The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-11-04
Foreign Items.

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Seven thousand persons have been made home
less by an earthquake in the Island of Tortola, in
the West Indies
The English holders of Confederate cotton bonds
are organizing to present their claims to the Com-
mission of Arbitration at Washington.
Accounts from Strasbourg says that the tide OF
emigration from that section of the country has
been so great that measures had to be devised to
check it.
The new liquor law works to a charm in M;chi-
gan. When unfortunate tipplers are locked sp.
their female relations force the saloonist TO pay the
Gne under threat of prosecution
The French Cable, which was recently broken
between St. Pierre and Duxbury. has been success
fully grappled aud mended, and all three of the
trans 4 cables are now in working order.
Georpe Francis Train must be dead. Else why
is there no speech of his. and no proclamation
knocking European monarchles into future states,
since he started to crush the German EmplreE
The New York correspondent of the Boston
Transcript SAYS: Intelligence has been received
here that Gen. Anderson, of Fort Sumpter fame. is
dying in Europe and too poor to return TO America
A subscription is to be taken up for his relief"
Late adyices from the Cape OF Good Hope are
TO the effect that diamonds continue to be found in
great quantities in the fields at the north, and the
rush to the d~iggings. and the excitement over the
discoveries are uHaoated-
A movement has been recently made in Wash
inpton to enlist the entire Masonic Fraternity of
the country in finishing the Washington national
monument. The scheme is approved by several
prominent Masons-
A number of GentiIes of Salt Lake have sent
avay their families in anticipation of serious didi-
culies between the MOrmons and United States
authorities. growing out of the action of the grand
Jury against Brigham Young and other church
dignitaries.
arranged between the United States and Great
Britain. The British Commissioners of Emigra-
ton have approved the details OF the scheme, and
it has been transmitted to Washington by the
Foreign Office.
Worcestershire Atlanta Advocate publishes
an appalling statement. based on the last census,
of the prevalence of crime in the SOuth. especially
that of murder. Five thousand persons have been
killed during the past five years. aud who. asks the
Aduocdte, has been punished for this bloodshed!
An alliance between France and Italy Is now the
subject of grave deliberation in Turin. The Ital-
ians seem TO incline in that direction OF late, though
what the temptation is, beyond the mere fact that
both nations claim to be descended from the Latlns
(Which is false.) does not yet appear.
The n. Y. Sun has been cataloguing some of the
real estate owned in that city by members of the
ring who were poor men a very few years ago. 1t
sets down 1854, 500 to Connolly. S9SS.OO0 TO
Sweeny. and 81. 1854, 800 to Tweed-all~ accumulated
from their salaries as city officials, of course.
There is a movement in Boston to secure the val
liable Jarves collection of paintings now in the
Yale Art Gallery. The collection has not. as some
suppose, been sold to Yale College. but this insti-
tuition has claims upon it which must ere long be
met. and to accomplish this the pictures must be
sold. f9.
AS one of the warlike signs of the times it de-
serves to be noted that Sweden, one of the most
peaceful of the kingdoms of Europe. is reorganiz-
ing her army. In the event of Russia and Germa-
nv coming into collision it will be difficult for the
King of Sweden and Norway to keep out OF the
fight. 1t is well for Sweden to have her house in
order.
The future great city of Oregon. if the Northern
Pacific railway can make it so, is Kalama. OH the
Columbia river. The company has laid 1t out in
Philadelphia style, has begun to erect docks.
depots and warehouses, and VIII construct thence
the railway to Puget Sound. using the Columbia
river as the highway to the interior. SC that kaiama
will also be the entrepot of several lines of steamers.
The town of Greeley, out in Colorado, is the
purest town in America. The men don't drink,
smoke or swear the women don't scold, the babies
don't cry. and the mules don't kick But a sudden
grief has fallen on the place. The citizens are
horror-stricken to discover that the boys have
learned to steal watermelons. They think OF
changing the name of the town.
Many of the Canadian papers refuse to accept
the Washington treaty as an accomplished TACT, and
insist upon it that the Provinces will never consent
to surrender their fisheries. They labor under the
decisions that the United States can be forced into
a renewal of the reciprocity treaty and to ask for
permission to fish within the limits of Canadian
waters. and that the British government wilt refuse
to carry out the provisions of the new treaty with
out their consent. M
A Mormon paper, commenting on the recent pur-
chase of arms by the Mormon Adjutant General
says: In time of peace prepare for war" The
Mormon problem is evidently near a solution.
Whether that solution shall be a bloody one or not
rests with the Mormons themselves. In the mean
time it would be well for the United States Gov
eminent to have troops near at hand to render aid
to the Gentiles and to help in enforcing the man
dates of the United States Courts.
The Associated Press priats a card from the
Berlin Exchange. affirming the truth of a former
dispatch. announcing that the New York bonds
have been excluded from that market. This is the
result of the recent exposures of the tbieving and
plunderipg committed by the Tammany officials.
The election of Seymour in 1868 would have given
these same men the control OF the national finances
during the last three years, and in all probability
we should have the same story to tell to-day about
the national securities.
Alsace and Lorraine are now parts of the Ger
man empire. The inhabitants are not at all pleased
at their separation from France, and act toward the
German officials very much in the way that the
rebel inhabitants of Southern cities did toward the
national garrisons during the late war. They will
get tired of this. however, in time. When France
got possession of the States she has now lost. the
ancestors of the present inhabitants were doubtless
lust as angry as their descendants now are. The
latter will Germanize slowly but surely, for COM
munities, no more than individuals. can afford to
be perfectly angry against their comfort and best
interests.
A correspondent of the London Times tele-
~graphed to that paper on Saturday that he had
traversed the Mont Gems Tunnel in thirty-eight
minutes that the air in the tunnel was excellent (;
the rails perfectly level, and that the entire work
had been admirably done. The completion OF this
lubnCl WIN "A0O
cheering triumph, and as afording improved
means of communication between nations During
fifteen years, in the very basis of the Alps, 5000
feet below the eternal SHOWS, workmen have toiled
from either end of this tunnel until. at length, the
calculations of the engineers were realized. and the
separate highway formed one continuous road
The Pacific Railroad. the Suez Canal and Mont
Gents Tunnel, these have been the great engineer
ing works of the age.
The total of dry goods landed at New York in
the month of August was nearly twenty millions,
for the corresponding period of last year. Since
the beginning of the current calender year the ia-
ports have reached the enormous amount of $751;
$40, 7O8. against S72, le4, 1856 in corresponding time
last year-showing a gain of over twenty-five and
a half million of dollars, bringing the eight months
aggregate 10 nearly one hundred millions. As
showing the extraordinary demand for goods for
distribution, the stock Of dry goods in bond has
Increased under this large Importation less than
two and a quarter million of dollars. The journal
of Commerce says there is now a large assortment
on the market, but the package trade there is
diminishing every year. owing to the fact that so