The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-02-17
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A plan is already on foot for the rapid reccmstruc-
ton Of DIR. Tyng's church.
1t is stated that Mr.. Chas. Francis Adams. our
Minister in London, intends to resign his position
early in the spring
One of our exchanges says: DIR. Joseph Worcester,
author of a dictionary and inventor of Worcestershire
sauce, is dead.
The largest Sunday school in America is to be
found in Cincinnati. 1t has twenty-five hundred
pupils.
The cheapest edition of the Pilgrims Progress
ever published is now selling in London at one penny
a copy.
Al English gunboat lately shelled a crowd of
women and children, in Jamaica. How about the
bOmbardmen. of Charleston?
Warm blood by the tumblerfull is given to con-
sumptives in France. The slaughter houses furnish
an excellent article.
The Boston Post likens James River to n key Of
lager beer, because both flow into the Dutch Gap
The mortality in the United States hospitals, dur
the late war. was only nine per cent. In the Cri-
mean war it was fifty per cent.
The Germans in Texas are preparing to plant
cotton extensively and to raise it by their own labor.
They also invite their countrymen to emigrate to the
State.
\ violent war is raging in France between the
allopaths and hom9opaths as to the best modes Of
treating the cholera.
By the steamer John l.. Stephens. from Mdzatlan.
we have news of n successful revolution in Lower
California, in favor Of the Republic. The Liberals
captured all the Imperial officials at La Paz. Escap-
ed prisoners have arrived at Mazatlan.
The Gulf squadron consists Of twenty vessels. car
rying 1873 guns. Commodore Winslow, the hero OF
the KeGrsarge. has been assigned to the command.
The squadron includes iron-clads capable Of sinking
the French fleet now in the Gulf of Mexico.
A brief synopsis of the report of General Carl
Schurz, upon the condition of the South, is among
the news. The Generals observations lead him to
the conclusion that the extension Of the franchise TO
the negroes is necessary to the protection Of their
liberty.
BY the death of the Earl of Strathmore. the life
insurance companies have TO meet a claim amounting
to goo, 900, or about 81 900 900. The Scotch in
surauce Offices are those principally concerned.
several policies were effected with English companies.
The late Charles w. Morgan. Of New Bedford. be-
queathed to the Orphans Home $4,000, to the Port
Society 81 900, and TO the DOrcas Society SOU.
During the visit Of the cholera, in l849, the COM
mon house flies died, and none were to be seen after
the epidemic had prevailed a short time.
Since the 31st of October. So, 900 troops, white
and black, have been mustered out Of the service.
The national army now Comprises 10000 men.
A locomotive boiler exploded on the Grand Trunk
railroad lately, when q train was going at the rate OF
% miles per hour. Nobody was killed, and but few
were injured.
The American State of Mexico, from her past en-
tangled government, might properly be called NtTico,
It's would-be (Austrian) Emperor, however, pur-
poses to christen the republic -Harioo. At present
we think it might properly be called .Murico.
a writer in an exchange, whose plums had suffer-
ed by the curculto, cut a sheep skin, in wool. into
strips, dipped in petroleum, nailed them about tho
trees two feet from the ground, and had nice ripe
fruit.
Secretary Seward and family sailed on the night Of
December Goth Cor the South Atlantic, and, ii is
said, will be absent two or three weeks.
A new dodge Of thieves is to cut off ladies' water
falls with a sharp knife. The rogues estimate o scalp
at about ten dollars, exclusive of ornaments.
Henry Winter Davis, Maryland's most eloquent
orator and formerly o leading Representative in Con-
gress, is dead, at the age Of as. The success of the
emancipation movement in Maryland is to be mainly
attributed to the bold, able and persistent efforts os
Davis.
No LIoUoR.-Martha's Vineyard is the pride OF
the Massachusetts people. In the whole county there
is no place where liquor is sold openly VERY thirsty
persons may get it by private contract); the Court
meets and has nothing to do; and lawyers don't
flourish.