THE Liberal-Conservative STANDARD-BEARERS. PRINCE COUNTY. 1iyN\ } } ; } LARSEN \l Lil X | HON, NI DONALD : row N \\ i Nil MAJOR VR] sq 1h i . Dre yA \ ) IGERS. ESQUIRE & GIL-| ROCHES, ESQUIRE KING'S COUNTY i ’ IN Mac! LN SOULRI s \ i I j ) . 1 mS ‘ J. | LLIVA} QUIR ‘ rT te HAW & { LORD™M DONA » ESOUIR Fo i) i ‘\ ] \I = | »\\ \N i| Ne] \I I sf} i’ ‘ G \ { & RR A Ts {ON. DANIEL GORDON & HON. A 2 INAI i y a Abhi l EEN'S COUNTY. 2 i) i . HON. WILLIAM CAMPBELL & J. HEBER HASLAM, ESQUIRE S Lb : NALD McKAY, ESQUIRE, & D. RR ESQ) R i Drs LON DONALD FERGUSON & $ OU. KELLY, ESQUIRI i i UIisTRICT, HON. ALEX. MARTIN & A. A. Ma LN St? i\ ty ‘ { im 6S fL.OYALTY. \ iL McLEOD & P AKI Sit i ry ¥ YVaRINOCD 5 } f vil ia I } AO LUAIY Lil. FAN it) & U Deficits ! 1 v cy i c 2 | encits Hov i i I iSs75 ey taxec é UUU 4 t t juarters’ Ary, deficit amounting to up- WENTY- ONE THoUsSAND DoiLaRs a hia Vote square for the ciaim their policy. oo Mean Libeller. nen who pro; i } wh run d own theu neighbors are ve suspected and watched. I ymcerning the Provin- l Auditor are not cak ilated to raise it, OF cause in the estimation of Everyone who knows Mr. Dal 3 th he Pioneer's charges ny p ssibil ty, be true. But i ne \ l 7 5 , do any vue act promote their ambi- t ait } men wo are ready to Wy HX A DAILY 4 Policy For the Opposition . . ; ° leo The / t eravely forms its readers sd the people of the Province ‘at large, davsa before the election '!—that just three the L oral Party has a ] e) Admitting [ » moment that this statement 18 true, . : eo ae nust be a very thin rag of a policy that — ‘der and tne « tors CAN eXamine, and consider, an see through, and decide upon in less than eet i ivs ‘ } +} i} , g ee wliev so , pohney worthy the naine ‘ | Cy, , uld be wi hy » be submitted to the ‘y he beginning of t campaign, } } l lech « W \ nsidlere wri CLLISC USS et evidentiy sid that the > ' od aie deind ] Ora i \ Wibk LOU Si wd Loe LOSL ‘ ition and discussion by intel electors Else, why keep 1t out of i e vs before the election / 7 , 1 | ‘ I i ia lied) Has y t 1 i Up] ition r , } i ince thre vt 1S Inuch , \ h ‘ P} Ver ; t \ xceptions, that eve 1 { rover i i e nou heirs has bee hrst Last } f } t t Op } } p ‘ still } aa il © iG says 18 Llii thei ** policy. Well, if it be so, the " : a resumption 18 that they expect to continue t : : . ’ : in Opposition for something more than a policy of mere negation, something more : ying when the other wee he ** : } ee, } +1 . tl} , saVvs yes, ma yOs Wwilell Lie ner DA \ Say - ; Ape ted trom b li , , 1 . ti x y ) wouid bhage t pi iblic : . HE: i 3 i the I rOVilce -+e+e « , , Mean Enough! M WELSH, M. P.. was interviewed in : Ctta i ew VS. ago, concerning the Rol ome > | low ’ : 3s in Pane e Edward Island. The ** is aw ppeared in several of ine LLdiCrviecw tp pPeaseu 2 the iewspapers. lt appeared in the Patriot yo) + } 4h minus @ Very significant Clause. The part suDD essed by the ia > TeACGS is follows I “VWho will be re OgnIizZ d as the Conserva tive ider in future “Mr. Neil McLeod, a man of great ability. Mr. Sullivan, the late leader, resigned owing t s having accepted position ol Cniet lus the Pr i € Myr Welsh wa ina enougn Ww aa ‘ } ‘ . n to iD y i He new Leacgel ot the Government. ine Lf atriwt was lit I ehnou eh, when qu ting those remarks of Mr. Welsh which — suited : : ia its irpose, to ieave this remark out. This is Wisdum, truth and fair play, as exemplh i ) ' rgM or the Upp Sitlon in Pr » Kdward isiana ‘ey Fro: the Pr incial Beier rom ic rOoVincia Auditor. Sirn,—Il have iio desire, nor can I| attord e, at this season of the year, t enter intO a hewspaper controversy, and therefore do not intend to reply to any- thing which may in future appear