Gur =P. Che Examiner. Charlottetown, Dec. 4, 1876, A OUESTION TO BE ANSWERED. previous to the late election, it wis reported, on good aathority, that, at the meeting in Fort Augustus, held on Saturday evening the 18th Novemb« wit.,Mr. Weleh « repeated his speech,reia- tive to the giving up of town taxes and the licioa of Prince of Wales’ College.and Jest ' the ollowanee of all parents in Charlotte. wa toeducate their own children in vir own way.’ Mr. Welsh is also re- ted to have said that “ Mr. Beer,at the time, agreed to bac: him, and, if neeces- It was serv, leave the party with him.” tt reported that Mr. Beer appealed toe the electors of Fort Augustus to vote for the Mackenzie Government candidate be- Mackenzie had to the vreat Northwest Separate the Government eanse ‘ Low, we untrue. Mr. L. H. Davies stated, at one » meetings, that it would be denied | Mr. Beer in a letter over his own sigs e. We have earefully seanned the eslunns of the Patriot, but such a denial we have never found. Wr. Welsh is also Both Messrs, Welsh and Beer are ters of our non-sectarian free school -<uNnpot G nment; and an explanation is due their constituents and tbe country. We deyieud an explanation. 7. a oe BAILWAY ACCIDENT. (i\ list Wednesday, while No. 2 train ‘ » wile of Hunter River Station, it left the track, and five or six box cars were smashed into a hideous mass. Neither of the passenyer ears went off, and not a soul received a scratch. The cause of this, we are informed, was the breaking of au axle, This is the the way within the last month, the cause of | second accident on rail- | beth being 2 broken axle. Though | miraculousiy no one was hurt, the damage te reliing etock was heavy. Although we are not at all desirous of eastiug reflections upon any of the off. | cials, still it certainly occurs to us that | The er the cars are} there is a serew loose somewhere. axles must be detective overloaded. From information received ; fyom passengers, we do not believe there | con be any blame attached to officials on Dur- | ine the summer, our road was supplied aecount of the speed of the trains. with a number of new freight cars. These | were built by the Intercolonial railway, | and though the frames, decks, ete., were and secondshand, and, we have been told, the | } scrap- new well made, the wheels were the wrles were taken out of the heap. This style of operation, the people of this Province certainly should protest | zaiast. The thrusting on this read, by | the Government authorities,of a lot ef con- demned axles from the Intercelonial rail- | way, aud thus endangering the lives of | the public, is simply shockisg. It is, | however, a fair sample of Grit economy. | This. we presume, is one of the items | which go to swell up that begus $300,000 \ ece bill of the Mill “ ele-| Stevart ” | cxzp Vator. The sooner the operation there is any further explanation to offer. | > CASCUMPEC HARBOR. ‘ue improvement of Cascumpec Har- her is cceupying the attention of our sprigutly contemporary, the Pioneer, The Pioneer declares that “ lov] necessity of such improvemant to the shipping interests of the Maritime apart from the Provinees, we eontend that motives of hameaaity and public good should prompt the general Government to such a step.” rate ' i 1¢ Pioneer says that “owing to its central position, and being within a short ! distance of a most dangerous reef, upon wi.ose treacherous rocks many a ship has reasonable been broken to picees, no aucunt of money should be spared in rendering thisharber accessible to ships, of ordinary draft of water, ot all staces of | tide,” The Pioneer adds :— “We saw lately a document signed by eight owners and masters of vessels,—set~ ting iorth that, in their opinion, by closing { two openings referred to in iele), aod dredging the main entrance, of the bar of Cascumpee Harbor hereafter thy art dyek clepett { berpetsy ould fe increased to eighteen fect, and that} far the best caleulated for a harbor of reluge on the north side of the Island. rifsurh the present age gets credit for being ney-laying and grasping, yet the estimate human Itfe in money value (if the rditer will allow the expression) is in- ressing vear by year. This is proved by the exertions put forth made arenud the British coast wherever shinwreeks are more or less common, and there is any probability of saving a nis» Gevernments look with pride on ap- pianees of this nmatnre, established at'im- ef on Wirere ask, was this report true or | Ita yer, Say SS . ES Wheeler, pe Sis ; o “ee N DY vi "Tilden, ' { | ‘ Hendricks. EXPO wR T OF GRAIN. TALIPAX is makiog a great fuss over the shipment of a cargo or two of ¢rain. A company has been formed, a guarantee | | fund subscribed, ete. Halifax wants ins dividual effort and pluck. Her merchants | might profitably imitate the example of some of our Island dealers, Many of the latter think nothing of a cargo of Duriag the past week, four of | our Isted firms have shipped nearly | ‘three hundred and twenty thousand grain, | bushels of eats—- Vesss ls. Shippers Bushels. | Pyinee award, Peake Bros. & Ca., 71.000 | kihel Blanche, ‘i . ‘ B2.000 | ‘arisande 24,500 | Yosell : “ sé te 230.000 | | Wellington, Jas. Duncan & Co.., 4,740 Wok. Robertson, ‘ 7 . 