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Che Daily Examiner °

OCTOBER 28, 1884.

Editorial Notee,.

—The distress at the English ship building centres in the North is increas- ing. Trade on the Tyne and adjacent districts is paralyzed. Forty ocean

steamers are lying idle io the docks at Sunderland. Most of the shipyards are closed. Public subscriptions are being

made for the relief of the laborers who have been thrown out of employment.

~—From the Winnipeg Free Press we learn that the transportation of cattle from Montana and the other northwestern states over the Canadian Pacific road has been resumed. About 45 car loads passed over it within three days of the time of writing, aud increasing shipments are promised. We hope it will not break the hearts of our conscientious contempora ries to see so apparent a proof of the adaptability of our great national high- way for drawing traffic from the Ameri- can roads and to its own line.

The Patriot attempts’ to, wriggle out of the unenviable position it occupies, with reference to witnesses in the recent Scott Act trials. By so doing, it only “adds insult to injury.” If the Stipen diary magistrate condemned the inspec- tor.—and the commissioners condemned him—-for subpeening witnesses who could not give a tittle of evidence ; why did,the Patriot parade the names before the pub- lic? irae, it can reserve to itself the ight of publishing respectable witnesses sames in such cases when it thinks pro per; but we think, in so doing, it should exercise a little more discretion.

—'lhe alleged “hard times” have not reached Moncton, New’ Brunswick, where a Times reporter, recently inoter- viewel employers of labor, aud found great difficulty was experienced in ob- taining enough workmen. The con tractors for the new city building re- quired a number of common laborers a tew mornings ago. town twice and succeeded in getting two, aud they were recent arrivals. They are paying $2.50 to $2.75 to bricklayers, $2.50 to stone masons, $1.50 to $1.60 to carpenters, $1.20 and $1.25 to laborers. These are last year’s rates. Other em ployers, in Moncton and elsewhere, have found it difficult to get encugh men, and it is safe to conclude that those, if there are any, who say they cannot get work, are of that class who do not wantto work.

— The Action ot the Grand Lodge of Freemasons for Ohio, in declaring liquor- selling a masonic crime which will be sufficient ground for the refusal of masonic fellowship, is most important, uot only as showing the development of moral sense in the world, but in its direct influence on the sqcial life of an enormous and universal social organization. The principle once enunciated in one quarter must become a question everywhere, and its universal adoption is only a matter ot time. Ifthe Freemasons improve ou this idea, and create within themselves a total abstivence society, they would ap- pear beforé the world with au object aud a raison d'etre more exalted than any they can now put forward. The total absti- nence departmeut ouce estabtished would, by its superior moral force, steadily gain upon the organization until it became its mainspring.

—The advantage to point of distance of the Canadian rovte between China and Japan and Great Britaio is unquestioned. From Yokobama to Liverpool via the Canadian Pacific is 10,965 miles, while betweea the same points by way of San Francisco and the Central Pacific rail- way the distance is 12,038 miler. Yet the liberal party scout the suggestion that the trans-continential trade will seek the (anadian route rather than the Ameri- can, which prompts the Winnipeg Sun to remark that: ‘‘It may or may not be possible to develop an Asiatic trade of considerable proportions, but such a traffic has always been heldin view. If itcan be acquired the whole Dominion will we benefitted. The effort is at least worth making.” The Sunis right ic

‘ating that the acquisition of an Asiatic trade has always been kept in view by the promoters of the Canadian Pacific raitway. It was, in fact, one of the priocipal reasons that induced the Globe and the liberal party down to a_ recent date to insist upon the speedy construc- tion of the line on Canadian territory.

— The falling off in the importation of agricultural implements into Manitoba demonstrates the fact that Canadian manufacturers are well able, under the pre-ent tariff, to supply the Northwest market with farming implements. Dur- ing the past three fiscal years the value of agricultural implements entered at

THE ODAIIUY Se EXAM

They scoured the |

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be considerab'y in excess of this

more especially in the live of -poughs. The Canadian implemevt dealers have unquestionably enjoyed this | vonr a larger share of the trade than | they had before.” The Sun also admits | that the price of agricultural implements | this year has been lower than previous | to the increase of duty.

The Prime Meridian Conference.

This body, which assembled in Washing- ton, October 1, included forty members, re- presenting twenty-four Governments, as follows :—

Austria-Hungary, Brazil, Columbus, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Hawaii, Italy, Japav, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, Russia, San Domingo, San Salvador, Spain, Sweeder and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Venezuela, and the United States. The conference was not as prompt to adopt the general meridian of Greenwich as had been expected, but a resolution to that effect was finally passsed, and that meridian recom- mended to all governments for adoption, the representatives of tweaty-one govern- ments voting in favor of it, San Domingo against it, and France and Brazil abstain- ing from voting.

