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Suicides on a Wreck Odds and HEnds.

SINKING OF AN ITALIAN BARK—THE| The greatest ma 5 usually turn

CREW MADDLENED BY DESPAIR, CUT] Out tho smallest potatoes, THEIR THR ATS Let friendship cree] cently to a — | height ; if it rushes to it, it may soon Oa Friday morning last 4th inst., &/ run itself eut of breath. givage storm strewed the ceast outly-| Of a miserly man omebody wrote: ing New York harber with wrecks. | His head gave way, but his hard never Among the victims of the gale was the! qiq. His brain softened but his heart Italina bark “ Ajace,” frem Antwerp | ooniin’t. for New York, whi h was dashed to

iec vo Rockaway Shoals. Out of a How go you Know that | igs, aro such ee : . | very badly animals? Well, erew of fifteen, but one, an Austrian, Caiithed dint . con peresive, they are Peter was saved, His story, 85) ited first and cured , related to a New York Herald reporter, | is & Post ter bie tale. A CHOICE OF DEATH,

Sala states that tho carpenter dew elared that he could stand the ordeal ne longer. “ As | must die,” he cried, in | Italian, “L prefer to die this way.” He drew bis sailor's knife from his belt and slashed the biade across his windpipe Then, as bis life blood streamed frem the wound be let ge his hold of the vease! and sank under the waves. This was tho first Jeath amang the crew; and ene had been drowned when the vessel firet struck, und the carpenter's death was so much mere terrible than even their despair that the fourteen fer a moment for; their awn fate at the sight of thei: companion's blood. For

treated Sala, was afterwards,

A tailor was startled the other day by the return of a bill, which he had sent to an editor, with a notice that the “manuscript was respectfully declined.”

The tollowing receipe for eloquence is given bya “down east’ orater: “ Get yourself chock-full of the subject, knock out the bung, and let Nature caper.”

The following is the way that the London Truth—putlished in the very centre ef cockney gentility, and edited by an English M. P..—anneunced the marriage of the Baroness Burdett- Coutts: “I regret to announce the suicide ef Angela’ Georgina Burdett- Coutts, baroness, which took place on the 12th inst., in the sixty-seventh year

Se : eg a little they were paralyzed by the act, ofherage. &. 1. P.

and then it seemed to madden them, _ + ee Three other ands reached for their

Clippings from Late Papers. belts aod simultaneously three knives aaa were drawn and three more bodies with red, gasping threats, slid down into their graves, and cheated the waves ot a murder The ten remaining mea were little better than maniacs in their de- apair, The captain passed a bottle of whiskey to them aod said, “ Drink ! Di ink ! for all of usmust drown!” And drink they disi—every one of them out

The British Celumbia Legislature offer a bonus of $5,006 for the erection of a wollen mill.

We see by an exchange that Canada imported $50,000 werth of cheese twelve years ago, but now she exports $10,000,000 worth a year, and her ex- ports of butter and cheese are $4,000,- The

Sala, the Anstrian, who clung to the 000 larger than those ef wheat.

“a @ i strian, : . eng » hee « ee - oh of mast end waited tor the wreck | duality of the cheese has alse greatly ; a He bad not leng to wait, | improved, and this is ascribed te the os8 . lia - it, |

factory system.

THe Tricninosts Scarge.—In the British House of Commens, on Tuesday

though secor |s seemed like hours. The | last man hai scarcely drained the last drop of lique: from the captain's flask, when with a heavy groan the “* Aja last, Mr. Dedsen, President of the plunged to the bettom. Sala’s memory | Lecal Government Board, said there could not retain what happered after) were no cases of trichio@sis in England. that uatil be feund himself tossing on| He hoped there was ne real cause for the strong waves and drifting with the| alarm, but in view of cabin he knew not where. Net one ef! foreign governments the local sanitary the others was seen by him, nor could | auiherities had been enjeined to carry his eyes explore a space of more than | out the provisions of the Act ordering ten yards dis‘ant ever ihe gray waters. | an examination ef all perk exposed fer The toz guve almost the last blow to his sule. hope of resets, and knewing that en its | clearing 2Wa) depended his oaly chance | he clung te the mast with the stresgth ef despair. Che water was Litter eold | and he wouki undoubtedly have frozen bad the lifeboat been an hour later.) Gals enld, that during the whows ory. | influential deputation ef the Liverpool his strongth never left him so much as | ptitiaion trade ware’ actually ats when the lifsbeat met bie sight. H ‘interview the Viee-President ef the gratitade eee knew no bounds. | Council, and advise him against action On Friday ribs. he wanted holies! |similar te thatof France. The to the city, but the life saving men per- | grams purported to be from the Secre- euaded him to remain at Coney a tary of the Liverpool provision trade, through the ight and nad endanger 09 | The pelice are investigating. a single etfor a mind and bedy that hed | ; as - ; been frightfully taxed. Bo Sala | Herace Greeley, himself an eminent slept in the si ation, it must be hoped, a} professor of the urt preservative, once dreamless sleep. deseribed the privting office as the poor —.? -2- bey’s coliege. Extraordinary Precocity. ated irem that college to prominent po~

