The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-09-03

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The equestrian statue of the late Gen.
eral Stonewall Jackson, which has been
completed at cost of SIS, 900 at Nurem.
berg, Bavaria win soon be shipped fol-
the Virginia Military Institute at Lexing.
ton
An ugly riot occurred among lot Of
Irish laborers, near Lone Mountain. At
ter settling with each other, they charged
on Chinsman's wash-house, but the Chi.
nsman shot among the crowd and they
dispersed and let him alone.
The Hartford companies have made
subscriptions as follows toward the $780,
600 fund for the detection, conviction and
punishment of incendiaries Etna, SlS,-
600; Phoenix. S5.sOO Orient, $1,000 ;
Hartford, S7,7Oo National, 81 900 Con-
necticut, $500.
Postmaster Clark of Galveston, the Con-
necticut rascal who tried to steal a seat in
the House, feels very bad about Governor
Dsvis's luminosity TO him. He cannot
bear to see 4" the success of the Republican
party in Texas" endangered by quarreling
among Its leaders.
Survivors of the Atlantic are bringing
suits for damage. The Oceanic Steam
Navigation Company have offered to pay
into court the amount of their interest in
the steamer, and ask that the damages
awarded may be limited to that amount.
Judge Blachford so ordered.
The San Antonio, Texas, Herald COM
plains that Western Texas is neglected by
the Government of the State, and her
interests disregarded. And it says: " If
our appeals cannot be heard without, let
our watchword, our morning and evening
prayer be, division of the State ~
The tone of the Southern press in regard
to the Fourth of July was, on the whole,
much more gratifying than it has hereto
fore been since the beginning of the war.
There were some exceptions, it is true
but generally there was manifested a de.
termination not to forget that we are one
country, and that the glories of 10 at
least belong to the South as well as TO the
North.
a queerly mixed entertainment was re-
Gently given at London theatre. Gou-
nod, the composer, who never played pub
licly in his life, made his debut as pianist,
Wilkie Collins, no elocutionist at all, re-
cited story, Mdlle. Desclee, the great
dramatic actress, played the organ, aud
Hitler, the pianist, gave fantasia on the
doublebsss. Ristori on the tight-rope
and Taghona as prima donna, would
have capped the ridiculous climax.
Cincinnati is debating the question of
the establishment of geological and bo-
tanical garden, for the instruction and
amusement of its citizens. The project
is urged on the grounds that it will add |
greatly to the attractions of the city, and |
that the geological department may be
made means of preserving many speci-
mems of animals, birds and reptiles from
the West, which are fast becoming extinct,
as population extends in that direction.
Washington special to Boston Journal:
First Controller of the Treasury, Taylor,
says that his recent letter to an eastern SEN
ator on the subject of the back pay has
been misunderstood. In that letter Tay-
lor stated that the back pay could not be
covered into the Treasury as an unexpend.
ded balance before June 3Oth, 1875. He
did not state it could then be so covered.
He expressed no official opinion in
that letter regarding the disposition of
the fund after that date.
The recent dashing to death of the aero
naut La Mountain, at Ionia, Mich, recalls
the fact that three years ago another
aeronaut, also called La Mountain, perish
I'd in nearly similar manner, and not
hundred miles from the same place. This
was in 1870, at South Bend. Ind an i'm
patient crowd cast him off before he was
quite ready, with the valve rope tied sew
'ral feet above his head the balloon shot
INTO cloud of mist and sleet, which froze
he valve-board fast. The intrepid voy-
lger climbed the network and tore open
he balloon with his teeth. The balloon
and fell, and the aeronaut was
mangled.
The dangerous fascination which holes
n circus tent possess or'small boys al
Ways is fruitful source of Commissions and
'ther deadly disasters. Little George
Johnson, of Brooklyn, "peaked" through
UGH an aperture, the other day, but hard
= had his soul commenced to expand with
he gorgeous views of the scene within,
'hen cruel knife came cutting through !
is eye and down into the roof of his
louth. 1t CHANGED that the orifce he had
elected commanded view of the dress
groom, and the native modesty of one =,
f the riders, Mary Watson, was SO shock
4 at this intrusion unor her nrivacv that