Yo]. 6. ~- i ii Price—One Oent. St. • ' John's, N.F., FridayEVENING TELEGRAM.Evening, December 21, 18#3 $3.00 Per Annum. No. 299. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. »■ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ■ >» —. a __ AUCTION SALES. - AT byTelegraph. To-Morrow, Latest SATUKDAY. at II o'clock. The North Side, BY(At hisJAMESopposite DURING THE COMING Kooms, JOIi IJKOTIIERBHYNES,& Co ) ' BURNING OF S_G TTi-TSF. STREET, £40. _Xxx_l_*s Season, THeIsTEAM- 200 Pcs Fresh BeeS& Mutton SfflP " 8 ***> WILL BE POUND CHOICE AUGUSTINE," Brln 2 Tbe very Latest, per Hibernian," 7© dozenSMIf&SWhite Cabbage,J£ ° " And Loss of Fifty Lives. and various other articles. dec2l*" NewFruit,a To-Morrow,"SATURDAY, at 11 o'clock. CONSISTING OF: MORE BRITISH By DRYER & GREENE TROOPS OR- 4* Brl* for Ladies! Oranges, Grapes,Lemons Baldwin Apples, Christmas Boxes DERED TO EGYPT. 13 kegs Grapes, 27 boxes Canada Prunes, Figs, Nuts,&c. ■ Cheese, 90 *++ tubs ■■■_■ ■■_■_■■ _ Butter, 22 boxes Butter, 27 chests Onions, 25 brls S 1 Prettiest and most fashion- Onions, lot Turklea, Geese and Ducks, Ladies' Capture of the Outposts i worn. dec2l I Lj I able Novelties in I ■■_■■■ Bows, Pap oi Sontay. To-Morrow, SATURDAY, at 12 o'clock, I Collarettes, Scarfs & try, I in handsome Xmas Boxes. Bflnee Pies, Fancy Tarts, Turnovers, BY JAS. '■'**■ I an appro- Tartlets, Pies, Jellies, etc (At €ST Each Box contains* Halifax, N.8., Dec. 21. hi* Rooms opposite JOIJ BKOTIIEKSHYNES,& Co ,) m **\ The I ■ ■ ■______■ prlate London Bridge, Quiver, owing to Fenian To-Morrow, K3T All the above Goods to be had only from threats. SATURDAY, at 2 o'clock^ H_r CONFECTIONERY, The British ByDRYER endless in variety. military force in Egypt will be & GREENE, BLACKWOOD & immediately raised to 160 seen by the following Advertlaliiff -Raww*. sound one, as may be Fifty Cents per Inch or first, insertion, statement:— Side, every continuation 10Cents per mob. RECEIPTS. North 1882 £201 18 10 The mud*; on hand Dec. 10th, arrangements tor three Balance Received for rent of Hall and Dwel- _C STREET, S4O. six or twelve Months. 14H 17 0 a WATER. i lings ~ —^ For monthly dues, entrance fees, fines, &c C33 11 0 MnTovlty,per ExpffVM from Montreal, and * Nova Scotian' maoa from Halifax. .fl)B4__7 4 EXPENDITURE. **""" J. HYNES. CHRISTMAS GOODS!! (gveniiuj Selejram. Mortality and sick benefits 237 11 4 S_f?* For the Retail Trade. Janitor's, Secretary's, an«l Band Finest Nelected 21, 1883. Teacher's Salaries, Water Rates, FRIDAY. DECEMBER Gas, Insurance, Repairs to Hall and Dwellings, coals, amount °^ from 1/4 per lb. of ground, fcli-U.j in 20 lb. Boxes, AllLetters for publication, and all lat- advanced onfurchase FRENCH COFFEE, yPI &c 494 9 0 in i-lb., Mb. and 7-lb tins, ere containing any communications should ■ in half-chests, all prices, the Best Total je732 0 4 ■-i--""J I| P 11 in town. bo addressed to W. J. HBRDHR,Proprietor As used in Paris, kill value offered, procurable and Publisher, Gregory's Lane, St. John's Balance on hand this 13th Dec, 1883.£252 7 0 •lust received, and for aale at FRFNPHrrstiNon POFFF in ''lb., Mb., lib. and 7 Newfoundland, or to A. A. PARSONS It oannot but prove a source of heartfelt satis- J., J. & L. FUBLONG'S. faction, not alone to the advocates and pro- decl9 cases ; this is a special article only to be had from us. REPORT moters of the great and glorious cause of Total but all interested the ad- On Sale by LIGHT BROWN SUGAR in 2 cwt. barrels, guaranteed Of'ttae Officers of the St. John's Total Abstinence, also to in free from Beet. Abstinence and Benefit Society for vancement of onr oonntry and the moral and the year ending Dee. Otb, 188*1. social elevation of its people, that the continued DHYER& GREENE New Fruit—Valencia Raisins, -r» progress of that cause continues to be marked 2$ in surrendering the and re- In lb. Boxes. The Officers, — high by each signal triumphs throughout the oolony. Grapes daring the past Oranges- sponsible position bald by them Of this fact we have the strongest evidence pleasure in tendering their con- and. Onions. BLACKWOOD & BLAIR. year, have muoh alone from the great accession to our ranks with- dec12 to tbe Sooiety on this its Twenty- gratulations in the year. Anniversary. WEL.COIVIE ARRIVALi Fifth In conclusion, we have to thank you most Day the Sooioty oelebrated per steamship "Hibernian." On New Year's sincerely for your hearty co-operation and its Anniverary marching in Twenty-Fourth by uniform courtesy extended to us on all occasions order through the city, aooompanied prooessional during our term of office. Silver Jewelry. Branch. the course of its by the Juvenile In Respectfully submitted, Old Father Smas progress the Sooiety waited upen His Lordship NEWEST & LATEST DESIGNS, Has just arrived by brought a variety good J. M. LYNCH, President. above steamer, and such of the Most Rev. Dr. Power, by whom it was com- which for Beauty of Workmanship can- things, funny things, and useful things; and no Xmas or Evening Party F. J. DOYLE, Secretary. not be surpassed. will be complete without some of the Old Gentleman's Luggage : plimented upon its numbers and general appear- After the adoption of the foregoing Report, i?