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UNION HOUSE,
Queen Street. Churlottetown, A Gee | 6 PROPRIETOR,
CHOICEST WINES & LIQUORS.
PP YABLES set at all hours, with every luxury of the season, . FRESH OYSTERS received daily. . Rooms large and comfortably furnished. CoacueEs from this House meet all Trains and Stcam boats. First Class BARBER SHo:.
July 4, 18S79—3m
QUREN INSURANCE CO’. OF ENGLAND.
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CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING.
NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Veasels on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences, Losses settled promptly. EORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1877—
BRITISH AMERICA Assurance Company. FIRE AND MARINE,
Cash Capital & Assets $1,176, 491,45,
INCORPORATED 1833. Head Office, - Toronto, Ont.
Risks taken on all descriptions of Property at lowest rates.
PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE HASZARD, Agent.
Office, South Side Queen Square. July 10, 1879.
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No. 35 Water St.,
Charlotte town.
Prince Rdward Island Branch
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NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE.
INSURANCE CO.
Subscribed Capital, $9,733,332,00 Paid up Capital, - 1,216,666.00
CHIEF OFFICES—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street.
Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ance Business are divided every Five Years. The Tables of Rates are moderate.
Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LOWEST RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk.
Lossks settled with promptitude and liber-
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Raspberry, and Pine Apple Syrup Sold in bottles and by the gallon.
Plain and Faney Biscuits Solin Boxes & Bbls. av 1 by the pound.
Iceing Sugar, Raisins, Currants, Pastry Flour, Easence of Coffee, Coniectionery, Nuts, Oranges, Potted Ham, Drivelled liam, Potted Tongue, &
BEER & GOFF
Lemon,
Juve 23, 1879.
FURTHER REDUCTION
; IN PRICK: OF
Albion Mines (Pictou, ¥. 8.) SLACK COAL.
qsct and ROUND COAL can now be}
obtained at the ahove mentioned Mines.
fick Coal, only $1.30 per toms Round Coal, $2.00, ¢ , Fee tog w, Danbors! bs ' Sele Agent for P. E. Island. Ovvice : No, 35 Water street. Ch’town, June 23,-1879—patsj kea h sp2m
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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, |
CANADIAN. QvuEBEC, Sept. 29. News has reached Quebec of the drown- | ing of three men at Lanse-a-Jean, one of | whom is Ed. Dion, the billiard player. | Currron, Ont., Sept. 29° | A large four-oared row-boat ran the) Rapids below the old Suspension Bridge at g : 1 a B. MaeDON ALD’S Clifton, Saturday p. m., and passed safely into the whirlpool right side up, containing acoatand three oars, the latter hanging over the outside from the rowlocks. This is the first passage known to have been 2. ' made by any craft through these Rapids Mm | iY : ‘6 ne ; » Mis ”? ON NE CS since the trip of the ‘* Maid of the Mist some years ago. Orrawa, Sept. 29.
The agricultural delegates whe came to Canada at the invitation of the Minister of Agriculture have left Ottawa for the West. Lonpon, Ont., Sept. 29. A second Steam Heating Company has
CLOTHING
270 to AS B. MacD ONALD’S been opened here, and will commence oper-
For MENS’ and BOYS’
go to J. B MacDonatp’s For GREY and WHITE COTTONS,
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ations at once. They have bought the land on which to erect their works.
UNDERCLOTHING
UNITED STATES. PortLann, Me., Sept. 29. James A. . Lowe, a farmer at West Cum- berland, went home from a dance at the fair last night, and was found this morning in a barn murdered ; tramps are suspected.
BatrimorE, Md., Sept. 29.
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, 5 John Walker, who was abducted to pre-
J B Mi ACDON ALD S vent his elopment with Miss McClellen, was
" ’ "| released yesterday morning. Miss McClel-
. Queen Street, Charlottetown, Sept. 15, 1879. : lan has disappeared; it is believed she has a eumierenen met Walker and been married. She is an
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BRITISH
4 As we intend’to make a change in our business at the end of the year, we are now closing out our
At Unusually Low Prices.
Meet the Hard ‘Times,
Kindle aiiimngetlie> 21 4 ceplcornscventnantint> 30%
Dress Goods from 6 cents upwards. Grey Cottons from 4 cents ugwards. Prints from 6 cents upwards. Hemp Carpeting from {2 cents upwards. Tapestry from 59 cents upwards. Brussels from $1.00 upwards. All other lines we are closing out at Prices that Defy
Competition.
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Charlottetown, June 30, 1879.
TAKE NOTICE.
’ALPIN E, our Directory Publisher in- M tends publishing, about tne begining of 1880,
A BUSINESS DIRECTORY
of the Maritime Provinces—Pocket Edition— te contain all persons in business throughout the Provinces, even the remotest parts or the
description, etc. 4
Abeat 500 pages for the year 1880-81 ; price only 75c. or $1, to continue for two years be- fore publishing next edition. The circulation will be SOME ‘THOUSANDS, and the price being so small, will make it
A MOST VALU MEDIUM FOR AD VERTISING,
If sufficient support is given, will add New- foundland, St. Flsees Magdalen Islands.
