The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-01-07
Foreign Miscellany.

DR.. Cahill, the celebrated Irish priest, astronomer.
pulpit orator and chemist, died in Boston, Mass, last
Thursday. after a short Illness. He was about sixty
five years of age.
The Portland (Ne) Courier says that eleven of
the Sophomores at Bowdon have been suspended,
outrage upodsa fellow student. According to the
Courier's relation Of the affair, it was a silly and
contemp tible matter, and the offenders deserved the
punishment.
CosT OF SHEEP KILLING DoGs-For a series of
years, in Ohio, the acreage Of asGertained damages
by dogs was $lll,548 per year, when sheep were
very low in price. In 1863 the ascertained loss was
Sl44,65S. The Secretary Of the New York State
Agricultural Society estimates the loss in New York
i'll 1862 ut $1,000 sheep, worth $4,000.
The eminent London Banker. Joshua Bates, who
died in London on the 24,h ult, was q native of
Massachusetts. He was Il munihcent benefactOr to
various benevolent institutions in this country.
When the project of establishing a free library for the
city Of Boston was preached, he wrote TO the Mayor
of that city, offering to contribute 100000 TO the
fund, and by the time the building was ready for
dedication, he had collected. in addition to this noble
contribution, between 10000 and 10000 volumes
for the library.
DEATH OF GERARD THE LION-KILLER-Jules &C.
rard, the celebrated iion-killer and African traveller,
has. it is rumored by the last foreign arrival, been
drowned while crossing a river in Africa. Delivered
from the mouth of the lion and the paw of the bear,
he, like Spoke, has fallen "A victim to an accident
which happens daily in the most civilized countries.
Gerard is chiefly known in this'COuntry by his excit-
ing book on lion hunting. Recently he headed an
amateur expedition into Algeria, formed of sports
men who also wished 10 see and shoot lions.
a New AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE TO BE MUHIFICENr-
LY ENDowED-1he Rochester Union says :-' We
have it from reliable authority that Hon. Ezra
Cornell, OF Ithaca, now State Senator, is about to
offer to the State of New York three hundred acres
of valuable land at Ithaca. anu $500, 600, TO be ap-
prOpriated to an Agricultural College to be located
there The offer is made upon certain conditions,
which are. however. deemed so reasonable as to leave
no doubt that the offer will be accepted. This will
result in the establishment Of an institution that will
be a credit to the State aud to the founder. Mr..
Cornell, some time since, gave S5O, GOO TO Il public
library in Ithaca, which is, we believe. IN operation
MARYLAND A FREE STATE Gov. Bradford. Of
Maryland, issued his proclamation declaring that the
new Constitution, making that State a free State,
should go into effect on the first day Of November,
Tuesday last. The day was celebrated at Baltimore
by a grand salute of five hundred guns at ~daybreak,
accompanied with the ringing of church and signal
bells. Flags we're displayed from the public build
ings and many private dwellings. At noon the
salute was repeated from Forts Federal Hill and
Marshall, Christ church bells joining in with a mer-
ry peal, performing az intervals various patriotic
airs, including Hail Columbia, Land OF the Free,
Star Spangled Banner, sc.
MANUFACTURER OF TAR IN EXxsyLvAxIA-Ta
Pittsburg Chronicle says Perhaps in no state in the
Uuion have the resources thereof been more largely
developed than in Pennsylvania. In several of the
southern counties cotton has been successfully Guilt
waited on n small scale, while the growing of tobacco
has been made one of the prinpal crops Of the farmer.
Indeed, the Importance Of tobacco planting has how
become Of the first character and its harvest a matter
of great importance. We now observe that in Cam
bria, Somerset ami the adjoining counties n good
quality Of tar is being manufactured from the knots
of the pitch pine. The manufacture Of this substitute
for North Carolina tar is Carried on quite extensively.
and has already considerably depreciated the price of
the latter article. The tar thus produced answers
nearly all the requisites as a substitute for the
original article.