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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-12-04

cost $50. Witness, Kcamalu, Hcuck's man, then
says: 4 asked them the cost, because 1 wondered
trhsre hey got The bone; I could not find out, er-
ept that they had fought, and still thought it a
strange proceeding. Aud it will be remembered
that when this witness was asked If he did not
know it, the bone, to be stolen, Mr.. Heuck's
counsel would not allow it 10 be answered although
the Attorney General was willing that he should
refuse if upon the ground tina, it might criminate
himself. 1t is true that this witness says that he
did not tell Heuck about Lis suspicious as to the
transaction, and also that Heuck never asked him
how the bone came there. To a careless reader.
it seems strange that Mr.. Heuck should never en-
quire of his employees where the bone came from,
but this is explained by Keamalu, Heuck's man,
who says that the boys who took the bone to the
store told HeIck about it, but who again SAYS
that he did not hear them tell him SO. Is it not
reasonable to suppose that they told Heuck. when
Anthem Acknowledges that they told him about it ?
Witness for Heuck also says bone was brought
four times during this month that Heuck's eyes
were weak and that in looking for the weight on
the beam he had to look as close as two inches.
So much for Mr.. Heuck's witness, who had more
to do with the bone than any one else in the en-
ploy. and who probably knew more about it than
any one else excepting the principals in the trans
actions. 1t will be noticed that there is nothing
in this to disprove the bargain made by Heuck
with Nakookoo not one word to do away with
the conversation between Heuck and Nakookoo
during which Nakookoo tells Heuck that he was
not afraid to bring the bone because he, Heuck,
would buy it. This witness says that Nakookoo
told him he got it nights, but not one word is
said about the license. 1t is reasonable to sup
pose that IL he told Anthem about the license that
he would have told witness. Keamalu, about it.
This witness also ~confesses that he though. il a
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-12-04

"a: IN as s'''' Nov ''''' 70 SIC -'s Of VIM T'''
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
The Church q uestien in England

Our foreign kilograms this morning
will be found highly interesting. They
bring intelligence of a crisis in Eng
land upon the Irish Church question,
The House of Lords stand opposed to
the Government and the people upon
the question of disestablishment. While
the force of public opinion and of all
progressive ideas favors the passage OF
the measure, the Peers with all the ira
ditional obstinacy of an hereditary aris-
tocracy, set their faces like flint
against the movement. AS the peo
pie of England are intensely interested
upon the subject and earnestly in favor
of the bill, and as the Lords alone
obstruct its passage, the popular indig-
nation is said to be very great. The
Lords on their side protest against
"coercion;" the people on theirs protest
against the defeat Of great movement
by a handful of tilted obstructionists.
Immense demonstrations on the pop
ular side are already being held. Others
will follow; the agitation will spread
until il shakes the whole country, and
there is reason to believe that this tenn
porary delay in the reform movement
will enable it to gather additional
strength, possibly sufficient to sweep
away hereditary legislation" along
with the Irish Church.
The proposed method of circumvent-
ing their perverse Lordships is some
what suggestive. A namber of new
Peerages are to be established, and these
filled with progressive men in sufficient
quantity to overbalance the present
"old fogy" majority in the House OF
Lords. This reminds us of Congress ad-
hitting new States to ratify an unpop-
ular Amendment to the Constitution or
to complete a two-thirds majority in
the Senate. Now that affairs in Eng
land have taken this exciting turn they
will be watched with great interest
That countryl seems to be travelling
with accelerated speed in the direction
of great political revolution.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
rom the New Orleans PlcayuLe, !
A FISH STORY.
Capture Of Monster Devil Fish Nenr
the Mouth of the Mississippi River.