ce”

A Desperate Resource.—A Livers designed to cause the Board of Trade Heuse ef Coms

were received in the

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Agirl, 3 years and 5 months old, the daughter of Mr. F. Dwyre, school-| the present Postmaster—General of the teacher at Letete, is a remarkabie ex-/| latter country. It was once the beast ample ef prececity. Her power of| of the French private soldier that he memory is developed to a wonderful

er of poetry read over two or three | of this continent have plentiful prece- times, it becomes her own and she is) dents for believing that they may fish able to repes’ it word for werd. In} fame and fortuae from the ink barrel. this way she has committed to memory | over one thon sand liaes of poetry. Our informant heard her recito Hiawatha’s | Childhood, wiich consists of more than | - two buodred | ues, without any apparent! , effort and withont a mistake. Her a ‘

enunciation was distioct, her expression ee a nstural, and she entered into the spirit! <,, white I have noticed that the Direct- ef the extract with as much appreci« | ors of the Union Rank havenot taken any steps ation as woud one who had made a| toclear up the serious charges preferred against sudy fit. She has become familiar yhem esa immeamtee weard, = ; with the pictures ia Webster’s Diction-| °° "Sy Siser® itable communications have ary and, on leing requested to PO1Dt | tention of insolently laughing away Mr. out anything represented there, will | Heard’s charges and making him an object of immediately turn to the illustration, | contempt and ridicule. Rumor has it that

As asother xample of her power we | these communications have been written or may relate

, as fal inspired by adignitary of the Bank. If this be hat on the occasion Of &| true the sooner the public know it the better. public entertainment, her father unders | [¢ jooks bed that Mr. Heard’s charges, made toek to recite “ Hiawatha’s Friends,” manfully over his own name, sheuld be met but forgot a portion et it and was un-/ in this unseemly eet c n ° 2 | urs, “? able to proceed. The little Miss, who! or a was present, sapplied him with the for-| March 14, 1881. gotten line and he was enabled to finish | the recitation. She isa bright, lively | 7o the Bilitor of the Beaminer. child, avd dovs not appear to be affects| Dear Six,—In your paper of the llth ed in any way by her intellectual ab-| inst., appears a communication signed normity.—S’. Croix (N.B.) Courier. | ** Vindex” containing a most extraordinary ‘crensnencene-aelll-ndinellittaeimnennen apology for the failure of the Northern ght lyn Wood Reported Killed. | ‘9/!. + Sir Evely ee P | ‘*Vindex,” in order to make his state- : farch 7.—It is reported by | ™e™t appear as a fair one, has actually mis

Loxpox, ¥ : ota at ; : ee y represented the terms of confederation in epecial despa! “) that zenera’ sir Ve'Y® | the following sentence: “It is all very

ood wus eu0t and killed instantly, | well for the people of the Island to say that while attackiog the Boers. ‘free navigation all winter was one of the

Lonpox, March 7 —De: patches re- | conditions of confederation.”” Now Sir, ceived at the War Office, deny the) the people of the Island say nothing of the special news dispatehes to the effect) kind, certainly none who have read the that General Sir Evelyn Waod has been | document containing these terms. The pr we ot ? clause referring to Winter communication

a ‘ - ~~ ow oy | Feads as follows:

Sir Henry Evelyn W ood, V. § » K C. ** Efficient steam service for the convey- B., first ente d the Navy in 1852, and ance of mails and passengers to be estab- served in the Naval Brigade as Aide de lished and maiutained between the Island Camp to Captain Peel, KR N., from Oc-| and the mainland of the Dominion, win-

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Correspondence,

he statementa or opinions of our correspendents,

SHAREHOLDER.

