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wo 1 1 HeRRIN 1) bbls. and half bi f+ ited fish warranted,

and for sale low at A. E. Yuill’s, 65 Queen St. tebv6 41 pd >

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nal for fat , by means of flegs, will be in- augurated the Canadian Pacitie Railway in | :

the spi

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can Telegra} pany is placing electric hells in the different public offices in the new

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o'clock. will be one of Mr. Shenton’s best. Don't fail to b 1e1 Admission 15 cents; proceed ' ’ purposes, o

We have been informed that the Charlotte- town (ras L { npany intend applying to the Provincia! Levislature at its next session for an act to enable them to manufacture and

light im addition to gas. envuiacssiiala cain lecture in the

euppiyv elect ers

Lyceum on

Don't forget the

Monday next. Rev. Dr. O'Ryan, of St. Dunstan's College, is the lecturer, and the subiect. ‘* Christianity and its Founder,” ia to be treated froma p ire lv non-sectarian stand point de

THE assessinc ~ Montreal was 8U4,500,000 |

in 1880, and $75.00,000 in ISS86, an increase 1n

years of 16} per cent. Lhe asse

f Halifax in 1880 was $12,468,520, and in ih &))} 98LL.ooo ni rease of $65 j**

si aiiasen ieaaeaiaaiioe J Printing ry description done at tHe EXAMINE) fice We have new clear type the best mak ft presses, the cheay st now } k ’ first-class workmen. VV have one of the best fitted offices for Job Work in the Province. Send in your orders.

evita nies on FuNxERAL Nottce.—The members of St.John

und Victoria Lodges are requested to meet at |

Masonic Hall, Water Street, to-morrow (Sun day) 27th inst., at 1.30 o'clock sharp, for the purpose of attending the funeral of their late Wm. E. Hickey. Transient breth ern al rrdially invited to attend.—By order. alcatel I R Josey: Cook recently told a Chicago audience that ‘‘we must take journal and if we do not, break its ck and choke its sensational utterances Some of the papers began the work of reform at once by discontinuing the publication of reports of Cook’s lectures. He probably didn't mean that.

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A spectaL meeting of the Benevolent Irish Society will be held in their Hall, on Tuesday evening, March Ist, 1887. As all the business in connection with the Society during the year, ending March 10th, 1887, will be finally elosed on the above date, it is earnestly re- «nested that-a full attendance of members be present John Hennessey, Secretary.

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Tus Duke of Westminster has made a geod thing out of his former regard for Mr. Gladstone and his present disapproval of him. Mr. Avnew paid Sir John Millais £1,050 for Mr. Gladstone’s portrait and sold it to the Duke for £1,200. The latter las now sold it to Mr. Tennant for 3,000 guineas, thus clearing a modest £1,950 by his altered political appreciation of Mr.

Gladstone.

— ~@_-—- ZADKIEI predictions for the month of Maréh next are as follows:—There will be

itement in England, bitter

great p iti liament, talk of war, and an in

debates in »

Cease of army Scottish affairs will become ent led, : the land question will Cagse «lis; nd more than one Scottish banking | be in difficulty ; Germany Will suili ; martial fever, and her ruler

will be afflicted nigh unto death; at St.

Petersburg and Moscow, incendiary fires and |

M8assinations will be rife; the Chinese will become martially excited, and toward the cloge of the month an epidemic (smallpox or scarlet will visit England, and deaths hy ac ind violence

i be unusually numer- ous. Canada, about the 20ta,

turbed by quarre ls Tr a United States violence and turbulence will reign in some of the cities. The 6th will be a fortunate anniversary for builders, miuers, farmers and mariners

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Apvice to Motners.— Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used when Chtidren are cutting teeth. It relieves the little suiferer at once; it produces natural Uile sleep by re

and the little shrub awakes as “bright as a t

button.” I ery pleasant to taste. I soothes t! iid, softens the gur *, allays all pain, eyiia t wwels, and is the best <town remedy for ther cea, whether arising from te yg other causes. Twenty-five

Cents a bi Be sure and ask for Mes.