On the 18th inst, while the United
States Revenue Cutter Wilderness was
cruising in the vicinity of Cat Island,
Mississippi sound, she fell in with two
boats, containing a party of officers
from the garrison at Ship Island, Mis-.
sssippi, in tow of an immense devil
fish. Assistance being asked in order
to capture him, it was cheerfully grant
ed, and after considerable labor the fish
was safely hauled up at the ships fish
tackle, and the vessel steaming to the
island, his satanic piscatorial majesty
was soon on the beach.
On examination it was found to some
what resemble stingaree, only, instead
of the head coming to point, the space
between the eyes (three feet) forming
the mouth, was concave, the mouth IT.
self measuring two feet in width; no
teeth were visible. The tail was the
same as the stingaree, without the
sting; the color was a dark brown,
nearly black on top and white under
meath; measured twelve feet from head
to tail, fourteen feet in breadth and two
feet thick in the middle; its weight
was estimated at from 1909 to l5OO
pounds.
The history of the capture is briefly
as follows: A party of officers fishing
on the pier discovered the fish close IN
shore, on the bottom, apparently asleep:
Colonel Il. X. Bliss, the commandant Oh
the post, an expert fisherman ana
whaler, was Immediately summoned,
and, being provided with number OF
harpoons with lines attached, at once
called for boat, in hopes to capture
the fish: proceeding cautiously, tho
Colenel's first throw struck the monster,
which at once started for deep water
with the boat in tow. A second ana
third iron were planted in him, but
still he kept on. Another boat went 10
the assistance of the first, but, nctwlth-
standing the weight of the boats,
with six persons in each, they were
picked up a distance Of three miles from
the island, the fish being then about
dead; four hours time was consumed
in the chase, and all the parties engaged
completely exhausted.
Several attempts have been made TO
capture one of these fish, but few have
been successful, and but for the skill OF
Colonel Bliss with the harpoons this
one would have been still uncaught.
a photograph of this curiosity was at
Snce made, and the surgeon of the post,
DR.. kerper, will eudeavor to preserve a
portion OF 1t for the benefit of science.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
From the Nashville Press, l6tb)
n Number of Convicts Attempt TO Is
caPe-One of Them Shot.

yesterday evening, at the hour for
quitting, the convicts that are engaged
quarrying rock and breaking the same,
at the State Institute, between Line
and Gay streets, West Nashville, were
being got into military order as usual,
when three of them "broke to rum
tnat Is to say, they skunk away
from their companions, and making
an earnest appeal to their feet,
set out on run for freedom. The
guards We're in bad fix. To leave a
squad OF fifty or sixty standing on the
street, depending upon their honesty of
neart not to take advantage of any omen.
ing winch might offer, would be trust.
ing TOO much TO depraved human ma.
tufe; They could not, therefore. pnrsna
the heeing thieves; but they could send
shot or two after them. though this
was dangerous, inasmuch as il left
them without the means of rnnisb.
ing similar audacity on the mart
OF Others If they attempted 70
gain liberty by flight. Tbs
shots were fired, however, and VIII
effect, for Pat Jones, one of the rena
gades, was mortally wounded at tba
first fire. The other two were untoucb.
ed; two OF the guards concluded to give
chase. In short time one of the Pen.
itentiary birds, being faint of heart and
heavy behind, was captured. The other
one held on his way over the fields and
through the woods for three miles, and
was only captured by party of fellows
who set out from the Penitentiary on
mules.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
The Fifteenth Amendment.

The Harrisburg Patriot corrects th,
arithmetic of these Radical journaI
which assume that the ratification O
the Fifteenth Amendment is virtually
secured. The action taken thus far il
as follows:
Alabama, said to have ratified.
Arkansas, ratified March 10.
Connecticut, ratified May 13.
Delaware, rejected.
Florida, ratified in June.
Georgia, rejected.
illinois, ratified March 5.
Indiana, assumed to ratify May IA.
No quorum present.
Kansas, assumed to ratify. The
second section was imperfect.
Louisiana, ratified March l.
Maine, ratified March 9.
Massachusetts,, ratified March IL.
Michigan, ratified March 5.
Missouri, assumed to ratify March l.
Did not act upon the second section.
Nebraska assumed to ratify. Certifi-
cate on file at the State Department is
informal and insufficient.
Nevada, ratified March /.
New Hampshire, ratified July l.
New York, ratified April Id.
North Carolina, ratified March 5.
Pennsylvania, ratified.
Rhode Island, the Senate ratified May
q. The amendment will probably be
rejected, because the Rhode Islad Radi-
calls believe that under it they can no
longer disfranchise their Irish Catholic
laberers.
South Carolina, ratified March 10.
West Virginia, ratified March 3.
Wisconsin, ratified March 5.
This makes only twenty-one States
that can possibly be claimed for the
amendment thus far; and of these only
seventeen have legally ratified it. The
assent of eleven more States will be
necessary to force negro suffrage upon
an unwilling people.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
A DeserTed Rebnke.

