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To-morrow is Palm Sunday.

You may have letters written by clerks if you wiil; The falsified dates rebuke Thomas stil),

THe Albert left Georgetown for Pictou this morning, with freight and about thirty passen-

gers.

You may ‘‘ Chance” to deceive with the Glass if you will, No, Z on the boxes ix visible still. THE snow pleasant jaunting people to-day.

which fell yesterday afforded to many of our towns-

In fature the able Philosopher will Have plenty of time ‘‘for to” study S. Mill.

Tue Regular Monthly Meeting of ‘Sir John A.” Hook & Ladder Co. will held in their rooms on Monday evening next, at 7.30.

Traduce your opponents as much as you will, The grate swindle odor’s perceptible still.

Tue mails crossed to and from Cape Trav erse to-day. The bags for this city may be expected late to-night.

He may tell you, elected he must be and will; Feknows he will ‘‘ Louis” it, but cannot keep still.

Ir is said that it is the intention of one of the Grit candidates fer Belfast—it elected— to intro luce a bill relating to brimstone, the importation thereof, etc.

You may send him around to the§ rear if you will; The selling of ort contiaveth still.

Tue fish trade of Halifax with Cuba has ex- hibited mach animation during the past few weeks and it is undersiovd that prices realized have been satisfactory,

Tue ice in thet harbor is new unsafe, even for the pedestrian, though today we see many fool-hardy persons on it with teams

Change, alter and humbug accounts if you will, The profits were placed in D. & R.’s till.

Curcaco Tribune: ‘‘ There are breakers ahead for the authors and defenders of the obnoxious tariff.” Yes, and calm water and a safe harbor behind. — Mail.

Blame Burrell and Johnston as much as you will, The putrid transaction remains with you still.

We learn that Hon. Mr. Kelly, of Fort Augustus, is rapidiy recovering from his late severe sickness, and will, in a few days, be able to move among his constituents.

A FALL on A Canpipatr.—As Mr. Thomas Morris was passing the dry-goods store of W. A. Weeks & Co. this morning, a heavy body of snow slipped from the roof. He was struck by it, and instantly felled to the ground. Mr. M’s body was badly, but not seriously, shaken.

Before they coalapsed Sound (?) Donald did fill

The cellars with coal and with money his till.

Ropert MiLier was arrested on a warrant to-day, charged with driving Mr. H. Coombs’ horse through the streets of the city without Mr. H’s permission, on the 17th ult. No prosécutor appeared, and Miller was let go.

Certify your own bills ‘* correct” if you will, In future your profits will surely be nil.

A MEETING of the Licensing board was held yesbenred and licenses were granted to J. olger, Water Street, Malcolm IcLeod, Kent Street, C. Benoit, Water Street, John Murphy, Queen Street, and James Currie, Pownal Street. The Board meets again on the 23rd inst. We ma make ‘‘ revelations” as oft as we wi The mouths of the ‘‘ purista” are terribly still.

A FEARFUL accident has occurred at Bally nafeigh Convent, Belfast, Ireland. Annie O'Neill, an inmate of the convent, was putting clothes into a large boiler filled with hot wat

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Li odgson. io the Editor of the Examiner.

Sirn,—The statements in my last letter are perfectly correct.

_Mr. DeBlois received only the sum 1 men- tioned and nothing more.

‘he suit was pending forthree years and four months, and was betore the Master of the Ktolls hive times for argument :

The amount awarded to Mr. DeBlois WO b0. te Oe. se cees eaves eee $ 775 00 Interest from 8th Nov., 1871, to 3rd A Amount paid Commissioners and

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oe ae eee ee eS 464 89 Solicitor and Counsel fees.......... 453 06 I cs Si nnd ces beans 12 98 ST oso oo boo wis cha kek, 10 25 Registras’ afees.is 166k 65 5 ezes 12 49 Amount awarded for damages for

water discharged on land, $1,250,

for which Mr. DeBlois accepted 250 00

$2,133 69

The sum of $51.40, was neither paid to Mr. Deblois, nor his Solicitor, nor to any one on their behalf.

The Putriot desires to leave the matter in the hands of the public. I am quite willing to do the same.

There was no necessity to have made such false charges against the Com- missioners. ‘Thev are honorable men, and were sworn to do their duty. I hope, for the sake of the editor of the Patriot, that he thought these false charges against his _poli- tical friends were true when he made them. It is just possible to acquit him of guilt, by the judgment of charity assuming that he really knew no better—for he is a stupid fellow, and much given to blundering.