Winslow's Suutid Syrup, and take no other

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will he dia. | ind turbulence, and in the |

lieving the child from pain; |

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PRLEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hv RIBL. EAR TEOUAKE WHOLE TOWNS DESTROYED,

HUNDRERS KILLED.

‘Thousauds suffering.

Lonpon, Feb. 25

| A despatch from Nice says another earth- |

qu ike was felt there | slight shock. The following. official list of (killed and wounded is Rome: Bejardo, 300 } 250 killed; Bressano,

to-day. It was a

received from Siled; Diane Mairana, 50 killed; Castlelavo, | 30 killed and many injured; Diano Castello, } 00 killed and 36 injured. In the Province jot H rto M LINnzio, d70 people were killed jand 156 injured. In the Province of |Senoa 354 were killed and 37 injured. | Bejardo and Diano M imma were destroy: d. Cervo was damaged badly. A number of ichurches were thrown down. Paris, Feb. 25

The hotels here are crowded with fugi tives from the Rivie ra. \ number are Sutfering from illness caused by friglit.

Lonpon, Feb. 25.

Despatches from Genoa say the populace slept out-dodrs last night, Many persons went on board ships in the harbor ; 20,000 persons fled from the eity by rail.

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Death of Bishop Blanchet.

Vancouver, W. T., Feb. 26. The Right Rev. A. M. Blanchet, Bishop |of Ibora, died this morning m the Hospital! j of the Sisters of Providence, aged 90 years. Bishop Blanchet was born on the 22nd of August, 1797, at St. Pierre, Riviere du Sud, and wasa son of Peter and Rose Blanchet. He was ordained Priest on the 3rd of June, 1821, and was appointed a

missionary in the Magdalen Islands and Cheticamp in_ the following year. The Reverend yentleman

was consecrated Bishop of Walla Walla on the 27th of September, 1846, and was ad- ministrator of the dioceses of Port Halland Colvill. He removed his See to Nasqually on the 3lst of May, 1859 and resigned it in 1879, when he was appointed Bishop of Ibora. Asa provisor he greatly promoted both the spiritual and temporal wants of the people. He was a lineal descendant of the first inhabitant of Quebec, Louis Her- bert.

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Result of the Election.

Orrawa, Feb. 25. The Opposition papers are amusing read- ling just now. They are making desperate efforts to prove that the Government has nothing like the majority claimed, and to

t |do this they rank Sir Donald Smith, Girou-

lard, Desjardines, Coursol and several others as opponents of the Government. My statement yesterday of the majority is reduced one by Coller haying been returned for Haldimand

The Queen's Jubilee.

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Orrawa, Feb. 25.

Election day having come and gone, peo- ple in this part of Canada are beginning to lturn their attention to the celebration of | the Queen’s Jubilee.

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Amendment Rejected.

Lonpon, Feb. 25. The House of Commons to-night, by a vote of 261 to 92, rejected Parnell’s amend- ment exempting from cloture the Com- mittee on Supply.

4driaties Arrival.

LiverrooL, Feb. 26. The steamship Adriatic arrived here to- day. Mr. A. W. Sterns, of the firm of Perkins & Sterns, Charlottetown, was a passenger.

The Bench.

Frepericton, Feb. 25. Mr. E. L. Wetmore, late member of the Local Opposition, has been appointed to (a judicial position in the Northwest.

Agrarian Trou bles.

Lonpon, Feb. 35. Mr. Gladstone has made a permanent reduction in the rents of the larger farms at Harwarden.

To Be Tried Again.

Dusit, Feb. 25. | Dillon and his associates in the conspiracy case will be tried again in April.

Dying. . Ae

tome, Feb. 25. Cardinel Jacobine is dying.

Weather Bulletin.

Toronto, February 26—10 a.m. Fine and cold to-day, winds shifting to east to-morrow and higher temperature.

Amanda Gary, a colored woman of Spar- tanbug, S. “,, went to sleep on Thursday week and has not yet awakened. Her breathing is regular and general condition normal. She has taken neither food nor water for seven days, is unable to exercise

soything said to her.

her will, and does not seem tu undevetand at that mea).

OPDS AND ENDS.

It is said that Queen | perty in the Distriet of Columbia.

