‘Head Lord’s Wharf, VOL 4, CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1878, NO. 476. Tur Datty EXAMINER i878 DECEMBER {878 Is Published every Eveuing. OFFICE : {INGS’ BUILDING, CORNER OF WATER AND GREAT GEORGE STREETS, Charlottetown, P. E. L KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION ; Six Months, : : . $2 50 Three Months, - : - 1 25 One Month, . ' 0 50 One Week, 012 ew Advertising at most moderate rates, Contracts may be made for monthly, quar- terly, or half-yearly advertisements, on appli- gation. Ww. L. COTTON, Manager. |! | J. W. MITCHELL, Office Sup’t. Fe A COMMERCIAL Union Assurance Company, OF LONDON, ENGLAND. CAPITAL - - $12,500,000. ee ‘NSURANUCE effected against Fire on all descriptions of Property throughout the Island. st Low losses. — rates and prompt settlement of HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P. E. Island. Ch’town, Dee, 20, 1878— ROBERT HARRIS, ARTIST. FULL’S BRICK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET. Porrratrs Painted from Life, &c., during the next six months. Nov. 30. 1878— QUEEN INSURANCE = COY, OF ENGLAND. CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Vessels on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences. Losses settled Se eee GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1877— BROADWAY | HO USE, E former ‘City Hotel,” now the Breadway iHlouse, Great George "Street, opposite the Catholic Cathedral, is now open for Permanent and Transient Boarders. The rooms have been thoroughly renovated and newly furnished. The tables will be supplied with the best the market affords, and fares reasonable. A Suite of Rooms convenient for a small ‘family, together with board &c., can be had in the Broadway House. Noy. 23, 1878—tt FRANK COX, M.D. C.M., Physician, Surgeon & Accoucheur. Orrice Aporuecarres’ Hatt. Residence : Capt. Mutch’s, Water Street, next door to St. Lawrence Hotel. N. B.—Particular attention paid to diseases of the chest and stomach. Ch’town, Nov. 16, 1878.—3m TO LET, WWE HOUSE and SHOP at corner of Ken and ,Hillsborough Streets, near King : ing an excellent business stand, oc- eupied by Mr. Cartmill ; also his Residence fronting on Hillsborough Street, adjoining the myer of Mr. Bridges. Possession given nary t. Apply to pe ceehary Bess ARP yOHN BALL Ch’town, Dee. 10, 1878—2aw till Ist jan pat NOTICH. ERSONS who took Tut ExamMINER before the DatLy ExaMiInzR Wasi , and have not yet paid for it, will please send the amounts of their respective accounts without feany, %e W. L. COTTON. "Exaurver Orrtce, Ch’town, } ‘Oct. 17, 1878. dy & wkly, § “Fresh From the Bakery. 4 9()() BOXES “Moir, Son & Co's” fresh Baked Biscuits, in Wine, Water, Butter, Sugar, Coffee, Tez, Soda and Fruit ; Boston Pilot Bread and Thin Family Pilot, + just landed ex schooner **Raven.” WILLIAM DODD, Qneen Square. _ Dec. 12, 1878—eod 2w ~ COAL: COAL. OUND AND NUT COAL cheap for cash, b yw. w. CLARKE, Agont. Charlottetown, Nov. 23. ’ FANCY LINED COAL VASES FANCY HELMET COAL SCOOPS, GALVANIZED AND BLACK DO. COAL TONGS, SHOVELS, POKERS, FIRE IRON STANDS. ‘ . uae at a Large Discount to clear. BEER & SONS. FUR GOODS. MUFFS, BOAS, CAPS, Promenade and Heavy Wool SCARFS, MUFFLERS, CLOUDS, White & Col’d. Remainder offered at low figures. BEER & SONS. WOOLEN SsS. Bine & Black Beavers, Whitneys, Presidents, Moscows, Worsteds, Tweeds, Suitings, A Choice Collection—-made up to order at short notice. BEER & SONS. LADIES’ SACQUE CLOTHS, PLAIN AND FANCY. Balance of Stock offered at extra discount. bi ee BEER & SONS. VW )E have received the chief part of our PALL STOCK, and can confidentl call attention to LARGE IMPORTATIONS, eat ENE nice TEAS, SUGARS, FRUITS, SPICES & GENERAL GROCERIES. We are also in receipt of Full Line, in REFINED & COMMON IRON, SLEIGH-SHOEING STEEL, SPRING, CAST, and BLISTER DO Paints, Colors,} Oils, Gold Leaf, Transfers, Varnishes, etc. A Large and-Well-Assorted Stock of WOOD STUT TES, FOR SLEIGH & CARRIAGE BUILDERS. BEER & SONS. Ch’town, Dec. 13, 1878— No. 35 Water St., Charlottetown. - Prince Edward Island Branch —OF THE— NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE. INSURANGE GO. Subscribed Capital, $9,755,332.00 Paid np Capital, - 1,216,666.00 CHIEF OFFICES-—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street. Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ance Business are divided every Five Years. The Tables of Rates are moderate. Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LoWEsT RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk. ocak : Losses settled with promptitude and liber- ality. Ee G. W. DEBLOIS, General Agent. Dec. 14. JAMES HOBBS, CABINET-MAZER, -UPHOLSTERER, ETC, AS REMOVED from McPhail’s Corner H to the premises just vacated by Mr. Joun Srumsxes, Prince Street, where, with increaced facilities, he is prepared to attend to the wanta of his customers with punctuality and despatch, and on reasonable terms. Carpets cut and laid. ParnTING and Repairing neatiy done. Picrcr® Frames and Spline constantly or made up to order. one kinds of Household Furniture made to rder, cheap and good. ~ New Pattern School Desks made at short tice. A first-class article. nar Don't forget the place: PRINCE STREET (near the new Baptist Church ,in course of rection). . : ee: Oct. 26, 1878— DR. CREAMER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Kent Street, Charlottetown, (Three doors from Dr. Johnson’s). aw ENTRANCE BY SIDE DOOR. “@a Oct, 15—3mj j BOOK & JOB PRINTING! neatly and expeditiously executed, AT THE “EXAMINER” OFFICE under the careful supervision of J. W. MITCHELL. We are now in a position to execute orders for all kinds of Printing, such as LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS, CARDS PAMPULETS, DODGERS, HANDBILLS, POSTERS, AND ALL KINDS OF Bank and Legal Blanks, &. &. Xe. AT MODERATE PRICES. Office :—Ings’ Old Stand, Coraer Great George and Water Streets. | RANKIN HOUSE, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. EI, J.J. DAVIES - - - Proprietor (Formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Pictou). HIS well-known Hotel is now open under the present management ; nll, having been newly furnished throughout, it offers every comfort to the travelling public. Suit- able Sample Rooms for commercial gentlemen. Oct. 15, 1878—3m" EB. G. HUNTER, Italian and American Marble, Monuments, Tablets, Headstones, Centre TABLE Tops, BurEAU AND ComMoDE Tors, Wash Bowt Siass, &c., &c. Prices to suit, and satisfaction guaranteed. sax” Designs furnished on application. Ga Corner Hillsborough and Kent Streets, Char- lottetown. November 6, 1878. LONDON HOUSE, We are now Showing our Large and Varied Steck of CARPETS, ‘* Prince Edward,” in anette Just arrived per 8. 5. Brussels, Tapestry, 2 & 3 Ply Scotch, Felt and Unions, Felt Squares, liearth Rugs, Oil Cloths. CEO. DAVIES & 60. Ch’town, Nov. 25—tw 2aw ee NOW READY: THE treat; Nabional Ware | ART ELLUSTRATIONS By C. R. TUTTLE. HE new and only Invustratep Hisrory of the Dominion Or CANADA. dust pub- lished. ‘The most popular and saleable Work of the day. In2 Magnificent Grand Quarto Volumes, 600 pages in each, or in monthly numbers at 50 cents. Beautifully illustrated and handsomely bound, with 28 fine Steei Plates, 20 original Wood Cuts, and 200 Photo Lithograph Engravings, on stone, of our promi- nent pub ic men. ; AGEATS WANTED in every town and county in P. FE. Tf. Send for terms and o=tfit t 4 ere D. DOWNIE & CO., Sole Publishers. Box 1964, Montreal. may NEW SO60KS, NEW TOYS and a general assortment of Fancy Articles and Stationery, at HASZARD’S BOOKSTORE, West Side Queen Square. Dec. 7—3w 2aw fi 3s ‘> si Yee e Worres: UiUCLLE, | S Seaineimmuapioreabengrnd erent: ae mene ce B® We donot hold ourselves responsible for the statements or opinions of our correspondents \Literary and Musical Entertain- ments. | To the Editor of the Examiner: Sir, —A few suggestions respecting Literary, Dramatical and Musical Entertainments offered by your humble servant in THr EXAMINER of the 18th inst., have brought forth from a well- known young (%) friend (?) of mine a perfect | torrent of abuse. I have not the slightest in- | tention of entering into any controversy with ‘Young Stager,” nor of paying him back in his own coin (having no brass on hand at present), but would merely remind him ‘‘that there is a certain limit which phen reached, patience ceases to be a virtue.” ‘The person who would try to re-open old sores long since healed, is a creature devoid of all human feeling; and I therefore pass over with silent contempt the allusions to past mis- fortunes. Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for the space al. lowed me in your valuable journal, I will leave my casein the hands of a generous public, asking them to judge which is the worse sin- ner of the two, the man who, through misfor. tune over which he has no control, falls into debt; or the man who, with his. eyes wide open, contracts debts knowing at the same time his utter anability to pay them. -‘ Ab uno disce omnes, (From a single instance you may infer the whole.) If ‘ Young Stager” still feels inclined to give my name in full, he is at perfect liberty to do so. ‘Those whom the God’s love die young.” Yours, &c., OLD STAGER. Ch’town, Dec. 26, 1878. ncaa ca A Girl Burned to Death. WAS IT OUTRAGE AND MURDER / (From the Hx. Herald.) On Sunday evening last, the 15th inst., two yeung men, named Charles Taylor and Hiram Late, together with a girl named Amelia Freeman, called at the house of Mr. William Late, and persuaced,hia daughter Emma Late, a girl of about 19 years of age, to go out for a walk with them. They walked some distance, and stayed out so late that they were unable to get into their homes. They then decided to go to Mor- ton’s mill, and stay there for the night. On arriving at the mills, the two girls gathered some chips and wood, and made on a fire in the fireplace, which is usually kept for the convenience of the men working in the mills. They all laid down by this fire, and, it is said, went asleep. Nothing has as yet been ascertained of what occurred between this and three or four o’clock on Monday morning. About four o’clock, a m., one of the men (our reporter was unable to learn which one, but it was probably Taylor), was heard knocking at his mother’s house, and when she appeared at the window, to tell her that Emma Late was badly burned at the mill. Some of the people were aroused, including Dr. Morse, who proceeded to the mill, and were met with a sight which ALMOST BAFFLES DESCRIPTION. Emma Late was lying near the fireplace, with every stitch of clothes burned from off her, except her boots. Her body was hor- ribly burned, and preseutod one mass of blisters. She was. however, still alive, but lingering in the most intense agony. The two men, Taylor and Late, were present, and were asked by Dr. Morse to take off their coats and throw them over the dying girl, but they refused to do so. The girl was conscious and recognized Mr. James, the agent of the W. & A. Railway, with whom she formally lived. She was asked how she came to be burned, but failed to tell, apparently desiring to screen those who who had been her companions during the night. She was taken to her home on a board, where she lingered in the MOST EXCRUCIATING AGONY until 1.30 p. m., when death released her from her terrible sufferings. Taylor, Late and the girt Freeman, were allowed to go to their homes until about nine o’clock on Monday morning, when they were, after considerable resistance, arrested on a war rant issued by Mr. James, and taken to Annapolis Jail. On being questioned, they said they did not know anything about it, more than that when they were awakened Emma Late was allin a blaze; they were terrified, and went into the village and raised an alarm. The excitement in the village and through the whole valley is in- tense. The deceased was a good-natured, kind- hearted girl, and is kindly spoken of by the family with whom she formerly lived. A thorough investigation into the case, and the swift and severe punishment of the guilty parties who were with her, are uni- versally demanded. The Lord Chanceallor’s Baridom. Among the proceedings in the House of Lords on the 6th inst., we have the follow- ing noteworthy report :— Immediately the Lord Chancellor had taken his seat, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon rose aud said: My Lords, I have to inform your Lordships that Her Majesty has been pleased to create Hugh M’Calmont Lord Cairns, Lord High Chancellor of that part of Great Britain and Ireland called Great Britain, a Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- land, by the name, style and title of Vis- count oyle and Earl Cairns. 'The Accidental Death of Samuel Bishop. Kentrvitte, Dec. 23.