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TIME TABLE NO. 20. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, fo take effect on the 24th May, 1889, "TRAINS OUTWARD.
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Dp‘ JENKINS has taken the house on Prince Street, opposite the eastern end of St. Paul's Church, where patients nay con- sult him. Hours for consn]ation 8 to 10 p. m. Charlottetown, Sep. ].—lw
L.ARTHUR & CO., GHENERAL Uommission Merchants, 121 ATLANTIC AVENUE,
(ROSS MARKET) BOSTON, MAsSs.
Eggs and Produce a Specialty,
April 26, 1883.—wkly tf
EDWARD T. RUSSEL & CO.,
GENERAL
Commission Merchants, NO, 284 STATE STRERT,
BOSTON.
Particular attention given to the sale of} Fish aud Produce of all kinds,
June 22, 1883.--6m
Stolla.m., and
GEORGE TWEEDY, |
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
Notary Public, &c.
OF FICE— West Side of Queen Street, Char- lottetown, next door to Stevenson’s Tin Shop. July 25, 1883 —dy wkly 6m
SULLIVAN & MACNEILL, | ATTORNEYS - AT- LAW
Solicitors in Chancery,
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Steam Navigation Co'y,
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PRINCESS OF WALES.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT |
Commencing Wednesday, 16th May,1883. |
NOVA SCOTIA.
Leave Charlottetown for Pictou Landing every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings, at 7 o'clock, connecting there with the Train for Halifax. Returning to! Charlottetown on Monday, Wednesday Friday | and Saturday, about 2 p. m., on arrival of Train from Halifax,
Leave Pictou Landing for Georgetown on Thursday, on arrival of train at 2 p.m.
Leave Georgetown for Pictou Landing every Friday morning, at 5 a.m.
NEW BRUNSWICK. CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.
Leave Summerside every day (Sunday excepted) on arriva: of Train from Char. jettetowp, connecting at Shediac with) Trains for each of the above named places ; and at St, John, with steamers of the Interna.’ tional Company and Railway for Portland and | Boston. Also’ leave Charlottetown for Sum- merside every Monday.morning at 1 o'clock, Returning, leave Shediac every day (Sundays , excepted) on arrival of day train from St. | Jobn, for Summerside, connecting there with Train for Charlottetown, Also leave Sum- merside for Charloitetowa every Saturday evening, about 5 o'clock,
By order,
F. W. HALES, Charlottetown, May 15, 1883. Secretary.
<5 BOSTON STEAMERS,
STEAMERS:
NOTARIES PUBLIC, &c. OF FICES— O’Halloran’s Building, Great,
George Street, Charlottetown. Ga Money to Loan,
W. W. Sottivay, Q. C, | Cusstsa B. Macnee. Jan. 16, '83.
McLEOD & MORSON Barristers & Attorneys-at-Law,
SOLICITORS, NOTARIES PUBLIC, ETC,
OFFICES: xeform Club Committee Rooms, Opposite Post Otfice, Charlottetown, P. E, Island,
Merchants’ Bank of Halifax Building, Sum- merside, P, E, Island.
MONEY TO LOAN, on good security, at)
moderate interest. Nei McLeop. Nov. 24, ’82.—pres her
W. A. O. Morson.
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INSURANCE OFFICE.
Queen Insurance Company, OF ENGLAND. CAPITAL, TEN MILLION DOLLARS.
Lancashire Insurance Company
CAPITAL, FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS
Insurance effected on all kinds of property at current rates. Losses settled promptly
and equitably. : DESBRISAY & ANGUS, General Agents. Office—South Side Queen Square. Ch’town, Sept. 15, 1882.
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STANDARD LIE ASSURANCE (0,
T the 57th Annual General Meeting of LA the Standard Life Assurance Company, held at Edinburgh on Tuesday, the 24th of April, 1883, the following results for the year ended 15th November, 1883, were re- ported ;—
3,038 new proposals for life as- gurance were received the
year for a $ 9,754,085 38 2,561 proposals were accepted, =. assuring 7,239,048 13
The total existing assurances in force at 15th November, 1882, amounted to (Of which $7,753,031.15 was reassured with other offices)
The claims hy death whioh arose during the year amount- ed, including -bonus. addi- tions, to
The annual revenue amounted at 15th November, 1852, to
The invested funds at same date amounted to
Being an increase during the year of
96,935,302 91
2,462,226 59 4,267,546 00 29,503,416 00 1,062,648
JOHN LONGWORTH, Agent for Charlottetown. THOMAS KERR, Inspector of Agencies, Ch'town, August 3, 1838.
| Worcester, 866 tons, Capt. Blankenship
Carroll, 879 tons, Capt. Brown,
NE of the above FIRST-CLASS STEAM- ERS will leave
Charlottetown for Boston
EVERY
THURS DAY AFTERKOQON, AT5 P. M.