> Hon Bong, fturprlfte*. tne Clipper. Cosaques, ance, His Lordship at the same time exhorting Warranted in Material, Hunt the election of officers for the coming year re- —AND AS— Jolly Boys Holly tho members to strict fidelity to their pledge. & Girls, & mistletoe Berries, sulted as lollowa:— IN" _E»_o.io_ei and hundreds of FUNNY THINGS. The Sooiety next paid its respeots to His Honor J. M. Lynch, re-elected President. as is consistent with the quality of the vaiious O»11 one! oall all! oall ©airly! Sir F. B. T. Carter, Administrator of the Gov- W. J. Myler, V.P. articles. the J. J. Bates, Ist Assistant V.P. ernment, who wished Sooietw every suooess J. O'Neil, 2nd Assistant V.P. dccis,2w J. A. WHITEFORD. AT CHEAP CASH SHOP. in its laudable and praiseworthy undertaking. T. Brine, Ist Treasurer. J. J. Clancey, 2nd Treasurer. After leaving Government House, the So- P. J. JUST OPENED, Doyle, Secretary FOE SALE CHEAP, EDWARD SMITH & Co. Cochrane, R.Steacklum, Grand AND oiety marohed through, Duckworth Marshal. 240 Tina assorted Confectionery Messrs. Daniel Clatenoy, and Temperanoe Streets, up Water and St. William Kielly, and 200 KoxeN Conversation Lozenges J. Patrick's Streets, and down New Gowcr and P. Walsh, were appointed Assistant Mar- 40 Roxes Pure Glycerine Soap shals for year. Duokworth Streets, to the Hall. The following ensuing feci. E. M. ARCHIBALD. BUILBERS'SUPPLYSTORE RESOLUTIONS: Bands were in attendance and discoursed sweet Resolved—That the thj BY THE "ROSEBUD" WE HAVE RECEIVED A SHIPMENT OF and soul-stirring music during tho en ire route 'hanks of Society bo tendered to Hi•; Lordship the Most Rev. Dr. of procession:—Society's, Star of the Bea, Power, for the interest manifested by him in all RI^RESHMENTS. matters oonnected with the mill. SL'KfrCKIUKIt be«;s to inlorm Prof. Bennett's and Fife and Drum Band of the welfare of the So- public ciety. JL the that she is now prepared to fur- Juvenile Society. nish DRAIN J?IFES, Resolved—That the thanks of the Sooiety 4, 6, 7 and 9 inch. We certainly feel proud of the compliment be given to the Roy. John Scott, Spiritual REFRESHMENTS, the ton New Year's Day by the Director, for the great interests taken by him SUCH AS AND I* STOCfK—THE _d-IANCE OF OUR paid Sooiety up young men of Hoylcs' Town, River Head, and, in the progress of the Sooiety. Oysters, Mutton g Resolved—That the thanks of the Society be Pies, CHIMNEY notably, Princes Street—the latter, at great given to the Very Rev. W. Forristal, Adminis- TEMPERANCE DRINKS—of all kinds. TOPS, expense to themselves, having erected an arch trator, Revs. M. ALSO, KT*which we will sell cheap before stock-taking. P. Delaney, F. Howley, J. wbioh was most tastefully decorated. Ryan, Very Rev. M. A. Fitzgerald, President Bt. Bonaveature'n Revs. D. CHOICE TOBACCO and CIGARS. In conformity with a resolution of the Society, College, O'Brien Itlrn. JOII.V «'-lAIttBKKS, WILLIAM CAMPBELL. and K. Tierney, for their assistance in promot- -*, 120, Water Street. that piece of land immediately west of the Hall ing the welfare cf the Society. KP* Refreshment ItooniH Upstairs. decl7,tf and owned by Capt. Graham, was purchased* Resolved—that the thanks of the Sooiety are documents wore executed are due and hereby tendered to the Editors of looal the necessary and for ON SALE. newspapers publishing Annual Reports and Ex Brigantine vKing Bird" from now in our possession. other business of the Sooiety gratuitously. P.E.1., A CARGO OF OIF1 -tNTOFaLT7-E_l= AJCTRIOA. On tho 10th of June, tho Sooiety was pleased At a special meeting of the Society, held in to present Mr. John Darmody with a Sash of the Hall on the 16th inst., the following members Oats, Potatoes. Turnips, were elected Guardians of the Juvenile Branch Parsnips, Hay, gtraw, very condition*. pay- Honor and an address in recognition ot his ser- rpiMS Company la liberal In all Ita terma and On for the ensuing year :— CABBAGE and CARROT*. X nient of $5 a Policy for 81,000 oan be issued for 12 months—payable in case of death by vices to the Juvenile Brand as one of its Foun- Michael Hiokey, L. J. Goran, accident; or $5 a week whilst assured is laid up. Thomas Walsh, A party recently insured in this Company met with an accident to bin hand, and for several ders, and for the able manner in whioh he dis- Robert Smyth, JohnBurke, John Dwyer, James dcci? R. HARVEY. weeks he received an indemnity of $5 a week from this office. Dwyer, Thomas Brown, John Camoll, and P. J. Permission is also given to travel in mostparts of the world without extra Premium. charged tbe duties of Guardian. O'Neill. Claims are paid immediately on satisfactory proof of injury or death. Accidents ofall kinds are On the 10th of October, 93rd Anniversary of Signed, TOILET SOAP, insured against. J. M. For terma, prospectus and other information, apply to Father Matthew, the Great Apostle of Temper- LYNCH. Just received, per *' Novascotian" from Liverpool, the exterior of the Hall was deoorated with President. a consignment of AUGUSTUS 0. HAYWARD, anoe, F. J. DOYLE. 