Terms :—Five DoLttaRs a YEAR. NEW SERIES, Tue DAILY issued every evening, by (he Examiner Publishing (Go. Krom r otiice, corner of Water and t Veorgve Streets Charlottetown, Vrince Edward Island. eA f SUBSCRIPTION ; # A lvertising at most moderate rates, Contracts may half-yeavly ov yearly advertisr- | *, ication ALMAMAG FUR AUGUST, igg4. MVON S CHANGES Full Moon, @th day, 6h. 54.2m., p. m. Lest Quarter 13th day, 10h. 55.6m., p. m. New Moon 20th day, 5h, 41 6m., p. m, First Quarter, 25th day, lib. 29 i:n., a. m, Oo mas os Whee Sua ‘Sun | Moon) High Days ivr rises sets | rises | water|len’h. hm hm aft'n morn; hm ti Friday 4 47:7 25; 318} 6 3 14 38 ¥ Saturday 43} 23) 4 I 712) & 2. Suaday 49) 22| 457|8 9 33 4 Monday Si; 2i' 5 40) 8 56 30 5 Duesday 52; 19 6 19 9 38 27 6) Wednesday 53 is; 6 5410 17 24 7|Tharsday 5t! 16] 7 27/10 53; 22 3! Friday | 56; 15} 7 59111 28) 19 & Saturday 57} 14° 8 28 aft 5 17 1) | Sunday 53) 12) 8 57; 040; 14 Ll’ Monday ..8. m9 2) l 29) il 12' Tuesday i. BM Oe: 4:8 y 13, Wednesday | 2) 810 43/265, 6 i4 ‘bhursday i : 611 301 4 5] a 15, Priday : 4m a] 5 32) 0 16 Saturday 5) 2| O21); 7 1118 &7 i7 Sanday 7] 1; 1 23; 8 13 5 18| Monday 816 59' 2 281 9 7% 51 19| Tuesday eee 57 | 3 36} 9 54| 48 Q0' Wednesday | 11/ 56! 4 45]10 35] 45 21\Thareday {| 12) 54,5 5511 12' 42 92! Friday } 43) 527 2li1 43; 39 23|Saturday | 14 50' Simo 36 }pSaturday 8 10rn | 30 24 Sunday 15; 48 9 128022: 3: 23 Monday | 17) 47110 14, 0 57/ 30 2 Taesday 18' 45/11 14, 1 34, 27 27| Wednesday 19} 43 aft 12} 2 14 24 2siThursday | 22} 42;1 8'3 OF 2) 29 Friday 22, 40; 2 0} 4 O| 81 30) Saturday | 93, 33\ 2 49) 5 10 lo 91 {Sanday ot! 36] 3 34] 6 25/13 12 THE RAILWAY TIME TABLE, (Charlottetown Time ) GOING WEST. Maem LM FM, Charlottetown 0 41 912 427 Hunter River. 747 1055 647 e, MM. Kensington . , 642 1222 70 : } arrive... So. 1. oe s *rsic ¢ ummerside, \ depart......997 323 ° 3] Port Hill scobecens 1030 415 i 1205 6 57 Tignish.... soccer FROM WEST, Mm Ae MM, A Me Tignish sicicsaee 8G eee. 240 757 WONG THE oo cceuccus te) 415 1025 : ante... 6 4s 6i7 1207 S imers > - ume”. ee Oe Kensington......... ..607 209 730 PP rr 74 3H 3847 Charlottetown .....0cs ee: 802 6507 1007 GOING EAST yy M. Bs Me Charlottetown. . va aol 1/7 arrive ... 622 837 — MEE. ocew den 5 22 — leon depart........ 527 902 St. Peter's ukiin otic on edinod 617 1002 P. M. SOD, kn cocs dp cubes deabe cases 722 1202 A. M- Mount Steward... .isécvces of. 26 Cardigan y eewedeede cen vec: ae NOW 6 ook cca dededebewseas 647 1047 FROM EAST, A WM FPF. M. Souris . ewe 647 217 wee. a, 752 400 Mount Stew: a 842 517 we ee $47 542 Crititicines sess an 72 . «ee i= Georgetown coccecane cone eete ces 727 332 ee ee emsias 745 357 es Giewet 8 842 6512 LOBSTER ee LUD. WURZBURG, P.O. BOX 543, HALIFAX, N. 8. (OFFICE PICKFORD & BLACK’S WHARF) Exporter of Lobsters Samples and quotations solicited. Cash advanced on consignments, June 23—tl aug 321 pd —N. J. CAMPBELL, (Successor to Campbell & Rayden) Auctioneer and Commission Merchant, SHIP BROKER, AND INSURANCE AGENT, COR. OF QUEEN AND WATER STS., Charlettetown, P. E. Island. Amporter and Jobber of Choice Groceries and Spices. General Agent for P. E. Island of the British Empire Mutual Life Assurance Com- pany, of London, England Special attention given to Auction Sales of Lumber, Coal, Fish, Apples and other Fruit, Real Estate, Household Furniture, Bankrupt = other Stocks, and all kinds of Merchan- ise, Correspondence and Consiguuments solicited EXAMINER. eee OO REN, Oe oe ~ 9 P RTERM a OE OFF RED Ee RR I a ~~ ailn #&xaminert. ‘“ This is true Liberty, when Free-bcrn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.” —Evuiripes. CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1884, GREAT MARK DOWN SALE! | i } } be made for monthly,| | i | i —_—_- oo wii wie and have marked down the following lines, Colored and White SHIRTINGS, very cheap. All ENDS OR REMNANTS of GOODS at prices to clear. DRESS GOODS, special line, reduced to léc. All other SUMMER GOODS at prices to clear. One of our partners is now buying a large Stock FALL AND WINTER TRADE. Kemenmer the Place: DesBrisay’s Old Stand, WHRHOLEMSALE AIND Ch’town, Aug. 15, 1884.—dy wklv 40,000 yards GREY COTTONS, 4c, 5c., 54c., Ge. and 64e. in the British and Foreign Markets, The same will be open for inspection early in September, | W.