The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-02-15
THE Pa CIrIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY Y. FEBRUARY -.
NOTES OF TuE WEEK.

much mas been SAID against hcF, anu hilcf IA ma
hal 50 many ~mishaps. The question Of how to pro-
duee steam most eheaply ia a warm latitude lik'
ours. subject To Gains and squalls. is still an exper.
iment. anu may long remain So. But it is a prob
lem which will yet he solved, and when il is done
our steam coasters will Outnumber sailing vessels
Lately an Improvement has been introduced m tbs
furnaces Of the KIlauea, by attaching steam blowers,
which appear To accomplish all that was anticipated
and enable the vessel To use hard coal and any kind
Of wool. II now arrangements can be made TO i'm
port the best Of steam Goals for her use, at as low a
cost rs possible. we have no doubt the RiiGuea can
lie run To a handsome profit. Since she came into
the hands Of her present agents, We learn that she
has paid her way handsomely, although they have
had Ia obtain for her such fuel as Glanced 10 he
in the market. With system and prudence in her
management. she will earn n profit sufficient to meet
her obituary and any extraordinary expenses re-
quirei, and continue TO be a great accommodation TO
the trading and travelling public.
Butter This indispensable article Of food has be
come more abundant by the increase Of dairies
throughout the Islands. 50 that its production is said
10 be considerably in excess Of the local demand.
Some Of the dairies are well managed and stocked
with the finest cattle, and as care is taken to rear the
best cows, they improve from year to year in the
I&hahNl 500 I1.sNF
The price of butter, however, continues higher than
il should be, considering the abundance Of stock and
the small cost of keeping them. If the price was
fixed at % to 80 cents per pound, probably double
the amount would be consume. that is now done,
while some would be exported, and in this way, by
increased sales, the profit to the ~dairyman would be
rs great rs now. Another way of working oil the
surplus would be To manufacture the cream into
cheese, which, being fresh and home made, would
doubtless command a ready sale Mt paying prices a
cheese dairy, however, requires n cooler climate than
is needed for making butter, though the latter article
il always better when made in n cool place. There
is no necessity for our grocers importing either cheese
or butter. One day this week, Mr.. Adams sold at
auction three barrels of imported butter at 8 cents a
pound, and another lot of two barrels at q cents n
pound. "
Run AND FIRElRNs.-A somewhat singular affair,
rather startling rs first reported, was current on
Wednesday last. The facts rs near rs We can gather
them are these a carpenter named Johnson, en-
ployei by Mr.. Wilder, while under the influence of
liquor on Monday night, visited Wards Livery
Stable, and told the attendant that he had been sent
by his employer to take somebody's life, without
saying who he was AFTER, at the same time drawing n
revolver and discharging the contents of one OF the
barrels. Shortly after Bill Ragsdale came in to the
livery stable, and the keeper told him what had just
occurred, and that he might be the man Johnson was
after. On Tuesday night johnson called Mt Rags
dale's house to get n letter which he had promised to
take over to Koolau. Ragsdale, fearing that he had
come with evil designs, seized Johnson, with the help
of a confederate, bound his hands behind him. drew
a pistol and held it at his head, demanding that he
make u confession as to who had sent him there to,
kill him. Johnson replied that no one had, and that
Io l..J No S,cb doSi0ns Rags1aIe and his communion
then hurried him bound into a carriage, and took him
to the Station House, but no weapon being found on
his person he was released. The whole affair has
doubtless originated out of the excitement Of the late
election, and shows what people must be prepared for.
MARK TwAIx.-This eccentric genius has returned
to the United States, from his European tour. Here
is what a New York paper says of him:
A HINT To MARK TwAIN.-This humorist is af-
hicted by an idea which occasionally possesses such
people, that, in order TO be comic, it is necessary to
be coarse. He has a very lively letter in a morning
paper, which would be quite merry reading were it
not married by an ill-considered attempt to make hui
morous mention of a hypothetical corpse, and by an
inexcusable effort to get fun out of an imaginary
funeral. These shortcomings are the less excusable
as the perpetrators gift of humor renders him under
no necessity to resort to clap-irap or coarse devices
for the entertainment of his many readers |
PRAYED TO DEAru.-Mr. George Beckley died at
Kohala, Hawaii, on the Sd of February. He was
pilot of the steamer -AkamGi, which ran as n coaster
some fifteen years ago, and had been connected in
various capacities with coasting vessels lie per-
sisted in the belief up to the hour of his death, that
he was being prayed to death by IN old native sor-
whom he named.
DEATH OF a PIoSEER.-On Sunday last, JOSEPH
BooTH, long known to all residents of these islands,
at his residence in Pauoa Valley. He came to
ihese Islands in 1888, in the British bark jason, of
London, thirty-fve years ago. He leaves a widow
md a large family of children.
The OccIDENr-is the title of n new religious
published in San Francisco, the organ of the
Presbyterian Church. 1t is n neat paper, of IL
pages, about the size and style of the New York
well edited, and will probably receive a
LIBERAL patronage.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HAwAuAx GAzETTE-Sir:
Allow Inc a space in your columns to deny the asser-
ion made in the r. C.. -4drertiser of last week,
charging me with being the author Of the .sTrue
Hawaiian, - letters published in the -fu OAoo.
| may add that | have not the least desire to
.reate prejudice against Americans rs n body of per-
Ons, who can only be looked on with distrust, scorn
md hatred for my best and intimate friends are
americans.
/ may say more, that the action Of my King and
lis Government, by appointing n majority of Ameri-
To fill the highest positions in his Government,
: abundant proof of his sincerity To continue long
he friendly relations existing between this Govern
nent and that Of the United States.
1 remain, &c, ID. KALAKAUA-
We insert the above disavowal of Mr.. Kala-
.aua for what it may bc worth. Ii will be seen
hat it applies tn the 'True Hawaiian" letters,
10 denial being made of his connection with the
aakamGe HaIcdii, issued from the Government j
res, the authorship of which production was
lso stated in the same paragraph as reported to
been his. The inference, therefore, tx that
e is 10 bc understood as the author of the latter.
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