The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-07-16
Late Foreign News.


The national debt of England was ss24yOOO, 90
ten years ago. 1t now is s7S5 100000.
Senator Casserly has returned his back pay
member Of the FOrty-secoud Congress 1910
40).
One hundred miles of the western end of tn
Northern Pacific Railway has been cOntractet
for.
Tweed is selling his New York real estate, auC
is advised by his counsel not to stand trial in tina
city.
Los Angeles wool raisers are commencing t
ship their wool direct to New York from thai
port.
A close census taken by the police shows thai
there are S,4O3 places in New York City where
liquor is sold.
A field gun has been invented in France which
gives ten-pOund projectile a velocity of 1000
feet second
A colored Roman Catholic Church was dedi-
Gated recently at St. Louis, the first west of the
Mississippi.
An Edinburgh lady wears mole skin mantle,
made from the coats of 600 moles captured on
her own property. acrt lC tE
The Khan of Khiva has ordered all the able.
bodied males in his dominions to arms to stop
the advancing Russians
Sir VIM. Baker has been again heard from. He
had got through the Nile up to Lake Victoria
Nianza NTH nnob d;ffionIfu
1t is estimated that between 9OOO0O,OO0 and
Sl,OOO,OOOOOO of American railway bonds have
been negotiated in Germany.
In the Spanish election for Constituent Cortes,
the Ministerialists have 80 out of 1873 members :;
the Monarchists elect but 30 members.
Pope Plus is again in alarming Illness He
passed his eighty-frst birthday on the 18th of
May, and can hardly be expected to live long.
1t appears that seventy-fve men persisted in
the Pictou, Nova Scotia, coal mine that took fire.
None have been rescued, and it is still burning
The Russians have had fght with some Tur-
comans, in which twenty-five of the latter were
killed aud one thousand Of their camels captured.
The Carlists had pitched battle with 5000
Government troops on the 9Th of May, in which
the former gained complete victory after hard
fight
Miss s. F. Wilkinson OF Bridgeport, Conn.,,
has gained a verdict of $4,000 damages against
Brick POmeroy" for breach of promise of mar
riage. sLl
Prussia is about to apply part of her share
of the war indemnity to relieve the stringency in
the money markets of Germany and to cancel
railway debts.
While the Quebec gates we're being removed
looker-on suggested that the nails should be pre-
served for sale to American tourists, and they
were bought at once.
The growing use of the English language is
shown in a recent shipment of sixty copies of
Webster's unabridged dictionary from Spring
field, Mass, to Yokohama.
On the western coast Of Africa are found over
100 organized churches and some $1,000 con-
verts. In Sierra Leone, $4,000 civilized Africans
worship God every Sabbath.
Out of 249 patients in the inebriate asylum in
Binghamton, N. Y, l22 are children of drunk
ards, from which the deduction is inferable that |
the habit is in some degree hereditary.
The losses by the United States in the Modoc
war foot up Il killed and 81 wounded. This is
a terrible slaughter considering that the whole
Modoc force numbers less than 100 braves.
1t is said that R. B. Woodward of San Fran
cisco, has secured l6O acres of land on the sum-
nit of Mount Diablo, where he is to put up a |
hotel and make the White Mountains" of the
Pacific
Cunard steamers will hereafter take different
routes in their eastern and western voyages to
avoid collisions in darkness and fog. The danger
is becoming formidable on account of the large
number of ocean ferry boats now in service.
The New York Herald states that the recent
heavy increase of bullion in the Bunk of England,
is on account of the intended speedy payment of
The Alabama" indemnity money, which amounts
TO Sl5,5OO,OOO, and which is due on the LIST of
October.
In the latest intelligence from Peru is brief
statement to the effect that of sO,354 coolies
shipped from Macao to Peru during the past
Twelve years, 1887 persisted from shipwreck,
and five per cent of the whole from suicide or
sickness. errr
The colored people are organizing for mass
meeting to be held at Cooper Institute, New
York, to take into consideration their rights un-
Ter the law, guaranteeing them the full enjoy
nent in the admission to theatres and other en-
also respect from hotel prOpretors.
A steamer is building having six keels, placed
1t equal distance on her fat bottom, intended as
! channel steamer, running between France and
England. Her sides are perpendicular, without
my curvature. Being of light draught, the keeIs
icing only two feet deep, and rolling under such
circumstances impossible, sea sickness will be
'bviated. Under sail and steam the passage is
o be accomplished in little more than half an
Jour.
The Reyista Ailitaire furnishes the following
respecting the number of horses and
raught animals in the various countries in Eu.
ope: Russia appears to have $4,000 900 horses,
nd to employ $4,000 for her army. In Germany
here are 100000 draught animals in Austria,
100000; in France 425OOO0 in ENGLAND