& A. BROWN & CO. W.&A.Brown & Co. at prices that are BOUND TO THE GREAT NORTHWEST 7 ‘Another Interesting Letter from | Colpitts, Rev. W. W. I nave delayed writing until I could say | ‘something about the crops. This is, in many places in Manitoba, a kind of critical’ | URING the next fifty days we wish to close out the balance of our SUMMER STOCK OF come the tidings that a yield above the average may fairly be anticipated. Of, wheat more has been sown than ever before, | and the large grain-dealing firms are putting ‘up many additional elevators, and business | 1n iron caskets was to prevent the exposure. Po eT RE SINGLE Copres Two CENTS, VOL. 15.--NO, 75. Anthropophagy. STRANGE STORY OF CANNIBALISM BY THE EXPEDITIONS—DON T KILL AND GREELY | KAT M8,WAS THE FRENZIED CRY OF A RESCUED SURVIVOR—THE STORY SPECIALLY DENIED BY SOME OF THE RELIEVING PARTY THE BODIES PERFECT BUT EMACIATED The New York Times of the 12th inst., says that documents in the possession of the Navy Department add to the record of miserable human suffering already publish- ed in connection with the finding of the Greely expedition. Most shocking stories of inhumanity and cannibalism are told. Fer the sake of humanity and the American people the army authorities are endeavour- ing to keep the matter hushed, but in the investigation which is almost sure to come the facts will . undoubtedly come out. The object in shipping the bodies year—the early frost last autumn injured, | to some extent, the grain and depreciated | the market. The difficulties of the year before were, in some instances, only tided over, and now the eyes of many are turned | ‘with unwonted anxiety to the growing grain. From all parts of the Northwest ail along the line isquickening. The reaction) It has been stated that after the game 5.000 , | from the ‘‘boom” is nearly or quite over,!gave out in February, the members » rards SUMMER PRIN ‘OTTONS . a and the eommeree of the country is now of the party lived principally on sealskins, ’ y NT COTTON S, l4e., for 10c. ‘regarded in a fairly healthy state. Having lichens, and shrimps. Asa matter of fact, /now had a years experience in the country, they were kept alive on human flesh. When { ; for ‘ Queen Street. RGTPTATIB. New Hosiery, of the best value, PRINT COTTONS, WHITE COTTONS, Ch’town, August 1, 1884. — ———K— —— ~ — —————— AUGUST! 70: TL. HW. PROW SE IS SELLING THE FOLLOWING LINES OF GOODS, VERY CHEAP: Table Linen, Towelling, Towels, Sheetings, Grey and White Cottons, Tickings, Dress Goods, Biack Cashmeres, Hats, Readymade Clothing, Teas, etc. All those who want the best value for their t:omey should call. j,. &. PROWSE, Sign of the Big Hs‘, 74 Queen Street. iteturns promptly made, March 2h, 1354. Ch'town, Aug 6, 1884,—eod whkly Perkins & Sterns HAVE JUST OPENED ANOTHER SHIPMENT OF American and Canadian Corsets, good makes, A Large Stock of Hoop Skirts and Bustles, The Cheapest Rubber Circulars to be had, CREY COTTONS, Everything at the very Lowest Prices! PERKINS & STERNS. | SULLIVAN & MAGNEILL, COTTON WARPS. ATTORNEYS - AT- LAW Solicitors in Chancery, NOVARIES PUBLIC, &c. OFFICES— O’Halloran’s Building, Great George Street, Charlottetown. 6a” Money to Loan, W. W. Soutivan, Q. C. | Caestsa B, Macnsitt Jan. 16, ’83. L. ARTHUR & CO, | GENERAL Commission Merchants, | 421 ATLANTIC AVENUE, and having travelled over a considerable have some idea of how it compares with the | eastern Provinees. And I give it as my | opinion that we have NO WHERE SUCH RICH SOIL as lies abundantly around us here, neither encumbered with sticks, stumps, or stones The water is not as good as is generally found east. The golimate is on the whole to be preferred here;a little colder perhaps in winter, some warmer ip suminer, but much drier in the season when rain is not needed; no long drizzles in the autumn. To the young man commencing life, or to the man with a large family, anxious to have them settle near him, this country has advan- tages that 1 know not of east. Grain or stock raising can both be pursued with exceptional advantages here. Iwas staying last night at the house of a map, who has been six years in the country. He has now in addition to a fair crop of grain in prospect, a hundred head of horn