The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-03-24
Foreign Summary.

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The Sheriff of New York City makes nearly so5
OOoa year, all his own.
President Lord, of Dartmouth College, N. H.. who
IS sixty-six years old, was skating on MerrimAc river
last winter.
The New Orleans Crescent estimates the produc,
OF the cane crop for 1853 at $50, 900 h~ogsheads Of
sugar and 450, 900 barrels of molasses. yaIued n,
SO, 000, 900.
A VALUABLE RELIc.-The Hon. J. V. I. Prnvp. OF
Alhany, New York, has recently come into possession
OF the autograph copy of g Aud Lang Syne.'' Its
genuineness is undoubted.
The Monument to Ethan Allen, at Burlington, Vt,
Is completed. 1t is forty feet high. A colossal
statue OF the Green Mountain hero is yet to be placed
on the summit.
1HE MAINE LAw.-The town agent at Hartford
Conn, sold 1888 gallons of liquor last year to citi-
zens, under a law that forbids all sales except to the
sick.
HEAVY TAxEs.-It is said that William B. Astor's
toxes which he has recently pail to the Receiver OF
New York, amounted to S25,000 on personal proper
ty, and 100000 on real estate. Total SS5, 900.
CoNPLIMENTzLieutenant Maury of the United
States Navy, has been complimented by the French
Government with the Order of the Legion of Honor,
as a tribute to his valuable services.
Ten Brock has purchased the motel Louisiana
race-horse Starke, for S 1000. The Louisville Cou-
rier says Starke is the best race-horse in America.
The Richmond Enquirer denounces vigorously and
severely the proposition to give Mr.. Buchanan thirty
millions OF dollars towards commencing the purchase
of Cuba.
The most extensive arrangements are being made
for the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the
institution of lI-Fellowship in the United States, to
take place in the city of New York, on the 26th of
April.
The licensees of over 800 rogues now adorn the
" Rogues' Gallery at the headquarters of the New
York Police. Numerous visitors daily crowd the ex-
hibition room, and look on the pictures with as alb
sorbing an interest rs they view the paintings in any
Broadway collections.
At the late term of court at Machias, Maine,
Thomas Gilpatrick was prosecuted for the valne Of
three tons of hay destroyed by fire by persons intori-
cafed Nth hquor soli by him, and the jury gave a
verdict for the plaintiff. In another case of the same
kind the jury did not agree.
a Patriarch named Solomon Pierce, of Essex, VT,
now 1S years of age, has twenty-three children,
ninety two grandchildren, and twenty-seven great
grand-chil!ren-a snug little Elmily of one hundred
and ~forty-two, and all but eight or ten living in
Chittenden county.
The New York EreRiag Post is responsible for the
following "a shrewd business man, who takes little
interest IN politics, is reported to have remarked that
the proposition to buy Cuba seemed to him like an
offer 70 give money we had not got, for a thing we
didn't want, to a nation that wouldn't sell -
Before a committee of the Board Of Aldermen of
New York, on last Wednesday, Colonel Tai. p. Shaft
ner, the electrician who has been largely engaged in
connection with European telegraph lines, expressed
his opinion that the Atlantic cable had never trans
mittcd n message, and intlmateu the opinion tnat the
public had been hunbugged in rcearti to 1t.
The London Times, in an editorial upon the Mon
roe doctrine points out the extraordinary liberties
taken by America with that document, and says:
80 1t is rather too much to say that with half of North
America in our lawful possession, we must abstain
from meddling in North American affairs, and it is u
still stranger measure to found such n doctrine on
the simple principles of political fraternity propound-
ell by Monroe
Az IpE,-One of the churches in Columbus,
Oi,io ic cunpl:al with ouitp rpSDpctaiip DlrlOrS- near
its entrance, where once n month or ottener, the
members of the congregation meet in social circle,
have a good supper, and enjoy each others smiles
and conversation TO the fullest extent. y tax OF n
dime or a quarter from each attendant provides for
the expense, and gives a large sum annually for the
support Of the church. At Columbus. in the church
to which we refer $500 was raised in one year.
The accident which deprived Prescott of the use of
one eye, says the Salem Register, and subsequently
so impaired the power of vision in the other, was oc-
cas:onei by n blow from a crust of bread thrown
across the room by a fellow-stulent in Commons
Hall, near the close of his college career. THIS SEEM
ing calamity changed the whole currenoof his life,
which he intended to devote to legal pursuits, and
finally led him into that brilliant career as a histo-
RAN in which he has achieved a world-renowned
honor for himself and his country.
UscLE ToM's CABIS.-Copies OF all the versions of
Mrs. Stoves novel of Uncle Toms Cabin have been
procured or ordered for the British Museum. Among
them are thirteen different German versions, two
Welsh, two Magyar, two Wallachian, one Wendish,
one Polish, one RUSSIAN, One Ureeh, liz iriicuHsH,
besides Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and all the Ian
ruages of Southwestern Europe. No novel ever writ
ten ever attained anything like so broad a circula-
ton.
New YEARS GiFT.-Among the presents made by
Louis Napoleon to the Empress on New Years day,
was the discovery to her Majesty that her chamber
opcned into an apartment boudoir-undreamed OF
in sleep and unimagined in previous waking a
door. which the night previous was no door, stood
wide open. The new apartment the wondering En-
I--.t- a1caprnI raC rlnt. lr1nQ 4 N
snlendor: a sstocador," initiated from the famous
toilet chamber of Arab sultanas In the Alhambra;
eouipped with every conceivable and inconceivablc
TOW and trinket of modern toilet devices.
The MoRTARA Casa correspondent, speaking
IF the how Mortara, says: As the foreign journals are
sneakinG of Young Mortara, | will initiate their ex-
annie. He entered the school of the regular pre-
bends of st. John of Lateran three weeks since. lie
appears happy, and expresses no desire to return
home. The Pope pays for his education out OF his
private pursue. On Christmas day, the Pope sent
vounr Mortara n basket of sweetmeats- The next
dav the boy asked leave to thank the Pope, and he
was permitted to do so. The Holy Father received
him most kindly.
We conv the following interesting item concerning
tho odd Fellows from the Union Democrat Of
Sonora:
o;ob, wears lust passed, expended in charity IN diff
-, woys in the several States of this Union, the
s,m of S5. 600, 600, and assisted 235 ,074 OF Its mem
hers during the same time, besides its widows and
orphans who received their special care. Ii nrmoers
At present lis, 900 members and the sum OF S2O,-
600 is required annually by the grand lodge OF the
limited States to perform its necessary functions, IN
collecting its statistics and paying its members, who
are required to meet once a year at Baltimore. AT
its last session it was voted to have a national cele-
bratlon, and a large committee was raised to carry II
into effect. II is to occur in New York city the last
week in April next.
RUSSIAN VIEW OF THE ACQUISITION OF CUBA.
The Russian organ, published at Brussels, in
sneakinr of the Presidents hankering after Cuba,
says: u vo,,a =. fr
,ore disastrous than the Crimean war, which has
cost go much gold and blood to the world. 1t would
10 a war with a nation whose products are the frst
element of industry in all parts OF the world, ana