The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-02-16
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

In Sacramento recently, 400 young American sheer
sold for So %. aud 600 sold for 81 80 a head.
Sirs J. Dean Paul and Strahan, the ex-London
Bankers, have been released by pardon after en-
during four years of penal seryitude.
Mrs. Darlington wants to know. if it were not in
tended that women should drive their husbands, why
are they put through the bride ceremony
The city of Stockton is fairly being flooded with
game. \ sportsman shot in one morning, thirty
nine ducks and geese, ard in the next, ~fOrty-twO.
Ducks we're selling ut one bit each.
WINGED RICIEs-TwO brothers in Maine, by the
name of Rich married two sisters. named Wing, and
have removed from the State. Thus " riches have
taken unto themselves wings and flown away.
A person named Wright, a British subject, is stat
ell by the SurinGm Gazette TO have purchased 23i
slaves. The Anti-Siavery Society have memorialIzed
the Government, and Lord Wodehouse has called
upon the British Consul to make a report.
By a return just made TO Parliament, it appears
that n ship with engines and boilers which had re-
. Gently cost E6S.SO1, was, soon after the expenditure
of this outlay. sold for CO, 300; whilst the engines of
another ship. which themselves cost e67 ,246. were
sold as old iron for CISCO.
The FArIFIc R,TLRoAD-One hundred and sixty
eight miles Of the Pacific railroad in Missouri, run
ming west from ST. Louis, have been completed, at an
aggregate outlay of nearly Sl2,OOO,OOO There are
yet one hundred and fourteen miles to build in order
to complete the road TO Kansas city. This is to cost
81, 900, 900
They have started a ghost near Sonora, California.
Some miners lodging in barn were frightened off by
an appearance in the shape Of a huge man, about six
teen feet high, who arose from amidst the hay piled
up in the barn, and tossed the bales around as if they
were light as feathers in his grasp. On one occasion
one Of the men fired at the ghost, but the ball had no
effect.
On the recent marriage of Lord Stafford and Miss
Gerard. in England, The tenants and friends Of his
lordship gave a public feast at Shiinell. The con-
sumption Of mutton amounted TO lis pounds, and
0. beef TO 500 pounds; total animal food. l,6lo
pounds. The plrm buildings weighed FIVE hundred
weight, and the value of the ale drunk was e2S. The
labOrers' wives and children had tea in the same
place, and ate 1000 tea-cakes and rolls, and drank
IN their tea the needless addition of eS worth Of rum.
In the case of George p. Burnham. Of Boston, the
Massachusetts State liquor agent, the legislature have
Appointed a new committee TO investigate. lie IL ac-
cused Of the adulterItion of the liquors he has dis
posed Of to the town agents throughout the State.
and Is said 10 have made pure COgnae brandy, worth
- a gallon. out Of pure spirits which cost about so
cents.
decrease OF TIE BRI11sH NAvY-When Queen
Victoria succeeded ''the Sailor King in 1887, the
Royal Navy consisted q $50 vessels. with n tonnage
Of 523,42l. carrying l7,l20 guns in the rated ships,
and manned by 3l.2S9 seameu and marines. OF
these vessels however, ONLY % were steamers. with
an aggregate horse-pow of $40. In twenty years
afterwards upward # 400 steamers were added TO
Her Mnjesty's fleet; the tonnage Of the effective ships
Sailing and steam) was increased by 800, 1000, and
upward Of 10000 additional men were serving IN the
Navy. Great as has been the increase in the ROYAL
Navy during those twenty years, II Is not 20 he COM
pared with the enormous growth Of the mercantile
marine IN the same periOd.-SteG Shipping ChrOT-
icle.
ANCIENT CITY-Quite extensive excavations. de-
signed to exhu-e the remains Of an ancient Roman
city, are being carried on under the direction Of a
committee, on the estate % the Duke Of Cleveland, at
WrOIeter, England. The town Il supposed 10 have
been destroyed about the fifth century, and the recent
excavations prove beyond a doubt that the whole
mass Of the city, (thaJ IS the floors and lower walls)
exist under ground and have added considerably TO the
contents OF the Museum at Shrewsbury Portions Of
columns have been found which, like the large stones
used az present, have the lewis holes in them for
lifting. \ perfect hand-mil for grinding corn has
also been discovered, and a considerable number Of
personal ornaments, with an abundance Of coins, and
numerous bones Of animals.