Selected Poetry. UO ODI OP THE DAYS ARE GROWING LONG. — Along the bright horizon-line, | Dividingearth from orient skies. We look more northward for the sign Of light each morn as darkness dies ; Yon wood, toward which the sun creeps, Will soon resound with chirping song Throughout Its still and solemn deeps,— fhe days are growing long. siow A week ago, the suprise blaze , Left far to shadowy north yon spire: ‘This Sunday morn, the first bright rays its belfry lights with gleam of fire, That, shining through its window, seems An eye prophetic of the throng Of joys with which the vision teems When days are growing long. Life's day is growing long, We scan With curious, hopeful, awe-struck gaze, Life’s dim horizon-line, that man Must pass ere treading heavenly Ways. Our sun each day the zenith nears, We sit in memory’s realm of song, Like diamonds soon will gleam tears,— Life's day is growing long. earth's gems of Thought, —Resignation is putting God between one’s self and one’s erief.— Mine. Swel- chine. —Manner is of importance. A kind no is often more agreeable than a rough yes.— Bengal. —Every affection has its own enjoyment, and enjoyments tie the minds together.— Swedenborg. —It is a miserable sta‘e of mind to have few things to desire, and many thirgs t: fear.— Bacon. —A man’s actiou is only a picture: book of his creed. He does after what he be- heves.— Emerson. — Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.—Juc de /a Kochefoucauld. —Be on such terms with your friend as i you knew that one day he mght become your enemy. — Laberius. —[ will disten to any one’s convictions: but pray keep your doubts to yourself. J have plenty of my own.—Fathe. —Many men spend their lives gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.—Julius Charles Hare. —We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its perform- unces. —J. F. Boyes. ——Haid speech between those who have loved is hideous in the memory, like the sizht of greatness and beauty sunk into Hith and rags.— George Eliot. —Daily there goes on in world’s homes, labor and self-denial, endurance and self restraint, that would put to shame ¢ll tlhe heroisin Which history emblazons, and ol the marty:dom in which the Charch exalts. — pi. Chalniers. —We feel oppressed when kindness afte: kindness is poured upon us by man, and ue opportunity presents itself of rendering any return, Would that we were equall: ine ved by receiving benefits from Ged, an yielding bim no token of thanks.— Maric Mare ihe soul that does geod 10 others goows in goodness. Iie that is a mediun. of blessing to others is him-elf blessed thereby. Hence, selfishness is a foily, at well asa sin; for while it prevents ow doing good to others, in the same degree I urevents our doing good to ourselves.— Jean Paul. L TEST OF BAD MEAT. People in a city are it constant danger o buying unwhelesome jood, unless they are well posted, and not content with merely the claim of cheapness to commend what they buy. This last is a potent inducement t peovle of limited means, and a visit to ou inatkets, outside, will allord many evidences of the unserupulousness of dealers and the credulity of buyers, The health of the pub- hie should not be endangered by thus allow- ing the sale ef imperfect meats, and we wis! ihere were stringent regulations preventing it. Der. Letheby, who bas had great experi- ence during several years in the city of Lon- don, deseribes the following according the British Medical Journal, as the charac- teristics of good meat:— :. It is neither of a pale pink color, nor of a deep jurple tint; for the former is a sign of disease, and the latter indicates that the animal bas not been slaughtered, but has dhed with blvod in it, or has suffered from acutef ever. » Ithasa marble appearance from the ramilications of little veins of fat among thie muscles. 