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A New Arrangement.

A New ARRANGEMENT of the Govern- ment steamers provides a daily mail to and from Pictou. Under it, the mails fer the Island will be made up in Halifax at 4 o'clock, p. m., remain at Truro over night and arrive here next day. This is as close a connection as cau be well maintained at this season of the year. Apart from this, the arranoge- ment is a better oue than any we have ever had on the Pictou route.

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Hixpansion and Abuse of Credit

Trade has expanded very rapidly dur- ing the past four years as shown by the bank statements. Nine banks in the provitea of Ontario have discounts am- ounting to $56,034,218 against $34,970,- 272 in 1879 while the deposit item has increased frum $22,790,283 to $42,704,- 649, the circulation from $5,366,799 to $10,906 912. Meanwhile the capital increased ouly $2,200,000. In the pro- vince of Quebec the discounts of fifteen bank have grown from $60,610,026 to $70,620,201; deposits $42 699,627 to $54,648,951; circulation $9,140,127 to $17 269,185. Atthe same time there has uot been any increase of capital.

London's Starving Poor.

Tue Election of a new Lord Mayor of London has always been attended by a great deal of.civic pomp and show, in which the Lord Mayor, drawn in a coach aud six and decorated in the maguificent robes of his office, makes a kind of tri- umphal progress through the streets of the city. Of course Mr. Fowler, the newly-elected Lord Mayor, could not afford to lose such an opportunity of displaying his importance, and accord- ingly the ceremony was performed with even more pomp aad show than has hitherto been -usual. Following the pageant is a grand banquet at which the Lord Mayor and many of the notables of the land sit down and feast and enjoy themselves to their heart’s content. But after all there is a dark side to the pic- ture, for in London there are thousands of paupers and thousands of homeless laborers. And while the one party are enjoying themselves, feeding on the fat of the land; the other living in the filthy slums of the city are exposed to that hard and bitter fate which extreme poverty brings uponthem. Consequent- ly we would not have been surprised to find that this latter class indignant because, as they themselves say. many of those who partook of that night’s feast had fattened and grown rich out of the rents accruing from those filthy slums which disgrace the city, had taken some measures to interrupt the harmony of the ceremony which seemed to mock their misery. Indeed it had been re- ported that large numbers had congregat- ed at various parts of thecity to inter- fere with the procession, but fortunately the reports were discovered to be ground- less. However, the wretched, starving condition of the hosts of London's popu- lation is pow beginning to be seen and felt, though goodness knows it could bot well have hitherto escaped attention, and now Parliament at its next session will take the matter up and introduce some sweepiug municipal reforms. It is earn- eatly to be hoped that these reforms will have some ameliorating effect upon the

condition of London’s starving poor.

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“An Attempt at Fleecing.”

We are indebted to the Herald for this heading. It isa good one; for, in the fewest words, it exactly describes the foreed bargain lately made between the City of Charlottetown and the Char- lottetown Woollen Factory Company. The sewage of a large part of the City, together with the sewage of the Factory, contaminates Spring Park Brook ;—and the Company alone are compelled by the City to build the sewer required, in order that the owners of the stream may have water for their cows. This is not just; andas the large amount it will cost to fulfil the forced bargain will be the price of so many fleeces, it is most appropriate to cali it “an attempt at fleecing.”

We fevl assured that wien the people of Charlottetown see this matter in the right light they will not let the Company be ‘“fleeced” in this way. No doubt there are some sharpers and rascals in the town; but the mass of the tax-payers are hovest men, and they will not see uthers forced to bear all the ex- pense of a work for which they should, by every priociple of fairness and honesty, pay their share.

The Herald says Tux Examtyer “thinks everything of a Company and nothing of the people.” Nothing of the people? Because we ask the representa- tives of the people to do an act of simple justice! We ask the people, who thinks most of them, Tue Examiner who tells them to do right to their cost, or the Herald which telis them it is idiotic to do a duty which they have the power to force others to do for them?

The Herald says that Taz Examiner will “hardly .succeed in drawing the wool over the eyes of voters.” Of course not. All we ask the voters to do 18 to pay a visit to the locality with their eyes wide open; and if they do not see drains belonging to the City leading towards the brook, and if from “the lay of the land” it is not evident that the

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An Old and Terrible Tale of the Sea.