Last week ten prisoners were punished at the pubhe whipping post in Deleware.

| ‘The quarrels of lovers are like summer

| storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

Boulanger, the name of the French war

| leader, means ** baker.” He threatens to

; ake Germany's cake all dough.

\ man has found gold in small quantities in San Diego, Cal. ‘Well, most men find (gold in very small quantities—that is, if | they fiml it at all.

Mr. Manning, as ‘treasury, gets a salary of $8,000. Mr. | Manning, as secretary of the new bank in

New York, gets $15,000.

} secretary vl tne

Samuel Murfitt, of Tipton, England, has

e to-morrow at 4 A ifrigch ‘ ed a a2 wit ives just died. He was six feet one inch in height,

and measured 100 inches around the waist, and weighed 560 pounds.

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| HH. B. Hayes and wife, of Battle Creek,

Mich., while living in a tent near Jackson lle, Fla... recently, were chloroformed wy

irglars and robbed of 81500.

John Fox, while tobaganning near Dur- and, Wis., ran against a cowand tripped The cow fell upon him and injured him so severely that he may die.

her up.

A Cuban town prides itself upon having 11 women over 100 years of age, but the name of the opera company whose ballet troupe disbanded there is not given.

At a “‘poverty social” in Camden, Mich., a few evenings ago, Frank Wilder drew a prize of Si for having the most patches on his trousers, the number being about 1,200,

Indiana editor ‘The battle is now opened,” But

the compositor sptlt ‘*‘battle” with an ‘‘o,” “y hgs readers say they have expected it all along.

An enthusiastic wrote:

alas !

Impecunious Lover— ‘Be mine, Ainanda, and you will be treated like an angel.” Wealthy Maiden—‘Yes, I suppose so. Nothing to eat and less to wear. no. 3 thank you.”

‘* Johnny, I have discovered that you have taken more maple sugar than I gave you.” ‘* Yes, grandma, I've been making believe there was another little boy spend- ing the day with me.”

Mrs. Henry Wood, the novelist, died a few days ago at the age of sixty-seven. Per- haps the best known of her novels is East Lynn, the dramatization of which has made it familiar to everybody.

Mr. Labouchere thinks the Queen could not mark her jubilee by a more graceful and popular act than writing an open letter to the Irish landlords calling upon them to treat their tenants humanely.

On one street in Bluehill, Maine, less than half a mile long, live 15 widows. There is only one house on the street in which there is not a widow, and that is occupied by two maiden ladies.

A woman who killed her babe and then committed suicide in Cincinnati, last week, is declared to have done it while in a sort of frenzy, brought about by brooding over de- tailed accounts of a similar tragedy.

Poor Darwin felt to the day of his death that his theory was incomplete because he had not discovered the missing link. Had he lived a little longer he might have seen the Charlottetown dude and died happy.

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I did not put any pepper on that cut of veal pie, George, but 1 did on the others,” remarked Mrs. Junior to her husband at dinner. ‘* Didn’t you, dear?” he retorted ; then it was the most uncayenned cut of all.”

Annie Marshall, a well-known woman in New York, is under $18,000 bail, on a charge of robbing a well-known business man of $150,000 in valuables, while he was visiting her. The matter is a mysterious secret.

A hen 18 years of age departed this life at Oskaloosa, lowa, the other day. The owner was probably raising it for a restau- rant and was so disappointed by its prema- ture departure that he had to tell the newspapers.

There is a church in QIney, Hl., without a hypocrite in it. The other Sunday the clergyman invited the hypocrites to stand up and show themselves, and nota single person arose. The pastor must have been greatly pleased.

Metz is perhaps the most agitated of ail cities on the continent. Her young men, faithful to France, and fearful of being drafted jnio a fight against her, are moving away, and whole families hold themselves in readiness to start at any time.

‘It’s been given out that my daughter was married,” said a gentleman near Grif- fin recently, ‘‘but 1 want to state there ain't no truth init. Such talk as that will keep the young men away. She ain’t mar- ried at all, but is just as willin’ as ever.”