3. It should be touch, and should scarcely moisten the pers,—bad meat be ing wet and sodden abby, with the fat jvoking like jeliy or parehment. 4. It should have jittie or no odor, and the odor should not be disagreeable; for dis- pased meal has a sickly, cadaverous smeil, acd somelimes a smeli of physic. This is very discoverable when the meat is chopped enched with warm water. up, and dr 5. lt should not sbrink or Waste Much ti cooking. 6 it should notrun to water, or become very wet on standing for a day or su; but should, on the contrary, dry upon the sur- face. 7. When dried at a temperature of two hundred and twelve degrees, or thereabouts, it should not lose more than fom seventy to s*venty-four per cent. of its weight, whereas bad meat will often lose as much as eighty pew cent, Other properties of @ Moe re- firm and elastic to th: fin- and wel = ——————- Snggpesy ! Charlottetown, Prices Current. | Botler. per 1b hy the tu | Calfskins, per Ib |Cheese, (new milk) per I ; é Cheese, per |) When not specially mentioned as in bond, | Clover Seed. per 1h our quotations are to be considered as duty | Eggs,per doz. ae paid. EXCHANGE, * sight wa U.S. cy drafis, sto gold. 4per ct. prem. OILS. Kerosene, per gal. (Am.) Coal Oil Pale Sea! da raw LEATHER. Am, Sole Leather N. 8, Sule Canada MOrsaASSES Barbadoes Demerar? lrinadad, &c 1 to 10 puncheons. quality.) VINEGAR, Vinegar, per gal.. per cask Mess pork (uew),gper |b. Mess Pork Prime Mess Prime Beef Cc. C. Bacon, Shoulders Hams Spiced Bacon Rew—in bond damacia Cuba Demerara SALT. Bags fine, stove Do Liverpool Turks Island de Coarse W 1 from ship Sc cans. (In Bond.) Barbadoes, duly paid Eng, Refined, duty paid Vacuum Pau do American (duty paid) Americano Granulated Coffee Sugar Wood, bists a Corres. St. Domingo, per ib Jamucia ao Porto Rico, Frotr axp MEAL. latent Process pe: Bobi Superior Extra Extra Supertine do Faney Spring Extra dla siroung Bakers do Superiine do Coru Meal (h.D) MACKARE! No No No No No SaLmon,’per bhi, No. | No, 2 No. 3 Large large jw wromrm— Linseed oil, boiled, per gat. Prices of kerosene are per cask. price 5 to 10 cts. per gallon higher. English Crushed (duty paic CHuaRgLorrerown, July 27, (877. Sterling 60 days Bilts, 10 per cent. prem | Honey, per |». se af 44 per ct. dis 4 per. cent, preia Drafts on Montreal, St. John, and Halifax $0.30 to 0 33 “ (Canadian No.1) 0.29 to 0.28 0.51 to 0 93 0.65 to 0.76 0,16 to 0.20 £0.06 to 0.09 0.12 to 0.18 0.10 to 0.00 0.00 to 0.00 v.12 to 0.14 0.04 to 0.44 9.54 to 10.00 0.04 to 0.44 0.25 to 0.30 ; Homespun,(:ien's wear per yd, 0.65 to 1 00 'Tosesorn. vomen’s do per yd, 0.35 to 0.44 thuaecopuu 2ianuel, per yard 0.32 to 0.38 Lard per Ib 0.12 to 0.16 Oats, per bushel 0.50 to 0.55 Pearl Barley, per |b 0.03 to 0.04 Potatoes, per bushe! 0:36 to 0.40 Sheepskins (each) 0.60 to 0.80 Straw, per cwt. 0.36 to 9.45 Tallow, per ib 00.7 to 0.09 » 30 to 3.0 Green Peas Hay, per tou Hides, per | ver qt. } Oe ‘Timothy Seed, per bushel &5,,{ Purnips per base! 0.18 to 0.2 Retail ——— 28 to We 26 to27c 23 to 2b6e A3 to 45% (Prices of Molasses are by the lot of from Retail price 5 to 5 ceuts per gallon higher, according gtogyiaatity and 33 tog 4. 