The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-07-16

| stoppips a day or two, suddenly left, minus the Dapy
and did not return. The landlord happened over -
Dubuque. and mentioning the circumstance 70 :
counle of friends. married but childless, one OF them
proposed to adopt the little one as ms Own. .ne
other Immediately made the same proPoslton' Wiz
a dispute arose as to which of the wouid-pe parents
should have the infantile waif Finally an appeal
was made to the dice box. Quite o number OF people
gathered round the table. interested spectators OF tne
singular contest, and the winner, named hesler' was
greeted with o shout of applause. The Child Is q
pretty little girl three weeks old, and Its neW-'oun'
parents are brimming over with happiness.
A BRIpEGRooN RusTIcArIsG.-John Dean, who re-
Gently kicked up a great hub-bub among the Codhsh
aristocracy by marrying the wealthy Miss BOXER, Is
rusticating in the pleasant little village OF rrahknh-
vile, a few miles east of Riverhead. He is boarding
in the family of Mr.. John n. Sayre, and Is being
tutored and polished by Rev. Mr.. Reed, a Congrega-
tional clergyman, preparatory to his debut among
the fashionables in Fifth Avenue. 1t seems he was
sent down there by his lawyer, and to avoid recognl-
ton he assumed the name of John johnson. The
manner in which his true name and character leaked
out was this wise: A few days after his &trival a
letter was received by the worthy postmaster of that
village, directed to John johnson, ssnd as there was
a young farmer living in the neighborhood by that
name he took it our Of the Office and opened it. 1t
proved to be from Deans wife, anc as it was filled
with such matter as a good wife knows only how to
write to an absent husband, John johnson, farmer,
concluded it was not for him, as he was not the
owner of such a piece of animated luxury, SO he
returned it to the Post Office. and in a day or two
John johnson No. 2, 1. e. John Dean, called and
claimed it.-M Y. .NeUs.
A FEARFUL LEAp.-The Niagara Falls G,sette
says that on Saturday evening a Mrs. Fly-J, = % of
a laborer, jumped over the bank of the Mag its u er.
She apparently struck in the top Of n tree - : !. de-
scent of about one hundred feet, and fell Lr:. there
to the bottom. When she left home she kissed her
children, bid them goodbye, and told them to inform
Mr.. Flynn that ne would see her no more. When
found she was sitting very composedly, cogitating,
doubtless, on the uncertainty of human calculations,
especially when predicated on untried experiments.
She was considerably bruised and scratched, but not
much more than frequently happen in an ordinary
shindv. Intoxication has been assigned as the cause
of the act.
The fifth volume of Macaulay's History of England
is said to be nearly ready for the press, and may be
expected in July. 1t will bring the narrative down
to the death of William I'LL, in 1902. Macaulay is
said to have arrived at the conclusion, already drawn
by the public, that it is wholly useless to continue
the idea OF writing a history Of England down to such
n recent date as he originally intended. 1t is said he
has been persuaded to close his history at the death
of Queen Anne, in 1714-the actual close of the
Stuart dynasty, as reigning monarchs.
DR.. Bellows, the eminent and eloquent Unitarian
Clergyman Of New York, lately delivered an Grafton
before the Dramatic Fund Society, and for the benefit
of that Fund. The discourse seems TO have produced
some surprise among his clerical brethren, as well
as among the stricter professors of religio on of nearly
all classes, as it was a warm enconsiann Dtft
Histrionic profession and a strong argument in fivor
of attending properly conducted Theatrical perform
ances. The Reverend gentleman was direct and
explicit on the subject, as may be seen by the very
nent OF his discourse. He thus stated his
premises, 81 Segin, then by asserting that (there is
nothing essentially wrv"- in the stage, or in the
pla yer's vocation nothing rshich should necessarily
place the theater under the ban of the church, or
the dramatic profession" This is open and above
board, and whatever his brethren or co-religionist,
NAV SLY or think of his premises they cannot but
admire his mode of stating them, as We think they
pnuS pfpS m fhp ability and fairness with which
he argues from them.