The conference also resolved that lonyi- tude continue to be counted as at present in two directions, up to 180 deg., instead of in one direction up to 360 deg., as had been recommended by the Roman conference. Although the Greenwich meridian has long been the standard for four-fifths of the world’s navigators and geographers, its ad option by all will be a common benefit. The ascient geographers drew the first meridian through Ferro, the westernmost of the Canary Islands, and this is yet fol- lowed to some extent. The French have also used the meridian of Paris, the Span- iards that of Madrid, while we have used both that of Greenwich and Washington. The French representatives appear to have made the principal objection to the adoption of the Greenwich meridian as seeming to be an English standard, but as it extends from north to south through the whole of Western France, they could remedy this by setting up an observatory on that line, and styling the reckoring ac- cordingly.

A Destroyer in the Spruce Forests of Maine.

According to accounts of observations published in the third Bulletin of the Entomolegical Division of the Department of Agriculture, the ravages of the sp'uce bud worm (Tortrix fumifercna) have been extensive and destructive in the coast ferests of Maine west of the Penobscot River. The damage appears to have reach- ed only a few miles inland from the coast, but the belt in which ié has prevailed is marked by extensive masses of dead woods. The trees are attacked in the terminal buds, which are eaten away, and when that is done, the case is hopeless. The fatal character of the attack is owing to the fact that the spruce puts forth but few buds, and = those mostly at the end of the iwigr, and, when those are destroyed, it has nothing on which to sustain the season’s life. The attack is made in June, when the growth is most lively, aud just at the time when the check upon it can produce the most serious re sults. The larches are also attacked by a saw fly, but with results that are not as necessarily fatal as in the case of the spruce. They are more liberally provided with buds, some of which may escape and afford a living provision of foliage. The larch, moreover, sheds its leaves in the fall, and is in 7ull foliage before its enemies attack it. Hence, while the spruce and fir succumb to the first season’s assaults, the larch can endure two years of them.—Science Monthly.

About Suicide.

The suicide tables prepared by the insur- ance boards are quite complete for the cur- rent year. During the six months ending with August, 806 suicides occurred in the United States. The usnal annual average is about 1,700 or about 32 per million of population. The youngest suicide was thirteen years of age and the eldest eighty- nine. Distributed by principal causes, 72 were traced to insanity, 54 to family troubles, 44 to sickness, 33 to business troubles, 20 tojove troubles, and 28 to dissipation. Distributed by conditions, 139 were husbands, 34 wives, 67 bachelors, 33 maids, 21 widowers, 9 widows and seven divorced persons. Distributed by means employed, 110 shot themselves, 76 swal- lowed poison, 61 hanged themselves, 38 cut their throats, 34 chose drowning, and the remainder preferred other methods. Of the whole number, 284 were males and 99 females—about the usval ratie of three males to one female, Distributed by States, suicides were most numerous in Illinois, in New York next, in Indiana next, and Ohio and Pennsylvania tie for fourth place with 28 each. Daylight was chosen by 169 and the wight by 114.

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Work 2t Baldwin’s Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, has heen falling oS gradually since last May. In May and Jane 1,000 men were discharged on account of the lack of orders for 1. comotives. This left 2 000 men at work, and they are now working four-fifths time, or eight hours a day. The works wil! net shut down entirely, a0 Mr. Jobn H. Converse,one of the firm,saya ; al- though there is no probability of better times within the next s*x months. Railroad trains run oftner during Presidential cam- paigns than at any other time so the say-

CURRENT NOTES.

Devetorinc a New Coat Mine.—-Work is being actively pursued at the Debert Coal Mine. Some twelve men are employed. A shaft is being sunk straight down to a) depth of 100 feet, at which depth the main | vein, it is expected, will be reached. —Trwe | Sun.

People are just now busy in France pre- dicting the consequence likely to ensue from the re-establishment of divorce. A young man recently got a divorce and married a second time, but the mother of his first wife had a divorce too, and married the father of his second wife. Thus the young map changed his wife, but not his mother-in- law.

Latest advices from Madagascar state that it is believed to be too late in the sea-on for the French to march upon Antanativo, the capital. This will devolve a delay of eight months. The sickness among the French is increasing. In deference to the influence of mission- aries, Hova deserters from the Malgasy army are shot instead of being burned alive when captured.

