Pheer Sa Local and Other Items. Go to the Rink to night, ™ + Mr. Miusieces, C.£ , is at the Rankin. > To-morrow is the Feast of the Mpiphany. ~~ BAND and excellent ice at tl Rink to- miuht > ARCURISH Bourcr ng s| iin Mont: > Toront proposes to have al Al gr lic in @ hedr | shortly, Unk dreonk at the Stipendiary \agistrate’s ‘ urt this fore noon > THERE were 4,517 fewer bir in New York last week. - Pur Northern Light left Pictou ! town at 12.40 this afternoon, > s than deaths r George Carr. P. Leapwett, of the abandoned brig | Lauretta, arrived home last night. > DastEL McDonacp, Kent St., was fined $50 and costs, for a breach of the Scott Act - lux three great coal compsnies of Pennasy)- vania have reduced the price of anthracit, eoa: a FOUR HUNDRED AND E GHTY-FIVE THOUSAND tons of coal were last year shipped from Cape breton, - oa Yoo esn get a barrel ot ‘‘ Strathroy” or Patent Pearl Flour, both warranted and chea; at R. K, Brace’s, jand - - THE castoms receipts at Montreal in 1854 decreased $942,915, beng SU,7Ss,i21 against $7,730,637 in 1523, > THE mails arrived at 2 o'clock this morning, and were ready for delivery on opening of th Post Office at 8 o'clock. - > rue Chief Inspector of Licenses is thankful for information, but cannvut take notice uf cor- respundence unless he has the name of the} writer in contidence. saint We learn that a suit has been commenced hy Capt. Malcolm McLeod ayainst the Direct gre vt the Bank of P. E. Island, torecover th« amount of his claim against the Bank. ines cilia As officer of the mounted police in the Northwest, a Nova Scotian, will be married 0 tpe daty pitting Bail Moncton Times > Tue wages of Pittsburg mechanics have been reduced :—Rail mill men, 3% per cent; converting mill men, 20 per cent, and laborers 10 per cent. The reduction will affect 5,000 nen. - - Tue Alliance will meet at 9 o'clock to- morrow evening and uot 7 30 as stated ~atur- | day. This change has been made for the| convenience of those attending the meeting oi united prayer. > Tae widow cf Captain Webb, recently drowned while attempting to swim the whirl- pool at Niagara Falis, was on New Year's | iday in London, Eng., presented with a purse of £665, — > —_ Tat committee appointed by the British Association to report upon a regular system of | observation of the tides in the Gulf of St Lawrence and onthe Atlantic coast, met in Montreal on the 2nd inst. iicossicci baie Tue Grand Lodge of the Independent Ordee of Good Templars wiil meet in s. mi- annual session on Thursday next, the Sth inst., at 10a.m. A public meeting will be held in | the same place in the evening. _ >——~ Lorp Lasspowne will this season present to the Curling Club of Canada two cups, which are to be competed for on conditions which slightly differ from those adopted for the Canad’anu tankard competition. hin idiineine THe Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Globe and St. John Telegraph reports that Mr. Thomas White, M, P , has been called to the Cabinet and given the portfolio of Miu- ister of Agriculture. So mought it be. diithiiiee Locky Man--The Moncton 7Jimes says the Local Goveruament of New b-uuswick has jast discovered a curiosity in the snape of a Westmorlaod Co, man who was not already a J. P., and his appointment has been gazetted. His name is McHugh. ~_ Tue Boston Daily Globe, having made a thorough examination to learn the exact truth in convection with business matters in the States, has come to the conclusion that ‘* the signs are propitious,” and that ‘‘the new year wul be one ot gratifying prosperity.” testing A Porr Hawkesscny corresp ndent of the Halifax Herald says:—The sehr. Briihant, Deagle, Grand Kiver, P. E. 1., for Halifax, was detaine! and seized here on the 15th December, by Collector Marshall Bournot, information having been given the Collector that the Brilliant had been smuggling. dino siglo THe Emperor William has a sagacious aver sion to washing dirty linen in public, and never furgives any royal personage whore in- discretion causes a scandal, ‘* Do nothing ; say nothing; time will put everyhiag to | {his is his invariable answer wheu | rights.” one member of bis family comes to complain of another.” aii sein Miss Floresce Maryat, daughter of the distinguished novelist, received an ovation on her first appearance in Halifax The perform- ance was undeu the distinguished patronage of His Honor Lt. Governor Richey, Col Akers, R E., commanding the troops in the Domision of Canada, and officers of the gar- rison, Mayor McIntush and the corporation of the city of Halifax. cle nani THe