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teber 1854 to June 1855. He was! ter and summer, thus placing the Island

severely wounded whilst cart ying the 12 continueus : communication with the

scaling ladders to the Redan. He then | Intercolonial Railway and the railway : 5 f a ‘ a | system of the Dominion.”

became « Cornet in the Cavalry in Sep- Not one word here about navigation,

RF cart np ; hice , + +, * tember 1855 «nd served in the Indian! pat a very positive engagement to give to

Mutiny in 1858 as Brigade Major. | this Island ‘“‘ efficient steam service” and

During 185-60 he was commanding | ‘continuous communication with the the Ist Rey:. of Beatons Horse, and | railway system of the Dominion.” This

arrangement has never been carried out;

and ‘** Vindex ” admits that it never can be

done’ by navigation. Now, the

question arises: Shall we give up our » claims to this service, or shall we, as a

Province, insist on the fulfilment of the

terms of Confederation ?

Yours, truly,

was employe! in hueting down Rebels, and ebtained the Victoria Cross for a daring attack ona large band of Rebels He accompa: ied Sir Garnet Wolsiey t« the Gold (¢ in 1863, and fought agaiost the A-hanteer, He also served against the Aulus, and seoo after the war with the Boers breke out, was sent to Nata! as Brigadier General. On the death of Sir (ieorge Pemroy Colley, Sir H. E. Wood took command of the forces at Natal.

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ISLANDER. March 9, 1881.

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Foriune Triiise.—The Recorder of Mon- | treal has recently been punishing fortune tellers who gain a dishonest livelihood de- luding simple-minded people by pretending to divine the future. On the 6th inst. four of these unfortunate fortune-tellers were ar- raigned. The first called was Bridget Blaney. Her method was to get into a trance. She was fined $5 or one month in jail. Mrs, Chatelet, of No. 6, Campeau street, divined futurity by means of a horoscope and a pack of fancy cards. She was mulcted in $2 or one month. Madame livie Guinn, 563 Meander stree’, told the detective who went | to her house that afasir girl was dying for love |} of him. He then went to Madame Vincent,

of No. 188 St. Charles Borromme street, but she said his fate would be a dark girl The detective has met neither the | blonde nor brunette yet; in the meantime both the deceivers were fined $2 and costs, Tne Recorder langhingly asked one of the fortune tellers if she eould really tell the future. ‘‘ Yes,” she replied, ‘1 seldom fail.” **Then,” rejoined his honor, ‘* How is it you failed to foretell that you were going to be | arrested. You can tell the fortunes of others | but you are ignorant of your own.” a ——_-

Whee is contentment? Te sit at are —Aman a McCullough heme, and se: other people stuck in the | died from exposure anc drink near St. John, mad, In other words, to be a little| , on 8th instant. Peter Grant, a black-

— -.- President: Garfie!d’s Cabinet. The following nominations, made by President Ga field, have been confirmed by the Senat James (7. Bloine, of Maine, to be Seere- tary of State; Wm. Windoin, of Minnesota, to Seeretary of the Treasury ; Wayne Me\ eagh, of Pennsylvania, to be Atto: vey General ;

Thes. L. James, of New York. to be Postmaster General ;

Samue! J. Kirkwood, ef Iowa, to be Secretary of the Interior ;

Rebert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, to be

* Secretary of War ;

Wm. H. Hint, of Louisiana, to be

Secretary of the Navy.

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the action of

Furniture Manufacturing.

A VISIT TO MR. MARK RUTCHER'S BSTAB- LISHMENT——A BUSINESS OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING—-TRADE UP rAITu IN THE NATIONAL

LOOAING PeLicy. Tne furniture factory of Mark Butcher ia situated on King Square, corner of Hillsborough and Kent Streets. It is the oldest and one of the best establishments of its kind in the Province, and was estab lished by the present proprietor in 1830- FIFTY YEARS We learn that in commencing business Mr. Butcher employed but few men and ran his machinery by horse-power. * Workmanship the very best, and orders executed with neatness and despatch” was his motto, and by it he aehieved much success. In 1862 the demand for his manu facture of furniture increased, and to fill orders he was obliged to fit up his estab- lishment with steam saws, planers, lathes, ete. In 1869 he purchased his present business stand from Mr. George Douglass, and continued to do a lucrative business in it up to the present. THE PREMISES

oceupied by Mr. Butcher in the manufac- ture and sale of furniture, consist of a building three steries high, forty feet broad by eighty feet long, adjoining which is a wing three stories high, eighteen feet wide and® forty feet long. Entering the main building from Kent street is a spacious and well-lighted show-room, eontaining speci- mens of furniture manufactured, and all work done in theestablishment. In the rear of this is the planing-reom, eontain- ing a fourteen horse power engine, boiler, planers, etc., which work all the machinery in the building, which was, at the time ef our visit, IN FULL BLAST.

