The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-12-06
Foreign Items.

Nineteen million postal cards have been shipped
from the factory.
The total assessed value of property in san
Francisco Is S2O6, 100000
80 far this year afy vessels have been sent from
California FOR Europe laden with grain valued at
S3-500.0O0.
There are in California, ia Lodges of Good
Templars, having 7.4l5 members. OF whom lis
are ministers Of the Gospel.
Two daughters Of Mr.. Gallagher, Of Cortland.
Illinois. p~loughed and put in eighty acres OF small
grain this year. One did the ploughing. while the
other sowed the grain and narrowed 1t.
\ serious complication has arisen between Aus
tria and the Sublime Porte in consequence of an
afrQnt offered by the Porte to the government in
relation to Austrian affairs.
In Minnesota the law compelling saloon keepers
20 pay ten dollars annually TO the State Inebriate
4 Asylum has yielded twelve thousand dollars this
year.
The American Bible Society consists If 2.I25
life directors and ~, 900 life members. The re-
ceipts last fiscal year were ST37. $50 OF which
Sls,7S9 remains unexpended. During the 81 years
Of its existence it has published 20 9S2. PIP volumes.
in 30 dialects and languages.
The late panic seems 10 have shaken some of
the strongest money princes. Even Vanderbilt
has been pressed and now there Is news that the
Spragues Of Rhode Island are liable TO be forced
into suspension. The effects Of the panic are evil
IDENTIFY more wide spread than was supposed.
The closing down OF so many manufactures
throughout the country Is the result of tue panic.
Many thousands OF poor people will be thrown
out of work, and there will probably be more suf-
fering this winter than for many q year.
Connecticut still maintains its law against Sab
bath breakers. The authorities of East Haven
arrested slXty-nine persons who were fishing. hunt
ing, and fruit stealing on Sunday recently. and
they Were all locked up until Monday morning
and then fined from one to four dollars each and
costs.
II is said that 4 society exists in New Orleans.
composed of Union and Confederate officers. the
object of which is to conquer Northern Mexico. by
organizing a band of 5000 laborers, who are ex-
pected to be thrown out of employment when the
work on the Texas Pacific Railroad is completed.
1t Is claimed that many American and Mexican
capitalists are connected with the scheme.
Barnum, the great Snowman, has written a letter
to Professor Wise, the aeronaut. stating his willing
ness to give the latter every opportunity next
summer to attempt a transatlantic balloon voyage.
Mr.. Barnum recommends that San Francisco shall
be made the starting ground for the trial trip and,
if from there New York, Massachusetts or Maine
can be reached in safety, the European trip may
be made with confidence.
\ resolution was passed at the third annual
Convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence So
cleties of the United States, which met in New
York a short time ago, providing for a celebration
and parade of all the societies in the United States
in Philadelphia, in 1876, in honor of the Centen-
NAL, and that q handsome fountain be erected in
Paramount Park to commemorate the event. Tho
Total Abstinence Union of America, which will
manage the affair, now numbers 255 societies EN-
bracing $4,000 members. and representing thirty
States and Territories and British Provinces. The
Board of Government of the Union were authorized
by the Convention TO take steps at once to carry
the resolution into effect.
a VerOnese paper chronicles the fact that Pho
Mono has given orders TO his tailor, Rafaelle Clio
mini, for two complete suits of clothing, one suit
for autumn and one for winter wear. The material
used is white and scarlet cloth. Being an inordi-
nate user of snuff, His Holiness requires each year
five new white upper garments. These cost $50
each. His stockings cost $3.50 per pair. Each
red cloak costs Sl6O, and pair of slippers made of
red cloth with gold border. and embRidered with
a gold cross, cost S24, the Pope requiring six pairs
Il year. In round numbers the Pope's necessary
outfit does not cost him much over $500 per annum.
4 moderate sum for one in his position.
The steady Germans. according to a dispatch
from Berlin to London, have also been kite diving
in a financial sense, and are beginning to realize
the consequences. Fancy stocks and bank shares
are not salable. and some have fallen as much as
twenty per cent. There was some talk of govern
ment interference. Financial trouble was expected.
This state of things has been anticipated by shrewd
fnanciers for some time past. Flushed with vic
tory, empire and money obtained from France, the
Germans have rushed into speculations, and now
the natural reaction has set in. We may now con-
sole ourselves that Americans are not the only
people who run wild with speculation and have to
endure panics as the consequence.
At New York, and especially among the sus-
pended Institutions there, we see it stated that ii
sharp curtailing of expenses is said to be going on.
That is a step in the right direction, and may be
advantageeusly pursued, even where not enforced
by direct losses. Industry and economy should
now mark the fnger-boaTds of every household
and every place of business. To living too fast in
the past we owe much of our present difficulties
by making slower time for the future we will
sooner and more certainly reach the desired goal.
Mast is again at work on Harper'S. In the last
number he has a capital cartoon illustrating the
plan of keeping the money where it will do most
good" The characteristic expression of the Pres
ident introduced into the face of the mastiff bound
by the letters of law to his post before the Treas
ury, is q piece of very clever drawing. and the
obvious moral of the situation is in all its details
very well brought out. The two-page cartoon
representing "our modern Canute at Long Branch 4"
is replete with droll bits of caricature. besides
being rs n whole q very effective piece of grouping.
1t is reported that Mr.. John Bright, who is head
of the Peace Association of Great Britain, has
lntimated to Mr.. Gladstone that if the Ashantee
is proceeded with he must decline accepting
the seat in the Cabinet which was offered to him
early in August. The Times has expressed itself
against such a war, giving utterance. as
usual, to the feelings of the people on the subject,
and is backed up by many authorities. Among
these, Colonel McCourt, lately judicial assessor to
the native chiefs on the Gold Coast, writes: lit
is sheer madness and recklessness to send out
troops to die like sheep in that fatal
and adds that the whole affair can be
amicably settled by negotiations with the King OF
In the will of John Stuart Mill the following
respecting his autobiography Were
And whereas in these days no one is
secure against attempts to make money by means
Of pretended biographies, l, therefore, think it
necessary TO state that | have written q short ac-
count of my life, which 1 leave to the absolute
charge of my step-daughter, Miss Helen Taylor, to
published or not at her will and discretion, and,
II the event of her death in my lifetime, to the
charge and control of William Thomas Thornton.
IN condition that he publish the same within two
,ears of my decease."
.Alphonse Karr, a white-haired old gentleman. is
me of the most popular of the Partisan feuilleto-
lists. He has had a singular career. a long time
go he quarreled with VI. Berth. of the Journal deS
DsJrFc which resulted in his swearing that hp