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THE DAILY EXAMINER:

AUGUST 16, 1890.

The Exhibition Prize List.

We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. A. MeNeill, Directors

superintending the departments of the

Secretary for the

forthcoming exhibition, for a copy of the

prize list. A perusal of it confirms the favorable impression obtained by looking over some advance sheets. It is, without doubt, the best prize list ever offered to the But, like

everything else in this world, it is not quite

consideration of exhibitors here.

perfect, It seems to us that our correspon- dent has placed his finger upon a point at which it might well be amended. We have an idea that the trade in draught horses is surer safer and—taking into consideration the cost of production our farmers to engage in than the trade in

more profitable for

trotting horses If this be so, the encour-

the producers ol excel-

agement given t

lent draught horses should certainly uot be less than that offered to those who produce excellent trotting horses. Producers of

first-class horses of every kind should, in our opinion, be stimulated and, encouraged by the offer of liberal prizes in each of the leading classes. It doesnot seem fair togroup, Clydesdales, Shires and Percherons—all ex- cellent, but each different—into one class. Short horns, Herefords and Galloways are no;¢ in one class ; neither are Holsteins, Jerseys and Ayrshires. Surely the different kinds of draught horses may, with equally good reason, be divided into separate classes, and prizes awarded tothe exhibitors of the best ineach. Perhaps it would not be too late yet to amend the prize list in the direction indicated. Horses «are the best and most profitable product of our farmers. Let the men whoexpend moneyand skill in the pro- duction of the best horses of all the best breeds be recognized, stimulated and en- couraged.

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Notes and Comments.

—The condition of the crops is now the most important factor in the financial situation.

—The people of Victoria, B. C., are re- joicing in the prospect of two Pacific Ocean lines of steamships, trading with the East, calljng at that port.

—A despatch from New York says that Erastus Wiman stated in an interview Tues- day that he had been asked by four Canadian Liberal constituences to be a candidate for parliamentary honors, but that owing to his business connexions being in the States he had to decline the offer. He said, however, that he would endeavor by pen and voice to bring about reciprocity between Canada and the United States.

—The Montreal L’Etendard, one of Mr. Mercier’s principal organs, has come out squarely in faver of direct taxation for proy- incial purposes. This is taken to mean that Mr. Mercier already realizes the hopeless- ness of his proposed raid on the Dominion treasury. And as he must have money to squander, and cannot blackmail the Domin- ion government into coming to his relief, there is nothing for it but to levy a new tax on John Baptiste, and make him pay it. When it comes to that, Monsieur Baptiste will understand better what Mer- cierism means.

—The late Johu Boyle O'Reilly had an lrishman’s intense fondness for his native land. His love for it knew no bounds, and in whatever company he chanced to be he allowed nobody. to speak slightingly of the old country or its people. It wasa passionate love, and challenged the admiration of everybody who ever had occasion to notice it. Only on one oceasion do we remember Mr. O'Reilly co have acknowledged that his countrymen might be in the wrong. It was on some mivor political question, and then he coined one of those neat phrases of his that expressed so much in a little, ‘*Ah, well,” said he after being cornered, ‘It’s better to be Irish than be right.”

~In summing up a long account of the

Argentine Republic, published in the last number of Harper's Weekly, Theodore Child says :— »» Inthe Argentine there is neither «a na- tional nor a personal ideal; the aim of ail is enrichment and personal enjoyment alone. As in politics so it is in private life. There is no glory in being president of the Republic, but only profit. There is no honor in being an Argentine citizen, but the citizen who does not gain wealth, no matter by what means, is looked upon with disdain. The Argentines have eliminated virtue from their democracy ; they have forgotten that they ever had souls, yet they talk of their greatness and revel in prodigious statements.”

—The American Banker says: ‘‘Cana- dian banks are somewhat exercised as to the effect of the new silver law. Several Boston banks have received communi- cations on the subject from correspondents in the Dominion. One bank writes: ‘*Will uur balance standing on your books be accounted gold? From our standpoint gold is the basis of accounts between us.” Canada fosters a great and eloquent horror of United States silver, and takes occasicn to ventilate it, but our friends the bankers are somewhat premature in wgiving expres- sion to their fears as to the effect of our new silver law. American bankers are not likely to adupt any policy detrimental to the continued harmony of their foreign relations.”