71,947 | Christina, Carvell Bros, 17,385 Saral ss is 15.200 fanes Wilson Angus MeMillao, 20,059 Total, 316,931 Besides the ubove Carvell Bros. have shipped by steamer about 25.000 bushels. If Halifax is to be Alhambra, 16,526. i ‘ ar f ee} + . . i‘ . m Summerside was within a quarter of | bushels of potatoes, and by steamer Hadj? | tent of fiery indignation against the lead- THE GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED. The following seats have been wrested ‘| trom the Grits since the General Eleo- tion :— South Huron, Berthier, North Rentrew, ! Chambiy, Marqnette, South Norfolk, West Toronto, North Victoria, Two Mountains, Sellechusse, Charlevoix, London, Napierville, Kast Toronto, North Outario. South Oatario, Victoria, N. S., Queen's, P. Kil. The Toronto Mail remarks that no ex- er of the Opposition—which is the sole the « Grain Port’ as well as the ** Winter poliey of the Grit Party—ean wipe out Port’’ of the Dominion, her business | the hard facts which are iodelibly stamps men wust learn a lesson of Prince Kd- | ed upon this record. 'the open water and the grain, to export in | haye lost tho confidence of the. country, They prove con- , ward Island, All our merchants want is clusively that the present Government | BELFORD’S MONTHLY. WE have received, with mi satisfaes tion,the first number of Belford’s Munth'y The Messrs. Belford Bros ’ LN tuk ef A May rz ine standin the first nadian pub- jlishers \ f ivée wil kaown by tbeir ent | wigs us Canadian t jit bias 3 pi tua pal books of the day, He) © ualy issuing the Moathly Magazine above refered to Un styi y ip] rance aud subjects, it follow nodei of the Londlon shilling magazines, and bears comparison with ‘them. The ] iper and priatne are first Class, and the cugraviag vod, Iu the lite rary de partment we notice the mames of prominent Envlish author: as well as those of some of our native writers: The publishers hev¥e nade arraagements by | Which they have secured che appearance of the works of anthora of repute la their their ap- | pearance ia Waglish and Ameticon peris f . ‘ } boy scr? » oF n aAneonsiv ww } Mayuzine simulitaneon ly With odivais., Lhe lovers of dight hteratare will find their tastes consalted Tn © Whee hecost' her,” by Wanies Payne, and “Nicholas Minturo,”’ hy Dr. Holland— | For suggestive | both ‘serial tales, more solid read- ing, we haye 2 article . on > ——— ee | PURLIC OPIN-ON. The Cornwall Fpecholdrn. than which thee is BO stronyver ‘pponentof the teace . Pthe Tate Government in thee untey, thas COMM Mevis Ob Lhevesull vi tae reecuit elec tion in this [sland :~— ' ‘A few more such defeals may, cause Mr, | Mackenzie to realize that his position is be. | coming rapidly critical, and though we do- not anticipate @ change of Government yet | sull we hope to see a change if maxner, a change of policy, and a little more cofisiders | _alion manitested for the opinion of those | who helped the so-called liberal party into | power.” So faras Prince Edward Island is concern- | ed the Ministerial Party have suffered a re- | verse Which ij severe in ahy sense, and | which may prove disastrous to them so| far as the representation of that Province | is concerned. There is évety reason to be~ | lieve that the injustice which Mr. Macken- | zie lias done the Island has sunk deep into the hearts of the people, and that: it will | be made manifest next session by ker | members, [tis almost an absolute certainty | that the Government could not elect a single follower there at this moment. When Queen’s County deserted them nothing was left to base even the shadow of hope upoti. ei Toronto Mail. ‘i COON COATS ! ~ Skates. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, EE ee — Buffalo Robes ! LINED AND TRIMMED, VERY CHEAP aT ' ’ BEER & SONS, Dec. 4 1876. Extra Size and Extra Quality at BEER & SONS, | Dec, 4, 1876. i Skates, —- _—_ or Everybody ! AT ALL PRICES, aT BEER & SONS. Doh. €, 1876. COAL VASES ! YERY HANDSOME at BEER & SONS. Dec. 4, 1876. TRA. THA. O12 PACKAGES, A MOST SUPERIOR LAT, TRY 17. BEER & SONS. Dec. 4, 1876. IRON & STEEL. A Large Lot — Well Assorted. ay BEER & SONS. Dec. 4, 1876.—5 wks. notice the manner in which the Reformers rast nec ittnememne| OMMPETS, 2 SMRPETS, receive the news of Mr, Pope’s election in| | Queen's County, P. E, L. We are sarcastic. | allyinformed that Mr. Pope isa “free trader,” We don't care if he wasn’t any | -atriot, or some other } ‘ leek-eater ’’ of the Mackenzie-Cauchen Government, can explgin this rascally | away, the better—provided | and the expenditures | the seme proportion ail the year round, —_ ee A CLUSTER OF GEMS. Ix company with suck “ peurjs”’ as) “the bray of its patient tool, the Presbys terian,”’ we find this ‘‘cluster of gems ”’ in the Patriot of Thursday :—~ “What has the Examiner been during a ‘sewer through whieh has trickled thé flith of the political cesspools of Optario. | Independence of thought, indeed! . Whal would the Examiner have been without the |} more than maternal care of the St John |} Walchman, and the noisome pabulum it -re- ceived daily from the Mail,the Durham News, and other slandering organs of the Protec- tionist Party?” Superfine! Is itnot? But is the Pat- riot ia a position to throw such ‘ bril'i- ants breadcast with lavish hand.”’ Inde- pendence of thought, iudeed. The independence which impelled the editor of the Patriot to attack every other editor who dared so much as to mention the word “Maritime Union’’; and which, when the Toronto Globe, at a critica] juncture, strongly advised the peeple of this Province to enter “ Maritime Uniov,” compelled him te remain as silent as the grave! Independence, indeed ! see Mr, DeBlois’ letter, although Mr, DeBlois is a prominent member of the Government which helps to support the | Patriot. Would it not be well for the Patriot to own up, like a manly mao who has been fairly beaten, that the people of Queem’s County have decided that the Govern /ment which the Patriot supports (and by which it is supported) is no longer worthy | of their confidence ? dapoenes — +. aoe + | THE “ARGUS” EMBROGLIO.” BELOW we publish another letter from ‘the pen of Mr. Theophilus L. Chappelle '--which expisins itself. Now that the contest is over and the Libera!.Conser- vative Party vietorious, we are not dis- | posed to censure our contemporary as |some ethers have censured him. . His position was one of extreme ditheuity—- one in which any man might be excused for making a false move. Between the desire to maintain the government which he had fought hard to place in power and his inclinations a3 a Liberal-Conservative, | 2 severe conflict must have taken place in Mr. Fletcher’s mind before he decided _ the late election. A neutral position is one in which, when a political contest is | rapiog, any publisher must necessarily _ sacrifice beth influence and money. We think our contemporary made a mistake | —because Dominion politics and_ local | politics are two separate and distinct | things. Aad the people should know it. | Mr. J. Hi. Fletcher : Dean Sin,~-Having heard from. Hon.:L. H Davies that you denied the truth of the statement I made in the New Era, respecting | you and the leader of the Governmient, J | have since taxed my memory more closely, j and having heard your version of the con- upon adopting a position of neutrality in | rene cost to he nation, when records show | versation, I am satisfied that the Statement , snd that the couutry isanxiously desiring | a ehange. DO np ere THE CARDWELL ELECTION, seein | THe writ for the election in Cardwell has been issued. | place on ‘the ‘7th ; polling on the 14th | December. The late Joba Hylliard | the campaign that bas just ended? Merely | Cameron, one of the ablest. of Conserva- | | tives, secured his elgetion there in 1874 | by a very narrow majority. If the Con- | servative candidate (who has not yet been ‘named) be returned in the tace of the Ministerial influese which will undoubt- jedly be brought to bear azaiust him, the | fact may be considered a decided indica- | tion that the country at jarge condemns the Mackenziec~Cauchon Government, A Mr. L..H.. Bolton, of Bolton,—an influ- the Administratien. en OB Oo - ANOTHER ELECTION, On, the 21st inst. we. are to anotber election. The suatin the Legiss lative Council vacated by the Hon. oereips Mekwen has to be filled. Dr. | MeNeill, W. S. MéNeill, EdwardHenry, have The independence which could net even | and A.B. McKenzie are prepared to fill it. | there during the winter The Doctor has, it appears, the “inside ning election. | on sees MORE ABOUT BIG PUSH.” By telegram from Toronto it is reported that Mr. Dalton McCarthy, Q. C., one of the counsel for defendant Wilkinson in the ‘ big push * libel suit, moved fora rule nisi, ordering Wm. Houston, M. A., one of the editorial writers of the Globe, to show cause why he should not be committed for contempt of Court, because of a letter that he had written, and which appeared in the Paisley Advocate, a sheet published in the Village of Paisiey, on the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway. Chief Justice Harri- son reserved judgment until Saturday, and yesterday he announced tiat he had pre- | pared a judgment, but would not, deliver lit until he had submitted it to Mr, Chief Justice Morrison. As Justice Wilson was leged contempt, it is understood that he took no part in the judgment. sion as given, is that the Court stay pros ceedings for two weeks, to allow Mr. Houston an opportunity of paying costs. As he has agreed to do this, this will dis pose of the matter, for he has put in an apology. ++ mee + +--+ A GREAT TRAVELLER, The Prince of Wales, as our readers know, is a great traveller. He has seen a great deal of the United States and made the tour of British North America east of the great basin of the St. Lawrence. He has made the grand tour of Europe, hav. ing travelled much in France, Belgium Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Ger-~ many, Austria and Russia. He has visited Greece, Fgypt and Syria, and has seena great deal of India. No former heir to the British Crown was nearly so great a_travel- But he has not as yet visited the He has not seen ler. English of the South. Nomination will take | ential maa—is the candidate in behalf of | track.” We trust lie may succeed ia win’ | the subject of the letter containing: the al- | The decis } Re-orders by Cable. | University Censolidation,” by ‘ Caua-| trader atall, We dont care if he was. an | a A ablgs ee advocate of smuggling. We don’t care any-~ denris,”—evidently a. well . informed thing about it. We ean atiord to have one writer —apd a short essay ou the * Pre- servation of our Vrnite’’ by Mr. Alex Dawson. 