The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-07-15
Foreign Items.

The government of Alsace ana Lorraihe
be a dictatorship until 1873.
The Crown Princess of Prussia will next month
publish her book on female labor.
Henry Ward Beecher is the very latest canoi-
date announced for the presidency.
The Mont Gents tunnel is now opened TO traine'
trains having commenced running.
Brick Pomeroy is going 10 California, but that
isn't his ultimate destination. Chicago Posi-.
Five hundred and twenty-five thousand six
hundred trains leave London in the course oil
one year.
1t will take sixty years to restore France the
forests ruthlessly wasted in the military opera
tions of the late war.
The Bavarian Government has ordered the dis
missal of a professor for teaching the dogma oil
infallibility.
The contemplated tunnel between Boston and
East Boston, it is said, will be completed IN three
years, ut a cost of about $4,000 900.
Mrs. Fairs property pans out well. Her assets
foot up six city lots, $40 900 in government
bonds, two derringer pistols and three revolvers.
/. The London Court Journal says that Napoleon
has " assets - left on which he could easily bor-
row from 81 900 900 to 81 ,5OO,O 600.
The German r~eichstag has ratified a postal
treaty, by which postage on letters between that
country and the United States is reduced to i've
cents for half an ounce.
ITO 4udJCcAO1 thC LhAlOAOA VI DtN@S aHN
plotting bis European tour, sails from here for
New York, and after his arrival will proceed to
pay a visit to President Grant.
We have now got a colored cadet and n young
Mormon at West Point. We still need an Indian,
not taxed, and a heather Chinee. The South too
ought to be represented Richmond Examiner.
Thomas Hughes, in an address to the working
men of London, e~ulogizes in the highest terms
the United States, and urges emigration upon all
vainly seeking work at home.
The Louisiana planters find their 2 900 Chinese
hands TOO few and send for more. They prefer
them to negroes in everything except mule-hand-
ling. There is a mutual misunderstanding be-
tween the mule and the Chinaman.
The New York Herald cruelty says ga n
rule, Boston philosophers, if they devote any
thought at all to a Supreme Being, are more oc-
cupied with the idea of His relation to them than
with that of their relation to Him."
Robert Toombs, in his lecture in Augusta, Ga,
urged bis hearers to make no compromise, to
have nothing to do with men who talk Of dead
issues and accepting the situation, and to make a
square fight of it now and hereafter.
The news of the ratification of the Treaty of
Washington by Great Britain is expected within
a week or two. The treaty does not become n
law, however, until the ratifcations have been
formally exchanged, and is open to amendment
by either nation until this is done.
The sum of 1880, realized over the expenses
at the recent French fair. in Boston, has been
placed on interest until a careful consideration
shall determine the best method of distributing
it among the suffering women and children Of
France.
Quite a contest is waging as to who shall be
the financial agent of the United States in London.
Barring Brothers have been such for over fifty
years, and are trying to retain the position, while
ex-Secretary Mccullough is endeavoring to get
the place.
H. -...o al - l.A,.. -.1A.ao. e -. -.
bic lady said that the bereaved husband was
g hardly able to bear the demise of his wife"
Imagine his disgust on reading in print that the
bereaved husband was : hardly able to wear the
chemise of his wife,"
A Connecticut man has found a sure cure for
the uevastations of the currant worm. He
sprinkles his bushes with whisky the worm
becomes drunk, gets to fooling around, and finally
falls off, and either breaks It's neck outright or
cripples itself SO that life becomes a burden.
Horace Greeley, in answer to a letter from one
Of our 81 bee Keepers says that 8 bees must be
kept in large coops, and fed with corn stalks and
straw if you would have them lay well. They
batch best in the spring, and it is not a good
plan to set them on goose, duck or hen eggs"
The growth of the American Episcopal Church
in the United States within the past ten wears has
been remarkable. Nearly fifty bishops will meet
this year at the great Triennial Convention to be
held in Baltimore in October. A few years ago
less than one half this number were present ON
similar occasions.
The southern claims commission, now in ses-
sion in Washington, has published a list Of the
claimants before that body. The list comprises
over a thousand, all Of whom swear that they
never gave, directly or indirectly, assistance TO
the rebels. The amount Of the claims is in the
aggregate several millions.
A HUNDRED YEARS AGo.-H. w. Caldwell, n
grocer of indianapolis, and a descendant of John
Cosline. who in 1873 leased eight acres Of land
in the vicinity of Trinity Church, New York. for
hinety-nine years, has established his title TO the
property and compromised with the present occu-
pants, receiving one million dollars in cash.
BRIGHAM YoUNG.-With bis hair nicely oiled
in ringlets and falling around bis heavy neck,
hair and beard luxuriant, and but a little turned
in color, a pair of silver spectacfos in his hand,
and his manner all bland, from his baJeclosed
eyes to the poise of his knees and feet, Brigham
Young soothes mankind with seignoral hospital
ity.-ChicGgO Tribune Letter.
A short time since word was sent TO Mr.. A. L.
Stewart at New York that his wooden mills at
Utica had five hundred tons Of coal to spare
which might be sold to advantage, as the price
was high, and the article scarce. Word came
Immediately back, g Sell none but as the price
is high and the article scarce, give away the
whole to the working people Of the mills, share
and share alike" This order was Immediately
executed.
The " National Association of Christians op-
posed to Secret Societies > has been in session in
Worcester, Mass. One of the speakers at it's
opening session said that out OF l,784 Office
holders in the country 1887 are secret society
men, and that when such was the case, criminals
could not be brought to justice, when they them
selves were members, and that riots Of miners
and Kuklux operations all grew out Of the teach
ings of Freemasonry and Odd Fellowship.
The Richmond enquirer expresses its belief
that the Soufh has seen tho xvorgt af ia KuEIuv
outrages, that the storm has spent its fury, and
that, henceforth there will be an Improvement.
And apologizing for the past, it says that an
organization wise enough and necessary enough
for the purposes for which it was formed finally
fell into the control of bad men, and ceasing 70
be a shield and protection for the oppressed and
outraged. itself became an oppressOr and a scourge
TO friend and foe alike.
There seems to be little room TO doubt that the
control of the Suez Canal is likely 70 naea from