THE FIS

At the semi-annual meeting of the Grand Trunk Railway Company held in Lond n on the 23rd inst , Sir Henry Tyler reported that during the half year the earnings were £220,000 less than during the same period of 1883, and the expenses £147,000 les+. Sir Henry made a full explanation of the company’s affairs. The report, proposing @ dividend of four per cent. on guarantecd stock and five on first preference sha'es, was adopted unanimously,

The Ezyptian Minister of Finance has prepared a budget for the coming year, in which he shows that it is impossible to re. duce the expenscs of civil administration. Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister informed Lord Forthbrook that a reduction of taxation of $1,200,000 yearly would assist in promoting the prosperity of the country, but insists that the reduction be postponed until 1886. He also supporis the report of the Minister of Finance.

A desperate attack was made by a body of Nihilists on a train carrying a mail ip which was $500,000, as it was nearing Kharkoff, Russia, on the 23rd inst., who at- ‘tempted to wreck it for the purpose of robbing the mail pouches. The guards who were on train opened fire on the would-be- wreckers and the engineer, putting on an extra head of steam, during the confusion

which followed,flew past the robbers mid a | shower of bullets and brought the train safe- ‘ly to Kharkoff. A body of troops was j sent out to the scene but the Nihilists es-

| caped,

| The general impression that ‘Robin | Adair’ is a Scotch song is erroneous. The | melody is Irish and the words are English. | Adair, says a correspondent, was an Irish ‘surgeon, whom accident brought into the | presence of Lady Caroline Keppel, sister of | the famous Evglish Admiral of that name. ' Mutual love followed their acquaintance, jand during the enforeed absence which Lady Caroline’s relatives brought about,she wrote the song and sang it to an air which her lover had sung to her. They were finally married with the parents’ consent and spent a few happy days before the death of Lady Caroline. Her husband never re-married. He lived to the age of 75, an honored favorite of the King, George III. ee

Horsford’s Acid Phoephate

DRANK WITH SODA WATER

is delicious, All druggists have it. It is re- freshing aud cooling. Try it often!

SHIP NEWS.

PORT OF CHARLOTTETOWN,

ENTERED.

| Oct. 27—Ilda, Murray, Tatamagouche; Vol- ant, Dicks, Cannal, Nfld, 262 bbls herring;

Oct. 28--Catherine, Peters, Pictou; Lion, Westhaver, Sydney, coal; Farewell, Samp- son, Arichat, herring

CLEARED,

Oct. 27—Lizzie, Dunn, New London, mdse; Sunbeam, Eldridge, Sydney, bal; Snow Queen, Corkum, New London; Lavinia Jane, Anders.n, Pictou, bal; Kva L H, Wentz-l, do, do.

Oct. 28—Bridgewater, Mason, Halifax, 1522 bush potatoes, 112 do oats, 227 do turnips, 10 do parsnips and beets; Ida May, Forrest, st John’s, Nfld, 928 bush potatoes, 1943 do oats, 768 do turnips, 3 crates cabbege, 24 cheese, 1 bri tallow, 1 do tengues, 33 do parsnips, shipped ‘by Wheatley & Sons; total value of cargo, $14C6

HOFEL ARRIVALS.

RANKIN HOUSE.

Oct. 27. -A C McLeod, Kensington; Geo Rearisto, Malpeque; Dr J S Bennett, Halifax ; E C Da Cesta, Barbados; H M McDonald, Halifax ; W ETalbot, Bermuda; R C Tait, Shediac.

BIRTH.

At Summerside, on Sunday, Oct. 26th, the wife of James A. Fraser, of a daughter.

DIED.

In Charlottetown Royalty, on the 28th inst., Bridget Teresa, beloved daughter of William ane Carey, in the 20th year of her age, as 3s

{Funers] from her father’s residence, Fast Reyalty, on Thursday, at one o’clceck Friends and acquaintances are invited to at- te: d.,

At her son's residence, Kelly’s Cross, Lot 29, on Sept. 22, Catherine, relict of the lat- Patrick Mon»ghan, at the advanced age of 95 years. Deceased was a native of the County Monaghan, Ireland, and emigrated to this Is'aua in 1838.

GRAFTON

ee eteenD

R, OCTOBER 28,

1884.

MARKET |!

STREET.

The Fish Market has a complete Stock of Fish and can supply choice

Also Canned Fish in Haddies, Salmon, Mackerel, Lobsters, Xc., low prices.

Herviag, Codfish, Shad, Mackerel, Salmon, Tongues & Sounds, &¢., &¢.

at very

The Grocery Depattment Stock is also complete, and families can be sup-

Goods delivered any port of the City.

plied at the Establishment with all that is required very cheap.

J. H. MYRICK.

Ch’town, Oct. 28, 1884.—5in eod her 3in

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LADIE’S CLOTH SACQUES.

