The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-07-12
Later Foreign News.

e'Hgehee from California and the Unite
1'eS East' than what we had by the Palmer. Til
latest dates by the Kathleen are San Francisoo. Inn
O. Ne" York, Nay Il, and London, May 6. W
copy a few items:
California.
Judge Terry was a~rraignei On the 9TH jane i, N
IouI'n District Court, san Francisco. On the ipJfct
mpnt charging him with killing David c Broierick
lie pleaded not guilty.
Judge II. p. Hlun. late United States Senator die,
at hrs brothers residence in Marv-vnIe ,bo,t |,
. CLOCK On the morning Of the 9Th instant lie va,
tHsh 'ne day before with a violent fever, and died
the next day. He was buried on the 18th.
An engagement took place on .June u - De-
ramid Lake. between a comnanv If VoInntoo- -.
large BODY OF Indians. The whites lost three m o
feated. N'' ( ue-
The Eastern States.
nave intelligence from the Eastern States to
The Chicago (Republican) Convention was IN COS
SION IL IS distinguished by the decorum and order
that mas 50 far prevailed. \ ballot has not vet been
yaEen ioT a nominee for the Presidency. Hon. David
"Ihot mas been elected TO preside over the Conven-
The japanese Embassy had arrived at WASHINGTON
They were received in an appropriate manner.
IL has been discovered that Postmaster Fowler. NJ
Ne" York city, is a defaulter to a large amoun,
some accounts say 500, 900. An invesfiga,fnn bo3
been ordered. "a
At n Democratic meeting at Atlanta, Ga the
Postmaster defended the Charleston s~eceiers. and de-
nOunced Douglas az a traitor 10 tho Democrocr 81
the South. Mr.. Yancey made a lengthy and siniIar
speech. The National Baltimore Democracy was de-
Tended by Col GaskilL. The meeting adjourned for
4 week.
Europe.
Adviees from Europe arc to the 9th May:
The Reform bill in the English House If Comuors
had passed n second reading.
Lord John Russell has stated that the English
proposition for the settlement Of the San Juan Difficult
ty had been rejected by the American Government.
and that future action depends upon Secretary Caes'
reply to the last English dispatch.
There IS no change to note in the aspect of CONT
mental politics. Rumors were current of renewed
troubles in the interior of Sicily.
Foreign Summary.
Forrest, the t~ragedian, has expended over 800. 900
in his attempt to free himself from his dear wife.
\ young lady elegantly dressed, and the daughter
OF respectable parents, was seen drunk in the streets
of New York, one day.
WHALE SKIN L~EATHER.-Leather, made from the
skin of the white whale of the St. Lawrence is now
for sale.
The prince imperial of France entered on his fifth
year on the 10th of March, and he is pronounced pre-
cocIoCs because be can already read, write and ride.
About $50 Yankees visited London to witness the
tight between Sayers, the English Champion, and
Heenan, the American pugilist.
There was n black rain NJ Syracuse, Y. Y, on
the 9th of April, the drops resembling faint ink.
Everybody and everything was spasered. One man
has saved up some of the sediment to a~nalyze.
Messrs. O'Reilly and Speed, the great telegraph
men, propose to construct 4 line of telegraph from st.
Paul, Minnesota, to Puget Sound, within two years,
without any other aid from the Government than the
the right of way.
The manager of a London theater offered Tom
Sayers n larger sum than he ever paid to any actor
or singer If he would appear at his theater for one
night in fighting costume, with his belt and cups.
But Sayers declined, fearing he might be arrested by
the police.
A Mr.. Albert Stein has been found guilty of sup
plying the citizens of Mobile with poisonous water,
and fined $1,000, he having used lead instead of iron
pipes for leads in the water works of that city.
There were nearly n thousand dollars worth Of gold
used on the coffin Of Mrs. Edward Shipper Burd, who
was buried in Philadelphia The plate, handles, and
heads Of screws were of solid gold.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has affirmed the
validity of the law making it penal for retailers to
sell liquor to 4 drunken man, and declaring that the
owner of the establishment Is responsible for the act
Of his barkeeper ON this behalf.
The city Of Rome was literally flooded on a morn
ing in March with large handbills containing only
the single sentence, - Union under the constitutional
government Of Victor Emanuel" The policemen
were kept busy removing these p~lacarls, but they
re-appeared again as fast as they were destroyed, and
the authorities were alarmed with fears of an i'm
mediate revolutionary outbreak. II was even re-
ported that the Pope had sent a messenger to prepare
him a place Of refuge in Spain.
CONSUMPTION OF FOREIGN SrRIrs.-The impor-
tatiOn OF foreign distilled spirits into the United States
in the year 1853, was very large, amounting to
So, 3OO,GSO or nearly a million and n half more
than in 1858. OF this amount SO, $685. 5S was
brandy, the largest amounted this article ever received
IN one year. The amount of revenue collected from
liquors was S2,076,9OS-
Cas- THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS SKIx.-A paper
in Alabama mentions that there is an old negro
pilot on one of the Chat,ahoochee river steamers,
whose skin Is changing from a jet black to the flirest
white. His neck and arms, as far down as his fir
gers, are of n smooth, soft. delicate whiteness that
would rival that Of the tenderest, purest Circlssian.
His lips are Of a soft. rudGy hue, and his face and
holy are beginning to show the same radical, WON
derful change.
4 NOZZLE QUEEx.-It is told Of Queen Victoria
and If il is true, It is one Of the best things she ever
did, and reflects much credit on her-that when an
African Prince sent an ambassador with valuable
gifts, and wished in return to be informed the secret
of Britain's power and glory, she handel the ambas-
sadOr an elegantly bound copy of the Word Of God,
aud said Tell your Prince that here is the secret
of Brita;u's greatness
NATURAL GAs-The Kanawha (Va.) Republican
says that near Maiden on the kanawha river, on the
Western Alleghanian slope, a party, in boring a salt
well in 1874, struck a reservoir of gas, which was So
powerful a. 20 shoot the whole boring apparatus, con-
sisiing of one thousand feet Of poles and a sinker
weighing FIVE hundred pounds, into the air like an
arrow. The stream Of gas Is three inches in diameter,
and has been blowing up with undated force day and
night for sixteen years
CAyIPHoB1I-The Wheeling IsfeLfgeHcer Of the
10Th, says Something over n year ago, the child
of an estimable citizen Of this county, who lives some
distance from the river, in taking n bone from a dog.
was snapped at and severely bitten by the animal
upon the arm. The wound was quite n severe one,
was soon healed up. but upon the coming Of the dog
DAYS 1t re-opened, swellel the arm and became pain
fully sore. by the application of powerful remedies the
wound was again healed up and the dog was killed,
but the child, before one Of the most active and intel
Iigent. has become idiotical and has fallen into the
gross habits and actions Of a dog, much 10 the distress
the parents and the establishment Of those who are
with the case, and are Of course u%nableto
recount for it."
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