Above the planing roem, on the second flat, is the lathe room. It is theroughly fitted up with lathes, emery-wheols, plug- machines, jig and eircular saws, etc. In it alse is a room heated by steam, for drying the lumber used in the manufacture of furniture. In the south side of this is the ‘‘swell show-room,” forty feet loug by

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thirty-seven feet broad, containing specimens of the more cosély fur- niture. Here may be seen bedroum,

sitting room and parlor suits, which fer design and werkmanship cannot be surpass- ed in the provinces. We are informed that some of the sets on sale, are valued at from three to four hundred dollars, and caleul- ated to be quite cheap at these figsres. PRICR AND QUALITY.

The sets manufactured here are chiefly in

mahogany, walnut, ash, birch and pine

and common!y sell at the following | prices :— Bedroom, from...........-. $15.00 to $400 00 Nt «ccaiiers noenenveeerss 40.00 to 300.00 Dining Room,.........000++s 12.60 to 190.00

$y this scale of prices it will be seen

poel despatch says :—Ferged telegrams, | to take actien against American pork |

>} mons of England on Tuesday, while an |

Many men have gradu- |

| sitions, in both this country and the} | United States, among them Mr. James, |

‘carried a possible marshal’s baten in | ° ' . ‘ mm) . . extent. After hearing a psssage of prose | his knapsack. The printers’ apprentices |

w@ Wedo not hold ourselves responsible for |

couple |

recently appeared in the Patrtet with the in- |

that furniture can be purchased from Mr. | Butcher at prices and quality to suit all | classes of buyers.

} WOOD WORK AND UPHOLSTERING.

The third flat of the building is eccu- | pied as a wood shop and uphoelstering | apartment. The former is filled with a |number ef eircular and jig sawa, pony | planers, steam glue heating apparatus, | kiln-dry-box, and numerous other appara 'tus for the sueoessful working of wood. |The latter apartment is alao well fitted, | and is ably superintended by Mr. Charles | Drew, who has been in Mr. Butcher's |} employ for the past thirty-five years. The fourth flat is cecupied as a general store

| room and Paint Shop.

UNDBRTAKING. | In the wing at the west of the main baild- ing is an undertaking department. It is | stocked with handsome and weil made caskets and coffins of all sizes. In it

| | funeral outfits can be ebtained at priees to | auit all classes, from $3 upwards.

THE TRADE. in the establishment is done |}ander the careful supervision of Mr. | Butcher and his son. None but the best | material ia used; and that the furniture gives satisfaction 1s proved by the ready sale it commands in the markets of New- foundland and New Brunawick, as well as jat the branch stores in Georgetown and | Cardigan.

We may here state that since the National Policy came in force, Mr. Butcher observes a great revival in trade, and | through it looks for much prosperity in | future. | A visit to this first-class establishment

All work

| would repay amply for its trouble. Buteher or his son—Mr. Richard Butcher —are always on hand ready to conduct

secrets of furniture mneking. ? <=_-- aan | Temperance at Winsloe Road.

| A public meeting, having in view the | formatien of a new Division of the Order

| of the Sons of Temperanee, was held in the |

| Winsloe Road (Seuth) Sekool House, on | Thursday evening, 10th inst. Wm. Bryen- | ton, Eeq., was appointed Chairman, and | the undersigned Secretary. The Chair- | man, after stating the object of the meet- | ing, called on the Grand Scribe—J. B. | Cooper, Esq., who, in a brief speech, ex- | plained the principles and ebjects of the |order. The Provincial Deputy— Mr. J. J. | Chappell— was the next apeaker. {He was pleased to receive, seme days ago, an

| pplication for a new Division signed by |

eighteen persons, many of whom -he| was glad to hear were heads of families. He had, therefore, nofear as to

its permanency and usefulness. | mames were added. The applieation hav- ing been favorably received, the Provineial Deputy proceeded at once to the organiza- tion.

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formally established with 22 Charter mem- bers. The folluwing are the officers :— W. P., Fred’k Horne; W A., E. Hol-

man; R. §,, J. Diamond; A. R. 8S , Geo.

