The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-05-15

certain town of New Hampshire recently, a
prominent citizen paid the forfeit of bet 10y
retailing a box Of herring through the streets
from wagon drawn by donkey, backwards,
while his opponent drew attention TO the specta-
Gle by blowing mammoth tin horn. In Con-
nectcut, at the recent State election, feeling ran
very high, and the zeal Of partisans displayed
itself in wagers correspondisgly absurd. One
man engaged TO go around the city park on all
fours if his candidates we're notelected. One can
not but think this must have been the mode Of
procession nature designed for him. But what
shall be said OF the voter who engages, if his
party loses the day, to carry his opponent on bis
pack across rope stretched from housetop to
housetop, and to forfeit thousa I'd dollars if be
fall himself or drop his companion? There would
be no brains spilled If both should be dashed to
the ground.
DISTINGUISHED DEAD.
Through the streets of New York there have
recently passed two funeral professions attending
the remains OF men among the most distinguished
Of Americans. One was General Anderson,
whose gallant defense Of Fort Sumter at the out
break of the Rebellion is of perpetual memory.
His coffin was covered with the identical flag
which there represented loyalty and honor and
was followed by the man, an artillery sergeant,
who climbed to the top of the flagstaff in the
midst of an iron hail and nailed fast the colurs.
General Anderson died in Italy, whittier he had
gone for healths sake, and his remains we're
brought home to be inferred at West Pclnt
His name will be written among those of purest
fame.
Peace hath her victories" aud the hero
Of one Of the greatest of them has Just passed
away in the person Of Professor Morse. Had he
never invented the Electric Telegraph be would
have inevitably achieved distinction in some
other form. He had been in early life an artist
OF no mean skill, and might have ranked high as
jurist. But every other title to honor Is
eclipsed by that great invention which is to be
classed, along with the art of printing and the
mariners compass, among those rare achieve
ments which set forward by long stage the
march Of civilization. What practical appica-
ton Of science has ever spread with such rapdiy
and developed so good results? Men are still
in Congress who saw there the first wire stretched
from one room TO another Of the Capitol: now, |
almost every land bristles with telegraph poles,
and with the completion Of one projected link a
girdle will be extended round the globe Prof |
Morse encountered a share of the inevitable
struggles and bufetings of an inventor. but lived
long enough to reap larger share of honor than
often falls upon living names. Decorations and
rewards had been bestowed upon him
'y almost every civilized government.
A NOVEL MASS MEETING.
A Memorial Meeting on a scale never before
een, was held last evening in honor of the re-
lowned man. At the Representatives Hall in
Washington we're gathered men Of eminence in
he political, literary, and scientific world The
Governors of most of the States were either
resent or represented by proxy. Contempt
aneously, there we're assembages in all the
eading cities, and these widely separated gath
rings were made one vast concourse by means
the Telegraph connecting them all. Commu-
ications from the central meeting radiated
to all parts of the country; and
bus The great invention spoke ms aUlogy through
be Ehole land. Il was a happy idea, success
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