The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-30
NEWS.

: George W.. futile the well-known proprietor of
lttle's Emporium in Broadway, died from congestion
the lungs. Mr.. futile was the inventor OF the
Fll-knOwn baby.jumper. He took out the patent
II the invention some ten years ago, and has realized
profit on the same of over $50, 000! He died worth
sion, 0OO. He was only so years old at his death,
and was unmarried.
SUBMARINE TE~IEGRAPHs.-A Philadelphia paper,
I Ieaking on the subject OF electric telegraphs' says
here is a wire from Dover to Calais under the Brit
81 Channel. There is a wire from Ostend to Dover,
lder the German Ocean. Dublin and Liverpool are
+ 0nnected by a wire under the Irish Sea. Vienna
and Sebastopol are linked by a wire under an arm of
q tie Black Sea. The Ionian Isles are next year to be
Eled fast to Greece. Algeria is to be fastened to
france, Malta to England, and Egypt to Constantine
PIE. The London telegraph operator, in 1858, will
hold in his hand wires running to the four quarters
1.-THE globe, as easily as d coachman gathers up the
il Pns of a fOur-in-hand.
A HERoEE-There is now staying at one of the
hotels in this city a young lady, who arrived with her
husband from California last week, and whod deserves
an honorable record. 1t is Mrs. Martha Ann Patten,
wife of Capt. Joshua p. Patten, late of the ship
NPtuRe's Car. Her history within the last two
Tears has been one of great interest.
,She was born at East Boston, and was tenderly
eIucated. At eighteen years of age she married
aptain Patten, then but twenty-five years of age, he
having been master of a vessel-the bark st. .Andrev,
Ehich piled between New York and the South Ameri-
can pOrts-and was then off duty, waiting until the
Cornelius Laurence, q new ship, was ready for sea.
shortly after he was married the master or the ship
Neptune's Car sickened as she was about to put to
sea for a voyage around the world, and the owners,
Nessrs. Foster and Nickerson. offered the post to
captain Patten, but he hesitated, as he did not wish
70 leave his young bride. The owners, however, gave
aim permission to take her with him and in twelve
hours after the first notification the young couple
We're on board, and the vessel getting ready to leave
the dock. The Neptune'S Car first sailed for San
Francisco, thence to China, from China to London,
and finally arrived in New York, after an absence of
eYenteen months. During the time Mrs. Patten
unused herself by helping her husband in his nauti-
a observations, worked up the time from the
@ronometers, and occasionally kept the reckoning of
lie ship.
Last August the .Neptune's Car again put to sea,
aud 1t was on this voyage that Mrs. Patterns adven-
lures commenced. As the vessel neared the straits of
Magellan, her husband was taken with a disease in
me head, which finally developed into a brain fever.
he attended to his ship as long as he was able, and
"hen it was impossible to give any personal orders,
found to his dismay, that his first mate was wholly
I competent to take charge of the ship, and that there
IS no officer on board qualified to take the vessel
"o port. He found that the first mate was anxious
Y run the vessel into Valparaiso, but this he earnestly
d@oade, as the crew might all leave and the cargo be
N"uoyed before the consignees could send for the