WRECK OF THE BARQUE ‘‘ JESSIE” ON ST. PAUL'S ISLAND, GULF O£ 8ST. LAWRENCE. Samuel Cunard Campbell, Governor of

St. Paul’s Island, which is situated in the

Gulf of St. Lawrence between Cape North,

©. B,, and Cape Ray, Nfld, and has a popu-

lation of forty-five souls, paid a visit to

Sydney, C. B., afew days ago. He was

interviewed by a Halifax Herald reporter.

Among the terrible stories which he reiates

is one of the loss of the barque ‘‘Jessie”’

of Prince Edward Island in the year 1825.

He says :—About 1825 a barge called the

‘* Jessie” hailing from Prince Edward

Island, then known as the Island of St.

John’s, and owned by a Mr. McKay, was

wrecked onthe island. Mr. MeKay, the

owner, and Mr. Forbes, of Pictou, were passengers. The ship ran ashore in a snow storm. The crew landed and saved what provisions they could. Not a soul was found there. The vessel was bound from

Charlottetown to England, with a cargo of

timber, and called at Pictou on her way.

She was wrecked on the Ist of January.

Their provisions lasted until the 17th of

March, when the last man

DIED QF STARVATION,

There were twenty-three men on_ board. They were saved from a watery grave to die the more terrible death from starvation. Mr. Mackay kept « journal in which the sufferings and privations of the crew were recorded. The last entry was on the 17th of March, over two months and a half after the wreck. The Galf was blocked with ice a few days after the ship went ashore; hence no friendly vessel passed by, until

after death had done its work. The captives made fires in the woods night after night in the attempt

to attract the attention of the people living on Cape North. The few strag- glers there saw the signals of distress, but were unable to render assistance. Reports of the disaster were sent to the Governor of Cape Breton, which then had a Government of its own, but he, too, was powerless to render aid. There are extracts trom the journal kept by McKay in the Boston museum.

‘**How was this story known ?”

**In those days Frenchmen from Cheti- camp and Magdalen Islands, in April of each year, went over the ice seal hunting, and used to call at St. Paul’s and Anticosti to see if there had been any wrecks, and what plunder they could get therefrom. A vessel from Cheticamp called there in the spring of 1825, and

FOUND THE DEAD BODIES

of the crew of the Jessie. McKay was among the last to die, and was wrapped in his rich cloak. This cloak was taken off the body. During that summer the French- man went to Charlottetown, and wore McKay’s cloak there. The widow of the dead Islander met him on the street, knew her husbands cloak, pulled it open, and on the inside found her husbands initials written by herself. She at once spread the news and the Frenchman was seized by the authorities, On his person was found one hundred old English guineas of Mc- Kay's money, of which he was supposed to have taken a large sum. He explained how he came possessed of theee things, gave up all he then had, and was let go. The story of the disaster thus became known. The wife at once dispatched a vessel to the island which brought home the remains of the wreck, and three bodies, supposed to be those of McKay, Forbes, and the cap- tain. THE STORY OF THE DISASTER

created such a sensation that the New Brunswick Government was compelled, though six years later, for the sake of hu- manity, to oceupy the Island and put a station there. The New Brunswick Gov- ernment occupied Trinity Cove, on the northwest side «of the Island. That same summer the Cape Breton Government occu- pied it. Neither knew of the others occupation. The Cape Breton crew occupied Atlantic Cove, on the south-east side. They had no idea that hyman beings from New Brunswick lived on the other side of the island—only a mile and a quarter distant. Nor did the New Brunswickers know that the Cape Bretoners were so near. Both parties erected buildings, and never appear- ed to have left them after once entering. The New By usswickers had provisions for ayear. But before thay got them properly housed A BIG GALE

came, and washed a large portion of it away. But still they had enough to do them until spring. Their names were White and Wig- more. The Cape Bretoners only had pro- visions for three months. The government of Cape Breton was to send more at the end of that time. But, as usual, they neglected that important duty, and did not despatch theiy vessel until it was too late to successfully accomplish the mission. The result was that the Cape Bretoners were left to meet the same fate that befel the crew of the Jessie—to starve.

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Whitehall, October 25, 1883.

(London Gazette, Oct. 30.)

