The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-03-16
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Sfa IN . SEs1ENEs s AsES
R~istori's one night in De,roi; net;ei six thou
sand dollars profit.
The cynyicts in the Massachusetts, State Peni-
Tertiary are To have winter evening lectures.
General Sterling Prices friends are arranging
70 buy him a $50. coo house in s.. Louis. \
sterling price for a house and ! home Tor Sterling
Price.
The Springfield Republican tells OF 4 horse
which ran away in that city, " throwing the
driver out and cutting a severe cash in one OF his
hind legs
IF.-lf the United States were as densely popu-
lated as France. our population would amount 10
52S 900 600; If a. deusely as Belgium. the
United States would then contain l.l95. O0O, coo
inhabitanis-llO. $50 900 more than the popula-
ton Of the entire world.
NV YoRK. Feb. l2-The Times special dis
Patch saws IL Is now stated on good authority
that the President has become ready to Cooperate
with Congress in measures u avoid - extreme 4
resort as Is proposed in the Military Government
hill. and that there would lie no difficulty in
securing his assent = a hill based on the leading
PRINCIPLES of the Consrituti0na Amendments,
and .; the same time % provide for a more viror-
Gus and effective protection Of personal rig Is
and liberties in the Southern States than Is now
enjoyed.
EATING TIE HEARTS OF MURDERED CHILDREN.
- If ETeIlGsNt'GF. OF ' iStlIll. l4- tIr lil'N
inc most extraordinary statement: At Rechnitz.
in Hungary. a man has committed a horrible act
through SUPERSTITION. BE has successfully aSsas-
sinated four children. and eaten their hearts raw,
believing that he would become invisible when he
hau done the same to seven. The crime was dis
covered before he had time to arrive n the end
OF his atrocity. and the man was incarcerate1.
BANKING ExPLA1NED-Old Mr.. Lefevre's Illus
trarion of the theory Of banking II a customer.
whose account V-n- almost allynvS 0VprEra WO.
certainly rivals the hest treatise on that subject.
Watching the customer. be caught him one day
at the counter. and said TO him Mr.. y. you
and | must understand each other something bet
ter than we now seem 10. | am afraid You don't
know what banking really is; give me leave to
tell you. It's " business to take care % Your
money. hut | find you are always taking care of
mine. Now, that l. not banking. Mr.. \ II
must he the other way-I'm the banker. not YOU.
You understand me now, Mr.. Y; I'm sure you
do
An Attractive You've Lazy young
girl OF thirteen says a Paris paper. " Miss
Dumesnel. is said to be imbued with a fuid of
extraordinary attractive power, which attracts
all objects OF wood which surround her. Chairs
and tables are instantly attracted toward her
when she approaches near to them. She has
only become possessed of this attractive faculty
for the last three weeks. The phenomenon has
been witnessed by many persons to whom she Is
known. and the faculty of the Academy will
probably be called upon TO give an explanation
in regard q it" The writer adds that a great
parsonage has sent for the girl. TO be convinced
Of the truth of the extraordinary accounts re-
srecting her. The girl is a wood ~polisher, and
lives with her parents who are poor people.
Down WITH THE SLAVE SYsTEM.-Mr. Sumner
has reported action cOnGemnatOry of that - traffic
in laborers' known as the b. Coolie Trade"
The preamble and resolution are as follows:
Whereas. The traffic in laborers transported
from China and other Eastern countries, known
as the d. Cnolie Trade i odiOus u the people of
the United States. as inhuman and immoral. and
Whereas. 1t is abhorent to the spirit of modern
international Laws and policy. which have sub
s~,antialiv extirpated the African slave trade. TO
permit the establishment in its place of Il mode
Of enslaving men differing from the former in
little else than the employment of fraud instead
Of force 10 make its victims captives therefore,
be it
Reso7re9. That it is the duty of this Govern
ment TO give effect to the moral sentiment of the
nation through all its agencies. for the purpose
of preventing the further introduction Of Coolies
into this hemisphere or the adjacent islands.
A SKILLFUL DErEcTIvE.-It is announced that
the Government will send Mr.. Allan Pinkerton,
of Chicago. TO Utah to discover and arrest the
murdererS of DIR. Robinson. Mr.. PinkertOn is a
native Of Scotland. emigrated II Illinois in 1916,
and at first followed the business of a cooper.
By accident hIs talents for the detection Of crime
were discovered and he was employed 10y the
government as a secret mail agent. In this en-
pluyment he established his reputation by the
great =. Macdonald case in Illinois, and the
&. Pitt.burg and Fort Wayne case in Indiana.
As IA single evidence of Mr.. Pinkerton's remark
able skill and success. it may he mentioned that
during the last ten years he has recovered for the
Adams Express company upwards Of 81 .235, 06O.
During the war he rendered many important SER
vices to the country. having charge of the 'se-
cret service" 1t may interest some Of the sece>-
siunisIs of Baltimore to know that the - contra
band mail between that city and Richmond, by
the way Of Washington, was regularly carried
by one of lis detectives.