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Low Excellent tee | i FARES :—Cabin, $7.50; Stateroom Berth. $9.50. | Eitocas Rates for freight, which is always care- fully handled. CARVELL BROTHERS, Agents, Charlottetown. Harrison Lorine, Managing Owner, Lewis Wharf, Boston. July 21, 1880, Passenger Accommodation! | ee | B-O-S-T-O0-N SUMMER ARRANGEMENT THE PALACE STEAMERS OF THE lUTERMATIONAL S.S. GO. | Leave St. John for Boston. via Eastpor! and Port. ‘and, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8.06 a. m Also leave St. John at Bight for BOSTON IN DINEOT. 2nd 7.30 every Saturday Fare fror Ae; > G. a Charlottetown to Boston, #6,5 50, lat class, or tickets and other information apply to A-BHARP, F. W. HALES, P. E.L R’y., P. K. L Steam Nav. Co. | or w your nearest Ticket Agent. April 18, 18 7—~eod wky us AILORING ESTABLISHMFNT Is the right place to “et your Clothes made. Because we sive Good Value and a -" that beats the wor!d. Our Hstabiishment is new but ovr Cutters are the oldest at their business in the Province. 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West India Lime Juice, in bottles and on dreught. import this in casks and bottle it ourselves, and it has given | first-class satisfaction Lemon and Raspberry Syrups.—As we import these ‘from one of the best houses in the Dominion, we guarantee them to be equal, if not superior, to any other Syrups in the market. Fresh Fraii.—We are receiving Apples, every Boston steamer, and will aia Pears, Strawberries, Watermelons, Xc., in their season. Oranges, Lemons and | Grapes, Counfectionery.— Having a very large stock of good, whole- some Confectionery, we are prepared to give extra value in this line. Tea Committees will find it to their advantage to give us a call before buying elsewhere. set, 4 1B ie a te OF SQUARE AND KING SQUARE SORES QUEEN J, tly July 9, 1887—-cod wky CARVELL BROS, July 29, 1887. WANTED. iA LIV#® CANVASS ER FOR our buok, “Sea ‘and Land,” just nov ready, with 300 illustrations iof the wonders of the dex :p and jungle. Four ‘beatiful Chrono Plates, over 800 pages ; prin and paper excellent; low priced, Nothing ‘like i jin the world. W. E. EARLE, St. John, N. B., Manager for J. 5S. ROBERTSON & BROS., Publishers | July 25, 1887. \ ‘SOOTHING, CLEANSING, HEALING. It Cures CATARRH, Gold in Head, HAY FEVER. STOPS Droppings from —————— Nasal passages iz- EASY TO USE. to the throat and excessive expectoration caused by Catarrh. Sent pre-paid on receipt of price, 50c, and $1. Address FULFORD & CO., Brockvilie, Ont eT <i =a a> ‘Cleanliness Next to Godliness” Cleanse Your Beds and Guard Against Sickness. iN yow is the time to get your Feather Beds and Pillows renovated by Dufort’s Patent Feather | Renovator, which will remain in Charlottetown (a few weeks for the parpose of Cleaning Feather ' Beds and P ilows, and making them Soft, Clean and Healthy. Thousands of our Canadian Housekeepers can testify to the beautiful work done by this splen- | did invention | Medical men and scientists acknowledge its i excellence, Satisfaction guaranteed Remember the place en Street. Ju ily 27, 1887—1 mo eod tu th sat CANADIAN 5 rod B —AND—_ STATIONERY STORE, UPPER QUEEN STREET, next door West of Mr. E. 8. Bonnell’s Watchmaker and Jewelry Store. sv BSCRIPTIONS taken at above store for J. 8 Robertson & Bros.’ Publications, Toronto; Family Bibles (Old and New Version in paraliel columns), These Bibles and other valuabie | Books can be obtained by easy monthly pay- | ments, thus placing good books within the reach of all classes of the p eople. cations can be seen at store. “Charges moderate. Terlizzick’s Corner, | | fires, { | Northwest | earth. |river on the west. oiiuary. On Tuesday evening, August 2, at Glen-| gowan Farm, Commercial Cross, Mrs. Ann Lightmine’s Freaks. Livhtning of Joseph W ilcox, but struck his stock. burned the ho Lake Clear, and kiiled only of barn hot ise Stevart, beloved wife of Peter Stewart, Esq., and daughter of the late Thomas Clow, Esq., Murray Harbor, but a native | of Dumfriese, Scotland, quietly passed into the cold embr: ice of death, after a short but severe illness. Mrs. Stewart was born November 26, 1830 ; was married August 4, 1854, and, on} August 4, 1887, was quie tly laid to rest at Lower Montague, to await ‘ the voice of the Archangel and the trumpet of God.” Her husband and nine children —five | daughters and four sons—are left in sorrow, One boy preceded her to the spirit land. Two sons are in the far West, to whom the sad news of mother’s death w ill be a severe blow. In life, she was strong in faith, a faithful helper and support to her and loving mother, and a true friend, whose memory will remain enshrined in | the hearts of thousands. The vail now stands between. lifted bye and bye. Montague, August 10. It will be (Foreign papers please copy.) Terrible Drought in the Northwest. oF 75,000 SQUARE FIRES RAGING. IT COVERS MILES AN GREAT AREA FOREST A Chicago