The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-09-25
American Miscellany.

American mlScellduy.
New York boasts Of q Chinese giant 81 Fl. high
Brick Pomeroy intends to run for State Senator
in New York next winter.
The dry goods clerks of Detroit have ORGANIZED
n Protective Association.
The total wool production of the world Ii
l,772,3O o 900 pounds annually.
japan now imports Yankee piano fortes anc
school teachers.
The latest Boston notion is q house on Beacon
street without u front door.
Gen. Grant has shown that he can decline q
gift by refusing to accept fifty acres OF land.
1t is announced that provision is now made fol
circumnavigating the globe IN three months
What would Capt. Cook have sand to this?
The sea serpent has made his annual appear.
ance, this time of the Jersey shore, where ne
frightened n fisherman so that he tainted.
According to a Chicago paper, there are forty
gambling houses in that city, in which S3,OOO,
600 are squandered away annually
At the Duxbury cable celebration the Plymouth
band made n mistake by playing the Marseilles
after a toast to the Emperor OF the French
Superintendent Clapp, of the Government
Printing Office, has appointed eight apprentices,
two OF whom are colored.
Gottschalk is making lots of money in Brazil.
The Emperor always goes to his concerts, and
gives the pianist private interviews.
Professor Franz Abt, the popular German song
composer, has been invited to become conductor
of the great national sangerfest, to be held in
Cincinnati next year.
The ". Y. Posi- says one-tenth of the popula-
ton of that city are paupers, and receive assist
ance from the public. They number 80 900.
The number of peripatetic adventurers and
swindlers at the watering places, under the guise
Of noblemen, is said to be unusually large and ra-
paeious this season.
1t is reported that some of the Lynn shoe
q bosses" are considering the proposition to run
their factories by Chinese labor.
The straits TO which the Spaniards are reduced
in Cuba, may be seen from the fact that the Gov
ernor of Trinidad has issued vigorous orders oblig-
ing all Spaniards between the ages of fifteen and
sixty years to do duty in the field.
\ colored couple were recently married in In
dianapolis who had lived together in virtual and
~virtuous wedlock for % years. Slaves together
when there WAS no such thing as marriage, they
have accumulated a handsome poverty, and in or
der to have it transmitted to their children, have
been formally married.
Commodore Vanderbilt is now believed to be
the richest man in New York, with the possible
exception of Astor. He OWNS II majority of stock
in such great corporations as the New York Gen.
trail, Hudson River, Harlem, Southern Michigan
and Lake Shore Railroads, and is accredited to
be worth at least one hundred millions.
What shall be done with a rascal who stains
his neck with berry juice, lies down in a field
and deceives a woman with the idea that his
throat is cut, and while she is gone for assistance,
gets up and travels with her berries? Such an
instance occurred in New York State.
The Austrian agent of Mr.. Emil Mabel Won
Alpenburg, who has founded an Austrian colony
below Richmond, writes him that q Swiss gentle
man wants to settle on the mountain region of
Virginia some 200 Swiss families, now ready to
cmigrate.
F.. A. Pollard thinks that the result of the
Virginia election means an acceptance of the sit
uation and the disintegration of anything like a
peculiar Southern civilization. If so, it is an
event from which the State may date it's moral,
social and political regeneration.
a singular succession of fatalities occurred Mt
Princeton, Ky, n few days ago. An immense
rolled from 4 wagon down hill, crashed
through a fence, upset n number of beehives, the
enraged inhabitants % which stung three chill
lren so that they died, and the milestone, still
rolling on, bounded into a stock pasture and
killed two horses aud a calf.
A meteor recently exploded near Elkhorn,
Wis, and deposited on the ground a mass resem-
bling the cellular Stag from an iron furnace. A
circular space of Ct feet in diameter was covered
this substance, which presented the appear
,nce of having fallen in a hot fluid mass, spatter-
ing around the scorie after it had struck.
The New York Sun correspondent had an in
erview with John Quincy Adams. The latter
will accept the Democratic nomination for Gov
,rnor of Massachusetts if nominated, though he
not seek it.. He approves Secretary Fish's
orcign policy does not favor territorial expan-
ion thinks the Democrats will soon control the
ntire Southern States; that the Fifteenth
is invalid that signs OF dissolution
re apparent in the Republican ranks that the
should accept negro suffrage and the
ther inevitable results of the war, and nominate
Ohm L. Hoffman, for President.
A story is current in Washington that at the
Sickles was being discussed in the Cabinet
to bis appointment, Attorney General
ioar and Secretary Fish suggested that the Gen
rails completely with the Ostend Manifesto
night seriously interfere with his usefulness at
he Spanish Court. Secretary Rawlins and Post
laster General Cresswell, in reply to the objec-
ion remarked that ut the time they we're in favor
T the Manifesto. After a brief silence the
resident solved the question of the appointment,
y saying that he, too, was in favor of the Mani !
ssto at the time it was issued.
EUGENIE's VIsIT. = Ii Eugene, Empress of
rance and of Fashion, should visit America,
hat Il commotion. The idea of her maintain
,g an incog. has evidently been given up, if it
as ever seriously entertained, and she viii come 1
, the West, if at all, as she is now going to the 2
ast-in all the pomp and circumstance Of impe- !
al dignity. Our fashionables will now have an :
beet worth striving for namely, to show Eu- :
enie that with a years preparation and the help :
the French cable, they can get themselves up :
exactly like the people she sees about her in '
arts that she will scarcely be able to tell the '
and will begin to think that, as far as !
resses and decorations go, she might as well /.
Ave staid ut home. To this noble object, no =
'ubt, they will one and all address themselves. c
Dispatches are received from Rear Admiral .
owan, commanding the Asiatic Squadron, dated
okohama. June 26. He reports that the Jap
have far outstripped the Chinese in progress q
wards Western civilization. The Government =
oops arc uniformed and armed with the latest I
iproved breech-loading guns the ships of war 0
and open to foreigners has just been g
tablished lighthouses have been built, and =
e coal mines are successfully worked. The =
lrliament was still in session, and many impor- :.
mt measures, mostly relating to foreigners, Tor !.
IN intercourse and finance, were under consid- !.
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