4eelT General Agent for Newfoundland. flags during the day and at night the interior T. A. Hall, Dec. 19th, 1883. Secretary. __BM__BgM_-B_i-__M-MM-M-_Bff-"-----!"■■■-^-■--■---■---■-■-s------was beautifully illuminated, and at the same Toilet 8oap» aa under time there was a grand display of fireworks. A -_E3y tli© S*uLl_>so__-11_soxr, 6 gross Glycerine Soap, 14 doz i-lb bars—special Soiree was held; the attendance at whioh being quality, 5 doz 1-9) bars—special quality, 5 gross Floating large, it a suooess. CHRISTMAS(By permission of the Magistrates.)CAKES! Soap. sa:Fg, rendered complete The above will be sold at lowest remunerative ANSl's* The Beading Boom and Library are at present prices to close sales. XT Xow In the time.—Selling Cheap decB E. in a very favorable oondition, and it is pleasing A LOTTERY M. ARCHIBALD. At to note that tho attendance of members is steadily Will take place on Friday Night, West-End Furniture Factory, increasing. The Billiard Table, with the other Opposite tho premises of Springdale Street, and also opp. Alan Goodridge k Sons, Water Street, simple games, viz.: ohess oheokers and dominoes, MESSRS. BOWRING MILCTCOW, BROS. A Belonging to the Estate of the late Mary Squirea. afford great amusement to the Sooiety generally. dec2o2l J. J. mi lUcGLOUDY. Apply to or. The great success WALNUT DRAWING ROOM SUITS, of said is entirely due to the W. K. MURPHY, MICHAEL KEARNEY, In Plush, Brocade and Hair Cloth, Marble-top Sideboard*—Queen Ann styles, Walnut unremitting attention of the Committee of Man- decl2,tf Executor. Bellviiu. Chamber Suits—Marble-top and Pannelled ditto, Walnut Extension Tables, Marble-top, Centre, NOTICE! Bouquet and other Tables, Smoking Cnairs, Patent Rocker, Easy and a variety of other Chairs, agement. The Billiard Table and all properties Children's Cots, Cradles, etc., Iron and Wooden Wire, Spring and other Mat- ti Bedsteads, Woven, in connection with the Heading Room and GIVE NOTICE tf at I will not be asses, Couches, Sofas, Foot Stools, etc., PictureaLooking Glasses, and Mouldings. Pictures framed responsible fur any PlUm Upland to order. (ALL AND SEE FOB YOU It*LI. YEN. Library are insured. I HAT! 00te»tf THOS. _o_o3A._Fl__lNrS_ The Juvenile Sooiety is in a very progressive -j^J«£T3S^_»^| JUST RECEIVED, state, the cause of whioh may be attributed to contracted by the crew of the Bella Rosa." ex steamer "Coban" from Montreal, the great care and attontion of its Guardians. It " And In Store for Winter Sales, should bo tho ohief aim of this, the Adult, JAMES BROWN, DMSS decl9,3i Master 500 B™ Society to forward by word and action the inter- Ibttlmtt FOE (Sompmm"* JUtfwrairr ests of the Juvenile Branoh, that it may be pro- Prime No. I Timothy Hay, F_L_R._E__ _A._CV3D ductive of the salutary effects upon the general (bales about two cwt. each.) lLil_F*_E__ FOR HOUSES. advancements of the Sooiety originally contem- BY THE SUBSCRIBER SS»EXCIiIiIiE\T •apitai, ISO Barrels Tluree MiUion Pounds, Stg., £3,000,000. plated. — decio.tt JAMES MURRAY. P ,nM Wto It has pleased Almighty God to remove from X8 *»44,5»«13 7 GREAT REDUCT lON T^r.'..upon the revenue of igjo" 30,06« IT O our midst during the past year the following LLfejPremlums, In 1881 ' ._.__ Interest 15T.000 O « brothermembers, viz.:—Joseph Healey, Thomas 101,000 o o D *yer, James Bulger, Capt. William Whittle, Head Offices : Sw&tt WM. EALES, and Riohard Walsh. The Sooiety attended their LFURLONG'S, dcclo,3i Tuns.429, Water J., Ladies' Black and Brown LOWDOtf: 1 Street. 1.ink HOOBEGATE STBEET. funerals and the usual tees were paid 3 mortality *_r-Tv, KING STREET to the relatives of last four mentioned, the first For Stile. to effect Insurances on all "kinds of property In » not being entitled to a mortality fee according to BY DRYER& QREENE promptneaa in settling losses, tho A CHOICE LOT OF FUR CAPES, ,%:6andLlfelnBllrance*"« constitution. Newest and very Styllsb Wake, a largo obtained at the offlceof and all other information car bo ' The ball, dwelling houses, flags, and regalia Turkies, Geese, Ducks, assortment of all sizes to select from. A HATWARD, St. John'_, are insured in tho Manchester Insurance Office. dec 13 _ * Agent Fowl and Sausages. any Norway* tor Newfoundland. The financial position of the Sooiety is a dec2o Ex steamship "Nova \TIIB. Better than ° Scotian." M. Poi'"s God Liver Oil. THE EVENING TELEGRAM. PAfiNELL§ lurther notice, 0 ond Trains will cd.) aa "«*•■' «race Jnnetlon, (Sundays except- wmmiL MUw. ,- Leave St. John's oft^ Ril av " ; .lII'/.'