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

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HISTORIC ~NAMEs.-Christian Lopez and Louis
Gonsalez were before the Police Court on Wednesday
last, the former for ass%aulting the latter. Both are
Portuguese, employed on a milk-ranch in the neigh
borhood of the city, and both are of unmistakable
African descent. Lopez has a bad record, having
been twice mulcted in the Police Court for furious
and reckless driving of his m~ilk-wagon. Gonsalez,
the darkest complexioned of the two, had a native
woman for a wife, and he was jealous of the atten-
tons of Lopez to the fair Desdemona. His jealousy
reached the climax when he discovered her bandker-
chief in the possession of this Iago. But unlike
Othello, instead of going for Desdemona, and put
ting out her eight he complained to "the boss
which caused Iago to get into trouble. The latter
promised the jealous Moor that the first time he got
a chance, he would put q head on him. This
occurred one night when the iron tongue had told
the hour of one, just as Othello was beginning his
morning task of milking the cows, when Iago
attacked him and literally " mashed his jaw"
Othello halloed haul-in,' in jaw-broken accents,
and Iago was taken to the station-house. The result
of this tale, (Which resembles Shakespeare's, mas
much as there is a handkerchief in i) was that
Lopez paid Gonsalez 800, besides paying the doc
tors bill and for lost time, and was sentenced to be
imprisoned twenty days at hard labor, for the as
sault. -
READ THIs.-There is but one infallible preven-
tive to the Incorporate use of Intoxicating drinks,
and that is total abstinence; for the lesson of ex-
perience has been, that where their use is general
some do fall,-yes, many in the aggregate, and we
have no reason to expect anything different in the
future from what has resulted in the past. And as
no one can say in the beginning what the end will
be to himself or any one else. it follows that GER
tain safety can only be found in Total abstinence.
But as this does not prevail, and as many are suf-
fering, and will do SO in consequence, we publish
below the following "Drunkards cure " from a
foreign paper, which we are credibly informed has
been used with success, in at least one case, here
TIE DRuNKARD's CURE.-Somem months ago a gen.
tleman advertised that be had discovered a sure
specific. for the cure of drunkenness. lie would
not divulge the secret OF what compounds he used.
hut furnished the medicine at so much per bottle.
He did not have so many applicants for cure as was
expected. considering the extento of the disease. In
fact, the more malignant cases dld not seem anxious
for relief. They rather appeared to ENJOY their
malady. A few. however. placed themselves under
treatment. and some were cured-whetber by TAX
inc the medicine or not taking strong drinks, we
are not prepared to say. one OF the cured ones
had faith in the medicine, rigidly carried out the di-
reetiops of the doctor, and now has not the least
taste for intoxicating drinks whereas one year ago
he was an inebriate, and could not get along with
less than a pint to a quart OF WHISKY per uay' nc
la that he had aft some trouble and expense, pro-
cured the recipe for the preparation of the medicine,
which he had published for the benefit of suffering
humanity. 1t is as follows Snlphate of iron. i've
arsins neppermint water, eleven drachms spirits
eef nntroag one drachm-onc a day. This prepar-
alton and medicine acts as a tonic and a stimnlant.
and SO partially supplies the place of the accus,
toned liquor, and prevents the absolute physical
and moral prostration that follows q sudden DreaA-
;ng off from the use of stimulating drinks. 1t is to
be taken in quantities equal to an ordinary dram
and as often as the desire for a dram returns. Any
druggist can prepare the prescription.