SRPUAREN LOT ea — = ¥ ; oe — =: ———- eo —————— aeiianrnnmeriaerats oo Local and Other items, TEI cn to DIED — cLESHAPHIG NEWS oh c ° At Charlottetown, March 12th, of bron- n night ; | chitis, Christie Jane, daughter of John aud “ PeOrAL Desp ecuks ro Toe EXAMINE | Annie MeKenzie, aved 5 years and 6 weeks urnameut at ¢ lat es [iu l ki id ’ at Ci 3 Skating | . Yuneral on biidiy, at Ya m. ; postponed fhe British at Zereiba. a . ve be —— — - a ‘ : =e a pair of Boots, , SUAKIN, March 12 ’ { \ { ' 0 * [marl: ; J e by itish forces reached Baker Pasha's | 5 } bu — position at) Zereiba, on Tuesday, at mid-| ia | i } ‘ Lape ior night, and went into camp Abyssini an ” ‘ i Dat hh : ’ . ° ‘ é ° . ave 1 ecouts reported that Osman Digma was in| To be held under the auspices of the & position, and surrounéel by a lar e ‘ : : as 7 arge force Licht ahs ‘Geonheten ol re oe ls after dinner to day. At aed 10, BENEVOLENT IRISH SOCIETY, ® ol P Ociock, the British st te the re ede te ge Fie hey ne hig a = . t for the; rebel Wal. BS GIVER OF rh | y are acvacing in squares, | = iF im A ls are without intrenchmente:. | ST PAT C regree . t.4f No. 1 meet} a thousand of the enemy have been ! R} K S NIGH I, s Hall, Qacen Street, | #8 ited. A battle is imminent. The rebels ven, sharp jaro tweive miles distant from Suakin. IN THE - ® siege be Ad MARKET Hawi. §50 Pieces Crey Cottons was to take place on A Battle t xpected. oe fo : New ice, to morrow, has bee: u- a, | : — PROGRAMME. StAKIN, March 12. PART I = 1. . é : 1 sails The Beitish have taken p sition onel;- ; eu = : 7 wernment has | mile from the rebel camp. The attack will Overture—Queen of the Valley........ Bissiz iow y, the i7th thst.. b i be ade } 7 3 . ” ’ — sii ean : * me ¢ be u ade at daybreak with seven gatling ae Me guns Fhe cavalry will probably fight dis. | Choras—Let Erin Remember the Days of Old - MOUn Ter 1¢ heads of rebels are hidden Moore) a4 is! itti \ I have gone aStray at St ee owen and pits. British scouts are St. Danstan’s Choir. Kuglis ma Canadian and American Knitting Cotton, af a ~* | trequentiy fire: { i : y he T y sale, last evening, such | Oamman D, fred up - A spy reports that | Solo (vocal)—Whea the Tide Comes In...... a poons, umbrellas, et ADY | tak an Digna, with 7,000 men, intends to Millard eeu etiens tial “se . e position in a narrow defiles allow Miss Newbery ' skes or pies will please . ehie,; allow the 1ss8 Newbery . . = ret r glasware to David Small | British to pass, and then attack them in| o ts T Ne Black French Men inves, +h the rear 1} Cornet Solo-~-The Green Little Shamrock. ... R ‘kk ‘ ih rac 3 | i Mr, Fletcher. lac c ASME CS, Rev. C Fraser will preach at Kast St, | - Solo (voeal)—Am I Remembered in Erin ? : JP erri 2 “ 4 e'~« | lab atch: tadenies bly Destructive Fire, McGou> tty A ud on Sabbath tne 39th = dis- P ae Mrs. Blake. ’ amenttin the South Church; ‘ . HILADELPHIA, March 13 Ohe rhe Mins 21 Boy .. m Preparatery service on 7 aptain Wylie, of the schooner “C. M noras Snes Boy Sete e essen Voore » Thursday aud Satarday Mt irre tt, whi th arrived to day from Port . Wunstans Cho. a } Spain, Trinidad, reports the almost entire Solo (vocal) ~The Waiting Heart. S NrexnpentTs of Presbyterian Sabbath | destruction by fire of the city of Port Mrs. Byrne. , : , 5 forwardsthtir Reports | Spain, one of the most important commer- | Solo (voca')—The Lament of the Irish ab once t a VV Archibald, of Cayen | cial towns in the West Indies, The loss is Kwigrant ., Mille a « Saba « «we Baker é ; an . re Se 100% t Pow 1d ' Re p ae a | estimated at over $400,000, The fire Mr. UL, Hermans. be State «f Keligion to Kev. George Me-jeriginated in the Unio : , ee eet tere itae er . He + ~ _— House, 0 | Seleetions from Poet and Peasant... .. Suppe Financial Keturns