etna eta AON OO COS. “Te Ie: (RR SS ae eee Se ere ee — ata an eee = eS aiken aC en AO haar! Bi ee teed 3 | 5 } : NR ERE id Sak ell Re ~~ ee ae res - ae 7 ; "| THE DAILY EXAMINER, - - THE DAILY EXAMINER. APRIL 28, 1888. Work of the Session. were passed in the Of TWENTY-THREE Acts session which c! to-day. these, fifteen were of a *‘ public nature,” involv ing for the most part improvements which experience has suggested. The power .to imprison for debt has been enlarged so that foreigners who come here may be forced to pay r debts before they leave our shores, even though a creditor may not be able to swear that they are about to depart wder to evade pay- » receive a small salary method of ment”: Sheriffs at or indemnity ; an im yroved levying distress for rent has been provided; ? authority has been obtained to extend the elephone to Murray Harbor incomparable t and Belfast,--these and many other provi- sions have been made by the Legislative Wisdom of the coun , The Government have obtained leave to receive $250,000 1: account of our claims against the Dominion. At the last moment ; | the Legislative Coun threatened to burk because the Lower w, inste ad, the S183, - 000 added to our capital at Ottawa in 1886. the Appropriation Biil, House refused to dra It’'sa newthing for the Upper House to meddle in matters of finance; and their proposition to draw from capital was not likely to be popular. The Council was treading upon ver dangerous ground, This fact dawned upon the Councillors after sundry conferences and discussions; and they beat an inglorious retreat shortly after eleven o'clock this forenvon. The bill to consolidate tothe City passed without most of theamend- the laws relating ments proposed by the Legislative Council. The suggestion that unmarried womer own- ing property shall have the right to vote was, however, adopted ; and it is provided that citizens over sixty years of age shall be relieved from poll tax, on making a atatement as.to age within ten days of the delivery the tax notice. On the whole, we incline two the opinion that the right course was pursued. The amendments concerning the City Council elections were in the right direction ; but they were crude | incomplete. A more perfect measure vu! civic reform may be pre- pared during the rec lic session. s3, accepted by a pub- and submitted at the > _——_— Se meeting next Mr. Unsworths Premotion. OrrciaL advices confirm the rumor pub- lished by Tue Examiner some days ago, that Joseph Unsworth, Esq.,, has been ap- pointed Superintendent of the P. E. Island Railway. Mr. Unsworth retains his office 0 Mechanical Superintendent, and will have larger control and greater responsibi- lities than any one who has heretofore been We the advancement he the Provincial head of our railway. congratulate him on merits so well. His appointment will, we are sure, meet the of all approval sorts and conditions of the people. Representation of Cardwell. Tue name of Mr White R. S. is men- tioned as a candidate to succeed his brilliant father in the representation of Cardwell. Mr. White has for several years a le vding | member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, of the tial political clubs in Montreal. been chief editor of the Gazette, and President of one most influen- He isa Card- well could hardly do better than elect him. worthy son of a worthy father, and > <> 0-0 ~An idea of the manner of man the Emperor Frederick is may be found in the fact that he has ordered that in prayers in church the expression *‘His Majesty Em- peror Frederick,’’ be replaced by ‘‘ Thy servant, Frederick the Emperor.” __—s—- + — In view of their vote to burk the Appropriation Bill, it is curious to note that the first man to demand his indemnity | at the Provincial Treasury after the pro- rogration was Mr. Serimgeour, followed closely by Mr. Laird and@ Mr. Rogers! If these gentlemen had had their way, there would have been no funds. : New Stock.—The Yorkshire stallion Pre- mier, recently purchased by Mr. Geo. Tweedy in the Oli Country, arrived here in the North- ern Light to-day. Premier is a rich bay with black points, is five years old, and stands sixteen hands high. Mr. W. B. Robertson’s Clydesdale stallion Trojan, purchased from Wm. Rennie, Toronto,which was bred by R. & J. Finlay, Baillestoue, Scotland, and imported to Canada last August, »lso arrived. Trojan is brown in color, only three years old, and is, taken all in all, a splendid specimen of @ Clydesdale. Both animals were greatly ad- mired by those who saw them. We trust the enterprise of the gentlemen who imported them will be appreciated, iinivin Two Bonanzas.