The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-10-22

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employed in the publishing of Sunday School
literature in the United States.
The census of Brooklyn, for 1870, have just been
completed, and officials report the population at
400, O97 against 296, l12 in 1865.
The first shot fred upon Saarbruck was area ny
| the Prince Imperial. The Prussian soldiers have
christened the hill where the contest ragged, :" Lui"-
berg" Lulu being the ~sObriquet he is known by.
Gao,oe Hamilton Gordon. Sixth Earl of Aber-
deem. was recently drowned during a voyage from
| America to Australia. He was only 20 years OF
age and succeeded his father in the title in 1864.
A LARGE CoUNrRY.-It is estimated that America.
when her productive power is fully developed
will be able to feed four times as many persons as
there are now on the face of the earth.
The friends of the late Thaddeus Stevens are
taking measures to endow a scholarship IN the
Lincoln University, which shall be known as tne
Thaddeus Stevens chair of the Natural sciences
The Central Pacific Railroad Company have
made a fre-engine train, which is to be stationed
at the Summit, ready to run down either way to
mt down any fire in the snow sheds. 1t has a
steam fre-engine and eight cars, filled with water
There was used in the United States in 1868 SIX
ty-two million pounds of zinc, of which seven MIL
lion pounds were made at La Sale, Illinois Min
eral Point, Wisconsin Newark, New Jersey Beth
lehem. Pennsylvania and st. Louis, Missouri.
DIR. F. V. Marissal, of Fall River, has a Bible in
his library printed in l547, which makes 1t three
hundred and twenty-three years old! 1t is printed
in the oldest style, coarse type, without divisions
into chapter or verse, and is very substantially
bound in oak. |
ORGANIzED.-The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company have temporarily organized, with General
Fremont as President, A. NJ. q. Hunter as. wee
President, John D. Freres as Secretary, and Mar
shall J. Roberts as Treasurer. A favorable report
was made on the charter granted by Texas.
To PRESERVE FRESH FRUIT-The Hurdt World
says: "Beat well together equal measures OF
honey and spring water in an earthen vessel put
in your apricoLs, plums, and peaches, freshly
gathered cover closely. and they will keep fresh
for a year. When taken out for use, they must be
rinsed i'll cold water"
A railroad is projected across the South Ameri-
can continent, from Valparaiso on the Pacific
across the Andes to Buenos Ayres on the Atlantic.
a distance of about 900 miles, at an estimated cost
of 1872. 0O0, 900. The greatest elevation on the pro-
posed rout is 5000 feet, which is 1000 feet higher
than the Bonner lake pass on the Central Pacific
railroad in California.
WoMAN's RIGHTs-At a Woman's Suffrage meet
ing, held in San Francisco lately, it was resolved
that the members of the Board of Education, which
lately reduced the salaries of female teachers, had
placed themselves beyond the pale of manhood,
courtesy and civilization. and have forfeited the
right to be considered gentlemen.
New GOLD DIsCovERY.-The Oregon Herald, of
a late date, says From a gentleman who has
just arrived from Victoria we learn that gold has
Just been discovered at Cedar Hill, about three
quarters of a mile from Victoria. The greatest
excitement prevailed, and men, women and chill
dren were out mining"
In the trial of the case of Inman as. Jenkins for
libel, in alleging that the steamship City Of Boston
was overladen, jenkins has been :" cast +" with costs
by the London court, the judge rejecting on his
conduct severely in his remarks. Inman was
entirely indicated, and the fact established that
the steamer left port in a sea-wOrtby condition in
every respect. Damages to the amount of ESQ
were awarded to the plaintiff.
INDEMNITY FOR FENIAN RAIDs.-The Military De-
partment at Ottawa is preparing an estimate of the
cost of several of the raids on Canada by Fenians.
The calculations are understood to embrace the
cost of calling out volunteers, moving them to the
front, and actual damage inflicted by the Fenians.
These will be presented for liquidation by the I'm
perial Government. which will make a demand on
the United States for compensation.
The number of Chinese in the United States at
the end of 1869 was estimated at 81, 1000, among
whom were but 5 900 women and 1000 children.
Since immigration began in 1848, l38, 900 have ar
rived, of whom $4,000 have returned to China, and
about 10000 have died. OF the number at present
in the country, about one-half are in California.
25, 900 in other Pacific States and Territories. while
fully Is, 600 have crossed the Rocky Mountains.
There is much excitement in Salt Lake City over
the destruction of $40, 900 worth of liquor belong
ing to a Gentle, Paul Elgebrecht, by the Mormon
police, the Gentle having appealed from a decision
of the Police Court, imposing certain zines, to the
District Court. Four of the principals engaged in
the destruction of the property. have been held
under III 5000 each, and their 20 assistants at
81, 1000 each, to answer at the next term of the US.
Court. The U. S. Marshal has sworn in a hundred
special deputies. Brigham Young has gone South.
DRY.-The drouth this last Summer is seriously
affecting the supply of water for manufacturing
purposes in all parts of Connecticut. The nine
factories in WOlcotville have all been Obliged to
close, throwing several hundred workmen out of
employment. This is the first time in the history
of manufacturing in that village that the reservoirs
have all been exhausted. The Quinebaug mills in
Danielsonville were also obliged to suspend a part
of the time for lack of water, and will be Obliged
to stop entirely, unless rain comes very soon.
The followin 20 is the main portion of Vice-Presi-
dent Colfax's letter, which has appeared in the
Brooklyn Union:
Il thank you for your kind wishes in my behalf,
but l intend with this term to close my public life
absolutely. | will then have had eighteen years.
continuous service at Washington, mostly on a
stormy sea-long enough for any one, and my am
bition all gratifed and satisfied.
"Gen. Grant will doubtless be renominated, and
1 think should be. My articles and speeches show
my faith in him, and my regard for him, bnt the
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