The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1870-03-30
Miscellaneous Items.

TIE costs in the trial of the Directors Of oyerene
Quincy & Co. were over Is, 900 day.
EIeHr theatres in London are managed By ladies.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has just completed bis Goth year,
and Mr.. Disraeli his 64th.
The village of sardon. in France, has been entirely
destroyed by fire.
In the streets of Paris there yet remain 1859 oil
lamps.
LErPsrc counts l5s bookselling firms, employing
between eight uIne hundred persons on their per
sonal staff
TIE City Council of Berlin have resolved to abol.
ish fees in all the common schools Of the city
IT is estimated that the Jtes al the opening of the
suez Canal have cost the Khedive 100000
TIE Cork Herald regards as utterly preposterous
the rumor that any rising is impending in Ireland
THE population Of Holland amounts to SECS 46s
Il Sol AIS males and ,s27 052l being increase of
85s $50 in year.
INTELLIGENCE has been received at Venice of the
total destruction of the town of Santa Maura by an
earthquake, on the 26th ult.
AT Singapore the planters have found that the
killing of tigers has been attended by increase Of
wild hogs which destroys the crops.
The subscriptions to the Faraday Monument
Fund subscriptions limited TO five guineas per per-
son, amount TO 81 400.
THE Lyons journals state that the saone has risen
about ten feet in a few days anc that the fields
its banks are under water
AsEA tiger that plays with great taste three airs
on the Triangle is exhibition in Paris.
II is stated that Count Bismarck will resume bis
functions as Chancellor of the North German Bund
and President of the Prussian Ministry some time
next month.
EXCURSION trains are called spleasure trains In
France. gentlemen at Cherbourg lately received
dispatch by telegraph to the following effect
''Your wife is dead. Funeral Sunday Take the
pleasure train"
THE British Museum has received two remarkable
stone statues from Easter Island, in the Pacific,
which exhibits on the backs marking like that of
the crescent and triangle, SO common on the scup-
tured stones OF Scotland.
The practice of disposng of goods at church fairs
by lottery has been adjudged by the City Court at
Waterbury, Ct, partaking of the character of
gambling. An action brought to recover the
value of umbrella disposed of in this way. and
the judge in rendering bis decision assumed strong
ground against the legality of such lotteries, and cited
late decision of the Supreme Court of the State in
support of his decision.
JAMES AMMAN, eccentric old man. Of Bristol VT,
has recently lost his house and all his property by
fire. He was never married but has depended for So
cety upon books which he spent all the money he
could spare after feeding and clothing himself Hav-
ing lost in his library all that he for, the old
has been hunting for in the mountain
where he live, disdaining to become a charge on
the town.
The Adrian Times is responsible for the last good
story at the expense of justices jury 1t says that
& recent case Of assault tried in that city, on
which six jurors voted by ballot. Juror No. voted
g No case Of action" No. voted . Salt and ba-
terry, Secon Decree" No. deemd the prisoner
" City Of Salt" No. decided there
ton of cause" No. vnted it :" assault and Batory.
while No. decided the prisoner :" City of an salt
only" rrtar