a rrr rrr DH DAILY EXAMINER. SEPTEMBER 16, TLE THE 1887. VOTES AND COMMENTS. if mackerel fishing in Penobscot Bay, M is been a total failure this year it is stated that probably not three barrels have been taken in the whole bay. The i 1 say they can understand the helding back a few weeks, bu ‘ sthom their alinost total withdrawal _—_—<—--+ .—- irom recent cablegrams we learn that the renewed outery in England against the importation of Canadian cattle is really only veiled protection to keep up the prices of butchers’ meat. It is pointed out that the fact that good prices are given at Smit] a complete answer to the assertion that the cattle are ill-treated on the voyage and landed in bad condition —-—-e ea «© ———— ur Grit prophets of disaster are once more covered with confusion With char- 7 cteristic recklessness they stated that recent action of Canada regarding the iron duties would prevent the Imperial govern- ment granting a subsidy to the Canadian Pacific our Railway mail route to the east. As readers already know the Imperial government has granted that route a sub- sidy of $225,000 ye rly ’ seiiliciiaieinid Tue Moncton Times, in noting the improved business ouclook i ilonial Railway, discourses as follows ‘The granting of the lmperial subsidy to the Canadian Pacific forthe carriage of the \nglo-Aasiatic mails has opened up a new source of traffic for the Intercolonial Raily snd spe ial preparations are being mad with » View to pre iting delays by snow on the iorthern division su h LS O I 1 last win ter Some 120 miles of new extra heavy rails iré being laid wn on the main line between tifty-six Halifax and Levis in pla eof the ; snow pound rails, and about miles of fencin ! storht elgnt and one and a half miles of iron and to be Ballast trains are working on all the divisions, and every foot of the track ~ vooden snow sheds are erected before Winter sets in is to be put in first-class running order before the season cleses. New buildings and water tanks are being erected at various points. Among the former are the new brick black Smith shop and be ere Moncton, p saint shop to ‘ted at the contracts for which have already . these improvements will, it is thought, neces te an expenditure of about one } i and iorty thousand dollars. -*- = — PRESENTATIVE of the Moncton Times who attended the recent celebration in ' ° +} PT ira has the following to say regardine t lor trafic there } bh} lars the otherwise altogethe p-e.sant picture of this thriving Nova Scotia toy . that is : unrestricted sale of li ihere is absolutely no restriction. A Scott Act election was held some years ago. : the temperance party triumphed ; but ix x irreguiarities in the election they enforce the lav neither Scott Act nor License t take any steps to inere Is lia ih iorce, an lany person who chooses may with impunity. As a result, a great man} 3 li TAaVErNS exist, In uldition to the bars st t tels ; and on great public occasions such as the celeb mon Tuesday last, when the towu is crowded with visitors, the number of ineuriated persons to be seen on the streets is very large, and the air in the vicinity of every bar polluted with coarse and brutal language. Here 18 ot endeavoring to repeal the scott Act in order that the aid of the local talk ficense iaW may be invoked to restrict the tratlic in some measure, but no active steps nave been taxen. That such steps cannot be Taken a day too-soun must be apparent even to those who ars anti-prohibitionists in senti- TT Tw is ever thus. _o-m +-- \CCOR DING to Bradstreets, in 1873 Canada purchased from Great Britain of $68,500,000, to the value | + later the value of our purchases was only $31,000,- and six years 000; in the same period our imports from the United States declined from $47,700, - 009 to $43,700,000, $4,000,000, as against a decrease of $37,590,000 in imports or by from Great Britain. In 1886 the value of imports from Great Britain was 840,600,- 000, a gain of ten millions, and of imports from the United States $44,800,000, a cain of one million dollars. the foregoing figures the Montreal Gazett. ‘*In the Commenting upon Savs: . intervening the | years volume of trade has fluctuated according to the condition