7 J a “free trader’’ in our ranks, as well as uw } ; > thre ‘ i Evenings in the library” | central patent angdvery important fact is that Mr. Matkebzie Ras lost the confidence of the electors of the finest County in P, | and the‘ Trice ef a Handsshake ” are literary sketches, perhaps rather too sug, | gestive of their models, but, on the whole, | chat in theit pipes. wid ‘smoke it-— Halas | We cannot say more of the Herald, j | he tweseparaterschool parties that have appeared belore us since we commenced our | course, were Pope in the Local and Mac- | well doze, poctry than that it is uot below, the aver, | current and , u they continue as-good as age of wmagaziag. verses,” The liternturé) os tenttlic, educational latter is the greater sinner of the two, as much as the g eat North West is larger than the three towns on this Island, and the musical notes |} in the present numberywill ba very tsefal. | « We-trust that the eaterpriseof Mésgrs. Belford will meet with the | em and thit “they will penling to the people at the Polls-in the | other. Pope's trme for whipping came first, aud he got it, Mackenzie's turn came next, /and Pope was the instrument used simply | because Haviland was refused and Welsh would pledge himself not to* whip Mac- | keanzie, but to pat him on the back and | support him, choice of two evils, Stiteess* it de- receive “such will show thaf Canada can support a first-class magazine. We do indifferent 7: a Re Aes ami » wn: puoiicatinods vecause tney are Our. CWO; patronage as | not believe in bolstering up } This we did according | | Monthly, they are intrinsically good, then | a a Thea al “ory of M i 9 | We may eppeslto patriotic feelings as an The éiectiorof Mr. Pope to {ill the seat | luducement to support them. + sey ee a -e ~~~ -— MAGDALENE ISLANDS. It is reported at David Laird to a Lieutenant Governorship,is . . : p ‘a great tviumpa ior the Conservatives. To nent, Vir. Welsh, with all the aweight and in. fluence whieh could be brought to bear in lene Islands that the new steamer {vver of the Gevernment candidate, the res 'ern Light is to make an occasional trip sult is @ heavy blow. In spite of all the Mithough wa) exertioas and the power of the friends and ee caf porters of Mr. Mackenzie's adiaiinistra- Magda- North- currently | should like to see comma icstion kept up with Magdalene I.linds hepa ‘the! agred aud seventeen votes, given by indés | | Jvorinern iewhs Wur moo ne USlized in thet! pendent men.. In Ma. Pope the Opposition | way: Wewantthe Nert/ Light to keep have a most able and efficient ally. There $ @ War t OFTREOTIL LAIGit VO Kee 4 ~ up. iftpos: isle, uaintersupted® commuiicts better qualified than he f8 to take an hon- Mfiin- | orable and leading part in public affairs. tion between this Provinéa ant the landioas he vided by tho tarme of Union. | And the e is no man af all who better u ‘ shrenaby ot J derstands, if, indeed, any one understands TY, nearly so well, the wants and the. interests mre PPOLwromte fy | hiads Ad RLM fit wd AA oc 3 of the Province he is chosen to represent. | %Y Pant A : : Besides th: e is Opel ner | t Chaites Mickenzie & Co., iron, mongers | Besides that. be is an open, generous, well | via i | \ informed, liberal minded man —a perfect | }to the Dominion Government] ) contrast in these respeots to the man whose | Li) | Wuen the Prenmter vinees have need of more men like Mr. Pope in public life.—New Dominion. — During the past few months North and | ; ; ; pense South Ontario, in the Province of Ontario, steel rails through « firm . of which Mrs) victo a, in the Province of Nova Scotia, | Charles Mackenzie was a partner, the coun- | and now Prinee Edward Island:bave deliver- ed verdicts upon the policy of the presen | Administration; and eaéh One has reversed | its decision of 1574—a conservative. being | returned in every case. in Glengarrey and Bothwell the Government heid its own, but no more, aud ic is evident that those new in power hold the ‘Treasury benches contrary to the free wili of the electors .at large al- | though commanding a constitutional ma. | act of telling halfstraths about bis brother's } jority in the House of Commons. Another | bakit Government, that men! Minister's ,constituency is disposed -of. Lies rae ann interest ia the oparations | When; Darion méat to the Bewahi his | | began to take an interes t loid opponent, M. Coupal took the seat; | |of the Sarnia brotherhood. when M. Fournier went to the Bench, M. | Had the Premier when Mr. White jaid a! Bilanchet,a Conservative, carried Bellechasse ’ | charge of nepotism egainst him, frankly! when M. Paquet was elevated to the Senate, Mr. Cuthberth, a Cobservateve,, was _re- y that’ his ‘brother Charles ¥ eve. es oe re | turned. The County of Victoria, N. S., once | was amember of Cooper, Fairman, if ¢ °-: | yepresented by the Hon. Mr. Ross, is now {and that he had ordered a larye