—What, asks the Empire, can the Globe hope to gain by telling the farmers of Canada that ‘‘the cost of everything they have tofbuy is artificially exalted by the duties levied for the benefit of a few persons engaged in manufacturing?’ Enquiry at the first store will show that the prices of manufactured goods have been lowered, not raised, under the N. P., and even the Grit organ has admitted this fact in regard to oue most important business, by lamenting the fate of the cotton manufacturers, driven by competition to sell at a loss. At the same time it cries down the credit of our farmers by the untruthful assertion that ‘the value of their land is steadily sinking.” The tarmers of Canada are not fools to be deluded into disbelieving the evidence of their own transactions by a journal which

i DAILY EXAMINER,

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NEWFOUNDLAND. A Trip to Ye Ancient Colony,

Sketches By a Correspondent of

eee tee

To venture to advise the inhabitants of our fair Island to take a summer excursion smacks somewhat of ‘‘sending coals to Newcastle,” and yeta trip to Newfound- land is such a marked contrast to our every day experience here that it is almost like seeing a new world, Within the last few years the facilities for travel have greatly

increased and ‘‘ ye ancient Colony = 18 now practically at our doors. sesh To commend the steamers of the Blac

Diamond Line to the travelling public is unnecessary ; they are tae well known. Suffice it to say it was the writers good fortune to leave Charlottetown on one of those lovely July days which are almost peculiar to ourselves. The gentle summer breeze, the blue sky flecked with its light clouds, the quiet loveliness of the lands- cape, the maguificent harbor with its wind- ing rivers all combined to remini one of the ‘‘ hollow lotus land, ‘*4 land where it seemed always afternoon. As we steamed past the blockhouse oue

had time to examine his fellow pxsseagers

If we were fortunate in having Cap:

Fraser and his courteous and agreeable staff of ofticers for our guardians on the voyage, we were equally fortunate in our companions iu travel. Montreal was well represented by a pleasant party of the fair

sex, and when our own city had added its quota, what more could be desired? Alas that the genclemen were all, so far as the writer could learn, already provided for, or, who knows. Certainly all the accessories were present—delightful weather, congenia! society, a young moon, and occasionally just enough of a roli to remind one that life is not all plain sailing. The sterner sex were of the usual average ; but the *‘ variety which is the spice of life " was furnished by the ubiquitous travelling agent, who like Othello, could tell of

** Moving accidents by rail and steam, Ot hair-breadth escapes from much enduring | buyers Of being overcome by insolent opposition And most completely sold ; Of bummers fell, who traders’ substance eat, | The Anthropophagi they, in whom Dame nature, ever kind, hath interchanged | Cheek for the brain and brass for kindly blood | The while their words blow forth like utter | smooth.”

Alas that this attraction of the voyage is likely to become a vanishing quantity. The flinty officials of St. John’s have placed a heavy tax on this promising branch of trade, | and now, though Terra Nova’s fair Wes- | demonas may swear

Tis strange—tis parsing stiange— Tis pitiful—tis wondrous pitiful— the indefatigable commercial travellers have | been ruthlessly compelled To fold their tents like the Arabs And silently steal away.

Rumor hath it that the knights of the road are planning to outwit the Municipal Council. It will be a clever official that gets ahead of this latest developement of the race—the bummer. I back him against the council every time

Our trip is pleasantly broken for a few hours at the Coaling Depvt This gives us a chance to view the beauties of Sydney, a quaint old town, whose calm repose has of late years been rudely marred by the whistle of locomotives and the grime of} coal dust Here we lose some of our pas- | sengers, but fortunately fair sky and’! smooth sea have determined some of} the ladies to make ‘‘the grand tour,” and | we are reinforced by an American lawyer— a Western man—lured by Charles Dudley Warner's ‘‘Baddeck and That Sort of Thing” to the hills and glens and lakes of Cape Breton— an agreeable companion, un- like most of his countrymen, ready to admit that the Constitution of the United States, perfect in theory, is greatly inferior to that of Great Britain in its working out. True, he is a Democrat, and the fact that his party has been counted out once or twice may possibly have opened his eyes to see ‘‘something rotten in the state of Den- mark.” -