The publisher also indo. canvassing On tario and Quebec ; also ton, New York, Portland, Philadelphia, and manufacturing districts of United States for subscriptions to the work. on: ' .
Any parties oe to advertize will please
ond instructions = D. McALPINE, Sept. 3, 1879—1m St, John, N. B,
“DR. P. W. 6. CANNING,
Licentiate Royal Colleges Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh. LICENTIATE MIDWIFERY.
. “RESIDENCE : | re Buston Streets, Charlo FFI OURS : 8:30 toll am.; 7 to 9p.m. 2 Cader. June 24, 1879.—eod
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orphan worth $100,000. Mvuppy Creek, Va., Sept. 29.
Frederick Hardy attempted to kill his step-daughter on Thursday, by wounding ber in the head and neck six or seven times; he then cut his own throat, dying imme- diately. Cause, religious insanity. The girl’s recovery is doubtful.
New York, Sept. 29.
George J. Penney, President of the Metropolitan National Bank of this city, has presented half a million dollars to the Wesleyan College
AREHOUSE.
Sr. Lovts, Sept. 27. A private circular has been issued here by he Trade Assembly to all assemblies in the
: t Large and Well-Assorted Stock of [United States and British North America,
DRY GoonDs
setting forth a project for a general strike of all trades, the time to be determined by Trades Assemblies and to take united action for the enforcement of the eight hour system, and to appoint an Agitation Com- mittee to carry the purposes of the assem- blies,
Which, we are Sure, Will
New York, Sept. 29. Marie Raymond was divorced to-day from John T. Raymond, the actor.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Lonpon, Sept. 29.
Hop circulars concur in the statement that this season’s crop is the smallest since 1860, The blight is universal throughout Kent,Sussex,and Worcestershire. At Farn- ham there are moderate stocks of yearlings and old heps in brewers’ hands, but few offering. Considerable importations from America and the Continent are probable. Continental crops are good.
The mass meeting on Saturday in Hyde Park, to denounce the inecapaciiy of the Government and to demand an appeal to the country, proved a failure.
Lonnvon, Sept. 29.
The scull race to-day between Higgins and Boyd for £400 over the Thames. cham- pionship course was easily won by Boyd.
British brig Pimlico, from Westport, Treland, for Quebec, put inte Valentia to- day, leaking. ‘
Dustin, Sept. 29.
Tenant rights meeting was held at Castle- bar, Ennis and Tullow, on Sunday, calling for abatement of the rents.
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Hire. life. Marine, HORACE HASZARD, General Insurance Agent,
REPRESENTING : Cemmercial Union Fire Assurance Company, of London, England, Capital, ~£2,500,000 stg. Fire
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British-Americ Assurance Loneew, Sept, 20. Company, of Mavonte Ont, Capital The Russian account of the battle be- ane f tocal: 28, states the Russians for six hours cannon- es o> —_ aded the position held by. 305 Turcomans.
MARINE INSURANCE ALSO. EFFECTED.
men killed ; 16 officers, ‘234 men wounded.
MAIL NOTICE aie SP ype | the Ameer was felt during the Cabul out- AILS for Great Britain will “be closed at} break, but as he has come to our camp he
and also on MONBAY, the 4th and 18th : :
oak . ’ | closed apparently with the idea that the
inst. at 4 o clock, a. m., to be forwarded via Fisitiat' are plane at held,
Shediac and also for all places on th te to -
Sieakaiaiis and in Teaco Colby, will "be | expected a column wiii arrive before Cabul
Mails to be forwarded via Steamers to| Many persons here regard the Ameer’s
Pictou will be closed every MONDAY, |arrival at the British camp as an astute
Mails for Georgetown and Souris and . , andi Envoy at Cabul. On tke other hand all places on those routes, will be closed daily high Y ficials express confidence in his ‘aah wt eas t6 issue a manifests to the “Afghans that’
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(paid up in full), $500,000 00. tween the Russian expeditionary forces Sin Mutual Life and Accident Ip- and Tekke Turcomans at Seok Tepe, Aug. At night the enemy fled, losing several ; ? “ ' Office, south side Queen Square. eee 6) See ee | re lee Sept. 16—1lw eod Sra, Sept. 29. Very general distrust of the cenduct of 10 o'clock, p. m., on THURSDAY in] jag 3 terial tee for his f , 7 ae ” given ma gurantee for uture each week, to be forwarded via Rimouski, good behaviour. The gates of Cabul were Halifax, =4 : Mails to be forwarded via Summerside and| The advance of the, British continues. The Ameer accompanies the troops. It is closed daily at 5.30 o'clock, a. m., also for|on Wednesday next. Resistance is un- Summerside direct, at 5 p. m. likely. WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR-| moye to foster-the belief that he is innocent DAY, at 5 o’clock, a, m. of complicity fin the murder of the British iat 6.e’clock, a. m. iiinen x Post Office Charlottetown the British army will advance on Cabul to Aig. 2nd, 1879, : t aveiage the treachery to the British envey,
ess meme anaes a me
i treated as 'men and children, are advised to withdraw ito a place of safety
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that the peaceable inhabitants will not be molested, but if opposition be offered, all persons with arm is will be memies. Non-combatants, wo-
in their han
LONDON, Sept. 29
The Times points to the fact that Daoud Shah being alive and at the British camp, confirms the suspicions that the Ameer’s in- sincerity, .5 he, in a despatch to the Indian Government, stated Daoud was killed while endeavoring to quiet the rebels.