BEWARE OF BRANDy.-We warn the good people
of this city, who occasionally take a little "for the
stomachs sake to beware how they drink brandy,
or we should rather say, the red liquid which is
handed out to them under that name. 1t is a we'll
known fact that there Is scarcely a bar-room in the
city, however extensive, elegant or pretentious, that
contains a drop of the genuine article. Indeed, very
little of it comes into the country from France, and
what does come, commands an almost fabulous price
"a price so great, at any rate, as to exclude 1t,
almost entirely, from the retail trade. Indeed, even
with the best will to sell a good article, the tavern
keeper cannot surely get it. The article which he
buys under house lock, and which unques-
tionably has come from France, is nothing more than
a portion of the millions of gallons of g pure spirit
j. e. alcohol, which has been exported from this
country, to receive in France, its coloring and its
flavor from the essential Sc oil of Cognac,'' and then
to be imported back. This is no illusion, but n fact
of daily practice, and it would be safe to conclude,
that any glass which you may take up at any bar in
town, is nothing but colored pure spirit, favored
with a few drops of the poisonous oil alluded to. The
same may be said of the stuff that is furnished you
in demilohns from the wholesale gncers and liquor
dealers, for family use, at the rate of five, six and
seven dollars a gallon. Through the failure of the
grape in France, and immense consumption of the
article of brandy in this country, not one-twentieth
part ofthe demand made upon France can be supplied,
and as the major part of this demand is for high
price brandy, it viii at once be seen, what perilous
stuff, even the most fastidious and careful drinkers
are obliged to swallow The only safe course is,
therefore, to abstain from calling for brandy alto
gether. There is but little good in it, even when it is
best; and it has been saddled upon us as a national
drink, in place of the comparatively harmless bever-
ages chosen by other nations, by a school of red faced
old cocks, who, with the profundity, if not the sobriety
of oracles, yoked our necks years ago, with the notion
that a little brandy was 8 the best thing in the world
for the stomach especially after eating oysters-a
double fallacy as has long ago been proved. We,
therefore, advise that brandy be permitted to go out
of fashion-at least while it is out of the country
Porter's Spirit Of the Tines.
THE NEwBURG acknowledgements CASE OF
IDENTlTY.-The recent murder of a young woman
near Newburg, is involved in as deep a mystery as
ever in consequence of the temperance of Miss
Sarah Bloom, who was supposed to be the murdered
person. The fact that Miss Blooms sister and others
who examined the body, and from certain marks
upon it pronoufsssst decidedly to be her sister, has
been heretofore stated, sss6 i altogether forms one of
the most remarkable cases onSsx
The Newburg Daily News, of Monoa. Sy&th inst,
says the whole town was electrified By the Ssssssunce-
ment on Sunday. that Sarah Bloom had been TsNAi
alive, and then gives a brief account of her. 1t ap-
pears that when Mr.. jenkins left her, near Mr.. Mas
tens house, she found no one 81 home, ard then walked
five miles to a friends in Pleasant Valley, where the
rumor that she had been murdered reached her. She
was Immediately brought to Newburg, and the Coro-
ner, on being satisfied that she was really the Sarah
Bloom, liberated Jenkins, who had been imprisoned
on suspicion of being her murderer The News slys F.:
We have now to record some singular facts con-
nected with the person of Miss Bloom. She remarked
that the person described in the testimony, as given
in the Daily News, was her own description to a
brow correspondlng with tha1 Bn the body. She has
a sore on her left arm, precEeiy as described by her
sister and Mrs. Masten. cut on one finger also
talies exactly. But mosz Singular of all, a peculiar
Jane Bloom identified Se body as that of her sister,
correspuded to Is de<ee that would hardly seem to
leave rod for 2 9 sstion. Can we wonder that the