PASSENGERS will find this the Cheapest | and most pleasant trip to Boston. Accommo- dations on both steamers are splendid.
CARVELL BROS.,
AGENTS, Ch'tewn, May 17, 1883.-~pat her sj
STEAMER “HEATHER BELLE,”
Summer Arrangement, 1883,
N and after Tuesday, July 24th, the new steamer ‘Heather Belle,’ Hugh McLean, master, will run as foliows:—
very Tuesday morning at four o'clock, will | leave Chariettetown for Orwell Brush | Wharf, leaving Orwell Brush Wharf, at | seven a. m., tor Charlottetown, calling at | China Point and Halliday’s Wharves, leave Charlottetown at 3p. m., for Halli- day's China Point and Brush Wharves, where she will remain over night.
Wednesday, will leave Brush Wharf for | Charlottetown, at seven a, m., calling at China Point and Halliday’s Wharves, leaving Charlottetown at three p. m., to’ return, remaining at Brash Wharf over)
nigh t.
theaaien, wil] Jeave Brush Wharf for Char- lottetawn, at seven a. m., calling at China, Point and Halliday’s Wharves, leaving Charlottetown at three p, m. to return, | leaving Brush Wharf about six p. m, for Charlottetown.
Friday, will leave Charlottetown for Crapaud at four a. m., leaving Crapaud at seven a. m. for Charlottetown, leaving Char- lottetown at three p. m. for Crapaud, remaining there over night,
Saturday, will leaye Crapaud at seven a. m. for Charlottetown, leaving Charlottetown at one o'clock p. m. for Crapaud and re- turning to Charlottetown from Crapaud same evening.
FARES—Cabin, to and from Orwell and Wharves, 30 cents; deck, 20 cents. Cabin, to and from Crapaud, 40 cents; deck 30 eente. |
Excursion Return Tickets will be issued | from Charlottetown to Orwell every Thursday | evening at one fi-st-class fare. Also, Excur-| ‘sion Return ‘lickets will be issued | | Saturday to Crapaud at one first-class fare. |
JON BUGEES
gent, Ch'town, July 25, 1883. [2aw whkly 3m pres ber pat ers
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STEAMERS ST, LAWRENCE AND
NEW COTTONS,
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Greatly Reduced Prices,
Just received and in stock,
4§ BALES AND CASES
(44,550 YARDS)
NEW BLEACHED
——AND—
Uubleached Cottons,
COTTON FLANNELS, —AND—
BED TICKINGS.
These Goods will be sold low to make room ' for fall importation, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Wd, WEEKS & Ob,
TEAS. TEAS.
EW TEAS, of Prime Quality, 75 Chests, at low prices, WHOLESALE.
W, A. Weeks & Co.
Ch’town, Aug. 8, 1883.
COAL! COAL!
IN STORE, AND WILL BE SOLD CHEAP.
Anthracite Ego and Chestont Sizes.
(BEST QUALITY.)
PICTOU ROUND & NUT, ALBION SLACK,
(For Blacksmiths’ use, good),
Sydney Old Mines’,
— AND—
GOWRIE MINES ROUND: CAPT. JOHN HUGHES,
Ch’town, Aug. 10. Water Street {mo we fr pat tu th sa 3m. he pres 3m
TF YOU CALL YOU WILL FIND
I HAVE ON HAND
Black, White and Colored Perforated Card Boards,
Gold and Silver Papers,
Blue, Pink, Green and White Tissue Papers,
Roya! Readers,
Franklin Square and other Novels.
Ss. T, NELMES, Standard Bookstore.
Ch’town, Aug. 15, 1883.—-6m eod
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(From the Philadelphial Industria Review | |
iy the industrial progress of a State or province is working under conditions favor- able to success, its best evidence lies on the | pagea of its custom-house records. Larger | figures may often be obtained by the ex- pert from faney estimates; but then he | builds but on guess-work, and such a basis of calculating the values of production can
seldom be depended upon as true, for a summary of facts thus reached at its best a oniy be misleading.
