The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-02-10
Foreign Summary.

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Down on TnE MoRMoNs-In a lecture since his
arrival home. Hon. Schuyler Colfax took strong
ground in favor of enforcing among the Mormons
the observance of the law against polygamy.
The old dispute. whether lager beer is Intoxicating
or not, came up in the Troy Courts the other day. |
and q witness swore that he drank fifty four glasses
of it one evening, and was still perfectly sober.
Those who love peanuts will be sorry to learn that
instead OF 10000 bushels per snnum-the regular
product before the war. in North Carolina-there
will be only about $4,000 bushels to export this year.
A new theater is to be built in London. over what
was once q pit used for throwing in the dead during
plague Of 1865.
Gallsutry is condensed in the expression used by
a Virginia reporter, that " Items are as scarce to-day
as ugly women in Petersburg"
France has now Il large commercial steamers
running between Europe and the American continent
and her colonies.
More than 1000. 900 letters are every year
returned to the writers in England from some error
or other IN the direction or posting. l2,OOO letters
or so posted without any address whatever on the
outside.
The Temple Bar Maga-i ns is sustained by George
Augustus Sals. Edmund Yates and Miss Braddon,
who a has made bigsmy interesting in her fctions,"
accordingly to a London writer.
Three Charleses contribute to the Atlantic Monthly
for December-Sumner, Dickens and Reade. They
have never met Us fellow contributors before.
The first book ever printed with type was a Latin
Bible it was issued in Germany about 400 years
ago, and Is copies are known to be in existence at
present. One of them sold a few years since for
more than $500.
The New York Tribune on the lst ultimo, divided
among its stockholders $50, DOC as the profits of four
:nonths' business. The entire original stock of the
institution was only S1OO. 900.
President Johnson told a gentleman who called on
him, that he was clearly of the opinion that negroes
have now the legal right to bring suits, and testify
in any United States court.
Mechanics wages are advancing in England. The
cabinet-makers in London lately demanded an ad-
vance of ten per cent on all kinds of work, and
received 1t.
The English courts of appeals have decided that
if the husband and wife have known nothing of each
others existence for seven years, either of them may
marry again without being guilty of bigamy, and
that the burden of proof lies upon the prosecutor in
the case, and on this ground-that i. is contrary to
the spirit of the English law that q prisoner should
be called upon to prove a negative.
The Queen of Spain is getting very unpopular in
Madrid on account of her continued absence from
the capital. 1t is said that 40 900 whistles have
been distributed to give her chariUari when she
returns.
The grave of Lord Palmerston, in the Statesman's
Corner Of Westminster Abbey, has been temporarily
covered with pieces of stone paving, pending the
construction of a tablet and monument to be erected
to his to his memory. The spot where the Premier
lies is now Indicated by a piece OF cardboard, on
WHICH 10 tue SluDplC IlSC plIOu wv l. o
Grave"
The latest London sensation is a ride in a pneumatic
railroad tube. You go through, ground by
suction, and it is described as q curious sensation to
be flying along through the earth, feet foremost, in
utter darkness, for nearly ten minutes. which, in
such n place seems half an hour. This IS reducing
humanity TO an express package, with n vengeance.
The Brazilians are expecting o large immigration
to their Empire from the United States. This is
based upon the absurd scheme of some Southern reb-
a1c yuho ora Hrea min Of n rpnnhln with slavery ~
its corner stone. The Louisiana gentlemen who are
looking for localities for emigrsnts had better come
home, take the oath of allegiance, hire black labor
ers. and grow rich on the culture Of rice, cotton and
sugar.
NEw CoINs-A Washington dispatch says the
director of the United States Mint at Philadelphia
has made for the secretary Of the Treasury specimens
of eagles, half eagles, dollars, half dollars, and quar-
ter dollars, bearing the motto, In God We Trust.
There is no addition to the other legends and devices
upon the coins. Secretary McCulloch has approved
the designs, and the coin hereafter made will bear
the motto. The smaller coins do not afford room for
the words.
SAN FRANCISCO STATIsTIcs.-Langley's Directory
computes the number of inhabitants of San Fran
cisco at 119, 900. To feed this crowd there are 544
boarding-houses, "a restaurants. 6S bakeries, 332
butchers, and 623 groceries. To supply them with
drink there are 1922 places where liquors are sold
and 20 breweries. During the year there has been
q marked increase in the number of each Of these
establishments. There has been o falling oil in the
vi NttlOio Abd ~ INV
there are 317 to 332 last year; and Of the latter III
to 100. In order that the health of the population
may be properly cared for, they have 2f8 physicians.
and So apothecaries. To keep up the quarrels of the
community there are $40 lawyers. Other occupa-
tons foot up as follows Assayers IL, auctioneers %,
bankers 10. baths u, brokers 337. cabinet maker
shops AZ. carpenter shops S4-a falling off; dry good
stores Pa falling off; fruit stores 163-an in
crease; gunsmiths Is, hairdressers 10Y, hardware
stores Alan increase; hatters %, lumber dealers
Al, commission merchants 1913, milliners 80. painters
90, printing offices 2S-an increase; produce dealers
JOG, stove and tinware SO, watchmakersa and jewelers.
100, uphoisterers 81, wood and coal dealers 81,
cigar dealers and makers $50. OF these occupations
mentioned, there are 6,573 enumerated this year,
against G, 033 for the year 1864.
The CALIFoRNIA EARTHQUAKE.-Rev. Horatio
Stebbins of San Francisco, writes thus to the Spring
field Republican regarding the late great earth
quake:
1, was twelve O'Clock and forty minutes. In the
Unitarian church the congregation were standing in
the singing of the last hymn, it was that sublime line
of victory and power, Rise imperial Salem, rise.
The choristers had come to the last verse
1.-THE seas shall waste. the skies to smoke decay,
Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away"
The organ caught up the mighty theme and swep
through the heavens with e1ultsnt power. AT the
very instant the building trembled and a fash OIL
CONSERVATION went through the audience the chora
song seemed buffeted by the sea and lost for a mo
ment in the multitudinOus waters but 1t rose again
and caught the victorious strain, when another
vibration racked the edihce from its foundation stone
TO its topmost timbers the voice of the choir sank
as some spent swimmer in a midnight sen. Thu
building was falling The roof cracked Brick:
and mortar grated and ground The prophecy 0
the stones in that other temple was about to be liter
ally fulfilled in this and upon whomsoever this ston
should fall, should be ground to powder The grea
pipe of the organ fell from its place The plastic
finish cleaved from the ceiling The building twisted
and sprung rs a long, gaunt steamer bends unde