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Local and Other Ktems. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.! ODD-FELLOWS’ Clothes Cleaning Depoi,| AUCTION Sanes, ais oak, TE mest me Te grruarion. (Natal Day Celebration |e ee
Severar of the badiy-spelled street signs are bemy corrected,
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Council this evening at 7.30.
Tux mails from Cape Tormentine will
arrive in the city this evening.
Tuk market to-day was not very well at-
tended. Prices unchanged.
THERE Was no business at the Stipen
diary Mayistrate’s Court to-day.
Ivy is hoped that the Local Legislature will rise ow Thursday—just five weeks since the session opened.
ACKNOWLEDGED, with thanks, the sum of tive dollars for the ‘“‘ Soup Kitchen” from Vovernment House; also five dollars from a
* friend” through Dr. Dodd.
A Magic Lanrern Entertainment will be given in the Reform Club Hall next Friday evening, under the auspices of the New Do- minion Section S. T. Admission 10 cents.
\ ‘pwn’ sail boat has been rigged and substantially decked by Mr. Henry Hales. {t is capable of doubling the speed of any ordinary boat, and cannot be capsized by the severest gale of wind.
Turee fine fat oxen belonging to Hon.
J. €. Pope were sold by auciion at the Market Square to-day. They were pur- chased by Messrs. Blake Bros. for 892, |
493 and $122 each, respectively.
SeveERAL fine stallions belonging to Hon. J. C. Pope and other gentlemen were offer- ed for sale at the Market Square to-day. he prices offered were not sufficiently urge and they were ‘‘ bid in.”
AS. Paut despatch of the 27th ull. to the Western Associated Press says: ‘‘ Mr. William B. O'Donoghue, the brains of the Riel insurrection, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital in this city on yesterday after- noon,
Tux Summerside Progress says that the shutters on the Court House are to be re- moved, and a high fence built around the front of her building. This speaks volumes for the architectural skill of the Commis aioner of Public Works and his Engineer.
We hear that the inhabitants of Cape Traverse and vicinity are soon to apply for # grant sufficient to sink several artesian wells in that locality. We hope they may aicceed. They are certainly just as much entitled to such a boon as the people of Murray Harbor or Belfast.—S. P.
fae Chicago Inter-Ocean says that the wholesale houses there are doing a thriving business—better than forseveral years back. “Another Aiuerican paper says that the esti- mated influx of population into Kansas for the last month has been 2,000 a day ; and that Newbraska is doing nearly as well.
Tue scheoner ‘ Rustic” belonging to Messrs. Peake Bros. & Co. was hauled up on the slip at the head of No, 3 Wharf last all. She was extensively repaired, and is now almost a new vessel. On Monday evening a large crowd assembled to witness
her being launched. At eight o’clock the last prop was struck, but she only slid about eight feet. She still remains on theslip,
‘put will very likely get off this evening.
_ Forerunners.—The flight of wild geese to the northward betokens the spproach of apring ; the voice of the turtle cove indica- tes balmy weather; the appearance of robins signifies that summer is coming ; and the transit. frora Halifax to Moncton of large quantities of Government stores from the depository of choice wines, &c., be- tokeneth the near advent of the great and good Mr. Brydges. These signs have all recently appeared ; wherefore the people may shout aloud for joy, for summer is on the way and Brydges is coming. And thus the Temperance Wave marches on !
Art half-past three o’clock this afternoon one of the Railway employees entered the oil magazine. While there a spark of fire was, by some means, communicated to in- flammable matter, which immediately went into a blaze. In his attempt to extinguish it his “clothes took fire, and, only for the tamely assistance of some parties who were working near the place, he would have been very seriously injured. The fire was ex- tinguished shortly afterwards by the Rail- way hand engine. After this the alarm was sounded from the City Bell Tower, and the i engines were moved in the streets.