. 960 «g^Grace Janction i.6op.m . m Hodge Water 2#)" Kelhgrews 1000" « Brigus Pi rFI PRRATPII IR feSf" t™~ „ Junction Holyrood „ Davenport 3. 10 " 3s. 6d JJg „ Salmon Cove « Is. 4, 2s, 2s. gd, 3s and per lb. Salmon Cove {JSJ « M 3.30 . Davenport {}•* „ „ Holyrood 4.00 " I,MKO.n_ DJSMCAT, LePABFIffIK l»IIJ(IKl\ kelhgrews " ( Brigus Junction i2ao«-« m 4.40 dccs,tf Hodge Water Squires' 4.55.." . ". "I " ai , , Arrive at Harbor Grace JJS120 • T 5-07 Junction" 1,2 •• a atfßlSt. John'si : V deelB,tf ° Arrive 0.00 " SKATES! SKATES!! ' ! EC,M-P, gramT_g, Supt. BOOK-KEEPER. Ice Creepers. Ice Creepers. IV experienced Accountant will be A open for engagement at the end of the year. CAUTION -For issale. Advertiser is a teetotaler and can give best refer- ToodWords. Sunday Surplus 10,600,000. Income 11,000,000 VOLUMES "» 1000 Magazine, Quiver, Cassell's 20 doz 24-lbs 3-thr'd Caplin Twine KTSILK The amount of new business transacted during the past year, $02,250,000* is__lotS« Majra/.ine. the Boy's Own An« SSS-PLUBH largest business ever done by any other Company in one year. X7/>t TTTI/r1710 nual—plain and trilt edges, the 100 doz 18-lbs 3-thr'd " exceeds.the VULUJyiJ-jO Giila Own Annual, Little " -I |DOO Folks—in boards and cloth 50 doz 18-lbs2-thr'd " IET BIRTHDAY J MeU,c M.&&&9 an< j p\\t edges, the Welcome B:A..} ■—!■«■. (:loih ) gilt 30 doz 2-thread Genging Twine Hr. ri?IiABVBY? -' VOLUMES ~in - THE EVENING TELEGRAM. money due to the laborers wonld necessity may be. proper cost and charges ; but who paid Sir ment that all (NEW that obligation. But it if not % legal or com- the apparent APVERTISFMENTS. howfreii.ni/ double trip to Europe this be paid the next day (Wednesday); and our pulsory one, for the general welfare of sooiety Ton oannot fee yourselves through other peo- Ambrose Shea's " Who paid Sir Wbiteway'f fix hero" saw there was nothing for it but to return requires that every man should be left entirely ple's spectacles, and therefore it if not possible yew ? William in Europe, two or throe times to Holyrood and bide the arrival of the morrow. IMPERIAL, unfettered as to how, when and where he spends for you to give a fair and correct description of months' absence running, and lost time while he wm fiitlimo" Af he departed, loud and deep were the mur- that accumulation of bis pact industry, capacity your individual personal appearance. Take our " the "French Shore question?" Who? Why, murs of whioh he heard arise from or thrifty firings that are his own / advice, then, any one dissatisfaction and refrain from calling to sure. fitt§wmmt(t>*. Otherwise there would be natural incentive to our toilers of the sea,' be the multitude of men—the majority of whom as a monkey-faced thing "—at all events, until ' NO OF LONDON. tbe cultivation of those qualities of human Yourf truly, HUMBUG. were men of familios—at tbe gross maltreatment noble next party W mere after your meeting! isisi HMR-Vf-B 1803. nature, whioh are, as compared with tbe to wbioh tbey were subjected, their hardships animal action* of eating, and drinking, and THE DOOM OF THE TELE- being inoroased by the faot that winter was set Sa' For Insuring Property of all dMcription. and ■ wearing clothes,' as SUPERIOR as the soul if in and their families were unprovided for. Some ri.k. from Lohh or Damage by Fire. us to GRAPH 'MONOPOLY.' to the body, or as is the great world around of thorn proposed to seize tbe train and prevent but—our home » Subscribed & Invested Capital, that dear !' PERILS OF THE DEEP. Wx are not sorry to learn that the death- its departure till their wages were paid. How- ' us to tbe But thie brings back again more knell of the iniquitous telegraph monopoly if ever, to be brief, Mr. McCarthy went back next £1,800,000. familiar What constitutes our local Frightful Collision in from to Harbor Junction, question, A about to be founded. Mr. James Gordon Ben- day Holyrood Grace The distinguishing characteristics of this Com* fish-market and regulates the prioe there ? this only to find that the notice to pay had been re- Mid-Atlantic. nett has made np bis mind to accomplish moved, was pany, are: This however is too large a question to be > s and that his application for payment very defirable objeot, and, in oonjunotion with fruitless. Mr. John McCarthy has no doubt Moderate Bates, Undoubted Security, of a word or two. We have our and Prompt disposed in Mr. Maokay, the Bonanza Silver King, they in- that the orders in question will be honored after and Liberal Settle- own on of fish' and FRENCH BRIG SUNK WHILE ON HER ment of Claims. idea thesubjeot legislation, tend to lay down a new set of