are wanted Mnmediately by -"' =e e pepatral ee es vite et et the « . of Presbytery. © J. M. McLexop, | ae cna A : Oar ; . ei » ‘ Dao see a : 7 ' m ; Pht. Clerk | Anxiety Concerning Khartoum. | 4*"* Me. B39; Oearey:—— 20: 2 fi he Liquor : erni Fi Geawey. I 0 ls there a Street Committee in Charlotte- Lonpon, March 12. PARE. ROYAL CANADIAN INSURANCE CO. vot Ifso, they are criminally negligent in| Much anxiety is felt in regard to the} Piso Duet—Dvet in D Diabelli ——rvte ailowiag the streets to remain in the present | I Lhe Opposition to stgr evinced by the majority of the Uoun- ht to lead them to be at least consistent | hat hated and fesred article | ' passa vie f titton ehad nave irom our streets. ihe fathers ought , . * ’ to hive een fa ly prepared for the present tuaw + Cue (ity Council met last evening Cour- ” X : } ® , 2 , ws Murphy, Crabbe, and Koughan were | moved by Coun- ere carried unanimously. We curiosity, aud ar puzzied to know mean, Ty-morrow we will endeayor to tind space for them. ‘To mike the en:ymas more interesting, we shall | snd the Evening News (when it again appears) | owe who gives us the 23% explanati yn of them. iid A Prizes Fricut took place at Coney Island, New York, oa the morning of the 6th inst. c abwent iwo resoiuty ons, Celilo rant lu, W have read them throvgh what the; t. a i0r One Wee, LO aly It was between ‘‘Billy’’ Gracey, of Green-| ganction. unt, and J ck’ D inpsey, of New York, The fight waa for the lighs weight champion. | shin, $400 stakes and the gate money. | G-o_ey is twenty-two years of age and weighs Dempsey weighel 138 pounds The fight took | P yunds. ad 1s twenty-five years old lace at three a. m, and Dempsey was de-| hotel at Fullhaw, subiy>s of Lendon, It after nine royndg had! js helieved to be another Fenian dynamite een fougat and Gracey was unable to come | outrage, as a box containing four packages, o tne seratch. Both men were badly pun-| apparently cartridges, were found on the | premises. a I ¢lared jhe winner , a t ished. Sicha James Church Bazaar, held in Market Hall last evening, was financially aud otherwise a grand success. To the’ committee who had the affair in hand is due the highest praise. Tney threw all their energy into the work, and from the beginning assured the Bazaar and Tea would be the best of the | season. The handsome sum of $650.00 was | realizel. Those who attended came away | well pleased with the manner which they | were treated by the godd ladies of St.| James. Following is a list of those who deserve honorable mention :— Fancy Table—Mrs. McLeod, Mrs. Ran-| kin, Mra. Dorald McNeill, Mrs. A. Lord, | Miss McGifl, Miss Clark and Miss Alice | McKinnon. Sunday School Table—Miss Large, Mias | Murray, Miss McLean, Miss Maud Uender- | son, Miss Sadie Wilson. fea Pables—(1) Mrs, G. McGregor, (2)! Mrs. John F. Robertson, Mrs. C. Robert- | son; (3) Mrs. Wm. McLean; (4) Mrs. Watts; | (5) Mrs. D. Small; (6) Mrs. Adam Murray. | Refreshment Table—Mrs Kennedy and | Mrs. John McPherson. i THe St. acre - . o-oo A Wonderful Invention. | ‘ ' Phe printing world is much disturbed by | the discovery of a new process which en-| ables any number of copies to be taken of the oldest book without setting a line of type. A compouad has, been discovered | which may be spread upon a page without | in the slightest way ipjating the paper, | and which refuses to reat upom,ink. I¢| au be easily removed to a stone, and there | becomes the matrix for btereotype, or ean be used for printing from at ones. You hand your best beloved Al- dina to the inventor of this new process, avd he will return it to you without a stain or a mark, uninjaredand only cleaned, and he wil give you along with it an exact fac- | ter lor letter, and broken atop for of the volume which he