quantity represented by a Conservative, Mr, Camp~ of rails through the firm, and had tie! bell;.and now Queen's County Prince Ed~ : . _a | ward Island, follows suit. In short, wher shown that he bad given the firm no undue Ni asi i ay eee . dvantages over competing firms, the eouns ne y ie P ; & aave ge: peung » aes jis opened, the Government sustains over- try would have been perfectly satisfied. | wheiming defeat. The contest ia Prince | abolutely declared | seat he has succeeded. The Maritime Mt | that he had bought no steel rails of a firm | fin.which his brotber was a partner,and when | Vit was afterwards proved that he had bought j i'try, began to regard Charles Mackenzie & ho, with some interest. The faet that the | | Premier had a brother was not a damoaging | | owe, nor was the fact of Charles Mackenzie | }& Co. being in the railway supply business | any ground for suspicion... It was only, we | say, when the Premierawas caught in the But the equivocation, the half-truth,, the | Hiward Island and its results are most sig- attempt to decieve in one ense, naturally | nificant, and the recurm of Mr? ‘Pope’ to i teidh® Wale’ “‘nystétioud "89 will be shailed) with pleasure by | € ‘ s ; : a WE a crabs ain Seen : every meniber in the Opposition ranks, — stoties, an@, within this last’ day or two, ) gijqica Ci izen. open charges, have certainly not removed. The ery of “ slander!” which the Minis- terial prints are raising in the “hope of *re- | | The return of Hon. J-C. Pope for Queen's , County, PE) {.; will send a shock through the Reform party ot the Dominion, Per E. Island.) Let o4r contemporaries put | kedzie in the Doniinion Polities, and the | 2 | We tolerated Pope ‘as the | | but when,as is the case with Bel/ord’s | to our consciénce belore the Great Searcher | of hearts,— Presbyterian. | , left. yacimt: by the elevation of the Hon. | the Minicterialists, who supported his oppo- | moving thé suspicions from the ‘public mind~ will’ eftect nothing. The Browns Simpson affiir war a “slander” until the dafirging letter was published; the Angtin “eoutra, it will cause the Opposition to res \ gave won a seat vacated by a Cabinet Min lt is not alone that tbe Opposition j mee. ister in tae full, confidence of being able to secure the seat for his hominee; and in the 1 jew lives oniy had been rescued, in the .ovuurse of many years. During tie gale on tha 24th of August, 1873, wo large ves- tit@e Ss . W ’ th.s barbor, and another sunk where she lay at oftichor, and ali on board perished,, Surely records Of this kind, and the piles of wrecked craft lining North Cape shores, proctaim the necessity of the step we are urging, in lan- guage not to he disregarded. Any one who wii examine a Chart of the Gulf of St. Law- reffee, cannot fai! being impressed,with the | arPeasity of Making Cascumpec o! refuge. We have several times called the attens tion to the advisability of improving Cass cumpee Harbor, and two years ago the Hagbor, a Government sent an engineer to “ inspect and report.’’ But oso further action was taken. Before anything practical is done | for Cascumpec, there must be a Govern- ménts] change at Ottawa. ~ LAFLAMME’S ELECTION. The election of Minister LaFiamme by the overwhelming majority of twenty-eight ! is asad and unexpected blow to the Patriot. The crocodile tears it would have shed over flaname been rejected. must now be kept the Ultramontane influence in Quebec.” if this statement be true, the Puirioi’s agamst the Catholics of this Province, on Dominion,as well as Local, issues, must be abandoned. The last trick of propping up the. party of iacapacity, corruption and hypocrisy, by means of the Joecal prejudices ol the people of this Island, is a complete faifarm tie Union Bank gives notice of a dividend a Cte Fate of tem per cent. per annum on the Bink Capital Stock re driven ashore near the entrance to i | whieh appeared in my letter to Mr. Bowers | is overdrawn, and did you an unintentional | injustice. in my letter, 1 said: Mr. Wietcher said that his neutrality was owing }to an agreement made between him and | members of the Local Government, in which it was decided that if the Argus remained neutral throughout the campaign, Mr. L H. Davies would not take any part in the contest.” Now, sir, having heard your rendering of our conversation, | am con- vinced that I misunderstood you. . When I / mentioned the circumstance to Mr. Bowers, | had not the slightest tdea that | would be | necessitated to appear in print, and would not for one moment kave attempted to do so had I thought it would require my so doing. itis very probabie that at the most ex, citing period in the campaign | might misre- present your words, and, therefore, | think my position excusable, Yours truly, THEO. L. CHAPPESLE, a | ON THEIR MARROW BONES. A few days ago ove of the editors of the Toronto Globe was obliged te appear | before the Supreme Court and tender an manner. A late telegram reports :— ‘ample apology” for writing a letter eal- | the: sed talaenee’ Gf" Piiests’ had’ Le: | culated to prejudice the defendant in the | thousands of men avail themselves of the | exptanation Of the. 4 | Big Push Libel Suit.’’ The auther of | privileges of the bankrupi act, is a pheno. Muckenzie & Cox, back. A bigh Grit paper says the election | Big Pash" himself will, in all liksli- | menal exhibition of moral sensitiveness and | a ae toe ens Sian lee aes “is gecepted asa complete overthrow of | hood, be forced to apolrgize in the same | parsotal Edie. 5 woman, 38 thoropghly | the Piece iste’ BIOS Mim?s SASIEBINKY aad there are eighty persons under the New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, or any of the countless Isles of the Southern Sea. This, however, it appears, he is to do during the ensuing year. When this task is completed, he will have visited nearly every portion of that immense Em, pire over which, if his life be spared, he will one day reign.—St. John News. ee. am +e oe A BRAVE LADY, Miss Susan B. Authony bas done anoble thing, which deserves to be widely known. She has lectured 120 times during this sea- son, it is said, and has paid off the last of the debt of £10,000 which she was com- pelled to assume in the failure of the « Re- volution.’ In the days of its weakness, when the advocates of woman suffrage were hopelessly divided into two rival organiza- | tions, and the ‘Woman's Journal was flourishing in Boston, Miss Anthony coura- geously took the ‘ Revolution,’ and became financially responsible for it, That she has | felt obliged to work for years after its failure to pay its debts, at a time when | qualified te plead for the claims of her own | sex when she respects the rights of human A rule was granted in Queen’s Bench, tog | yo A ee little game of pitting the Protestants ; day, calling Hon. George Brown to show | nature so keenly. — Domestic Monthly. j contempt of Court. The motion’ was made by Dalton McCarthy, on account of the attack ,made hy the Globe newspaper on Judge | Wilson. Mr. Brown will appear before the Court in a few days to answer in person. et ee MEETING OF | Vincial Secretary gives notice that all appli- | caGons for money grants for Roads, Bridges, Wharves, etc., must be sent to his office on j or before January next. | } cause why he should not he committed for THe LecisLatvre.—The Pro ~wre Painter's Rures,—The following rules + should be strictly observed by persons hav- | | ing occasion to visita printing office :— 1. Enter softly. 2. Sit down quickly. . Subscribe for the paper, . Pay for it in advance, Don't touch the type. ; . Keep six feet irom the devil, - Dop’t talic to the Compositors. . Hands off uaaniecript. Bim oe co | , | the benefit ofthe Reform Government.— = ' second place, the Opposition have won a plerted yuiity; the Jorté-TLaflumme ‘“hftair | seat for one of the ablest public men in the sa « ita A ere ne AG RES drains Lower Provinces, The winning of the seat, eS ee, rE ee eer | under any circumstances, would have been then? is repeated by the Supreme Court of | 4 victory; but it is dowbly a victory when Quebee ; even Mr. White’s allegation’ re- | we consider that the Government bad de~ | termined to Win the seat, and that the man L ans who is elected is one of tried skill, long ex | with Cooper, Fairman, 4&Co, was “slander” | perience and proved ability in eabhia ite: i until he produced the certificate of parther- | Mr, Mackenzte was invited to go into the, ship. Everything charged against the Mins constituency, but be declined, It was weil } istry is hield to be “slanderous” “by the | thatbe did so; for,another personal defeat | : ; would have seriously injured hiss prestige. | | Mr. Pope had to fight with very hostile ele | lieve thata Cabinet of which M. Cauchon! ment.” Local issues were raised against is President and Mr. Huntington » mem, | tim—he surmounted them,—Dominion of- ¥ | fitials took the field against him—he de- tfeated them. .Tbe Railway employes were accused plead guilty, aud then there * banded forcibily against him he survived much snivelling and ultimately a sign of| the assault. The Grit papers were sent in | «inadvertence " is entered Ly the confound. | t#ousands into the County —be counteract- ; ed their influences by his «bility and his | ed advocates, earnestness. The ‘reaction’ has indeed | The charge now made and repeated by | been felt in Queen’s County. ‘The lesson \the Lon@on Herald cinriot be disposed of | of Vicloria has been learned wm. Prince Ed- na press, Ward Island, and repeated at tbe polls for afiiir Was °A “Tibel”® whtil! the Speaker specting Mr. Charles Mackenzie’s relations journals who seek to make the country be- ber is impeccable and infailible—uniil the | satisfactorily by‘ any defece tox so given to vehament denin! tunate im having to adit all that it denies. r. “Mackenzie owes ‘to himself and to t) a iblie 4 full‘ane oxnidid od so -unfor-: | ilae Hena!d. toe lone’ ruaa) ; Swatp Pox iy Manitosan.