cables from Ire- some time ; but he regards it as an infringement no ' tbe oourse of Time* we hare doubt that, in * WAY HOME FROM ST. PIERRE. land to Nova Scotia. Money if of no oonse- of contract that tbey were not paid on the day .J. & W STEWART, —as Mr. Pollock would say—we shall hare an stated; and we think that tbe position ?f the f«:b_7,tey Agents for Newfoundland fequenoe to either, and tho Inue of what they opportunity to draw it out.' Truly baa the laborers at Harbor Grace Junction is tbe worst ' Eighty-Nine Fishermen if therefore certain. Joseph Mc- man said, Counsel in the heart of man is will feature in the whole affair. Mr. wise Drowned. Carthy states that tho atone spoken of as being like deep water, but a man of understanding will placed on the traok, rolled down from an over- draw it out! As this is Christmas time, when hanging at the in question; but papers reoeived per NOTICE AND NO MONEY. bank point all ■ the good folks' would sooner see a smile on Fbom late New York NO whether it did or not, the police will find in tbe we intelligence of » Evening one's face than hear all the philosophy of the Nova Scotian yesterday, get circumstance* here related a reason as to how Despatches. by whioh JosephMcCarthy's Boot- oame stated that eighty-nine Greeks and Romans, we don't want to trans- a terrible marine disaster it there. It may be farther French fishermen, while on their way home from some twenty of the men at Harbor Grace gress the boundaries of the traditional idea— less Errand. a What They Say at the Cape. St. Pierre, were suddenly launohed into eternity. Junction asked to be accommodated with pas- tbe oompliments of the season !' St. train, ' by the sage to John's in tbe but were all The latter is a much more acceptable style of The melancholy event is reported oaptain refused. arrived at New THE REASON HE ASSIGNS FOR A Brigantine and a Schooner talk' than we have heard here lately, and muoh of the ship Thomas Dana, whioh ' The says :— THE STONE BEING PLACED more intelligible. It reminds us of what the York on the 30th ultimo. oaptain in Sight. on the 22nd of Octo- LOCAL VARIETIES. .. late Count Mahoney, ambassador to the court o* We failed from Liverpool ON THE TRACH. I 5 on of (Special to the Evening Telegram.) Louis XIV, once replied to that monarch when ber. At o'olook the morning the 30tb The Cohan left Sydney to-day and is bring- the second offioer oame on deck to take ohargo During the Fall, Mr. John McCarthy, a large Race, he asked him (the Count) it he understood Italian. ing a stock of poultry for tbe Christmas holidays. Catk This Evening. to below. heard produce dealer of the West End, bis desire to 1 Yes, please your Majesty,' answered the Count, and I (oaptain) got ready go I in Wind northeast, blowing a moderate breeze starboard side. Run- oblige the many of the classes Poultby dealers are in costaoies—geese ■ifit is spoken in Irish !' And so we translate a peculiar thud against the people working and weather fiae and clear. The steamer Cur- to ship saw a who deal with bim, received from them, as tbe sold to-day as high as 9/3 per pair; and turkeys our politioal economy' into' the oompliments of ning the side of tbe I terrible sight. of lew passed west at 2:45 a.m., and a large brig- ' There was a small craft that had run plump into same value as money, the laborers' orders on are fetching twenty-five oents a pound. season' by wishing and all a happy «* antine fore-and-afc the each ' and a schooner are now in Christmas!' us and the only thing that prevented her from Messrs. Davenport & Pierson for their wages. Our second page to-day oontains the annual sight beating to windward. sinking instantly like a stone was that she had In many instances he paid them cash for these report of tbat very excellent institution the St. run her jibboom, clean into our starboard quar- orders, and in others, when the amounts of his John's Total Abstinence and Benefit Sooiety. THE "VERY MELANCHOLY!" ter, and her rigging was otherwise entangled customers' purchases did not equal the amount i * with us. But this only kept her bows above of the order, he paid them tho difference also in A sfecial meeting of the Juvenile Total Three's a moral melancholy about the un- water for a moment, and then she disappeared, cash. The following if a copy of one of those Abstinence and Benefit Society will be held in ebaritable tone in which our contemporaries of leaving not so muoh as a bucket floating on the orders:— their Hall on Sunday, 23rd instant, at 2 p.m. the Government persuasion spoak of their poli- surface. Daring the brief moment that she was St. John's, 11, 1883 sharp. Pierson, ,+., FRIDAY, DECEMBEREvening Telegram.21, 1883. to our side men were jumping Messrs. Davenport & this re- hanging into the tical opponents at season of universal Pay Pat. Puroell the sum—of seven