The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-05
Foreign Items.


Peschka Leutner likes America and 81 900 :"
night well enough to come back again.
Vermont gives a Republican majority Of $4,000
10 %. 600, a gain Of 1000 TO 5000 over 1870. The
Senate is all Republican.
Many German Jesuits expelled from Germany
by the recent law are gong 10 Ireland, where
they are warmly welcomed.
The Messrs. Low, of London, will publish
SANKEY'S book. 1t is said that the expedition
cost the Herald over $40 600.
\ bill has been reported in the Connecticut
Legislature to substitute imprisonment in all
cases for drunkenness in place of fines.
The Geological Societies of Florence aud St.
Petersburg have both sent gold medals to Stanley,
who is just now being highly honored in Europe.
\ gentleman advertised for a wife and received
answers from 1897 husbands, saying he could
have theirs. This is given as an illustration Of
the value of advertising.
The German Government has intimated to
Theirs It's intention to retain possession of Belfort,
though it is willing To make n compensatory con-
cession 10 France.
The renowned Field Marshal Won Moltke spends
his time in smoking an enormous pipe and read
ing the newspapers ut a beer shop in the town OF
Schweidnitz.
A Greeley rock turnip raised on the sea shore
was exhibited on the street, recently. it was
raised after Mr.. Greeley's well known system by
taking hold of the top and pulling.
It appears that Bismarck has offended the mill
tary men of Germany by not including the for
tress of Belfort in the territory coded to Germany
by the treaty of Versailles.
Rev. L. Dwight Hunt, first pastor OF the First
Congregational Church in San Francisco, was in
stalled pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Nunda. New York. June 9th.
Democrats are enioined to paste the following
card in their hats -
{F.s emphatically deny that l ever said everA
Democrat was a horse-fhief, but ] did say thai
every horse-thief was a Democrat.
HORACE GREELEY.
George asked the teacher of a Sunday
school class, " who above all others shall you
wish first TO see when You get TO heaven - With
n face Frightening up with anticipation, the lit
tie fellow shouted, ' Gerliah ~
The San Francisco Bulletin says Arizona
diamonds of three pounds weight and about the
size of a mules head are the latest specimens
received and exhibited in a window on Montgom-
cry street. They are the grade adapted for sleeve
buttons.
Stanley has been lionised in Paris, and it is
reported that some one has offered him $50 900
for a book. The book would certainly be inter
esting, however valuable it might be and as the
public demand it, it will doubtless be forth
coming.
Speaker Blaine has written a letter to Senator
Sumner, sharply denouncing the latter in - an
nouneing an open alliance with the Southern Sc
cessionlsts,' - and lamenting the present : fellow
ship of Robert Toombs, Seferson Davis and
Charles Sumner"
The monthly report of the German Immigration
Society shows that during last month Il, 200
German immigrants landed in New York, an
increase of 7 1873 over the corresponding month
of last year. The total number Of German i'm
migrants arrived, from January /. is 81 ,65l, an
r . In= -.-- .s-I H.
period oil last year.
PRoTEsrANrIsN IN PARIs.-There are 80 places
of Protestant worship in Paris where services are
held in the French language. OF these, l3 are
what are termed Reformed churches, or Calvinist
9 according to the Confession of Augsburg, or
Lutheran ! free churches; 2 Methodist; and |
Baptist.
a woman in Wyoming, who does not agree
with the notions of her sex of the strOng-minded
persuasion, being forced to serve on a Jury against
her will. carried her baby with her. The unmu-
steal protests of the yOungster soon induced the
Court to grant permission for both to retire, and
they went of rejoicing.
1t is semi-oficially given out that the meeting
of the Emperors at Berlin means peace, and to
give to Europe and the world an assurance that
the three empires yield to the new condition Of
things brought about by the victories Of the Ger
mans over the French.
Hydraulic power on a great scale 10000
horse-power) is to be established at Bellegarde, on
the Rhone, by drawing off One-third of the water
Of the river through a tunnel $50 yards long. The
hight of the fall will be fifty feet, and it is hoped
to induce the Alsatian manufacturers to settle
there and establish a second Lowell.
Gilmore is to take the jubilee coliseum build
ing, paying $50, 600 for it, that he may be able
to make up his personal losses. He will use it
for concerts, afterwards for a closing ball, and
finally will dispose of it for kindling-woOd or to
make unhappy some other adventurous party.
And Boston will know no more forever of coli
seums or peace jubilees.
The hotel boys who are witnesses In the
Stokes case have been imprisoned in the house of
detention since the time that the tragedy took
place, and are even now denied their freedom
under any less consideration than a bail Of $4,000,
which as their friends are poor, they are not
likely to obtain.
An increasing agitation is reported among the
working classes in the principal cities Of Northern
Italy. In Turin, on July %, there was a large
meeting at the principal theatre of bricklayers,
for an advance Of wages, and on July 80,
there was a strike of five thousand railway work
men, cigar makers and printers, accompanied
with acts of violence.
The Solicitor of the Treasury has given an
opinion to the effect that the Shipping Commits
sioner at New Bedford is wrong in including the
of seamen for whaling voyages. He
they are not subject 10 the provisions of the
law, as they are not bound from an Atlantic to a
Pacific port, nor are they TO engage in foreign
voyages within the meaning of these words.
In order to get the streets cleaned, a Little Rock
paper prints this pleasant paragraph: 1--WE have
in an elegant assortment of first class obitu-
aries, from which we shall select with pleasure
fitting ones for each of the Aldermen, when he
from the cholera or other disease, superin-
duced bv the filthy condition of our streets and