The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-05-08

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The Corning Journal wants &c an honest boy 10
make 4 devil of
Time never sits heavily upon Us but when il is
badly employed
\ horse in Coventry. Vt. recently died Mt the
ripe age of thirty.
Two thousand workmcn are engaged on the
Vera Cruz Railroad.
Thirty million dollars in gold were mined in
Montana last year.
Gov. Brownlow G.vors raising East Tennessee
into = separate state.
one clothing firm in Boston employs 50 cutters
and $500 sewers.
The number of. Sue Murphy Claims " on file
in Washington i collie, amounting 10 Sl0,-
02o,0O
The total exports from Montreal during 1868.
amounted 10 SlG.S9S,j5 against Sl5.+4,7 45
in 1867.
y New York paper predicts that within 20
years all the Fifth Avenue palaces viii be turned
into shops.
Enamelled bricks for store fronts have been
introduced in Cincinnati. They are made of
any color.
The Philadelphians are grumbling because
New York has got n Vigilance Committee and
they haven't.
At an execution IN Utica, chloroform was adj
minlstcred to the condemned man and he was
launched into the other world in 4 state of insens-
Utility.
The engine house ut Harper's Ferry. so heroic
ally defended by old John Brown and his men.
has, with other buildings, been presented 10y
Congress 10 4 college for colored men, and the
bill was signed by Andrew johnson.
There is q great deal of permanent truth in
what Luther said to his wife who was weeping
cOnvulsivcly over the body Of their dear daughter:
- DO not take on 50 my dear wife remember
that this is a very hard world for girls, and say,
= Gods will he done.
y thief in Hartford broke into a store the
other night, and among his stcalings. shouIdered
a bag Of oats. which had Il leak in il. The next
morning an officer tracked him. by the sprinkle
of oats that had fallen from the bag. To his house,
where the goods were recovered.
General Grant is IL. and Mr.. Colmx 40:
Andrew johnson is 81 Mr.. Seward, 6S General
Schoield but IS: Mr.. WelleS. 67; Mr.. McCulloch.
IS Mr.. Randall and Mr.. Browning, 80: Mr..
Wade, the President of the Senate, Is 90 Senator
Sumner is IS, and Senator Trumbull, ST. The
members of the House Of representatives are
nearly all young men. james Brooks and f. r.
ashburne are among the oldest, and are res
Iectlvely 80 and 90 years of age.
DR.. Hayes has been lecturing on Arctic Re
searches before the New York Geographical
lie is willing to try again to explore
the Northern Ocean. which he says is never
frozen. In his last expedition by dog sledgcs he
reached the most northern point ON the globe,
and planted the Stars and Stripes within 500
miles of the Northern Pole.
Mrs. Jane l.. 5. Dyer, wife of Oliver DYER.
who wrote himself, and = TIE wickedest man in
New York into notoriety, last summer, died on
Sunday, at her home in Mott Haven, Ncw York.
from the effects of accidental overdose of chloro-
Mr.. Dyer was absent in New York at
tending 4 Sunday mission school. NIrs. DYER
thirty six years old and leaves six children.
Dyer had u very severe attack of neuralgia
N the face, and upon retiring for the night APP /
Piled some chloroiOrm, and spilled some upon the
pillow and i~nhaling it died.
ICEEoAT RACEs.-rhe aquatic fraternity Of
Poughkeepsie and thereabnuts have had some
sport in their iceboat races on the CLASSY
surface of the frozen Hudson. Under a snanE-
NJ norwcStCr these icehoats skim the river like
,reat gulls on the wing. Mr.. Berrh would
doubtless enjoy the sport for, unlike sIeighrid-
ne, II involves no cruelty to animals. These
ccboats, too, are capable Of being applied much
more extensively than they are To the practical
purposes of winter transportation on the Hudson
nj other Northern rivers-a hint which we
ommcnd to the attention of practical iccboat
ncn.
\ new series of postage stamps is in course of
PREPARATION by the Post Office DEPARTMENT.
hey will be smaller than those now i'm use. but
t handsomcr finish and design. On the two
cnt stamps is an engraving Of 4 post boy on
orse-back, and on the three cent n locomotive
nder a full head of steam. The five cent stamp
u ilGtu Of W 0AilnEtOn, ana the ten cent
lamp a picture of the Declaration of Indepcnd-
nee. On the twelve cent stamp an engraving of
II ocean steamship Is seen, and the thirty cent
lamp is decorated with the surrender of
GRANT AND TENPERANcE.-The NaHono Ten
er0Hce .Adrocate remarks
II the new Presidents coursc during one of his
tie visits to New York is any fair indication of
Is usual practice, he may he set down a. a
tor0Hgh feetotaher- At the dinner given to Hon.
lr. EvartS, at the Astor House, Gen. Grant re-
to take wine when the toasts were drank.
Ie also declined TO take wine with his host when
ming with a leading merchant of this city. Mn.
'onner says that during his " fast drives with
re General they stopped to " warm = at n fash
'nablc hotel. Several gentlemen coveted tine
Onor of n little suthin' TO drink with the
resident-elect but they were politely refused.
Nice-President ColfaX is one of the officers of
&c National Temperance Society. No patriot
i'll have reason to blush on the ncrf Inaugural {
on-day for bis country or Its chief rulers.
Printers, as a genaral thing, know a thing
two y western paper contains the following
lyertiscmcnt Wants Il situation, a practical S
-inter. who Is competent to take charge of any
in Il printing and publishing house.
'ould accept q professorship in any of the acad-
MES. Has no objection to teach ornamental
hitting and penmanship, geometry. trigonometry L
ID many other sciences. Is particularly suited
act as pastor to Il small evangelical church. or
q local preacher. lie would have no objection
form Il small but select class of Young ladies,
instruct them in the highest branches. To n
mist or a chiropodist he would be invaluable. -
hc can do almost anything. Would cheerfullv r
ccpt 4 position as bass or tenor singer in n
\ Lucky BoY.-The son of Joshua Sears. of !
,ston, who died ten years ago, Is fourteen years
age, and one Of the richest men in the United
ates. The father. whose property was valued
81. 600. 900, after begueathin. small sums to !,
; relatives. provided that his son should have 1
800 annually until attaining the age Of p:
c sum of $4,000 at that period 81, 900 annu-
Y until he had passed the age of 24 $1,000 =.
nually until he had passed the age of 80, and 4
ZOO per anrum after that time. The prop :
" remains in the hands Of three trustees, and
p simple interest on the original amount added
the principal has reached the sum of So BOO
while the assessed value Of the real estate :,