The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-09-11
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\ woman Lac been imprisoned 1T Rome OF a
charge of being 8 sorceress-
Seven hundred Haytien dollars are not worth
az much a. one dollar IN coin.
An expres. train IN England 10 announced to
run TT the rate OF fifty miles an hour
California Las already begun to send pears and
grapes by railroad to New York.
Brigham Young has recently married again.
Ills new bride is Miss Fallansbee OF Boston.
Ten thousand lives were lost by n cyclone, or
hurricane, which visited England Oh the 10th u
May.
Russia has abolished its hereditary priesthood
at "a blow, thus changing the condition oil ioo'-
600 persons.
The curious are now admitted to the interior
of the Boston Coliseum at u quarter oil u uoiiar
q head.
The deepest Artesian well in the country IS at
the ST. Louis Co. Farm. Ii has reached a depth
of 1881 feet.
The new ten cent currency il getting into CIR
c~ulatiOn. IL is about the same size rs the last
issue, but handsomer.
The receipts of the United States government
during the year ending July !, 1863, were Soo,-
OUO 900 more than the expenditure.
Prof. Morse, of telegraph fame. fell down stairs
at his residence in Poughkeepsie, aud broke one
Of his legs.
They had 4 rain of snakes at Indian Gap, Fast
Tennessee, a few days since, and one OF the rep
tiles bit q field hand 50 that he died.
4 French chemist has discovered a process for
converting silver into gold, but unfortunately 1t
costs more than it comes to.
Boston will celebrate the centennial anniver-
sary Of Humboldt's birth ON the l4th OF Septen-
Der. Prof. Agassiz will deliver the address.
A breakfast - wAs recently given IT Bucking-
ham Palace Ut ! o'clock u. NJ. This As what II
French paper calls dganer Gin0fore-a dinner
ish breakfast.
IL makes Quesn Victoria sea-sick To hold a
leyee. The presence Of "A crowd brings on giddi-
mess, and other symptoms common to landsmen ut
sea
Portugal is badly in need of a revolution. y
Scotch merchant ut Oporto was lately sentenced
to ELK years Punishment for teaching Protestant
doctrines in his own house.
At the celebration of the national anniversary
ut AlgOna, Iowa, on the 9TH, n woman made u
speech on wOInan's rights while her husband held
the baby.
At a late meeting Of the Board Of Regents Of
the University Of California, W. X. Swinton,
well-knOwn ne n War Correspondent of the New
York Times, was elected Professor Of English
Literature and Rhetoric.
CuH,.-It is estimated that the expenses of the
Spanish in Cuba for August will amount TO
-. 2O0 900, viz. for the War Department,
$500 900 Navy Department, $3.50, 600: Civil
Department, $50. 900 miscellaneous, $500, 900.
They had better sell out.
On the return of tine Hon. WIN. H.. Seward to
Sun Francisco, il IL in contemplation by some of
his friends To present him with a magnificent
gOld-headed cane. which is now OH exhibition at
Tuckcrs.
\ young man named Powell, while mOcking IL
deaf and dumb person, On the CATE, between Belle
vile and Gallowsy's, Tenn, u few days ago,
wns suddenly struck totally deaf and dumb. He
returned to Belleyille and wrote as follows
{. God has sent this awful punishment upon me
to teach man never 10 mock ut the infrmities of
his fellow man
TwO-thirds Of the heirs Of Anneke Jams have
appointed u committee ut heirs TO manage their
case against the corporation Of Trinity Church
without reward, unless the suit shall be gained,
In which case ten per cent. vi the amount re-
covered. estimated ut from 800. 900 900 to $780,
coo 900, shall be divided among the managers.
RoCCH on CmCAGO.--The Cincinnati Gazette il
hard ON Chicago Ii opposes the reInOval of the
capital there, because il does not believe Chicago
will DC u permanently, and says that SodOIn and
GOmOrrah and Babylon, whose very sites are now
unknown, were once ~ fourishing rs Chicago,
and IN their morals some of them riyaled her.
Chicago Lad better stop barking 1T Cincinnati
now.
One Of the dailies asserts that Gen. Sickles
has already made propositions 10 Spain looking
nominally To the Independence, but really To the
acquisition Of that island by the United States.
Cuba Is 10 offer Spain u round - one hundred
million Of dollars or under, rs an indemnity for
her rights OF ownership, the bonds 10 be guaran-
tced by the United States.
Spots or the sun are quite numerous, Il group
being now visible nea- the eastern limb, one of
which Is said by tie astronomers to be 5000
miles in diameter. They do not seem to be
numerous or large enough 10 make much differ
enee in the beat.
The FUIuRE.-Wben the United States is as
densely populated M Massachusetts, is to-day, We
sIall uutuber n Ventilation nf Guu Oun 0DD and
when il reaches Great Britain in point of density
our population will number more than $50 ,OOo,-
600. or about twice as many "a the present popu-
latiOn Of China. Land will be valuable then.
The NEUTRALITY LAws.-President Grant is
e~omplimented by the London Star for his rigid
enforcement OF the neutrality laws. That jour
nal has frequently referred 10 the matter, and
seldom fails To D bring the conduct of this Govern
ment into contrast with the cowardly and mean
course Of England during the rebellion. The
neutrality lave of the two countries are almost
/ identical-the cases that call for their execution
are precisely alike yet England ignored her OWL
statute OF allowed others to do IL for her, while
here both the spirit and the letter are strictly OBJ.
served.
A movement il on foot in France to legalize
divorce. The old code eiriLe legalized divorces fol
several reasons, but the provisions OF this law
were altered in 1916, 80 that at present France
permits no divorces q rincuId Dl0frSM0nii, but
only separation par corps. There are not les.
than As 900 men and women in France who
having found the bonds Of marriage inconvenient
are now living apart from each other. There art
now 1888 demands for separation before the
courts. and many men and women, once married
are voluntarily separated from each other. o
course, these 5000 persons can form no new
matrimonial relations unless absolute divorce
shall be l~egalized.
We learn from a reliable source that tie new
building now being constructed on Market street
and bounded by New Montgomery, Jessie anG
Second streets, has been leased by Messrs. John
son & Co., present proprictors Of the Lick House
The new building will contain four hundred
rooms, and will be fitted up in a style surprising
any house on the Pacific coast. 1t Is the inten
ton of the proprietors to call it Z" The Crane
HOTEL - and to throw it's doors open for guests b,
the lst of May, 1870
How TO KEEP PooR.-There is NJ man blu
who would rejoice to have a way pointed out b.
which he might honestly attain riches. No ont
would thank us for u prescription 10 insure pow