And now, with bunkers full of black dia- monds, the good ship’s head is turned to- wards the land of fogs and codfish, crossing the southern banks, on which, often at night, the lights of French fishing craft suggest the idea of a village. But for us the ocean is lonely, and only a very few vessels are sighted, though the sky is clear and the weather favorable. All on board indulge fond hopes that Newfoundland has dispensed with her usual fogs, and that midnight will show us Cape Pine. But true to tradition, next morning nothing is in sight but fog; and though we are as- sured that weare round CUspe Race, our exact position is by no means easy to dcter- mine. Cautiously drawing in towards land, sounding as we gu, we are rewarded, as the fog lifts, by a glimpse of a round hammock. Our spirits rise but the fog does nor, and all is thick again. But something has been gained, and with more confidence the ship steams on her course. Presently Cape Ballard and then the high, bold promontory

f Cape Broyle show themselves. As we draw up the shore toward St. John’s, ice berg after iceberg is sighted. Think of ‘t, ye who pant for cool breezes, with the ther- mometer in the nineties—icebergs in the middle of July !—close in, within full view of the dwellings of St. John’s. The very thought carries with it a refreshing cool- ness ; the reality brings 4 coolness that is more than refreshing to the traveller. ‘lf they only had them in New York,” is the cry. Well, we would gladly let the New Yorkers have them, without even charging a bait tax on them. We glide through the frowning barriers of cliff that guard the entrance to the harbor—gigantie sex walls composed (I give you the authority of a geologist) of the pebbles and sand that, eons ago, formed the strand of the prim»- val sea, when the Great Creator first issued his fiat to Chaos, ‘‘ Let the dry land ap- pear.” The rain pours in torrents as we emerge from the narrow chasm into the harbor, and we are forcibly reminded of the verdict of the Nova Scotian, who stated that he had spent three months in New- foundland and had only seen one fine day,

is at the same moment trying to injure them by depreciating their property.

prusmiaspins sano OOS LamMerican plans.

and that, they told him, was a weather breeder. J.

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Why is it that there is such a Continual Rush at the

Tuesday, Aug. 19th.

AT 7 O'CLOCK, P. M.

4 neivep ro.pAy, per Schooner “ai: Bagear Co's, Book, Stationery and Fancy Goods Store :

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20,000 1 inch No. 1 Pine, a { X) me 13,000 Planed Spruce Flooring, and several cargoes of, Assorted Lumber ' (IMPLY BECAUSE they sell goods at a reasoasble advance om est, go! in some a Terms— . thing pew nearly every day, have what the peuple want, and show a bette! | 2 E, H. NORTON & CO., ‘elass of goods than any other house in town. We cannot ifford ty sell oar yews | augl5—d4i Auctioneers at half price, for we do not charge 200 per ce>t. edvance at the frst, © ys ‘ ae es alien | ; eu Fine Chance Easily to Securs aT TL an sS mn & . me 2 RC eet 4 ~ = a Homestead. oe Sm é —— How would it seem to buy an article for 10 cents that you POSITIVELY | a © BE SOLD BY AUCTION, on the Pre-| KNEW to be worth DOUBLE that or MORE. You won't need avy argument to a A mises, on THURSDAY, Augusi 2lst.,|convince you our goods are bargains. ; = "i oo at 12 o'clock, noon: 3 JUST RECEIVED.—A fresh lot of Preserve Cover-, Waste Baskets, Dolls, Ss, ‘ ~ ‘ *» . j = ’ y : ‘ ; > ; - . : Carriages, Autograph Albums, Mouth Organs, Jews’ Harps, Novels, School Booka, | pas © Ss Phat nice Dwelling House aud Lot on Graf: Inks, Paper, Envelopes. Come and get govuds at away down prices oo.” ton Street East, containing 8 rooms and kit- . ’ chen, all in good repair, being newly papered BAZAAR CO, 2. and painted, cain laden, a o% The Lot is 36x144 feet, extending back; Charlottetown, Aug, 15, 1890 QUEEN STREEKT. i wv along Barret’s Lane. ‘This property is ny aa pleasantly situated, being in close proximity . | - + nal to the Driving Park. Terms easy. ‘ = House open for inspection «after 9 o’clock on | day of sale, or by applying to | W. B. ROBERTSON. | | | kK. H. NORTON & CO, Auctioneers. aug 0 &

