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EDWARD ISLAND, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1879.

NO. 512,

THE Datty EXAMINER

's Published every Evening, OFFICE : INGS’ BUILDING, CORNER OF WATER AND GREAT GEORGE STREETS, Charlottetown, P. E. I.

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_J. W. MITCHELL, Office Sup’t.

PRINGS DWARD ISLAND RAILWAY. TIME TABLE NO. ff.

Winter Arrangemeni.

ON AND AFTER

MONDAY, DECEMBER oCth, 1878.

Trains Going West.

STATIONS, No. 1. | No.3 | Express. ; Mixed. Georgetown |Dp 8.1 0am) Cardigan i 7s * M.Stew’t Jun dp10.05 a | Royalty Jun. ae S | Chitown ldp 8.00 am) Dp 3.30 pm Royalty Jun. I 8.20 «1 3.50 N. Wiltshire “et Hunter River | ae “i eo “ Breadalbane ae Ye “ oe Line cat ae ae se es oe ensington 46 4 46 é of larll.30 * jar 7.00 “ Summerside idp 2.40 pm Wellington - 325 * Port Hill 25 4.16 vy —_ 28: Alberton dp 6.40 « Tignish jar 7.25 * Trains Going East. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 4 t Express. i Mixed. Tiguish cae n ae " 5 é 0’ Leary ae 8.47 é Pert Hill **10.05 Wellington na ss Summerside dp 2.30pm)! Dp 8.45 am K . n sé 3.00 sé “sé 9.15 oe Coautyt Line “340 «1 957 Breadalbane ** 3.50 ** | “10.08 ** Hunter River © 4.28 ** | **10.47 re DS poe a gant Taney se un. : ; a ar 6.00 “* |arl2.15 pm Ch town } ap 2.55 « Royalty Jun. a oan : «e 6.00 ee Georgetown ar 6.25 “ a —————————————__ a SOURIS BRANCH. _ Going West. Going East.

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No.5 No.6 STATIONS. | Mixed. ||STATIONS./| Mixed.

A. M. i P.M Souris Bp 7.90 MtS tw’tJne| Dp 4.40 Harmony ** = 7,23'| Morell §,22 St. Peters ** §8,42'/St. Peters | “ 5.54

Morell ‘* 9.13|| Harmony oe - 2: Mt S’tw’tJne} ar 9.55{/Souris ar 7.35

C. J. BRYDGES, | WM. McKECHNIE, Gen. Sup. Gov. Railways Supt. P. BE. 1. R.

oh’town, Dec. 27, 1878. p ne arh pres kca wp sj ap 61

COMMERCIAL Union Assurance Company,

OF LONDON, ENGLAND. CAPITAL - - $12,500,000.

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NSURANCE effected against Fire on all I descriptions of Property throughout the d

ar Low rates and prompr settlement of

HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P. E. Island.

Ch'town, Dec, 20, 1878—

Administrator's Notice,

HE undersigned, Administrator of the

Estate of RUBERT ORR, late of Char- lottetewn, deceased, intestate, hereby notifies all persons indebted to the said Estate to make immediate payment to him ; and all persons having clains or demands against the said Estate are hereby required to exhibit such claims and demands, duly attested, to him"for payment within twelve months.

JOHN McPHEE,

Adwiuistrator. |

Ch’town, Jan, 8th, 1879—2w 2aw

H.W. Vinnicombe,

Resident Piano Tuner Regulator,

I AS adopted the Dollar system of Tuning -& six visits a year, at one dollar per visit. This system is much more economical and satisfactory than any other, as the cost is less, and the instrument is kept constantly in tune and repair.

A visit will be made to all parts of the Island once a year, or oftner if desired. Pianos tuned by Hamilton’s system of even temperament.

#2 Orders may be left at Mr. Fletcher’s

Music Store, or at Bremner Bros., Queen Street.

Jan. 6, 1879—

FRANK COX, M.D. G.M., Physician, Surgeon & Accoasheur. Orrice ‘ APOTHECARIES’ HALL. Residence : Capt. Mutch’s, Water Street, next door to St. Lawrence Hotel.

N. B.—Particular attention paid to diseases of the chest and stomach.

Ch’town, Nov. 16, 1878—3m

QUEEN INSURANCE CO’.

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING, |

JU NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on

Vessels on the stocks.

Special rates for isolated residences.

Losses settled promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank),

Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1877-— F

E.G. HUNTER,

Italian and American Marble, ionuments, Tablets, Headstones,

MantTies, Cenrrr Taniz Tors, Burau and Commopr Tops, Wasu Bown Snaps, &c., &c.

Prices to suit, and satisfaction guaranteed. e@ Designs furnished on application. @a Corner Hillsborough and Kent Streets, Char lottetown.

November 6. 1878.

WAGSTARF'S HOTEL,

HE Subscriber having fitted up the Hotel formerly known as

THE RANKIN HOUSE,

in first class style, is now prepared to give comfortable accommodation to

Permanent and Transient Boarders, Tourists and others will receive every atten: tion at the Wagstaff’s Hotel, WM. WAGSTAFF.