—aA telegram of the 26th ult. reports :-—There is a alieet eieeineetees | outbreak of small.pex at Ginail, a svltle,| ; , ment of leelanders on Lake Winnipeg. ; There have been twenty deaths in ten days, 3 oO ae mpecuon of Ubsiies | beisveen Lhe firma andthe country be-elean)} : treat and honest, now is tbe Precstier’s Opper)” . : : { tl ' : " At , Lievtenant-Covernor Morris, under author. | tunity to strike down and forever’’sifence ; ‘5 COOL taro. | ity from Ottawa.. De. Lynch. telegraphs those whocharge or even suspect bing of | that of twenty Indians at Sandy Bar, only _ Sticking to bis brother more closely than, two survived. An order has been passed the:la wadlows, »» But-imcany:case let bien | under the District: of Kewatin Act, estab- shun the t6o sharp manner ‘ef defence he | lishing quarantine, and treops have been eraployed against Mr. White. — Zorvnio | seit from here to ebforce it... The procia- a j Nail, cel mation of the Liutenant-Governor yesters Iris gen rally couceded Unat the Palriol, | day warhs the people from contact with the in thé*rolecf a religious agitator i$ Hot F setilement. The mortality is attributed te success.” Oar contemporary had belier yield : ae ] - the pelar to fis very dear friend, the Preshy.| Uhe ill-ventilation of tha dwellings, bad jteriaat. ‘food, and want of medical aid. mento! Dr. Lyncbha physician sent by ye ——- om é the etormers eum alton to tana a dovon | BRUSSELS & TAPSTRY CARPETS JUST RECEIVED Ber S..§. © ACSIRIAN,”’ GEO. DAVIES & CO. Dec. 4, 1876.—4i Buffalo Robes, @c., | /orceing in the one case Was worse thanap-- FRY AWG TION at the Subscribers’ Salesroom, On Wednesday, 6th December, AT ELEVEN 0O’CLOCK: A CONSIGNMENT comprising— 10 Lined BUFFALO ROBES, 13, Uniined do. do. ALSO, AT SAME TIME: | 100 bbls. Cauada FLOUR, 50° ** =K. DD. CORNMEAL, | 100 boxes Valencia RAISINS, 50 casks KEROSENE, and other Goods to close consignments. } FENTON T. NEWBERY & CO. | Dec. 4, 1876.—1i VALUABLE PROPERTY ! King Street. tion, Mr, Pope had_a Majority of one buns | are few men, if any, in the whole Dominion I AM igstracted to'se!l at Auction, on the | A) premises, on WEDNESDAY, 18th of December, at 12 o'clock, that valuable and eligibly situated Property at the west end of King Street, having a front of 61 ft. on King Street, and extending back 81 ft,, with twa. Dwelling Houses, “and outbuildings theféon: being’ part of Town Lot No. 36, iu the first hundred, and in cose, proximity t the wharves and busipess centre of the cty. See plan on handbills. Tenms.—One half down, balance in 12 months, with iuterest at 6 per cent. WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer. Ch’towa, Dec. 4, 1876. NEW FRUIT. NTOW LANDING, N week :— 100 boxes LAYER RAISINS, s 50 * LONDON LAYER, do., and to arrive this noe” * VALENCIA do.. 75 «* LOOSE MUSCATEL do. 6) © TURKEY FIGS, 25 drums MALAGA do., 1Wbbis. FILBERTS, lo Dbis and 5 cases CURRANTS. FENTON T. NEWBERY & CO. Ch’town.iDec. 4, 1876.—2 WAR DECLARED | Fail importations Com- pleted. J.B. MACDONALD, Queen Street, is 10W- showing @ large and varied Slock of Yin’ 3 General Dry Goods. Peng overcrowded with Goods Groat Bargains Will be Given, te clear. Inspection Solicited. JB MACDONALD. BILAN KTS, “Selling Very Low, CLOTHING, Men’s and Boys’ an immense Stock on hand At Clearing-out Prices. J. B. MACDONALD, A FRESH STOCK s OF Staple and Faney Staticnary JCST RECEIVED AT BREMNER BROS, Nov. 27, 1876. SITUATION WANTED! ‘A® SALESMAN in a Dry Goods House. 10 years experience; 7 in London—3 in Chariotietown. Undeniable reference. P. O. BOX, 329. _NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. | bbe BRICK BUILDI Water Street, . pe | Customs Department asaB ; house. Porsession o | January next, | Ch’town, Dee, 4, 1876. ): HODAHox, nett la = | ‘LO LET. A SMALL HOUsE in Chartot ply at tetown. Ap. Ch’town, Dec, 4, EXAMINER OF FICE, ~ | Galedonian Club. i SPECIA i A ee tL Mesting Of the above Siu eid at the ot Lawrenee Mocei’ this Mouday evening, the 4th Dec., f, fan Purpose OF trausaciins MD poriaat haieeae Dec. 4, 1876. CLEAN, Sec’y, | | penne has beca va the Su0sdriber’s pre. mises since the Ist August jast, a Cow | which the owner can bave by proving pro. | perly aud paying expenses. If not claimed | before 15th Jauary next, she will be sold to j pay eXpenses, Apply to ALLAN McKINLEY, SHERIFF'S SALE. John Herbert Reid, and others, Executors Plaivotifts, , And John Matthewson, Defendent. B* virtue of a writ of Siatute Execution, to me directed, issued out of Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature, at the suit of Jolm Herbert Reid, aud Oluers, Executors, against Jobu Matthewson aud others, | have taken and seized as the pro- perty of the said Johu Mathewson asd others, all the right,title, and interest of the said John Matiuewson and others, in and to the following property, viz:—All that tract, piece and parcel of land, situate, iy- ing apd veing iu Sprintield, on Loi or Township Number Sixty-Seven, bounded | a8 follows, that is to say: commencing on ‘the north edge of the Koad (alias) | Anderson Road, at the west boundary of | the glebe lut; thence (according to the | maguetic meridian of the year 1764) ruuping north for the distance of one huudred (10y) chains, thence north seventy-two degrees West, Lweuty-one chains, to the west boun- (dary of said farm; thence followiag the | eourse of said west boundary sulin one hundred chains to said road ; iaence follow- lug the course of the said road svuiheast- _ Wardly to the place of commencement, con- | taining two hundred acres of Land, a litte more or less, in Qaeeu’s County; aud I do hereby give Pablic Notice that 1 will en Tuesday, the 19th of