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For St. John's, Newfoundland, '

. a > THRESHERS, SHAKERS,

‘THE 8s. 8. “COBAN,;” for 8. John’s, Newfoundland. will be due at Charlottetown on WEDNESDAY MORNING, the 20th inst. Has plenty of room for cargo, and will carry Cattle and Sheep on deck. For Freight or Passage apply to

PEAKE BROS. & CO., Agents.

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yO) BARRELS RASPBERRIES wanted e) immediately, for which thé very highest price will be paid in cash. H. H. HARTSHORN, At G. H. Toombs’ Office, Lower Queen St.

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PE ISLAND RAILWAY, =E'very Farmer in need

Basket Picni to Cape Traverse of a Thresher should buy

A SPECIAL PASSENGER TRAIN will .

leave Charlottetown for Cape Traverse at Sa. m. (standard time) on SATURDAY,

16th inst., srriving at Cape Traverse at 10 $} 6S an S 0

a.m. ; returning, will leave Cape Traverse at 5

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at 5 p. m. Tickets for the round trip, 50 cents.

Shonld the weather prove uufavorable the thererf ré picnic will be held on Monday, the 18th

nst. J. UNSWORTAH, Superintendent.

Railway Office, Ch’town, Aug. 9, 1890.

NOTICE |

Tenement House, situate on Prince Street, next to Thomas Alley’s, Esq., will be to let

> and possession given the first day of Septem- "I ber next. The above House has been in pos- e ag V é no 681 aq 10n session of Rupert B. Norton, Esq., for four years, and occupied by Dr. Warburton the

present year, both of whom built new houses

of their owu. The above House is first-class ‘ Mt in every respect, and will be provided with a in C a1Lmin ag @ good Stable and Coach House. Apply to John Kelly, Esq., Water Commis- sioner, or to the owner, : i ED\WARD KELLY. ; | ale © Pest yet oOrlerea. W = - | We will put them in HE BARQUE ‘LADY NAIRN,” Capt. n = s Richards, from Liverpool, is now due. On arrival, the subscriber will sell afloat com é 1 10n WL chal 6,500 Bags SALT low for cash, made. They argest assortment hitherto opened for the inspection of his esteemed customers. comos. Phresh fast and clean Cleorgetown, Aug. 14, 1890—dy lw wky 5i 5

Trot at Peake’s StitiMiand are casy om horses. (JHE GRANDEST TROT of the Season s . “cor prices and

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will take place at Peake’s Station Trot- a ting Park, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th of ‘ F August, when prizes will be given as usual

terms to

Any person selling intoxicating liquor on or MARK WRIGHT & CO, Liu, - <a

near the Park will be dealt with as the law ‘ Notice to Contractors.

directs. For further particulars see handbills. '* ‘ENDERS are requested for the construes ' tion of a Dwelling House for Mr. Thoma

ALLAN McDONALD. Peake’s Station, Aug. 11, 1890.

Campbell, on Richmond Street West. Plans may be seen at the office of W. Gs

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HARD COAL

Landing To-day per Brigt. ‘* Corsican” : MA. NT we A 57 ae URERS

A Cargo of Hard Coal, Sharlottetown, P. &. Island. in Egg and Chestnut Sizes, | the llth of August, until the 2lst of Augusts

july3l—dy

Har: is, Architect, from 12 0 clock on Mondayy —