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto John Picton Beete, of Iscoed, in the county of Carmarth*p, now residing at Birnie Farm, Charlottetown, in the Colony of Prince Ed. ward Island, a retired Major in Her Majesty s Army, Her Royal licence and authority that he and his issue may, in compliance with a proviso contained in the last will and testa- ment of Edward Picton, late of Iscoed afore. said, Clerk, assume, nee, and take the surname | of Picton only, in heu and instead of that of Beete, and that he and they may bear the / arms of Picton; such arms being first duly ex- | emplitied according to the laws of arms, and ' recorded in the College of arms, otherwise the | said Royal licence and permission to be void | and of none effect:

And to command that the said Royal | concession and declaration be recorded in | Her Majesty's said College of Arms,

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A TELEGRAM from D’Islet, Que,, to the St. | John 7'elegraph, says:—A sailor, named John , of Pictou, N. 8., reached here on Satar- oa: on a tramp homewards, from

was in a dying vonditiun,

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A CENTENARIAN,—Mrs, Mary McDonald, aged 105 yeurs, a resident of Souris East, half a mile from the village, walks that distance to Church and home again, making both trips severally without help and with- out halt. She does this so often that no body wonders at it. At least this was true of the old lady two or three weeks ago. Mrs. McDonald is or was a McCormack. She is an aunt to Sheriff’ McCormack of Souris. She emigrated to this colony from Long Island, off the coast of Scotland, ninety years ago. Bishop MelIntyre’s father was a fellow passenger. Angus McDonald, her husband, died a few years ago ata very advanced age.

Bisnop McEacuern’s Nieces, —Twin sisters, aged eighty-five years or more, nieces of Bishop MeKachern of Antigonish, deceased, live in different parishes near Mt. Stewart Bridge—a Miss McEachern and a Mrs. McDonald. They seem likely to live and labor a number df years longer in health and comfort.

Ye Orpen Time.—Stookley Farm, St. Peter's Harbor, is historic gound. John Sinnott, Esq., the present jroprietor and occupant, is laying the founflation for a dwelling house upon the suposed site of the French church of the olden time. The supposition is evidently «rrect. The position is a commanding one, the location about one quarter of a mile from the shore. The peculiar inequalities of the ground are suggestive. Achurch bell was found forty yards away, dee north—-between it and the

shore. A walled celler is within forty or fifty yards from the suj osed church site, the two in a line parallel with the shore, answering to that

of the clergy house. The old bell was again used as the St. Peters Church bell and for some years till exchanged with the Rollo Bay parishoners for agother at their particular request, they being French. It got cracked some time ago, and has been sent to the United States to be re-cast. It bore the date, A. D. 1723, Bishop Mc- Intyre learned from records in Rome that ata certain time, two hundred and fifty French troops were quartered at St. Peter's harbor— that the first French ehild born at St. Peter’s (or in P. E. Island) was baptiz ed in the St. Peter's Church, in the presence of the Governor, ard that the latter was the child’s god-father,

Pre-H1 toric. — Savage Harbor is a fruitful place for antiquarian observation and research, Stone axes five hundred to one thousand years old, it may be, are thought no more of there than eld boots, s©® common are they, and stone arrewheads, than gun flints. Savage Harbor seems to have been a favorite place of resort before Columbus discovered America, at a time when Prince Edward Islanders could get along without Canadian imple- ments and without the N. P. Happy day! Cartloads of human bones and many, very many, inhuman battle axes and arrow heads have from time to time tumbled out of the receding outer end of an Island in the harbor, which Island is suppesed to have been a battle-field. If not such, it certainly was an ordinary burial ground, Who will undertake to determine? The weight of oral testimony seems to favor the battle- ground theory. It seems to be the general opinion that, in at least some instances, the bones must have been reposed in heaps. Many of them have been re-buried, and if I mistake not, some are now living who had a hand in the charitable work. When in some future age the cruel invading sea and other’ instrumentalities of nature shall have so far reduced the area of the Island colony as that the exhumed bones of those who per- formed the task shail in their turn ask re-burial, may the eloquent appeal not go unheeded! There were giants in those days. It remains to be determined whether the stone-age men were a race of giants eleven or twelve feet high, or whether those of them whose shin bones were two feet long and whose heads were as big as tea kettles, were head and should- ers above their fellows. The Savage Harbor folk who have seen and handled tae bones declare them to have been a race of giants.