paper, summing up the many | reports received by it of drought, prairie ruined crops, etc., says: There is an jarea of perhaps 75,000 square miles in the where the dust lies upon the The district is bounded by Madison | on the north, Bloomington on the south, Lake Michigan on the east and Mississippi {tis within the limits | i; hs / of these bound: arie s that vegetation has lost | i ‘normal color | Day and the earth mois after day, rays upon the pare ‘hed farms and _ fields. are falling from the trees, the grass | its Lure. | Le 2aVeS husband, a kind | the sun sends its burning | Lightning tore out the casing and. blinds lof ah in Little Rock, Ark., and threw ‘two bird cages upon the floor, but neither of the birds in the cages were injured. lightning struck the powder mill at Streator, ill., and it blew up promptly, i smashing things for halt around. |} John Lampert and his dog were killed by lightning while tending sheep on the ranch \ot Dr. Welch, at Greeley, ¢ ‘ol. “ pitchfork carried over the shoulder of Wm. Casselman of Gloversville, N Y., dur- ling a thunder storm,drew the lightning and cost hin his life. Wim. Bowen and his sister-in-law, Miss | Eunice McKenzie, were instantly killed by lightning at Palestine! Tex., while taking |refuge under a large pine tree. : | Heavy rain put ‘lightning that struck Thos. at Rock Mount, N. C., but the lightning jhad already killed two horses and an ox. of Meredith Mensell | of Pickens C ounty, Ss. C., was killed by | lightning while dining. The family coasisted jot Mr. Monsell, his wife, and four chil- idren. use a mile out the fire caused by Powell’s barn The entire family Lightning stunned thestallion Red Jacket, {belonging to James Price, of Farmington, |Ga., and he has been as docile as a lamb lever since. No one was known to ride him | before. | While Charley Spencer of Milwaukee was | fishis ig, lightning struck him and tore the | clothes completely from one side of his | body, cutting them as neatly in two as if the | job had been done with a knife. The stroke of lightnmeg which entered a house at Bridgewater, N. J., after smashing }a window pane, ripped the matting from the floor, cut one of the castors from a bed- | post, tiew into the kitchen and threw a ser- vant girl to the floor and a cat into a water ) in the meadows has grown yellow and the jpail, passed into an adioining room and streams in which the cattle used to slz ike | | their thirst are dry. It has been nearly ten weeks since rain fell in this district. tore the heel off the slipper ofa young lady | Wi ithout harming her, burned the edges of a mosto on the ws all, ‘and then disappear- | With not enough moisture in the ground to | ed, ithe lmagined, the condition of corn and grass in the meadow may be In Southern Wisconsin thous- | feed a thistle, tender ands of acres where corn will a - Rich in Yes ars. . ' not yield a} | ¥ When. ¥ el” seen ae peck to the acre. The crop has been bap N hen John ‘Down °y Bias ‘ recently 7 scorched and almose totally destroyed. The | “#St *94e¢0, Unio, he was Wd years 0 . iarea | leaves of the cereal are yellow and _ brittie | “5° ‘and droop almost to the ground. Wells; At the Harlem Police Court a woman | 82 ands of acres | of the flames. | machinery it is. | Prospectus of publi-, In connection with above is a well-selected stock of Stationery, embracing everything usu- ally kept in a stationery store, which wiil be soid , on very reasonable — . G. BREMNER, Agent. Ch'town, July 12~2mo eod ST. CATHERINE’S HALL, AUGUSTA, Divcesan School for wo The Rt. Rev. H. A. Neeley, D.D., Rev, W. D. Martin, A. M., Principal. opens Sept. 14. Terms $75 and $250. corps of teachers and Music, Send for circwer, President. The 20th year Strong jly26—10 wks Specia! advantages in Art ! structions, have run dry, and in some towns water famines are imminent. The drinking water at hand is_ often polluted | ed and filled with poisonous germs. Typhoid fever becoming more prevalent, and dysentry and other stomach disturbances are so common in places to be almost epidemic. Unless rain falls be fore many days, the suffering will be greatly augmented. Without pasturage to browse upon, or pools in which stand during the hot hours of the day, have become so emaciated as to unmarketable, Ings ome paces foe is Y some | as +e LU , the be cattie WwW holly t ees was recently brought up for drunkenness who is 102 years of age. Mrs. Noah Baby, of Plainfield, N. J., still supports herself by work, although she is believed to be 115 years of age. Probably the oldest man in the State of of Tennessee is Henry Cleggy, of Meigs County, who is 10 years of age, and still in the best of heal:h. One of the most interest 1g ladies of Cambridge, Mass., is Mrs. C Th irles Brad- ford, who is 94 yeers old. She is still a great lover of music and performs beauti- fully on the piano have been felled and dragged to the pas- tures, and the cattle turned loose to feed John