The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-04-08
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Francisco in the bark Whaf Cheer. on Saturday last.
Mr.. Whitney visits California on business connected
with the Commercial, and will probably be absent
some two months. intending TO return by the first of
June packet. -
SUPREME CouRr.-The April term of the Supreme
Court commenced on Monday last, Chief Justice
Allen on the bench. The following criminal cases
were argued and submitted to the jury:
The King Us. r. Davis, burglary of a clothing store
on Nuuanu street. Verdict, guilty.
The King Us. II. P. Hardy, embezzIement of moneys
of I. Cooper. Verdict, guilty, in the amount of
$50 So.
The King rs. Angel Roche, assault and battery
with a deadly weapon upon Catalina Clifford. YER
dict, guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of
the court.
The King Us. Achun, malicious carelessness in dri-
wing a team. Verdict, guilty, with a recommended
ton to mercy.
The above concludes the foreign criminal calendar.
A number of civil cases between foreigners remain to
be acted upon, when the native calendar, consisting
of some twenty causes will be taken up. These how
ever, are mostly small matters and will be speedily
disposed of, so that it is thought the court will ad-
journ by Saturday.
THE WILD MAN OF THE MoUNrAINs.-We fire.
quently meet with stories of human beings who have
voluntarily secluded themselves from society and led
a solitary life among woods and wildernesses, and have
become in their habits but little removed from 1.-THE
beasts that perish" Such an one lives somewhere
in the mountains of the southeast end of Oahu, where
he has occasionally been seen during the past three
years; how long previously he has been there is I'M
known. 1t is supposed tn It he ran away from a yes-
sci. In appearance he resembles n lascar, and seems
to understand a few words of Spanish, which is the
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deer and hides himself among the caves whenever
his haunts are invaded by hunting parties. On one
occasion he was found by one of these parties. asleep
in a little hut which he had erected in a retired nook.
and after a Struggle was captured and brought down
into the valley He was nearly naked, and quite uu-
manageable, and on the approach of night he was. as
was thought, pretty securely tied, but in the morning
he was gone. 1t is said that he lives on wild hogs,
which he secures by n very ingenious sort of trap,
and the wild bananas and other fruits of the noun
tain. -
STRONG TRADEs.--The present spring has been
characterized by strong trade winds, and at times the
breeze has amounted to u gale, sending the dust in
clouds through the streets into the harbor, (more
especially since the road repairing inhiction COM
menced) and not unfrequently causing the small
coasters windward bound to return to port, and the
large ones to carry smtil sail. Nuu,nu Valley is
something like a funnel, which at the Pail, concen-
trates the currents O: air and drawing them through
its narrow vent, sends them whistling down and over
Honolulu. On such occasions. mosquitoes hide their
diminished heads, and may be found in the day time
roosting in large numbers on the lee side of trees.
Such pure breezes, however, are very healthy, and
no doubt serve a useful purpose in dissipating the
miasma that in a quiet atmosphere would otherwise
exhale from The numerous taro patches in our vicinity.
A LARGE HoG.-An enormous specimen of the
porcine breed, as large as a good sized calf, was re-
Gently captured in the mountains at Niu, beyond
Diamond Head. He was first seized by n large dog,
trained for wild hog hunting, but as he was too much
for the dog, a native rushed up with a butcher knife
and ham-strung him, when he was secured with
lassoes. He measured nine feet in length, three and
half feet through the back, and stood about four feet
in height, and his hide was an inch thick. He had
probably roamed for years the undisputed monarch
of the mountain, and with his savage looking tusks
would have been an ugly customer to fall in within
fact, there would be but little margin for choice be-
tween him and a bear.
THAT CooPER's HAMMER.-It turns out that the
hammer which was advertised last week as having
been found in the Custom House was not, as sup
posed, left by the burglars, but had been in the same
place for several months. This is too bad. After the
poor hammer having been for a time carefully pre-
served in the Police Office. the object of repeated
critical examinations, and the subject of unnumber-
ed hypothesis, its celebrity is suddenly killed by the
discovery that the burglars. after all, did not leave
this otherwise interesting relic behind them.
ELECTION AT KoHALA.-Dr. Judd having resigned
his seat for the district of Kohala, Hawaii, in order
to sit for Koolaupoko on this island, the legal notice
was given by the inspectors at Kohala and an election
held on Wednesday 3lst ult. By letter from Wal
mea, we learn that Hon. G.. Nj. Robertson had re-
ceived a majority of the votes cast in South Kohala,
and that the verbal report was that he had also a
majority in the northern precinct. From the indie
pendent position which he holds as n Judge of the
Supreme Court, Judge Robertson may perhaps be
classed rather as a conservative than o ministerial
member. -
The Bottle NUIsANcE.-After all that has been
said and published on the subject of throwing bottles
into the street, it is surprising that people will con-
tinue the rec kless practice, dangerous in its conse-
quences alike to man and beast. A day or two since,
while passing along in one of our most public
thoroughfares, we anne near being hit by three or
four empty soda bottles. thrown by an unseen hand
over a fence into the middle q the street, where the
first passing vehicle could crush them into sharp
fragments. -
JEu DE Mors "A correspondent sends us the fol-
lowing playful jingle Of words
A gong makes a din, but a cook makes a dinner.
To keep water ont, use pitch-to keep it in, a pitcher.
A poets song Is . lay, hut a row Of bricks is a layer.
A man rides q horse, but . ship rides 70 8 hawser.
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A MoDEI. REPoRr-Capt. Kenworthy, Of the bark
Deiardre, who arrived on Monday. has handed us .
report, which. in its completeness and the neat man
ner in which IL il written. 10 worthy the thauks Of
the psintsA - nonoraAdss