LADIES CLOTH ULSTERS.

Sa

GEO. DAVIES & CO.

FUR CAPS AND MITTS,

te.

HORSE RUGS, RAILWAY WRAPPERS, &c., &c.

10;

ABOVE, AS THEY ARE MARKED LOW FOR CASH.

A LARCE STOCK OF BLANKETS,

MEN’S|FUR COATS, COON, BUFFALO AND DOG.

% 4

BUFFALO ROBES, JAPANESE AND WOLF ROBES,

ASTRACAN JACKETS.

6s

WE INVITE ATTENTION TO THE

Charlottetown, Oct. 16, 1884.

CHURCH

with the construction of English, American and German Pianos, and under the patronage | y } ! the Convent and the mouey will require to be paid at the time of leading musical families on the Island, feels | Sale, the balance to be paid in thirty days from that date, with 6 per cent. interest.

of Gevernment House, suré of giving universal satisfaction.

or private concerts the coming season.

Pianos Tune?, Re-wired and Regu’ated.

Voiced, Tuned, and Regulated with Care.

Tuned, Re-toned and Repaired.

Iiaving nearly twenty years’ experience

Mr. V. will engage professionally for publ'e

( tilse—C. P. Fletcher’s Music Store.

Ch’town, Oct. 25, 18' 4.

tations of Jobbing Papers, and are

prepared to furnish Note and Letter COAL, COAL.

Headings, Bill Heads, &c., well printed, cheap and prompt.

now to the

Water Street, Oct, 24, 1884,

A WORD TO THE WISE.

WE have completed our impor-

Be in time! Send your orders

EXAMINER PUBLISHING CoO.,

N ILLINERY ROOMS, up-stairs at W.

and Bonnets always on hand, oct23—eod wk]

Mrs. R. YOUNG'S

& A. Brown & Co.'s. Trimmed Hats

H.W, VINNICOMBE, Valuable Freehold Proparty PIANO TUNER

For Sale,

|‘ FXHE property situated at the corner of

Prince and Water Streets, formerly

ORGANS owned by Jas. Duncan, Esq., and now occu- | pied by Dr. Hobkirk, will be sold at Public | Auction, on the premises,

CABINET ORGANS On TUESDAY the 4th of No-

vember Next, at 12 o'clock. Twenty-five per cent. of the purchase

A plan of the property can be seen at the

Liquidators’ office.

L. C. OWEN, BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, Per D. C. CHALMERS ; C. C. GARDINER, Liquidators of the Bank of P. E. Island.

Ch’town, Oct. 25.1884. —5i 3aw pat

i ne Expected from Sydney : | Per Brigt. King Bird,

{ (230 Tons Old Mine Sydney,

(with certificate )

| Per Sch Ida May,

110 Tons Rese:ye Mine.

Per Sch. Mary,

WIMTER-KEEPIRG EPPL&S

Y Auction, Thursday ne t, Oct, 10.30 o'clock. at my Auctios Reoatl , One Crr Load Choice No, 1 , Apples,

Direct from the Owner’s Orc landing.

A. McNEILAL,

AUCTIO Ch’town, Oct. 28, 18 4,— 33 aK NEER,

shard via Picky

NOTICE.

Public place having been secured at Pope's Brewery by the City fo- the storage of Kerosene Oil, all persons havin more than 69 gallons on their prem‘ses are 1. quested to store the balance there, otherwise they wall be prosecuted according to law, ee LARGE, ‘ef Engine - Ch’town, Oct, 28, 1884. —3in nets

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Miss Lucy Caven,

A RAFTON STREET (“ast), is desirous of getting a few :upils for Music, can be agreed ou. Ch’town, Oct. 28 1884.

Terms

Campbell’s Quinine Wine, Ho Bitters, Fel'ows Syrup, Diamond Pees Cox's Gelatine, all New Stock.

N. B. 15,000 Cigars for sale Wholesale at Bottom Prices,

Reddin’s Drug Store.

Oct. 27, 84 —da lm eod wk Im,

PE USLND BAIL

Thanksgiving Excursion,

ie Return Tickets at one first- class fare will be issued to and from all siationson this Railway by afternoon trains, on S:h, and by ail trains on 6th November next, good to return up to and on Noven ber 10th, 1884,

JAMES COLEMAN,

Supt. Railway Office, Ch’town, Oct, 24, lssé— eod pat all wkly papers li

New Watehes, New Clocks,

New Barometers, New Thernometers.

New Spectacles.

Just Received and Offered Cheap.

Old Stock Cheaper than ever, to Clear.

E. W. TiYLor,

NEXT TO WATSONS, [eod wkly.]