—Rufus Westsn and his son, farmers, living near Beaver Falls, Penn recently ploughed up in a field an old can that contained a number of zold coins, amounting in all to $325. Most of the coins bear dates of forty and fifty yearsago. At Finlay, Ohio. , + some boys found a handkerchief containing 36 gold rings, valued at $200. in a bird’s nest in the roof of a railroad bridge. - OLp Foiks’ Coxcerr important chances have been made in the programme of the Old Folks’ Concert. Mr. Rice, the talented tenor from Glasgow (Nova urbs), has kindly con- sented to sing, and a treat may be expected. Other changes equally important have been made, and the Hal! should be crowded to hear this, the most charming Concert given for years in our city. IMPoRTANT,.— D ge at 7. ; coors open at 7.30 (and uot on Monday evening, for the Old Folks’ Varia. Prince Alexander of Battenburg and Princess Victoria of Prussia are the cen- tral figures in a Royal love romance which | has provided Europe with a new sensation. | It seems the Prince and Princess were do- | sirous of being married, and that the Em- | peror and Empress were ready to consent 'when the course’ of true love was sudden- ly checked by Prince Bismarck, who, a few ld »ys after hearing of . the proposed mar- riage, tendered his resignation, and caused ‘the postponement of the scheme. The ‘German Chancellor points out that the pro- | jected betrothal would, if it took place, be jacomplete departure from the system of }German policy built up during the past |twenty years; that he would, therefore, no |longer be able to bear the full responsibi- | lity, but must lay down his office if, con- itrary to his advice, the betrothal takes place. A great hubbub has been made, and ithe probabilities are that the little love jwhich is supposed to exist between Bis- }marck and the Imperial family will entirely disappear. * Every one knows of Jenny Geddes, the Scottish fishwife, whose objection to a lit- urgy was so great that in 1637, in the High Church of St. Giles, Edinburgh, when the Dean commenced the service, the old vixen launched her stool at his head, bawling out, ** The deil colick in the wame of thee, thou false thief! dost thou say the Mass at my lug!” The Scotch have lately erected a monument to her memory. In 1661, when the people of Edinburgh were rejoic- ing over the accession of Charles IT. to the throne, this sameJenny Ged les, who twenty- four years before threw her stool at the Dean's head, showed her conversion to loy- alty by contributing the materials of her green stall, her baskets, shelves, forms, and even her own wicker chair to augment a bonfire kindled in honor of His Majesty's coronation, and the proceedings of his par- liament. Certainly, Jenny Geddes was a remarkably eccentric old soul, though I am of opinion that there are still to be found people every bit as eccentric, and holding similar foolish ideas. >= . * At present the members of the Imperial Parliament are not paid anything by way of indemnity, but formerly it was not so, for they were paid not by the Government but by their constituents, and besides the usual present of a horse to carry them to parliament, were entitled by a statute of Edward I1., to four shillings a day if they represented a shire, and half that sum for a borough. The famous Andrew Marvell, member for Hull, in 1661, is said to have been the last to receive parliamentary wages. Occasionally the electors were able to strike an economical bargain. As an instance we are told that John Strange, member for Dunwich, in 1463, agreed with the burgesses of that town to take his wages in red herrings, 1 further learn that in the same reign the eitizens of York, being anxious that the dignity of that ancient corporation should be .properly represented, agreed that their members should be allowed four shillings a day if they kept a house in London during the session, but only two shillings if they went ** to board.” * © * Many of your readers have no doubt often wondered how the term Mussulman originated. It is suppoged to have been derived from the Arabic word musalam meaning preserved. According to Martinius, the Mahommedans establishing their religior, by fire and sword, massacred all those who would not embrace it, and granted life to all that did, calling them mussulmus or persons snatched out of danger, whence the word, in course of time, became the distinguish- ing title of all of that sect, who have affix- ed to it the signification of True Believer. The word’ Bosphorus or, as it should be, Bosporus, is curiously derived. It is Greek, and signifies a narrow sea, which, it is