The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-10-07
Foreign Item


Captain Eyre, who ran down the oHs'd8' Is
dead. -
New York's beer consumption is 1S'ooo'0oo
gallons yearly.
The man who never made a msaKe never m"No
a discovery. =,
Earl Russell is about to pubha an historical
essay on 1.-The Foreign Policy Dillingham; H'"
1870 TO 1870"
Home The s.meinm.- has ensured a Russian
nrincess' and will shortly lead herto the alter.
The widow If a man who did in l%ronton,
Ohio. of deIirium tremens, has recovered, $o'Uoo
DAMAGES from the man who turnihed che WHISKY
The liberal journals Of Rome cypress tee reaot
ness Of Iraly to accept an alliancewlth france II
the latter abandons all negotiations relative "
the Pope
The British government has flally Issued or
ders for the withdrawal of its troops from tue 10
minion. Hereafter that colony vii be opIgeoC
garrison with its own soldiers allforts WITHIN lS
borders.
An Encyclical letter has beei issued 6y tne
Pope. urging the faithful to offerprayers for the
freedom Of the Holy See and tie triumph anu
tranquility of the Church.
Russia and France, it is said have formed an
alliance against Austria and Germany.
The military organization ii Russia is being
pushed vigorously on the Prussian system OF
forced service and of two successive classes or re-
serve. 1t is carried out withthe utmost Vlgor,
no exemptions being granted eyen to the priv
legged classes that have hitherto enjoyed immunity
from military service. In Consequence OF tne
enormous extent of the country provincial depots
for the reception of recruits and war materlai are
to be established all over the empire, as lar as
the borders of China and Bokhara.
/ At a printers festival lately, the following
toast was offered 'sWoman-second only tothe
nrese in the dissemination of news!
The PhiIadelphia City Item wants to increase
the pay of the president and other officials. LIZ
would give the president $780, 900 a year, vice
president $50 900, senators $4,000, members OF
cabinet $40 900 and representatives $l2,Ooo
The number of foreigners, a short time ago,
computed to be in London was nearly SOO,OOO.
OF these 80 600 were Germans, 10000 French,
so 200 belonged to the other continental eoun-
tries, and 10 200 were Americans.
The Rev. O. B. rockingham, of New York, IL
satisfied that 5 $ the coming mar" will not pray
The Presbyterian thinks that when a whole gen
Grafton of men omit to pray, the earth VIII DC
ready for the great burning
Statistics show that there were actually more
English immigrants to the United States last veal
than there were rish-and while the Irish immi
grafton of 1870 is IA ,339 less than the same I'M
migration in 1867, the English immigration o
1870 exceeds that of 1867 by 49,799.
The ~ex-Emperor Napoleon has declined to re
ceive an address of welcome, which it had beer
proposed to tender him, except at the expressed
wish of the British nation.
AROUND THE WoRLD.-The telegraph (oger
landJ to Japan is completed, and the price ia S4t
25 for twenty words from London to Nagasaki.
The British Quarterly Review says that "per
haps no preacher of modern times has said 81
many wise and good things as Henry Ware
Beecher, or said them so we'll"
France pays Theirs 500, 900 u year, pays hi
= ~ oIIDra hYpa a f1n6 fnr nrna
ents. President Grant receives only $4,000
year, and pays bis own expenses, and has no run
for presents.
The strong minded women have taken and ele
gantIy furnished II house near the capital in Wash
ington, which will be the base of operations t
secure the passage by congress OF a 10th amend
ment.
The New York Medical College for Women ar
pounces as the result of nine years effort, tb
graduation Of ~ffLy-four females, nearly all {
whom are Misses. The institution is said to 3
admirably provided in all its departments, Will
it's terms are Of the most liberal character.
Accounts from Brazil report that there is
Republican movement breaking out there. In
new journal called A Repu6iicd, a manifesto
published setting forth that the existing form
government should be abolished, and one adopte
which will secure to the people the rights Pc
tanning to democracy.
A Salt Lake dispatch says the adultery caf
now before Judge Mexican has created great e.
element among the Mormons. This is the hr
case of bigamy ever entered by a Mormon W
man. 1t is generally believed that should she 50
coed others will take a similar course.
I The New York Mail insists that :" the ma
who will deliberately sell to children unripe al
rotten fruit, after steaming for days in the SUI
should be compelled for every offence to read Il
full account of the troubles of the Method
book concern, or suffer some penalty equal
} severe.