The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-08-16

himself 10 be, and that IN spite OF the terrible
amount Of perjury he has 70 contend with ne will
receive an honorable and %triumphal acquittal.
In the cases Of 70 BARRIERS brought before him,
Justice White, Of Richmond, Va, has decided
that shaving on Sunday has become a necessity by
long usage and public opinion. and Is an adjunct
20 that proper cleanliness-which Il next 70 good
liness-that is necessary for the proper attendance
upon the church services, and n due observance of
the Sabbath.
\ Chinese newspaper is to be started in san
Francisco. Ii appears that the six Chinese COM
panies in that city have dubbed together and de-
termiDed upon this enterprise, and a steamer
which sailed for China recently took out an order
from them for ! 200, 900 type-Chinese charac-
tcrs-to be used in stocking the Office. Their
plan is TO publish the paper three times a week,
It's chief object being 70 instruct their cOuntrymen
in their own language as 10 their rights and
wrongs from the time they land on American
soil. The first number is promised in September
next.
Students of Biblical geography have long been
in doubt as 70 the exact locality of Mt. Calvary,
where Christ was crucifed. The Oriental TopO-
graphical Corps, sent out from England to study
the topography of Bible lands, think they have
at last found the spot so hallowed to Christians,
in the hill on the side of Damascus gate, near the
north wall of Jerusalem. The profile of this hill
is skull-shaped, and this popularity strengthens
the bQppO6ltlOn tnaL lC Is really the scene OF the
crucifxion, which is described in the Bible Is u
90 place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of
a skull."
There has been great JOY in the colony of Vic
toria, Australia, at the completion there of the
first locomotive made in that region. 1t is the
first engine of 25 which are to be built at the
Phoenix foundry in Ballarat for the government
of Victoria for the railways in the colony. Here
tofore all the engines for these lines have come
for. E..loud The f,rprp- ont nE +h1S -foraa
locomotive was celebrated by a banquet, at which
several of the ministers and other government
officials and members Of Parliament attended,
and it's efficiency was tested by taking a train
between Ballarat and Melbourne and return. The
railways in that region are government enterprises.
Young New York, according to the statement
of 81 Burleigh,' does not believe in the early
bird catching the worm. That aristocratic and
efeminate youth, in fact, allows the elder bird TO
attend to the worm business, while it, in a fgur-
alive sense, pays its devoirs to the I" grub" The
old men, the presidents and bank directors, the
men whose honesty and industry marked the bus
mess of New York a quarter of Il century ago,
walk or trundle down town in an omnibus at
nine. The sons of these gentlemen ride down to
the street, in the family coach or cab about
twelve, stopping at Delmonico's to breakfast. \
couple of hours constitute the days labor, and
then up town again for a ride on the road.
Two months ago the farmers of California
were under the impression, Notwithstanding the
efforts they had made to out do the work of
former years, that they would have " the hardest
time ever known in the agricultural history of the
State" Spectators who had chartered ships to
convey grain from San Francisco to foreign
markets were given to understand that the sooner
they looked out for other freights the better it
would be for their pockets. \ month passed.
The wheat, barley, rye, corn, and grass began to
grow vigorously. The dark cloud was lifted and
Rba Gar-,oro La-on 10 Il n n,Or Iarocp1 ~, IF
the situation. The harvest has now begun, and
the reports from all sections Of the State warrant
the opinion that, instead of being an entire fail
ure, the yield will be fully up to, if not above,
the average of previous years.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has signed the treaty
proposed to him by Sir Bartle Frere, whereby the
suppression of the slave trade is promised.
Before leaving Mombasa, Sir Bartle addressed a
letter 10 the Sultan, reminding him that the
treaty Of l845 accorded the right of carrying
slaves only to such vessels az carried them for the
domestic uses of the Sultan's subjects, and assur-
ing him that hereafter it would be granted to
none others. No attention was paid to the letter,
but the Briton cruised about the island, keeping
a coast of 800 miles in constant excitement, and
doing its best to break up the traffic. The very
first transgressor of the law, whom the Captain of
the Briton laid his hands upon, was a British
subject, a fact, which, causing chagrin to the
English, probably amused the Sultan not a little
if the news of it ever came to his ears.
4 REJECTED LOVERS DIRE REvENGE.-Takinga
seat just behind the happy pair in the church, he
racked his brains for means of revenge, and
looked like seventeen Othellos concentrated in
one. Finally a CHASTITY smile crept over his face,
he raised half up in his seat, and nabbed a large
black bug that was crawling on a pillow hard by,
and gently dropped him down between his I'M
conscious rivals shirt collar and neck, and then
calmly leaned back with a virtuous and Christian
air Of satisfaction. The bug soon made his pres
ence felt, and that other fellow began to twitch
and scratch himself against the back of his seat
and look uneasy, and cast unhappy glances at the
minister and affecting ones at the fair being
by his side. The bug evidently grew more i'm
patient at his imprisonment, and turned himself
loose, graphing around with a recklessness devil
ishly suggestive of big black spiders or scorpions,
and that other fellow could stand it no longer,
but boiling upright, cast one wild, startled look
at the congregation, and cleared the space
between him and the door at two bounds.-DaR-
burg Netos.
Mr.. BEECHER ON THE PRAYER GAUGE.-Henry
Ward Beecher, in the Christian Union, says of
the Tyndall prayer gauge proposition and the OPP
position it has provoked "The present discus
sion about prayer is, to some extent, an instance
of mutual misunderstanding. The general atti-
tude of religious teachers toward the ideas repre-
scented by Tyndall and his school, is one of I'M
mitigated hostility, and frequently of indignation.
They are treated as assailants of mans chief
treasure. The first and last thought with many
is not to understand, but to re!ute them. But,
since these gentlemen are neither stark fools nor
villful foes Of mankind, why not at least listen to
them-listen. not only with ears or eyes, but
with the mind? Whoever so listens, will, we
think, understand what they say to be in sub
stance this W are in the habit of subjecting
everything to the test of fact. We care more for
an ounce of well-established fact than for a ton
of abstract discussion We apply this test. in
all sincerity, to prayer. If prayer works genuine
effects, we may reasonably expect to witness those
effects. We do not ask whether God can answer
prayer, but whether there is evidence, and If so,
let US have it. so far the question propounded by
natural science is perfectly legitimate. Instead
of attacking science for asking it, the thing for
Christians to do is TO consider what the answer is
FIR their own heneft nnite rs much rs for the