The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-10-14
Foreign Summary.

President Johnson hears the old phrase. beg
yer pardon, oftener than any other man in America,
The proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger has
purchased a new building for an office II an eN-
pense of S30O,OOO.
Several Roman urns have been dug up from a
railway cutting at Ashford, near Fordinbridge. in
England.
England never yet mustered an army Of 100. 900
men. She has more than that number, but they
are scattered all over the earth.
a steam carriage, which can go a mile in l.47l.
is the sensation now in New Haven, Conn. Its
workings are highly spoken of.
The log cabin. together with the furniture, used
by Lieutenant-Gene Grant, at City Point. is to
adorn one OF the public squares OF Philadelphia.
General Mcclellan is spoken of as Chief En-
gineer of the Fire Department of New York, with
a salary of $4,000.
The Southern papers, which for some years have
been brown, blue and yellow. are getting white
again. They may proudly exclaim, To this
complexion have We come at last"
A French critic. writing of Milton's Paradise
Lost: says: What is most beautiful in this
Paradise is He'll and in this History of God, the
first part is that of the Devil"
The United States State Department has sent
circulars 10 all the cities. announcing that the
Russian plague is extending westward with great
rapidity. and suggesting precautionary measures.
At Rockville. Conn, recently. the lightning en-
tered q house in q livid flash. and actually lit an
oil lamp and left it burning, without leaving any
other visible marks of its passage.
II is said that some new value has been discov-
cred in coal ashes. y collector has paid SO. 900
for the privilege of collecting them in q single dis
trict in Manchester, England.
In a gambling-room in Hamilton, Canada West,
the police discovered peep-holes in the ceiling.
and telegraph-wires used by the gamblers to sig
nal the opponents cards.
Marshal Canrobert succeeds the late Marshal
Magnan as commander of the Army of Paris. The
army Of Paris is composed of IS. 200 men in the
National Guards and about $50, 1000 in the regular
army.
The colored people in and around Washington,
d. c.. have raised 81 900 and propose to erect a
monument to the memory of the Great EImanci-
pator," President Lincoln.
Quarantine is to be established below Washing
ton. ID. C., as q precautionary measure against the
Introduction of the Russian plague and other cpl
denies.
In ST. Petersburg the plague takes hold of from
800 to 800 persons daily, and the daily average of
deaths is 80. If il does that when " diminishing"
it must have made fearful havoc when in its prime.
The New Workers. beth press and people, are
vi eing The purchase of The late Museum lot by the
Post Office department and the erection of Il post
office building upon it which shall be ornamental
to the city and worthy of the Government.
Memorial windows Of stained glass are 10 be
placed in the chapel OF Harvard University, hay
ing the names of those OF the Alumni and under
graduates who have fallen in the struggle. An
obclish il to be erected at Williams College, TO
the memory OF Its dead heroes.
General Howard has issued an order to the
effect that il the planters of Lower Maryland do
not cease turning of their Old slaves to starve. or
neglect 10 employ them. the Government will
seize their farms and put freedmen to work upon
the lands.
\ g~oSsiping correspondent says that Miss Brad
don, the novelist. has her domestic dark spot
She is not the wife of Maxwell, the publisher, al
whose board she sits, while Maxwell;s wife is con-
fined in a madhouse. The pair live at Windsor.
The residence of Governor Magrath, in Charles
ton, s. c.. has been assigned as n Teachers
Home" and is now occupied by Yankee school
ma'ams and schoolmasters who came there to
teach the colored children.
The census-taker has found in Plattsburg, Yer
mont, q French Canadian, who is in the one hun
dred and sixth year of his age, and his wife is
ninety-ive years old. They are both of them in
quite good health, have lived together seventy
eight years, and had fourteen children.
Appeals are coming to Washington and Balti
more, from Virginia. for aid to save the people
from starvation. One hundred and sixteen thou
sand rations have been issued by the Union an
thorities to the poor of Richmond during the five
weeks ending July 20.
A newspaper correspondent from Cairo, Ill.
says: THE season here is usually opened with
great eclat by smallpox, continued spiritedly by
cholera, and closed up brilliantly with yellow fe
yer. Sweet spot"
General Grant is about to pay o visit to Novs
Scotia. agreeably to an invitation recently received
from the British officer i'll command there. in nc
acknowledgement OF courtesies extended by thu
commander of the Potomac Army to certain Brit
ish officers within his lines last Summer.
The Charleston 6. c. Courier cautions Northern
people against believing reports of ill-treatment o
negroes in that State, and of disagreements be
tween freedmen and late Shareholders. So far a
we can learn. says the Courier, the new system o
labor Is working admirably.
1t is said that the Government is about to built
n railroad from BraZos Santiago to Brownsville, s.
as to make it easier to garrison and provision tn
posts on the Rio Grande. The country produce
nothing, and the troops must receive all their sup
plies from New Orleans.
\ Columbia Is. c. correspondent says:
should mention also 4 curious fact, that the 1nsan
Asylum of this State, located at Columbia, is still
quite full. and it is remarkable. that it has bee
OVERLOOKING during the war. An additional bnild
ing. capable of containing three hundred persons
had to be called into requisition. In the words c
one who was here, the people went mad b
dozens"
The Petersburg, Va, Express complains tina
returning Confederate soldiers are received Their
more coldly than they would be in Maine or Mas
sachusetts. They wander about the streets, re
duced to skeletons, suffering from wounds. o
crutches, in rags, without food or money, and ar
more kindly treated by the Yankees than by tn
inhabitants of the Cockade City. There's graf
tude for you.
An effort was recently made to raise the frigat
Congress, which was sunk by the Merrimac, o
Newport News. in the Spring of 1862. Thre
steam pumps were set at work, and in an hou
succeeded in lowering the water three feet belo'
the tide-water outside. when one of the pump
gave out, and the work was suspended. \ secon
attempt, made, July 21st. proved successful, an
the vessel vas brought to the surface.
Observation-Disclosures to 1920 there were n
stops in books. and all languages. whether printe
or in manuscript. were like the Hebrew. withOl
punctuation. The colon was introduced in 15o'
and the semi-colon in 1899. In leases and otht
documents they are never used. because a sing
dot misplaced. may alter the intended sense of a
instrument, and result in a lawsuit.
An ingenious bachelor in Scotland has devised
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