of business in Canada: it has at times been larger and at others smaller than in the years quoted, but the tendency ‘ ’ . he old fisea! policy Lo promote linports Trou the United States and to check imports) from Great Britain and of ic: oS : the present policy to reverse that con- cadlition, is Bra street es clearly marked throughout.” in noting these facts, conclude that the United States has more to gain than to lose from the freedom of trade intercourse between the two countries, no substantial enlargement of the markets for American products in Canada having L880.” vreater oceurred since The Gazette concludes a avie article on the subject by with the Viced States must always be considerable, — Ree « or Ba +. remarking that our trade and i the aggregate wil probably increas esregate ai PPODAULIY Increase, is character has undergone a very rad ca hnoune We are hnvine: . ge. We are b lying More and nore raw products from our neighbors. cottoy eo ba ul, sore classes of provi- ' and less of manufactured goods lng the latter ourselves and so finding © ueont bome for labor and e wpital. We revolution will go on in- SiHig.y under a system o} protection, but must cease the mor he Canadi ek Coase the moment the Canadian rAGL i row bi is “rows open tu the producers of Lie United States.” | | } oct Weer ys rT rae , lee sin DAI Lu Y Fishery Notes. Tue Bella Nauss, Capt. Geo. Martin, Gloucester, has only been twelve days in the Bay. On Tuesday night last she captul . : } hundred barrels large mackere! ed one ; off East Point tbout f The Henry Morgan ‘Tarr, J. Gloucester, made three trips last stocking $14,000, This year she has been mly four weeks in the Bay, and has landed me 480 barrels prime mackerel. Within the last week she has taken 228 barrels. these were caught ul mile Graham, 5 ear, One hundred barrels of f Rank Bradley. 90 barrels off East Point, i the balance off Margaree, Cape Breton, the M. S. Ayers, Capt. Merril King, Gloucester, took in this week 100 barrels mackerel off East Point, and the Maytlower, Capt. John MeKinnon, i barrels at the same time and place The Mi ro Castle, Capt L. Nauss, Glouces ter, caught 100 barrels on Tuesday, and the Matthew M. Murray, Capt. Mike Murray, oft LD ; barrels same day. Both hes were made off Margaree. CGioucester, 4”? wash ‘ ake The Neponsett, Capt. Fry, of Boston, and Johnson, of Oscar and Hattie, Capt. Swapscott, also got a few barrels. The latter, when coming into Souris for a new suit of sails, sprang her foremast. She is now there repairing. The Jessie M., Capt. Leeming Anderson, Port Hawkesbury, N. S., got 7d barrels mackerel this week ofl Tracadie, P. E. L, and the Annie M Paint, Capt. Martin, 80 barrels off Mar The Geneva, Capt. Charles Roller, garee. of Lunenburg, also got 80 barrels at same place. The Robert Transit, Capt. Thomas White, Gloucester, lost her tlying jib-boom ind fore top-mast off East Point on Sunday night last. There were seven American fishing ves sels in Souris yesterday, and fourteen be , Island. was longing to Nova Scotia and P. E. Che cruiser Triumph, Capt. Lorway, so there. The Howard Holbrook, Capt. Charles Gloucester, bursted her seine the night before last off East Point. The seine was set around an St hool or mackerel, and it was pursed up but in drawing in the twine, was reache th the mackerel lense 1} 4 hii Tho, when the bunt made a rush, and, owing to their great bulk, bursted the whole bunt out of the seine. Latest News Notes. advocate S protect The Norti heavy duties on imported fish to German industry. German Grazett It is stated in (uebee that the local legis- lature will meet tor the dispatch of business about the first of December. On Monday m VY . .? VY 1? Newcastie, IN. D., t : Mrs. Fish, of dropped dead while in ing ready to visit . orning last, the act of gel some friends. While the man-of-war Canada was enter- ing the St. [| rence the other day one of itted suicide by jumping ne COOKS C rt 4 : a ship's side. over the \ despatch from Callao announces that an exp/osion of dynamite occurred in the m Honse there killing six persons and ‘¢ , 1 @1 injuring eiga other C. B. Ide, a Sunday School superiatend ent of riens Falls, N. y os and book-keep