—The body of Sam- uel Bishop, aged 50, was found yesterday morning at the Mill Brook. Deceased had been drinking the night before and is sup- | posed to have fallen over the bridge, strik- ing on his head, and was killed by the blow, as a severe gash was found in his head. There was not enough water in the brook at the time and place to drown him. _ - -- -—-- —ae +--+ -- —_—— Sugar Beets in New Brunswick. The St. John Telegraph says that Dr. Gilchrist, a Portland physician, who owns a splendid farm of 330 acres, at Hampton, and has a herd of 18 thorough-bred Jerseys and several thorough-bred horses, has raised some sugar beets and finds them excellent for feeding cattle. He called to say that he will plant five acres of sugar beets next season, in order to encourage the organiza- tion of a beet sugar factory, and because he knows the beets are scarcely less valuable for stock than for sugar making. We are authorized on behalf of William Pugsley, Esq., of Sussex, who owns one of the most splendid farms in this Province, to say that he will next season cultivate five acres of sugar beets to help the movement. We shall be glad to hear further from our en- lightened farmers on this subject. a a ee Miscellaneous News. During the southeast gale and snow- storm of the 23rd, the schr. ‘‘ Speed,” of and fromSt. John, Nild., for Charlottetown, P. E. 1., went on shore at Carribou Ceve. She will likely be a total wreck. The mate, who is in charge, reports that three days after leaving St. John’s, Capt. Gibbons jumped overboard and was drowned. A Vienna despatch says that the Russian Government apprehend a. Nihilist demon- stration on the 16th. A number of arrests were made last week. It is rumored that the temporary closing of Universities is seriously contemplated. These internal troubles are considered as one cause of Rute sia’s conciliatory foreign policy. A PROMINENT contractor publishes a let- ter in which he charges that ex-Premier Mackenzie let the contract for the construc. tion of the Pembina Branch of the Pacific Railway, to political friends, at « hundred thousand doliars over the offer of a lower tenderer, who was prepared to furnish secur- ities, and, in addition, give a contractor's bonus of $15,000, which was used to defeat Sir John in Kingston, and Hon. Alex. Morris in Selkirk. Mr. Cross, the English Home Secretary, recently received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Cambridge. The undergraduates were very noisy, and during the proceedings lowered from the gallery a flag bearing an inscription refer- ring to Mr. Cross’ position in the Trinity College Boat Club when ho was a_ student. The Home Secretary took the flag, folded it, and put it in his pocket amid uproarious cheering. Taz Hamilton market tolls for 1879 were sold on the 13th inst. by auction, and were knocked down to Mr. Samuel Davis for $8,840, who, however, rued his bargain, paying $200 forfeit, and they will be sold over again. This indicates a marked in- crease of late years in the revenue derived from this source. For this year’s tolls $7,775 had been paid; for 1877. $7,880; for 1876, $7,015; for 1875, $5,602; for 1874, $6,370. Windsor market fees sold last year for $575, and $1,000 is expected for them in 1879. The market fees of Ottawa were sold on Monday last for $11,830. Those of Brantford for 1879 were sold on the 13th inst. at auction for $2,675.—Monetary Times. : The public generally, and journalistic and literary circles particularly, will hear with profound sorrow of the death of Bay- ard Taylor, which occurred in Berlin last week. Mr. Taylor commenced his literary career on the New York Tribune, under Horace Greeley, and gradually developed into a prose writer and a poet of no mean order. He travelled extensively in the new and old worlds, and his descriptions of the sights and scenes of other lands were not only accurate and interesting in their facts, but graphically written. In politics he was an early and staunch adherent of the Republican party, to whom he owed his position in the diplomatic service. Within a year or two he visited New Brunswick, spending a few days with his friends in Al- bert County. His death is, to some extent, a national loss. : Many of the disappointments which come to young farmers are the result of miscal- culation. Because the buildings are tidy, the fences up, and the location desirable, they are betrayed into buying a worn out farm. This is especially frequent in eld settled communities. For years the hard- fisted owner, who didn’t believe in “ new- fangled notions,” kept skinning the old farm, until it was good for nothing but:to help hold the world together. Fora young man to take hold of such a farm as that is as discouraging an experiment as to pump all day, under a broiling July sun, at a diy well. To re-fertilize itis about as much es the farm is worth. Look over your pros pective purchases with a view to find out what they have yielded, if you don’t kncw the owner has not been one of the skinning sort. ; iio Stained ain .