May 25, 1878

DR. CREAMER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,

Kent Street, Charlottetown, (Three doors from Dr. Johnson’s). w@@® ENTRANCE BY SIDE DOOR. “Ga Oct. 15 -3m

BROADWAY HOUSE,

BY MACKENZIE.

HE former ‘City Hotel,” now the

Broadway fiouse, Great George Street, opposite the Catholic Cathedral, is now open for Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders.

The rooms have been thoroughly renovated and newly furnished.

The tables will be supplied with the best the market affords, and fares reasonable,

A Suite of Rooms convenient for a small family, together with board &c., can be had in the Broadway House.

Nov. 23, 1878 —tf

RANKIN HOUSE,

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE I J. J. DAVIES - - - Proprietor

(Formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Pictou),

HIS well-known Hotel is now open under the present management ; and, having been newly furnished throughout, it offers every comfort to the travelling public. Suit- able Sample Rooms for commercial gentlemen,

Oct. 15, 1878—3m2

JAMES HOBBS,

CABINET-MAZER,

UPHOLSTERER, ETC,

AS REMOVED from McPhail’s Corner

to the premises just vacated by Mr. Joun StumsBwes, Prince Street, where, with increased facilities, he is prepared to attend to the wants of his customers with punctuality and despatch, and on reasonable terms. CaRPETs cut and laid, ParnTine and as neatly done. Picture Frames and Mouldings constantly ou hand, or made up to order, _ All kinds of Household Furniture made to order, cheap and good. New Pattern School Desks made at short notice. A tirst-class article.

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(near the new Baptist Church im course of erection). Charlottetown, Oct. 26, 1878—

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THE SNOW.

A MATTER OF FACT VERSION.

Oh ! the snow, the bothersome snow, Clotting the eyes and mouth below, Numbing the fingers, nipping the toes, Forcing the bloom of the cheek to the nose ; Flustering, blustering, biadding along, Gagging the street musician’s song,

Filling the streets with slush so high,

None can go out or come in foot-dry ; Bringing rheumatics to high and to low — Less would please all of this beastly snow,

Some one has sung of ‘‘the beautiful snow ;”

Would she were here just a fortnight or so,

I’m positive here she would cancel the phrase,

Or live in a convent the rest of her days ; Troublesome, meddlesome, where are the

joys?

Furnishing missiles for vulgar boys,

Coming in thuds on the top of one’s hat,

Slapping our eyes and stretching us flat,

Bumping our noises—I swear it’s no go,

Petted and chilled with this perishing snow.

Oh ! the snow, the terrible snow, Crowding the roads wherever we go, Choking the rivers that run to the main, Blocking the line of the railway train ; Driftiag, driving, wreathing the plow ; Filling the ravines so flush with the way, No one can she them in hgbtest.of day, Down drops the traveller fathoms below, Buried, poor wight, in the merciless snow.

Oh ! the snow, the pitiless snow,

People are starving—away it won't go,

Work could be had for thousands that pine,

Would the rogue for a moment to reason incline ;

Motionless, merciless, vain of its might,

It clings to the earth ‘as ’twould choke it out- right,

Deaf to the beggar who writhes in the shed ;

Defiant of all in ths world below,

It chills and it starves, and it kills, does the snow.

Oh ! for relief from its noxious blow,

We're weary, and tired of it long, long ago,

A day and a night, or a week on a speli,

We could hear, and put up with, ever so well, Grambling, mumbling never a word ;

But three or four months of it’s simply absurd.

Away to the haunts of the Northern Bear.

And bluster and blatter till tired of it there,

Do leave us now, begone! pack quick and go,

We'll write when we want you again, Mr.

Snow.

Origin of Names.

Canapa.—Sir John Barrow derives this name as follows:—When the Portuguese under Gasper Corterevl, in 1599, first ascended the great river St. Lawrence they believed it was the strait of which they were in search and through which a passage night be discovered into the ladian sea. But on arriving at the point whence they could clearly ascertain it was not a strait but a river they, with all the emphasis of disappointed hopes, exclaimed repeatedly ‘Canada !” (here nothing) words which were remembered and repeated by the natives on seeing Europeans arrive in 1534, and they naturally cojectured that the word they heard emplvyed so often must denote the name of the ceuntry.

Tue Barser Poir.—The Barber Surgeon was formally known by his pole at the door. The reason of which is sought by a querist in the British ‘* Apolo,” fol., London, 1708, No. 3 :—

I'd know why he that selleth all Hangs out a chequer’d post for pole; Aba why a os te at Port Holl Puts out a part-coloured pole.

ANSWER : In ancient Rome when men lov’d fighting, And wounds and scars took much delight in, Man-murderers than had noble pay Which we call Surgeons to this day. ‘Twas ordered that a huge. long pole With Basin decked, should grace the pole, To guide the wounded whe unlope Could walk on stumps, the other hop; But when they ended all their wares, And men grew fat of love with scars, Their trade decaying, to keep swimming They joined their other trade of trimming, And to their poles to publish either, Thus twisted both their trades together.