The Philadelphia Age relates the cir
eumstances of most severe but right
eous rebuks administered few weeks
ago by Judge Chase, sitting as Chiei
Justice of tho Supreme Court, to Att0r-
ney General Hoar. The way of it is
stated to have been this: Hardly had
Hoar prostItuted the position which
q Stanbery and an Evarts had virtuous-
ly and vigorously filled, before it be-
came his duty to appear in the Supreme
Court of the United States. In the
progress of speech by him, the ven
erable Justice Nelson inquired: "What
is the page of authority you are quot
ing, Mr.. Attorney Generalp To which
the man whom ex-General Grant gave .
Cabinet place in exchange for library,
replied: MAY it please the court de-
cline to be interrupted in my srgu-
ment." Wherenpon the Chief Justice,
assuming upon his younger shoulders
the affroHt directed at his associate and
incidentally rejecting upon the whole
bench, brought the Massachusetts,
attorney to his knees at once by say
ing: "Mr. Attorney General, you will
cease in your argumens for the present.
This court, as You will learn when you
have become used to its amenities, re-
serves the right to question at any time
any of its connsellors on any point
whatever. Your rejoinder to the ques-
tion of my associate is inadmissable,
and when You have apologized to the
court for language which we must say
was never heard here before, you may
proceed, but not until that is DONE"
Whereupon the legal bully collapsed
aud meekly begged pardon, which it
pleased the court to allow.-C0urier:-
Journal
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
Signs and Wonders

The other day they had a shower Of
snakes in Tennessee, and now the word
comes of "whirlwind of fire" in the
same region. Are these phenomena due
to the fact that STOKES and SENTER are
raising Tophet in their Ganvassf Are
the serpents an affliction to be cured
when SENTER shall be lifted up, like the
brazen serpent in the wilderness, for the
healing of the people! Is the fiery
whirlwind merely PREDATORY to some
flaming chariot in which STOKES is to
be taken down, as the prophet was
taken up' Or do both manifestations
prefigure the doings upon August 5th,
when the Conservatives will "wake
snakes" and knock blazes out of the
Stokesite proscriptionistsf When will
we have an ophidian shower and fiery
blast in West Virginial
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
Land Swiudles.

The Intelligencer yesterday printed an
article in relation to the wholesale
style in which the American people
have been swindled out of the public
lands by Congressional grants to large
corporations. The case of the Southern
Pacific Railroad is cited, and the fact
stated that the company varied from
their original and chartered route from
sixty to one hundred and fifty miles so
as to enable them to get better lands
than those originally granted them. We
quote:
1t is quite time that railroad grants
of public lands were stopped. The prac-
tice is corrupting to those who give and
those who receive. Doubtless most of
the grants made have been as needless
as the one thus exposed; and like this,
have brought no compensation to the
country for lands thrown away. 1t is
not too late to stop the waste of public
property in the interest of the "South-
ern Pacific railroad" since their action
appears to be plainly illegal; but many
millions more of our national domain
are already irrevOcably given over to
great corporations; and another Con-
gress like the last two would suffice to
deprive this country of its chief means
OF stimulating emigration, and in offer
ing homes of plenty to industrious la
borers from Europe, during the next
century.
We waive discussion ol the point that
these swindles must be palpable and
enormous to compel this sort of com,
ment from Republican papers. Doubt
less it might be interesting to show that
any reasonable amount of robbing
would have been ignored, and that it i.
only the shameful excess which provokes
this protest. Be that as it may, the
fact is confessed that Congress has beer
literally swindling the public, out o
millions of acres of the national do
main, and that the great stimulus o
emigration, the inducement to indus
trious settlers, is thereby taken away
Now who are the men that perpetratt
these wrongsf Merely the gentlemen
whom the Republican party has beer
electing to Congress for the past eight
years, and whom these Republican pa
pers have been defending as the model.
of purity and goodness. In the cam
paigns this Fall, when this charge o
corruption and swindling shall b,
raised, it will be pooh-poobed as q
"rebel lie, raised for political effect,
and the journals that now back up th'
charge will then be the first to de
ride it.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