} large crowd gathered in front of the Silsby Engine Hovse, and after being in- ferme that the fire was extinguished before the alarm was given, they quietly went their way.
ly the New Brunswick Legislature on the Ist inst., Mr. Smith committed the bill te amend the New Brunswick and P. E. Island Railway Co. Act. The mover ex- plained that the bill was to revive and con- tinue the existing act for the construetion of a railway to Cape Tormentine from some point on the Intercolonial Railway. He said it appeared that which had been trying to carry the mails during the winter between Georgetown and Pictou, was a failure, and the work would Have tobe given up. He had reason to believe that Turing e coming suminer the Dominion Government would build boats at Vape Tormentine to run either daily or tri-weekly in winter between Capes Tor- mentine and Traverse, andif the work could be done successfully, as he believed it would be done by well-manned boats, he had no doubt that the Dominion Govern- ment would aid the Company in the con- i oposed road, The Bill
| health.
-| Among the finest we noticed an ox fed by
the Northern Light, '
ConsTANTLNOPLE, April 15.
The consequences of the spread of typhus} fever to the city from the Russian camp are ; that departing vessels receive foul bills of |
The projected visit of the Khedive to the Sultan is postponed.
It is stated that Count Zachy, Austrian Ambassador, has renewed proposals for the eventual occupation of Bosnia and Herze- govina; pointing out that unless the Porte agrees to this measure it will be impossible to bring about the return of Bosnian refu- gees, or re-establish the Bessarabian question at the Congress.
Russia is in accord with Austria in this matter, and would consent to modify the requisite portion of the San Stefano treaty if the Porte should consent to Count Zachy’s proposal.
It is untrue that Count Zachy has also asked to-occupy the Salonica Railway.
Bert, April 15.
The Roumaniaen agent here officially de- nies the report that Prince Gortschakoff re- quested the recall of the Roumanian agent at Vienna.
BELGRADE, April 15.
Prince Milan is expected to start for Nisch on Thursday, and will probably issue his proclamation.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 15.
The trial of Suleiman Pasha has com- menced. His condemnation is regarded as extremely probable,
Cattle Show.
Tuk LKaster Cattle Show heid on the Market Square to-day attracted a large number of farmers thereto for the inspec- tion of the many fine cattle exhibited. The Show was not so large as that of last year ; but the cattle exhibited were much better.
James Mutch, Esg., and a cow fed by
Blake Bros. The following is a memoran-
dum of fat cattle weighed at the City Scales
by Mr. H. Seller :- OWNERS,
Blake Bros.
1 Cow, 2,100 Ibs.,
BY WHOM FED.
Biake Bros.
1 Ox, 2,087 Ibs., James Mutch. ; a oe om George Sinclair.
x, 1,395 lbs, 4 t ; i 1 = Ibs., Alexander McKinley. 1 Ox, 1,330 Ibs., Hugh McEwen. 1 Ox, 1,067 Iba., G. Howard. 1 Ox, 1,672 Tbs., \ 1 Ox,, 1,610 lbs., J. ©. Pope. 1 Ox, 1,430 Ibs., 1 Cow, 964 Ibs., Charles Stewart. 1 Ox, 1,355 Ibs., Hugh McKinnon. 1 Cow, 1,240 lbs., Mr. Parkman. | 1 Cow, 1,220 Ibs., \ ; SOpw, 1,180ite, = eee. | Robert Bridges. ; ad —_ me Henry Longworth. | 1 Cow, 967 lbs., Stephen McCallum. | W. H. Lord and Jobn Drake. 1 Ox, 1,560 Ibs., f 1 Ox, 1,297 lhs., 1 Ox, 1,230 Ibs., 5 Benjamin Wright.
1 Cow, 1,255 lbe., 1 Cow, 1,240 lbs., Mr. Wheatley.
1 Ox, 1,457 lbe., 1 Ox, 1,275 Ibs., Mark Wilson.
1 Cow, 1,137 lbs., J. Burris.
1 Cow, 1,262 Ibs., J. Bell. The prizes offered by the Stock Farm Commissioners for the best fat cattle were
awarded as follows :— Best animal on exhibition, Cow ted hy Blake Beatie (tidied wi6- oes sea $1 Best fat Ox, Jas. Mutch, Lot 48........ 2nd best do., Hon. Jas. C. Pope....... Best Steer, not rising 3 years old, Benj. Wright, Hag... . .viuiivad se) co-usaven 2nd best do., Alex. McKinley.......... Rest fat Cow, H. Longworth, Esq... ... 2nd best do., Benj. Wright, Best pair Sheep, Feitham & Henry, Pre Te
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Birth. On Friday, 12th inst., at Hilisborough street, the wife of J. Cunningham Dunlop, of a son.