A modern journal says ‘going to bed on

an empty stomach is agood way to invite sleeplessness.”” Another medical authority says that ‘‘eating just before retiring pre- vents sleep.” The only alternative seems if a man wishes to get a night’s sleep, is to go to bed without his stomach.

Four young lads of Essex, Vt., named Hanley, Perrigo, Myers and Ladon, started one morning recently for Texas to join the cowboys. ‘They took their guns and _bag- gage and trudged off on foot. About six o'clock the same evening they returned to their homes, hungrier, sadder and wiser boys.

‘fen years ago Miss Julia A. Malcolm, a school teacher at New Haven, Ct., had jokingly presented to her by a friend a deed of certain lands in Colorado, which at the time were considered worthless by the owner. She had nearly forgotten the mat- ter, when, last week, a letter came from Colorado offering her $250,000 for the land, a rich mine having been discovered on it, The offer was accepted.

At the inquest following the sudden death of Henry Jost, of St. Louis, his wife testified that for 18 years ‘“‘he had been full.” It was aday to be remembered when he was sober. He began drinking whiskey in the morning and kept it up all day. He never ate but one meal a day, ‘and that was supper, and he ate very little He lived on whiskey, til at

fav it burned Yhe life dub of htm.

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Salisbury ‘o Ingalls.

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Victoria owns pro- | Oh, Ingalls, stay thy ruthless hand !

Have mercy on our stricken land, And let Old England try ber might

| In showing thee she can do rivht !

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A thousand years our country s stood, A monument to earthly good.

And wilt thou, with one cruel blow, Lay all our pride and beauty low ?

, Oh, do not in your irate haste

Make all this land a bloody waste ! Leave—leave our virtuous Queeen her crown, And do not tear our cities down !

Respect our statutes and our age !

Respect our place on history's page !

"Tis true that our offence is great,

But sweetest vengeance is not hate.

Forgive, oh Ingalls, please forgive,

And in thy mercy let us live ! The British lion is at thy feet,

A suppliant for thy kindgess, meet ;

His tawny mane is ashentpale ;

Oh, Ingalls, do net twist his tail!

Look on us from thy dizzy height

Of martial glory, wondrous might,

And let our punishment be mild !

A mother crying to her child

Is our appeal. Oh, take the earth,

But spare the land that gave your's birth.

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pte Y. M. C. A. Bazaar Committee intend holding their sale of useful and fancy articles on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, April 13th and ith. Contributions will be gratefully received by— Mrs, SHENTON, President. Mrs. J. J. Davies, Mrs. Hensley, Mrs, G. Brem- ner, Vice Presidents, Mrs. Poole, * Mackinlay, * J. M. McLeod, * Whitman, a Carruthers. ris

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Mrs, Lewis, Miss Shenton, ** Hensler, Dawson, F. Weeks,

D. MacNeill, * $. Mutch, Unsworth, ** Mutch, Montgomery, G. Brown, Nei: Macieod, “* Laird

Alice Weeks, G. Macleod, B. MacNeill, Gidley, ** Makinlay. Mrs. W. W. Stanley,

ELIZA MacNEILL, Secretary.

B. Heartz,

Feb, 8—tl sale 3aw tu th sat

TENDERS.

TPENDERS are hereby requested for the con- struction of aS fON KE CHURCH in Sturgeon. Pians and Specification may be seen at the office of Messrs. Stirling & Harris, from Satur- day, the 26.h February, to Saturday, the Sth of March, Tenders to be sent in not later than the 9th day of March. The lowest or any tender wili not necessarily be

accepted. STIRLING & HARRIS, Architects, Feb. 23. 1887—t] march 3

Notice of Meeting.

THE General Annual Meeting of the Share- holders of the MERCHANTS BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, for the election of Directors and* receiving a statement of tbe affairs of the Bank, will be held at the Banking Oilice, on THURSDAY, MARCH 8rp, at the hcurof ELEVEN o'clock, a. m,. Proxies for voting must be left with the Cash- ier on or before Tuesday, March Ist. By order, ¥. MITCHELL, Cashier. Feb. 10—tu th sat tl mar 3

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JEWELRY STORE

PREVIOUS TO STOCK-TAKING,

$13 Watclies for $10.