They have captured a prodigious
devil fish near the mouth Of the Missis-
sippi river. The monster weighed
fifteen hundred pounds, considerably
more than the FISH who is Secretary of
State. Had the creature lived, it
would have been q fit subject for ap-
pointment to office, on the score of re-
lation to the piscatorial functionary
above named.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

SOME of GRANTS Office holders are
coming out strong under the pressure of
"necessity, the mother of invention"
According to the Mobile Tribune, the
negroes in that postoffice have hit upon
an expedient to simplify distribution.
They have chalked all the boxes white
and red in equal division, and put all
the yellow letters in the red boxes and
the white letters in the white ones.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
The trial nj Yeroer before n militar

The trial of Yerger before military
commission was concluded yesterday ut
Jackson, Mississippi, but the verdict is
not yet known. After the trial was
concluded Yerger was brough before
Judge Hill, of the United States Circuit
Court, on a writ of habeas corpus.
Judge William Yerger, on behalf of the
prisoner, submitted plea, to which
the Judge Advocate, Colonel Thomas L.
Barr, submitted return, and Yerger
was remanded to military custody.
The points involved having been here
tofore passed upon by Judge Hill with
the same result, the case will next be
heard from in the Supreme Court.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
An Accurate Test.

Down in the Southern part of this
State, they have an accurate method OF
determining the political status of the
people. They find the names of the
"loyal" men upon the registration books
alone. The rebels are enrolled upon the
lists of the tax. assessor. This separa-
tion of the scalawags and useless con-
sumers from the prescribed producers
and actual supporters of the Govern
ment, is fearfully and wonderfully cor
rect
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
ST, CLOUD HOTEL.

VNHIs NEW AND COMMODIOUS HOUSE,
i located corner of Broadway and I2d street,
possesses advantages over all other houses for
the accommodation Of its guests. 1t was built
expressly for a frst-class Family Boarding
House-the rooms being large and en- suit,
heated by steam with hot and cold water, and
furnished second TO none; while the culinary
department is in the most experienced hands,
afording guests an unequaled table.
One of AtwOod's Patent Elevators is also
among the modern Improvements" and at the
service OF guests at all hours.
The Broadway and University Place Cars pass
the door every four minutes, running from the
City Hall 10 Central Park, while the Sixth and
Seventh Avenue Lines arc but a short block on
either side, affording ample facilities for com
municating with all the DePots, Steam boat
Landings places Of Amusement and Business
Of the great metropolis.
MORE HOLLEY,
marIl-6m Proprstors.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

GRANT is putting in, his time at the
watering places. He is gradually be-
coming familiar with the sight Of the
aqueous liquidity; can look at it with
oat hydrophobia. AS soon as it is
deemed safe, he will venture to taste 1T.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

THE New York Times advises "the TO-
bacconists and cigar dealers who are
putting wooden GRANTS, cigar in hand
in front of their shops, to get efhgies
that do justice to the subject" We
suspect that it is not the inaccuracy,
but the perfection of the portraiture
which troubles the Times. What, for
example, could be truer to life than the
wooden headi
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

Olive Logan describes the female
bathers at Long Branch as hanging
themselves on the safety rope, looking
exceedingly like newly washed clothes
on q windy Monday.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

SOME of the Southern papers nave
entitled the President "Smoky Cesar.
The designation is neat, bus the speii-
ing inexact. 1t ought to be Smoky
Seizer.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

A Jackson, Mississippi, dispatch says
that the Dent movement is supported
by the press of the State, and he will
receive the support of the Conserva.
tives of all parties.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

