The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-02-13
hiS-cttnupOuS.

AN ~-Nf"""s'NN SffNN VI Af x" yin CNh'"'
One English cruiser captured eight slavers off
the African coast this season.
Whi,elaw Reid tNgate) Is likely 10 succeed to
the managing cditorship OF the Y. /. Tribune.
Brick Pomproy styles Boston :" an interior village
on the right hand edge Of Massachusetts,
If Queen Victoria lives n hong - her grand
father George III. her reign viii cztcad into the
next century.
Anthony Trollope says that the popular edue,t-
ton is neither 50 high nor so advanced in England
As in the United States.
Tetanus. commonly called lock-jaw. has been
successfully treated 10y repeated applications of
chloruiorm To the spine.
The Empress Eugenie has incurred more debts
fhan She can pay. unless she curtails her expenses
by two-thirds. One of her Spanish estates was
sold in lS6S, and the other il heavily morigaged.
\. ii. stephens is TO ill the chair of History and
Political Science, and Mr.. Charles Morris the chair
Of Bellies Lettres and Rhetoric in the University of
Georgia.
y New York surgeon wishes TO introduce The
Paris practice OF removing the little toe of children
and adults as a preventive OF corns. An unisiiing
cure, doubtless.
Rev. Mr.. Punshon. the eloquent English pulpit
orator, has been offered Sl,50O in gold to lecture
six times in Boston.
London Daily Netrs says that the Improvement
in construction, trim and gear of the I" crack Eng
lish yachts is due to the example of the yacht
Americd, in 1851.
100000 to pit against Greeceis l.500, 900 inhabi-
tants and 1000 soldiers yet she will want Eng
land and France 10 help her.
The city of Liverpool has a debt of about S2O,-
0O0. 700. The interest now amounts to something
over 81, 900, 900 per annum.
An informal meeting of the Buffalo Board OF
Trade was held December 18th To consider what
measures are necessary to secure the enlargement
of the Erie canal and the reduction of tolls.
The University OF Michigan has ii total OF LOSE
students, of whom IS are from the State OF New
York.
\ t Berlin it is proposed to establish a home for
c.nnfn man aud u,K,aN ~ l.,,aA - - t.l
they will be taken care OF for a moderate consider
alton.
The daughter of a New York lawyer is the Grss
Of her sex to attend medical lectnres AT the Uni
versiiy at Vienna. She II remarkably proficient
in dissecting.
The London Morning Sfa7 says that American
experiments prove that - something might be made
of the red man if civilization had time to take him
i'll band.f
The women of Bradford Eng, have resolved 10
console Mr.. Mill for his defeat ut the late election
by presenting him with a token OF their esteem and
admiration.
One of the English dissenting ministers warned
any of his church members who should vote for
John Stuart Mill for Parliament not to come. 10. the
communion table.
Brewers in England are experimenting on strych-
nine to see how far it is safe to use it in mannfac-
turing bitter ale. The statement is made on the
authority of n London paper. y slight mistake in
their calculations might produce awkward. results.
1t is noted as n remarkable coincidence, that the
Suez Canal and the Pacific aud Atlantic Railways
Will be completed anu open . through service In
the same year and at nearly the same date OF
month.
Ramor says that Mr.. Sam. Bowles intends suing
Fisk for 800, 900 damages for conspiracy and false
imprisonment. Fisk is said TO be SO worried by
the attacks of the press that he has determined To
withdraw his suits against the ". l. Tribune and
Springfield Republican.
Dr Usher Parsons, an eminent and venerable
physician of Providence, r.. l., died in that city on
the 18th of December aged so years. lie was sur
geon on the flagship Laurence in the battle of Lake
Enfn nnI rron tho Loot pxIpi am N
Ger of Perry's fleet.
Twelve literary men; are among the lately
elected members of the British House of Commons.
Eight gentlemen of the same professional classifca-
ton were defeated at the late election. Among the
latter w. III. Russell. correspondent of the Times, is
prominently numbered.
George II. Stuart, formerly President of Christian
Commission says, after Gettysburg / telegrapbed
to Boston, can L draw on you for $4,000 on sight.
1t was stuck up in exchange. The merchants at
once fell in line to put down their subscriptions.
In half an hour the answer came draw for S60,000."
An Ohio paper says that the female College, at
College Hill, in that State, recently sent out a grad
uating class of Is young ladies, every one of whom
was elegantly fitted TO live on the fortune of some
appreciatiye man alive to the advantages of female
education.
1t is reported that in one of the late actions near
Neegata, Japanese Tommy" who attracted so
much attention from the American ladies in the
days of the Embassy, of which he was interpreter,
was killed. He was shot through the breast and
leg. and died lighting for his chief, true to the To-
kugawa clan.
ELECTION OF DEAcoNNEssEs IN PLYMOUTH CnuncH.
AT the annual meetin& of Plymouth Church, on
Friday evening, one of the female members was
voted for to fill the Office of deacon. Mr.. Bcecher
said that as soon as three deacons had been elected,
he would offer a resolution providing for the cleo
ton OF three deaconnesses, to assist the deacons in
the performance of their duties as visitors of the
sick and poor. This course was adopted, and the
question was discussed several members opposing
Mr.. Beecher. The resolution was adopted by al
most a unanimous vote, and Mrs. Morrill,, Mrs.
Tanning and Mrs. Walheimer were chosen the frs
deaconnesses of Plymouth Church.
The Paris LaHierne, N. Rochefort's famous paper
has the following: General Grant has been
chosen President of the United States by a num-
Der of suffrages sufficient TO prove that coups IL
edt are not always necessary TO secure the sympa-
thy of the people. General Grant is to-day in
the same situation as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
on the 10th of December 1913. Like him he has
been elected for four years and like him he will
take an oath of fidelity to the republic. They
might then travel abroad with the same passport.
except that under the head OF particular marks
one of them-I do not say which-is described as
an honest man. There is another mark that is still
more particular General Grant has fought for the
abolition of slavery while at the present day,
our French generals fight exclusively for the aboli-
ton of liberty"
THE FIRST Blow FOR WOMAN SuFFRAGE-Senator
Wilson of Massachusetts has become an advocate
of female suffrage, and made the first bold move
ment in favor of woman's rights in the United
States Senate, December 18th, by the Introduction
of the following bill:
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled. That the word male " in the
first section of the act entitled "An act TO regu-
late the elective franchise in the District of Column
bia,' passed on the Sh day of January, in the
year 1867. be struck out, and that every word in
said act applicable TO persons OF the male sex shall
apply equally TO persons OF the female sex. so that
hereafter women who are inhabitants of said Dis
trict of Columbia and citizens of the United States
may vote at all elections and be eligible TO all
civil Offices in said District on the same terms and
conditions in all respects as men.
THE WAR IL SourH AMERIcA-Tbe allies have at
last achieved a decided victory over the Para
guayans. The strOngholds of the latter at Villeia
were carried, after a desperate battle. and hardly