sup- posed, a bullock may swim over. Why it was first applied to the Strait of Constanti- nople is not well known. It is said that the Phrygians, desirous of passing the Thracian Strait, built a vessel on whose prow wag the figure of a bullock. Accord- ing to mythological tradition, it derives its name from the passage of lo oyer one of the Straits, so called when she was tuyned into a cow. The Bosporus, as thus ex- plained, literally signifies ‘“the passage of the cow.” + # | see a question is being raised in Eng- lana aste when the custom arose of a married woman changing her surname for that of her husband? It seems that during the sixteenth, and even at the beginning of the seventeenth century, usage appears to have been doubtful since we find Katherine Parr so signing herself, after she had been twice j}marned, and always hear of Lady Jane | Gray (not Dudley), Arabella Stewart (not ;Seymour), &. In Scotland, as is well j}known, the use and wont, which is as in | England, is not formerly recognized as legal; and a Mrs. Scott, whose maiden name was Oliver, would be described in wills and all other official documents as ** Margaret Oliver or Scott,” (net as the Saturday Review once guessed) ‘because on account of the uncertain state of their marriage laws, no Scotch woman is ever sure whether she is married or not,” but be- cause the law has never enacted that in marrying she changes her surname, and lawyers therefore doubt whether her desig- nation by her husband’s surname is strict- ly legal, and might not invalidate a legal document, or afford ground for disputing her identity. As a matter of fact, it is quite usual in villages and country districts for a married woman of the humbler classes to be known by hey own surname all her life. This is also regularly given on tomb- stones where one reads, ** Sacred to the memory of Katherine Rigg,the beloved wife of William Douglass,” or the like, to the ‘obvious “benefit of the genealogist, who, if | the lady were merely deséribed as ‘* Kather- ine, the beloved wife,” &¢., would have to enquire elsewhere who William Douglass’ wife was. In the United States it seems to be customary for @ woman to add her hus- band’s surname to her own, as in Mrs. Harriet Beecher-Stowe, and a very guod custom it seems to me to be. eS Fivty two bales of Brussels, Tapestry, Vel- vet and Scotch Carpets at Pictou, waiting the Co., Charlottetown,” This we believe is the largest shipment of Carpets that has ever been made to the Island. They are all for James Paton & Co., who do the largest Car- yet business on the Island. arrival of Island steamers, marked “J. P. & | { Provincial Legislature, THE CLOSING CEREMONIES the —— Speech from Throne. Tae Provincial Legislature closed at noon to-day. A large number witnessed the proceedings. The Guard of Honor, which consisted of one hundred, men drawn from No. 1 Battery G. A., the Engineers and 82nd Battalion, was in command of Capt. D. Stewart and the salute from Fort Edward was tired by a detachment from No. 1. Battery G. A., under Captain Passmore. The Artillery Band also took part in the proceedings. After His Honor Lieutenant Governor Maedonald and suite arrived they were escorted by the Usher of the Black Rod to the Council Chamber, where His Honor assented to the following bills :— 1. An Act to amend an Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the convey- ance of real estate by married women during their coveture. 2. An Act respecting Sheriffs. 3. An Act respecting distress for rent. 4. An Act respecting Domestic Animals. 5. An Act to amend an Act respecting Pub- lic Officers. 6. An Act to amend the Amendment Act. 7. An Act to incorporate the Monticello Hall Company. 8. An Act to enable the Minister, Church Wardens and Vestey of the Church of St. Paul in Charlottetown to erect certain buildings therein mentioned on their land in Charlotte- town. % An Act to incorporate the Emerald Branch of the Beneyolent Irish Society of Prince Edward Island. 10. An Act to incorporate the Vernon River Temperance and Public Hall Company. 11. An Act respecting Ancillary Probates and letters of Administration. 12. An Act to amend the Intestacy Act, 1873. 13. An Act to consolidate and amend the several Acts incorporating the City of Char- lottetown. i4. An Actto amend an Act respecting arrest and imprisonment for debt. 15. An Act to amend an Act entitled ** Charlottetown Waterworks Act, 1887.” 16. An Act to incorporate the Marshfield Hall Company. 17. An Act te incorporate the Charlottetown Library Association. 18. An Act to’ incorporate the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Montrose, Tignish and Klmsdale. 