December A. D. 1876, at twelve o’clock, noon, at the Court House iu Charlottetown, in the said County, set up and sell by Pubiic Auction, the said property, or as much therevlf as Will satisfy the levy matked on the said writ, being two huudred aud ninety-eight dollars aad forty-five cents with iuierest oa two hundred aud fifty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents, from the first day of January, 1875, besides Sherifi’s fees and all incidental expenses. Wa. R. WATSON, Sheriff. Sheriff's Gilice, Queen's County, June 8th, A. D. 1876. E. J. Hodgson, Pi'if’s. Atty. [dec 4, °76. > SHERIFF’S SALE, Johu Graham and David Mutch, Executors, Plaintiff's, Ard Arthur Harvie, Defendant. B* virtue of a writ of Statute Execution, to me directed, ‘issued out of Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature, at the suit of John Graham and David Mutch, Executors, against Arthur Harvie, I have taken and seized, as the property of the said Arthur Harvie, ail the right title and interest of the said Arthur Harvie, in and to the following property, viz :—AlIl (hat tract, piece or parcel ofiand, situate, lying and be- ing on Lot or Township Number Twenty- feur,in Queen’s County, bounded as tuiiows, that is tu say: By a line commencing on the south-west side of the New Glasgow Road, in the north-east angle of land formerly leased to Alexander Stewart, ately in the occupation of George Diamond, and run- ning thence by the magnetic meridiau of the year 1764, south fifty-eight degrees, west one hundred chains, or to the rear line of land fronting on the said New Glas- gow Road: thence along the said rear line southeasterly paraliel with the said Road five chains; thence north fifty-eight degrees east to the road aforesaid ; aud thence along the same northwesterly five chains to the piace of commencement, containing fifty acres of land, a little more or less, in Queen's County, and I do hereby give Public Notice that I will, on Friday, the dth of January, A. D. 1877, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, in the said County, set up and séll by Public Auction, the said property, or as much thereof as will satisfy the levy marked on the said writ, being five hundred and forty-five dol- lars ana eighty-four cents. tugether with interest on $354 34, part thereof from the 25th of January last past, 1876, until paid, | besides Sheriffs fees and | expenses. all incidental Wa. R. WATSON, Sheriff. Sheriff’s Office, Queen's County, June, 8, A. ». 1876. E. J. Hodgson, PI'tif’s. Atty. [dec 4 ‘76. SHERIFF'S SALE, John Graham and David Mutch, Executors, Plaintiffs, And Arthur Harvie, Defendant. B* virtue ofa writ of Statute Execution, fo me directed, issued out of Her Majesty's Supreme Court of Jadicature, at the suit of John Graham ane David Muich Executors, against Arthur Harvie, I have taken and seized as the property of the said Arthur Harvie all the right, utle,and interest of the said Arthur Harvie, in and te the following property, viz :—Al]l those several pieces and parcels of land, situate, iying, and being on Lots or Townships Numbers Thirty-two and Twenty-four, in Prince Ed-> ward Island, bounded .as follows: com- mencing al a stake fixed on the western side of the New Glasgow Road, and in the northers boundary of land the property of the Jate Richard Bolt, thence, aggording to the magnetic north of the year T764, worth eiglly-nine degrees west, seventy-eight chains; thence vorth forty-two degrees west, eleven chains aud fifty links; thence south along the old division line between Townships numbers thirty-two and twenty four, forty-two chains and fifty links; thence north six chains and seventy-five links ; theace south eighty-nine degrees east thirty-five chains, to New Glasgow Koad, thence south thirty-two degrees, east eighteen chains and seventy links, to the piace of commencement,— containing ninety tive acres, little more or less; the same tract of land contaiuing two separate par- cels, namely: seventy acres on Township thirty-two, and (wenty-five acres situate on ‘Township number twenty.four, in the sald Island; in Queen's County; and I do hereby give Public Notice that I will on Tuesday, the 19th of December, A. D. 1876. at twelve o'clock, noon, at the Court House in Charlotletown, in the said Coudty, set up and sell by Public Auction, the said property, or 28 much thereof as will satisfy the levy marked on the said writ, being five bundred and forty-five dollars and e'ghty-four cents, together with interest on $354.34 part thereof from the 25h of Jauvary last past, 1876, until paid, besides Sheriff's fees and all incideutel ex- . a Wa. R. WATSON, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Queen’s County, June 3th, A. D. 1876 ws E, J. Hodgson, PI'tff's. Aity. [dec 4 76. IMPORTANT. For the Betefl ‘of all Concerned. Te subsariber would intimate to ALL persous indebted to him upto fst October Jast, that AN EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THEIR aCCOUNTS 18 REQUIRED. Alb Accounts remaining unsettied on Ist De- cember will have to be handed over for llec tion. “eo HENRY BEER. Southport, Nov. 1876. Ch'town, Nov. 17, 1876. ET YOUR HANDBILLS AND (Posters printed atthe Examiner office