T., J. Holman; P. W. P., C. Bryenton. The regular night of meeting will be Thursday; to open at 7 and close at 9

o'clock. R. Looke, See’y.

Ho ttoway’s Pitts. —The blood being the very essence of health and life fit is most essential that it should be thoroughly purified before the depressing influenees of winter display themselves. These Pills will accomplish this purification ina safe and satisfactory manner, and put the cir- culation ingthat desirable condition, which alone ean rightly form flesh, bene, muscle, nerve, and skin. Capricious appetites, weak digestions, torpid livers, and irregular bowels, are corrected by this potent medi- cine, which may be truly said te induce ‘‘a sane mind in a sound body.” Holloway’s Pills possess the remarkable preperty of cleansing}witeout weakening. While purify- ing they are strengthening and adding to those enjoyments of life which health and vigor can alone bestow.

—- You Have no Hxcuse.

Have you any exeuse fer suffering with Dyspepsia or Liver Complaint? Is there any reason why yeu should go en from day te day complaining with Sour Stomach, Sick Head ache, Hab.tual Cestiveness, pal- pitation ef the Heart, Heart burn, Water- brash, Gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the Stomach, Teiiow Skin, ceated Tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of feod after eating, Low spirits, &c. Ne! It is positively yeur own fault if youde. Gete your Druggist and get a bottle ef Green’s August Flower for 75 cents your cure is certain, but if yeu doubt this, get a Sample Bottle for 10 cents and try it. Two deses will relieve you.

A Curious Ixcipent.—A Toronto des- patch of the 7th says: The daughter of Mr A. J. Robertson, and the infant daughter of Mr. J. Ross Retertson, of the Telegram, two brothers living in different houses, died at precisely five minutes to ten this morning, one child being a year old and

P smith, was found dead in his bed at Mount batter off than your neighbours. Winake, N, §., on the 8th instant,

Leeal ane

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Jupce Keniy was in town on Saturday. |

Tras Princess Louine pleasure |

tour to France and italy.

ha® gone on a

Tre total deaths by the ‘ asamacciela (Italy)

earthquake is estimated at 300

Mx. Lesvet Cusnise, ex-M, P. for Ar- genteuil, Quebec, died at Montreal a few days ago.

SKTWREN 1,200 and 1,300 dogs have beon entered for exbibition at Alexandria Palace,

Lendon.

Wirn a single exception—an editor—the members of President Gartield’s Cabinet are lawyers.

E.sven thousand houses were recently burned, and 30,000 people rendered homeless in Tokio, Japan.

Srocks appear to be going up. The Mon- treal market was very strong on Monday. Montreal Bask advanced, selling at 185.

Tue severest snowsterm known in Great Britain for many years commenced on Thursday night and raged till Saturday.

Tus Afencton Times says the Government of P. E. Island in abolishing the Legisiative Council, is moving in the right direction.

Tue population ef the German Empire, ac cording to the recent census, ia 45,194,172. In 1871 it was 41,023,095, and in 1875, 42,- 727,: 60,

It is the general opinion of impartial critics that Garfield’s cabinet, in point of administra tive ability, is much inferior to that of ex- President Hayes. Tus Rev. S. R. Ackman has received a upanimonvs call frem his psrishioners of the Cornwail Circuit, te remain with them for a third vear.

Tur brigt. ‘‘ Kitty Clyde,’ May, Master, put into Shelbourne, N. S., on Thursday, after being dalayed ten days on thse ceast by

easterly galcs.

Tue semi-weekly issue of the Preshylerian is t® be discentinued, on the score of econewy, and at the request ef subscribers living « long

distance from Pest offices.

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Local and Otiner Items.

Mavtommen Jan, the noted leader in the Afghan War, has been raurdered.}

Beig Katie, Murehizon, master, arrived at Jemerara, on the 10th February. All well

Goop Carrie.-—Messrs. Smith Bros., of Albert Co., N. B., sold on the 7th inat., for export, fifty head of cattle, which weighed on an average, 1,500 Iba.

Mr. Gorman, afich dealer of $t. John, has sent a large shipment of frozen fish to Chicago including 130 barrels herring, 100 boxes bloat- ers, and § tons fresh codfizh.

‘Tue marriage of Priace William, eldest son of the leans ies of Prussia, to the Prin- cess Augusta Viotoria, was eelebrated with great pomp at Berlin, on the 27th ult.

Tun Audit Committee have diseovered a deficiency of $10,354.44 in the accounts of the St. John, N. B., Water Cemmissioners. The difference in the accounts kas not yet been explained.