The true figures, however, of a country’s total efforts show where her productions have exceeded the local requirements and what surplusage was sent to outside mar- kets. An examination of such efforta, therefore, as are officially known, is of im- portance, not only as informing of the totals of transports, but (under a little analysis and grouping), of the forces and direction also of the currents of trade, as they change or enlarge under their yearly conditions. If several successive years are brought under comparison, the conclusions that may be drawn are as instructive as they are absolutely true. They, will show what industries have lost ground and what others may have got into favor; they will point out the expansion or contraction of the enterprises that have connected them- selves with the surges of outside traftic; and they will give their plain and distinct ver- dict for or against the very thrift of the people.
Having been furnished recently by E. L. Lydiard, Esq., (an official connected with the exports of Prince Edward Island and resident in Charlottetown,) with a manu- script statement of exports (1879 to 1882,) from that section of the Dominion of Canada, a few selected figures may not be out of place, as they will serve to illustrate the foregoing and show in addition what that ‘‘tight little island’ has been doing in the past few years to help swell the widening volume of industries that every- where marks the present era of commercial activity and social unions.
Prince Edward island prosperously helps to feed the bright light now shiniug on the great business horizon of the human family; for though insular in her geography she has (through her water connections with the world,) abundant reason to be proud of
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‘If we glance at the total exports of the whole of the United States for 1880, we shall confront a value that is represented by $823,946,353, and if we look upon the corresponding year for Prince Edward Island the figures reached for total exports will be found to be $2,788,340. The two populations in that year were 50,000,000 for the United States and 100,000, for Prince Edward Island. Now, if we make these population figures divisors into the totals of export values, we shall find that while the United States, with all their mighty resources, only exparted some $16.60 value per capita, Prince Edward Island’s exports for 1880 divided by her population, gave nearly $23 worth per capita; so that so far as this may be a fair comparison of energy and succeas the Islanders in 1880 beat ‘Uncle Sams” children (boy for boy,) nearly as two to one. Further, if we take the Prince Edward Island figures for 1879 and 1882 under the two items of sheep and wool, we shall find that while sheep were exported in 1879 to the value of $35,283 only $23,559 were the export valae of sheep in 1882,- apparently a serious falling off. But if we look for the cause of this we shall dis- cover the missing figures under the item of wool, and in proof that Prince Ed- ward Island held her own and a little more the wool and cloth exported in 1879, though only worth $19,478, rose to $30,879 in 1882, and curiously enough, just about what the ‘**wool and cloth” exports in 1879 fell below the sheep they rose above them in 1482, and combining these items in these years they produce the same figures, viz., $54,000, which fact »oints directly to improved wool- producing siock, and perhaps more profit from the wool than the mutton as an ex
rt.
The Prince Edward Island figures on horses and horned cattle were in 1879 $42. - 792, while in 1882 they rose to $170,779, again showing improved quality and ave congequense increased demand.
The article, eggs, swelled its export value so productively that 1882 showsa ditference over 1879 of $150,000. The exportation of lobsters as canned goods reached $500,000 in 1882, but the black oats and round pota- toes are the agricultural prizes of Prince Edward Island, as 40 bushels of plump oats ean be raised to the acre, and 250 bushels of splendid potatoes, so that it is no wonder that $675,964 worth of the former and $237,801 of the latter passed through ex- porters’ hands last year.
There is every reason for the Dominion of Canada to regard Prince Edward Island as a valuable section of her territory, and scarcely less ought the United States, in view of their valuable fisheries, to make Prince Edward Island resources available to their citizens by the reciprocities of trade; for that plucky little island is a pearl in the Northumberland waters of the great St. Lawrence,and possesses thrift and enterprise that permit her to stand as well if not better than many sections twice her size upon this world of varied industries. The common interests of the United States and the Dominion of Canada want drawing closer together, and ignoring all questions of political agitation these vast sections of North America echould give the right hand of commercial fellowship, each to the other, and their thrift be made their pledge of harmony.
Tue first paper ever published in Canada was issued im Halifax, N.S., on the 23rd of March, 1752. It was called The Gazette, and was ‘‘printed by John Bushnell. at the print-
| ing office on Grafton street.” Its sjze was 10 _ by 15 inches gue leaf—two broad columns on eath page.
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CURRENT NOTES.
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Mr. Gladstone visits Scotland in October.
The barque ‘‘Kermalo,” with 9,000 quin- tals of codfish from St. Pierre to France, ‘sank with all hands at the entrance to the River Gironde.
Says the Halifax Herald:—An order from headquarters is to the effect that no more liquor shal! be sold at the garrison institute after the end of the present month, and coffee is to be substituted.
