davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-13
ABOUT OUR
X. BISHOP.
Minister at War.

a walk about our streets will convince most
people that seasons of drouth do more injury to
our roads than torrents of rain. In fact, rain
would serve to cleanse our thoroughfares with but
trifing damage, if it were not for the broken
condition of the surface caused by constant travel,
loosening and pulverizing the very excellent ma
terial of which our roads are constructed.
We have thought that if the Road Supervisors
had means at hand to water the roads thoroughly,
even twice n week, with fresh water, during dry
weather, it would be wise economy in the end.
In looking over our files of papers, we note that a
most desirable machine has recently appeared in
the streets of London, which will throw into disuse
the old watering cart. The new ~watering-van
consists of an iron tank ! feet 3 inches long, 4
feet 6 inches wide, and . feet 6 inches deep, and
which holds $50 gallons of water. The tank is
mounted on springs and carried on four wheels
with light hinged shafts. The distributor and
branch are on an improved principle, which adj
mits of tine outflow of water being regulated to
meet the varying conditions of streets and of the
weather. A competitive trial between this ma
chine and the old watering cart recently took
place, the object being to ascertain the area OF
ground the water from each would cover. The
width of spread from the van was % feet, that OF
the water from the cart being lG feet. By meas
urement after the trial it was ascertained that the
van had travelled 2,640 feet, and had spread its
water over an area of 60,720 square feet, while
the cart had travelled only LAO feet, and had
covered only % ,040 square feet. Shall we have
Il van?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-13
Tz= PACIFIC
Commercial AoOrrtlstr


Tur HEALTH Of Ills Majesty ths King, we are
happy 20 state. Is reported 70 be steadily improv-
r-r
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-13
DIED.

DAwsoN-At Lahaina, Maui, September 5th. Of typhoid
fever, Mrs. PHEBE DAWSON, wife Of Mr.. James Dawson,
aged 81 years 4
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-13
Proieeted Departure.
MEMORANDA.

Fos wspw.a D roar.-s,mr Knaaea. sail. on Monday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-13
THE KINGS MESSAGE TO THE MUTT
NEERS.

The following Is q translation q the written
message sent yesterday b7 His Majesty u the sol
diers in the Barracks It is not properly . pub
lie document, and rs publication Isl the request
Of those % whom Il was addressed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-13

WoLFE-GooDALE-At the Church in waiaIua, Oahu
sept 4th, By Rev. 3 e. Damon, Mr. CHRISTIAN i. WOLFE
to Miss NINA B. GOoDALE, both Of Waialua-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09
HANGING as Terror to Evil-Doers

The inctilcacV of the recent hanoings in
Washington, as a means of grace, gives
pause to those who have been crying
"Hang him ~ whenever a case of apora-
waited murder came to notice. The Spling-
field Republican thus contesses its inabili-
ty to solve the riddle:
Within u year there have been fourteen
murders in the District OF Columbia, and
in SIX weeks three executions. In Heaven
name, what is to be done How many
executions are necessary to insure the
moral reform of the average spectator ?
If two won't suffice, will three
The Washington Star tavors a good
steady pull at judicial strangling, and in
answer to the puzzled inquiries of The
Republican, says;
Not two, nor three, nor half Il dozen
nor twenty, nor any number of execu-
tons will have any effect in deterring
murderers, if the hangings are spasmodic,
and contingent not upon the guilt or inno-
cense Of the accused, but upon the temper
OF the public. Once let it be settled that
the law will have its way with all assas-
sins, Of whatever class that murderers
will be hanged speedily whether they are
rich in money and friends or penlless and
II itHulooo1 tbttt thS VIII
promptly and certainly follow the crime :;
and If then there is no perceptible dimin-
ution in the number OF murders, the op j..
ponents OF capital punishment (who are
themselves responsible for much of the
mischief now) will have better ground
for argument than the mere fact that the
hanging OF one murderer of ten or a hun
bred does not deter other slayers. Grant
ing what they claim the fact remains that
for every murderer hanged the community
is safer that much at least. Even now,
after t rec recent executions in this city,
the other mon charged with murder do
not seem to realize that it is anything
more than the result of a elimination OF
popular Indignation against murderers;
that the public will be satisfied with two
or three examples, and each man OF them
thinks his own chance of saving his neck
are good. This is the direct result of the
hopes held ont to the condemned men at
every step Of their progress through the
courts and to the end, and it encourages
others to commit crime.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09
Generalities.