Northern Lightis beginning to en- counter heavy ice in the Straits. A ietter re- ceived by Mr. Alex. McDonald from the Purser, Mr. Ryan, states that during her passage on Sunday, the steamer passed through a large quantity of ice which lay be- tween Pictou Isiand and Cape Bear. Mr. Ryan says the freight house at Pictou Land- ing is filled with freizht, and there are eight carloads of tlour outside, nieces le A PLEASING social gathering took place in Georgetown last week. A Christmas Tree fir the school children of the town waa organized by Mrs, Archibald J. McDonald and Mrs. Malcolm McDonald, and they were assisted by ladies from all congregations except the Presbyterians. A choice assortment of use- fuland fancy articles were exhibited, and a pieasant evening was spent, and the sum of $38, clear of expenses, was realized. Over two hundred presents were distributed among the childrin, and the proceeds will be devoted to the purchase of books for the children of different denominations. Too mvch praise cannot be bestowed on the good wee who fae and carried out th affuir and afforded so mech, Chris eteer to thé youn'y pdople of peed, Chratuse-ct " et nate - Ln et ta gl a hter of the cele brated Indian chief, | ee peice LS A A tc TEE aie ste een —— ———. DATIY HX A MINER, JANUARY 5, 1885. LETTERS TG THE EDITOR, | he held in one or more of the churches for - - The New Hotel. Sir.—In the Patriot of the 3rd inst., Steeple Cleydon Again there appeared a letter signed **Taxpayer,” | -_—-- commenting upon a letter lately written by Sirn,—It is evident that ‘* Steeple Cley- Hon. Damel Davies favoring the the new jdon” was not annihilated, or even daunted, hotel scheme, Although ‘*Taxpayer’’ does | by the fusilade he received some months not approve of Mr. Davies’ suggestion, yet} avo; for he has returned to this “‘blooming he d es pot give his reasons for dissenting | kentry” with his pinions plumed for fresh thereform,—he no doubt like ‘the many} and startling flights. He essayed his new who hoid his idea’ referred to by him, is wings on Saturday last, hovering, as it quite content to offer opposition to anything | were, like a bird of prey over a prospective | that tends to lift our City out of the rut of battleground, and feasting in anticipation | twenty years ago or that might be called a}on his victims. Now, progressive movement. It is unfortunately | Charlottetown, procure fresh quills, refill | for Charlottetown, much to be regretted | your ink-horns, and stand prepared to that no matter what may be atien.p ed to! defend your fair ones. ° improve or build up the place, there are In his letter in Saturday’s Examiner, always to be found some of our citizens who| *§ Steeple Cleydon,’ without any beating re ready to Hy into opposition against any-|around the bush, after speaking of the hing that may be suggested for the public | Queen Square improvements, arraigns the yood. That a tirst class hotel for Chartlot- ladies as foilowa: ‘* But that the ladies | tetown is a necessity ali will admit; in fact, | who, as aruie, have no public spirit, and all persons that | have heard speak on the} only an intermittent regard for honesty — subject are agreed that, before we can}should not have carried off surreptitious expect Prince Kdward Island to receive that | noseg ays by night, isa fact truly remark- ) attention from the iravelling publie that it! able.” Is there a man in the city who— |is entitled to, we must provide more hotel | remembering the active part the ladies of accommodation. For what does a new hotel! Charloitetown took in the Queen Square for Charlottetown mean/ Simply this: | improvements, the care they bestowed upon That a large portion of the American and! the flowers, and the hard work they per- Canadian tourists who now decline to visit | formed in preparing a bazaar to raise funds be ir shores, would if the proper accommoda-| for the payment of a gardener—will not j j } ; Pe ie 3 . , tion were offered, spend week’s and months | hurl back the slander agaist the honesty in onr midst, benefiting at all events indirect-|of those ladies! We should treat bis ly every man, women,and child in this pro- | insinuations as mere badinsge, did we not vince, by purchasing our goods, penne | judge from the past that ** Steeple Cley- j ; oe GOMPLETE PREMISES, — - literary men of! livery stables, meking employment for cab-| don’ is terribly in earnest. jmen, and in many other ways too numerous} ‘This forebearan »,’ continues he, ‘‘on| to mention. ‘Taxpayer's remarks on water] their part is very encouraging, and would