Evening Telegram (St. John's, N.L.), 1880-07-08

              The Evening Telegram. Vol n. Pbioe—One Cent. ST. JOHN'S, N.F., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1880. $3.20 Per Axxum. NTo. 156 Latest by Telegraph. Bradlaugh Served With Three Writs. f GREECE ENROLLING VOLUNTEERS War With Turkey Inevitable. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN LONDON. Excellent Appearance of the. Crops in Ireland. ■ THE PONTIFF AND CARDINAL NINA Halifax, N.S., July 8. Bradlaugh has been served with three writs for sittiug aud voting iv the House of Commons. Volunteering is active in Greece, and war with Turkey is considered to be inevi- A terrible explosion of gas has occurred at Tottenham Road, London. One hundred houses, shops and public buildiugs have been injured. Ris said that the crops in Ireland are ilent, tie Pope declines to accept Cardinal . Nina's resignation. ,-___■ The Evening Telegram. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1880. An emergency meeting of the Guild of St. John the Baptist will be held at half-past 8 o'clock to-morrow evening. .♦♦»->  This evening the Tea Meeting under the auspices of the Cathedral Temperance Society takes place in the Sunday School Room. Tea will be on the tables at 7 o'clock. «_«mm*.  His Lokdship Bishop Jones will leave in the Church Ship on his visitation voyage about the of next week. Rev. A. Heygate, M.A., will accompany His Loid hip as Cli .plait. ._»•«_.. ,  Wk are requested to state that a meeting of the Young Men's Christiau Association will be held in their rooms, Water Street, at 8 o'clock this evening. —. 1 >i» i  Businkss of importance, such as election of officers, &lc, wdl call the members of the Juveuile brauch of the Reform Club together to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock, in the basement of the old Tempe.ance Hail. Mr. Jamkc. Cochrane will give a suitable reward to the person who picked up a set of teeth the other day, if he will only be good enough to leave the same at the Telkgram Office. Without his teeth, Mr C. finds mastication "a difficult task." The schooner Mary, belonging to the Hon. James Fox, arrived at l'lacentia on Monday, with equal to _0J quintals of dry fish. The Mary is only 23 tons and carries but three dorys ; nevertheless she has already made two trips io the banks this season and landed upwards of 350 quintals )f fish. .-m » m.  Cricketana. A crkket match between the Phoenix and Ensign Cricket Clubs was played on the groin Js at Quidi Vidi on Tuesday last. The game commenced at half-past 11 o'clock, the Easign eleven takiug the wickets first. The match proceeded in a satisfactory manner until the second " innings" of the Phoenix, when one of the batsmen who was declared M out" by the umpires, refused to leave the wickets, contending that they (the umpires) " knew nothing about i* ;" consequently the game was left unfinished. U i. to be regretted that this friendly match could not be played without a dispute. The result would, ac doubt, have been in favor oi the Ensign eleven, as five ol the best batsmen of the Phoenix team were out before the misunderstanding arose. Here are the scores : — Ensign CO. First Innings , 104 Second do 65 169 PhcenixC.C. First Innings 67 Second do 48 115 From the Northward. We are indebted to the Twi.Ungate Sun for the following items from tho North ward: — It is rumoured that a schooner belonging to Carbonear, bound to Labradar. put into Betts Co\e lat>t week, hating ou board several cases of typhoid fever. The yacht. Lizzie S.. i»f Harbor Grace, on her \va\ Ui L..•/..dor, Ctf.lv . ht-re yesteruay, liaviug on toaid father McGinnis, bounl to that destination in the discharge of his ...in..-t. rial functions. We have to thank to R. D. Hodge, Esq., (of the firm cf \V. W. &C.