The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-11-30
Foreign Items.

Marshal Bazaine's trial before a council Of war
Is positively to prOcred in December.
The London Telegraph says that the late Sir
David Baxter has bequeathed the enormous sum
Of E5OO 900 10 the Free Church Of Scotland and
E5O,OO u the University Of Edinburg.
The Bishop Of Gloucester, whose salary is $500
n week, expressed the opinion that any man who
pTOnOuuces agricultural labOTers Of Eagland IN
derPad should be dueked in u mili-pond. The
said labOrers receive about 50 So a week
average
The London reporters left out all the Jokes in
Mark Twain's latest address, made in response 10
the toast Success In Literature" The effect on
the speech may be imagined
An ingenious Frenchman has invented machine
for stopping runaway 5Orses Instantly. Electricity
Mt the control OF the driver is the means employed
and II stops n horse as quick as lightning.
The municipal elections throughout England re-
suited in heavy Conservative gains, attributed to
the passage Of the Licensing Act There is much
dissatisfaction at the working OF the new Ballot
Act Voting is so slow that in many places all the
votes could not be pOlled-
Chicago Is to have a grand annual exhibition
Crystal Palace building is now being designed,
and Is TO cost S250O9O; 200 by 600 feat 81 will
be constructed Of iron and glass, aud be located
in the vicinity Of the Union Stock Yards, south OF
the city, and finished next summer. A joint stock
company have taken this important matter in
hand.
Policemen in Berlin receive a dollar and quar-
ter day. in Munich, one dollar; in Vienna one
dollar aud ten cents in Venice, ninety cents in
Paris. two dollars in Madrid, one dollar aud
half; in Rome. eighty-lve cents in Bucharest,
seventy-ive cents; in St. Petersburg, sixty cents
in Copenhagen, one dollar and in Stockholm one
dollar and fifteen cents. In COnstantinople they
have to content themselves with forty cents.
A German marblecutter Of Albany has insti-
tuted suit against a well-knOwn dealer for pay
ment OF wages The workman was instructed to
cut upon a tombstone, " Let her soul rest in
bnt btsiu abbre-
waited the sentence thus, Let her soul +. i. D."
The person who ordered the stone would not ac-
cePt 1t, and it was returned TO the owner
A REMARKABLE SuIcrDE.-The latest thing in sui
cides comes to from Cleveland. Ohio, where an
Individual rashly impOrtunate, went to his death
after the following unique preparations: He hrst
procured & revolver and connected it with a
species Of clOckwork, so that it should be fired of
at a certain time. He then got into bed and took
u dose OF chorOfOrm, after having placed the pis-
tOl behind his eur. lie then. under the influence
OF the narcotic went To sleep At the given time
the efOckwOrk pressed the trigger Of the pistol,
firing il OF aud launching the idiot into eternity.
NEW York. Nov. Mrs. Victoria Woodruff was
arrested this morning a warrant sued out by A.
M. Chaltes. charging her with gross libel. War
rants also Issued against her and her partner
in business complaint of other parties on like
charge The parties were also arrested by
the United States Marshal on a charge Of sending
obscene publications through the mails, while they
in carriage preparing for flight, with copies
~
being brought before the Commissioner, the Assis-
tant District Attorney charged that they also
guilty OF Iibellng- The Commissioner decided to
admit the accused to bail in $4,000. No bail was
furnished, aud they were sent to LudlOwstreet Jail
The Postmaster-General has reversed his former
decision the class Of postal matter IN which
eugraviugs, ehromOs etc, should properly be
placed Hereafter all such matter may be sent by
mail at the rate Of one cent for each two ounces
aud ia packages weighing less than four pounds
Ii will be remembered that the former decision
was to the effect that art publications not
..printed matter" within the meaning Of the stat
ute. The reversal of the former opinion pro-
cured by the Oint efforts OF the art dealers OF BOs
ton New York and Philadelphia, but the largest
share OF the benefit will be reaped by the small
dealers who order by mail. and the thousands OF
country purchasers who receive popular art pub
Iications in the same way
Hox WILLIAM II. SEwAED's ArToBrOoRGPHT.-
Five hundred pages Of Mr. Seward's second work,
an autobiography, which was uncOmpleted at the
time Of bis death, have already been written up,
OF are ia notes, ready for engrOssment These
comprise bis personal history, and viii undOubt-
edy prove the most valuable pages for his friends
and admirers. The notes from his dictation, we
understand. include that portion OF national his
tory connected with the rebellion, and their repro
duetiOn in print will form volume which the peo-
pie Of the whole country will await with interest
Frederick Seward will probably be assisted IN the
compilation by a A. Gutman, former private sec
Tetary to Mr. Seward
The New York Herald editorially says that
whether the result will be accounted for by the
popular strength Of General Grant on the one
hand or the weakness of Greeley and the feeble
ness Of the Neutrality-suspicious. combined with
the Democratic bolt the other hand, il is in
many respects the most remarkable Of any Presi-
dental election in the history of the country The
Tribune gives Grant 260 electoral votes at the
lowest and 50 for Greeley. with the rest doubtful.
There is scarcely parallel, it says, in the COM
pIeteness of the rout and the triumph. 1t states
that the Liberals could not stand the enormous
outlay of money expended by the Republicans In
the Canvass Grant has now four years more power
with Congressional majorities, and whatever re-
form he NAV seek to effect he will have the aid Of
the Tribune. The Tribune adds: The Liberal
movement was at time formidable, aud had
prospects Of success. Had not millions been ex-
pended to its progress In the State elections
Of the last three months, it might have swept the
country. The eLberal-Republcans strength in North
Carolina. Vermont and Maine nearly neutral
ized by Democrats who would not eat crow when
they could get Eve TO twenty dollars each for not
eatin1 il There was nothing purchasable in tho