dollars Messrs. Bowring Brothers' Kite and Ada- sea from her like rats joicingand good will. One of them, for instance, bows in a panic. Most of and forty-five cents and charge the same to ac- mantine leave Sydney to-day, and it is ex- them were naked, as they has been pegging away, for the past two or three stark had just got out count of pected that they will bring supplies ofpoultry as "WHEN THE STORMY WINDS weeks, at the entire meroantilo community, as of their berths. The moment that their craft Mesers. Davenport & Pierson, (Signed) Edward C. Quinton, well as of fresh beef and mutton. DO BLOW!" if he—" poor muckworm"—believed that our went down I suppose there were about thirty ,+., commercial men had either tho time or disposi- of these men strngglicg for life in the water. Time-Keeper. Bt»ecial Notice.—Our kind patrons are re- Out merchants will employ us tion to take notice of suoh silly and impotent There was no time to think about lowering boats, Aoross the face of this and similar orders were spectfully informed that all advertisements in" To fetch them wealth, we know, writtenthe words:—" Payable Dee., 15th, Then ravings. Another of our sweet journalistic for whatever was done had to be done instantly. 1883." tended for insertion in to-morrow's issue of tbe be bold, work for tfold, Evening Whenthe stormy winds do blow!" friends goes for" a member of bis own frater- My Liverpool crew twenty-two men jumpedinto These orders aooamulated on Mr. McCarthy's Telegram (Christmas Number) must " " sent in not later than 2 o'clock p.m. nity and likens him unto his great ancestor"— tho work like tigers, and my seoond offioer, Mr. hands till they reaohed 29 ia number and We have already stated that about thirteen' " in «-———— * as the late Professor Darwin used oall him Plaff, a German, behaved gallantly. In a very fifty-four pounds eight shillings amount. On Perhaps merchants make tbe price of fish to it wouldn't be amiss to remind cer- ' ' here, and we fished out the date mentioned, he sent the orders to the 1 simply because the party complained of does not— short time had twenty-one men, tain goody-goody people we could name, if the reason why.' Those thirteen are export, office at Fort William to have the amount col- feel disposed to bow down and worship the very most of whom fell exhausted as soon as they praying ing supplying merchants, who send their own undertook tho business, necessary, that it isn't loud that helps name of our illustrious Knight, the Hon. Sir were pulled np. Then, while a part of the crew lected. His son and on them on towards heaven so muoh as giving four fish to market their own vessels. the " 9 in In Ambrose Shea," &c, &c., &c. This is what searched around for bodies in the water, dead or entering the place he met a stout gentleman' quarts for every gallon, sixteen ounoes for a strioter sense of the term these alone are " the writer, lastly referred to, sayeth: Oh, it is alive, the rest made ready to lower tbe boats. thero who, in reply to the request for payment, pound, and tbirty-six inches to the yard; in merchants." All others who deal in the fish fact, to others as you would be done " simply astounding reader ! Only look at it:— But nothing more could be seen, and five minutes told him that the cash-keeper was out and to call doing by. trade are simply traders or collectors of fish" " I would reoommend that monkey-faced thing after tbe collision the surface of the sea was as again. Mr. McCarthy, however, preferred to who bring their collections on to St. John's and Messrs J. & G. Lash's cake lottery was *'in one of our Government departments to keep dear as if nothing at all had happened. We take Messrs. Davenport & Pierson at their word, sell them there. Usually, suoh men have the drawn to-day, Mr. Richard McDonald, M.H.A., his tongue in his oheek and attend to his own stood by from 6 o'clock till 10.30, but saw as stated in their advertisement of Dee. 6tb, best—but this is beside the question. winning the first prize; Mrs. Bethuo, the 2nd ; business, if he oan, and let Sir A. Shea and nothing more. Wo soon discovered that all the that all employes will in future be paid at In process of time, no doubt, the two busi- " Dr. Stirling, the 3rd, and Captain J. M. politios alone. Tbe former got nothing only what men we had picked up were French fishermen, their office, Harbor Graoe Junction; and tbither, nesses of collecting fish and of sending it to Perez, the 4th. Messrs. Lash's supplementary he highly deserved as a native of the oountry. and not a solitary one of them oould speak a on Tuesday last, ho despatched his brother, Mr. of whioh fine market will become divided, and the supply cakes, are unusually this local Young man, take a hint in time !" The bare idea word of English. On the other hand there was Joseph McCarthy, to collect the