President Sarmiento, of the Argentine
Confederation, is called the Yankee
President. His annual message was
telegraphed from his residence all over
the Republic.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

Judge Black has arrived at his home
in York, Pennsylvania, from Louisville,
He is recovering from the injuries re,
ceived in the railway accident, and will
retain the use of his arm.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

Hollands German Bitters, per bottle, %
ho' =. half dozen, ,..- 5 "
Hooaand's German Tonic, put up in quart
bottles per bottle tle:;;---------------.---' - .
or half dozen for 81 50.
ER-De not forget 70 examine well the arti.
ols Iou buy. in order 10 get the genuine.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

A San Francisco dispatch says another
successful trial of the air ship Avitor
was had on Wednesday. The opinion
is expressed that larger machine now
constructing will be perfect success.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
constitutional Specific,

Which not only 0oRquers and combats diseases
that have intrenched themselves in the system,
but is the best known safeguard against all
unhealthy influences. Persons whose occapa.
tions and pursuits subject them TO the depress-
ing effects of close, unwholesome atmosphere,
should take it regularly, as a protection against
the low fevers and other disorders which mala.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

AMiss Burns was recently married at
Nashville, Tennessee, to Mr.. o. F
Farewell. The last words of Miss Burns
to her friends were 81 am o. Fare
WELL"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
WASTING AWAY

without any special complaint, except grad.
ual declinstion of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
PREsHING PF Sahhtil AND HIGGRATASG an kh A
POOL IN The DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
HOTELS.

EVERETT HOUSE.
North Side of Union Park, N. Y.
niHIS HOUSE Is KEPT ON THE EU
i ropean plan; it is within three minutes
ride (by horse sars) of the New Haven
Railroad Depot, convenient 10 all the princip
places of amusement, and for Summer travele
will be found the coolest Hotel in the
Every room is provided with running water.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
Hoofand's German Tonic,

Has been provided-a preparation in which the
solid extracts of the finest restoratives of the
vegetable kingdom are held in solution by a
spiIituous agent, purged Of all deleterious con.
stituents. TAe patient, in choosing between
these two great antidotes, should be guided by
his own condition. II in very low state, from
debility, the Tonic should be his selection; but
in cases where the0 0emergenQy is not so
pressing the Bitters isOthe specific required.
Thousands find infinite benefit from taking each
in turn Thersis no phase of Indigestion, Bilious.
ness, Nervous Diseases, er Physical Prostrsti0n,
to which they are not adapted, and in which,
singly or combined, they will not effect cure.
Biliousness, Indigestion, General Debility,
and all the complaints which proceed from a
want of proper action in the Liver, Stomach
and the Bowels, are eradicated by course Of
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23

Trains on the Main Line mako connections
AZ Baltimore with trains for Philadelphia, View
York and Boston. At kslsy House, via Wssh.
ington City, fOr all points South.
Central Ohio trains make direct connection at
Columbus for all poiHts West and North vest.
Tickets 70 AL principal points can b procured
at the ofsoe.
JOHN L. wIIsOs,
MAStsr Of TrnnspoTtAtion, BAitirnors.
K 7. DEvKIEs,
myI0 General A zsnt, wheeiinz.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
Hon .Lnmis Roas .Snorrden.

Hon. James Ross SHo,rden,
prothouotory Of the Supreme Court OF Penn
sylvania, writes:
PHILADELPHIA, Sept IL. 1867.
,.uooaand', German Bitters' is = very useful
-.icIa as a tonic and as an appetizer. II is not
a. a. intoxicating drink. and may be used beneh'
cially by persons Of all ages.
JAMES ROSS SS0WDES.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
HOOFLANDjS GERMAN BITTERS

Is composed of the pure juices Tor, as they are
incidentally termed, EztrdctS) of Roots Herbs,
and Barks, making a preparation highly con.
centrated, and entirely free from alcoholic Gd.
mixture Of any kind.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-23
For Sale by all Druggist.

and BY dealers in Medicines everywhere.
jyI3.Tu, Th,Sst.veov