Tue Moneton Sugar Refining Company is running a barrel factory im sonnection with the retinery, which is quite an impertant ad- dition to the Jabor-employing industries ef that pregressive town.

Wuta the old boiler was being tested at the Pheenix Works, Buffale, N. Y-, on Friday last, it exploded, killimg six men aud weund- ing seven others. The buildings are com- pletely destreyed.

Suekivr Waits, who lately resigned his office, has published his card as a candidate for Sunbury County, N. B. Heruvcs against Mr. Tayler, who is supported by the Leal Gevernment of \ew Brunswiek.

Monvreat has the oldest soldier. His name is Duval. He saya hs is in his 103rd year, and served under Napeleon I. A tew days ago this old chap sat on a eeroner’s jury and told stories ef his adventures.

Mu. CarcyLy’s friends, it is reported, wish te put the littie houre in Scotland in which he wes born ie repair, and keep it as a monu- ment—makimg it perhaps into a library for the use of the conntry people about.

‘THe sum of $2,500 has been placed in the Deminien estimates tor the construction of a

Ix Kast Northumberland, Ont., Mr. Crouter,

R hesen as the Reform

Reeve of Brighton, is «

Mr. |

visitors through and explain to them the |

Four mere |

** Holdfast” Division, No. 123, was then |

Pickard; Ch., Richard Locke; OG., George Peardon; A. C., 8. Hol- man; I 8S, George Diamond; F. S., W. Bryenton; O. S., C. Williams; |

candidate. Mr. Crouter is a Methodist, and

Mr. Kennedy a Catholic.

In a letter to Saturday’s Puiriot, Capt. Arthur Irving states that, had the ‘* : oe

bechu

Aight

the iceboats were only able to make two round trips.

|

We were misinformed regarding the pro- leseds of Zion Charch Tea and Faney Sale. | of being $115. it was 8380, and the | Committee have on hand at presert, the sum lof 3500 towards liquidatiz g the debt of the | Church.

instead

| ‘Tne revenue of the Dominion, exclusive i of British Columbia, for February was :— | Customs, $1,443,609; excise, $360,808 ; | other sources, $535,820 ; tetal, $2,136,927 : being an increase of r the re-

$374,217 ov | ceipts in February, 1880 !

Lood

Ps EXAMINE % x

fend «A THE

Persons wishing to

paper abroad can hav

island AND

iSLAND AkGUs sent from this otlice direet te | :

anv address in the United Kingdom or the United States or ‘Canada, postage yaid, till

of seventy-tive eents.

Tus Sate of Wisconsin was recently visited

by one of the most severe saow storms on | recerd. Railway and other trafiic im all parts of the State was coumpletely suspended for

i : . the end of the year on payment (in advanes) | |

several days and much destitetion is the re- sult, In Milwankee, the scarcity of fuel put coal up to $12 2 ton, and wood to $9 a cerd;

milk went up to 25 cents a quart, and eggs to 90 cents a dozen.

Mr. Pact Li in answer te

a writes a letter to the Patriot

‘*Mechanic.” He states that machine wade superior to these made by hand, and challenges ‘‘ Mechanic” toa competition as regards their make. In proof of his statement Mr. Lea refers **Mechanic ” to the doors of the best dwelling houses iu Charlottetown, where they have been tested.

Coers are

OnrtuaRy.—-Mrs. James Ross, of Mount Stewart, died very suddenly at her residence on Thursday. Sho had taken ill on Saturday, and up te Thursday suffered intense pain. in order to alleviate her sufferings her medical attendant administered sleeping drops, and she feund reliefin a sleep during which she passed calmly away. Mrs. exemplary persen of eharitable dispesition, aud will be much missed in the community in which she lived, where her sad death is sin- eerely mourned. We tender our syinpathy to her bereaved husband and family.

Tus funeral ef the late 8. A. Muncey, | which toek place at Summerside, on Saturday last, was very largely attended. A proces- sion, numbering about seventy Odd Fellows, | left the Loage oom, Ceutral Street, at 1 p.

| m., and marched to the late residence of decear- | |

|} ed. The funeral was met at the charch,in St. Eleanor’s, by Rev. Thee Richey, who con

duetod the Church of England Burial service. The Oddfellows’ funeral eeremony at the grave was performed by Bro Rev. Alfred @sborne, curate of St. Paal’s, Charlottetown.

| Tus Annandale

| opened on Sunday, the 27th was a fine one, and cor seque

| was filled to overflowing. ‘J

Guan delivered

Presbyterian Church was ult. The day

he Rev. 8S. C.

| congratulated on having such a neat, comfort } able and coramodious church erected in their

| midst.