Lthink I have now effectually disposed of this matter. To ‘‘gibbet such carrion’ as the editor of the Patriot is easily done; but is poor work, and | fancy he will find it difficult to descend from the bad emin.nce on which I have placed him, as a malicious and vindic- tive slanderer.

Yours, &c., Epwarp J. Hopesoy.

March 5, 1879.

P. S.—The Patriot is quite right; I was Solicitor for Mr. Lefurgey, and I was also Solicitor for Mr. J. KR. Calhonn and Capt. Richards in the matter of their Railway suits.

E. J. H.

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Letter from Mr. DeBlois.

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To the Editor of the Examiner :

Sir,—In the ‘‘ Patriot” of yesterday I find, as mizht be expected, some very severe com- ments upon my ijetter to the Liberal-Conser- vative electors of Chorlottetown, Common and Royalty. which you kindly allowed a place in the columns of the ExaM.NER on Wednesday last.

I will not ask valuable space in your journal at this time to refute charges made in the ** Patriot” against myself; but, with your per- mission, would make a few remarks on certain paragraphs in its leading editorial, which seem to impugn the honor not merely of myself— but of my friends Messrs. Gordon, Prowse and Lelurgey.

Before doing this, however, allow me to correct a paragraph ininy letter which, through inadverteacy, upon my part, in Omitting the word ‘* accidentally,” might make it seem to convey a meaning and an idea that had not an existence in my mind. It should read thus: ** One thing is clear that the Grit wing of the late Government was completely out-general el by ‘‘the political nonentity ” and his three Conservative friends; who, ACCIDENTALLY, by

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their united action at the right time, discon) certed all the plans it (the Grit wing laid since the autumn of coastituencies of this Province well in hand to assistin upholding the reign of the Honorable Alexauder Mc- Kenzie.” Now, upon this paragraph the Patriot bases his editorial, although in point of fact it is anything bat an important one, so far as regards the object of my letter. He writes as follows: ‘‘Ihe first part asserts what Mr. DeBlois has not the smallest tittle of evidence to prove.” Well, to this I answer

er, when she suddenly lost her balance, and| that the evidence is before the public in the

fell in head foremost. feet only were visible above the water. was still alive when taken out, but the injuries sustained were of such a shocking nature that sue died soon after in most intense agony.

The grammatical sage and Philosopher will, In future for “‘ horse hire’ pay his own bill.

THIRTY-THREE years ago a representation of the ‘‘ Passion Play” was enacted at Que- bec before an immense audience. It was look- ed upon by the entire community as sacri- legious and blasphemous; but, nevertheless, the theatre was crowded to repletion. In the cru- cifixion scene, wherein the Saviour was nailed to the cross, the stage appliances and curtains caught fire, and a general stampede occurred, Upward of fifty were burned or trampled to death. This at the time, was looked upon as a special interposition of Divine Providence because of the profane character of the play, and, to this day, the singulsr conflagration 1s talked of with only shuddering thoughts. No ‘‘ Passion Play”’ has been attempted in Canada since that time.

You may see his face ‘‘ Brighton’ as much as you will, rene Dofeat is indelibly stampted on it still

Cuas. N. Beer, son of John Beer, Esq., crossed the straits on last Friday, on his re- turn home from McGill Medical Col- lege, Montreal. The following note, received from one of the professors since his return, tells its own story in reference to our Island boys when they go from home. The J. A. McDonald referred to is from Panmure :—

Montreat, March 28, 1879.

Dear Berr,—You have come ont very well, 5th in tie class, J. A. McDonald being first. You take the practical anatomy prize. The Island is to be congratulated this year.

Yours, sincerely, Wm. Oster. M.D. T» C. Beer, Ch’town.