has ; stop, had in nis poaubieleel for only a few days, Mr. Quaritch, the second-hand booksell r, is ca:d to be thirsting for the blood of this too-ciever inventor; but practical printers sre already moving to see whether they nn cai » the CvBst of re-settung old and, if certain practical difficulties ver, Wwe shall see a. change not oly inthe producuon of fac similes of «ld b »ks t im the pr duction of modern boavks I, will’ na longer be neces:| ry tn keep type standing, A| proof will bé as good as a stereo- typed plate, No bcok will ever really be “Gut of print” so long as a copy of it re- {t will be nearly as cheap to repro duce a volume as to print an extra copy of a volume passing throvgh the printing niscoue. VUortainly we are progressive. A ready water-col r drawing e3n be so weil hbo wraphed as to deceive the ve ry artist ss Tue tiae is not fae distant waen we shall photograph colurs, And now that a book mey be repristed from ise if, we may reason- abiy hope te find a method whereby ‘oil “rs may be maitiplied from their own ~ Londen Uorreepunatence Lover- Trivlh Ci Tars°s pout dderowry-? Moscow, strongly opposes the meesure on Seer situation at Khartoum The correspond- ent of the Times at Alexandria says: ‘‘It ig proverbial that three courses are possib'e to leave Gen. Gordon to his fate, ta despatch English troops to Khartoum, or to import Indian troops. The policy of doing nothing has not hitherto achieved a signal success,” rr Grain Elevators in Russia Sr. PerersspunrG, March 12. The Counsel of the Empire apprave hy a large majority of the preposed concession | to the new American Company which con- templates the erection of ‘grain elevators throughout’ the country, but Michael Katkoff, the editor of the official journal of patriotic grounds. It is therefore doubtful whether the Czar will give his Imperial Another Dynamite Outrage. Lonvon, March 13. An expiosion occurred last night in an THE DAILY Hx AM: = -— ele eatin ante ceneenmnnenenten imetineadabemneatennetinaennsatattimel NER, MARCE 13, 1884. Fe ee 8 tO are e 7 AO IO AIS CC CNL NI = OCC SPRING G8BE5, SPRING GBBES Sterns Ask Special attention to their Stock of the following Goods, which are, beyond question, as good value as can be found : a20 Pieces White Cottons, 300 Pieces Frint Cottons. A good Stock of Canadian and American Corsets. Black Nun’s Veiling, Biack Persian Cerd. A FULL LINE OF MOURNING GOODS. Table Linens, Towels, Sheetings, Pillow Cottons. Room Paper. Rugs, Mats, Carpets, Oil Cloths, ete., all standard Goods, and prices low. PERKINS & STEARNS. The Misses Quirk, ee (VOOR oils hen tamer e basa cad ieee Mrs, Strickland, 0 Moore} CAPITAL, - - - - Caorus—The Last Rose of Summer, St. Dunstan’s Choir. The Monarch of the Wood.... Cherry 210 (¥OCa!) Solo (vocal) Mr. Reid. Vielin Solo and String Quartette--Ave Marie Gounod Mr. Vinnicombe and Orchestra! Club. } Solo (voca’)~~The Shamrock.......... Moore Mr. Caven. Solo (vocal) —The Last Glimpseof Erin. . Moore Mrs, Gaffney. Ch’town, Feb, 27, 1884. Waltzes—Breeze of Night.......... Lancth |) ee Orchestral Club. {; Chorus—Domestic Sgenes........ St. Dunstan’s Choir. GOD SAVE THE QUFEN. Admission—Reserved Seats, 50 cents; Un- reserved, 25 cents. Doors open at 7.30 p. m.; Concert at eight p. m. March 13, 1884. . Lockwood 2 \T SALE OF Wew Cottons. YT RE. $2,000,000 coe----- HEAD OFFICE—Montreal. HALIFAX BRANCH—J. ——— Risks Taken eon Mest Favorabte Terms. AGENT FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: F. H, ARNAUD, Scott Mitchell, Agent. Merchants Bank of Halifax. One man was blown to pieces, A Collision. Loypon, March 12. The British ship ‘‘Honolulu,” Capt. Edgett, has been out to the waters edge in public that the | collision with the American ship ‘Wm. MeGilvery,” Capt." Dundas.) The ‘ Hono- luin” was built in St. John in 1882, by John Fraser. Floeds on the Pacific Coast. San Fraycrisco, March 12. A despatch from Yuma, Arizona, says the Gila River has oveaflowed its banks and inundated half the town. Fully one hundred families have been rendered home - jess and destitute by the floods. — Tennyson takes his Seat. Lonvon, March 12. Baron Tennyson took his seat in the House of Lords last'evening. He was com- pelled to borrow robes of Lord Coleridge, his own robes having been recently stolen. a Three Men Shot. San Antonio, Texas, March 12. Ben Thompson and King Fisher shot each other dead in Vandeville Theatre, last night. Joe Foster, who attempted to sep- ciate ' arate them, was shot and probably will die. Eager to Fight. a Suaxrx, March 12. Osman Digna has sent the women, children and baggage, to the hills. His men Rebel reinforcements | — are eager to. fight. are contiually arriving. A Decrease in Crime. Dupuy, March 12. Irish Justices, one opening “the Assizes, ‘agree there has been @ gratifying diminu- | tion of crime. Weatner Bulietib. ' | — | Maritime Provinces. _- Toronto, March 13-10 a. m. | Decreasing winds; fair weather; not much | change iu temperature. ee ee M gTEOKOLOGICAL OFFICE, Charlottetown, 18th March, 1854. the fire of the 20th February, wall oblige by ighest temperature yesterday «,-- : cor st laa atare (read at midnight),.. U9 | Lowest temperature this morping ;---+)--9* | }emperature this mornipg, at 8 v'clock 4 Temporature this afternoon, atl © elock...39 ——————————— Horsford’s Acid Phosphate FOR LEMONS, OR LIME JUICE, | is a superior substitute, aad its use is pounve ly Dewetiviad tu healt Probabilities for the next 24 howrs for the 3 wl 1 5 J. A, CHIPMAN & CO, Are Offering ex Warehouse, 400 brls. Medium and High Grade Patentg (American and Canadian), 125 bris Low Grade Bakers. 1 OFFICE OPPOSITE RANKIN HOUSE. N. B—We are now prepared to receive orders for Spring Importation — Flour, Corre meal, ete. Alco, parties having Oats or Malt. ing Barley for sale would do well to call, J. F. SHATFORD, Agent. Received Before the Ch'town, March 13 Executors’ Notice. Ww* the und-rsigned, executors of the last will and testament of the lgte Alexander Simpson, of Hope River, ‘in Queen’s County, deceased, hereby notify all parties indebted to the estate to make imme. diate payment to the undersigned. Also, all parties having legel demands against said estate to present them, duly attested to, within twelve calendar months from date, ALRERT SIMPSON, JOHN SIMPSON, Jr., Hope River, January 18th, 1884. jmarl3 4w wkly 4i MOLASS25. 50 PUNS. CHOICE MOLASSES, on consigument, for sale at a bargain. A. H. B. MACCOWAR, AGENT. Ch’town, March !2, 1834.—eod 2y Fieecy Cottons, { Executors. Towels and TO rg\HE RAILWAY HOUSE, situated .on tichmoad Street, near London Houtee. Also « shop adjoining, 16x30 feet. Apply to THOMAS CAMPBELL. Ch’town, Feb. 23, 1884.—t#f CHOICE TEAS, Uh’town, Feb. 11, 1884 w nn LET, By the Chest, Half-Chest, and Quarter-Chest. of 5, 10, 15 and 20 pounds, GEO. DAVIES & CO. We have just opened a large Stock of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PRINTS, NEW SPRING STYLES, Advance in Duty. —:0i— : We have an immense stock of GREY AND WHITE COTTONS, Purchased when the Cotton market was at the lowest point of depression. sheeting. Cottens, Pillow Cottons, TABLE LINEN AND NAPKINS, Towelling, TAPESTRY, SCOTCH ANG BRUSSELS CARPETS, And other House Furnishing Goods. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 0 VERY CHEAP! SEE ——-———-$- 7 . 