Tua ech r Ann Awelia, Cienfuegos. Jannary 25ti ported at Bermuda, and enceuntered a severe yale. in which she was thrown en her beam ends, had her bul warks stove, other serious damage.

, jor Halifax, was re-

Was obliged to jevtison

of molasses. She bere up for Bermuda un ler jury masts and arrived there February 25th. A here siate she will prebably be con- dewned. The veasel was chartered by Jas. Butler & Co. of Halifax, and bad a caro of molasses for them. he was built at Souris, P. B. L., in 1876, was 82 tons regi ter, and Was ov

iVvices

din Halifax by Wm. Morrison.

A Yousa@ MAN named

| had previeusly worked on the Laland, arrived here by the ijast boat from Beston last fail. Soon after his arrival he was taken ili at the

Mr. John A. Scott, of Cornwall, deeming it unfair that Mr. Stretch should bear all the expenyes incident to burying the stranger, after having cared for him through his illness, went round among seme of his charitable friesds and neighbers and collected an amount of money to help to defray the funeral expenses. For this generous act Mr. Scott, as well as those whe contributed to the fund, are to be commended.

Opiruary.—We regret to learn that Stephen MeNeill, Esq., Manager of the Summerside Branch of the Merchants Bank of Halifax, died onJSunéay, after-an illneus of four weeks, of rheumatic fever. Mr, McNeill was one of the leading eitizens of Summerside—a gentleman who enjoyed in a marked degree the confidence and respect of his fellow townsmen. He managed the affairs of the Branch Bank, over whieh he has had charge since its establishment in Summerside, to the satisfaction ef the head office, and to the advantage of the trade of Summerside and Prince County. We sympathize with his family in their severe affiiction.

Bittiarps.—The champion billiard match, at Monarch Billiard Hall, Friday right, between Messrs. McKay and Swan, attracted an im- mense audience, notwithstanding the boister- ous weather. The contest, as anticipated, was keen, though the berting was twotoone in faver of McKay. When the contestants took their places at the table at 7.45 they looked exceedingly nerveus. Still the twinkle of McKay's eye as he xteadily marched areund the table to chalk, teld his

, the Conservativ® candidate, is |

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at the Capes last week, she couid |

have effected a crossing every day, whereas |

Ross was a most

itly the church | |

an interesting and appropriate |

i | discourse from Psalm 43: 12-13. The collec

| tion amounted to $44.00. This section of the | Rev. J. G. Cameron s congregation are to be |

MecDerald, from |

dismasted and wrecked, |

boata smashed, and sustained |

15 puncheons, some tierces and several barrels |

Hugo Ericsson, who |

honse of Mr. Joseph Stretch, Weet River, | where he remained and was tenderiy cared for till his death, which recently ocenrred,

new lighthouse at Cape Egmont, im Prince County, and a farther sum ef $560 for the _ erection of @ ligitkeeper’s residence at Souris.

[N¥ORMATION has just been received at Hali- ' fax to the effeos that Lieut.-Col. Dean, late |/eommandimg officer of the Ist Ninetoenth

eziment in the garrison at that city, was shot in au engagement between British troops and Beers, on the 23th January.

‘Tur bark At’antic has arrived at St John, from Batavia in the East Indies, with a cargo of 560 tons of raw sugar fer the Moncten Sugar Refinery. The Atlantie was 130 days making the passage. This is the largest cargo ot sugar ever imported into the Provinces.

‘jue North West.—It is officially stated that no more than twenty head of cattle perished in the Canacian Nerth West during the severe snow storms of the past winter, while the death rate in the Western States was 30 per cent of the tetal number of cattle owend there.

Whirs have been issued for Dominion Eleetions in East Northwaberland, Ont., and | Car eton, N.B. Nomination on the 18th inst., | and polling on the 25th. In the latter eon- | stituency, Dr. Connell, the Conservative can- didate, will be allowed to walk the course un- opposed.

Gs Saturday last, the train conveying ex- President Hayes and family from Washington, collided with a train geing in an opposite di- reetion, near Baltimere. Two men were in- stantly killed ,and several injured, some seriously. Tho Hayes party, however, eseap- ed uninyured.