19. The Prince Edward Island Joint Stock Companies Act. 20. An Act to confirm the title to certain lands therin mentioned. 21. Appropriation Act, 1888. 22. An Act respecting telephone communi- cation. His Honor then closed the House with the following County Courts SPEECH ; Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Couneil : Mr. Speaker ang. Gentlemen of the House of Assembly : In relieving you from attendance in General Assembly, 1 have to thank you for the assidu- ity and zeal by which, during an unusually short Session, you have been enabled to bring your onerous duties to a close. The Session has been fruitful of measures of considerable public importance. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly : 1 thank you for the very liberal supplies which you have voted for the use of the pub- lic service, and assure you that it will be the aim of my Government to dispense them with due economy. Mr: President and Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Couneil : Mr. Speaker and Gentleyen of the House of Assembly ; ; In now concluding the Session 1 have’to ex- press the hope that under the Divine Blessing your labors will conduce to the prosperity and happiness of the people of this Province. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Gur Sireets Timely Suggestions. Sir,—The only section of our streets that can be said to be macadamized is that on Queen Street, between Peake’s and the London House. The work has been very well done un- der the Superintendenee of Mr. Douglass, with such material for making the road as he had to deal with. The foundation of the road is red sandstone (far better if it had beena harder stone), on which the macadamizing metal has beey spread. It is standing fairly well, but it has been negleéted.” My obiect in writing this letter is to cail upon the Street Committee to have the dirt and filth that has accumulated on the surface scraped off, and any ruts that appear filled with filled with fresh metal. By doing this two or three times a year the street will be good for 100 years, with a very trifling outlay. If neglected the road will be cut up and the costly work done thrown away. The conditions of keeping what has been done in good repair at a trifling cost are so simple that I am surprised the matter has not been attended to. ‘bales my late visit to Boston, in conversatien with qa gentleman fron St. Thomas, Ontario, he said St. Thomas was a cityof about the same population as Charlottetown; that they ran it with a tax of one per cent. on real estate had good side- walks and streets, which we had not. I said that macadamizing streets properly when you had to import the stone, used up a lot of money. Oh, he said, we have given up stone and use wood, it stands well, costs much less than stone, and very little noise from tratiic. He said you have plenty of wood in your country suitable for the purpose. Young janiper trees or cedar sawed into sections is the best, These blocks are putfon the street un- dressed. end up, and sume’kind of cement put in between them ; the work is done rapidly, is found to resist the action of frost, and is inexpensive. May I suggest to our City Fathers that they should make inquiry about the wood-paving system, and if approved of, adopt it. Yours truly, DanreL Davies. Chtown, 28th April, 1888. “The Ladies, God Bless Them.” Sin,—The two subjects of floralising Queen Square and treeing Her Majesty’s roadways ju Charlottetown, are now the coming events which cast their shadows be- fore. There is no real reason why Mr. Arthur Newbery’s willing hands should be tied up this summer, and the syuare turned se into ‘* ahowling wilderness,” as appearances indicate, in this year of grace, any more than in pfevious ones, unless public apathy and meanness govern (the popular instinet for garden embellishment) andthe univer- sal aptitude for a general decadence pre vails. Daniel Webster's remedy was always an effective one, on occasionsof man’s luke- warmness and indifference, and it was as sure of a practical result as its sister toast of ‘* The Queen, God bless her” is sure of enthusiasm now. When Daniel Webster spoke to the toast of ‘“‘The Ladies, God bless them,” there was no conquest im- possible with their aid, and they have never lost their place in the front rank of effective workers, as (not Daniel Webster alone) but. history can prove. Ladies of Charlettetown, don’t wait for Legislative endorsement, or the common councilman’s approbation, but enlist in this cause of adornment, in self-elected groups of ‘* two or three,” andthe Newbery banner will once more float over Queen Square in all the glory of its natural beauty. The other coming event is Arbor Day. This is essentially in the man’s department of labor. 