Cameron has been re-nominated for u. s.
| Senator in Pennsy lyania.
| Judge Cutting, at the opening Of the term OF
| the supreme Court, in Bangor on Tuesday,
decided to have no trials and dismissed the
juries on account of the prevalence of small
| pox. Twelve deaths have occurred.
| Lewiston proposes TO have m engine house
| costing $4,000.
| The Bangor Commercial says that Hon. S. H.
| Blake is seriously ill.,
The ''Sistcrs of Silence" is valuable Mchi-
| gan Association of women.
| Kennebec county finds nearly $4,000 with its
| treasurer to begin the ncwyear with.
| The town of China has voted $4,000 in AID
! of the Kennebec and WiScasset railroad.
John H. Little of Bath has been appointed
| third lieutenant in the United States revenue
marine >srvice.
Gov. Pcrham on Friday, nominated Hon. W.
w. Bolster of Auburn, lately of Dixield for
Bank Commissioner.
The st. Louis Globe gives list of the disas-
tiers on the Mississippi and it, tributaries for
| 1872 occupying more han four columns
| A Chicago paper SAYS that it is wonderful
| how quick the blind hegyars Of that city can
tell the difference between len cents and 4
| quarter,
| Hon. j. A. Weston publicly declines TO allow
| the use of his name As q candidate for Governor
| by the New Hampshire Democratic Convention
| at Concord, Wednesday.
| The winter session OF the Maine Board OF
| Agriculture, embracing Farmers Conventions
| viii be held at the Town Han, Winthrop. for
| four days, beginning Jan. IA.
4 family OF seven persons IN Decatur, NJ
| became suddenly sick, and investigation found
| paper containing arsenic deposited in the uumt,
| from which water had been used.
| Until further intelligence, Thoma,ton has the
| champion skunk Killers Three persons ani
| a log have killed twenty-five the past ctsou,
! anu the skunk 'rop ISN'T good either.
| Mis-, Sarah Peters has place to hang one
| earring only since she rammcI her head put 81
| ear window on . Pennsylvania railroad the
| other day, to hear what Was going On outside
| The Worlds New Orleans letter has describ-
ed the manner in winch the 5000 600 Of -pur-
| Gus warrants on Louisiana, Mississippi, Ar
| kansas, and Texas were 70 have been issued.
| The scheme wa, frustrated by the arrest of the
ring-leader
| The Gazette says that several Young men Id
| Rockjaud, are proposing to provide Themselves
with homes by the plan of cooperative house
| oullding. They design 10 purchase an eligible
| lot and build Il block Of nine houses hv which
plan they will obtain good tenemen,s At il very
moderate cost.
The second aauguration Of President Grant
will probably br the urrasiou Of the most i'm
| posing military display Witnessed I'D Washing
ton since The grand review of 1850. eveIll
| regiments from New YORK anu rhlladelphin
| have already signided their intention Of being
present on thar occasion.
Dispatches from Queenstown, Birmingham
and southampton report that tempest, I'm
precedpntrd in violence. ragged on the night of
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09
A Connecticut Prisoner Confesses.
From the New Haven Palladium, Jan. 3.

From the New Haven Palladium, Jan. 3.
Since the conviction OF Lydia Sherman,
last April, OF poisoning Fl. +. Sherman,
OF Derby, she has lain in The ail, in this
city, as the Court gave her counsel leave
10 argue before the Supreme Court for a
new trial. 1t will be remembered that
her counsel Mr.. Watrons decided al the
last moment not to do so. and she will be
brought before the Superior Court next
week ana receive her sentence, which
will be State Prison for life. Since she
has been at the iaIl, Mr. Webster, while
not relaxing in discipline, has extended
to her every courtesy and privilege in his
power. For these iavOrs Mrs Sherman
has been very grateful, and has returned
them by making to Mr. Webster 4 tnll
confession OF her deeds and complete his
tory of her life. This she gave unsolicited
About a week ago she told Mr.. Webster
| that she should like to make IA confession
| to him, and since that time from day to
| day has done so, and it is now completed
The whole history. when published, will
be one OF the most startling and thrilling
| tales of crime ever written Her comics
| sion, it is understood goes beyond ac
knowledging the poisoning Of Mr.. Sher-
V.
| The details OF her deeds, her reasons and
| the number of her victims, She has told
| with perfect frankness An impression
has gone abroad that she had implicated
others, but this we understand, is not
| true. The confession is not TO be published
| until after her sentence next week After
Mrs. Sherman had made the confession
she remarked that burden OF years
| one which had weighed upon her DAYS
| and which sleep could not ease-had been
taken from her mind. and that she was
now happier woman than she had ever
been. In her sleep the torments of re-
nose had narrowed her in a manner that
she could never describe. For several
days she had been visited by several per
sons for the purpose OF giving religious
| advice and consolation, and yesterday
spent the afternoon in conversation with
three persons upon religious subjects
She says that she is perfectly willing to
receive her sentence and die in prison.
but hopes that even there she can find
means OF doing some good. The public
| both M this State and in New Jersey,
where her former husband and children
lived, win look for the published facts
with intense interest
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

