The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-02-04
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

speed ever made on the ocean, was by
4p Flying Scud, $50 miles in "a hours.
"a, the peoples candidate for Mayor OF
an out-and-Out teetotaler-
h Is received Of the confscation by the
ernment of all the property Of Louis
its reach.
-Strasburg has issued n circular re-
= persons IN his diocese to burn all
es, and all books and tracts whatso-
by BiOle Societies, which may be in
FORK Tribune has the following cool
Several men were shot at the polls in
{ on the whole, the day passed OFF more
Usual"
ming spectacle" says the New York
a sturdy fellow, with a cigar in his
cost rs much As a loaf of bread, follow
mIsic and carrying a banner with the
Bread or Work"
allies, embracing about eighty persons,
I'D into the poor house at Grafton, Mass,
since. Town rates, for support of the
be high in other towns than Grafton
Eket Patriot.
Is. Belcher s Brothers, the large sugar re6ners
tuis, have been experimenting upon the syrup
hinese sugar cane, and pronounce it to be in
Of producing sugar In any quantities, as it
granulate. The new zane will, however, be
ed on a small scale for molasses, for domestic
for feed for stock, and will contribute some
"a equaIize the demand and supply of sugar.
1 sreat American Encyclopedia of the Messrs.
ION, announced as in preparation - ago,
Sr advanced that the first volume may be ex-
| about the LIST of December. This Encyclop@-
b be entirely new, every article being written
Sy for IL. Names Of eminent living personages
introduced. The work is complete in fifteen
! Ms Ga.-ra Rfn1ov .n1 CHARLES
ke the editors
eently paid $4,000, to drunken, worthless
a pretty little blue-eyed girl, for the right
call her his own daughter. An expensive
ct him come to this city, and he can nave
he asking-N. Y. paper.
DUsEs IN SAN FRAScIsCo.-It appears by
licenses in the office of President Burr
be $40 licensed liquor bars in this city;
uIne that at least ten others have escaped
of the Collector, so that we have $50
are generally open from Q A. NJ. till past
bd we estimate that they dispense on the
but sixty drinks each, per day. Some do
is amount of business, which will offset
sales are much less. These drinks are
cents each. excepting in two or three
heir lincenses for State and County pur-
average $50 each per quarter, and it il
hat they give immediate employment in
the bars TO at least 1900 persons We
efJTe sum up the statistics as follows Nun
:, $50; drinks dispensed, $4,000, or one
sery two persons in the city amount ofliquor
], averaging one gill per drink, Ga low esti-
brer o gallons per day; revenue to the
hd County, ga 800 per annum; amount ex-
by citizens for drinks, about 5000 per day.
TOca Talk.
bOUsE FOUND EIGHTEEN FEET BELOW THE
--u-.n- ~T, -&-.-s
Rsyille, Ind, last Tuesday, the workmen came
he remains of a cabin, eighteen feet below the
Of the earth. This wonderful su5terranean
1as about twelve feet in length, formed by up
Is set In the ground, and boarded up with
truncheOns, secured by wooden pins The
&neheOns and pins were partially decayed,
stuck together. Within the walls were
ftions Of an old fashioned spinning wheel. n
maui, several pairs of boots and shoes, and
Itical charred stick which the former occu-
Y the house had used to punch the fire with.
Iis Republican, Nor IA
pr the most amusing instances of external
remember to have witnessed, says Black
Rgazine, was in n Madrid club, where every
srds u O'Clock, a rOuge-et-noir table
easionalIy it mas happened that when the
the hottest, thSfable strewn with gold
ogeruess TO be read on the flushed coun-
leaned over the green cloth, there was
efreet without, the tinkling Of the bell
$ the passage of the Host. Instantly
suspended, the gamblers knelt upon
ON the fiOOr, crossed themselves and
4ers while the cOnsecrated wafer passed
pine dying mans bedside. The sound
the steps of the priests grew fainter,
lied away, the gamblers resumed their
b graspe,l their gold, and stretched their
once more it was rouge gauge ct la coul-
kEsrcAS CoxGREss.-Elections for members
nse of Representatives of the next Congress
been held in all the States of t6e Union,
blowing result LIS democrats, gSSepub-
ii know-nothings; total 234. The House of
atives consists OF "a members-11S men,
htuting a majority. 1t will be seen from
that the democrats have a clear majority
ktwo over the combined vote of the Republic
Know Nothings. This majority will be
20 twenty-five at an early period of the :.
the admission Of three Democratic mem-
Zthe new State of Minnesota. 1t may be
significant fact that six of the seven Terri
lie United States viii be represented in the
press by Democratic delegates. The Senate
Bellows: Democrats, 35. Opposition, %.
Democratic majority 10.
tIMES OF "YoUSG ANERIcA."-The most
Re person to me in our carriage was a young
most elegantly attirei, but with scarcely
= beard, and certainly at most not more than
- He seemed to have been already n very
VEfraveier. His trunks had on them the adj
Eolulu, Sandwich Islands; and he MENTION
incidentally, while he ogled the prairies
his superb e~ye-glass, that he had been twice
on the Mississippi and Missouri, burnt
The waters edge on other rivers, and half-a-
hes run upon snags and sunk; but he did
care about such things, and could always
SELF He had now some notion of buying
Illinois, and asked some of the passengers,
ed like old experienced people, what were
htages of this or that district, which they
Felt deaf of trouble 10 explain to him. He
fheir accounts with scarcely any expression
! but much as a prince might the report Of
rds, and then carelessly remarked that he
ute made up his mind whether he would
~eculate on the land, or begin and build 1
help wondering that the older men did not
at down the conceited little puppy; but, on
Pry, several OF them even left their places
D come and explain to him the physical and
condition of the countries in question:
p The United States
by AND LoxGFRILow IN ENeLASD.-The
the Utica. (N- " Herald, writing from
gives the following gossip concerning Ten
secret that Mr.. Tennyson is an almost hope
a to opium Those who have read his poem
will the more readily believe this story true
pgular character of this production He is
a beautiful little estate on the Isle of Wight,
e mas been At the Lakes for some time past.
lock some OF our sentimental lady readers to
pat the author of the Princess" has .
African head, anything but a handsome
very sensual looking lips. He is by no
Puiar with the mass of the English people;