The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-12-22
LATE FOREIGN ITEMS

in New York.
The cholera has ragged ~feaffully in Nashville. The
cogiu makers could not supply the demand.
\ lot Of bright yellow leaf tobacco WAS soli at
Richmond the other day At ten dollars a pound.
pr. Livingstone writes. July lfih. from somewhere
in the middle OF Africa. that he * well and push
ing along
\ Philadelphia paper announces the admission TO
the bar of Jonathan J. Wright, 4 full-hlvoded negro.
Artemus Ward has engaged Egyptian Hall. in
London. and commences his lecture season early in
October.
Thirty three persons were received on Sunday.
into membership ut the FIIst Congregational Church,
Dr.. Stones.
Tom King. the ex-champion Of the English ?. r.
has married a daughter Of Captain Gales. Of the
British navy.
The War Department and General Grant have
each intimatei TO General Sheridan that he can be
relieved from duty NJ New Orleans.
Professor Agassiz says that - God save the Queen
in an old Swiss national air that has " been known
for centuries"
The Turin Gazette mention tina, Mr.. Gladstone is
expected In Rome, and intends 10 rernain there for
three months.
1t is rrmoreI in literary circles that the Emperor
Napoleon. as soon ms be has concluded his Cesar
will undertake the life of Chariemagne.
London is but poorly supplied with water. and it is
now proposed to bring q supply from the river Severn.
a distance OF lo0 miles, AT a cost of Sio.OOO,Ooo
A woman died lately in the almshouse in Portland
who, having been disappointed in love thirty 1--WE
years since, made a vow never to speak again. She
kept it till death.
Besides the price of admisi ion to a London theatre
and the extra charge for a reserved seat. one is ex-
pected to fee an attendant with n shilling for taking
care of his hat, to buy n programu e for three pence,
and 10 a. remember one or two ushers aud porters
on the way out.
\ foolish young Frenchman undertook on n wager
to drink twelve glasses of wine while the Tuileries
was striking twelve. On ~emptying the ninth glass
he fell dead on the floor.
Schuyler Colfax is re elected to Congress by over
1900 majority. This is the seventh time he has
been elected TO this Office, and the present is his
largest majority.
A new practice is in vogue among the fashionables
of both sexes 'in Paris. They spend from four TO
five hours in the water of bath establishments. sing
ing, playing games Of dominoes, chess, etc, aud
also in Irritation.
A SrEAKING MONUMENT The monument erected
in Kensington Gardens, London, to the memory Of
Spoke, the African traveller, bears this simple in
scription "Speke-Ip memory of Victoria, Nyanza.
and the Nile" This is so'near a pun, as to be in
rather doubtful taste.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's sermons now regular
" appear in the Horid, instead of the Independent.
We trust that they are read in that new missionary
field.
Mr.. Raymond, in a letter. denies that he seeks
the French mission or wants it. Twice he has been
asked to accept n foreign appointment, but would
not consent.
A SEAsoNABLE WArF.-A young Englishman-of
good family of course-who has been ekeing out a
wretched existence in New York city by begging from
door to door and sleeping on the City Hall steps or
among the docks. was a few days since informed Of
the death Of a titled relative in the old country by
which he is left heir TO nearly $50 900. Money was
sent to defray his expenses home.
An association is being organized for setting up in
the various ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Paris twenty estab-
lishments for soup made from horse flesh.
Charirari represents a Prussian general sitting
on n marble bench in n public garden smoking a
cigar. A pretty little girl whom he has been MOTTO
ing says to him. General, my papa likes you
very much What is your papa's business, my
dear" He makes wooden legs"
Among the collection of "curiosties'' sold by
auction in Paris recently have been whistles used by
celebrated persons on remarkable occasions, braces
which have belonged to various distinguished char
acters, and newspaper bands, Of which the most
ancient bears the date of 1900.
Prince Napoleon. travelling incognito, arrived at
Lucerne, in Switzerland. accompanied by two persons
and n single servant. The crowd of travellers was so
great that his Imperial Highness could only find
room in the second story of one of the hotels.
A young lady now employed as a compositor on
the Montgomery .Airerfiser had three hundred bales
Of cotton burned during the war. Instead Of repin-
ing over her misfortune she now goes TO work Mt n
business most ~congenial TO her Intellectual taste.
Her heroic self reliance is truly commendable.
1t is asserted that Mr.. Grau has received an offer
from San Francisco to introduce Ristori to the miners
of the Pacific slope. He only asks 500, 900 for the
privilege of letting the golden dustmen of California
see the great Italian twenty-five times.
Prince GortschalDff recently made an important
speech at q banquet in st. Petersburg, pledging the
good will of Russia towards this country, and closing
significantly thus mo evil can happen to America
but what she can infict upon herself.'
Several of the New Orleans newspapers have de-
termined TO advocate the adoption of the Constitu-
tional amendment in future, prominent Southerners
recently arriving in that city from the North having
reported that popular sentiment here was entirely
favorable to its acceptance in the country.
Hon. S. =. Baldwin, ex-Spenker of the Virginia
Confederate legislature, has written n letter in which
he says it is a humtug to assert there is no power 10
try and punish treason-that the " government has
a right to hang JET. Davis, and me too"
Along with the marriage of the King of the
Greeks, rumor has been full Of a project of an ALI
ance between the Prince Imperial of France, and the
Princess Charlotte Of Prussia, daughter of the Crown
Prince. The age Of the gentleman is under eleven,
while the lady has only just entered upon her seventh
year.
An Euoch Arden case has just occurred in
Stark county, Ind. a young man named Listor re-
turned to his home, after an absence of three years
in the army, and found that his wife. supposing him
dead, had married again. He left her undsturbed,
and returned to the South.
A ghost has made its appearance in a house in
Jersey city. 1t first walked about in the vacant
rooms, but lately went into a room where a man
slept, stript off his shirt without unbuttoning it, car
ried off his socks and pinned them fast to the caves
Of the house. The flesh and blood occupants left the
house in the peaceable possession of the ghost.
Congress voted go, 900 to n young woman, under
the promise that she would produce n bust Of the
late President Lincoln. She is described by Mrs.
Swisshelm, a bitter female Radical. as a lady who
calls upon Senators and Representatives at their
lodgings and whose claim to a knowledge Of the
arts consist of three months study, and the produc-
ton Of a q bust of herself, naked to the waist"
1t is estimated that the new German Confederation,
at the head of which Prussia has placed herself, can
raise an effective force of 1,1l0.000 men. This
ought to be enough to keep the peace Of Europe. aud
if Prussia wisely uses her newly acquired power she
will he in position to shock the ambitious designs Of
the older nations, and preserve equilibrium of power.
Fred. Douglas, in his late Philadelphia visit, had
an interview with his old master and mistress. He
I'D NM seen the lady for fKnnty. five leara She Raa