We regret to learn that Samuel d.
Leavitt Esq, of Eastport, has met with a
sad bereavement in the sudden death of
his two young children, while visiting
with their mother in Massachusetts.
The Maine Editors and Publishers,
Association will hold its annual meeting
at Augusta on Thursday Of next week.
The employees of the Maine Central
Railroad held their annual reunion at
Augusta last week. Two hundred and
fifty sat down to the tables, at which Hon,
A. P Morrill, presided. Speeches were
made by the chairman, by President Rice,
Hon. Joshua Nye, Mr.. Philbrick, master
machinist, Rev. Mr., Quinby, j. A. Lin
scott, Esq, and G. A. Phillips, Esq
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09
Good Bye to the Assessors

The President has signed the bill to re-
dnce the expenses and offices of the In
1emal Revenue Bureau which recently
passed Congress, and the work of putting
the new law into practical operation will
tr commenced Immediately. This bill, it
viii be remembered. legislates all of the
assessors ont of office ny the 1st Of July
next. There are about seventeen differ
ent kinds OF stamps to be prepared before
the new law goes into effect, but work
upon them will he commenced without
delaY.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

The ship r. c. Winthrop, from Antwerp,
Just arrived at New York, passed through
a great shower Of meteors, when about
100 miles north of Madeira, 1t was on
the night OF Nov. 81 The shower began
at dark, and lasted two and half hours.
AS near as could be judged there were
over thousand meteors in the air con-
stantly, until the last hour of the show
when they diminished. "Abont tour-
titths of the meteors appeared like small
balls OF fire, moving leisurely THROUGH the
ar but others moved with great velocity,
leaving III their tracks trail of fire re-
sembling that in the wake of comet -
1t was probably the last Of the great Nov
ember belt, through which our globe
passes once year.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09
Local Items, sc.
News OF the County and City.


Look at Burkett'S advertisement.
jude Drkersop j. holding rourt At NTs.ris,.
,,,..
r.,.,ra.l
- d '"'" ''''''' vi N''''' "' RENTS ID
The ica .r,,, rhi- ,...,, Nh. I'D, t,. ,,.,.,i.,,,..
won lerr,I
rr,.,.... ,,,... .., ,.,.,,..... ....... .,,..,.
,.'.,. u ''-
'''AS''"A persons 'eRll' 10 l"'N ao"u' ON
next ritV government
,,,,,..r. ,,..r, nv,
HeS"'I'eo' '""' "ul '"'' e9P'"deh' l.. l. OH
o' qu'|' lNn =" SO
Mcclellan has changed his law office ana now
shares that Of Mr.. Jewctt
If your roof j. liable In b4.l. y.,,i .,r,tall,.
found it out during the paSt week
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

Light breaks in the Maine Senate Tia
body, SO recently given over to the dark
ness of political heresy, has had its com
plexion relieved by a lighter shade. A
democrat now fills one Of the senatorial
chairs The vote of Somerset county, on
being carefully recounted. is found to
elect Sullivan Lothrop, good man and
true, who will watch over the vagaries of
his associates, and endeavor to keep them
in the straight path, OF course he will do
honor to the position. We extend to him
our congratulations, and iervently pray
that evil associations may not be corrupt
ing to him in any way. 1t is a matter of re-
gret that he couldn't have been earlier ad-
vised of his good fortune, that he might
have held a caucus and made nomina-
ton for Pres;den: with the entire unanimity
that would have characterized the gather
inc
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

The man at Washington who inter-
prets post-offiee law, promulgates that
families, firms, companies, &C., cannot
combine to rent post office box. All in
situations of the kind must 60 it alone, if
they are euchred by not getting a letter
once quarter This point has been set
tied after good deal of boxing about the
postal compass
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