The class referred to by Dr. Osler numbers about fifty, and is composed of second and third year men. Nine out of that number took ‘first-class honors. Mr. McDonald, a

third year man, stood first on the list, with 1411 marks, and Mr. Beer, who was in his one year, came fifth, with 1363 marks.—

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When discovered her; acts and actions openly performed on all meet She} occassions by members of the Grit wing of the

late Government during and since the Queen's County election in the autumn of 1876. With their private acts and actions in forwarding the cause of their party neither the public nor myself have here anything to do; they are matters which each individual amongst us has aright to form his own judgment on, but which not one of us hos, I think, who knows the common rules ef social life, the

j right to comment upon publicly. The Patriot

proceeds to say: ‘But if the charge is an un- justifiable one, the CoNFEssIon that DeBlois, Lefurgey, Prowse and Gordon acted in the Local Cabinet 30 as to completely out-general the Liberal members, and that their scHEMES were so laid,” ete., etc. Now, to this, I reply that no confession of the sort could in truth be made, and that ro such confession can be found in my letter, save, perhaps, inferentially through the words before quoted, which, how- ever, | contend would not bear the shadow of the meaning attached to them by the Patriot, but for the omission on my part of the word ‘‘accidentally.” Nevertheless, the editor of the Patriot is welcome to construe them as he pleases, and to say—as I have no doubt he will—that even the insertion of the word ‘‘ac- cidentally” would not change his mind in re- gard to the writer's intention. To you, Mr. Editor, and through you, to the public, I de- clare, in the most distinct manner possible, that there was no ‘‘scheming” either in the Local Cabinet or out of it, by myself and Con- servative colleagues, to plot against or destroy the Government of which we were members. The man who asserts the contrary would, to use the emphatic but harsh language of the Patriot editor (?), ‘‘ make an assertion Which is as false as it is mean, and as contemptible as it is false.” I am, Sir, etc., G. W. DeBrors. Ch’town, 4th April, 1579.

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Ar the Montreal Brigade office it, is learned that before arrangements for the grand 24th of May review can be completed, it will be necassary to know how many regiments will be present. General Smyth is warting till the money is voted to bring troops from Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec before the field can be

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Orrawa, April 4. | Ata Conservative caucus to day, Sir John is said to have stated, that no doubt the Brit- ish Government will, within three weeks, re- turn an answer directing the dismissal of Le- tellier.

It was thought the French members were pacified and would wait. ‘They appear to have merely changed tactics, and, instead of delay- ing the tariff, pwill fight it ont on the above motion. They are trying to close the tariff debate to night, but seven members just now claimed the tloer at unce, and it will probably be impossible.

In the House, to-day, Mr. Muttart said the Government would be sustained by a larger majority to-day, if they went to the people, than they have now. | He believed the present policy would Jead to reciprocity with the United States.

MontTrREAL, April 4 | The Minerve, the organ of the French Con- (servatives, is out in language verging on the treasonable, in reference to the action at Ot- tawa, anent the Letellier affair. It says: ‘‘ We have now two outrages instead of one, that’s all; and the young man who represents the Queen at Ottawa, is no better than the pirate Forban who represents the Queen at Quebec; and yet England asks our affection.”

BAVENL, April 4.

It is stated that an anonymous letter has been received, giving warning that an at- tempt will be made to assassinate Queen Vic- toria between the frontier and Tami. It is believed that the sole object of the writer was to embarrass the Government, but every pre- caution will be taken to ensure the Queens’ safety.

Lanore, April 4.

The hitch in the negotiations is caused by Yakoob Khan demanding to be» guaranteed possession of the throne, which is impossible.

Rancoon, April 4.

It is reported that some powerful chiefs have renounced allegiance to the King of Burmah. This ae will be represented as the result of British intrigues, and may precipitete the crisis. Some Burmese war vessels are stationed on the river with the in- tention of preventing the British residents at Mandalay from escaping by water.

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To the Elee Common and Reyalty:

¥ ENTLEMEN,—Having been nominated at a large meeting of merchants, me- chanics, farmers, and other electors of Char- lottetown, Common and Royalty, representing both parties in Dominion politics, to run in conjunction with Mr. L. H. Davies, for the Local Legislature, | beg to state that 1 have accepted the nomination.

If elected my best efforts will be directed to have the Law for the Registration of Voter: so amended that no elector may be deprived of his privilege as a British subject, in recordin, his vote. 1 believe that by strict econom) and retrenchment in the various department: of the public service, the expenditure of thy Province can be so reduced as to bring it with- inthe revenue, without resorting to direct taxation; and any measures having for their object the reduction of the taxes, or the repeal of the Assessment Act, if that be found pos- sible, will have my willing support. he state of the Provincial finances, as well as the depressed condition of all branches of trade, demand the strictest economy and retrench- ment. Certain members of the present Gov- ernment having declared their intention to place Charlottetown under the Assessment Act, I shall strenuously oppose any such measure. ‘That Act was placed upon the Statute Book to defray the expenses of main- taining the roads and bridges of the country. The City taxes itself for that purpose, and it is, therefore, unjust that it should be compelled to contribute to aservice trom which it derives no benefit.