$4 Clocks for $3,

$3,25 Silver-plated Cruets for $2.50 Brooches and Rings from 20cts, up. Other things in like proportion. Old Stock Regardless of Cost.

Tea Pots at Half-price.

Sale from lst to 28th Feby.

Positively for Cash Only

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E. W. TAYLOR,

CAMERON BLOCK. Jan, 31, 1887--eed & wky 4 wks

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QTRA YED OR STOLEN—A Young Red [Dog, WwW with white breast and white tip on fore paw. The party finding him will be rewarded by apply- ing to James Reddin, Great George were ks eb 24 ol

I Os'T—Yesterday, between Cameron Biock and 4 Old Bank Building, a Five-dollar ($5) Gold Piece and a Locket, containing portrait of rela- tive, both attached to a gold clasp. The finder wil. be rewarded by applying at this office. feb 24 3i LOst-02 Wednesday morning, between Dr Hobkirk’s house and St. Peter’s Church, a small Bunch of Keys. Will the finder kindly leave them at THE EXAMINER Office. feb24

T° LET—The Dwelling House lately occupied by the subscriber, situate on the corner of Prince and Dorchester Street. Apply to T, ©. Robins. feb19—2aw tf

WANTED—A Clerk who has had several! years experience, and who is capible of taking charge of one of the best departments of a dry goods store in the city. Address: P. O. Box No. 24. febl9 3i

T° LET—A House on Douglas Street, West, containing 7 rooms, all in good repair; pos- session given immediately. Apply to James Bradley, Great George Street. feb18 2aw tf

O LET—A House and Outbuildings and 6 Acres of Land, known as “Maryfield,” situated on

| Malpeque Road, adioining the premises of Mal-

-PEBRUARY 26. 1887.

E. W. TAYLOR'S}

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9 bi ¢2 LONUUN HSE CLOTH REMNANTS.

We havea lot of Remnants of Tweeds, Trowserings, &c¢., which we are selling at very Low Prices before Steck- taking.

HARRIS & STEWARP.

Jan. 18, 1887.

G. H. HASZARD,

BROWN’S BLOCK, QUEEN SQUARE.

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Bookseller, Stationer, Printer, Bookbinder.

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N OW in Stock, a full line of the best English and American office STATIONERY of all AN kinds, for merchants, lawyers, government offices, banks, aud ladies’ and gentlemen's private use.

NOTE, LETTER and FOOLSCAP PAPERS, in all kinds of qualities and prices, ranging from the very cheap to the best English Vellums.

ENVELOPSAS,

in All Sizes and Prices. Writing and Copying INKS—Stafford’s is the best, in all sizes; but always keep in stock Carter's, Stephen's, Walker's and David's. BLANK BOOK DEPARTMENT- -Day Books, Journals, Ledgers, Minute Books, &c.; also, a complete line of Pocket Books, Ladies’ and Gent’s Purses, Memorandum and Pass Books, Time Bocks, Bill Books, Invoice Books, Letter Books, &c., always in stock.

I have now in stock a splendid line of Papers for Blank Books of all sizes, which will be made to order, in any style, at very Low Prices.

Ruling, Printing and Sinding, : to suit any kind of business.

A Large Stock of SCHOOL STATIONERY, SCHOOL BOOKS, &e.

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G H. HASZARD,

BROWN’S BLOCK, QUEEN SQUARE. Ch’town, Jan. 27, 1887.

BEER "y BROS.

HE Subscriber, being obliged to enlarge and refit his store to accommodate his rapidly increasing trade, will sell his extensive stock of Gold and Silver

WATCHES, CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, VASES, LUSTERS, MANTLE SETS, SPECTACLES, &c., &c.,

AT A REDUCTION OF FROM

Ten to Twenty-Five Per Cent.

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Sale to commence FEBRUARY Ist, and continue for six weeks. -FOR CASH ONLY

W. W. WELLNER,

colm McLeod, Esq. For further particulars upply to J, G, ty at St, Vinvent’s Nursery, Taos ti

North Side Queen Square. “Ch’toway Jam Oy 897 —end why 4 wks ‘