1 have painfully seen the damages that have been done to former tree planting by mischievous or careless persons, and I deplore it ; but there is a greater danger to the life of our shade trees than from such accident, it is the superintendent’s fault who attends to the planting. Every stub left and not cut close prevents the healing of the wound, and be- comes deadwood in the form of a core, and though trees may linger awhile under these circumstances, they eventually become too disfigured for ornament and too puny for SHADE. About the Doctors. Srr,—in your paper lately, over various signatures, but evidently written by the same person, have appeared sundry let- ters all about the ‘* Doct rs.” In those letters we are told that ‘‘ quackery ” prevails to an alarming extent, This is a serious charge, and one that requires a reply. Your correspondent tells us that he has been deceived, and that through the fault of a ‘‘ Doctor” he has lost his best and truest friend. How sad! And this naturally leads us to inquire further about this melancholy case. Who was the ‘*Doc- tor,” and who was the friend? In justice to regular practitioners throughout the Island, your correspondent . should name both. Where, at any rate, does the ‘‘Doc- tor” reside? Not in the city, we are told, for there is no quackery there. W hat about the cartloads of patent medicine tat are sold monthly in the city? I venture the assertion that there is more patent medicine quackery practiced in one month in the city: than there is in the country in a whole year. -Why all, or nearly all, the patent medicines come from the city, The ** fathers of the profession ” there are, I am aware, not responsible for this kind of quackery, but the sale of these medicines goes on all the same, people not only buy- ing them but persisting in saying that they frequently cure when the skill of the regu- lar M. D. is found wanting. Put it is to the country your correspondent directs his special attention. And he even goes so far as to publish names of» places in Queen's County where the genuine M. D. may be found. What is the matter with the fellow, anyway? Has anyone not residing in the places named by him attempted to poison him? Has some one, for instance, given him adose of dynamite in mistake for a dose of salts? Some one surely must have crossed his path, else he would not rashly assert that quackery is entirely confined to the country: I have nothing to say against your City Doctors. They will compare favorably with city doctors anywhere else. And the same may be said of our Island country doctors. They, too, stand as high in their protession s3 do doctors in any other part of the world. As a preventative for his alleged ‘‘quackery,” your correspondent wants a Medical k gistry’ Act. That Act was in force in this Island not many years ago. What effect did it have? Just this. Some doctors registered and some did not. Those who did paid $5 tothe Chairinan of the Medical Board, and that was all there was about it); the Chairman did not condescend to give certificates of registration. In other words, some doctors took'the trouble to send tothe Chairman their diploma and registration fee. The diploma was returned after a while but the fee remained. Those who paid no attention to the Agi came off best, as they saved their five dollars. And this is the kind of Registry Act your cor- respondent would like to see revived. But others do not. Ss. John L. in Boston. HE ISSURS A CHALLENGE TO ANY MAN IN THE WORLD, AND TALKS AROUL HIS RECENT ENCOUNTER WITH MITCHELL. os John L. Sullivan arrived in Boston on Tuesday. Three tug boats loaded with admirers of the great pugilist went down the harbor to meet him, and he was greeted on his arrival by 5,000 people on Com- mercial wharf. After a drive to his home, Sullivan and his manager, Har-y Phillips, returned to the Herald office, where Phillips authorized the publication of the tollowjng :— ‘ ‘ John L. Sullivan chajlenges any man jn the world to fight in a “16-foot ring for any as of $10,000 side, London prige ring or Marquis of Queensbury rules to govern the battle, the battle to take place three months from signing articles, at such time and place as may be agreed upon mutually. We hereby deposit $500 to show the earnestness of our intentions and our desire to make a match,” ‘In making this announcement,” said Sul- livan, *‘I wish it distinctly understood that I prefer Kilrain or Mitchell to accept before anybody