The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-23
Late Foreign Miscellany.

An English tradesman who has long advertised
that he was 81 selling off :" now placards his stor'
with announcements that he is = selling on"
A Wisconsin man ran into q hornets nest in hi
barn and was badly stung. In revenge be tool
matches and set fire to the nest, which was de
stroyed together with the barn.
Mark Twain, at the Parker House, Boston. rang
for : a copy of the laws of Massachusetts," TO see
if there was anything to prevent him from drinking
icewater."
Judge Orr. of South Carolina, is winning the
best of reputation by his judicial course. He is
very Industrious. discreet and courteous, and re
ceives praise from all parties.
An Englishman is engaged in making q voyage
from New Jersey to Texas in a canoe. He makes
twenty miles in seven hours, padding against wind
and tide.
A wealthy German merchant Of Michigan City.
Ind, has taken ont a life insurance policy for the
benefit of the poor of that place.
Henry Ward Beecher is to assume the editorial
charge of the Church Union, a non-sectarian reli-
giOus paper, on January LIST.
The Kbedive works a small farm of 200 900
acres with two hundred steam cultivators, and is
almost as accomplished an agriculturist as Horace
Greedy.
1t is said that Commodore Vanderbilt went to
Canada to be married, so that Fisk and Gould
could not get ont an injunction and put his intended
into the hands of q receive her.-Er.
More Byron scandal. One De Luna Byron, who
was on FremOnt's staff in Missouri, claims to be a
legitimate SON of Byron, and that his mother, a
Spanish woman, being the first wife of the poet,
Lady b. must have been an illegal wife.
The new order requiring New York policemen
to wear their uniforms when off duty can hardly be
agreeable to the wives of the members of the force.
Suppose one of them wishes to take a promenade
on Broadway with the head of the household he
must go i'm all the glory of his blue coat and brass
buttons, and with the cap bearing his official num-
Der. She runs in the risk of being stared at as
a thief or other offender of the law going to the
tombs, and would be fortunate if she escaped being
followed by a crowd of noisy urcbins.
The uncertainty as to DR.. Livingstone revives in
England the project Of an expedition which shall
traverse the length and breadth of Africa Cap
tain Burton is ready to leave his consulate at Dam
ascus for such a purpose, and it is suggested that
from about sixty to one hundred men. partly sea-
soned Europeans and partly Orientals (Sikhs, for
example, armed to the teeth with weapons of pre-
cisiOn. would be found capable of the enterprise.
SAN FRANCIsCo-A purchase of 3,774 acres of
land adjoining San Francisco has been made by a
party OF Eastern capitalists for the sum of S2,000.-
600 in gold. OF this tract, 1920 border OH the
southern limits of the city, and furnish a water
front of two and a half miles. This land, it is
stated, has heretofore been held by a Spanish COM
pany, which refused to sell, and thus prevented
San Francisco from extending its limit to the sea
coast.
The last skirmish in the vaccination war in Eng
land is rather q singular affair. A gentleman
having purchased a lot in the Highgate cemetery,
London, undertook to erect a stone to the memory
of his child, with the inscription Z" Died from the
mortal effects of vaccination" The authorities Of
the graveyard objected to such a record, aud the
case was carried into the police court. 1t was
proved that the words of the proposed Inscription
were those of the verdict Of the coroner's jury. A
higher court is to decide the question at issue.
The story of the mutiny on board the United
States frigate Sabine has at last received au author
itative denial from an officer of that vessel. The
wife of Lieut.. Commander Ryan received letters
from her husband on Monday. written after the ar
rival of the Sabine at Lisbon, in one of which he
says:
There has been a most ridiculous candrd pub
lished about us in a Paris paper which L suppose
has. ere this, been telegraphed Understanding
about the discovery of a conspiracy to blow up the
ship, and the hanging Of seven men. In whose fer
tile brain the story originated l cannot imagine.
Nothing has occurred to give it the slightest foun-
dation."
The attention of medical authorities has been
called to a new method OF putting babies to bed,
which is said to have come into use in France, and
to be singularly healthy. The device consists in
the child of clothing. and imbedding il,
except the head, in a cradle full OF bran, precisely
as fruit and fragile articles are sometimes packed
for transportation. The advantage of the method
is said to consist in its remarkable cleanliness, and
the pleasant and eqnable temperature in which the
infants body is kept. from its inability to kick the
of. The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that these
privileges of comfort ought not to be restricted to
and suggests that sojourners at the sea-
side may some day escape the terror Of doubtful
beds by taking their own bags of bran among their
luggage.
ne mcOltdtlOH VI the UFeat IOWerS Oh EurODe
Turkey and Egypt has been satisfactory.
None OF the points presented, save one, have
offered any difficulty.
BORDEAUX, Sept. ga FIRE last evening among
he shipping consumed thirty vessels laden with
The loss is heavy.
LISBON, Sept. 29.-The mail steamer from Rio
brings advices from Paraguay to August 23d. On
he 18th the allied army attacked the forces OF Pres
dent Lopez, which were entrenched at Curaqually.
Fe Paraguayans were entirely defeated, losing
Ann III --I Onn
we're also captured. Lopez, with the remainder of
lis army. fed to Ignacion, q short distance away.
IN the 2lst be was again attacked by the allies,
md again defeated, losing in the engagement IS
'annon. Count DEu, the general commanding
he allies, at last advices was closely pursuing the
.ugitives.
Owing to these victories the Paraguayans were
compelled to abandon all their steamers. These
fell into the hands Of the allies.
British subjects. who have lately been
leld in confinement by Lopez, were promptly
The provisional Government Of Asuncion has de-
Jared Lopez an outlaw.
The Times Paris correspondent asserts there is
nut little hope Of a compromise between Spain and
he Cubans. The sentiment of both parties is
verse to 1t. The Spanish Government says, in 90
les to the Cortes and if you will be as Canada,
We are willing. If You desire independence, we
ont say no. The matter may be arranged. but
isarm." SPANS motto is nothing but compulsion.
Gaulois asserts that France has sent q note to
russia and Baden. declaring that she will regard
he annexation of the Grand Duchy OF Baden by
russia as a cdsus beli.
LorillaTd. Of the yacht Meteor. has issued a chal-
enge for an ocean race this Fall. Stakes "a, 500.
Charles Dickens opened the Winter session of
he Midland Institute, Birmingham, last evening
"a. In concluding his speech he said bis
olitical creed consisted Of two articles His faith
n the people governing was in6nitessimal ; his
aith In people governed was illimitable.
ALEXANDRIA. Sept. 30-A dispatch from Suez
nnounces that the barriers against the passage of
esseps passed through the canal in y steamboat
,om Port Said to Suez in sixteen hours.
MADRID Oct. LA commission of fifteen deputies
, the Cortes has been charged with the duty of re-
orting on the various candidates for the throne Of
pain.