The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-07-22
Foreign Items.

Ben. Butler has written a letter opposing the
treaty of Washington.
A rans-eontinental railway in South Americs
rs projected TO run from Rio Janeiro to the Pacific
The track-laying ON the Southern Pacific Rail.
raad has been begun, and will proceed at the rate
OF half a mile a day.
The sultan of Turkey has sent the car oil
Russia and his ministers the Insignia of the i'm.
perial order of Osmanii.
The American board of commissioners for for
eign missions has received a very large legacy by
the will OF the late John c.. Brooks, of Portland.
Maine.
Cariist rising is reported to have taken MACE
in Spain. IL may be that the report is prema-
ture, but there is every evidence that a rising is
contemplated.
Almond trees flourish in California. and one
near Santa Barbara yielded $40 worth of nuts
last year. This spring a farmer has set out
81, 200 trees.
General Sehenck has received a cordial well
come in England. Speeches and toasts were
given, and every effort made to inspire a kindly
feeling on the part of the new minister.
Turkey has managed to float another loan ON
the market by pledging the tribute of Egypt as a
guarantee. Thirty millions of dollars ouoht to
relieve the financial necessities OF the Sultan for
a time.
Father Hvacinthe has written a letter showing
the evils that have come upon France are onlv
the legitimate results OF the moral degradation of
the people. A goddess people has wrought its
own destruction.
San Francisco has 807 manufacturing estab-
lishments, with Sl5, 583 600 capital, and empIoy-
ing 1906 men, ga women and girls, 554 bows.
and 1892 Chinese, making a total of Is, 288
employees.
Tree planting in Nebraska is prosecuted at a.
lively rate. One day 5000 young trees passed
over a single line of railroad. A company of
SWeedes have contracted for u, 900 c~ottonwoods.
TO be set out on their farms.
Canada is the fourth maritime power in the
world. According to the : Year Book forlS70,''
she has 1874 vessels, with a tonnage of 599 900.
She stands ahead of every nation exeept Great
Britain, the United States and France.
The fortune of Miss Burdett Coutts. recently
raised to the peerage by Queen Victoria. is esti-
mated at &l0, 200, 900. She has given TO charit-
able purposes not less than E5 900 900, and viii
leave large requests to benevolent institutions
after her death.
During one month in 1S43, President Woolsey.
of Yale College, buried three children. In 1852
he buried his wife and daughter. In 1861. he
lost In one month, a son and daughter. Though
not superstitious, President Woolsey could not
get rid Of a dread of the return of the next ninth
year, 1876 His gloomy forebodings were real
lied, for Ia that year he lost a brother, sister and
daughters.
The New England Sabbath Association has
been discussing the question of holding free
giving free lectures and opening free
reading rooms on Sunday. The majority Of the
more foreibie speakers seem to be opposed to the
innovation, on the principle that the same argu-
laeRt which would grant these liberties would
also open the Custem-hoase and Post-ofice. The
OF able men VINO are at once distinguished
personal piety and for religious liberality, are
always worth listening to on a subject like this
one is somewhat surprised to receive an or
-hodox view OF the theme from the very home of
leterodoxy.