The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-06-25

lWeeu mas resigned nls seat IN the otale
Senate Of New York
Russia insists on the complete submission of
Khiva 10 the Empire.
Scranton & Co., bankers of New Haven,
Conn, have failed. Liabilities, S45O,OOO.
President Thiers has ordered the arrest Of Don
Carlos wherever he may be found in France.
Spain has ordered 10000 Cuban slaves, of the
class known as emancipated," to be set Free
A levy of all the male adults in Catalonia is
spoken of as probable, to suppress the Carlists.
The death of Mrs James Gordon Bennett is
announced by cable. 1t occurred at Koenigstein,
Saxony.
A family in Portland, Maine, named Mari, set
up a claim TO an estate in Scotland valued at
s6OlOUO.OOO.
A Submarine cable is to be laid between Lis.
bon Portugal by way of the Azores, and the
United States.
One million dollars is appropriated by the
Pennsylvania Legislature in aid of the Centennial
Celebration in 1876.
Three detachmeuts of native Cuban troops
have deserted the Spanish cause in body and
joined the insurgents.
Rev. DR.. Newman, late Chaplin of the q. S.
Senate, is to be made Inspector Of the Consul
ates n China, Japan and other Oriental Coun-
tries.
Germany. Austria and Russia all refuse to re-
cognize the Spanish Republic, because, as they
say. it does not represent the will Of the As
sembly.
Rumor says the Canary Islands are about TO
secede from Spain and place themselves under
British protection Gen. Hldalgo has just been
appointed Captain General of the Canaries.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte petitions the As
sembly for French citizenship. The Imperialsts
introduced a bill in his favor, and the Govern
ment introduced another to Danish all Bonapartes
from France.
Barcelona, one of the most popuous and i'm
portant commercial cities of Spain, is in danger
of being lost to the Government. The Carlists
are besieging it without, and Commune mob
threatens it within.
From New York we have the gratifying news
that the coalition between the Pacific Railroad
and other railroad lines connecting New York
aud San Francisco and the Panama Steamship
Company is broken up.
Twenty persons we're injured in panic TO get
out of a church at Trenton, n. j., on Sunday.
The papic was caused by fear that the gallery
was giving way. Nine have died, and three or
four are in dangerous condition.
Commodore Vanderbilt has incurred the bitter
hate of the New York Information lists and la
Dor strikers Some of them want to hang him,
and Others sy if the Eight-Hc Law is inter-
fered with New York will run with blood.
An insane American appeared at the Lodge
Gate, Windsor Castle, England, recently, and de-
manded 70 see the Queen, alleging that she was
bis mother He was arrested and upon being
threatened with incarceration in a mad-house,
promised to return to the United States.
There appears to be a disposition on the part
of the railway companies to take off their postal
cars and refuse to carry the U. ). mails because
Congress refused TO increase the compensation
for that service Tine Attorney General thinks
the Government has power to coerce the COM
panes.
The Scientific American commends onions as
a specific against epidemics-not as an esculent,
but sliced and kept in a sick-room, where they
will absorb any atmospheric poison. They should
be replaced by fresh ones every hour. In the
room Of a smallpox patient, they will blister and
decompose rapidly, but will prevent the spread of
the disease.
bill allowing women to be elected school
trustees, has passed both houses of the Illinois
Legislature. aud there is no doubt 1T will be
signed by the governor and become a law. The
act makes women eligible 10 Office under the
general or any special school law of the State.
If women are fit for teachers, why should they
not make good school trustees
Letters from London state that VIM. E. Gray,
the notorious perpetrator of the Wall street for
geries TO the amount of 100000 in 1862 is pro-
badly one of the chief conspirators in the recent
forgeries on the bank of England. Gray, it will
be remembered, is son of ex-Chaplin Gray, Of
the U. S. Senate, formerly held Office in Wash
ingtou, and is one of the most expert forgers
known.
The plan Of carrying telegraph wires under
ground is objected to in view of the fact, among
Others, that the gutta-percha covering proposed
for insulation is insufficient for that purpose.
The action Of moist earth and vegetable process
ses will be unfavorabe. If, however, underground
wires could be properly insulated it is thought
that there would be a considerable saving Of
electric force.
The Postmistress at Villa Ridge, ILL.,, has re.
signed in order to get married. In her letter Of
resignation that she sent to the Postmaster
General, she remarked that she would rather have
one man where she could lay her hands on him
when she wanted him, than to be handling mail |
bags irregulnry on small salary, and getting
sworn at by people who expected letters that
never came.
WHALE FIeHr.-A bloody rencontre occurred
of Fernaudina, Fla recently, between lot of
whales from fifty to sixty feet in length, and
school Of a smaller species of the same animal |