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Adelaide, Jan. 26.—Cleared barque Cavalier’ Murchison, for London.
Akyab, Feb. 26.—Cleared ship Maggie A, Robertson, McInnis, for Cork or Falmouth.
Exeter, April 6.—Sai'ed barque Emma, for Malpeque, P. E. L.
Liverpool, April 7.—Sailed ship James Dun- can, Kickham, for Charlottetown. }
Glasgow, April 10.—Sailed ship Midas, Me- Pherson, for Charlottetown.
London, Apri! 10.—Sailed barkentine Wel lington, O'Callaghan, for Charlottetown.
Liverpool, April 7. —Sailed barque Jouraal, for Summerside.
Cariboo Cove, C. B., April 13.—Arrived bargue Lizzie Cameron, Cameron, from Ply- mouth for Crapaud, 19 days.
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25 TONS Prime Chewing & Smoking Tobacco,
SECOND TO NONE. Sold at prices to suit the times.
HICKEY & STEWART.
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Niarket Hal Friday, the 26th April, inst.,
-—CONSISTING Instrumental Music, Yocal Solos, Character Songs, Readings, &¢., by the best talent in the City.
The Charlottetown. Orchestral Club
has consented to.give selections on the occasion.
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Pref. Earle will take charge of the Musical Department.
Oddfellows’ Entertainments in the past have been acknowledged, alike by the press and the public, to have taken a front son in amateur performances ; and the Committee will spare no pains to make this the best of the season.
TickEeTs—Reserved Seats, 50 cents : Unre- served do., 25 cents. To be had at the Drug and Bookstores, and from the Committee.
H. JAS. PALMER, | J. WELL. McLEOD, Chairman. See’y Com. April 12, '78—pat 3 taw ar t ent
ST, PAUL'S CHURCH
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BAZAAR
UNDER THE PATRONAGE
MISS MACDONELL.
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THE LADIES OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, intending holding a BA“ZAAR in the
MARKET HALG,
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Wednesday & Thursday,
The 24th & 23th April, .
IN AID OF THEIR CHURCH. |
Admittance 25 cents. Children half-price
The following Committee have kindly con- sented to solicit and receive contributions for that purpose :—
Mrs. Bayfield, Miss 8S. Longworth. ‘6 Ball,
dirs, Manni ; ‘** Bolton, * ostaer ‘« Brown, ** Osborne, ‘* Davies, ‘* Palmer, * DD. Davies, ‘s E, Palmer, ** Dodd, * ©. Palmer, ‘“« Fitzgerald, ‘ G, Peake,
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Miss Haszard,
Mrs, Hensley, ‘* Hobkirk, ** Ings,
Pope,
* J.C, Pope, ‘* Sneeston, Welsh. Mrs, H. Longworth.
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LATEST NEWS
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Town and Country.
Advertisements sent in before 10 o’clock will if required, be inserted so as to be laid before our readers in Summerside, Souris, George- town and other outlying towns the same even- ing. eal
W. L. COTTON, Manager. April 12, 1878—daily pat 3in semi-w 2in
AU OTit ON ! Fishing Station at Rustico,
TO BE SOLD, ON Thursday, the $th May next,
at 11 o'clock, on the premises,
E FISHING STATION of the late E. E. Churchill, which comprises all th...
tract of Land situate on Rustico Beach, in L.<. °C uouse, an engagement as Bookeeper or,
24, bounded and described as follows : Com- mencing at a stake set in the west side of Water Terrace, and in the northeast angle of Fishing Station Né. 1, in possession of R. BK Morrison. and running thence by the Magretie Meridian of the year 1764, south sixty degrees west, two hundred feet, to the shore of Rustieo Bay ; thence north sixty degrees cast to the said. Terrace ; and thence southwardly along the same to the place of commencement—to- gether with Buildings thereon. —ALSO-—
4 Fishing BOATS, 8 DORIES, 38 PUNCHEONS,
Lot of Fishing Gear, Baits, Barrels, te.,|
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R. N matter how badly faded or stained gar- ments may be, he will restore them to their original color. iIGHNS PATTERSON. Feb.