works and fire insurance are rather mixed! alusost lead one to believe that the princi: | | up, but as he wrote without havine much | ples of Curistian morality can get some | information upon etl er subject, that is not slight foothold ia the feminine breast after | to be wondered at. Water works would | all.” Hear,ye who have been taught} | wot neccessarily increase the taxes, as all| your prayers ata sainted mother’s kuee, i who are acquainted with the different ways who have had the ‘first principles of Chris- f saving under the water works system | (jan morality’ instilled into your hearts | will admit, and if those persons who are| from the lips now silent forever,—and learn | | vpposed to waterworks would only take the | that the mother or the sister who taught | | trouble to figure up upon a proper basis, | the precepts of morality, was nothing bet- | | What it costs them per year to supply their! tet than a pagan ; believe, if you are a fol- | jhouses with water under the present | lower of ‘Steeple Cleydon,” that the wife system, they would soon, I think, arrive at} who kneels by your side in chapel or church, the conclusion that their time and labor) and who,—when you buried the firstborn }amounts to more than, say four dollars} with bitter crief, dried her own tears to | per year, which would be about the cost of | turn your rebellions thoughts to heaven,— a water supply for ordinary houses. The! has only a dim idea of the ‘principles of | present insurance Bates are certainly higher | Christian morality. jthan most people like to pay, and bear| We are quite willing that ‘Steeple Cley- {heavily upon merchants and others who} don’ should employ the energies and have to carry large amounts ; but Taxpayer} powers of his pen in righting public wrongs; cannot be supposed to own much that fire) but if he persists in slandering, insulting, ) can destroy, or he would know by this time | and falsifying the ladies of Charlottetown, that the first step to be taken to get rates of| who are as virtuous, as truly public- insurance reduced, isto have a bountiiul | spirited, aud as deeply imbued with all the supply of water introduced into the city,| pure principles of christian morality, as his with all due deference to Taxpayer'’s|ideals of the fair sex, in whatsoever ad- opinion, I would not be surprised to learn ’ yanced and highly civilized country or city that the companies doing business here | they may live, or in what thrice refined have paid out during the past five years, as society they may move,—he will bring during the last nineteen years; and if these | will sting him te his very soul. 'companies did not think that their interests B. suffered here for want of a proper supply of | Charlottetown, Jan. 5th, 1885. water, they would not have thought it a -—- necessary to increase their rates. Did time} Tui City Collector has extended the time jand space permit Mr. Editor, 1| for applying for judgments against all default- might give various other reasons why the | ing taxpayers until the 6th day of January, citizens of Charlottetown should all support | !st., in order to give those interested a the movement row on foot to build a first | Chance to save costs and Sheriff’s fees. After Tent hotel, but I dere not encroach any | that date executions will positives>-ve issued. further at present. jan3 3i t einiai | A Caxp.—To all who are sufferivg from (errors and indiscretiong of youth, nervous eee decay, loss of manhood, &c. ; : | 1 will send a recipe that will cure you, FREE | Our Ladies Defended. (OF CHARGE. This great sumaly was dis: a oe ; leovered by & tmissionary in Scuth American | | Yours, ete., PROGRESS. ee ee }much money as was taken in premiums! about himself a nest of literary hornets who | | S1z,—Your issue of Saturday contains, | Send seif-addressed envelope to Rev. Joaxra iM AN, NtAtinn }>, V cay Yaz ,. jare pleased to term “ our old friend.” | ‘ pal ae SURPLUS | ‘* Steeple” notes several improvements both | s }in the town and its inhabitants, the credit | BAKD INSTRUMENTS of effecting which he no doubt arrogates to| his immaculate self. He regrets that absence FOR we A LE, seeing | lamong other interesting reading matter, a/ | letter from ‘Steeple Cleydon,” whom yon | from the Island prevented his “Queen Square in its summer beauty ;” | and is gready surprised, “‘that the flowers | and shrubs should have been allowed to! £ grow unmolested.”” After complimenting | SET of Brass Band Llastruments, con- sisting as follows, viz. : One B Fiat Baritone Brass, Piston Valve, the small boy on his ‘‘publie spirit” he proceeds to insult the ladies in a most un- warrantable manrer. He accuses them of being greatly deficient in ‘‘public spirit,” of ‘Shaving but an intermittent regard for honesty,” and is astonished that they did not carry off ‘‘surreptitious nosegays.”’ | The latter fact leads ‘‘Steeple” to indulge |in the supposition that ** the principles of Christian morality can obtain some slight foothold in the feminine breast after all.” Poor ‘* Steeple!’ Yours must be cer- tainly a hard lot! Whata vendetta you cherish against this community— particular- ly the female portion. Can it be possible that at some period in your existence you endeavored to obtain ‘‘some slight foothold in the feminine breast’ of one of our young ladies, and she—being an admirer of the beautiful in nature as well as in art—re- jected you? If such is unfortunately the case, you should accept defeat gracefully, aud not black-bail the whole com- munity, because one member thereof has offended you. I would strongly advise you to study up ‘‘the principles of Christian morality’ and—try again. Lacking in public spirit, indeed! What would become of our churches, hospitals and such like mstitutious,were it not for the interest taken therein by the ladies? Who | has not, at one time or another, had his pockets more or less lightened by the ‘‘public spirit’ manifested by the ladies in such affairs as these? How would the poor manage to keep body and soul together were they depending upon the ‘‘Christian morality” of men of the ‘Steeple Cleydon” stamp. But perhaps all this is‘not public spirit as Ae understands yt Since his return to the Island “Steeple” has also noticed a marked improvement in the accent of some of its inhabitants ; but there is, he says, and 1 quite agree with him, stil! room for improvement. The way in which some people pronounce the ‘simplest words in the English language is, }to say the leasi, very painful to persons | who are compelled to listen tothem. Their ‘faces are distorted in proportion to the \Jength of the sentence. I am inclined to believe, however, that this fault—in some |people, at least—partakes more of the |nature of a disease than anything else, and the unfortunate person afflicted is more to be}oitied than despised. ermit me to suggest, in conclusion, asthe week upon which we are just ing is due of prayer, special sérvices One E Flat Pocket Cornet, Silver Plated, Piston Valve, Four B Flat Brass Cornets, Rotary Side Action, Two FE Flat Aitocs, Brass, Rotary Top Actin, One B Flat Baritone, do do do One E Flat Circular Bass do do do One pair Cymbals, Turkish. The above instrvmente can be seen by ap- plyiag to Mr. Galbraith in this city, HENRY BEER, Lt Col. & Pres, Band Committee ( h’town, Dee. il, 1884—e01 wkly2i Dominion of Canada, Province of Prince Edward island, IN CHANCERY. [L.S.} 7 ICiORIA, by the Grace of God, of the | United Kingdom cf Great Britain and Ireland, Quee:, Defender of the Vaith, &c., &c To Joha Heury Gates, of Charlottetown, in Queen’s County, in the Province ot Prince Kdward Island, squire, and Edward -lones, of 53 Regency Street, Westminster, London, England, engineer, greeting : ‘\e command you and every of you, that within eight days after the service of this writ on you, inclusive of the day of such service, iaying all other matters and excuses aside, you, and each of you, du cause an ap- pearance to be entered for you in our Court of Chancery at Charlottetown, to a bill filed against you by the Presidunt, Directors and Company of the Kank of Prince Edward Island (an lnsolvent Banking Company) and the Bank of Nova Scotia, Lemuel Uambridge Oweu and Charles Colson Gardiner (the Liqui- dators of such Insolvent Banking Company) and that you do answer concerning such thin,s as shall then and there be aileged against you, and to ob-erve what our said Court shall direct in this behalf upon pain of an attach- mevt issuing against your persons and such {other process of contempt as the Court shall award, and of the said bill being taken pro confess». Witness, the Honorable James Horsfield Peters, Master of the Rolls in Her Majesty's High Court of Chencery, of Prince Edward Island, at Chav! itetown, the twenty-third day of August, the torty-eighth year of our reign. (Sig Ca ) JAMES D. IRVING, Registrar, R, R. Tr garrap, Solicitor. Ch own, Dée. 2, 1884—4w caw tues QUEEN'S COUNTY. | a en = os the reformation of the reformer, ‘‘ Steeple ae Cleydon.” me es ns ScoTty. = | | AVING made an addition to their premises, they are now the Largest Exclusively DRY GOODS HOUSE in this Province. Giving their whole attention to this branch, they are in a position to give the very Best Value. LARGE STOCK, - CHBAP GOODS. 