in that scurrilous journal known as the touching my character, but self at the proper oo to every Brit ish subjec Pioneer, shall avail my- opportunity t to compel a time Of an libeler te » retract or take the consequences of his slanderous writings. Ch > columns of the I "4 Nicer Are controll- ed by an individual acknowledged by his political friends, by members of the legal proiession, by persons at one time clients, snc many of his wap stituents, to be (to use a Common but <ceedin gly appr - priate expressi n) a “very stu] vid man. In the Pioneer of the 27th inst., I am accused of issulng a 7 “ Report on the Public Accounts which was } : 4 : incvurrect, Knowing it to be sucl : that I was ‘‘ instructed by Mr. Ferguson so to prepare it, miie-t WC., and that I was ‘compelled to prepare certain * memo’s’ thing a z the me proving that the offic ial report was incor- . solumn the Pro- rect,” &c., &., I] have no hesitation what- : ever in stating that the above assertions ’ 4 ' ne kenial of the are false,—yos, utterly false. 0 Now for the facts. The ‘**memos” re- - - ferred to above do not prove that ** the de- The @ppositionists are not bound eee Sy Senne eee ee by any policy, and if elected will | *2¢¥" by the Public Accounts, 1888, but probably fall back upon the poiley } °Y 4? porst ous that he amounts held to of the rump of the Davies Govern. | ‘dit of estates were not lost sight of by ment! the treasurer, as several members of the es | Opposition, last session, tried to make it Prawing From Capital. | appear was the case. In the balance sheet | (vice my t wt of 1888) the amount due bys that the Opposition | the banks was taken from the the Treasur- ) s from Capital | er’s Bank Ac ount, as shown by his ledger, } . and was correct so far as current accounts n drawn from | te ee ; . : | were concerned. The dividends paid by oe en by the act of the Op-| the old Bank of Priuce Edward Island on ' Upper House as much | account of estates were not treated in the 8S DY the su sof the Government in | freasurer's b Oks as ordinary revenue, but Lov rs Not a dollar could h ea placed to the credit of Estates Account as ae ae a sum held in trust by the Government ! ul but by the consent consequently did not ap pear in 1888, nor Wer isiatura, including the Pa “a : Legisiati ( i, 1 which the Opposi- ' iajority | To listen to 7p} Lionst s denouncing the qi i because money has been irawnh trom capital, one would never Nagin nat their party was party to the Will tho Electors of Belfast re {urn men to oppose the Belfast Leader? Notif they are wise! Too Sure! Don’t Be From East and West, from North and South we have assurances of victory f wr the yvernment. This feeling of confidence is » good sign. But it may be carried too far. Carried tothe point of carelessness oud ing every vote in, it may work defeat instead of victory. Many a battle has been lost Dy over-c mfidence. Let this fact be remembered in town and country. Opponents of the Government are working the energy of despair. and fight with snd fighting with ° 5 et it be our part to work the energy of hope and manly confidence. St -adiness, watchfulness and courage, with well-direeted energy on election day, will, undoubtedly, produce a grand result, be. youd our most sanguine anticipations. Brt, beware of over-contidence and the careless inucuvay whick uver-vuntidenve begets, will they appear in 1589, in the Treasury Balance ‘ct. Last session, @ memo pre- pared by the a ant ‘Treasurer and certi- tied by me was submitted to the Legislative Council, showing that if the dividends in question had been treated in his ledger as ordinary revenue(which was not the case) the balance due banks would be reduced by that sum. If the Estates had been paid off in 1888, the balance against the Pro- vince on the Slst December, 1888, would have been increased by the sum of $1,859.46, being the loss to the Province on these estates through the fail- ure of the **Old Bank.”’ No pressure has at any slightest degree, time, in the been brought to bear upon me as Auditor, either by “Mr. Ferguson or any other member of the Government. Neither the late Leader nor any of his col- leaguer ever asked to see, or saw, a sheet of the public accounts, in manuscript or prinved form, until the printed Report, all all complete, was submitted to the Execu tive Council. or the preparation of the Accounts, I, and I alone, am responsible. I would brook no interference were sucha thing attempted. I neither fear the frowns nor court the smiles of the Opposition party. But | must admit that J donot believe that, apart from J. H. Bell, one other member of the so-called Liberai Party who knows me would endorse the low, mean and contemptible charges made against me inthe Pivneer. Such a_ base estimate of character could only emanate from the mind of a man totally lost to all sense of honor and self-r oy R, F. DeBuors. Ch'town, Jan. 22th, 1890. xine * BER raul Sa NOW GO — eA gent REAP O RE IIS Ae Mee aa TUESD. \ é BROS. Mi ING ON! — Notes From Pisquid. The Messrs. Laird are doing a fair busi- ness smelt tishing on the Hillsborough, near the confluence of the Pisquid River. Capt. Piggott is also tishing, ties from the westward, at Bridge. They use seines or hey box the fish and ship Boston markets. The post office at Pisquid is kept by Mr. Angus B. McDonald, the piace being known as Eldertield. Mr. Jonathan Jay teaches school at Pis-| quid; and Mr. Angus B. McDonald carries the mail to and from the station. Che railroad is built parallel with the | river on the east side in a southern direc- | tion for about four miles. The land from, the river re is an eastern and western aspect. | There are many thriving orchards to be, seen at Pisquid, and | have been shown a variety of grape vines in one orchard, well | fenced and protected. There were about} ove and a half dozen, planted three yeas which bore very luxuriantly The quality of the fruit was very good and fully matured. There are large quantities of hay cut on| he Pisquid marshes, but it often sual zreatly damaged by the tides. The in- habitants interested and having large marshes | abovethe bridge contemplate building a dam at that piace to prevent the tide vem flowing the intervals above the bridge. delegation waited on the cena with a view to ascertaining what action | they would take in the matier, or what en- | couragement theygwould receive and, Mr. | John P. Nicholson was sent by the govern- | ment, and made a survey, and gave two| estimates in his report of August 12th, | 1889, of two different ways of building a dam, the cost of which would be $759 99, and $1145 50 respectively, which, ever, was considered entirely too high by, experienced _ bridge- As the bridge is not in an exposed piace, it would | be sufficiently strong to admit of building a dam against it, at a much less figure than! indicated in the report. Messrs. Allan McDonald, Alexander | Miller and Angus B. McDonald have been! appointed commissioners of sewers for’ Pisquid River, and the marshes lying con- tiguous thereto, for the purpose of resid ing and carrying out measures for the re-} claiming and improving of said marshes. | This isa beautiful country, | conveniently situated to shipping, both by | hear to markets, churches, stores, etc. There are many large and highly cultivated farms to be seen | here, and all, or nearly all, have good residences and outbuildings; and the