The fact is significant one that in the
first month after the Presidential election
there has been an actual increase of the
public debt The treasury statement of
January first shows that the government
owes about one and three quarters millions
more than it did four weeks previously
Our friends at Washington are swift to
repudiate the campaign pledges that
honesty and economy should thepceforth
mark the administration in all its branches.
Its mere bagatelle of something less
than two millions. to be sure, but ont Of
a cloud as big as mans hand has arisen
many 4 fierce storm. And il the old year
goes and the new one comes in that style,
what may we not expect in the near
future
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

city. II my judgement Is not at fault, no com
pauy should have been allowed TO take risks in
Boston or any other city beyond what they could
meet if the whole city had been destroyed.
The people eXpeci 10 paw large rates for in
suranoe, bat, having done that, they very prop
criy desire 10 know that they are absolutely
insured. After man has paid one or two
Thousand dollars Wear for fifteen or twenty
wears for insurance. and then meets Il loss by
which he is entitled To onc-hlif what he has
paid the companies in which he is insured, it is
hard for him 10 be informed that he must settle
for fifty cents on dollar, and vet such eases
are mol uncommon. II would certainly be wise
to limit the amount of risks which companies
are allowed to take to their ability to meet amy
liability that could arise in the ordinary course
~ events. The atlount paid by life insurance
companies on account OF losses is 50 small com
pared with what they receive from the insured
theldg less than sixteen per cent? that they
can hardly fail to be in condition 10 meet their
liabilities.
The State of Maine pays to life insurance
companies out OF the State, nearly a million
dollars annually more than is received for losses.
This for the present at least is so much capital
removed trom the State every wear and suggests
whether it would not he advisable to require a
portion Of this capital to he invested in the
State where it would aid our own business en-
terpTises.
BIENNIAL ELECTIONS AND SESSIONS OF THE
LEGISLATURE
,,oeu, II NV d,tu T., roxo,,, INV ,,uo,,;o,,
rsaommandation rnIa,inrr - h,o,,,sa, ploo,;o,,
md sassiors Of mo lan;s,,,,a 49, ahnn,,n -
tho dow Of tho ann,oI ,Ionti a' ~ T'ns1 VI
,axt alto, thn G.st ~ ~ N " -, ~
.nnvictions in ,as,ard 70 ~ ;a,,tarns of +tolo
hana,es bavo hon ~ @
,,,anIatin,, uos ,o(i ~, l,o NJ
,,a.s.na of .,,,,ro,,ri+ i 49,; ~ . ~
non?.tio r. ,af;l m t ,'7 W. t.ie
t h'n ~, w ia al o.n,t ~ 'oi a.
o,a+oI a,.o ,,ht ~" 'IN , ~ Iii
IL IoinroL ,o,,,1 ~ III ; mi.l NV
mol sosSianr ,tiol ,,,>,,,', ,-'a.>. o. -;
e1aiI o,,or,rona;n Ih, ~ ~. -,
1 T. T. -, Wv nv, an
,,,o laIf AZ tIa +;,o ~ , ~ nr aiaat;a,,
.1 t oiitioa n,,,aia. ~ W. J., t,,l,
Nh n, t;n,, .n,,,i >, Ia r ~ ~; -,
,on rhn i.os wv, NV
nI n1 i, w ,tt .. H. ~, VI ' az
hn;, ro1;o,,a ac ,no ',''
r,a,;,,ns ln,Io,ol;;, ,ti,;,,, ON
i.'', ,,,n,,;,I ..aa,nt;s ~ ;,+t1 ,'ii
+ Iiho,+, ~ 1ot ,,o .;o ,,,,,h 'a't
,,o,,a9 -, ,,,,,,, ,,aI.,., III
VI F'' i'''' :" ''s'Si'''"'i'
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
The question OF renewing the geological sur
yey of the State will he presented for YOUR con
siderat0n. II is believed that such survey
would bring 10 light treasures that now lie
buried or unappreciated within the State. The
amount of wealth already found in the partially
developed condition Of the State justites the
expectation that great advantage will be gair ed
by complete knowledge of our hidden rp.our-
ces.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

Why is the letter Y like young Lady, Be-
| cause it makes pa pay
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

The favorte song of the Siamese Twins
9 We were Boys Together"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

Adams nativity has at last been discovered
He was, according to Darwin. a germ-man.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09
TRIRF OF INDIANS.