Charlottetown contributes largely to the general revenue by its consumption of duitable goods. This revenue is repaid the Province in the shape of subsidy. ‘The subsidy is also largely made up by the 80 -cents per head of the population. It will, therefore, be my duty to see that Charlottetown gets a fair share of the Revenue thus derived.

Any measures having in view the improve- ment of the position of the Mechanics of this my native city, and the protection of theit indus- try by the adoption of a just Lien Law, will, I need hardly say, have my warmest support, whilst at the same time I shall endeavor to see that the rights and interests of other classes are in no way infringed upon.

Having had an experience of upwards of 25 years in business, I claim to have some know- ledge of the wants of the people. If elected, my best endeavors shall be put forth to promote their interests. My motto is country lirst, party afterward, and fair play to all.

I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Yours respectfully, THOMAS MORRIS.

Charlottetown, March 31, 1879.

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tors of Charlottetown, To the Electors of Charlotte-

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town, Common and Roy alty:

ENTLEMEN,—Having, at a large and influential meeting ot the Liberal-Con- servative Klectors of Charlottetewn, Common and Royalty, been nominated a Candidate for your suffrages at the coming General Election, i have accepted the nomination, and now solicit your support for myself, as also for my colleague, the tionorable Neil McLeod.

In tne late Government, as a Free School man, I performed that which I considered to ve for the true interests of all classes, by assist- ing to place on our Statute Books a thoroughly non-sectarian School Act. This Act, althougm it may—like most others —require amendment, has, | am pleased to believe, proved generally acceptable to every class and creed in the Proviuce, and all now cheerfully agree that its non-sectarian principle must be kept in- ‘S olate.

I rejoice that the harsh line of religious party differences has been obliterated, and that all denominations can henceforth stand shoulder to shoulder for the purpose of striv ing in unison to carry out such measures of economy and retrenchment in the Administra- tion of Governmental affairs as the changed as- pect of commercial and other business matters in the Province have rendered absolutely necessary.

Should I have the honor to be returned te the Assembly as one of your representatives, an object of mine shall be to meet all reason- able and honest endeavors that may be made to lessen the burthen of taxation; which, in the present state of general financial depres- sion, is undoubtedly necessary; and to aid any legitimate legislation that may tend to the well-being of every class in the commun- ity, and particularly of mechanics, who, as a body, through their own magnanimity, have notin the Assembly a representative from among themselves.

I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, G. W. DeBLOIs. Ch'town, March 20, 1879.--he pres ar ne 2

To the Electors of Charlotte-. town, Common and Roy- alty:

ENTLEMEN,—Having been nominated at a large aud influential meeting of the Liberal-Conseérvative party as a candidate for Charlottetown, Common and loyalty for the House of Assembly of this Province, in con- janction with your late representative Mr. George Wastie DeBlois, I solicit your support and mfluence in behalf of Mr. Deblois and my$ self at the approaching General Election.

Should you do me the honor of returni me as your representative, I shall consider it my duty to guard your interests in Parlis- ment, by advocating such measures as will most conduce to your prosperity,

In times like the present, of financial and commercial depression, | will advocate mea- sures of economy and retrenchment in every branch of the public service in order to re. lieve the taxpayers as much as possible,

Believing that the interests ot the mechanics require some consideration at the hands cf the Legislature, I shall deem it my duty to ad- vocate all legitimate measures that will tend to promote their welfare.

I have the honor to be Your obedient servant, NEILL McLEOD., Charlottetown, March 21, 1879.

_. ‘TENDERS.

EALED TENDERS will be received by the Board of School Trustees of Charlotte- town, at their Secretary’s Office, until

Monday, the 7th Day of April,

next, at twelve o'clock, noon, for the Erection of a Wooden Building,

as an addition to the Wing of the new School Building on Western Kent Street.

Also, tor the erection of a Fence to enclose the grounds in connection with said School Building. Tenders to state the price of the Fence at per foot.

Plans and specifications to be seen at the office of Thomas Alley, Esq., Prince Street, Charlottetown.

Tenders to be marked on the envelope, ‘* Tender for work in connection with School Building.”

Good and approved security will be required for the performance of the Vontract.

The Board does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. {

ISAAC OXENHAM, Secretary of the Board of School Trustees of Charlottetown. Office of City School Board, } March 22nd, 1879. j tapr7

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