Barbers in our time have let blood and drawn teeth. The last we remember of this class (and with pain) was on the middle ditch of Great Suffock Street, Southwark.

Arrestan Weits.— These overflowing welis were named from having been long known and used in the Province of Artois, in France. Their principle is the same as that of an artificial fountain. Thus im- agine a somewhat basin-shaped bed of sand, chalk, or any rock formation of a porous nature, to lie upon a stratum of clay impermeable. The former bed, being sat- unrated to a great extent by the water which flows into it from higher and exposed re- gions where rain falls in abundance, becomes a reservoir which, if an opening is bored down into it through the overlying stratas of clay, will discharge its water upward with a force determined by the level from which the reservoir is supplied.

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oer Breadalbans Notes.

Mr. John Biggar, of Breadalbane, has :met with another accident. His trotting | horse broke his leg last week by his foot catching in the threshing machine while | threshing. Mr. 13. lost his house by fire | this winter.

; Many of the wells in the city and coun-

try are dry. his is caused by the ground | ‘freezing before the fall rains filled the.

springs.

Miss Priscilla McKenzie, living with Mr. |Stewart in Breadalbane, died last week, | making two deaths in that family last

. - month.

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Correspondence.

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The late Railway Accident.

To the Editor of the Examiner.

Str,—Itis now very evident that there is something wrong in Denmark, otherwise the train disaster on Monday last would not have taken place here. As luck would have it, no lives were lost, although averything pointed in that direction, owing to the fact that the Souris train was permitted to follow the Georgetown train within a short distance, or to follow at any distance behind a train which was obliged to stop and contend with heavy bakns of snow. It was clearly set forth by the conductors of both trains that neither of them are responsible for what might have bee, a lamentable catastrophe Then the question naturally arises, who wasin the fault? The country at large answers, in unmistakable terms. the fault must have been in the office or with the party who gives conductors their orders on such occasions, In future, the tray- elling public will not tamely submit to have their lives jeopardized on the occasion of every snow fall, merely for the sake of keeping an epanperseges man in the office of train despatcher. Such accidents are inexcusable, and cannot be tolerated while there js the slightest suspicion as to incompetency on the part of any official placed in charge of life and property. Yours, &c., BIDEForn, Tracadie, Feb. 6, 1S79.

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The Importation of American Cattle Prohibited.

A meeting of the Privy Council was held, ata very short notice, lately, in conse- quence of news which had been received from England, and an Order in Couneil was passed, to take effect Feb. 1st, prohib- iting the importation of American cattle into Canada, or their passage through any part of Canada, for the space ef three months. This being done, the importation of live Canadian cattle into England will be permitted to continue. This Order in Council will probably result in a large ship- ment of cattle via Halifax.

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- A Melancholy Occurrence.

Ir is cur painful duty to record two of the inost melancholy deaths that have ever taken place, within our recollection, on the Island. Mr. William Schurman, an old and respected farmer who has been suffer- ing for a number of years with cancer, de- parted this life on Thursday last. Mr. Schurman’s wife, who, during his sickness watched over him with unremitting care and attention, as only a kind and loving wife could, became worn out, and after his death her grief for the loss of her husband was more than a delicate constitution could stand. On Friday afternoon, about three o'clock, she laid down on the bed, grief- stricken and much exhausted, and fell asleep. She never awoke from her slum- ber—her soul peacefully and quietly, on the morning of the next day, departed from this life. A large number of people assembled on Saturday to attend the burial of Mr, Schurman, but the funeral service was postponed on account of the death of Mrs. Schurman, that the aged couple might be interred together on Monday. The fun- eral was attended by a large number of relatives and friends, who witnessed the sad scene of conveying for interment the father and mother at the same time, The death of Mr. Schurman and his wife has cast a gloom over the whole community. We sympathise with the remaining mem- bers of the family in this their sad bereave- ment.—Summerside Journal.

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Somebody has recently proposed an amendment to the constitution of the United States which shall make every ex-President a Senator for life. This is unique and not without reason. The office of Chief Magis- trate of such a nation as this would most assuredly give an experience and insight into political matters that would fit an in- cumbent for any other office under the government and qualify him especially for a seat in the Upper House of Congress ; and as our republic has no orders of hereditary nobility there is an especial need for some respectable and life-long office for a retired President, who is, without office, as uneasy and restless and good-for-nothing as it is possible fora man to be. They are “forlorn and pitiable objects, majestic but unoceu- pied, honored in a sort of ghastly way, but unable to do anything of any value to them- selves or anybody else. General Grant has nvt yet come tu that, but upon his return to a simple American citizen’s lifs how soon will he disappear from public view. His past services, his past mistakes, his virtues and his vices will be remembered, but apart froin his then present self.. Nor would the nation as a whole wish it otherwise in the case of General Grant. The country as an entirety would by no means be glad to see him a life member of the United States Senate. In fact, such a plan would be nothing less than the adoption of a sort of

dignified asylum for ex-Presidenta in some cases, while in others it would undoubtedly open a career of service and usefulness to

competent and public spirited men. Rumor

has it that one ex-President kept himself and his family above want by a for subscription books. Fancy Gene Grant at that!

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