else in the wide world, Kilrain first and Mitchell afterwards. Those two men I must meet in thg ring before J die; and show them each and beth just how mych they are entitled to be ranked ag champions. | want to meet Kilrain and Mitchell’ without fail. : I want it to be understood distinctly that if the proposition to fight under Marquis of Queensbury rules with gloves, is accepted, the battle must be in a 10-foot ring. I want the ring of fair size, but not large enough for a six days’ race.” Sullivan said further : **No American can go abroad and win a battle. I won the fight with Mitchell 40 times on fouls, but the referee would not allow my claims. I gave away everything to the Englishman to get ona fight. I had to concede ‘him every point in order to get on a fight. He wanted 30 seconds time allowed ie SATURDAY, APRIL 28 188 from the moment he got to his corner after a nea knockdown, instead of 20 seconds time for a knockdown, and 1 allewed that. For the first five rounds of the battle I hit him almost when and where I wanted to. In the first round he undertook to hit me with his left, but I gave him my elbow, and it smashed his hands almost in halves. He never hada strong left hand, and that smash made it very weak. When I got through with the fight all 1 had was a black eye. This was done after my right arm was injured in the fifth round. At first, when Mitchell fell without a blow, my second claimed a foul each time. Referee Angle would not allow it. When.I saw there was no use of claiming fouls, 1 told my seconds to keep quiet. When I went into the ring I made up my mind to finish Mitchell as soon as possible. I calculated it would take me about 10 rounds to settle him from the manner in which he ran.around. The only way I could get at him was to corner him and try to double him up. He was out for a run- ning match, and not to fight.”’ After siating that before he left England he offered to meet Mitchel! in an, eight- round glove contest, and that if he did not knock him out he would give him the entire gate receipts, Sullivan says :— ‘** Now, Mitchell and Kilrain are coming to this country soon, and IJ will insist on having another battle with Mitchell anda fight with Kilrain. I will lick both of them in 18 minutes, one after the other, ii they will fight me, If I fail to do as 1 say I will gve up the fighting business forever. I feel just as young as I used to be. 1 was in the best possible condition when I went into the ring with Mitcheli.” DIED. At Big Belfast, on April 21st inst., Martin Martin, in the 77th year of his age, for mearly 20 years a member of the Eldon Baptist church. He leaves a widow four sons and three daughters to mourn their loss. ‘* Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.” Died at Flat River, on the 20th inst., Elizabeth Smith, wife of John Morrison aged 69 years, LYCEUM HALL. Great Success! Crowded Houses THE RENOWNE BOSCO, sea crcraw. The World's Greatest DEAN, VENTRILOQUIST, eer eee Two Hours of Amusement ! A Splendid Entertainment | ‘IOO-ELEGANT PRESENTS-100 GIVEN AWAY NIGHTLY. Popular prices—35, 25 and 15 cents, ap28 —2i NWOTICK. THE undersigned having received a call to go to Fifth Avenue, New York, and being compelled | te close business in this city, tenders his heartfelt | thanks to all his friends for their liberal patron- age in the past, SYLVESTER McDONALD, Barber. N. B.—Mr. McDonald and his intended bride thank their numerous friends forthe kindness shown to them while in this city. pd 1li--ap28 OLDE FOLKES’ GONGERIE 0———- This very pleasing Concert will be repeated Next Monday Evening, 30th Inst., —- ——IN Y. M. C. THE—— A. HALL. —_—)-- A Partial Change of H Programme. ae Admission 35 cents, to any part of the Hall, Doors will not be open unil 7 30 p.m. Tickets for sale at T. L, Chappelle’s and G. H. Haszard’s. April 26, 1888. —e Dress Goods, Silks, HOUSE Carpets and Oil Cloths, CURTAINS, Laces, and JANES PATON & 60, Market =quare. PURNISHINGS, &e. IN SILK AND TAPESTRY, Curtain Poles and Fittings Complete, emivoSo HH IMEN SHADES & SPRING ROLLERS, Kid Gloves, Fro Hosiery, Room Paper in Every Quality, m Four Cents a Roll upward. ILRAY'S PATENT CORTAIN STRETCHER, a&e., &e. Every Housekeeper should have a Set. JAMES PATON & CO., April 4, 1888—dy & wky BROW N’'S BLOCK, SUCCESS! mid Gilioves ! A - RO es SE Ua —_———— 0 Jusi Opened, 50 Dozen above celebrated brand of Kid Gloves, New Stud Fastening, Colored St itch Back, ONLY 80 CENTS A PAIR. eee STANLEY BROTHERS, BROWN’S BLOCK. Ch’town, April 21, 1888.—eod & wky. peor an ay SaaS iii AE ema ammeter. tmnaamenre ste oor eae cate te Se sa messes oaanaa : “% aN