The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-04-10

BoNr. March S.-The Pope is alive. II is mp
posed that the announcement of his death in 10
L",erte was made Tor the purpose Of creating polit-
zeal disturbances.
LONDON, March 1.-THE Spanish Government
has telegraphed to Gen. Dulce 20 Suspend the exc
cution of the Cuban insurgents.
Dispatches state that the English and French
Journals warmly ~euIogize President Graui's in
aurural.
They argue that the paragraph in the inaugural
in relation 10 the iarrign policy vi the Unitef
States indicates peace.
liz Lbete reports the death q tSe Pope. The
PARIS. March l~-Lamartine. the post and histo.
rlan, died on yesterday.
An exchange remarks that two and a ha:f million
manageable women OF England are unpfoVided
with husbands.
1t is reported that, without counting the Roths-
chlldS, there are in Paris about $50 lsraeiItes.
whose combined fortunes amount TO about $780,
100000.
lNroIERANr SrIL--Dr. Cumming states that the
Scotch church in Rome is now held in n granary
over a pig stye.
At Il sale of Short-IIorns in England, Moss Rose.
4 famous COW, but somewhat aged, sold for 400
gnineas. Two others, Princess, second and third.
brought $50 guineas. Fifty-siX cows averaged
e64.
GREAT SNows-Snowf fell in such abundance in
st. Petersburg and its suburbs. in the latter half of
the month of December, that in several streets it
w ~ NV IA S1ohAlNS AHN
provinces state that whole villages are buried
under the drifts.
At n meeting of the London Medical Society.
DIR. Blake. II distinguished practitioner, said that
lie was able to cure the most desperate case OF
toothache. unless the disease was connected with
rheumatism, by application of the following rem
edy: Alum, reduced TO an impalpable powder.
two drachms; nitrous spirits OF ether, seven
drachms mix and apply 10 the tooth.
Power OF THE .FouRTH ESrATE."-Quecn Tsa-
bella lulV nppraciafinu the immense and orpwinU
power of the E" fourth estate, is about to establish
a newspaper at Paris TO forward her claims 10 the
throne Of Spain. above all other claimants. Her
Majesty Is reported To have a fall eNchequer, but
IT she goes with much spirit into the newspaper
business there is no telling how soon she may
become a bankrupt and n beggar.
FIDELITY To THE FITH-Tbe Marquis of Butte,
who has an income of ST. SOC. 600. has lately gone
over to the Church of Rome. He was engaged to
be married 10 a daughter of the Presbyterian house
of Argyle, but the match was broken of because
he would not give assurance that he would not
Secede to the Church of Rome.
Montenegro is now, as it long has been, substan-
TALLY a Russian dependency. The annual tribute
of 100000 to the Sultan is always paid by the
Gar, whose will is supreme, acting through n
republican form of government. The
whole country is only about oDe-third the size of
Rhode Island. and has a tenth of the population of
Philadelphia. But the Greek religion prevails,
and binds the people to the Patriarch of that
Church, while inducing a perpetual dispute with
the disciples of Mahomet. The country lies be-
tween Austrian and Turkish Albania, and has had
frequent conflicts with both.
A report has just been published at Berlin rela-
alive to the cultivation of tobacco in Germany. IL
appears that during the year 1867, the extent of
land planted with tobacco was 1920 German
acres IN Prussia, 25,S76 in Baden,
1921 in Bavaria. 1892 in Hesse, and the rest in
the other countries of the Zollverein. The total
weight of the tobacco produced lin the dry Leaf
530.934 cwt., of which 1877 ,40l cwt. came from
Prussia. The average production was 6.S7 cwt.
per acre. the maximum being 10 cwt, and the
minimum half q hundred weight. The hignest
price paid for a hundred weight of German tobacco
20 thalers (75fr.), and the lowest only one
thaler.