Tweed Suits from $10 to $12.
JOHN MACLEOD & CO. Ch’town, Feb, 9, 1886—tf eod wky
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EVERYONE CAN
call and examine the largest stock of Household Furniture, &c., &c., ever shown in Charlottetown, and also discover that they
e SAVE MONEY
and get Good, Reliable Home-made Goods of undisputed value, fine finish and good honest workmanship
BY BUYING
Staple Furniture, Bedding, Mattresses, Fancy Goods (for Xmas), Picture Frames and Moulding, Mantle-mirrors and Mirror-plates, Bagatelle Boards, Handsome Oil Paintings, Framed Chromos, and One Thousand and One other articles,
FROM
THE P. E, ISLAND FURNITURE WAREROOMS,
MARK WRIGHT & CO.
Uh’town, Dec. 3, °85—eod wky
BOOK-BINDING, PAPER-RULINC
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BLANK-BOOK MAKING, OVER BOREHAM’ BOOT & SHOE STORE
LL kinds of BOOK BINDING executed at Lowest Prices and with Quick Despatch* Ruling, Numbering and Perforating ‘for the Trade promptly attended to. BLANK
BOOKS A SPECIALTY. sa A Share of Patronage Solicited.
JAMES D. TAYLOR,
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‘UB! ORIBE for THE \VEEKLY FXAMI-| NER, The latest local aad foreign uews | cao always be found therein, :
| QUEEN SQUARE.
Ch town, Feb, 23, '86.
CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1886.
URE. PROMPT.
AWONDERFUL REMEDY
Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam.
Jt iu as pleasant as honey. Coughs, Colds, and Asthma, which lead to Consumption, have been speedily cured by the use of ADAMSON’S BALsaM after all other medicines have failed. Sutferers from either recent or chronic coughs or bronchial affections, can
resort to this great remedy, confident of obtaining speedy relief. Do not delay, get it at once FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Bottled at St, Stevens, N. B., by the proprietors, F, W, KINSMAN & CO., Druggists, 343 47TH AvR., N. Y.
TENDERS.
Crry oF Cuar,orretown, P. &. I. EALED TENDERS will be received at the Mayor’s Office, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, until noon of WEDNES.- DAY, the 3lst day of March next, for the placing and maintaining of
Sixty Frost-Proof Hvdrants,
having a pressure of not less thw sixty pounds to the square inch, for fire and civic purposes, according to plans and specifica- tions to be seen at the Uity Clerk’s office.
The Council do not bind.themselves to accept the lowest er any tender.
By order, A. H. MACPHERSON, City Clerk,
Feb. 23 —A3w eod
Fish Sale.
50 quiatals CHOICE CODFISH,
20° do do AAKE,
80 barrels LAPRADOR RERRING, 10 cases CANNED SALMON,
10 do do LOBSTERS,
10 do do MACKEREL,
FOR SALE BY
HORACE HASZARD, Ch’towa, M arch 6—Imo eod
WE HAVE SOLD
NEARLY ALL OUR
Stem Winding Rockford Watches,
which are giving good satisfaction, and as the Company, in the interest of the public, say they will not send any watches by mail, we shal! defer getting a full supply until we can safely do so by express,
In the meantime we have several Key- Winding Rockford Watches on hand, accu- rately timed, and purchasera of any of these can have the privilege of exchanging fora Stem-Winder, when they arrive. in stock,a nice assortment of Waltham & Elgin Watches, in heavy silver or gold- filled cases.
H. W. TAYLOR CAMERON BLOCK. Charlottetown, March 5, ’86.
Herring. Herring.
200 Bris. No, 1 FAT HERRING.
200 Half-barrels do
50 Quarters do do
50 Quintal CODFISH, cheap for cash or
trade. DAVID SMALL.
COTTON DUCK—COTTON DUCK
Notice to Shipowners & Builders. HE Subscriber now offers to the trade, Yarmouth Cotton Duck, at manufac- turer’s prices. Has on hand a supply of light and heavy ducks.
DAVID SMALL, Agent, Hyndman’s Buildings, Corner Water and Queen Street.
Ch’town, Feb, 16—2i wky 2 mos
HIS is to certify that the partnership heretofore existing between the under- signed, carrying on besiness under the style and firm of A. KENNEDY & CO, has, on this first day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty- six, been dissolved by expiration of time and by mutual consent.
Dated this first day of February, A. D., 1886.
