The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-28

The benevolent gentleman who, for the last
two or three years. has been sending his checks
for So 900 to the various public institutions of
London, has again made his appearance. His
donations are always for s. O00-no more and
no less-and always under different initials. lie
seems trying to exhaust the variations Of the
alphabet. He has already gwen upward OF ST.
600 900, and nobody has the slightest idea who
he is.
Talifar county, Georgia, boasts of a lady
widow of a confederate soldier-who is very useful
in a small, sociable row. a pedagogue living
on her land threatened to wallOp her recently,
and pretty soon thereafter attempted to carry out
his threat. He was the worst fooled man in the
Union. The widow knocked him down and
walked all over him, and then she set him up on
his feet and jerked him out of his socks then
she snatched him bald headed and finally wound
until he had the Mysteries.
The Chicago Times thus Indignantly squelches
a Cincinnati journal for daring to insinuate that
Boston has gone ahead of Chicago in the matter
of a confagration There is something incon-
ceivably childish in the idea of the Cincinnati
person chuckling over the thought that some
other city has had a bigger fire than Chicago.
The petty jealousy and malignant but impotent
hate that are condensed in the above article be-
come all the more ridiculous when it is considered
that the Boston condagration was not one-half SO
great an affair, measured in any way, as the
SulCdSO SOhhaStdIOu'
The Forty-third Congress goes into power
March 4, 1873. The elections for members of
the next House of Representatives have nearly all
taken place, there remaining only seven members
to be chosen-four from Connecticut and three
from New Hampshire, which States do not vote
until next spring. While the returns are yet
imperfect, 50 that the accurate political complex
ion of the next Congress cannot now be given, it
seems probable that the Republicans will number
"a Ia,gf tyrp- tbIrAE in fba HpuEa xrhilp II fhp
Senate, without Senators Sumner, Schurz and
Fenton, who were supporters of Mr.. Greeley,
they will approximate twO-thirds.
The advance guard of the great army of female
voters seems likely to get into trouble. \ hard
4 hearted United States Commissioner at Rochester
has issued warrants for the arrest OF Miss Susan
b. Anthony and her fourteen female companions,
/ who deposited their ballots as citizens of the
United States at the late election. The poll in
spectors appear to have been struck with a mo-
mentary panic when confronted by Miss Anthony
and her intrepid band, and seem TO have suddenly
forgotten that the word 90 person " was, in the
constitution, a term Of limited application. 1t
remains to be seen whether Commissioner StOrrs
will be able to retain his attitude Of Rhadaman-
thine severity when these fifteen ladies appear
before him, in grim and terrible array, in his own
court.
The cholera in India abated almost as rapidly
as lG DrOKe OUT lnere were ABOUT lNe nunuTeu
fatal cases among the British troops, and had the
year been a little less advanced, the mortality
would have been materially greater. The state
ments OF the medical officers who endeavOred to
combat the disease are not very encouraging, and
nothing satisfactory has been arrived at as TO tie
cause or cure of cholera. The English army
physicians declare that all kinds OF treatment
were useless after the disease had passed beyond
a certain stage. Strange to say, the largest
number of victims were among those who had
been long resident in the country. Of the
recruits of FIVE months Indian service few were
attacked. and all recovered.
Mansard, whose roofs are the subject of SC
much OblOquy at present, was superintendent OF
Public Buildings in the reign of Louis XIV. II
is told of him that he possessed to a remarkable
amount the power of subtle hattery, which be
used to practice with great ingenuity upon the
King. lie would sometimes submit plans por-
tions of which were purpOsely made so imprac,
ticable. not to say absurd, that the King could
not avoid detecting and pointing out the incon,
sistencies, wiereupOn Mansard would declare tina
if his Majesty had not been a King he would
have made a first class architect, blaming himsel
the while for having made such plumbers. lt II
not stated whether the famous roof was one o.
these latter, DOR whether the King took FIRE at i
when it was shown him.
The cable telegram announcing the refusal o
the great powers to cooperate with Great Britain
in suppressing the African slave trade is in keep
ing with the devOut zeal with which those same
powers. in the sacred name of justice, appeal Il
the God of battles, thereby consigning thousand
of men to slaughter. This infamous traffic, since
its abandonment by prolessedly civilized nations
has fallen into the hands of Moorish pirates, anC
by them ia conducted with greater b%arbarlty
than ever. As shown by official reports to TIM
British Government, instead of declining, it is OF
the increase. The number Of slaves exported
last year is estimated al ~, 1000, in whose captur
four or five times that number of natives wer
butchered, and by the action of the great mari
time powers it's extension is now virtually licensed
Concerted action on their part at insignifcan
: expense and without loss of life, would hav
= suticed for the extinction Of this traffic, which
makes IL the more - ne rc-Ietbel that ths humane
uJ,j4cf Of Great Britain 'tu+ fails