>.), tor the following :—About two days ago, Messrs. W. Rousell & Sons of Leading Tickles were successful in hauling GO qtls. of codfish, and were expecting to make up 200 qtls before the " spurt" was over. We are glad to hear that the people of Moreton's Harbor aud vicinity are very wed with fish and it is confidently expected that many will secure by sein« and jiggers a fair catch. Ajso doing well at Herring Neck. It is reported that about Exploits and Little Bay Island the fishery of late lias been pretty go.d. ANOTHER COLLISION WITH AN ICEBERG. Loss of the Brigantino " Titania." THE MATE RETURNS TO THE SINKING SHIP AND BESIDES TO GO DOWN WITH HER. Thk fishing schooner P. L. Whitton, Captain Nickersoif, arrived hefT tasft* eventng with the captain and crew of the ill-fated brigantine Titania, whish was lost yesterday morning by collision with an iceberg. Capt. Lloyd of the Titania, io the course of an interview this morning, furnished us with some particulars of the disaster. The Titania left this port between 5 and 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning, in ballast, bound for Mirimichi, At 12.30 a.m. yesterday, wheu about r>o wiles Southeast of Capo Spear and while running along in a thick fog, the vessel struck an iceberg carrying away her head-gear and starting the stem. On going below, it was found that a large opening had been made in her bow, through which the water rushed so rapidly as to precJ-de the possibility of keeping her afloat, and orders were given to get out the boats with a? little delay as possible. Alter this had been done, and some provisions, &c., put into them, the Titania was abandoned, the boats remaining close by and the officers and crew watching the vessel as she slowly Bettled down. Just before the water reached the main hatches the mate, Mr. John Reeee, who was part owner, insisted upon being allowed toieturn to the ship. Be. lieving that he wished to save some article of value, no great objection was offered, and he was put on board. As soon as he reached the deck, however, he declared his dttermination to go down with the ship, nor could the entreaties of the captain, backed up by tho prayers and tears of the crew (his own nephew included;, shake his purpose. There he stood calmly resolved to sink with his property. He had not long to wait. Soon the water washed over the decks and then the Titania plunged forward and disappeared below the waves, the mite making not the slightest etiort to save himself. Slowly aud sadly the shipwrecked men turned their eyes irom the spot, aud tried to forget the heart-sickeniug sight they had jtiot witnessed. Six hours alter, they weie picked up by Captain Nickerson, who immediately bore up for this port. The Titania was not insured. Ladies' Dresses, Shawls, and Jwss*U dyed at the St. John's Steam Dye Work*. Nov-1 i Bargains in Gold and Silver Watches. Earle's Universal Stock of Gold and Silver Wa.eh._i. must ull be sold before January, 1&80. June 7 Gknts' Coats, Pants and Vests Dyed or cleaned at the St. John's Steam Dye Works. May2l,tf Letters from the People. The Taxes Question. Editor Evening Telegram. Sir,— In previous letters I endeavored to show your readers the position of the Government before the country on the subject of Taxation. During the seven years (inclusive of the present one) since the Government came into office they have accumulated an expense of about £120,00J, over and above the ordinary cost of administering the Govornment of this Colony. About half of that amount was scored off by means oF the Fishery award money which opportunely came tb hand in the Spring of 187.) when the Government was making up its annual budget. The rest of the amount, over £60,000, will have been made Up, by means of extra taxation, by the oruiuary taxpayers of Newfoundland. Now it might easily be shown, if this wore not simply an economic enquiry, how this vast sum has been squandered in ways and for puipoess that do not belong to the administration of Government but for simple party purposes—solely in the interest cf the present Government—aud in order that the present Government may keep itself in power. When the effects of this laying-up policy (obviously an interminable one) are confined to the simple expenditure of money, that, in the case of a poor Colony like ours, is bad enough. With us it is not a matter of choice put biT vital necessity to have the Government a<iraiolstered with economy. In rich countries like Great Britain or the United States, where the accumulated wealth of centuries, or the exhau.tleas productions of a varied and prolific land are available, there is a scope and margin of fiscal resource for a Government to come and go upon, and some colorable pretext for a speculative and enterprising administration to indulge i's ideas in the shape of experimental legislation. There projects outside of the ordinary Governraeotal function, and that are more properly the objects of private enterprise, of commercial sk..K or of the .tmpto. if_Vmt of,__.a,«it;i__. may