or of the First National Bank, confesses to a defaleation of $18,000. Editor O’Brien has America, which he among the relatives of the victims of the recent affray at Mitchellstown. £100 from distribute received intends to here are 459 persons undergoing treat ment in the St. John lunatic asylum, about 200 of whom are women. Insanity is said to be on the increase in New Brunswick. A midshipman named Doughty and five seamen on board H. M. 8S. Bellerophor were injured by the bursting of a rocket set off in honor of Lord Lansdowne, while the ship was at Quebec. The rolling stock of the Intercolonial Railway consists of 69 first-class cars; 82 second-class and emigrant cars: 11 sleepers; 42 baggage, express and postal cars; 1,529 cattle and freight cars; 1,442 flats; 1,828 hoppers; 85 vans; 164 locomotives, Another Moncton servant girl has gone wrong. On Tuesday morning she disap peared from her employer's house on Stead man Street, and with her went some cloth ing notherown. The clothing but the girl has } . has been recovered, not been ar- rested. It is reported that a Russian engineer has discovered a new explosive, which is destined to drive all existing ammunition out of use, being equal in strength to pyroxylin. It said that the Russian war office will build a special factory for its manufacture. The London Standard says that the Goy- ernment will make a fatal blunder if they defeat the purpose of the law by converting the imprisonment under the Crimes Act or any other act into a term of honorable and easy detention. The Berlin Post says that if it is true, as has been reported, that the German East Africa Company has acquired, by treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar, a large tract of territory south of Mombass, it now pos- sesses the long desired strip of coast abso- lutely necessary for the development of the country inland. ee Sporting Notes. Win. F. Robins’ mare Maud R., won the 2.50 race at Truro in 2.404, Joe Lannon is to spar an unknown fifteen rounds with two-ounce gloves for a purse of 37 OU. H. J. Kennedy, owner of the mare Nellie ., one of the prize winners at the Truro races, arrived home last evening. D. J. McDonald, of the Post partment, was sports. Otlice verry succesful at the Truro He tovk second place in the quar- ter and half mile races, and first,in the hof, | step and jump. Jas. McEachern, also of this city, won the sack race. e+ 6 ee - 'T’ -» } + Bas ‘ A ’ "> ‘ Y mse cel LiF, ; 10 O MiLDISON § ytanie Cou j PALS Li iS Neariy gone, and you cam make us another shipment of twenty-five gross. We have never sold any cough preparation that gives such universal satisfaction as Adamson’s. and the demand is constantly increasing.” Geo. C. Goodwin & Co., 38 Hanover St., Bos Lrial bottles 10 cents. dy wy lw toa. > (nearest Gray Flannels in town at Perkins & Sterns. dataieke OLp Lonpon for Oysters.—John Joy, Water Street, 2i—septls EAAMINED, “= > De- | 1 Crs, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Rev. Mer. Carruthers’ Letters. \NSWER lL. s1K, Wo, have seen and easily digested the letters aneiut Act. Ktiquette direets that the should answerthese letters. So must it needs be. the answer t No. 1. The voice of people may or rmaay not be . heralded by the election. ; now-a-days don’t always voice the sentiments. Let that be as it W hay conclude safely that written in THe EXaMineRr of the st. do not at all repre- the people, read and the Scott people tLlore 1S ihe Lleclions people Ss may, | thin the letter Orh, LOth and 12th m ent | public seutiment vegarding . the W e benevolent working of the Act ter t ilonorable Mr. Seott. Se fore enteri info any reply, we wish this to he w understood: that we answer the lea ¢ 4 . cant 1a } k i] ’ letters of the rev. gentleman who so kindly venned them without wishing to allude to The Rev. James Car ruthers is forgotten for the moment, or kindly Yemembered, if you will ; but his letters alone and uniquely do we hereby auswer : Dear Lerrer 1,—When we first saw you we hailed yeur advent with joy, concluding from the appearance of your head that something instructive, €nlightening, and, perhaps, a sprinkling of good-humored amusement was in store for us. But, this