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Coast Waves.
Next to the action of the rain and rivers, comes the gnawing eifect of coast waves. The wave thunders against the cliff, which mock its seemingly impotent rage by dash- ing it backward in a cloud of foam and spray, but it returns again and again to the charge, until it persisently wins the day. The east coast of England, which has for centuries been fast yielding to the attacks of the German Ocean, furnishes Sir C. Lyell with the majority of his illustrations in the interesting chapters upon the action of tides and currents. That eminent geo- logist tells us how towns and _ villages, marked by name in old maps, now lie fa- thoms deep beneath the waves. In one case, which came under his noice, houses had within the memory of living men stood upon a cliff 50 feet high, but in less than half a century houses and cliff were all en- guifed, and sea water deep enough to float a frigate occupied their site. As many as twelve churches, each further landward than the last, have been bailt in one parish, and all but one have been swallowed by the sea. Church-yards have consequently been destroyed in many paces, the corpses and skeletons having been washed out of their graves and floated away by the tide. Sir C. Lyell himself saw human remains pro- truding from the cliffs’ at Reculvers, in Kent, in 1851. And he humorously alludes to a scene depited by Bewick, which, he says, humerous points on that coast might have suggested : the graveyard of a ruined abbey, undermined and almost isolated by the sea, with a broken tombstone in the foreground serving as a perch for the cor- morants, and bearing the inscription, ‘‘To perpetuate the memory of -——,” one whose very name was obliterated, and whose monument was ready to fall into the waves. And he aptly, though somewhat. sarcastic- ally, suggests that such a tombstone would have been a fit tribute to the memory of ‘‘some philosopher” who had taught ‘‘the permanency of existing continents,” the ‘era of repose,” or ‘*the impotence of modern causes.” — Belgravia.
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Longevity in the isle of Skye.
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There is at present living in a Skye bothy, old widow> McPherson, who entered upon her 106th year last Christmas. She was born there in the saine year that Dr. Samuel Johnson and Boswell visited Skye, and met with Flora McDonald, the Jacobite heroine, who befriended Prince Charlie, when he fled tu Skye, after his disastrous defeat at Culloden, 1746, and when the Government reward of £30,000 offered for his surrender, did not induce her to betray her trust, and yield up this sole survivor of a fallendynasty. During the 105 years of Widow McPherson’s life, she has lived in a turf hut, the smoke from the peat-fire on the hearth finding its way out by every crevice, and giving a lustre, as if varnished, to the rafters which support the thatched roof. She has survived six Lords of the Isles, the .present being the seventh Lord. McDonald, who has held this title since she was born. She has never been out of the island, and does not understand on one word of English, but converses freely in Gaelic. She has been blind for ten years, but her hearing and memory are both good, and she is nursed by her daughter Kirsty, who is unwearied in her attendance upon her old mother. The photograph of this surviving relic of a past century has been recently taken, and as she is in very humble circumstances, any profit arising from the sale of it will be de- voted to procuring for her such comforts as her extreme old.‘age and declining strength require. Copies.of the photograph, 2s 6d each, may be had from Messrs. T. & R. Annan,153 Sauchiehiall street, Glasgow, who have kindly undertaken the sale of them for her benefit, .
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‘FHERE is. a great scandal.in Austria which is creating a profound sensation. A tailor named Joseph Schwarz, condemned as an incendiary, declared to the judges after his ttial~that Count Watislaw, who was..found dead. twenty years ago in the woods, did not commit, syicide as was alleged at the time, but. was killed by him- self arid 4 companion at the instigation of a noble, who was jealous of his aitentions to a lady. Some. ofthe highést nobility have already been summoned to answer for the crime.
_ A New York despatch yesterday says :— ‘*The money in the» international walk has been divided as follows: Rowell, $19,500, and $6,500 swee kes, Merritt, $7,312; Hazael, 4,592.50; Hazael, $4,392.50; Hart, $2,379; ‘Guyon, $1,950; Weston, $1,365;
is, $972.50; Krohne, $877.50, A re- ception ‘is to be given to the walkers this Tuesday evening, when the belt will be presented.”
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