The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-16
Foreign Miscellany.

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Two cclored men are ON the ssump ior Dent In
Mississippi.
Minnesota promises soon to supply the South
with apples.
Baltimore manufactured %, GIL ,1S4 cigars dur
ing the last year.
There has been a great decline in the price OF
false hair abroad.
Petrolia, Canada, is becoming lively again with
the revival in oil.
Sir Edward Greasy is writing a novel on a
Greek and classical subject.
India rubber aecoy ducks, with a real quack,
can now be purchased.
Manchester, Eng. is about to put O statue OF
Oliver Cromwell in its town hall.
Within nine months a family in Indiana has
celebrated four weddings, three births and two
deaths.
A wealthy German merchant in Indiana has
insured his life for the benefit of the poor of the
town.
The new novel by the author of 81. Emo, for
which it is said she is paid $4,000, touches on
the divorce question.
An English paper advertises for sale a pew
which " commands a view of nearly the whole
congregation"
Over 1000 persons have stopped at the hotels
at the White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia,
during the present season.
Norfolk, Va, has an ordinance by which only
eight boot-blacks are allowed to work in the city,
and each has his own district.
Two nieces of jefferson Davis are said to be
the greatest bellies in Paris now.
WILL EDUCATE THE FREEDNEN.-It is said that
about two hundred Catholic priests will shortly
leave Rome for the Southern States, where they
will undertake the education and conversion OF
the Freedmen.
The whole number of persons in Charleston 5.
c., as appears from n census just taken. is 44,9o2.
~ rDn ~.@-- 11.al-. &Ia~ rhrtAa onh
900 more females than males. The population
of the city in 1860 was 1882.
A number of American engineers have reached
the city of Chihuahua. They were sent by Gen.
Fremont's party TO survey a new route to the
Gulf of California, to extend from San Antonio,
Texas, to Mazatlan. passing through Tamaulpas,
chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Sinaloa.
A poisonous bush has proved very destructive
to sheep in Australia. 1t is a pretty shrub about
four feet high, with q bright scarlet blossom. The
botanical name is gastro6bium grandifroum, and
over 1000 sheep have been lost out of one flock
from eating this bush.
Prince Arthur is named for the Duke of We'll
lington, his godfather. The young man is now
10 wears old. and is in training for Field Marshal
and COMMANDMENTS Chief of the British army.
He will remain in Canada until next June.
Prince NAPOLEON is much bothered by q man
who looks wonderfully like him and claims to be
q son of King jerome. The Prince denounces him
for an impostor, but is careful not TO have him
arrested. The Emperor refuses the fellow au-
dience, but the Empress has taken quite n fancy
To him, and inclines to believe his claims not tic
titious.
SALT LAKE, Sept. 12.-David and Alexander
Smith returned from the J~osephite Conference at
Malade City, Idaho, and yesterday
preaching against Brigham's authority and the
orthodoxy Of his Church. While at Brigham
City,, a mormon town, they We're watched by n
secret police, and the names of parties conversing
with them taken down. After leaving, the man
they stopped with was reprimanded by a Mormon
bishop.
Henry Ward Beecher once saiI "The man
I that would shoot a robin, except in the Fall, and
then really and conscientiOusly for food, has IN
him the blood of n cannibal and would, if born
in Otahiti, have eaten ministers and digested them
too"
Fanny Fern says: .sIf onc-half the girls knew
the previous lives of the men they marry, the
list of old maids would be wonderfully increased"
Whercupon the Boston Post asks Z" If the men
knew what their future lives were to be, wouldn't
it increase the list of old maids still further ?'
The Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, who was
consulted by Lady Byron with regard to a separa-
ton from her husband, il Is stated, is still alive,
and will no doubt be able to clear up the " Byron
SANDER" so-called. DIR. Washington was born i'm
1882, and is therefore now 81 years of age.
Prof. Chase, the geologist, has examined the
cave lately found at Star Spring, Saratoga, and
found in il a subterranean lake, the sides of which
were smooth perpendicular rock and the bottom
not attainable with a twenty foot pole. The
water is very clear, and is supposed to rest on a
soda bottom. Prof. Hagar, geologist Of Vermont,
will further investigate the phenomenon.
: HoRsss CoMrNG.-The trotting horse Hotspur,
recently sold in Massachusetts, for SIS ,000-the
purchaser intending to take him to California.
The stallion, Robert Bonner: has been sold for
so 600, also TO come 10 this coast. We shall
soon have some Of the best ~trotters, as we now
have the fastest runners, in the United States.
The people of the Isthmus are mourning over
the gloomy condition of affairs. The trade and
travel of Panama and Aspinwall are becoming
one of the things of the past. A deep gloom
hangs over the business people, and a general
conviction is expressed that the darkest days are
vet to come. Real estate in the towns has de-
clined, and many OF the mercantile houses of
Panama are closing up their business and leay-
ing the country.
A lad of twelve has just been tried at st.
Petersburg for incendiarism, having deliberately
set fire to his masters house, and to other houses
in its vicinity, no fewer than five, several times,
two of the conflagrations occurring on the same
day. On being questioned as to his motives for
these outrages, he replied with apparent sincerity
that 80 he wanted to see what a fire looked like"
The magistrates discharged him, recommending
his relatives to keep him under close surveillance.
The SHORTEST ROUTE TO CHxNA.-The shortest
route to China is attracting the attention of the
English Journals, and it is asserted to be a matter
Of vital importance to the trade of Great Britain
with the seat of reproducing empire, to lessen
the distance between the respective markets.
The influence of the Pacific Railroad, in the
United States, it is alleged, will interfere with
the trade carried on by the old routes, and
although the Suez Canal may dispense with the
necessity of passing round the Cape of Good
Hope, yet n great obstacle still remains in the
circumnayigation Of the peninsula of Malacca.
The object of these arguments appears 20 be the
advocacy of the construction of a railway by
England from India, through Burmah, to the
western cities Of China.
The NEXT WORLDS ~FAIR.-Par:s, London and
New York are all meditating great fairs for the
exhibition of the industry of all nations some
time within three or four years to come but st.
Petersburg comes first in the list, and will posi-
lively open q general Industrial Exhibition on
Nav 18th NEXT rear Goods intended for exhi-