The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-12-02


SPECIAL MEErINo.-we are requested to say that
there will be a special meeting of Hawaiian Lodge.
No. 81 F. & A. NJ, this evening at u O'Clock. And
that the REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING for the election
OF officers for the ensuing year win be held on MOI
day evening Pec~ zh at % o'clock
Ice MANUFAcToRY.-After many mishaps, and
overcoming dificulties that would have discouraged
Q less persevering and energetic person, Mr. smith
has got his ice mandatory on the esplanade IN full
tide of successful experiment, and we are informed
that he win commence on Monday morning to fur
nish customers with the luxury at the rate of hve
cents per pound. Success to the enterprise.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-A man named VIM. Smith,
was arrested on Tuesday last, for fast riding through
the streets, and for lack of bail, and besides being
somewhat drunk, he was locked up in q cell at the
Station House. After he had been there about an
hour, policeman Dodd, in passing the door of the
! cell, observed him through the grating apparently
hanging against the door. II was found that he had
| attached one leg Of his pantaloons 10 a bar of the
grating over the door. and with the other tied around
his neck, had just swung Of. On being brought to,
| he declared his intention to XIII himself, as he had
never been in a prison before. = and he was ironed
for safety. another man, who answers to the name
ofts Salem,' was also in the cell at the time, look
ing on apparently quite unconcerned, while his
eompaniOu thus endeavOred- to- = shufies of this
mertal COLL g Ia
4 SOLITARY WALK.-Such is a walk about The
wharves just now. There is but one square-rigged
vessel in port on this fine Wednesday morning, and
the solitary "old resident whom We meet declares
that he never knew of such q thing before during
the thirty years he has lived in HonOlulu-the har-
Dor empty Of shipping in November. And then he
goes ON to tell how, in the "forties,p and the
~.ffties,'' he has seen as many as two hundred
ships, tier upon tier. in this month, sometimes four
or five side by side, a passage being kept open
through the centre Of the crowded harbor into which
a vessel must haul to get out Of the port. Then he
strolls along, shaking his head and m%uttering about
the good old times" A person of a contemplative
turn of mind, in love with solitude, can find it in
these days by taking walk about the wharves. 10
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aCoMpRoMIsED." IA correspondent informs US
that our remarks under this heading in our Last
number, in reference TO the civil suit between a mer-
chant and an auctioneer, tried in the Police Court
lately, did not convey a perfectly accurate statement
of the result of that case, and that We ought to have
been more explicit in stating that the appeal noted
to the Supreme Court from the decision Of the Court
below was not completed, and that consequently,
that decision as to the legality of the charge made,
and which was the casus 6eiti between the parties,
stood confirmed. Further, that the compromise"
had reference only to the fact that the amount de-
creed to be refunded TO the plaintiff was by his con-
sent paid to a charitable institution, he at the same
time consenting to allow the amount deposited by
him for costs to be applied to the same laudable pur-
pose, AS we remarked before, the controversy as to
advertising charges, is one entirely between con-
signors and the auctioneers, and We refrain from
comments which a clear understanding Of the sub
ject naturally suggests.
American THANKsGIvIxG.-Thursday last was
very generally observed by the American residents OF
this city, as Thanksgiving day, their places OF busi-
ness were pretty generally closed, and the traditional
roast turkey and plum pudding graced many a fes-
tive. board. At IL A. NJ. quite q congregation as
sembled at the Fort Street Church, where after read
ing of President Grants proclamation and prayer
by the Rev. DIR. Damon, the .Pastcf. the Rev. Mr..
Frear, delivered a very able discourse. taking his
text from Ps. lat: 20. she hath not dealt 80 with
any nation The speaker showed most conclusive
ly how Americans as a people had peculiar reasons
for thanking God in his dealings with them, from
their founding by the Pilgrim Fathers, through all
their subsequent history. In a word aside from the
text, and the generally religious tone. the discourse
might well have done for a frst-rate Fourth of July
grafton. The only criticisms we venture 70 make are,
that the blessing of q free press was not enumerated.
and that no allusion was made to the great response
bilities that must devolve upon q nation 90 peculiarly
blessed as that Of the United States. The singing by
the choir was very fine.
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The SHELLEHoFF.-It has been reported to us
that the commander of the Comet, was taken to
task in San Francisco, on his last trip there, the
impression having obtained that his was the bark
that passed the wreck of the brig Sheuehof with
out seeing any one on board. This report brought
out a statement from a correspondent. that we pub
lished last week, fully proving that the Comet could
not have been near, the wreck at any time during
her passage to San Francisco, ending October 10th.
Since then, we have met Mr.. George Fritsch, a
cabin passenger on the North German bark Hong
kong. from San Francisco to this port. who stated
to us as follows:
We left San Francisco, on the 27th Of September. in COM
pany with an American three-nasted schooner and the AMER
lean brig Nellie hastings, with both Of which vessels we
parted company on the first day out. From that day 20 the
10th of October. when we arrived at Honolulu, saw no other
vessel whatever. There was no woman on hoard the Hong
kong, Oh the passage. Sighted Molokai, October 0, at sunset"
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