The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-01-20
Foreign Items.

of $50. 600.
Seven books on the Chicago fire have been pub
lished or announced IS II preparation
Rhenish wine is very high in Germany, the vim
tage of 1871 being entirely lost
Moving machines have killed seventy farmers
in Illinois last year
james Fisk, Jr., refused TO go bail for W. VI.
Tweed = on the ground of public morality"
An American Chess Congress was to meet at
Cleveland, Ohio, December 18th.
Thirteen New York papers have died in three
years, losing $3.50 900.
Out of an income Of E276 600, 900 per year,
the agricultural laborers OF Great Britain spend
$685. G0 900 in liquor.
General George B. Mcclellan is announced as
President OF an American company which is
seeking the greater part Of a capital Of S5,OOO,-
900 IN London.
\ steam yacht is sailing on the Sea of GaHIee;
and Its beautiful scenery. with Its hallo~ing associ-
ations, will soon be As familiar to tourists as that
oil the Rhine is now.
Mrs. Sarah j. Hale, who has written and
edited for more than q generation, is still, in her
eighty-fourth year, at work ON the Lady's Book,
upon which she has worked iortyIour years.
The college publications of Harvard, Yale,
Amherst, BowdOin, Williams, and other colleges
take strong ground against educating the sexes
together.
Mrs. Montgomery, who mar
ried Walter Montgomery, returned to Boston in
the Parfhia, and is now living with her husband,
Arnold W. Taylor, in that city.
Mons. Arajuar. astronomer in Madrid, is re-
ported to have discovered a new planet, which he
has designated Conception"
VI. Gambetta being about to be married, NJ.
Victor Hugo has addressed u letter to the ex-
Dictator, congratulating him on the approaching
happy event, which he characterizes as the union
of a comet with a flower.
DR.. Farr, of the British General Register
Office, thinks ~gluttony the growing sin of our
age, and states that more people die nowadays
from govt and kindred diseases than from deli
rum tremens.
Extensive strikes are announced as taking place
at Elbing, an important port of Eastern Prussia,
noted for it's manufactures, especially its sugar
refineTies and WOODEN factories.
The Vindictiveness which the French feel to-
ward the Prussians is still undated. IU has
now become fashionable in France to call their
dogs by the names of William, Bismarck and
Moltke.
Eugene declined all public honors while travel
ing in Spain. She replied to King Amadeus
profer Of civilities by saying that she returned
to Spain as an unfortunate woman, anxious to
see once more the land of her birth, where she
had been so happy.
Edmund About receives the largest salary at
present paid 10 any French journalist, viz So, 900
II year. Emile de Girardin receives So, 900 a
year for writing daily one column of editorial
matter in the La6eTte.
The Government of Guatemala having driven
the Jesuits from the country on account Of their
dangerous influence in political affairs, has now
turned it's attention to the priests, and for like
reasons banished the Archbishop and one of the
leading bishops from the Republic. Completely
in the late revolution is the cause.
An Italian journal declares that the Pope is
opvtnnS - traat nth Giar,r Eu,,D,,olss Co.,
ment, but that the Jesuits bitterly oppose any
such movement. The same Journal states that
but for the vigilance of Cardinal Antonelli one
faction of the Jesuits would have poisoned the
Holy Father a long time ago. They want "a
young, vigorous Pope, who will declare a reli-
gIous crusade and recapture Rome.
On the 4th of September last ground was
broken for the erection of a Catholic church in
Salt Lake City on the 9th of September the
ceremonies of laying the cornerstone occurred,
and on the 29th of November the edifcc, COM
rleted, was dedicated Is the worship of Almighty
God. Quick work.
\ Journal called the Reoolutionia has lately
been started in Mexico, which contains no other
news or intelligence of any& kind except the
prOclamations, pr0nunCiGmieGtos, war bulletins
and movements of the revolutionists from one
end Of the country to the other. Its pages con-
tain blood and thunder enough to brighten
Juarez out Of his wits.
This is the unique pattern of a Western per-
sonal We are sorry to receive No. l of the
COmanche County World. The World is badly
printed, and has a sickly, poverty-stricken APP
pearance. John Smith, its publisher, is an idiot.
If the : leading men of Comanche County are
responsible for the foundation Of this paper. they
ought to he sent to the penitentiary. We trust
that Mr.. smith will stop the publication of his
paper and save his money"
In Rich, Cache and other counties of Utah
Territory the grasshoppers were a terrible scourge
during the past season. In Rich county alone
they destroyed over ninety per cent. of the en-
tire crops. A delegation of citizens from that
county have arrived in Salt Lake, seeking en-
p%loyment to procure bread for themselves and
families.
A French journal locates the Empress Carlotta
in a beautiful, secluded valley among the Pyre-
nees. Her chief amusements consist in holding
conversations with the photograph of Macmillan,
putting the Mexican imperial Court in order and
giving instructions to the Ministers of State as
to the best way of managing the Empire.
The French Minister of the Interior has ad-
dressed a circular to the Projects of the Depart
ment of Midi, ordering them to arrest and prose
cute the sorceTers or mediums who are
practicing on the c~redulity of the people and ex-
torting money thereby. The itinerant ~humbugs
are to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Serves them right.
THE NEXT CoMET.-Enck's comet is now on it's
way towards the perihelion, which it will reach
during the present month. The comet has been
telescopicaIly visible for some time, but is not an
object of special interest to those whose vision is
unaided by Instruments. 1t has q short period
only three years aud a quarter. The least dis
lance from the sun is $4,000 900 of miles, or
about the average distance Of Mercury. The
greatest distance is SS7 ,0G0 900 of miles, or more
than four times that Of the earth. This comet is
principally of interest because its period of revo-
luton has disminished to the extent Of about
three days in the past eighty years, q fact which
is generally accepted as furnishing the best proof
bv 'I material .'i ether n 'e liable o' of fp Tetar Ii the
motion of the bodies composing the solar system.
OF course the resisting medium would produce an
annual effect upon the comet of a few tons in
weight. that would not be eXnerienced by our