little ountain travailed as we perused you, and eventually brought forth a—tiny little funny mouse, and that’s all. You must think, dear Letter 1, that our reasoning powers are just what yeu esteem when you declare that your knowledge of the reasons assigned the Scott Act a failure meclude that we are weak that we have wrong i himself personally. i . alas ! them to be, ‘ } tor aut! } wring have leu . in the undez views, etc. Highly tain, complimentary you iave been, and we must not forget to re Great Scott who guarantecd such infallibility to a letter of your dimen- sions, and necessarily thundered such a ver dict of imbecility against your friends, Allow us privilege of making all distinctions concerning different temperance-ioving laws, and knowing just what the Scott Act is in all its meagre lank- moral influence against liquor- trafic and liquor lapping. Why, dear letter 1,1if we met you in olden times, we would say to you out of the fullness of our latin-clothed philosophy— when speak- ing upon this law (God save the mark ) and its results non est ar- qumentum., Hard facts are stern realities. tlard facts against the thesis you intend to evolve. Devil’s advucates are able men, and when you undertook to prove that the Scott Act ‘‘ Has been a success,’ you verily were saddled to the devil’s own case. You would want more than is generally found in a devil's advocate to prove your assertion’s plausibility, let alone stand by tend it as a reality, as the right conclusion to be drawn from observation of the work ing results of this Scott Act. But, then, nding you know! and our’s {, and your ‘* own firm belief’ member it. the the peopic ness as a ’ . Contra factitimn ++ " ‘ , 1% ana ac your understa } : 3 so dittere) is such a power against the general eonclu- sion of your poor benighied friends—the poople. Y, my dear letter, try, hence- forth, and treat us to something solid, don’t run away with the idea that our under- standing is what you think it is; we under- stand well what we see, and we see nothing but utter failure in your darling, the Scott Act. The Scott Act instead of beinga success ‘*by doing its utmost to remove tempta- tion out of the way of men and women, so that they would have to hunt up liquor rather than have it aiways in their path,” has just done the reverse, for not notwith- standing your ‘‘own firm belief” in the success of the Act as to the realization of your First, there is more liquor sold now than and more drunkenness under this law than your police courts know of, even were the statistics given quite currect- ly. We do not go the merits of the question of the Seott Act’s being enforced or not, but we simply say, here and now that notwithstanding your own firm belief that the Scott Act bas been & success In restricting tee liquor traflic and liquor drinking, the evil, which we deplore as much as you should, has been on an alarming increase since its introduction into the Province of P. E. Island. You know, dear Letter, that it is very hard to go and ever, into shut your eyes to glaring facts. Our assertion is so self-evident and so much opposed to your imaginations, that we are astonished that you, dear Letter, have been so blind to reality. erqumentum. The facts are against you. Yourlove of the Scott Act is not surely grounded on its success, charity and truth should meet and kiss; but charity of the kind you display towards your darling Scott Act is based upon uureality and in contra- diction with the truth. Two virtues cannot, should not, collide. So pray for light, and vote then as you like ; but, mind ye, we are more knowing than you do suppose. Grant us the privilege of understanding, or in your orisons, send up a fervent prayer that the Lord may send us aright judgment, and infuse into our intimate being a right good spirit. i ; . Contra factum non est THE Propte. Who Was Right? Sir,—I have no desire to revive the con- troversy which lately took place between the Hon. Danie] Davies and the Chairman of the Water Commissioners. Nor, indeed, would it be necessary for anyone to take up the weapons of literary warfare when laid aside by either of the parties, for both are well able to skillfully use