The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-11-07
American Summary.

there next week.
CHICAGO, Oct. 4-Senasor Cole arrived at Conn
Gil Bluffs yesterday, making the trip from Sacra-
mento in nine days.
1t is said that there is a colored population on
the Pacific coast of 10, 1000. with thirteen prosper
Gus African NJ. 4. Churches already established.
New York has a population 200, 900 greater than
Philadelphia, and $4,000 less dwellings.
4 female burglar has been arrested in Orleans
county, n. y, ariaed with revolver and bowie-
knife.
a farmer in Oneida raised seven thousand quarts
of strawberries on a single aero this year.
The Russian Grand Duke who is coming to
America is eighteen years old, and is the third sou
of the Emperor.
Last year 1000, 900 pounds beet sugar were
made from 600 acres of beets. ut Chatsworth, nli-
nois.
Miss Garcia, of Havana, stopping at the Union
Hotel. Saratoga, wears diamonds valued AZ over
500, 900.
The travel to the White Mountains is greater
this year than ever before. although the weather
has been bad-rain most of the time, and one day
snow.
The Republicans of the Fifth District OF Massa-
chusetts nominated Benjamin +. Butler to Con-
gress. He received one hundred and seventy-6ve
votes; four scattering. The nomination was SUBJ
sequently made unanimous.
n sale of the pews in the new Synagogue, New
York, has realized the sum of seven hundred
and Hfty thousand dollars, which will defray all
Indebtedness and place over a hundred thousand
dollars in the Sinking Fund.
The English Cricketers played a game of base
ball with the American Nine to-day. (Sept. zS)
The score was thirty-eight for the English, and ten
for the Americans.
The first innings of the English Cricketers were
finished to-day. In the game begun yesterday the
score WAS one hundred and seventy-fve. The
American players completed the first innings this
afternoon, making ~sixty-one.
Advices from Paraguay state that by the explo-
sion of a mine at Humaita, the allied troops in
possession were nearly annibilated. 4 truce has
bepn arrepd uDOu. The Argentine Rpnublic is
favorable TO peace, while Brazil is still for war.
William Parker, Superintendent of the Panama
Railroad, was assassinated September 9th by J.
Baldwin,, a Civil Engineer in the employ of the
Railroad. The latter was suffering from deliriuns
tremens, and shot himself, and will probably die.
A remarkable petriGcation was discovered re-
Gently at Sheridan. at the end of the Kansas Paci-
tic Railroad. 1t appears to be the remains of an
immense crocodile. and measures 126 feet. The
upper jaw measures seven feet and weighs 70
pounds.
BosroN. Oct. 2.-The trial of James C. Martin.
late cashier of the Hide and Leather National
Bank, commenced in the United States District
Court. He is charged with defrauding the Bank to
the amount of halt a million. He acknowledged
to a deficit of $50. 600.
The will Of the late Edwin Stevens bequeaths
nearly two million dollars to two public school
houses in Hoboken. He bequeathed that city
$3.50. 600 for the erection and maintenance of
another. He donated the Stevens battery. for the
completion of which one million is donated, TO the
State of New Jersey. The rest of his property
falls to his widow and children.
European.
The British Parliament will meet on the 10th of
December.
Counting the late addition to the gronp, Queen
Victoria has thirteen grandchildren.
A gymnast in Liverpool beats a drum while
hanging to a rope by his teeth at a height of forty
feet.
There are 5000, 900 beggars in France. And
France is well-governed!
The Free Masons of Austria are seeking permits
sion to reopen their lodges, which have been closed
since 1904.
Two Paris sports on velocipedes ran down q
party of burglars aud captured them.
The Prince of Wales's youngest was cbristened
Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary. Among the in
fant's sponsors were the Queen. the Emperor of
Russia, and the Queen of the Hellenes. none of
whom was present in person.
In England and France. dried fern leaves are
used very extensively for packing fresh fruit,
grapes especially they seeming to possess to an
unusual degree the property of preserving vegeta-
bic and even animal substances for a long time.
There are seventy-fve marriage brokers in Paris.
and two OF them pay an income tax of 100000
francs per year. They charge five per cent. on the
dover of rich wives. and two per cent when the
fortune of the husband and vile are about equally
large. An extra charge is made for procuring
husbands with aristocratic titles.
DECLINE IN ENGLISH REvENUE-There was a fall
ing off in the revenue of the British Government
last year by nearly SIS, 600. Oo0-a fact which ex-
cited no little uneasiness in the public mind. But
there is still more alarm felt from the fact that the
revenue report for the first quarter of the current
fiscal period shows the revenue to be still further
declining. During the quarter there has been a
falling off in every great item. Customs, inland
revenue. stamps, and taxes. all show this. Even
the Post Office, which the English people have
always been led to look upon as an infallible index
of the perennial growth of national wealth, exhibits
signs of depression. and fails to return as much as
it did the last quarter of the year just ended.
The rupture of the negotiations between Prussia
and Holland relative to the navigation of the
Rhine, appears to have caused some alarm in
Berlin, where the determination shown by the
Dutch Government in the matter is attributed t.
its being secretly supported by France. The point
in dispute is whether the new convention which it
is proposed to establish in place of those now i'm
existence, is to apply to the whole of the river and
its tributaries, or only to the streams on the other
side of Gurkum and Dordrecht. The Dutch Gov
eminent considers that, the Merwede and the Meus<.
being part of Holland. the navigation of th0sf.
rivers ought to be under its exclusive control.
This view is opposed, on behalf of the Zollyerein.
by Prussia, who appeals to the last convention on
the subject Chat of 1S51), and the treaty of Vienna.
which STIMULATES that the navigation OF the Rhine
shall be free to the sea- As this is the first occa-
sion on which Prussia has acted as the representa-
tive of the Zollverein, it is believed that she will
not allow the matter to drop. but make further and
more urgent representations to Holland on the
subject
The Berlin correspondent of the London Times
writes After many experiments, we are given
to understand, the Prussian military chemists have.
succeeded in precipitating the explosive liquid
known as nito- glycerine, and reducing it to a solid.
The advantage of this transformation is that is
cOmbustibility is considerably diminished. Will,
its force remains unimpaired. The terrific sub
stance. so long unavailable for any purposes other
than where the utmost caution could be observed,
Is thus rendered more manageable and fitted fec
military use. If all we hear about it be true, the
novelty will indeed be a great hit. Grenades filed
with it, and shot from guns Of moderate ealibre.
are said to have smashed the strongest euirass that
ever covered the sides o.. ironcased ship. Suppos-
ing this to be confirmed. what. we may well ask.