The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-02-17
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
DEHERRED FOREIGN SUMMARY.

DERB1RED FOREIGN SUMMARY.
In Italy things look very threatening. Sardinis
and Ausu1 ae assuming . very menacing attitud.
10 each other. The combustibles are all stored M
and resdy for explosion-a chance spark may at an,
moment Do The rest,
The Consantinople correspondent Of the Londor
Tines, writing on the 18th of October, says: "Th'
hne American ffigate Wabash, the arrival Of which
I noticed in my last, has caused no small excitement
In the Porte, as we'll As among diplomatists. 1
seems no one vas aware Of the size of the vessel, and
according to the wording Of the application which
was made at the Porte for her passage through the
Dardansalas . vessel Of small size was expected"
The Engiishr Ship Owners are still complaining
bitterly Of the depression Of their business, which
they attribute 10 the repeal Of the navigation laws
not been 20 bad for IS years. The rates of freight
were a. Low some pears ago. but then it cost much
les to sail . ship, provisions and wages being % per
cent. lower. Nos one vessel in ten 10 paying its way.
nor is tbers any prospect Of an ADVANCE, At shang-
all the ports Of China and India foreigners were so
numerou and taking freights It 50 low rates. that it
was impossible to compete with them, especially ini
the cossfing trade and intermediate voyasea,-Bos
Eronr CHrrDnrx AT A Bnm-EoYPr AGAINST ALE
CRxAnos-About ave months since the wife Of Jacob
Abbott, living ten miles west Of Golconda, in Pops
County, peeooatedher husband with eight pledges OF
aGection q one birth I, -Four Of these children sur
vived until some six weeks since, when two Of them
sickened and died. The remaining two are still liv-
ing and thriving finely. The whole eight were very
small specimens OF humanity when ushered into this
world, q might have been expected This statement
10 literally true; it is vouched for by numbers OF re-
spectacle witnesses who saw the four living children
Egypt - . very proiihc country@a little TOO much
%, soneino-Cairo Gazette.
Drm OF Dr. HESaY A DEvoRnr.-One Of the
most useful Of the American Missionaries in the East
for many years was DR.. H. A. Deforest, who died on
the oath Of November, at Rochester, n. Y. State, Of
. lingering and distressing illness. He was born in
WATERFOWL. Connecticut. in May, 1914, was gradu-
ated ut Yale College, where he parsued ms medical
studies, and Vas licensed to precfce medicine before
he was ewenty-0ne years old He settled at hoches-
ter, where he practiced physic for nve years, out ms
professional career was closed oy ms marriage win
Miss C. 8 Sergeant, Of Ssockordge. and his emoar-
cation as . missionary Ior beirut. 10 oyns
Besides ms usefulness As y teaSner, ne . ene
,h~----. : = sm.r;csn ConsuI at Beirut. DISCHARGED
~ consnlar Once He superiptended also the pub
i;..,;on ~ m.nv Ir.b;c traet, and books.
HIS he.lsh ~ length failed. and in 1884. aner a
r-;dcnce Of twelve years in Syria, he came to the
r,;,~d S,a,ss To bs beloved labors in Syria he
r. w. s,,,h w.Ies ne lear, that considerable
-I--s ii -. IN eens~ouence 81 ,he d;scoverv
- - s.Ia. =, Po,t C,-t;. and
IL-s - s~-y.. - 800 ,hs;r dsnar,ure from
aH- ~ d;-~;nr~
'C.sss..Es dss-sSf.cs;o, .x;.,e5 ou;no N the
- = -t;.h m. nos,sI serv;ca u;tb Enoland
".nneI ~ III ~ sa -n,i.s,;.. = a.
"a - arss re- Psnaus ron,s
Va .'eiy - ~. e 1890 aas~
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HAHBons IN wAsHiSsroS i.AsIroEf;-Ine STRAITS
OF san Juan oe fuca' n ns' !. .uee'
Sound form the most magn,noent naroors ON .ne con-
unent-Proosoy sne ~ h'on mp. H.a''e,y,