The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-08-20

lOA.M.
- Bark D. C Murray sails for San Francisco
August 9Th.
- E. P. Adams sells at his rooms tomorrow
and on Friday, furniture at Mr.. Krurers.
- No vessel is expected from San Francisco til
. the return Of the Costa Rica.
- The will of the late A. B. Bates of San Fran
CISCO devises all his property to his widow, WHO j:
appointed sole execuirix
- Miss Maggie Knight VIII give another Of hel
pleasing entertainments on Saturday evening next
when she Will be assisted by local artists.
FoR KAulL-The Steamer leaves her wharf at 4
P VI to-day for Hanalei and the circuit of Kauai.
She will be back on Saturday forenoon
- Schooner Kinau returned to port on Sltur.
day, having carried away her mainmast in the chan
mel, owing some Of the mast head fasienings hav-
ing given out
CoINcDExcr-The bark D. c. Murray was sig
nailed al II o'clock Of the 1sth-probaby about the
same hour that the steamer Costa Rica arrived at
San Francisco.
FuRSTTuRE.--Mr. Barlow sells furniture to-day at
the residence of Mr. Geo Il. Mcconnell, in Fort
Street. and again Friday at the residence Of Mrs
Won Pfster, in Suuanu Avenue
SOME GOLD LEFr.-A Philadelphia despstch of
July 10th says that the mint has rcoined ss 900 OOe
OF light weight gold. and there are $1,000 900 still
waiting to be re-melied.
sFg- Major Judd, J. q. Kawainui and J. Kahai
/ have been named as the Hawaiian Board of Health
for this Island. The duties of this board are en-
tircly distinct from those of the national Board of
/ Health
/ ~ petition in bankruptcy was fled in one of
the San Francisco Courts July % against the firm of
Collie, Stewart Co. engaged in the FIJI trade and
in the Polynesian Land Speculation Of Navigator
Islands.
NEW souooNER.-Messrs. Tibbetts & sorenson
last week laid the keel Of vessel of about twenty.
five tons, which will give employment TO mechanics
who otherwise would be idle during the dull sum
mer months.
- The sloop Enterprise was sold at auction on
Saturday last, aud purchased by native, who paid
for it in hard com. II his money was dug from its
hiding place, is quite likely it is so much added
to that in circulation.
~ Steamer Costa Rica will be due here two
TO place her in the dry dock and clean her bottom,
which would delay her day ortwo. She will prob
ably leave San Francisco on Monday, August 25 and
arrive here as above.
~ Read ia, selden Bros advertisement, and
then 20 aud select just what you want at cost price
These gentlemen follow the old proverb of "a MIN
bic sixpence better than 4 slow shilling" Printers
ink is the secret of success in duh times Try it
and see.
- The Nantucket Inquirer and lirror says
there now living of the family of the late Jona-
than and Ruth Parker, of Nantucket, twelve child
ren. five sons and seven daughters. whose ages are
respectively %, a. 6s, 65, IS, CO. IS Sc 81, ST. 49,
aud 4.
- It is stated that Mr.. Macready, the famous I
actor who recently died in England at the advanced
age Of eighty, having retired from the stage about
twenty years ago became an ardent Methodist, and .
built church, in which be occasionally exhorted .
with much feryor.
- Lovers of claret and Burgundy viii be pleas.
ed TO learn on the authority Of an eminent French
chemist that red wines nowadays are commonly
cOlored with rosantline, which contains arsenic
enough to cause symptoms of poisoning if it be tax
en- in frequent doses.
sFy- Dates by the last mail state that the noted
murderers, Stokes, Simmons and Jim King will in
all probably escape the death penalty, the new law
passed by the New York Legislature, requiring
proof OF deliberate intent to kill for conviction of
murder in the first degree.
- The schooner c. NJ. Ward brought from En-.
derhury Island mail bag of newspapers which the
ship WIN. Tapscott failed to deliver here when she
touched in May last, en- route from San Francisco.
" Accidents will happen in the best regulated fami-
lies" and on board the best regulated ships.
~ A Monterey paper states that the whaling
companies, which have been cruising in that bay
nave been unusually successful the past season. A
rev species of whale for that locality called the
sulphur bottom, has become very plentiful, and from
he immense size and the quantity of blubber it is
ource of great profit.
- Tacoma, on Puget Sound, has been selected
S the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad
The railroad company has been voted SeyeH thousand
es by the town authorities, two thousand acres of
be grant living on the water front. As this land
rant embraces eleven square miles. we don't sec
What is LEFT to build the town on. Hasn't Tacoma
aid dearly for its railroad whistle?
PROF. W q. CHICkERING.-By the Murays mail
re learn that this gentleman, lately connected with
)ahu College, has been appointed principal of the
ioldeu Gate Academy fourishing institution in
oakland designed as a preparatory school TO the
tate University. We congratulate the trustees of
be Academy and the friends Of education in Cali
ornia in securing the services of teacher so well
alculsted to fill the position assigned TO him and TO
xert favorable influence on those around him.
~ story is told of Rev Dr.. Cox, the we'll
nown Methodist preacher of San Francisco, which .
Illustrates his regular Sunday evening mnistrations
q Dupont street. BE was walking alongl one eve
ing jus: before dark, when he overheard two men
liking together of a contemplated act of wicked
ess he interrupted them aud advised them to go !
nd bear Dr. Cox, who was going to preach in the |
rect One of the fellows retOrted-"rn be id 7
III 20 there you'll be id If You DON'T"
as the quiet reply of the doctor. {
PROPERTY VALUATION IN SAN FRASCIsCo.-The c
tai assessments of property in San Francisco this
ar amounts to S25 zoe rs against S297 SIS, 242
st year The difference. ss2 175 464 in favor of the
-cvious year, is owing to recent decision of the
lpreme Court, declaring solvent debts and mort
ges exempt from taxation. The real estate foots
sl69 5O4 1870 and personal property SAC 9O5 649 C
is thought tax of u per cent. on the total ri