The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-22
PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY
HENRY NJ. WHITNEY.

EXTENSIVE CLAIM. - In I778. John Campbell
owned three hundred acres of land which now
comprises the very heart OF the city of Louisville,
Kentucky. His heirs are about to commence suit
for the recovery Of this property, now valued at
thirty million dollars
Krupp, the great manufactures. of cannon in
Prussia, who employs over Ia 600 hands has ac-
uuired so much wealth that he intends putting up
family residence which is intended to surpass in
magnifcence any royal palace in Europe. The
cost is estimated at several millions of dollars. He
purchased fine domain for his only son.
The division of Austria into many different
tionalties is characterized by the fact that her
national capital bears \ different name in almost
every province The Germans call it Wien; the
Italians and RomaniaDs Vienna, the Bohemians
WIDEN. the Poles and Ruthenes Wieden. the Slave
nes Dunaj. the Croats, and SerVians Bee, the Hun
garians Bees.
At O'Clock, on the morning of the 9th, me-
teor passed over Dayton, Ohio, going northeast 1t
was brilliant and large, with long train and rum
bling sound, and emitted 4 sulphurOus smell. AT
the same hour enormous meteor passed east
over Forest station, the Day ton and Mama rail-
road which resembled locomotive headlight 1t
had long train, and made booming roar. shook
houses and broke windows, waking the people up
with three heavy explosions.
Albert Wolf relates the following anecdote of
Count Bismarck, which happened while he was
still ambassador OF Paris: One day Bismarck
paid the Austrian ambassador visit He found
to his surprise that the Austrian diplonatist did
not rise and greet the representative of Prussia
o.,
pocket lighted it. and laid down at full length on
the sofa. remarking: Well, my dear fellow, let us
chat little"
Within the month of November 10000 troops
have left Spain for Cuba to carry forward the work
of 1" suppression" But the Spanish commander in
Cuba is represented to be low-spirited and de
spondent OF success since making trip through
the Island and seeing what desperate measures OF
resistance the insurgents resorting to. On the
whole see few designs of progress in the work
of crushing the Cuban rebellion, and equally few
of the erection of reputable government by the
rebels.
The Freedmen's Bureau has just issued its semi
annual report for six months, including last July
There were then 2.9l2 day and night schools, with
1859 teachers. and 1924 pupils, besides l,5l2
Sunday schools, with 6,l46 teachers, and l07 ,llO
pupils. The report shows that 1929 of the
pupils were slaves before the war The freedmen
own 759 school buildings, and sustain 1881 teach
ers wholly or In great part All the scholars are
stated to be much more efficient than they were In
the previous half year.
The Union and Central Pacific Railroads have
finally settled their differences about the terminus
OF their lines. Ogden is declared to be the termi-
nus of both roads, the Central company paying the
Union three and half millions for that part of the
road between Ogden and PromontoTy Point and
receiving the government bond subsidy for the
same. By this change the Central road is given
access TO the Salt Lake City trade by way of Brig
ham Young's branch line, and is also brought into
connection with valuable coal fields and with the
Montana trade that comes In at Ogden. This set
tIement will greatly strengthen the Impaired credit
of the Union Pacific.
HAVANA, Dec. l0.-Several persons in Havana
have received letters from Gen. Gucaria, demand
ing sums of money from $4,000 to $4,000, with
requests that money be forwarded without delay to
the care of the American Consul at Nassau These
letters have been delivered to the Spanish authOri-
ties in Havana. An incendiary proclamation,
dated Havana. Dec. 10Th, has been circulated ex-
tensively throughout the city Gen. Cespedes has
issued proclamation in which he invokes all true
Cubans to destroy the tobacco and sugar crops. in
order to deprive the Spaniards of these means
Several thousand Spanish troops arrived today
from CadiZ.