cattle, sixteen horses, ten large hogs, some sheep, and pigs that I did not count; and I think when he arrived here,he had little or no capitai. In winter time he feeds about a load of hay per day, this hay he cuts from the prairie all around him, to obtain which he never spends an _ hours labor, until he arrives on the spot with his mowing machine. And his time for making hay, will Jast from the last week in July, till the frost kills it in autumn. To judge of the quality of this hay, one has only to look at his stock, sleek and fat. Inthe evening, some thirty oxen from a neighboring farm joined this herd, and getting the smell of a lately slaughtered bulleck’s hide, such a roaring, running to and fro with tails erect—pawing of the ground, with an occasional fight by way of variety—has not been seen, | judge, since the buffalo disappeared from these plains. To give you some idea of the RAPIDITY WITH WHICH VEGETATION MATURES here, let me give you an instance occurring in my own neighbour's garden. Having some spare ground, on the 6th of July he planted some potatoes. [saw them on the 7th of August and several of them were in blossom. 1 have in my own garden lettuce that in three weeks from the time when its largest leaf was not much bigger than a willow leaf, it was headed up like a small variety of cabbage, and this where I do not know that there ever was a forkfull of man- ure. Accompanied by Mrs. C., I drove, some two months ago, to Brandon. ‘The route I took was about one hundred and fifty miles across the country,over rivers through rivers, winding sometimes among wooded hills, skirting broad patches of scrub, lingering often beside emall lakes fringed to the water's edge with asper and willow; sometimes with a splendid trail smooth and pleasant to drive upon; sometimes with no track or trace that human foot had pre- ceeded us,keeping our course as the mariner does at sea. Most of the country passed over was GRAND TO LOOK UPON, Like that which tempted Lot from Abra- ham’s side. The picture of some of those scenes will linger long to the mental eye of some that saw it first under a bright June sky, and the odor caught from a thousand flowers, exhaling their sweets upon the breeze, will remain among the pleasant recollections of a life time. Here is beauty for the artist, game for the sportsman, wealth for the farmer. I have not had the opportunity, as I had hoped when [ wrote you last to visit the lands held by the ‘‘Temperance Col- ony,” but I have heard from 4 minister who has travelled over some of it and is now settled at Saskatoon (its capital,) that it is very good. Lying along the South Saskatchewan, gently undulating with some wood and not farirom coal. I judge from reports; (I know nothing by personal inspection yet) that it is a desirable country to settle in, Yet, after all, sir, if a man is comfort- ably settled in P. E. Island, and contented, I am not the one to advise him to break up old associations and come to this new country. But if he feels that he must leave to have wider verge and scope. I know of no better place where he can do better than here, and | have seen the best of North America. W. Wesusy Covritts. ag Question—What good can be promoted or gained by electing an Independant: Grit at this juncture. = + (BOSS. MARKET) BOSTON, MASS. Church of Canada decided to form a joint Eggs and Produce a Specialty. May 15, 1984 —whly tf THE committee appoioted in June last by | the General Assembly of the Presbyterian | stock company, with $50,000 to $100 000 capi- tal, for publishing a first-class weekly denom- inational paper and printing buqiness, any : eight per cent, te the rescuing party discovered the half- ‘portion of Southern Manitoba, I think {'starved survivors, their first duty was to look to two men who were insensible from euld and privation. One of them shrieked, as the sailors took hold of him, *‘Don’t let them shoot me, as they did poor Henry. Must I be killed and eaten as Henry was? Don’t let them do it, Don’t, don’t !” After brief investigation, Schley felt that the man was speaking the truth, and that the men who perished, had been stripped of their flesh to keep their comrades alive. Schley instructed two or three gentlemen, among them the doctors and surgeons of the Bear, to