them. When, however, a question of science is in dispute, he cannot be called an intermeddler who attempts to make the matter clearer. This, sir, is my only apology for calling attention When Mr. Davies asked, through your columns, some perti- nent questions respecting the operations then being carried on by the Commission- the Chairman, in my opinion, used scant courtesy reply. Mr. Davies | has always strong and eonsistent | tvoeate of the Waterworks, and the Con missioners should not forget that it is " | to the discussion at all. i ee ih is been a hin aud to a few other public-spirited citi- zens that they owe their existence as such, and | presume it was his great anxiety that nothing should miscarry that he took the | liberty to warn the Commissioners to take no | step but as directed and advised by their | Engineer. Mr. Davies hinted that the digging of the larger well had not beenad vised by the Engin- cer, dtid it may be fairly presumed: that Mr. | Davies had very strony grounds for enter- a I taining that opinion. He expressed a fear that-owiny to “atmospheric pressure,” and other causes, the water would not cither come to the strface, as it did in the tubes, or that it might be diverted in other directions, Should the imipervious stratum beneath be broken through, (bh ortunately no mishap has yet occurred in Gils case.) Hor that opinion an attempt was made to make Mr, Davies appear ridiculous before the public, and his use of the term ** atmog« pheric pressure” held up as the sheerest nonsense. Professor Wim. Ripley Nichols, of the Massachusetts Institute of Teechno- ‘On Drinking Waterand Public Water Supplies,” speaking of open wells says: ‘*The height to which water will rise de pends upon the height of the line of saturation of the water-beariug stratum, at least in a measure; owing to friction; fo resistanae of air, and sometimes to leakage in the upper strata the water will never rise to the height of its source.” logy, Just as Mr. Davies said, and for which he was so roundly abused, Mr. Tidd, I opine, will agree with Professor Nichols, whatever the Commissioners may think to the contrary. Inspired by the false and perhaps still more by the grand flourishes of rhetoric indulged in by the Chairman of the Water Commissioners, Business ’’ appeared on thescene tosmite, as he thought, a discomftitted and a fallen man and twitted Mr. Davies as being fond of reverting to his past career as a business man. ‘To ** Business” I have but one word to say in reply: that Mr. Davies has always been recognized in this communty as a gen- tleman of honor, integrity and _ public spirit ; that he has passed through suffering and trials which falls to the lot of but a few men,and thatit ill-becomes ‘* Business” or any unfeeling newspaper scribbler to in- sultim in his declining years. It would be well for all men of business to so conduct their affairs, that they may look back with the same pleasure and satis- untarnished and Honorable Daniel conclusions, “s faction upon a record as unspotted as that of Davies, GC... A Youne Man. Yours, KINGS COUNTY CAH 1887, W ILL be held in Georgetown, CRide> runes On Piursday, 29’h Sept., Inst. Live Stock will be received at * ofiice, near Market House, until 11 o'clock, a.m, on Exhibition Day. Articles for Exhibition in the Drill Shed musi be entered by 10 O’ciock, forenoon, on 29th inst., as nothing wi.) be received after that hour. \lliwhe can do so are requested to bring in their exhibits on Wednesday afternoon \rrangements have been made for reduced vres on P.jk. IL Railway, and also on steame1 Montene. tiis Honor the Lieutenant the Exhibition at one o'clock, p. m. NTRLES for Governor will open FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1837. Perkins & Sterns FALL Have much pleasure in intimating to their numerous customers that their New Goods for this Season’s Trade Perkins & Sterns Sept. 16—dy & wky nir ne DILIUN, Provirion will be made for the maintenance of Or dad orde Admission to Cattle Show Grounds ond Exhi bition suilding, 1° ce.ts; children under twelve years, haif price. lor further particulars see prize lists. j GEORGE F. OWEN, Secretary. Cardigan, P. E, I., Sept. 16, 1887, j i sep16 2i wky