The Archbishop of New York, Baltimore Cincinnati and Philadelphia, and several! other prelates, are expected at the Vatican shortly to confer with the Propaganda upon the extension of church regulations to the clergy of America.
David Main, a noted dwarf, died in Scot- land on the Sth ult,, at the age of 58 years. Although 3 feet 4 inches in height, he weighed oy 40 pownds. He abways had a dread of showmen, and never ventured far from home on that account.
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Windsor’s policeman, Jacob Anthony, has been fined $10 and costs for assaulting, beating, kicking, and knocking around generally,’ one Edward Brothers, ‘‘con- trary to the form of statute in such case made and provided,” while taking said Brothers to the lock-up on a charge of drunkenness.
At a meeting of the committee of the Ischia survivors, held at Naples on the 6th inst., a resolution was adopted declar- ing they would refuse all proffers of aid on the ground that when charity is offered them inorder to serve as 4 pretext for insulting their King, they feel that it is their duty to reject such charity, not only from France, but from the whole world.
During the month of August 17,369 immi- grants arrived; the total number of arrivals reported from Ist of Jannary to 2ist of Au- gust was 138,584. For the same period last year was 129,910. Of the 138,384 per- sons, 56,024 went to the United States, as against 61,497 during the same period in 1882, leaving the number of persons wha settled in Canada from the 14th of January ao 3lst August of the present year 82,-
An article printed in the Paria Hntran- sigeant by Henri Rochefort, abusing King Humbert, has aroused great indignation throughout Italy. The article accused the King of having pocketed the money sub- acribed by the French people for the Ischia sufferers, while he was at the same time urging Germapy to annibilate France. An Italian officer waited upon Roehfort and demanded satisfaction for the insult to his King, but Rochefort refused to grant him a hostile meeting. ~
Enropean estimates of the popmlation of China are being reduced. Behan and Wag- ner reduce their estimate for China and Corea from 434,500,000 to 379,500,000. Peterson reduces his estimate by 75,000,000 making the present total 350,000,000. Dr. Happer, missionary, believes this can safely be reduced another 50,000,000. My. Hippisley, acting Commissioner of Custome, thinks 250,000,000 more nearly correct than 360,000,000. The losses by the Taep- ing and Mahometan rebellions, and by the famine and pestilence which swept the pro- vinces of Chili, Shantung, Shansi, and — Honan are variously estimated at from 61,000,000 to 81,000,000.
Says Tatmace:—As for these gadabouts, tale-bearers, scandal mongers, whisperers, and everlasting snoops, I hate them with increasing vehemency, and I ask God to give me increasing intensity with which to hate them. I think among the worst of the whisperers are those who gather up all the malicious things that have been said of the extenuating circumstances, After they have made your feelings all raw, the will take this brine and turpentine an aquafortis and rub it in with a coarse towel until it sinks to the bone. They make you a pincushien in which to thrust all the sharp things they have heard about you, and then the whispecer adds, ‘‘Don’t get me into the scrape; don't tell anybody I toid you.”
The daily newspapers in London, Eng- land, contain advertisements warning girls and youpg women against the dangers of being decoyed away tor immoral purposes. They are especially advised not to converse with strangers of either sex on the street, or apply at registry oftices or other places in answer to advertisements offering employ- ment, except im company with some trust- worthy friend. An announcement of such a character, so made, is a strange comment upon modern civilization. In the centre of the world’s culture, in the metropolis of freedom, snch means as this has to be taken to break up a traffic as compared with which the African slave trade was to Eng- lishmen an insignificant matter. Those who are engaged in checkmating the de- signs of the ghouls engaged in this traftic are doing a noble work.
An experiment, with the object of testing the effect of the fire of the 80-ton gun on fortifications, was carried out a few days ago at Shoeburyness. A representation of one of the most impregnable forts at Spit- head, 60 feet long by 20 feet wide, has been built up on the Marshes, and divided into four sections, the whole constructed of blocks of granite, with backi of teak and concrete. In front of the two inner sections two iron targets, each nine inches thick, separated by a layer of teak, were placed, and it was against one of these that the first experiment was carried out. The gun was loaded with 450 los. of pebble powder and a shot Weighing 1,700 lbs including gas check The gun was fized by electricity; and following the discharge came the crash on the target. Examination showed that the projectile, with an initial velocity of 15.88, struck the target exactly in the centre, cut through both iron slabs and facings of granite, and was embedded about six sont in the concrete behind. The result of the experiment appeared to give t satisfaction. This re ntation uf e fort Gost sénte thoudantls vf pounds,