Signed in the presence of, by all the par- ties, Lerru E, Brxcken. A. KENNEDY, WM. RUSSELL, ROBT. McLAURIN,
The business formerly carried on by the above partnership will continued by the undersigned, under the name, style and firm of A. KENNEDY & CO., who will satisfy all the liabilitics of the late firm, and who are authorized to collect all debts and amounts
due the late firm, A. KENNEDY,
ROBT. McLAURIN, Feb, 24—dly 3wks law
(LETTERS To THE EDITOR,
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Our Forests and Mussel Mud.
letter, This time on a new subject: A short time ago, on business connected with
|my extensive clothing emporium, I had loccasion to visit the western section of this
country. While I was pleased with the evidences of comfort, progress and pros- perity which no observing traveller can fail to notice in that part of the country, I was pained to see the destruction of our forests, which is now in progress. Between Wellington and Elmsdale, I counted no less than seventeen steam saw mills, viz.: one at each of the following places: Wellington, Richmond, Ellerslie, Conway, Western Road, Paines, O'Leary, Mill River, Bloom- field, Pinesvile. Two each at the Brae and Elmsdale, and three, at Northam. Each of these mills had, at least, an acre of land piled up with saw logs for boards, and cedar for shingles. Besides these mills there are many others driven by both water and steam at the western part of the Island, deing asimilar kind of business. It must be patent to every thoughtful man, that if this destruction of our forests is permitted to go on for a very few years, our wood of all kinds will be completely used up.
I have not yet devised a remedy for the difficulty, but for the present I earnestly advise every farmer who has wood of any kind on the rear end of his farm, to keep it there. Of course, what is required for his own firing and firewood may be used, or if new land is tu be cleared up the wood mnst come off; but by no means should he fool away-his wood. In.a very few years it will be more valuable than the land itself.
In another letter I will, Sir, with your permission, draw public. attention to the exhaustion of that invaluable source of wealth—the mussel mud beds. At the present time, besides the immense quaunti- ties hauled direct to the farms by teams, there are from ten to twenty carloads a day of this valuable deposit taken into the country from the beds of Summerside Har- bor. This cannot last long. I am _ in- formed that in digging, instead of going to the bottom of the deposit, only a few feet of the top of the bed is removed. These holes will fill up by the drift sand and dirt of the harbor: “In this way they will soon break up all the beds, and in future years, in order to got mud, they will have to dig for it, commencing at the excavations which they are now leaving unfinished. To get at the mud, they will have, with much labor and great expense, to remove the drift sand and debris. Now, I advise farmers in digging, when they strike a bed, to go to the bottom of it. In this way there will, for a number of years, be acres of good mud beds untouched.
Thanking you, Sir, for your uniform kindness to me, I remain, &c.,
Joun MacKenziz,
Summerside, March 15, 1886.
Prizes in the Schools.
Srr,—Perhaps there is nothing more in- jurious in our system of public instruction than the examination test, with a view to prizes. It is about half a century since the habit of prize giving was introduced to the Schools and Colleges of England, and it is now heartily condemned by leading scien- tists and educationalists in that country. The chief aim of public instruction should be to encourage a love of study and science for their own sakes. Public teachers should constantly warn their pupils against atudies pursued in a mere trade spirit, with a view to examinations. If the pupil can but acquire a love for learning while at school, it will be of more substantial advan- tage to him in after life than all the prizes he could possibly win. The examination test is opposed to quiet study. It inter- rupts “going deep” into a subject, and only leads to cramming. The pupil has no time for careful consideration. His work loses the appearance of study. It degener- ates into a mere preparation for the exami- nation. His time is taken up with memor- izing. He commits to memory a mass of words and formulas, is often bewildered by information heaped together, and forgets it all 2s soon as the examination is over. If the pupil does not have recourse to cram- ming, he must take a second place. If he attempts to reason about his subject, to come sieadily’ and without hurrying to conclusions and thus obtain a large and substantial grasp of \4 Le would find the examination test a direct in: terruption and will be compelled to hurry on exercising his memory to the #!most
The ‘‘prize taker’ seldom continues his studies after he leaves school, this may be attributed to the fact that while at school he pursued a course of memorizing which has become distasteful to him, He acquir- ed a strong aversion for books that cost him so much labour and never cares to return to them after the examination is over. There can be no greater indication of an inferior teacher than to hear him reminding his pupils of prizes and examinations; with such a teacher a course of instruction counts for nothing. He is evidently unable to ereate in his pupils a love of study and learning forits own sake. Surely, if our teachers are worthy of their professions an attend- ance under their instraction four or five years should count for something. Is example nothing ? Is culture and training of the mind nothing? It seems so; at any rate those advantages are entirely ignored or left to chance, and the examination test is put to a use for which it is quite inade- quate. That a pupil shall have been for a number of years under good training is all the state should require ; and the same should be used to ascertain whether the pupil has profited by his training or not. Competitive examinations, leading to “painful preparatory effort, tending to relaxation and torpor as soon as the effort is
over,”. should be discountemanced by parents and prevented by the State. Saxivs, Ge y a are Pogo mares ee a ee
Smr,—At the risk of being considered garrulous, I venture to write you another | of pole part of the work being about com-
total neglect of his reasoning faculties. |
VOL. 18---NO, 97 West River Notes. The contractors for the building of an ell or abutment to the West River Bridge for the use of the steamer ‘Southport, are get- ting on well with their contract ; the brush
pleted. They have most of the piles and top timbers on the ground, and, with the mooring posts and stone ballast, will soon be able to complete the structure. The running of the steamer tothe Bridge, in- stead of to Shaw’s Wharf as heretofore, will be amuch more convenient arrange- ment for parties living to the west and north of the Bridge, and gives encourage- ment. to the hope of some day seeing a steamer plying to wharves, yet to be built, though long promised, still further up the river, some hoping even to see one running as far up as the Bridge at Bonshaw,
The new truss bridge across the stream below the Bonshaw hills, in the place of the one carried away by the recent freshet, is how completed, and is reflected in the stream, and reflects credit on our energetic Commissioner of Public Works, who planned and caused it to be constructed, and on the builders, Messrs, McRae and Crosby, who, notwithstanding the incle- mency of the season, so promptly carried the plan into execution.