St, Lawrence Marine Ins, Co.
Of P. Ek. ISLAND.
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SUBSCRIBED GAPITAL . . $120,006.00.
BOARD OF DLRECTORS:
ARCHIBALD Kennepy, Ese@., President ; Jouy KF. Ropertrson, Ese. ; ARTEMAS Lord, Esg.; G. D. Loneworra, Ese.; W. E. Dawsoy, Ese.; THomas Morris, Ese. ; P. W. Hynpmay, Ese.
Risks taken daily at their Office,
Building.
FRED. W. HYNDMAN, Secretary. March 25—ly law
PAINTING!
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thanking the Public for the liberal patron. age he has received during the five years he has been iu business, and solicits ; continuance of the same. He is now prepared to execute, in a very superior manner, House, Sign, and Car- riage Painting. Paper Hanging. Xe. &é Special attention is given by hm to WHITENING, CoLonine and the Decorvrmn of Ceitiwas, WALLS, ete.
On hand and made to order -
EVERY DESCRIPTION OF CARRIAGES,
ae Carriage Repairing promptly “24
*“Prices ts enit the times.
P. H. TRAINOR,
53 Kent St., opp. Rocklin Frone¢, April 2--3m eod
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GABINET MAKER,
Cor. Hent and Prince Streets, Charliotictown,
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his customers and the public generally fer past favors, would take this method to so licit a further continuance of their patronage.
1 am better prepared than ever to execute any orders that may be entrusted to me.
The latest styles of all kinds ef Household, Office, Church and Scheol Furniture, made from woll-selected and seasened steck. at shart notice,
Special attention paid to Cutting, Making and Laying Carpets.
s@ Repairing neatly done, at short notice
1 would also invite the attention of ‘Trustees of City and Country Schools to A DESK,one of the Cheapest and Best ever offered here for School purposes, Please cali and inspect it i
JAMES THOBRBS.
Corner Kent and Prince Streets, } Uh’town, Feb, 23, 1878. ) 3m-Law
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.jmy Show Room.
SATE | At the Charlottetown Steam Bakery,
LOW FOR CASH,
525 Barrels Navy Biscuit. 50 “ Medium “*
soo No. 1 Pilot (thick),
ee JOHN QUIRK, Prince Street, April 11] —ne & pat Im
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Charlottetown Steam Bakery.
Wants, Lost, Found, <x.
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| Advertisements under this heading. in space aot exceeding half an inch, irili he insert-
Vy ANTED-—Two or three respectable Young Men as Boarders. Apply at | this Office. : i April 15-—1lw*
@UND—fo-day, April 15, half a dozen SHIRT-FRONTS ‘The owner can have ; the same by ‘paying expenses, on application } at the EXAMINER Office.
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April 15— Dalal alin didliadeieenia geen atl
O@ST—A CHECK on the Union Bank of _Charlottetown, dated April 6th, and,
signed by Matthew, McLean & Co., Souris, in ‘our favor—amount $60.49. Payment hs: i been stopped. A. A. BALDWIN & CO.
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"ANTED,—By a young man with three years experience in business in a Quo-
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| Clerk in a wholesale or retail establishment Good recommendations from his former em- ployer. Address, F. P., care af Vrs. Pennee. Great George Street, Charlottetown.
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Apply to JOHN NEWSON, April $--lw
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| TANTED— By a steady, respectable |
young man, a situation i2 a@ Store or | Office, or at any respectable «mployment. | Good references. Apply at this ( fice,
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&e., « &e. : Ww ANTep — A complete set of the Terms at sale “ROYAL GAZETTE” for the last ; - #- 4 8 CARVELL,. = | five years, or any intermediate years. Apply Gs ¢ ‘Administrator, , at this Office, stating price, Ch’town, March 11-—e0d whly t salg ? Feb, 28, *78—
PATTERSON guarantees that 10;
Exchange {
FENHE Subscriber takes this opportunity of ,
_ {three months; $100, six months;
of about 275ths. each,—good—at $1.06:
AUCTION.