J. Whipple, of Rockland, Me., was upon the leaves. Hundreds of cows are 100 years old on June 18, and attributes being killed and shipped to market to sell his good health and great longevity to al- for a mere pittance. At Winslow, Ill., one’ ways eating and drinking according to in- farmer bought 10 he ad of cattle last Janu- | clination. ary at $30 per head. When he offered to! Aunt Rachel Rutherford. of Summit, sell the entire herd last week for $100 he'Mo.. is 91 years of age and has 56 grand- could not tind a purchaser. Farmers in| children and 126 great-grandchil lren. She this district have already turned their en-!is an inveterate smoker, and a wreath of tire cattle loose to feed on the crops. {smoke always encircles her head. Added to all the miseries attending the } Mrs. Betsy Fairfield, of Maydenville. great drought is the constant fear of fires. | Mass.. is 102 years of age. der mother lhe tall grass of the prairies 1s dead, the llived to be 98. a sister 92,a brother 88, tields are ready to burst into flames. and | |and another brother living is 87. She was leaves lie in heaps in the forest. A spark |, pecular correspondent with friends of her starts a fire, and the blistering, Sahara-like | 0. .jjop days until she was 95. wind fans the flames finto a conflagration. In some towns the people are often called out three or four times a day to fight the flames. Destructive fires have been ragitfe for many days at Kenosha, Racine and , Walworth counties in Wisconsin. Thou- have been swept by the and the to farmers in hay, grain, fencing and buildings is very great. Abeve Madison the bogs are burning fiercely, and the pungent smoke hangs over the country for miles around. The north- ern Illinois fires are so numerous that the farmers have ploughed the ground about their dwellings in order to check the spread Should the drought remain unbroken much longer, incalculable ruin shall be wrought by the fires which spring up in unexpected places and in the most mysterious manner. In some parts of the district the drought is so terrible that but- ternuts and walnuts have fallen from the trees. Potatoes, when taken from their beds of ashes, look like crab apples. They are wrinkled and spongy and untit for food. There is also a great scarcity or milk, owing to the inability of the cows to find nutrit- ious food. flames, loss ‘or NR Give Them a Chance ! That is to say, your lungs. Also all your aera machinery. Very wonderful Not only the larger air- passages, but the thousands of little tubes and cavities leading from them. When these are clogged and choked matter which ovght net to be there, lungs cannot half do their work. what they do, they cannot do well. Call it cold, eough, croup, pneumonia, catarrh, consumption or any of the family of throat and nose and head and lung ob- all are bad. All ought to be got rid of. There is just one sure way to get rid of them. That Boschee’s vith your And 1. iS to taxe EE - <> + re More Than He Could Stand. Featherly, who was making an evening call, had been hovering between hope and despair for months, but hadn’t the nerve to put the important question, when Bridget opened the door and said : ‘Can I speak wid yez wan Clara ?” =h ‘ertainly, Bridget. What is it?” “Wud yex plaze tell me wat it’ll be breakfast ?’ -<e yes. minute, Miss for Pray excuse me, ae Feath- erly. I think, Bridget, we will have fried sweet-breads. Papa is very fond of them.” **How will [cook ’em, mum ?” ‘**First wash them very carefully, Bridget, and day with a linen cloth, then lard them with narrow strips of fat salt pork, iclesely toget use for this purpose a larding-needI sweet-breads in a clean, hot frying-pan, which has been well buttered, and cook to a fine brown, turning frequently until the pork is crisp. That is all, Bridget.’ **Thank yez,” said Bridget. “Exit Bridget, leaving young Featherly in a state of tremendous excitement. ‘Miss Hendricks,” he began; Clara—Clara—dear Clara~—will you will you be my wi But let me retire from this Ne 9 York. Sun. set J ier, ler +} >, 44Y CLIC ‘ Miss ~ oh, sacred scene. => ih, B... a & Y., on the after- S I Baldwin leap- ; ; it of a mile and At Rockaway Bea noon of the 9th, Prof. ed from a balloon at a heig by means of a parachute descended safely into the water a quarter of a mile from shore. The descent occupied one minute, 24 seconds. > z on St. Gabriel street, German Syrup, which any druggist will| Mont: tovk the law into hergown hands sell you at 70 cents a bottle Even flon the night of the Sth. She had been everything else has failed you, you may|cused by her lover's rival of improper con depend upon this for certai in. dus b - when oro wht face t face with _-—- j her iderer he had to eat his words. The Buffalo | Billand his entire troop ae 13 g girl t} i@n wok a W hip and rave him dians attended ual in London thes cthes| day in full war paint, it Seiad horsewhipping. Her brother, who held him, has been arrested,