in- habitants are just as clever as they are comfortable. Since ship-building ‘* went down,” the people devote their whole at- tention to cultivating the soil, and the greater part of them have lime kiins and us are also some par- Mount Stewart ** purse nets.” them to the wo, some ol ast season. builders. section of , *} water anda ral, schi ols, burn lime for fertilizing purposes, the beneficial effects of which can _ be seen w! ere used, The ** Garahelia,”? McDonald’s estate, on the west side of the river, comprising } about five hundred acres, owned and occu- pied by Mr. Angus McDonald, the veteran master ship builder, and Daniel McDonald are among the best farms in this section of the Island. There are a few old people still living in this section who can relate many inctl- dents which transpired 70 or 80 years ago, or about 38 years afterjits settlement, viz, Mr. Donald Gillis, 88 years, Mrs. D. Gillis, 80, Mr. John McKinnon, 84, Mr. John Linus McDonald, 72, Mrs. McKinnon, (widow) 89, Mrs. Allan McDonald, 78. Mrs. Angus McDonald, (widow), of Elder- field, at the post office, is the most active old lady I have met with on the Island. She is 86 years, and has had seven sons and four daughters, fifty-six grand children and twenty-four great-great-grand children. On the east side of the river, for nearly | three miles the inhabitants are nearly ail McDonalds. Pisquid was settled about the year 1772 by Scotch Highlanders, who emigrated to this country in the ship Alexander, and landed their effects at Portage, on the | Hillsborough Riv er. The first parts settled | were like unto other places on the Island, viz., near the bays and rivers, as the rivers | then constituted the principal highways. | Among the first settlers were the Gillises, | the Macdonalds, and the Mackinnons.} They had, like the other early settlers, | many difficulties to contend with, situated as they were in a dense forest, with no roads, bridges or buildings, and in a climate much more rigorous than the *‘bonny High- lands of Seotiand;” and after they had be- gun to raise sheep, hogs and cattle, bruin| would often carry off a fat sheep or other) domestic animal, and on many occasions, would with difficulty be driven from the premises. The pioneers had many hard- ships in this respect, and often no fewer than from six to eight bears were killed by afamily in summer. The small crops of grain raised then were ground on ‘“‘quarries.” or hand mills, there being few if any grist mills on the Island. About 70 years ago the inhabitants who wished to go to a grist mill were obliged to traverse the dense forest on foot- -paths, with wheat, or barley, in a sack, on a horse or ox, to St. Peter's, then the nearest mill. In these days schools were few and far between and the pedagogues were paid exclusively by subscription, and buarded round, a week for each pupil at each place. The people of Pisquid belong to St. Andrew's Church, which is conspicuously and pleasantly situated on the north side of the Hillsboro River, above Mount Stewart. | [t is a very fine structure, large, comfort-| able and commodious, and together with the neat Parochial house, are ornaments to that place. Very Rev. James McDon ld, V.G., is pastor, a very zealous or ener: | getic gentleman, now pretty well ad-| vanced in years, Perhaps there is no par-| ish in this Dominion which can boast of | having so many clergymen oedaincd as St. | Andrew’s parish. Beginning with the late —" Donald Bernard McDonald, there Gurdon ti date, vig: Muuy. Japtes ‘Donald, D.D., how-| McDonald, V. G., Very Rev. Donald Me- V. G.; Rev. Donald Francis McDonald, Rev. Dougald McDonald, Rev James ASneas McDonald, Re Donald, Rev. Allan