The Insurance Commissioner, in his last an
nua report makes some suggestions in regard 10
important change in the insu. ance laws, 10
which invite your attention.
This is "A subject in which all classes of our
people are deeply interested. No wise man
deems it prudent to invest the means on which
ne and his family depend for support IN prop
erty liable TO be destroyed, or in business, with
out some form of insurance.
The great fires in Chicago aud Boston which
carried down so many insurance companies and
by which many of our citizens have suffered
severely, have attracted attention to the eener-
al management of insurance companies, and
their failure 30 meet their obligations in emer-
gencies when The insured most need the relief
for which he supposed he had provided. The
failure OF an insurance company to meet its OBJ
legations affects not only the person who is com
PEELED directly to suffer the loss, but he may in
consequence, fail to meet Ills own liabilities,
and carry many others down with him. Be-
sides this it is no little annoyance, when one
supposes he is insured to find his policy WORTH
less whether his property has been destroyed or
not 1t would seem that, as fire and marine
insurance companies doing business in this
state, only pay back for losses a little more than
nty per cent. of what they received from the
insured, they should be able to accumulate
enough to meet any liabilities that business men
of ordinary prudence would assume in single
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09

he report ST the Commissioners of FlshtIie,
"iii he read W3h interest. Important sug-
erS lon- are made for the re- toraion OF valuable
spectes of fish where they were foi mery album
ddnl but from which they have been expelled
toy artificial distractions. The protection of
this important interest on oar shores, and in
our b1Vr ANA inland waters, Is Of great I'M
p0itancc 10 the Slate. | commend the Sugges-
lions of the Commissioners III regard to certain
amendments to the law. to your consido ration
INSTRUCTION FOR DEAF MUTEs AND THE
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-01-09
REPUBLICAN JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
WILLIAM II. SIMPSON

| SUBSCRIBERS desiring to have the address Of
papers changed, must state the Post Office to which
the paper has been sent well as the to which
| t is to go.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-16
BRATTLEBORO VT, FRIDAY, MAY 16 1873.

keeper, the factotum, the drudge of the
family. She did more than a servants
work she never had servants wages.
Had she been a servant indeed, Mrs.
John would have regarded her as most in
valuable, and would have spared neither
effort or money TO retain her services.
But since she was "only Eleanor" her
sister-in-law really thought herself very
generous in giving her home and provid-
ing for her support. The very clothing
which she so laborously earned, was given
to her as if favor was conferred upon her.
Money of her own she had literally none.
The cook in the kitchen was infinitely her
superior, so far as her position in the tam
lily was concerned. She had at least her
regular work, fixed wages, and some time
for her own. Eleanor had neither.
Unconsciously the old maid came to be
the bond slave of all the family, aud had
not love for the children, whom she had
brought up, sweetened the service, hers
would have been lot too hard for endur-
ance. Her niece, and nephews loved her,
while they tyrannized over her, and to none
of the family did ii occur that the debt of
obligation was on their side, not that of the
old maid aunt.
Sometimes, halfjestingly, the girls would
say, "Annie, aren't you sorry you didn't
marry the senator?"
"No, dear children" she would reply.
Society did me tho injustice of not allow
ing me to earn my own living in any way
in which l could have done so. / could
not do great things in this world. l could
not teach, for 1 did not know enough for
that profession; had not genius enough
to paint or to model, or to write, or to sing,
or to act. could have done some useful
and humble work that would have enabled
me to support myself, only as society is ar
ranged, l should have lost caste by the at
tempt. could have been a good miliner
or dressmaker, but you wouldn't have
liked to have your aunt engaged in one OF
these occupations, you know, though Pm
sure / could have been successful in either.
Society has been hard on me, but I'm glad
I didn't revenge myselfon the convention
alities that fettered me by doing the inius-
| tice to any man of marrying him when
| didn't love him.
Dear children, it's an awful thing to do
both for yourselves and the man you mar
ry and it will be good thing for all con-
cerned, when you girls arc brought VI
| like your brothers, to earn your own liv.
| ing, and TO marry-not for home-but fol
love. That good time is coming my darl
ings, though l may not live to see it,"
as it.Aunt Eleanor?" asked her niece.
laughingly.
"Is it indeed? Who can ell?-Ldurc
Curtis Bullard IN Golden Age.