0 i Previous to stock-taking they will Sell the balance of their MANTLES and JACKETS at a big reduction, Men’s Fur CAPS at a big reduction, Knitted Wool JACKETS at a big reduction. Mur-lined CLOAKS ata big reduction, Ladies’ ULSTERS at a big reduction, Wool searfs & Squares at a big reduction, Always Cheap and priccs Reliable, without doubt this is the place to buy yaue Blankets, Comforts, Counterpanes, Flannels, Wincey, Cieths, Linens, &ec., &e, TIP-TOP VALUES IN DRESS GOODS & VELVETEENS. r done Ladies’ GLOVES and MITTS, nih Fur CAPS and MUFFs, Real Lace SCARFS, HOSIERY and CORSETS. Newest CORSETS. Gents’ GLOVES and MITTS, Silk HANDKERCHIEFS, SCARES and TIES, COLLARS and CUFFS, Gents UNDERCLOTHING, SLIPPER PATS ERNS, CUSHION PATTERNS, BRACKET PATTERNS. Cotton Goods of Every Description we Guarantee to be as Cheap as any to be found. PERKINS & STERNS. Ch’town, Dec. 17, 1884. SW. & A. BROWN & CO, intend making a change in their firm about the end of February, they now offer their large and well assorted stock of Dry Goods at GREAT BARGAINS, 6,000 yards Seotch and Canadian TWEEDS at 20 per cent off, 2,400 yards Mantle and Ulster CLOTHS at greatly reduced prices, 3,500 yards Colored Silks, Satins and Plushes at 20 per cent off, 4.000 Seotch and Canadian Wool Shirts and Drawers at 20 per cent off. Scarlet and Grey Flannels, Shirtings, Tickings, Sheetings, Pillow Cottons, Winceys, Prints, Cretonnes, Bleached and Unbleached Damasks and Table Napkins at a big discount. Balance of their stock of Mantles, Dolmans, Ulsters, Fur- lined COATS, MILLINERY, &c., AT COST. Carpets, Oileloths, Mattings, Hearth Rugs, Door Mats, &c., at prices that are bound to CLEAR THEM. Fur Caps, Hats, Muifs, &c, at greatly reduced prices, RETAIL ! ee ae WHELE CAL? AN This is a bona fide Sale, as all Goods must be cleared out before the change is made in February. Call early and avoid the rush, 2... Po way i a - Uae Remember the place —Desbrisay’s old stand, next door to Beer & Goff’s Grocery, and directly opposite the Market House. W.& A, BROWN & CH. Charlottetown, Dee. 8, 1884. LO THE TRADE. STOCK, ee () ae —= ———— — TENDERS! TENDERS! NEALED ‘TENDERS will be received by the undersigued, at the «fice of Messrs. Vavirs, Sathuland & Weeks, barristers, Charlottetown, up to 1? o’ciock, noon, of saturday, the Tenth day of 4a: nary next, A. DD, 18*5, for the purchase of all the Machin- ery, Print'ng Presses, Ty pe ana Plant in the Printing Depar'ment ot Messrs. Bremner Bros,’ Establ+hment, on Queen Street, including among o'hers a first-class Gally’s Universal Half-Medium Printi: g Press (almost new), 755 cases of type, sncluding @ large and first class asso’ tment of Job, Fancy, Plain and ‘ rusmental Type, Cute, Borders, Ornamental Corners, ete, ete., wrought and cast-iron Chases, Composiny “ticks. + alleve and Furniture generally ured in a well- ordered printing establishment, And also for ail the Machinery and Plant in the Bindery Department of said Bremner Bros,’ establishment, including Ruling, Cut- ting. Perforating, Stabbin,, Wire sttching _and Paging Machines, Standing and Finishing | Presses, a large number of Ruling Points, jot |of Tools, et«., ete. | Tenders will be received for the plant, type, ‘etc, in the Printing and Bindery Depart ments separately and slso jvintly, said terders | must be on forms which will he supped on |application at the stere cf Mesers. Bremner ye : , aAgced ' x ; » | Bros., where a full and complete inventory cf Large steck Sugar, Molasses, Biscuits, Confectionery, Ke. i ilbesnicu, Gah ha, aa ieee jand where said machinery, etc., may also be | inspected. ‘Terms, One half of purchase money to be - { Splendid Value in ha’ f-chests and five-pound paid on acceptance of ten‘er ond delivery ime ,of machinery, ete., ard the balarce to be KA air-tight Tins. | secured by approved joint noes at 3 months, | The undersigned dees not bind himeeii to accept the highest or any tender, aud sale, if WHOLESALE PRICES VERY LOW. = iituriisrerwty'im.™* "eaten J. A. RENNICK, -Q- Agent, | COh’'town, Dee, 29, 1884—tf BEER & GO} i o . UBSORIBE for THE W&EKLY EX AMINER, the beat paper published cn the islend MATL 1884. Keceived and to Arrive Shortly ; 1.200 Barrels FLOUR (choice. ) 300 «de Ontario APPLES, 100 do Nova Scotia APPLES, 300 Bexes and half boxes RAISINS, 500 de Choice FIGS, 100 Casks KEROSENE OFL, \ 125 Boxes CHEESE, 175 do Boneless FISH, 1,000 Pounds JAMS and MARMALADE. or_—_— o 0 Novewber 20, 1884.