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‘Lhe Financial Outlook Good,

What do the croakers, who regard the country as being in a bad state, think of the following statement of payments on the Gth instant at the Banks in Montreal ? November Ist to 4th, be it remembered, is a date at which large amounts of commer- cial paper mature: At the Bank of Montreal, notes maturing to the numberof many hun- dreds were met with scarcely an exception. merchants reporting remittances from the country satisfactory; at the Bank of Toronto ‘‘all their notes were promptly met;” at the Bank du Peuple, the 300 notes held by that bank were taken up; the Merchants Bank reported 600 notes under discount were well met, wholesale merchauts report- ing seventy-five per cert, remitted for; the Federal Bank reporty! “every one of our notes paid;” at the Bank of Commerce, of the 300 notes under discount not one was protested; the Molsons Bank reported payments at head office and branches ‘‘most satisfactory”; of 80 notes under discount, at La Banque Jacques Cartier, maturing on Monday, “every one was cheerfully paid,” and of the notes held by La Banque Ville Marie ‘‘not one went to protest.”— Monetary Times, 9th inst.

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Our Advertisers. Artemas Lord publishes arrangements of mail steamers.

D. A. Bruce calls attention to his stock of gents furnishings, ete.

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The Prince of Wales plays the banjo, the Princess Louise the guitar, the Princess of Wales has accompanied Nilsson on the piano, the Duke of Edinburgh plays the violin and the Duchess is able to ture the pages of a full score, while the Duke of Albany is a musical genius. Nice family te have for neighbors!

MAKRIED.

In the Methodist Church, Victoria, on the evening of Wednesday, the 14th inst., by the Rev. Jno. W. Wadman, B. A., brother of the coe mr Lowther, of Searitown, to ee thi aughter of Henry Watimun, Boy; Viettrta, Crapwuth

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Noy. 15, 1883.—3m eod wkly

D. A. BRUCE,

MERCHANT TAILOR,

HY now on kaod the LARGEST STOCK ever

shown by him, consisting in part of

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1283.

(vercoatings, Suitings, Underclothing, HATS, FUR AND CLOTH CAPS,

—AND—

EVERYTHING IN GENTS FURNISHINGS.

es’ Brocaded Coating aud Ulster Cloth,

VERY CHEAP.

Those wishing to have their Garments MADE TO ORDER can rely on getting A PERFECT FIT.

offering our own make of CLOPRHING

iO PER CENT CHEAPER THAN THE

QUALITY OF IMPORTED,

object is not to make large profits, All

favoring us with their patronage ean rely on getting the best value that can be had.

D. A. BRUCE,

72 Queen Street, Charlottetown.

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SeLLING VERY GH

Men’s ‘Fop Coats, Men’s Ulster

Ladies’ Cloth Sacques,

Buffalo Robes,

Ch’town,Nov. 13, 1883.

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Men’s Fur Overceats, Men’s Reefing Jackets,

Men’s Wool Underclothing. Men’s Flannel “hir's, Men’s Cardigan Jackets, Men’s Fur Caps, . Men’s Gloves, Mitts & Scarfs.

Ladies’ Cloth Ulsters, Ladies’ Fur-lined Circulars, Ladies’ Astracan Jackets,

Ladies’ Fur Caps and Muffs.

Japanese Wolf Robes, Blankets, Horse Rugs,

Railway Wrappers, etc.

GEO. DAVIES & Co.

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200 pieces Winceys,

Goods,

60 PIECES CARP

EVENING At SIX O'CLOCK.

W. & A. BROWN & Co.,

AVE now opened 140 Cases and Bales of New and Fashionable Dry Goods,

100 pieces Ulster Cloths, borght at half price. 100 pieces Mantle Cloth, bought at half price.

1,000 Wool Squares, very cheap. 50 boxes Silk Fringe,

30 Shirtings, 25 ‘* Silk Plushes, 500 ‘* Prints, 50 “ Velveteens, 100 ‘* Scotch Tweeds, 30 ** Silk Velvets,

50 ‘* Worsted Coatings, 50 “ Frillings,

50 ‘* Scarlet Flannels, 300 Jackets and Dolmans.

At twenty per cent less than prices of former years. Also, One Hundred Cases and Bales Canadian Manufactured

Very Cheap.

_ All Goods we are selling very cheap this Season.

Wholesaie ani Retail,

ET BAY EXPECTED.

W.& A. BROWN & CO.