cash, first, how- season will be disposed of to-night, without re- market more clearly defined. At present the of calling one of our* progressive Government no one in my crow who knew anything about ever, duly famishing him with a four dollar bill serve. local market is made" by the exporting mer- " " officials a monkey-faced thing !" Why, as we French. By great preseveranoe I did manage to pay his faro and expenses of stay. Joseph i»» chants only, as they determine what price they " News has been received by Edwin Duder, have already observed somewhere, there's a to find out that their vessel was a small of enjoyed the ride oat to the other end of the can to givefor the shipping pur- " brig " Esq., to the effect that the barque Olinda, Cap- afford fish for moral melancholy about that appellation that only 190 tons, that her name was the Romsby, line" immensely and was oheered by the pro- poses. " " tain Prowse, had arrived at New York from Per- turns satire into pity and ridicule into con- and that she was from tho Island of St. Pierre spect that now surely he was on the right track" It may be asked whether competition is suffi- nambuco ; that the barquentine Sunbeam, Cap- tempt !" We can't believe it—we wont believe bound for St. Malo, Franoe. Then oame the to get hold of the spondulicks." He was sur- ciently great in the local market to ensure that " tain Woolgar, had arrived at Pernambuco, after it! No ; even if the veracious, refined pol- awful on 110 prised however, on reaching the junction in ques- an equitable price for tbe fish will be given here ? and intelligence that she had board a passage of twenty-six days from St. John's, ished editor of the said so, we men, all tion to see two or three hundred men standing and that the Floaence on What assurances and checks have we on this Newfoundlander returning to France from the Newfound- " had left Babia Novera- shouldhesitate to believe that the Government land fisheries. As there were saved only 21, around wainting for something." When the -26 for this port via Sydney. point ? " ■»« of all the talents" would employ a monkey- this left the number of perished as tall and gentlemanly figure of Condnotor We conoede, in the first place, that the looal " those that It appears that on Monday afternoon last, at faoed thing" in one of its official departments. 89. I suppose most were Liddy emerged from the train, oarryiug under market has always a monopoly of its own, as all that of them asleep in 2.30 p.m., as the railway train was passing True, oertain politioal gentlemen have, some- berths, his arm a small box—' the size of a collar-box looal markets have. The multitude of fisher- their and went down without ever know- ' along a curve between Davenport and f_ r imon times, in the heat of controversy, been called ing what had happened to them. don'tknow the men set up a shout, Ho ! Hurra! Here's men and of fish collectors" are practically con- I " Cove junctions, a rook, desoribed by the polioo " donkies, monkies," &c. a name of a one the money, and here's the man." And so fined to the looal market, by the faot that they " Indeed, if we re- single of the lost, or where any great authorities as being about fifty pounds in weight, want to torn their fish into money as quiokly as member rightly, our excellent friend Judge of them belonged, except that they were all was the scramble for the expected prize, that it was dcsoried on the traok by tho engine-driver. possible. Very well, then, if they wish to divest Prowse was onoe immortalized in verso as a French, and were returning to St. Malo, whioh was with some little difficulty Cooduotor Liddy, The rock was of course plainly seen, and was is codfish removed, no as- themselves of the extra risks of that member of the great orang-outang the great port ofFranoe. I knew that whose impressive and presence injury having been done It if carrying " family;" height gave him serted that it was fish to the foreign market, of every spring—somewhere about May—large placed there with a criminal oaring tor it mean- and unless we greatly mistake, his Worship's an advantage in the emergency, elbowed his objeot, but was not reported numbers of men leave that and the matter publicly while, as well as all other inoidental expenses politioal and poetioal adversaries put it in this port go to St. way through the throng and gained the office. at the time, and it is now said that this was done that Pierre, and the other small intervene between the local' market and very unkind and islands off the New- the better to compass the arrest of the perpe- ■ unmannerly way:— But he had a sharp squeak for it, and no mis- the foreign' one, they cannot' expeot to realise foundland coast to care fish, returning in the trators, and not because tbe size of the rook was as "The skipper caught a Burgeo ape, fall. So see men take. A