The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-03-26
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Rhode Island supports 1000 militia al an ex-
pense Of $4,000, one half Of which amount is
furnished by the State.
President Elliot of Harvard, has given up his
own residence to one OF the students who is
down with the smallpox.
A Jersey city gent lately had both ears grazed
BY bullets while escorting home girl whose hand
was wanted by rival A very unhealthy town
is that.
Six wards in Bellevue hospital, New York
city, have been set apart-not for the special
prayer of the saints, Ia Tyndall, but for the
training of nurses.
One hundred and thirty-nine thousand of the
$4,000 Massachusetts, veterans who are entitled
TO soldiers diplomas from the State have not yet
applied for them.
Senator Howe of Wisconsin, was reelected
without the Intervention of a caucus, and got all
the Republican votes in the Legislature and five
or six Democratic votes.
A bill has been introduced in the New York
Assembly making man found with a pistol,
knife or slung shot in bis possession liable to from
i've TO ten years Imprisonment
A soldier at Fortress Monroe, who had enlisted
without the knowledge of his parents, attempted
to shoot himself the other day because they had
found out his whereabouts.
Seth Green insists that fishes are deaf, and
says that calling fish with bell and pet names
is humbug, and is known to be so by all who
practice it, if they are not really stupid
A Missouri girl refused to take part in some
private theatncals because it was inferior to one
assigned another girl whose father was major in
the war, while her father was a colonel.
Louisville has just finished eliminating its gam
bling dens and it is time, for custom house pay
masters clerk has been detected in an embezzle-
ment of $1,000, which sum he lost IN gambling.
The Missouri Supreme Court, in answer to
resolution OF the Legislature, declares the const
tutionality of the law under which counties are
empowered to adopt neutrality-suspicious.
The Ohio Legislature has an Investigation
Committee on 4 little Credit MObilier in the en-
terprise of building Insane Asyums, and the
doors of the committee-room have been ordered
open
Election frauds have even invaded the sanctu-
airy. At a recent elections of wardens in an
austocratic Pittsburgh church. the elders did not
disdain to use vain repetitiOns as the heather re-
peaters do, for the votes outnumbered the voters
by 20
a conductor on Michigan railroad was bitten
in the hand, few weeks ago by man whom he
was putting of the train for refusing to pay his
fare In few days the hand began to swell, and
be was compelled to take to his bed, and will
probably lose his arm.
A fourteen year old son recently paid his ia
theirs fine for drunkenness, and procured his re-
lease from the Jackson, Tennessee, calaboose.
he told the officer that perhaps he'd be drunk
himself next week, and then the old man could
do the square thing in return.
The new directory of the city of Berlin is just
out. The city has 6S4 streets. which are ira.
yersed by l4O Omnibuses and $3.50 cabs l24
public schools, 100 private and Sc Kindergarten; /;
"a theatres, 80 daily papers 3l6 periodicals; 46
churches; 1903 lager beer halls, and abOut
1000 small liquor shops.
An engine on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad ran into sleighing party, last
week, and killed one young man and seriously
injured the girl who sat beside him. A seat con
tanning smother couple was caught upon the pilot
and carried some distance, without much injury to
either of them.
The Press Association of Georgia has made
formal protest to the Legislature against the tax
upon printing material. They say that newspa-
per publishers in that State have been compell-
ed to undergo severe and constant labor, to re-
ceive but meagre thanks and q living which en-
braces only the necessaries of life.
Henry Porter Tennison attempted to secure
the arrest of D. C. Spaldng, IN Detroit, on
charge OF stealing Masonic regalia from him,
but the Magistrate refused to entertain his COM
plant, intimating that he thought be had trump
ed up the charge of larceny for the purpose of
revenge and to crafty his own malice.
The cost of paving and keeping in partial re-
pair Is1k miles of streets iu New York since
1866 has been S2254,47s 81. The concrete
pavement laid on the streets Of that city since
1868 have cost S524.6S7, and they are all more
or less diIapidated. There is a movement in
New York to substitute stone for wood and con-
crete as fast as the latter decay.
Texas papers boast Of the great immigration
into their State from the rest Of the South, but
the Montgomery Journal asserts that it is as
sured By Trustworthy persons who know Of what
they speak, that there are not less than 10000
men in Texas who would be willing to work as
day laborers on the farms of Alabama if they
could return to that State.
Detroit's Mayor must pay $500 fine or 60 to
the house of correction for tearing down small
pox signs The Mayor says the signs were in
small print, and that the street Arabs felt prompt
ed to 90 up to read and then screech and run on
finding out their Specification. They did this
about forty times day, and as a Conservation of
the peace, be thought it his duty to remove
them.
To remove a debt Of s65OOO, the Young
Mems Christian Association Of Boston eoutsm-
plate what they call Bazaar of Nations, and ex-
plain to be representation in Music Hall Of the
architecture, costumes, street and shop scenes.
aud domestic life of twelve different nauOnalities
viz: German. Turkish, Swiss, Chinese, Italian,
Old English, Venetian, French, Russian, Scotch,