The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-12-01
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.



Georgia is probably the lightest taxed State in tn
Union. Its State tax is only two-thirds Of q mill Of
the dollar. A man owning 500 Of property pay
only Sc 81. Georgia is one Of the most fourishine
States, also rapidly rising in manufactures as well a.
agriculture.
They have q giant in Ohio who. though but II
years Of age, weighs 396 pounds. and is "a feet high.
He is a son of the celebrated Scotch giant, james
Randall, who exhibited himself at Peale's Museum.
in the old Masonic Hall, at Philadelphia, some ten OF
twelve years ago.
The total number of houses in Boston in 1928 was
about 3OCO, of which 1000 were of brick and the rest
Of wood, and the population. after o settlement OF
nearly 100 years, amounted to only 1900. Now
the number of buildings is probably upwards OF 49,
600, while the population is in the neighborhood OF
175,OOOA
IRISH Wr.-The other day q lady fell of the
Brooklyn boat into the East river; q poor Irishman
sprang over and rescued her. When she was safe on
deck again. her husband, who had been a calm spec
tator Of the accident, handed the brave fellow a shil-
ling. Upon some of the bystanders expressing indig-
nation. Pat said, as he pocketed the coin, "Arrah,
don't blame the gintleman-he knows best mayhap
if L hadn't saved her, he'd have given me o dol
lar ~
The tobacco in Connecticut is now lying out for
driving. Nearly double the quantity Of land of any
former year has been sown to this crop the present
summer. Its value is estimated at 81 ,OOO, 900.
Last year the crop was 10000 cases, and prices aver
aged about II cents per h.. what the price of the
crop of 1859 will average, remains to be determined
by circumstances.
The Smithsonian Institution received by mail a
parcel, which, on taking Off the envelope. seemed to
be n pasteboard box, considerably fattened. On
opening it, however, two thriving, living specimens
of the curious animal known as the Texas horned
frog were discovered; these fellows came all the way
from Huntsville, Texas. quite comfortably in Uncle
Sans mail bag, without food or water.
TRADE TRICKs.-A curious fraud in the sale Of
hay has been discovered in Boston. The hay was so
loaded that a person could crawl into the hole left
near the bottom of the cart, and in this place q COL
ored man, in the employ Of the hay Spectator, was
in the habit of concealing himself while the hay was
being loaded. OF course the live freight was upon
the top of the load when it was delivered, apd the
purchasers little suspected that either themselves or
the animated one hundred and fifty pound lump be-
fore them had been sold. Some OF the purchasers
have paid for him a dozen times over, and begin to
think it is about time to take possession, and an ami
mated but good natured controversy Is going on be-.
tween two of the largest purchasers, as to which has
the best claim to the fellow.
How THEY COLLECT DEBTS IN New YoRK.-There
is in New York a man named Burling, who is the
terror of slow debit and has been known to collect
a bill when all tbS ginery of the law had utterly
failed. A correspondent of the Boston Post gives the
following account of his mode OF operations, as re-
counted by himself
SO Sheriffs and constables = continued he, getting
loud and fierce, will a sheriff go of a Sunday morn
ing to a parsons house and follow him to church,
and walk up the broad aisle with him before all the
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heels, and slip into the pulpit after him before he
can shut the door, and take a seat by his side, and
get up when he gets up, and when he opens the Bible,
open John Jones's bill full length, and lay it down
the chapter and verse, and tell him There's
bill Of horse hfre-pdy 1t before you preach!
But that's what l did-and l got my money, too
And what commission did you charger
8 Fifty per cent
Rather strong L suggested, but still your mode
Of procedure was strong. Do you often get as much
as fifty per cent?
When l earn it l get it. DIR. c. of Broadway
sent me to dun a fellow who lived back in a yard and
kept two bull dogs that he let loose when anybody
came to collect honest debts. l went to him with a
in each hand and DIR. c. bill in my teeth,
and made him pay up. What did DIR. c. offer me for
getting his sixty dollarss He offered me one dollar.
| won't take, it says 1. I'll pay no more, says he.
Pay me thirty dollars, says |. Get out of my office,
Or I'll kick you out, says he, and he kicked me out
of his door and down the steps into Broadway. l !.
goes across TO the - hotel and hires a great arm
chair out of the bar and takes it across the
street and plants il on the curbsfone right opposite
DR.. C.'s Office door, and l lays the bill l had male
put ON a full sheet of foolscap across my knees, hang
ng down, so everybody that went by could read in
black, sanded letters
DoCroR c. To J. BURIING, DR..
For collecting of Richard Roe.
mission, $50 90
And all the crowd kept stopping to read, so that
here was all the while two or three hundred people
on the doctors pavement, and reading first
my bill and then his sign, and making their jokes.
had hired the chair for the whole afternoon, but he
stood this more than fifteen minutes before he
TO the door and says, . Come here, you rascal
md 1 went in and took thirty dollars of his money,
md left the bill r~eceipted.'
But, my friend, don't your i~mpudent ways often
get you into scrapes ; are you not afraid some one
will some day break your head p
. Break whose head ? he Numbered. Didn't
Col. S. of New Orleans, n man that's killed seven
men in duels, when l went to dun him Mt the Astor
he grab ne by the slack of my breech-
IS, and hold me out the fifth story window, and shake
ne there above the pavement, and say, Shall l let
you fall, and break your neck on the stones, or take
you in and kick you down stairs -
WELL said | ,.anxiously. what did you do then 2
What did do? l said, Pay me that money !
md didn't he pull me in and pay every cent?
The intensity of his manner as he thus related his
Exploits, cannot be rendered on paper, especially
when he exclaimed, with closed teeth and the fingers
,fhis round hand clei che, : Pay me that money p