Torbay boy, who had made repeated too light an obstruotion to cause any damage. uniformly high a price for their fish as other- And screw'd to it a tale!" you these had almost reached wise. home. applioations for his wages, day after day, and On Tuesday some policemen wero despatched Whatever they meant by that! Then, again whose was at last to that neighborhood and three men, one named The iwo branches of business are quite patienoe worn out, exolaimed, cur much-respected Financial Secretary, when Caflsidy and two named Gushue were arrested ; separate—each with its ownrisks, and, of oourse, A FEW LINES FROM " Well, if I knew the amount they owe mc was but it is also asserted with authority that these with its own people. in opposition, applied a similar epithet to the in that box, I'd take it ia spite of Condaotor men are not the actual perpetrators. An inves- present world-renowned We oan easily see how this is so. No sane man Premier of this colony ; "NO HUMBUG!" Liddy, big a man as he is." These unlooked- tigation is going on. would take money out of but, of oourse, no one would venture, on meet* a Bank and put it into They do not intend to live here longer than they for demonstrations made Mr. Joseph McCarthy BIRTH. business unless he saw a reasonable prospect of ing the philanthropio Sir William Whiteway, to can help and are saving the dollars for the joy- quite uneasy as to the of 14th at St. Parsonage. ful hour when successful result his On the instant, Mary's it in _uoh a way as to make a accost him by saying, How are you, my gay they may speed away to Europe Herringneck, the wife of the Revd. John Hewitt, Ifemployingbo profit. " to spend the money wrested from the toilers financial mission. However, nothing daunted, assumes one « risk' only he festive of " of a son. will be able to and monkey-faced thing !' Oh, no ! the sea" in Newfoundland. be struggled through to the office door, and on On the 19th inst., the wife of Mr. James Coady, do with a smaller relative profit ' " than if he as- It would be just as ungenerous as it would be Evening Mercury, Dec, 19th. it, of a son. sumes two or more, for with opening and before he had time to make On the 10th inst., the wife of Mr. John Day- every risk' be as- impolitic—no matter sumes he takes how remarkable the facial known his errand, the door was, we regret to mond, Quidividi road, of a son. the chance of losing'as well. Editor Evening Telegram. oannot resemblance between our Knightly Premier say, closed abruptly faoe, and by no less We agree with tbe theory that a man's " " in his DIED profits and his great ancestor," aforesaid, may be- D.4AR Sir, in business belong to the oountry " a person than Mr. Edward Quinton, the time- This morning, after a long illness, borne with where The above— silly bunkum" occurs in yester- Christianresignation to Mr. Ed- they are made, and no legislature te make such an ill-advised observation in his " keeper aforesaid, who, as all the laborers the Divine will, or juriflpru day's issue of the paper that ward Scott, in the (Htb year of his age. Funeral denoe in the world exalted presence. the people" pay dis- on Sunday next, 2 p.m., from bis lato says so. There is no doubt a for. " are aware, is a gentleman ordinarily at o'clock, moral obligation But let us not pursue the subjeot any farther Let mc ask what do our politicians" do residence, Buchanan street; friends and acquaint- resting on every man—what in " tinguished by a polite regard for tho ances are respectfully invited to attend. we call the same eonneotion. Where did Mr. Alex- might the obligation of natural gratitude until after Christmas. One word more, how- ethios of good breeding," with the ourt On the 20th inst., Elizabeth, beloved wife of the " ander Murray go with his pension" of Five " late John Walsh, 64 Funeral to-mor- —to use a proportion of his profits ever, before closing "--as the Rev. M. " aged years. for the benefit Harvey Hundred a year, paid by our ■ toilers the sea ?' remark that no one was allowed in." Back- row (Saturday), at 2 o'clock, from her late resi- of his immediate neighbors and used in of " " dence, Long's are respectfully invi- of the country to say his lectures. Don't, brethren of Where did Judges ward and forward" turned Mr. McCarthy in his hill; friends xi which they are Robinson and Hoyles live, ted to attend. made. And nearly all in- the press, indulge in naughty comparisons, any At Trinity, December, after a long telligent and who * banished them there ? When our flight, and on reaohing the edge of tbe crowd he on Bth ill- Christian men reoognize and aot upon more. It is a dangerous expedient, no matter ness, Mary, beloved wife of Mr. Richard Wool- " merchants" travel they do so at their own saw, posted up on the building, an announoe- ridge.
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