The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-10-21
Foreign Intelligence

The bark d. c. Murray, Captain p. L. Shepherd,
arrived on Monday morning in the unusually quick
time of 124 days from San Francisco, bringing
dates from that City to the Sd inst
A disastrous fire occurred in San Francisco on
the Esd ult, which totally destroyed a large three
story brick block on Market street. the loss footing
up about a million of dollars, 100000 being in
sured.
A letter from a friend of the late Walter Mont
gomery intimates the opinion that the cause OF his
suicide was great mental excitement. created by
the conviction that the taste for the Legitimate
drama, to the study of which he had devoted his
life time, was hopelessly dead.
The Fenian fools are rumored to be meditating
another attack on Canada. this time by the way OF
Fort Garry, over the line from Minnesota.
In the Massachusetts, Republican Convention.
Ben. Butler was defeated for the nomination for
Governor, GAS to AGA, and VIM. B. Washburn was
nominated. John Quincy Adams is the Democratic
nominee.
Direct railway communication between India
and England is being ~agitated. To run across
| Austria. Turkey. Persia. &C., onward to Bombay,
the distance to be 5000 miles by rail and 2s by sea.
The distance to be accomplished in six or seven
days. and the road to cost only two hundred and
Eve millions of dollars.
Oue 0u0uTcu anu ttn VI ShA0ib W. Ohb
in Lowell, Mass. for the ten days previous to Sep
tember 80.
Queen Victoria still remains at Balmoral in fee
Bile health, where Gladstone Is paying her a visit
The Mont Gents tunnel is in successful opera
ton.
The Brazilian Parliament has adjourned, after
adopting a bill for the emancipation OF slavery IN
the Empire.
wear ago the American Board of Commission
ers of Foreign Missions owed $22,600. The debt
has been reduced to $4,000, and will be reported
at that figure at the October meeting.
Coon TEMPLARs.-There are in this Order in Cal
ifornia Z, 23O members-of whom $500 are females.
counts of an astonishing phenomenon at Apopka.
Orange county, near Pilatka. The whole county
disappeared in one night, and its site is covered by
a great lake.
trades in the United States and Canada to go upon
a general strike early next Spring.
Eight million five hundred and nine thousand
two hundred and ninety-nine dollars was the value
of the imports at the port of New York one week,
or 81 ZOO. 900 more than for the corresponding
week of last year.
Judge Underwood, of the United States District
Court for Virginia. gives the opinion that females
of that State have, under the amendments and the
enforcement act of May, 1871, the same right to
vote that male citizens have.
Another trunk mystery, according to the Pough-
keepsie IN. W Eagle, has been brought to light.
A trunk IN u TUCSON river DdggdRo car, strongly
tied with ropes. emitted offensive odor, which excl
ted the suspicious Of the baggage master. He ac-
cordingly, with the aid of a Poughkeepsie detective,
had the ropes cut, when. instead of another ghast-
ly corpse, the trunk was found TO be full OF Lin
burger cheese.
Stewart. the millionaire merchant of New York,
is about 20 years of age, yet it appears by the de-
s~criptions just published of his new palatial resi-
dence that he is still quite lively. We are told. for
instance, that his bed. which is of carved rosewood,
inlaid with mosaic, has on its central panel a fe-
male figure bathed in the warm glow OF a Summer
sunrise, and on the footboard is a figure OF Cupid,
with his darts and culver.
One of the entries in Mr.. COnnolly's account
book runs as follows: 1870, May %, paid j.
O'Brien for thermometers for county buildingsand
Offices, 81 800" Mr.. O'Brien got his thermometers
from Giuseppe Tagliabue and a DIR. Finnell. The
former furnished two dozen at 81 apiece the lat
ter eleven at 8 10 apiece. Mr.. O'Brien's profit, ST.
342.
On the Island of Antigua every estate was in
jured by the recent storm. A coolie vessel from
India for Martinique has been lost on the coast OF
that Island with all hands. Two hundred bodies
were washed ashore.
Napoleon's sixteen horses sold for $7.s08--an
average of S4S8. The highest price paid for a
single horse was 1910.
Great Britain last year consumed AZ, 000, 600
pounds of tobacco, or a pound and a half for each
one of the population. -r.s
Berlin expects to show a population of o 5000
in the new census. The city is growing almost be-
yond precedent among the capitals of Europe.
A conspiracy in favor of Napoleon has been dis
covered in Paris. Pietri. late Chief of Police, is at
the head of il, acting under direct instructions of
the late Emperor.
Papers have been found in the Tuileries which
are said to convict Louis Napoleon OF diplomatic
intrigue to GUST King Leopold and have himself
made King of Belgium the meaning of which is
that he intended to annex Belgium to France.
In Hungary the publication of the dogma of Pa
pal infaliibiiity is prohibited, and the legal exis-
fanoa of tho dn0ma ic danip6 hV gOmp municinali-
ties. In Bavaria and Prussia the liberals are de-
handing severe measures against the ultramontane
Catholics.
Cholera is spreading to fresh districts in Russia,
and an increase of the epidemic is reported.
Theirs announces that he is ready to pay the
fourth installment of the German indemnity.
Disraeli, at a late banquet. proposed a toast to
the Queen, and accompanied it with a speech In
fervent eulogy of her majesty. Her duties, he said,
were excessive, and no English subject was under
such complete control of the political traditions of
the country as its sovereign.
A rumor is current at Vienna that the Emperor
Francis Joseph is seriously disposed to abdicate.
The cause assigned is his dependency and his
conscious unftness for the constitutional changes
which threaten the dissolution of the Austrian EN-
pire.
The iron miners of Stafordshire, England, have
secured an advance of ten per cent. in wages. and
their wages are 20 be increased in proportion to
the rise in the market value of iron (which gives
them: in fact, an interest in the business.1
The Princess Metternich, having gone back TO
Paris, longs for the restoration OF the Empire and
the return of Eugene, who was for years her only
formidable rival in point Of clothes. She so easily
e~elipses all other women now by the splendor of
her toilettes that fashionable society seems empty,
and life a burden.
European ad Twice say that the Internationals are
40 greatly in Germany that, ,BisParck.
abiding to the subject, remarks that pohucal cares
have given place to cares of socialism, and that
the latter disturb him still more than the former.
The Globe says the result of the experiments in
Chinese labor in America possesses q double inter-
est now in view of the Newcastle strike and other
struggles between labor and capital. We should
not be at all surprised in these days of excessive
competition, rapid locomOtion and the Suez canal,
If before long we see John Chinaman and party
hard at work over here.
Siam is moving forward to q place among the
civilized nations of the globe. Slavery will be
perpetually abolished in that kingdom on and al
ter Jan. 81, 1872. The owners are to be paid for
the loss of their bondmen.
SALT LAKE. Sept. 1s-The Hawkins adultery case