City of Charlottetown,

TENDERS.

SEEALED TENDERS will be received at the Mayor’s Uffice, until noon of Sator- day, the Ist day of November next, from parties willing to contract to Light the Streets of the City of Charlottetown, for the term of 5 years or more, The Council do not bind themselves to ac- cept the lowest or any Tender. By order, A. H. MACPHERSON, City Clerk. Ch’town, Oct, 15, 1884—ts.

NOTICE.

DR. BENNET

IN CHARLOTTETOWN,

AT THE

“RANKIN HOUSE,”

ON THE 28th AND 29th. Ch’town, Oct. 18, 1884.

% IST, FOUND, &e. Sentence Aaj onan ——= wa Advertisements under this lvading, * space not exceeding three lines, will be inse for ten cents per day.

WANTS, LA

EY LOST —A werk ago, in the vicinity off Queen Square, an Inner Door Key.

The finver will please leave it at the ExaMIN- ER OFFICE (oct

W inuipeg has been : ing that the presentis an “off year” for in May her soul rest in peace, 170 Tons Little Glace Bay. ssn = epeentenaineaappimmeeorinn canes

ES veseee $119,731 rem . a apply to luce othe a IR I. <I SIS a a cerca i _ \ ee oe “neg tae ome

BBS .....0erecensees: cocsescunensososonocsons SEES ee eee on eee © a } ine From Pictou, per Schs. Era, Walla ; wo Female Attendants, to whom lib-

an ial on Ee [au overprodnetion of iren horses in the st| DA COSTA & COs, garet Ann, Guickstep, B, Book, Confederate, | rt wages will be p id. Apply at, the Lost yOu , u 10h, oct 25 -

two years, and there is no demand for

tr Undersigned begs leave to inform the locomotives

public he has purchased the Carriage Business carried on by McKinnon & Fraser, ou Upper Prince Street, opporite new Baptist Church, where he will be pleased to see his old customers, and as many new ones as may favor him with their patronage

and William and Mary—

900 Tons Intercolonial Nut and Round.

ANTED—A Girl to do general bouse work, Apply at Examtnek Office. oct25

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This statement does not include fanning mills, threshers, or earriages, but em- braces ploughs, reapers and mowers, aud such agricultural implements. Com-

Commission Merchants

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GENERAL AGENTS,

The Dublin Freeman's Journal agsert that Mr. Geo. Otto Treveljau withdrew from the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland, ;

OUND. —A shop-door Key. Apply at

menting on this the Wionipeg Sun says: fi Che figures show that tue operation of the duty has been to greatly reduce the American importations, and, so far as reapers and mowers are concerned, to shat them out altogether. This

was the object of the increased duty, |

and it promises to do its work pretty well, although the probabilities are that wheu the supply uow on hand has been exhausted the imports from the States

bee .use he was unwilling to continue as the mouthpiece of Earl Spencer’s policy, and because he was disgusted with the castle officials. The same journal describes Mr. H. Campbell Bannerman, the new chief secretary as ‘fa courteous norenity,ignorant of Ireland.” The Irish Times says the changes have been made to please che Parnellites,who boast that they have gained another victory. The Hxpress says Mr. ‘Trevelyan was the victim of Irish resent- ment.

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117 Leadenhall Street, London.

N. B.—Full information given on applica- tion to Messrs, Middleton & Co., 40 Exchange Place, New York. .

Ch’town, Oct. 28, ’84.

CARRIAGES and SLEIGHS of every des- cription and Jatest patterns. sleigh Sulkevs made to order, at shortest notice, With beat American stock.

pairing of Carriages, tleighs, &c.

GIVE SATISFACTION,

wkly

He will keep on hand and build to order,

Roed, track ard Special attention will be given to the Re- N. B.—ALL WORK GUARANTEED TO

J. J. SEAMAN. Ch'town, Och. 18, 1854—3aw t] 3lst dee

Per Sch, Sarah Elizabeth,

160 Tons Acadia Nut & Round.

All of which will be sold at the Lowest

M.rket Rates.

C. LYONS,

Acadia Coal Depot,

Peake’s No. 2 Wharf, Ch‘town, Oct. 10—3wks

Tue Examiner Office. oct23

WVULL LINE of McCormick’s celebrated BISCUITS AND CONFECTIONERY,

at R. K. Brace’s, {sepl0 3m

E will mve exclusive sale at and near Charlottetown, of our Evtire Wheat Fleur, to a dealer who will push it. Cover by patent. Easily cold. We guarantee ! lbs. more bread to the barrel then any other

flour. —FranKuix Mi'is Co , 38 Clark Street Caicage, Li, aug2