The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-12-16
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
News and other Items.

News and Other Items.
The Bloomer costume is getting quite common
az Buffalo.
Ex-Gov. Brown of Georgia has been pardoned
by the President
Census from ail but twelve counties in Iowa
foot up T23 900.
Sterling Price has gone 10 Brazil. probably to
o-ek Il residence there
The privilege Of writing 10 MS wife has been
.grauted u JeF. DAVIS.
Z" Hangman" Foote has been allowed to return
- his home III Tennessee.
The value OF tobacco manufactured in the
western states ia 1864 was S4,99l So.
The subject of free college for soldiers Is
being Ggtated in Chicago. y noble idea.
The German workingnen OF Chicago are agi-
tating 70 secure the eight hour system.
4 fine of 81 and costs Il what the Hartford,
Ct, BARRIERS get Tor shaving Sunday.
Out OF a population Of some SIX thousand at
Pithoie, Pa, II is said that but fifty females.
The FIRST National Bank on the Pacific coast
las been established in Portland, Oregon.
There is a strong prospect OF reunion Of the
Southern and Northern odd Fellows.
The palm leaf hat factory ut Amherst, Mass,
turns out 900 900 hats yearly, worth $l35,0OO.
The Grand Jury has brought twelve indict-
ments against ketchum, the fOrger, for larceny.
The amount received in the State of New York
for toll from the opening of ayigation to August
3lst, is = ,SyG ,243.
The new city hall at Boston, has already cost
nearly 100000. 1t will easily reach half L
million.
General Fremont, whose business projects in
Missouri were noticed in st. Louis telegram
recently is about to take up his residence in that
State.
The marine losses for August show an aggre-
gate Of thirty-tve vessels, having Il value of
$2,7l7 900.
All the French soldiers have been removed
from the Rio Grande and native soldiers put in
their place
Gen. Grants father was in indianapolis, a
few days ago, on his way home, after a visit to
his speechless SON
There now fifteen hundred and forty-nine
National Banks in the United States, with
aggregate capital Of 1894 ,64l 1893.
The smoking and drinking habits Of the people
give England 22I 900 900 sterling per hnnum,
revenue.
There are four parties in NIissssippi-'' un-
conditional Union men," - violent rebels
policy rebels and % foaters.''
The Syracuse Courier says wood is selling at
that city high fourteen dollars, and not
the best quality at that.
The Russian American telegraph is now com
pleted $40 miles nOTthward from New Nestmin
ster British Columbia.
y Cairo, ILL.,, paper says that at the hanging
Of two negroes in that city, everything passed
of most pleasantly
At the Westminster, Ky, Fair, lately,
demned Government horse took the first pre-
MUM offered for saddle horses.
I'm one of the New England pin factories,
l92 900 of these useful little things made.
Papered and packed every hour
The emigration. from the port of Cork alone,
of persons whose destination l. the United States,
is ut least thousand per week.
The sculptor Story has been visiting his
native country, daring the past season, and So
journing at Boston and Newport.
\ tender hearted railway engineer, on n GER
tain railroad, says he never runs over man if
ne can help it, because - it muses. up the track
sCt''
The capital invested in the Gloucester, Mass,
fisheries Is - OOO, 900, and the value of the fish
taken during the year ending May l, 1868, was
I.GT9 So. The number of vessels employed is
54l. wirE a tonnage of "a, 4,i5O.
\ MIR BabcDck, Of Milton. Mass, has been
hiring woman and her husband. reaping, this
season. The wife proved the best workman. and
Mr- EabcCck accordingly paid her the highest
wage, three dollars per day; while her hus
band. being less expert, received interioT.pay.
Tire i've leading editJrs Of New York of
C-tic Origin. Raymond Is Of Welsh descent ;
Greeley OF irish stock Bennett Is Scotch Celt,
Bryant OF the Post. - IL Irish origin; Charles
Moran. ot the Commercial AGtsTfiS.r ia also .!
IrIlhssrJck-
The nurl.r.sG of troops now 0n the L. ) pay
and muster roi's axe Regulars, IS 600 col
orel troops. 30 800. white volunteers, 100000
The Duruter actually ~ the Ssld ut the present
time Is about 100 900. This number, however,
Is being reduced each day 10y the mastering out
Of men.
In . recent conversation with Il prominent
New Orleans journalist. the President said that
those who imagined him hostile to negro suffrage
were mistaken. lie would advise Louisiana TO
settle this question as Massachusetts, does. IT,
said he, q negro can read the Constitution and
write his name, let HIM vote.
Not long since, old bachelor drew a prize
in n gift enterprise, at Troy, and went 70 the
store very gratefully to receive it, when he was
somewhat mortified to find that he had drawn a
hOOp-skirt and waterfall.
Oysters are 70 BE- very plenty the coming
son. and the reason Is that along the shores of !
Virginia are vast beds of the bivalves that have
lain uudisturbed during the last four years, with
nothing to do but grow large and get fat.
school of mining and practical geology at
Harvard College i$ 20 be opened in close cOnnec-
tion with the Lawrence Scientific School on the |
first Monday in October Samuel Hooper, of !
Boston, made the magnificent gift of $4,000, as |
. nucleus for the endowment of the school
OF the new Parliament elected in England, 10 |
members are not connected with the Established !
Church. The independents have 10 members, |
the Unitarians I3 the Jews T. of whom 3 have |
the name Of Rothschild and the rest are dis !
tTibuted among the Presbyterians, Baptists,
MethDdists, Roman Catholics. &c. OF the whole !
Parliament. numbering 6j9 members, 372 are
classed as liberals and 287 conservatiYes-