———30:3------ AM instructed by the Assignee, to sell, by . ATOTION, on
Thursday, the. 25th Agril,
av ll O’cLocR, A. M.,
The Balance of S. Keith & €oe’s
Si0tK IN TRADE,
Consisting in part of —Pilots, Beavers, Naps, Worsted Coatings, Broad Cloths, ,«Doe- skins, Tweeds, Ready-made Clothing, Colored and White Shirts, Under Shirts and Drawers, Neckties, Paper and Linen Collars, Hats and Caps, Tailor’s Trim- mings, Shop Furniture, and such other Goods as are usually found in a first-class Merchant Tailoring Establishment.
Also—at 12 o’elock. noon,
i Tilton & McFarlane Safe.
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Stock must be sold. without re-
under $30, cash; $50, over 5100,
A. HeNEILL,
Auctioneer. Charlottetown, April 16, "75—pat ar t sale
The whole serve. Trerms—-All sums,
nine months.
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TRADE SALE !
W K will Sell at AUCTION, on
Wednesday, the 17th instant,
AT ELEVEN 0 CLOCK,
100 Bbis. Spring Extra FLOUR, 0 ‘*.. Fancy 0 SO Howland’s 5 Hhds, } 10 Bbls. 4 10 * Granulated 5 Coffee i5 Casks Kerosene OIL, 3) Sides Sole LEATHER. 20 Coils Manilla ROPE, 10 Boxes CHEESE.
FENTON T. NEWBERY & C0.
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AUCTION!
MORTGAGE SALE.
To be Sold, by PUBLIC AUCTION, ox WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of May next, A. D. 1878, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, at the hour of ‘Twelve o'clock, noon, under and by virtue of a Power oi Sale contained in an Inden- tare of Mortgage, bearing date the Six- teenth day oi, December, .A. D, 1873, and made between Alexander McSwain, junior, and Gulielma, his wife, and Alexan
McSwain, senior, of Township Num
Twenty-one, iit Queen’s County, in Prinee Edward Island, of the one part, and <reorge Peake and Ralph Brecken Peake, of Charlottetown, in the said County and
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Island, Trastees, under the marriage settlement, of Fanny Leigh, of: the other part-—
A LL that Tract, Piece and Parcel of Land being on Lot or Township Number Twenty-one, in said Uounty and Island, bounded as follows, that is to say: By a line commencing at a stake fixed on the northwest side of a road from Hasiam’s to Rattenbury’s Mill, in the southwest angle of farm-lot mmm- ber seventy-four; thence (according to the magnetic meridian of 1764) north i eanan chains, or to the rear line of farms fronting on the Wigmore Road ; thence along said rear lige west eight chains ; thence south to the afore said road ; thence, following the -course of the same, northeastwardly, to the place of com- mencement,- -said land being known and dis- tinguished as Farm-Lot Number - Seventy. three, as laid down on a plan in the margin of a Deed thereof, from the Government of said Island to the said Alexander McSwain, junior, —containing Fifty Acres ef Land, a little more ‘or less, together with all Buildings and Appar- tenances thercta belonging. : For further particulars apply to Messrs. Hodgson & Mcleod, Solicitors, Charlottetown. Dated this Eleventh, day of April, A. D.. LST.
GEORGE. PEAKE, RALPH bh. PEAKE. Apri 11, 187$—-till sale
RINGS! |
A Let of Heavy 15-Caret
PLAIN GOLD RINGS
‘assorted sizes and prices) received to-day. W. W. WELLNER.
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Interuational Hotel !
(PORMERLY RANKIN noCsE}
Corner of Pownal & Sydney Stroeete, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. £. I,
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Private and permanent Boarders can be a2 commodated on very moderate terms, during the winter season, at the International.
D. MCISAAG,
Dec, 19, 1877-—2m
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