172 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     Quarter-Master—Captain Edmund Cameron. 
     
     Surgeon—Stephen Rice Jenkins, M. D. 
     
     Asst. Surgeon—G. Gillis, M. D. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ARTILLERY BRIGADE BAND. 
     
     Leader and Conductor—J. Worth. 
     
    
   
   
    
     82ND “QUEEN’S COUNTY” BATTALION OF INFANTRY. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Captain F. Dogherty, promoted Major. Lieutenant Isaac 
     
     Henderson, promoted Captain. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Provincial Legislature opened on the Ioth of March. 
     
     1883, by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor. The guard of 
     
     honor was under the command of Captain D. Stewart, accom- 
     
     panied by the band of the 82nd Battalion, and the salute was 
     
     fired from Fort Edward by the 2nd Battery of Artillery. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Queen’s birthday and Dominion day, witnessed the 
     
     usual cheerful salutes of 21 guns each ; and as customary, the 
     
     Rifle Association held its annual meeting in August. There 
     
     was a large gathering of competitors, nevertheless they com- 
     
     pleted their various matches on the third day, there having 
     
     been 67 prizes. 
     
    

    
     The local militia was ordered in camp at Milton, during 
     
     July, to receive the annual twelve days’ training,under inspection 
     
     of Deputy Adjutant General—Lieut. Colonel Pennyman W. 
     
     Worsley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the night of the 24th of February, 1884, about the 
     
     hour of 12 o’clock, as the citizens lay peacefully taking their 
     
     rest, they were suddenly awakened by the terrifying cry of fire, 
     
     accompanied by the ringing of the alarm bell. Assembling on 
     
     Queen Square, flames were observed issuing from a store on 
     
     Richmond Street, opposite the Post-office. At this period, a 
     
     row of wooden buildings ranged from St. Patrick’s Hall to 
     
     Queen Street, which were then occupied by various business 
     
     men as printing establishments, jewelry, grocery, dry goods 
     
     stores and offices, too numerous to mention, but of which, 
     
     notwithstanding the constant play of the fire engines, and 
     
     praiseworthy exertions of the fire department, all were con- 
     
     sumed. Nor were this all! The devastating element not 
     
     content as it were with the destruction already accomplished, 
     
     wafteditself to thesummit of the Post~office, an edifice towering