li Pt. SLND RUILWAY, TO CONTRACTORS. QrALED TENDERS, addressed to the under- ~ signed and inarked **Tender,” wiil be received until SATURDAY, Sept. 24th inst.. for the work of moving the freight shed, on the wharf at Cape Traverse, from the east to the west side of wharf. Pien and specification may be seen at the Superintendent's office, Charloitetown. Each tender mast be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5° per cent. of the amountof the Tender, which will be torfeited if the party ten- dering neglects or refuses to enter into a contract when Called upon to do so; or, if after enter.ng into the contract he fails to complete the we rk satisfactorily, according to the plan and specifi- cation lithe tender is not accepted the deposit will be returned, Tae Department does not the lowest or any tender. J. UNSWORTH, Acting Superintendent. Railway Office, Ch’town, Sept. 16. 1886 sepl6 Ul 23, pat wky her jour pio union li bind itself to accept Mortgage Sale TO be sold by Publiee Auction at the Court House, in Charlottetown, on WEDNESDAY, the i9th day of October, A, D. 1887, at the hour of eleven o‘clock in the forenoon, by virtue of e Power of Sale contained inan In- denture of Mortgage. dated the eighth day of January, A. D, 1883, and made between Angus MeCormsck and Isabve:la MeCormack, his wife, of the one part and Juseph Hensley and Robert Kobinson Hodyson, trustees for John Libenrood of the o: her part. A LL that tract, piece and parcel of land situate +4 lying and being at Big Cape, Lot forty-two in King’s County, in Prince i.dward Island, bounded and described as fo lows, thatisto say: On the North by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the Kast by the west boundary line of land in the possession of Fidelus McDonald, on the south by land in the possession of Hugh McDonald, and on the west by lend in possession of Elizabeth McCormack, including an area of sixty-five acres of land, a little more or less, together with alt buildings, fixtures, rights, ‘easements, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging. For further particulars apply at the office of Edward J. Hodgson, Solicitor, Charlottetown. Dated this 16th day of September, A. D., 1887. JOSEPH HENSLEY, R. R. HODGSON, irustees for Jno, Libenrood, Sep. 16,—oaw till sale and wély. uction Saie. -—— House and Premises. | AM instructed by the trustee of the estate of Jolin Hughes to sell by Auction THUKSDAY, September 22nd, at 12 o’clock, noon, on the premises, that convenientiy situated Two Dwelling House, with Mansard roof on Sydney Street, oppocite the residence oc WwW. Findley, Esq, Good title with immediate possession will be given. Terms at sale, Story A. MCNEILL, Auctioneer. Sept. 15, 1887, are ts A TA 4 F . MR.E. CARMODY WIISHES toinform his Customers that he has removed to Kent Street, opposite Rochford Square, where he is prepared »to supply them eds & Worsteds—4,000 Wards with good, fresh Oysters, wholesate amd ictal, seph, 1>—-Jl evd pu i are now to hand, and all departments are now filled up with the Latest Designs and the Newest Fabrics at the very Lowest Prices. a BEER Novelties Novelties Novelties Novelties Novelties BROS. in Dress Goods. ny Wartles, im Wool Goods in Fur Goods in Faney Goods. FALL Colored Moire Plush. Colored Checked Plush, Colored Fancy Plush, Colored Plain Plush. Dress Goeds Ebress qGnoods ! Dress a { ! Press Goods! Ch’town, Sept. 14, 1887. {noods | BEER BROS. i | T'we | OMI, | Flauuels, Tweels & W ee 12,000 Yards EXTRA VALUE, Selling Cheap for Cash AT THE LONDON HOUSE. — ema 4 RT —_— ~ 8000 Vards Flanre!---Scarlet, éaray, White and Navy. 0. ee & STEWART. SUCCESSORS TO Geo. DAVIES & HARRIS Co. 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The calculation of the Train is such that this Watch others These are improvements that cannot be claimed by any other manufacturers, runs 8 to 10 hours longer thas , With one winding, giving more uniform power and rate. and once sgen, all must agree with us in saying that this is the strongest and best Watch made ; with all the above improvements, the Columbus Watches cost no more than others. August 1G -2uw & wky ; G. H. TAYLOR, Jeweler, Charlottetown, P. E. Island: —