Mu. Cuitpsas’ scheme of army reform it is estimated will save England a quarter of a million pounds sterling. Flogging in the army is to be entirely abelished. The mini- mum age of enlisting is to be raised from 18 to 19, and men, or more correctly vouths, under twenty are not to be sent to India,

Tus Dominion Parliament has been petition- ed to remove Chief Justice Weed, of Mani- oba, from the Beach ef that Prevince, on various grounds, among which are, giving dis- honest and unjust decisions, taking an active part in politics, partiality in the discharge of his judicial duties, abnsive language and drunkenness,

Says the St. John Globe: News from Yar- mouth, N. 8., is to the effect thatthe firms involved by the failure ef Dennis & Doane are compromising with the Banks, and no further trenble is leeked for. ‘there isa feeling of insecurity, however, as ship property has not been remunerative ef late, and there have been many losses.

ine schooner Greenleaf, Hail master, left Lunenburg, N. 8., om Sunday weck for Bes- tem with acargo of fish. The same day the vesse! misstayed aad wenton shoreat Lahave, Iron Bound Island, and became a total wreck ; crew saved Greenleaf was 70 tons register and was nine months old. No insurance on vessel er cargo.

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| JUDGMENT was given by Judge Dalton at | Toronte, ow Thursday, in the case of Clascy Mackintosh, in favor of the latter with |costs The action was brought to unseat | Mackintosh, the Mayor of Ottawa, on the greund of insnficient property aalification. | tiveef the City Councillors of Ottawa have been noseated on the same ground.

Cranaes ex THe Bexcu.—Hon. J. G. | Spregge, the present Chaneeller, has been appoisted Chief Justica of the Court of Ap- peal in Great Britain, vice the late Alon. | Thomas Mess. Nothing is known as to what wi

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be done to fill the vacancy caused on the bench of the Court of Chancery by the ap- poistment ef the Chancellor to the Court of Appeal.

‘jus New York police are investigating the |case af Mary Groas, alias Maud Trenholm, | who died at Belliveu Hespital on Tuesday | from exhaustion due to acute mania. I+ is | stated her father is James (?) White, Pro pristor of the Phenix Hotel, Moncton, N. B.. | aud that Mary eloped four years age with | Jas. B. Gress, who maltreated and deserted | her. The hody was seat to New Brunswick on the 9tb inet.

Losron still maintains her claim te be con- sidered the Athens of America. Pondering | npon the mortality of modern life, exposed as | itis to tothe action cf tremendous agencies

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moved to sing :—

| ** Pall many a maid has toyed with kerosene, | Aud sailed to glory in a gorgeous glare; Full many a man has poked at glycerine, Anc. town promiscuously through the desert air,

Nanian thinks Wallace Ross the fastest man he ever saw pull a boat. He places the two Australians next to Ross, saying that Trickett is the fastest for two miles, bat that Layceck could row the ex-champion down in a five-mile race. He never saw Beyd row when he was fit te pull a race, and den’t know just where to place him. He thinks Courtney a faster man than Elliott, but not up to the Australians. He epeaks very highly of the a manliness of beth the Aus- tralians,

Ix the debate on the Bill for the reduction of the Legis'ature in the House of Assembly, recently, the Previncial Seoretary queted from ‘‘ Paradise Lost” Satan’s deelaration en being cast in the burning Lake, thathe brought with him **A mind not be chasged by time or place. The mind is its own place, and in iteelf can make a Meaven ef Hell, a Hell of Heaven,” to show that even Satan’sconselation did not remainto Mr. Perry, hehaving techange the professions of a lifetime in erder to ebtain the Leadership of the Oppesition for even a few days. Mr. Perry, evidently believing ‘Paradise Lost” to bea part of the Bible, created great amusement in the House by re plying that the Provineial Secretary had gone so deep in Scripture that he had almost lost sight of him,

Benrvo.gnt Inisu Soctety.—At the annus] meeting of the Benevolent Irish society the ‘following members were elected as officers for the ensuing year.

James Reddin, President, (re elected.)

W. C. DesBrisay, Vice President.

backers that he was ‘“game to the ears,” and they evidently wished they had bet just a trifle more on him—their | favorite. Swan’s nervousness passed off quick- ly, and the nimbleness with which he bavdled | his cue, caused his friends to applaud fre- quently, although he was playing a losing | game from the beginning. At a quarter to | twelve game was ealled, and McKay declared | the victor. ‘ihe score then stood—McKay 500, Swan 434, breaks 98. The highest run made by MeKay was 28, while his opponent