The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-31
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The Marchioness of Hastings, it is stated, is
already engaged to be married again.
French democrats call the Prince Imperial
"Velocipede w."
a Wisconsin russell picked twelve years ago is
still sound and eatable. Doubtful.
King George of Greece is to make the tour of
Europe, leaving his Queen, Olga, as regent.
A young lady is employed as q clerk in a ma
tlonal bank i'll Danville, Indiana.
The income returns of London and England
generally show a decrease from last year.
The Queen of Madagascar and several of her
ministers were recently publicly baptized in the
English missionary church.
The island of Symi, one of the Sporades. has
been recently destroyed by an earthquake. Many
people were injured and a few killed.
The city of Tortosa in Spain, with only 25. 1000
inhabitants, contains property belonging to the
Roman Catholic Church valued Mt 46.000,0 600 reals.
The submarine cable between Corfu and the
Continent has been laid. Greece can now by such
means communicate with all the Ionian islands.
Count Won Beust. the Austrian Premier, will be
present at the opening of the Suez Canal.
The cloth weavers of Bedarieux, France, are out
on strike and demand an Increase of wages.
Twelve acres of the Regents. Park, in London,
are to be prepared and fenced in as q cricket
ground.
Annexation to Prussia has caused, the taxation
to be increased by one-thlrd in the Grand Duchy
of Hesse since 1866.
The new King of Siam is busily reorganizing his
army. and has appointed a French officer as his
cOmmander-in-chief
1t was stated at a recent editorial convention in
Switzerland that there was, not a writer for the
press in the whole country who received a salary
OF one thousand dollars.
A week or two ago the ordinance of the Lords
Supper was celebrated in Madrid publicly by the
ProIestants for the first time since the reign of
Philip H.. more than $50 years ago.
The number of emigrant passengers who left
Havre during the month of April was $3.50 out
of whom 6.2SO were for New York, 20 for San
Francisco, 2 for Montreal, 2S5 for the states of Rio
de la Plata and l for Lima.
The London Morning Herald thinks that Napo-
leon will avail himself of the celebration of the
hundredth anniversary of the birthday of Napo-
leon l. to revive the idea of q European political
congress, in order to insure a lasting peace.
AT the annual meeting of the Aborigines Protec-
ton Society, recently held in London. vehement
accusations were made against the beers of South
Africa, for kidnapping the children of the Cafres
and holding them in slavery.
1t is reported in Paris that Cardinal Bonaparte
will preside over the religious ceremonies to be
held at Ajaccio, Corsica, on August Is, in celebra-
ton of the centenary of Napoleon l..
between Prince Ernest, eldest son of the X
of Hanover, and the Princess Thyra, third daughter
of the King of Denmark. The Prince is in his
twenty-fourth and the Princess i'm her sixteenth
year.
In his journey to Hanover and Hesse the King
of Prussia will be accompanied by the Grand
Duke of Neutrality-suspicious., Admiral Prince
Adalbert, Prince Augustus, of Wurtemburg, Count
Won Bismarck, and General de Room, Minister of
War.
A wealthy London merchant is bearing all tho
expenses of the :" Marriage Reform Association"
in order to legitimate his children by a marriage
with a deceased wife's sister.
The clergy and schoolmasters of Lorraine have
petitioned the Emperor OF the French, begging
him to revoke the decree forbidding the practice
OF the German language in schools.
RoYAL. IGNoRANCE.-Victor Emmanuel was lately
obliged to confess that he did not know who Pliny
was. and thought that it was but four or FIVE
centuries since Herculaneum and Pompeii were
buried. So, at least, says the Court Journal.
While the relations between the Papal govern
ment and Austria are daily becoming more distant,
those between the Pope and the King of Prussia
are getting more friendly. By a recent decree
men who are serving in the Prussian Landwehr
can join the POntifcial army without losing their
rights as Prussian citizens.
A Berlin burglar has invented a machine which
appears to open safes as easily as a knife does an
oyster. Both the inventor and the invention are
in the hands OF the police. The invention, it
seems. shuts up the burglar.
After twenty-five years. service as Grand Master
of the Freemasons of England. the Earl of Zetland
is about to retire from that position. A testimonial
to him on the occasion of bis retirement has nearly
reached the amount of five thousand pounds. and
his lordship announces his intention of making it q
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families, to be dispensed by himself during his life
and afterwards by the Grand Master for the time
being.
A plan for cutting a canal through the valley of
the GarOnne, France, to unite the Mediterranean
and the Bay of Biscay. is receiving much attention
and is favorablY regarded. The cost of the scheme
is estimated at $8S.400, 600 and to be possible Of
accomplishment in six years. The projected canal
would be for merchant and war ships of the
largest size.
The civil Governor of Madrid recently found a
young woman in the most remote part of q nunnery
situated in Gala Hortalera, a horrible den, in
which she had been shut up for five years by
request OF her husband, who suspected her of UNI
faithfuiness. This discovery excites the indigna-
ton OF the entire population of the Spanish capital.
Mr.. Alfred Tennyson has a new volume almost
ready for his publishers. In fact, it merely wants
its title to be complete. 1t is perhaps not generally
known that Mr.. Tennyson always sends bis works
In print to his publishers in his own house he has
a printing press and composing room, and person.
ally supervises the composition of his copy.
An investigation into the affairs of an absconding
book-keeper of a gas company in England gives
some remarkable revelations as to the extrava-
gance in which q man in such q position may
indulge without exciting suspicion. This MI.
Higgs lived in a superb mansion at Twickenham,
with a pleasure ground running to the Thames,
horses and several ponies and his household in
Guided two coachmen, a groom, five gardeners.
and eight female servants. Eighty men were at
work building II new house for him at the time OF
his departure. He was o munidcent giver, wore
the most costly jewelry. was in the habit of giving
cial trains on the. railroads. and so forth. He Was
supposed to have received a heavy legacy, his
salary being four hundred pounds a year. The
man is believed to have fed to America, leaving .