Ch'town, Oct. 6, 188°.—dy wkly,

MAIL STEAMERS

OMINION STEAMERS « Napoleon I]L” and “Northern Light” will, until turther notice, perform the mails, passenger and freight sei vice between Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island,

Steamer “North rn Light” wil] leave Charlottetown, for Pictou, on Mondey, Wed. nesday, and Friday mermmings, at seven o'clock, Returning wilt leave Picwy Lan“. ing on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings, at ten oclo-k; on arvival of Truro Train,

Steamer “Napoleon LIL.’ wil leaye Char. lottetown for Pictou, on Tuesday, Thu: sday aud Sa\uiday merning:, at seven 0’ clook Returning will leave Pictou Landing on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, al ten o'clock, on arrival of Truro Train

Steamer “Northern Light” wil] Pictou Landing. tor Georgetown, at two o clock, p. m., ednesday ; and, returning will leave Georgetown at 4.30 a m for Pictou Landing, "

Steamer “ Napoleon III.” will leave Pictou Landing, for Ceorgetown, at two o’Clock, p m, Thursday; 2nd, returning, will leaye Georgetown av 4.270 a.m, for Pictou Land. ing.

These Government steamers will ive the same through ra’e advantages, Uoth for pas- sengers and freight, as have been allowed by the Steam Navigat on Company, 4nd freight will be received and delivered at Charlotte. town by the Steam Navigation Oem pany, at Georgetown by Capt I»mes Burke and the Agent of the P. b. iswuu isis ic ai Pictou to Messrs. Noonan & Davies,

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ARTEMAS LORD, Agent Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Nov, 16, 1883,—21w wkly i ‘

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APPLES AND. WEBRING.

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“S\N SATURDAY WEXT. 17th instant, at

eleven oOclock, at the Subscriber’s Room,— 50 bris. Winter Keeping Ajples, in prime order,

200 boxes Smoked Herring, 1 Platform Scales GFairbanks’).

WILLIAM DODD,

Auctioneer, Ch’town, Nov, 14, 18+3 2)

BUFFALO ROBES, WOLF ROBES, Horse Rugs and Cireingles,

Best and Cheapest in the City, at

JUHN STUMBLES,

Great George Street, Nov. 14.—eod 2w wly 2i

TO LET.

fJ\HE large STORE, WAREMOUUSES and

DWELLINGS, corver ot Groat George and Euston Streets, The }rmmises were built for, and are admiratly odapted fcr a produce business, Apply to

H COOMBS, Agent, Ch’town, Nov. 14, !+83.—eod

VINTER Flowering Plants.

CHINESE PRIMROSE,

Red, White and Pink,

FOR SALE BY Herbert Haszard,

Queen Square, near Post Office, Ch’town, Nov. 7.—2w eod wly 2i

WANES, LOST, FOUND, &e.

W ANTED—A GIRL to do general house- work. Apply at this office, {nol5 2i

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ANTED—A situvaticn in a Grecery, by aladof scventecn, who hes had one and a half y ears experience at the business, Apply at Tus Examiver O price. [nol 4in pd DRIFT— On or about the 19th instant, a raft of Spruce Logs dritted from its moorings, three miles south-west of Cape Bear. Any parties having found the same shall be rewardea by notifying McLure Bros., Murray River, King’s Ceunty; or David Small, Harbor Master, Charlottetown.

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~ OST — Between Montague Bridge and Patrick Cairns', Georgetown Road, on ‘Tuesday evening the 6th instant, a POCKET BOOK, containing a sum of money. The tinder will confer a lasting favor by leaving the same with Patrick Kelly, Eeq., at Mon- tague Bridge, besides being amply rewarded. —Jameés H, Dunn, Alberry Piains, Lot 50. {nol6 wkly 2i pd

‘ITUATION WANTED—As Auctioneer, hI two days in cach week, aid every Light, for the winter, at low raus, Apply at this office. [nos

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FURNITURE, AT

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FURNITURE, ffice, Charlottetown.

gicture Mouldings.

Charloetown, Jar, 9, PRE ly

bh given Chairs, Tables, Wasustands, Sufas, Lounges, Parlor, and Drawing Room Bedroom Suits, Looking Glasses and Mirrors, Window Furniture, Picture Frames and

JOHN NEWSRON,

A FEW PERMANENT and TRANSIENT BOARDER®* can be accommodated in

the House corner of Weymouth and Dorches- ter Streets, on reasonable terms. Very con- venient for Railway travellers.—L, B, Me- MILLAN. [oc30

OARDERS.—Mrs. Robert Rodd, has re-

moved to the house of Mr. (. Heerta, Euston Street, where she can accommodate number of Boarders, on reasonable terme foc30

Fr": SALE—A Stewart Cooking Range, in use one year. Good as new. Highly recommended.— H. J, CunpDaLt. {oci9

4 y LET and possession given immediately the two story Dwelling House, corner of

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