The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-24
American MISCELLANY.

The New York bOrId predicts that Harvard
will be beaten in its English boat races.
The New York society for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals has received S469, 900 in be
quests.
Mississippi expects to realize forty million dol.
lars from her cotton crop of this year.
Boston has sixteen Congregational, sixteen
Catholic, sixteen Baptist, sixteen Methodist,
twenty-oue Unitarian, and fourteen Episcopalian
churches.
\ full-blooded terrier pup, born among a litter
Of kittens and having the feet of a cat, is the
latest novelty in Waterbury.
The average expenses for music in nine churches
in san Francisco Is $3.50 in gold.
PRoGRESs.-In the Massachusetts Legislature
recently, the Senate committee on woman suf-
frage, with only one dissenting voice, recon-
mended an amendment to the constitution strik-
ing out the word q male from the section rela-
tive To suffrage
Chief Justice Chase recently ruled in a case at
Baltimore that the government could not collect
income tax from foreigners who held bonds, and
that what has been collected must be refunded.
Illinois is said to be the most thoroughly or
ganized Sunday School State i'm the Union.
Every county has Its convention, and in fifty
counties each township has an organization, and
several OF the townships have precinct Organiza-
tiOns.
We arc informed, by a gentleman who has Just
returned from Washington. that the reason why
President Grant las replaced so many of his
early appOintces, is because they have been un-
able TO procure bonds.
One Of the most practicable machines of the
day is I" Coles Cigar Machine which will make
and finish one thousand cigars in ten hours, max
ing them Mt onc-tbird the expense of those made
by hand. \ company is organizing for the pur-
chase and control of the patent.
In the upper counties OF Virginia peanuts will
take the place of tobacco TO q large extent the
coming season. The crop has become the most
profitable grown in Eastern Virginia. The aver
age price for last years crop cannot have been
less than g 50 n bushcl.
The receipts OF tie American Board of Mis-
siOns Mt Boston for the month of March, are
S37 ,2O2, which is Sc, 264 more than in the same
month last year. But for the whole year up To
the first of April, they are $27 900 less than in
the same time last year.
SrccEssFuL.-Rcv. Father Doane, of Newark,
New Jersey, has returned from his tour through
the States, bringing with him $l67, 900, which
he hls collected IN aid Of the American College
ut Rome.
DEAD IN THE DAScE.-A young man fell dead
IN the whirl of n German waltz ut Chicago, last
week. The shrek of his partner, as the l~ifeless
body dropped on the crowded ballroom floor.
was the first warning the reyclers had that death
was among them.
COOP PRovIsIoy.-The late James Harper had
his life insured against accident in the Travellers
Insurance Company of Hartford, for ten thou
sand dollars, which amount was at once paid to
his family. This event shows the importance of
all travellers to have an insurance policy.
Since the adoption of the free-seat system in
the First Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati,
more money has been raised than under the pew
system, and the congregations have increased.
Purdee College, Pike county, Mo-, confers the
degree Of NJ. a. (maid of arts) upon young
ladies. Among the practices prohibited ut this
and gentlemen"
4 German in New Orleans left a will consist
ing of these words only Mrs. Roper is my
There was a codicil nearly as short
saying that her name was properly spelled Lopez.
Tic ill "1s admitted 20 probate
IN organ 70 which the English invention u
working the pipe valves b means II e-ioctr1-mag-
netism has been applied, Is 0u exhibition IL New
E1rk The new plan IS ve'y successful hntb IN
.hc ease Of playing Gn4tIo~ TfJmPunsss with which
The pipes asc made o. srclk.
The Hon. Eugene tasserly's Omitted States
ScI-sos, californian O..s.-c I-l-s ~ tie City VI
san Francisco have been assessed at $2,6S5 roo,
35,425 worth Of which has been appropriated .
or public reservations. Mr.. Casserly owns, also,
tracts of land in Santa Cruz and San
'fatco Counties, beside valuable productive real
state in the heart Of San Francisco. :
PIC IRoS.-An invention for the rapid manu- :
acture of pig iron has been perfected ut Mar !
Iuette. The Advertiser, of Detroit, says that by |.
his process the inventor can convert the Mar I
lucttc orc into malleable iron in forty minutes,
manufacturing with such mpidity, also, rs to {
urn out thirty tons n day. The fusion is most a
omplete, and the quality Of iron produced COM b
act, smooth, exceedingly tenacious, and readily d
SO far rs We are able TO Judge, it is a :
success. Some of the completed sam a
les in large apd small rods had been bent hot +
{ different stages of hcat-and cold, without
racture or fraying. Other specimens had been c
ut in two cold, showing density and toughness. N
Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, who was ii
'rmcrly Senator from that State, and has now y
eturned TO it as n resident, after a long pilgrim Ii
IN foreign countries, has at once taken ground II
18th the Southern leaders who are determined 10 OF
for the Pacific settlement of Southern trou- A
and for the quieting OF those feelings Of TT
which have frequently threatened to m
animate in social anarchy. In a recent speech nj
. gave some excellent advice to the people of
lississippi and the other Southern States, and it Il
pleasing to notice that the Southern people til
EN- now to be very willing to receive such advice. b,
The CoRcoRAN GHT.-Mr. W. w. Corcoran. IL
Washington, has transferred to nine trustees m
s Art Building in Washington, and the back VI
nts due from the Government during their al
cupancy of 1T. This sum is estimated ut OF
200. The object of the gift is to establish at
ID hold an PerPefuo n fine gallery of art. Mr.. OF
'rcoran also gave his large collection of pictures tn
d works OF art, and has intimated his intention III
endow the institution, at some future day, ce
th $500 600 more. The whole present gift is pr
timatcd at 81 ,O0O. 900. No sooner is ali this to
ne, than Mr.. August Belmont, writes to Mr..
'rcoran, and authorizes the trustees when they IN
have entered upon their trust, to choose no
I'm his collection twelve pictures, which he will ar
ereupon convey to them, to be added to the rc
rcoran gallery as the " Belmont contribution fai
An extraordinary claim for salvage is before
2 San Francisco courts. The North German we
Schiller recently arrived off the ssHeads'' ye
er a long passage from China. No pilot was be
be seen, and the Captain ran his vessel in exl
der a headland and anchored, the weather being thu
e. On his way to the city in a small boat the thu
plain hailed a tugboat, which, by his directions, vi
'ught the ship to an anchoring place within the pa
rbor. The next day the tug company coolly
$4,000 (gold) on the ground of salv- de-
,, alleging that the ship had been taken from of
unsafe position and placed in one of security. me
demand was subsequently moderated to 20
,UUU. Ii Is pertlnently suggested that should fir