On .Tuesday evening last, His Honor, Judge Alley, delivered a lecture in the Court House at Bonshaw to an intelligent and appreciative audience. The subject of the lecture, ‘Our Island 100 years Ago,” is ope in which all feel interested; and His Honor, being without doubt better in- formed on the subject than any one else now living, was able to do it full justice; and, witha relation of historical incidents both grave and gay, held his hearers at- tention for one hour and a half which seemed much shorter. The object for which the lecture was delivered—to assist in raising funds to purchase an organ for the Boushaw Kirk, is one that all liberal minded persons will approve. McA.prne, $+
Giencorodale Debating Club.
The regular meeting of the above society was held on Tuesday evening last. There Were present quite a number of ladies and gentlemen including several represen- tatives of the Black Bush Society, This club is a comparatively new one, as it has been started for the first time only this winter, The leading spirit of the club seems to be Mr. Neil McPhee, a talented young man whose sole aim is to keep the society on a good solid footing for his own improvement and for ihat of the people of the community. The subject for the even- ing : ‘‘Which is the more pleasing to the eye, the works of Art or the works of Nature 1” was opeved in an eloguent and appropriate speech by Mr. Neil MePhee. The following gentlemen also époke, some ef them making very good spilechs : John Ryan, J. A. McDonald, Chas. Morrison, Roderick McPhee and Messrs. Holland and McDonald. On motion, it was decided by a good majority that ‘‘The Works of Art are the more pleasing to the eye.” At the close of the debate some very good songs were sung with fine effect by Messrs. Me- Eachern, McCormack and McPhee.
ee — The Suffering in Labrador.
A letter from Mgr. Bosse, Prefect Apos- tolic of the North Shore and Labrador, dated at Esquimaux Point,on the Ist inst., states that the distress among the popula- tion there is indeed great, but further on near Blanc Sablon it is heartrenading. He reports, however, a mild winter with the prospect that the fishermen will be able to extricate their schooners from the ice by March 15th to go on their annual seal hunt, which promises well this season. He con- cludes with an urgent plea for the promised lighthouse and breakwater at Mingan, for a resident magistrate to keep order and pre- vent liquor from being carried about among the fishermen and the Indians, for a resi- dent doctor, and for a small grant from the Government to the local convent of the Sisters of Charity to permit of a room or two being set apart and medicine and medical appliances purchased so that if any seaman be taken sick he would soon have help or be carried directly where efficient help would be provided for him,
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Wericome Soap, an article that does not eon- | tain one particle of the adulterstions used to | reduce the cost of ** Pure Goods,” but does possess the value of legitimate Washing | Qualities, the demand for which proves the ‘advantage gained by the use of the genuine over Soaps of doubtful character, None should be deceived even by Red’and Yellow Wrappers, or any of the imitations of the WeLCoME, a8 & pair of clasped hends is stamped on every bar. Made by Curtis, Davin & Os
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Special Notices.
Tuoss in want of Sheetings, Pillow Cottons and Tickings, can purchase from the largest assortment to be found in the city at a dis- count of 15 per cent. fora few days only at James Paton & Co’s., Brown’s Block, Market Square. mar 3
Ususval bargains in Carpets and Room Paper are now being offered at Beer Bros.
Nzw Embroideries just received atBeer Bros.
Ex. Northern Light: New Feathers, new Tinsel Trimmings, new Mantle Ornaments, pew Fringes, just received at J. B. Mac- | donald’s. maz8—dy wky
, Tus time of year, the cheapest and best | place to buy Boots is at Dorsey, Goff & Co’s,
feb 11 tf | Now 1s THE TIME.—Will sell you a dollar's | worth of Boots for 60 cents, Dorsey, Goff & Co, mar 2 |. Hats t ior Jens and Boy’s Felt En ine style, stock selling cheap . B, Macdonald's, - mar 8
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