6] to 7 13 to 22 14 wil 14 to If i1.00to 12, 10.00 to 11 ¢ STADACONA fire and Life Insurance Company, NVticE is hereby given that the Board 4% of Directors of this Company have made t further call of Four lrsltalmenis, of Lave per Cer’. each, . on the Subseribed Capital of the Company, payable at its Oflice, No. 93 St. Peter Street, (Juebec, as follows :-— Five per Cent. on or before the Tenth day of August, 1877, } /, Five per Cent. on or belore the Tenth day of November, (577, ‘} Five per Cent. on or before the Eleventh day : of February, 1878 ; ; ; )) Five per Cent. on or before the Eleventh day ) ol May, Isis, Ie By order of the Board, lic CRAWFORD LINDSAY, : Secretary 1OnE | July 39 1877 lr Li none ) lI or Naue 57 to 60 $1.10 to L.o0 80 to 90C 25 to 27 none Oy to 94 114 to 112 104 to 11 noe 13 to 134 124 to 124 114 to 148 [Prices of sugar are by the hogshead. Retail price | to 2 cents per 1b higher. }§ CANDLES Moulds per Ib 124 to Lk Soap per ib o} to 74 Coat anv Woop, Sydney pergton. hone Victoria Mines, do Hote Gowrie M nes, do wom Little Giace Bay, do nou Lingan hone Philadelphia Coal 0.70 to 6 5 New Catpbelion 4S 4.50 to 3,06 22 to 24 39 50 bo 10.00 925 to 9 50 875 to 9.00 $3.25 to 8.30 8.10 to8 Ju S.1u to 8.2G 7.60 10 7 6! 3.49 to 8.8! nore none none $8 00 to B26 7.00 to 7 25 $12.00 to 14,00 10.60 to 11.50 9.00 to 9 ob Market Prices. MEAT. . Beef.small pieces} per |b. Beef[per lb. [by the quarter] Ham, per lb. Lamb, per lb Lamb per qr. Mutton, per la. Pork,(small pieces) per !b. Pork, per lb. (by the carcs ss) Veal, per lb. POULTRY. Chickens, per pair Duck, (each) Fowls, (each) Brant, (per pair) BREADSTUFFS. Buckwheat Flour, pe 1b Flour, per bbi. Flour, per 100 Ibs Qitmeal, per 100 .b3. FISH. Codtish, per qtt. Herring, per bbl. Mackarel, per do7. BOARDB. Ilemlock, 100 feet Pine de Spruce ao fined character wil also serve for the recog- nition of bid meat, as that the juice of the) Hesh is alkaline or neutral to lest paper b stead of being distincily acid; and the mus- | Shingles, per M. MISCELLANEOUS. cular fibre, when examiue tunder the ni ro- | Apples, per bashel scope, is found to be sodden and il’-de! n>! we Phe Collage Hearth. é Barley, perzbushel Butter (fresh pe = 1b) Charlottetown, July 27, 1877. $0.08 to 0.14 0.07 to 0.16 0.12 to 0.15 0.00 to 0.02 40 to 50 ee 0.07 to 0.) 0.07 to 0.08 * 0.6 to 0.07 0.04 to 0.10 0.40 t§0.55 |---|; 0.26 to 0.55 0.30 tox0.35 1 00 to 0.00 “re 0.03 to 0.05 8.50 to 9.54 3.75to4 OO 3.75 to 4,0 3.50 to 5.00 4.00 to 425 0.60 to 0.06 Railway Time fable. PE, RAILWAY J CHANGE OF TIM*. ()* and afler MONDAY, APRIL 3)th 1877, Trains will run as follows :— tee Trains Going West. . No. 3 No. j crs ! STATIONS. I pyprecy | St mboat, No , HYoress. |. Wixe bre wits Eaprem. jh, ee Ip a.m (: orzet: wn | ° 7.20 ‘urdigan © 7 45 er 10 \ \ We § > It. Ste werts ip 9.48 Roy, han’ tion | © 10.438 | ee ‘ } is Shae A ga eh ; yi '® Ay ds; He 6 00 ft toy Jun‘tien | 10.438 6.20 3 25 Nor Wil shire 11.39 7.033 3 46 Yun ef iver Liss). 7.6 00 ‘ounty Line 42. 7.052 5.50 Kensington 1.2) 8.23 630 . 7. « 2 5 P tio ? Sunr'side 2 |" ae ir. 94 7.10 ; @ ip 2.00 { Weilngtou 3.00 ort dhiil 4.16 Otenry 5.42 Alberton 6.50 Posnish at 2 ‘heains Going Laser. _—_- — ee ee ee ieee dale x od ii No.2 | Nu. 4 ' N ST ATIONS, 1 Si m.beat a Express. Mixed, Ee xpiess. ps cea ee Tignish 6. OO siberton 6.45 () Leary 7.62 | Vort Hill 9.18.) Wellington 10.05 , a iar ll.go dp. Ta Sumy Side ; lip 11:3 aa a os Kensington | 12.08 pm 6.30 6.36 County Line | 12.50 ie 1. Hlunter Rivet) 1.43 7.43. | 8.10 Nor Wii’shire ar 2.00 2 8.25 Roy Jun tiomdp 2.55 jar 40 | gg Ch town } oan Ap, 9.00 ar, 9.40 toy Jua’tion) = 2.55 Mt Svewrt 2 | 41s 4.25 “ardigan | 5-47 georgetown | 6.15 —— Souris Branch. — a arent re ee Going West. Going Least No.5 | WM. McKECAINIE, Supt. P. E. 1. R. C. J. BRYDGES. ‘ Gen |. Supt. Gov't. Railways. Charlottetown, May 21, 1877. Hams. Hams, aon CHOICE UAMS, slightly, smoked, diss i zt ‘ut up especially for City sale. #90 01:00! Catow _ HASZARD BROS, 0,16 lo 0.20 vtown, July 2 | ‘Te ems Wee kiy : , : oe gids No. 6 STATIONS. Mixed. | Stutions | wixed. ce dp Qin) ‘dp. p.ws Souris 6.15 iCl’town 2,35 ilarmony 6.38 /2. Jun. 2.55 Puters 1 1208 lee ar 4,17 Morell | 75g [M-S. Jum gos 5 MtStewrt Jaf 9.10 ‘Morell 5.08 * Lidp 9.8 iS. Peters; 5.40 oy Jun tion; 10.43 Utrmony | i Chotown i 11.03 /Souris \ar- .20 & ww aad Yq t Se pa en er ee Kr are’ ~~ cua 2 ae Tat y ¥ Sips , ee | Aart AG z ; fit i F ¢ j 4 ya * J 2 5 > J 6 ‘ “a ot fe te aa to or inte PLE ft pee FREI EI NES ff g ft. 4 g Ye y a 4 . bivg ; se < é eM i. cS Ko mi Wah’ § oes bes : NS is \ pS ; xh eects Ay at! Per nf ; ay i} 1 ‘ te eo L.? J Sa PE rd Bo Ee os ioe ee a4 | yh ie ™ oe ETI = a 6, 4 a sir eg ca 2 mwisthot heer: RII ORL Sin ef Fie oe soe qeeee 2 24 t ar wer . ra & é fia o. 4 «sf it SO LATE EAS SSRIs < * : steeper At seth, . aie ~~ © ™ Frem London tg Charlottetown, Prince Edward {sland. ae FALL TRIPS, 1877. QS = Phe BARE EBNTINE BREMA, Years Al at Lloyds, COMMANDER. new Clipper 300 Tons Register, Classed 7 JONN MCMAION, Now in London and on the berth to receive cargo, will sail FROM LONDON FOR CHARLOTTETOWN DIRECT. about the {st SEPTEMBER next. ALSO THE WELL KNOWN CL!PPER BARKENTINE ETHEL BLANCHE 428 Tons Register, Cupp eed and Clissed 9 years, Al st Lloya’s, JOHN GRAHAM, COMMANDER, Will be on onthe berth as usual, and will folicw the ‘** EREMA,” SAILING FROM LONDON FOR CHARLOTTETOWN About {5th September, i Carrying freight at through rates to Pictou, Georgetown, Summerside and Shediac; and have goud accommodation for passengers. : foParties wishing to have their goods delivered here early in the sexson will oblige by rwarding theit orders in time, so as not to detain the vessels. e For freightjor passage apply, in London, to Joun Prrcairn & Sons, 69 Cornhill; in Liverpool, to PrrcatkN Bro’s, Brockley Buildings, /! South John Street; or here, to _— PEAKE BROS. & CO. 3, 187 ~~ . Charlottetown, July a SLAND PARK HOTEL, SUMMERSIDE, ————— June, SO; July, $30.50: Aug... S12; Scpt., 89 . “HIS NEW HOTEL, accommodating about «mn: huadred and fifty guests, is now open. it contains, in addition to the sleeping apartments,-a sumber of Public and Private Parlor Billiard, Reading, Smoking, Barber’s avd Bar-rooms. Picturesquely situated on an Island, une buadred and forty acres in extent, ia the Bedeque Bay, directly opposite the rising towo of Summerside, it combines the retirement ensured by the insular position of its surroundidgs with equal convenience to a position in the town. B-autifal views of the harbour are obtainable from the windows and roof of the Hotel, and from the carriage drive around the Island. The grounds are being tastefully laid out with walks and drives, the greater part beiug lett finely wooded, Sea bathing can be enjoyed with suitable privacy Onvarious parts of the beach near the Hotel, dressing rooms have been constrncted for the purpose. A Ferry Steamer belongiag to the Hotel, will ply trequently to and from Summerside, and will regularly meet all Steamers from Shediac and Charlottetowa ; and can be made available tor picuies, fishing and shootia varties a xtegper excursions Ou the Bay. _ Horses, carriages, rowing 9 nd sail boats, Sienntine hire. ares, one pent? Canhave coailguous suites of rooms, if required, by seuding reasonable TERMS :—From $2 to $2.50 per day, according to room a eejal arr: re . nm Os >» for summer residence Special arrangements can be made eB, E.. Eioiman, PROPRIETOR. Summeerside June 24, 1877. MERCHANTS MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CAN ADA: ~~ ee eee Canital $1,000,000, with power to increase t0 $2,000,000. HEAD OFFICE: - - - - MONTREAL. Risks Taken Daily at the Office of CARVELL BROS. ' Agents for P. i. Island Chaijottetown, June 7 1877—y* . i a edn ee be Pe nae eae Me Bad oi ee KS i é : 3 A MEY BEC LE SOT ype mmena peso ome nen a RNA Baltes a ae BP of ES Hg ro “gees