The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1874-05-27
Foreign News.

The steamship Farraday has begun to load will
the Atlantic cable, which is to be laid direct
the United States.
The Senate has confirmed Thomas Russell late col
lector Of customs Minister to Venezuela.
Official kilograms say the whole country from
Monroe in Louisiana to the mouth Of the Red river
is submerged, and ten thousand people in that dis.
trict will soon be on the verge Of starvation.
The postal appropriation bill SIS, 653 Sol
Of which S. 634 Ss2 is in Of the postal receipts
The China steamship service gets but $500 goo,
Brazil $50 600, and the Hawaiian Island line coo.
The London Post says President Grant has once
more saved the country, and deserves the applause
of the nation much for what be did at Yicksburg
Gov washburn was elected in this way
BosrcN, April l7th.-Afer the thirty-second ballot
for Senator to-day resulting Dawes. 81 H0ar; IS
Curtis 60 Adams 10 Washburn, 10: Bank, u /:
scattering, recess taken, during which the
Dawes men baloted for candidate other than Dawes.
The result was DR.. Loring received 46, Washburn
H. and the rest scattering. The Dawes men made
several propositions to the Hoar men--one for a
union or for Lorng, and one more ballot, and then
to adjourn till tomorrow. All theoe propositions
rejected, and the Resembling of the
tion a motion TO proceed at once TO the ballot
carried. After the roll first called, then began
Immediately change Of votes, lasting nearly half
hour. The result announced Whole vote,
267 necessary to n choice, l34 VIM. B. Washburne,
l5O Curtis, G. Dawes, 20 Adams IS LOring, /;
Banks. 5 scattering 3. The President declared the
Buffers friends unable to conceal their recog-
milton of defeat in the election OF Washburne, who
twice defeated Benjamin for Governor.
European.
The funeral Of DR.. Livingstone took place April Is
at Westminster Abbey. II was attended by great
crowd, including full representation from the Royal
Geographical Society. The Queen and the Prince Of
Wales their carriages marks Of respect, and
the Baroness Burdett Coutts sent beautiful flowers.
There was special funeral service early to-day and
another will be held by Dean Stanley tomorrow.
London letter says: ain the eastern counties
Of England very bitter conflict has broken out be-
tween the farmers and their aborers. The latter have
Joined a union which was started couple of years
ago, with its headquarters in WArwickshre, and
have demanded extra shilling a week. This has
been refused The labOrers consequently struck on
two farms, and the farmers generally retaated
by locking out all the union and declaring that
heuceforth they will employ only non unonists. 1t
is said the landlords supporters Of the farmers
and threaten eject tenants who don't hold aoof all
relations with the unionsts.'
She Commons. April Goth, voted to grant s25 900
60 General Wolseey-
The bill abolisbing sugar duties the LIST of May
passed the Commons April 2Sd.
Grant, n. P. has introduced method of bribery
during the recent parliamentary elections in England
that takes the polish of Of the Portsmouth Navy
Yard. This gentleman, to make himself popular with
the voters purchased $500 O00 worth Of carpets at
Kidderminster. This pleased the manufacturers of
the article amazingly. Then he disposed Of the i'm
mense amount Of floor coverings at 10 per cent under
the first cost, sacrifice that delighted those that
needed carpetings. Grant was elected.
The st. Louis Democrat says the " Guided Age"
the work which bears the name Of Mark Twain
and Charles Dudley Warner, has been carefully
studied by able critics. and they have decided that it
bears marks of the presence Of the peculiar wit
and wisdom which characerizes either Of these gifted
men. IL utterly lacks Twan's qnafntBess and War
ner's breezy freshness Of style 1t is confidently
serted that the Gilded age" is gigantic practical
joke 1t is declared that, wishing the creduli
V Of the public, these two notorious wits had the
tbooks prepared by several obscure newspaper local
reporters. The covenant sOlemnly made that /
the joke be kept profound secret till 500 600
copies of the work were sold. The whole story is /
probably a canard but any one, who, out Of respect
for the alleged authors, will read the book viii feel
that the account is extremely probable.
The German Tribunal has condemned IN eonftma-
ciani, and imposed heavy ine on the Bisbup of
Nancy for charge to the clergy issued last July.