The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-03
Foreign Items.

\ mem rial tablet to Burlin game has been placed
in the great Pckin Temple.
Florida has gained in population about sixty
thousand since the census of 1860.
Fanny Fern is now &c, Alice Cary As, Harriet
B,echer 90, and Catharine Beecher 40.
Jenny Lind contemplates another musical trip
to the United States. under the management of Mr..
Ullman.
At a meeting of the Grand Lodge OF F%reemasons
in Paris. King William and the Crown Prince of
Prussia were expelled from the Order.
a ,tional Capital Convention, that is, a Con-
vrntion whose object is to cause the removal OF the
capital from Washington. Is in session in Cincinnati
a. T. Stewart keeps three bank accounts. but
does his business mainly at the Merchants Bank,
where generally he keeps three or four millions on
deposit.
A Tribune correspondent telegraphs from Tours E:
The Russian emissaries have been proposing to
buy the French feet, Offering certain political in
ducements in addition TO a large price. but have
met with no success.
The coinage at the Mint in San Francisco, for
the month of September amounted to 8 l,S70.0 600,
of which 81, 800, OOo was in twenty dollar gold
pieces and $75. 006 in half dollars.
Two iron steamships are about being built at
Belfast, Ireland, for services between Liverpool
and Baltimore. under the auspices of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company.
REDUCED RATES OF FARE.-The Union and Cen
trail Pacific Railroad lines have reduced their
second-class rates Of fare to $50 on express trains
from Chicago to San Francisco, and SIS from
Omaha to San Francisco.
Theodore Hellman, who won the 500, 900 prize,
is a native of Munich, aged 25 years. and a member
OF the firm of Sellgman, Hellman q Co., of New
Orleans, a branch of the New York and San Fran
cisco houses of S~eligman & Co.
A call signed by about one hundred clergymen
of New York. principally Methodists, Presbyte-
rians, Baptists and Congregationalists, has been
issued for a Convention to assemble at Syracuse
on the 18Th Of November, in hostility to all secret
associations.
A French physician. DR.. Maydieu, has revived
an old practice of administering shot as a remedy
for bilious collie. His method IS to take No. 5
shot. after carefully washing them with sweet oil,
and give Il dessert-spooniul every bali hour. He
claims that in five or six hours the vomiting ceases.
The London Court Journal of October sth, says:
= Mrs. Lincoln. widow OF the late President OF the
United States Of America. arrived in Dundee on
Wednesday. on ii visit to Mr.. Smith, the American
Consul. and pastor to the late President
A newly invented machine for making wooden
goods is attracting some attention in Portland,
Maine. The chief advantage claimed for it seems
to be the great quantity of cloth which it is capa-
be of producing. which is stated At go yards a
day, or six or eight times the quantity made BY the
present machines.
MORE OF THEM-At six minutes past 5 on the
afternoon of November 1st another shock of earth
quake was felt at Buffalo. \. Y. 1t was sharp but
short. Doors and windows were shaken, but no
damage was done.
The one hundred pound prize of Mr.. james Ma
son, for the best managed farm in Oxfordshire,
England, has been awarded by the Judges TO Mrs.
Mary E. Millington.
DIR. Ray, the late editor of the Chicago Post.
suggested the debate between Lincoln and Doug
las. which was perhaps the most remarkable dis
cussion in the political history Of this generation,
and which frst brought Mr. Lincoln into national
prominence.