J. McDonald, Rev. Joseph J. MeDonald, Rev. Laughlin Me- Donald, Rey. D. J. Gregory McDonald, Rev. John A. McDonald, Rev. Ronald J. Gillis, and Rev. James Morrison, who has recently been ordained and who is still in Rome. The majority of these were born in Pisquid. G. -—THE— Election. —_———— —, > THE SUPPORTERS commen ) TT cnomeen ret HOLD A— MASS MEETING IN THE WILL ‘Mariet Hall ——QN—— WEDNESDAY EVENING, 29th INSTANT. The Candidates and other Speakers will Address the Electors. jan2s HY fava SECOND OF THE COURSE. ‘Wednesday Next, JANUARY 29th. PROGRAMME. lL. Fiano Dast..;:... ekee . Miss Lewis ond Mr. L. W. Watson 2. Reading....,.....Rev. Fred E. J. Lioyd Bi FIO Bs i Ss ne cei cdn tte’ .... Messrs. Vinnicombe and Hyndman ep hy eee Hon. T. H. Haviland ee et Mrs. Strickland G, ME atid aS Miss Harris 7 Vee Oe... Rev. Fred E. J. Lloyd i: MPR cocks os Mr. L. W. Watson 9. SOMZ.. 6.6 sep eee eee Mr, H. A. Tanton | RATS ee ee Miss Russell a ee -+++..Miss Lawson ef | ee ee Mr. Vinnicombe Gop SavE THE QUEEN Tickets for sale at the Drug Stores of L. W. Watson and C, D. Rankin, also at the door, Doors open at 7.30 o ‘clock. Readings at 8 o'clock. Aiahioes, 15 ceuts. PAP 95. Hay Wanted. 30 (}*e TONS HAY, suitable for pressing. Can arrange with farmers along the line of railway to take delivery at their near- est shipping station. G H. SCHURM ord Oburh ita : jaudiedy Iw why gi re vy. Charles Me- | JANUARY 28. 1890 @sule of New and Valuable HOUSEHOLD = FURNITURE, —-— IN Parlor, Dining Room and Bedroom Sets, Plate | Glass Mirrors, Tea, &c., perfectly new, DE erence me TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION. -ON i baer the 12th day of February, 1890, COMMENCING AT 11 @CELOCK, A. M.. T THE NEW WAREHOUSE OF W. £. ROBERTSON, ESQ., Kent St ee, A Charlottetown (opposite John Scott's, Msq ), the ftollowmg Stock belonging te the Estate of George M. Harris, consisting of HOUSEHOLD FURNITI MIRRORS, TEA, &c., Xe. For full particulars see large posters. Intending purchasers may inspect the Furniture, etc., at any time before sale. Dated 27th January, 1890. E. R. BROW, Assignes. January 28, 1890—dy 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st Jan. tlsle wk ROBT. PALMER & GO Charlottetown Sash and Door Factory. commence SE) scinaioesi READ THIS! READ THIS! ———- mon wed sat W* ARE NOW BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER io supply Contractors with PANEL DOORS and FRAMES, SASHES and FRAMES, MOULD- INGS and FINISH, SPOUTING and CONDUCTORS, STAIR RAILS, STAIR BALUSTERS, NEWEL POSTS, which are always kept constantly in stock. We are also prepared to do all kinds of Jobbing in Planing, Jointing, Tennoning, Jig and Fret Sawing. All kinds of GOTHIC WINDOWS made at shortest notice. Morticing, Our Machinery is new and of from the best Quebec pine. the very best description, and we manufacture Give us # call, ROBT. PALMER & CO., 1890. PEAKE’S NO. MVIAS IS OVER, SO IS NEW YEAR'S. —_—( 0 »—_—_ MAPLE LEAF IN RED WRAPPERS, is What 1s Called For. DiAMOND <> POTASH BE ee et tHe RAGE. P. EF, ISLAND SOAP WORKS, dec2 —2m 2aw (tues sat) wky GEORGE E. FULL’S Closing Out Sales WiLL BEGIN ow Monday, December 9th. voertnaimemeitind Gl ncntiscpnineiine (h’town, Jan. 28, 3 WHARF, OVERCOATS, REEFERS, SUITS, PANTS and VESTS, reduced 20 per cent. SHIRTS and LINDERS, very low. DRESS GOODS, cay ULSTERS, : WOOL GOODS, HATS, RIBBONS and TRIMMINGS, CORSETS, TABLE LINEN, SHEEKTINGS, J The whole stock of NEW WINTER GOODS must be sold as the subscriber intends closing out the business. Five Pounds of 28 Gent Te “4 for $1.00 for Reduced 30 per cent. off. Reduced from 20 to 35 Per Cent. \~ Cash only. FULL. GEORGE E. Curslotwtown, Dee. U, I88U—Ui vod why ~ 5 « we ig ety aE TS