4A ‘ ’ % 7 } % AOR SALE—A Property on a privcipal - street, having a frontaze of ninety-eight feet, and now yielding an income of $300, For particulars apply at this office, Wholesale and [marl3 6in OO POXHE Parties having in their possession a set of new Driving Harness, taken from 3,000 pounds CURRANTS, 200 boxes prime FIGS, 5 cases choice PRUNES, returning them to the subscriber without fur- ther notice, —JOHN NEWSON. [mar8 wiht ot | TANTED—A good COOK and DINING oe hoon APES W ROOM GIRL, for-a Hotel. Wages 20 kegs GRAPES, good. Apply *tths office. {mar7 3i eod pd | ETA NTED_—A GIRL for general house- woik in a family of three Apply at Mew, Crovikihl’yy Pleweant Strevt, [usar ti Nov. 14, 1683.—2aw whiy Retail, Cheap. —_———— ON HAND: s 230 boxes very choice Valencia and Layer RAISINS, 36 half-boxes choice LAYERS, 200 barrels bard WINTER APPLES, No, 1, AND MORE TO ARRIVE- BEER & GOFF. Also, in Packages el; . es . d ft License Aci, 1888, TOTICE is hereby given that a mecting -_ of tee Board ot L cense Commissk ners for the License District of Queen’s County, will be held in the Court Koom, in the Law Courts Building, ia « harlottetown, Naiurday, the Wwenty-ninth Bay of March Next, at the hour of eleven o'clock, forenoon, for the p. rpose of taking into consideration all ap- plications for certiticates for such Licenses as by the Liquor License Act, 1883, are author- ized to be yranted in this L:cense District. By Order of the Board. ROBERT H. CRAWFORD, Chief Inspector for Licenses for Quveen’s County. Feb 28, 1884.—3i law wkly her pres 3i. ‘The Liquor License Act, 1883. OTICE is hereby given that a meeting of IN the Poard of License Commissioners for the License District of King’s County, will be held in the Supreme Court House, in George- town, in King’s County, on Monday, the Thirty-First Day of March Next, at the hour of seven o’clock, in the afterneon, for the purpose of taking into consideration all applications for certificates for such Licenses as by the Liquor License Act, 1553, are authorized to be granted in this License District. By order of the Board, JOHN McKINNON, Chief Inspector of Licenses for King’s County. Feb, 29, 1884.—3i law wkly her fres 3i ————$——$ $$ FOR SALE, “PXHE Old Baptist Church Property, on Great George Street, next to premises. lately occupied by the Bank of P. K. Islan, For terms of sale and other particulars apply to ee F. H. ARNAUD, Agent, e Merchants Bank ot Halifax. Mareh 1, 1884. SALT! SALT! FOR SALE ex WAREHOUSE, 5.000 bags Liverpool Salt, 1,200 bags Coarse Fishery Salt. PFAKE BROS, & CO. Ch’town"Feb. 14, 1884.—tf PATENTS MUNN & CO., of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, con« tinue to act as Solicitors for Patents, Caveats Trade Marks, Copyrights, for the United States, Canada, England, France, Germany, etc. Hand Book about Patents sent free. Thirty-seven yeurs’ experience, Patents obtained through MUNN & CO. are noticed in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, the largest, best, an most widely circulated scientific pxper. £3.00 a year. Weekly. Eplendid engravings and tateresting ine formation. Bpecimen copy_of the Seieutific Amere fenn sentfree. Address MUNN & CO., SCLENTIPIO AMERICAN Ofice, 261 Broadway, New ¥ork. Fiano Tuning. —_— M. REID announces that he is prepar . to tune and repair Pianos of all kind Broken or defective wires replaced. Piano tuned bythe year Orders may be kft at the atore of Miller Bros., Queen street, or at his own residence, Kent “trert. Feb. 18. 1884—dy 43 wky 2i pd tiie TsA. TEA. TEA. ra SUBSCRIBER has in store, on con- signment, — 250 half-chests Congou Tea, IN FOUR QUALITIES, ALSO Tin Gaunisters, 5, 10 and is pounds, will be sold low to close for spring importations. B. WILSON HIGGS, One door south New Custom Hous", 40 Water Street. Ch’tewn, Fvin 22, 1984,—w eod aad Sa — v ~aaillindan RENARD 2 et cg aE SN REN RC ident cecal canals peace ne ee ee . Pe Se eS NF A a eee Sn eens ok Mem ik al al ¥ . ae "Se aS ay i -innl ees