tin 1 a plape—though certainly not a usiu.l plsce—in connection with ordinary legislation. Yet even there, ho# anxious and painstaking are the public rulers to avoid increasing the annual taxation of (he people, and how much commotion is caused when it is announced that more taxes are demanded by the Government. In our case the subject of taxes is a vital one. It has come now to mean the condition of solvent existence to the thousands of oW people, and even the condition of mercantile continuance to oui best supplying capitalists. The screw has been turned and twisted so often and so long, that the country is pretty well up to concert pitch, all round, and any further distension of the strings will produce a revolution. It is astonishing to ordinary observers that oar politicians— even in their own interest as a class—cannot cc this, and how by their insatiate and cumulative demands they are driving to the wall of desperation the very class (I mean our supplying merchants and independent planters) and the only one, in this country, to whom they have to look for a Revenue. For it has come now to a contest for sheer existence—l mean, of course civil and commercial existence—between the tw> classes,—**.e., the class that live in spite of taxes, and pay them, and tho class that live by tha taxes and collect them. The former nourish the latter, and in the ordinary economy of society are interested in and get value for that division of labor which results in securing the blessings of gocd Government and of civil liberties and rights to the whole. But when any Government becomes such an enormous and insatiate parasite on ihe productive class as to exhaust its energy, absorb its surplus, and threaten its very existence, it is obvious I think that there is "something wrong somewhere"—that the order of things has been reversed—that the candle is beinj; burnt at both enL— and that there must be a disagreeable termination—all the more disagreeable the longer it lasts —to such a condition of things. To come down to details again. What makes the present situations additionally irksome is the fa -L that while the first cost of all goods has been and is steadily increasing, the added burden of Fifteen percent, of additional taxation is still kept on. Thai is our importing merchants and traders have to pay— ■■'••' Ist The increased cost of such goods. 2nd The 15 per cent, on that increased cost— in addition to what they paid last year. And what let us ask have the people of Newfoundland got for to this process of accumulative aud exhaustive phlebotomy ? Exiled judges, a v silenced" opposition, an alienated press—the people's safeguard ! As ever, the wages of extortion have been employed in doing the enemy's work, and the super* tious taxes ground from the very existence of a struggling people have been ivorse than wasted, by being employed to put out the candle that would have snowed their iniquity ! Yours, &c., ECONOMIST, [See fourth page.J NEW ABVEETISBMBNTS. Building Lots T. W. Spry & Co. Property for sale T. W. Spry & Co. The Cheapest Coal yet John Woods. AUCTION SALE. TO-MORROW, FRIDAY, at 12 o'clock, . At tbe office of R. >L Parsons, Esq., SOLICITOK, ALL THE BOOK DEBTS Belonging to the Insolvent Estate ot Walter R. Veale. By order of the Trustee. DRYKIi & GREENE, July7,2m Auctioneers. DISIRA.BLE SITES FOR GENTLIMEN'S RESIDENCES. \\TE are authorized to sell all that delighfully** located PROPER!?, Situate on the North side of Quidi Vidi Road, and extending therefrom to Quidi Vidi Lake in the rear. The above will be sold in one or more Lots to suit Purchasers, and parties desirous of procuring the must deligluful s tes for Building j.urp.ises to be had in St. John's would do well to apply immediately.Plans and particulars on application to T. W. SPRY & Co., JulyBif Real Estate Agents. FOR SALE. Valrable Waterside PROPERTY, (Fee Simple), situate at the East End of the Harbor, and extending along the Water Side 105 feet, suitable for Mercantile Premises.The above will be sold as ooe Lot, or in smaller portions. Plans and Particulars on application to T T. W. SPRY & Co., Jj*tyB,tf Real Estate Agent New Advertisements. ~CoaT! Coal! The CHEAPEST Yet! Now Landing at the wharf of JOHN WOODS, Ex •« Calderbank," 310 Tons bright, round GLACE BAY COAL, of excellent quality. Sent home while discharging at a Cheaper rate than any other Coal in the market. JnlyB, 3i