make a careful examination, and put their conclusions in writing. This wasdone. The bodies were dug from their graves back of the permanent camp, established in October, 1883, but it was found that most of the blankets contained nothing but heaps of white bones, many of them picked clean. Schley discovered that many of the [7 men who were said to hare perished from starvation, were eaten by their famishing comrades. It is reported that the only men who escaped the knife, were three or four who died from scurvy The amputated limbs of the men who after- wards perished, were eagerly devoured as food. Chas. B. Henry was shot for steal- ing rations. When his body was found, the hands and face though shrunken, were in- tact, but nearly everywhere else, the skin had been stripped from him, and the flesh picked from his bones. Even the heart and lungs were eaten. Fragments of human flesh were used as bait for shrimps. Some ‘of the relief ships scout the idea of can- nibalism. Others admit that the bodies were shocking to look upon, but attributed it to storm and ice. ‘l‘he eating story they believed it to be a sailor’s yarn. Schley refuses to say anything until an official en- quiry is made. COMMANDER SCHLEY DENIES THE STORY. The N. Y. Commercial says that Com- mander Schley was shown a statement published in the Times this morning that Greely and his men had eaten the dead bodies of their comrades. He distinetly denied the whole story. Said he: ‘* There is no foundation for it whatever. The Times man calied vpon me with the story, and would not take my denial for an answer. Consequently | ordered him off. The Thetis’ third officer, Colville, he stated, with one other, dug up the bodies.” He refused to state whether they betrayed signs of cannibalism. The story that Schley and Emory prepared the dead bodies for burial is untrue. Dr. Ames and Grace did the work alone. None of the scamen were present. According to the officers’ state- ments, at the time the bodies were dug up they were given the bodies to carry down hill after they were wrapped in blankets. The sailors on the other hand say they took the bodies out of the graves. Schley said the story that Henry was shot was untrue. He believed Henry died, as all the others did, of starvation and scurvy. A FLAT CONTRADICTION, A Washington despatch says that the report about cannibalism amongst the Greely party, is a newspaper sensation and nothing more. The Schley-Emory relief expedition was accompanied by Mr. C, H. Barlow, of Washington, a photographic artist, who took the photographs of both the dead and the survivors of the Greely arty, and these pictures are at the Navy Department at Washington. The caskets contained the bodies of the dead as shown by the photographs. As to Dr. Pavy, Sergt. Rice, and the other two who died, they were interred in the ice fort and their remains wero washed avway by the rising waters ata period when Greely and the survivers were supplied with fvod, and, therefore, cannibalism was unnecessary. The period of suffering for food came after- wards, and the photographs of the dead show that their remains were intact. MORE DENIALS. Dr. Ames denied in every particular the story that the dead had been devoured, Tom Maloney, the seaman who helped lift the bodies vut of the graves, said the bones had not been picked, hut the flesh was all shrunk up, and the skin drawn over the bones like parchment. James Francis, the machinist, who helped to put the bodies in alcohol, said that they were perfect, ex- cepting that they were euiaciated, and the skin drawn tightly over the bones. The only imperfect body was that of Lieutenant Kislingbury, the head of which appeared badly decayed, from the fact that he had been dead longer than the others. Several other members of the relief crews corrobor- ated these statements, while some refused to talk on the subject. —— <>. oe “Wro have tcld them, (the Americans) unmistakably, that WE ARE READY atany CANNIBAL ty of et or ei 8c * omnia seo of Mo NalD, time to renew the Reciprocity 7? «Sin Jour A, +s enagemmaen eee ee ee - a ate i ali oi 1 - ay Sr RR ete renter ' A ne ee arena geen eee cet fi os a CO AW Se OT Se Se ea ae ee Seed oniieaenna ape tr ao ee ce ae cee a omens _ , oe r Re eT eee eee Le ne Br nee ae . ‘ A R