The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-03
Foreign News.

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over The Carlists. Three thousand troops will
leave Tor Cuba daring The present month, aud i've
thousand 10 October.
LoNuoN. sept i2th--Thc great strike Of cotton
operatives at Bolton begun on The 7th instant.
-Four mills. employing IS 600 persons. have stopped.
Four mills, employing 1000. are slll running
tn" Trades Unions throughout the manufacturing
districts are collecting subscriptions Tor idlers.
LoNpoN, sept 1850 A. by a recent agree
ment Of Atlantic Steamship companies at Liverpool.
a uniform rate OF Storage passage was hxed al e.
for both slow aud fast steamers betwevn Liverpool
and Boston. Passengers intending 10 land Al New
York were thus enabled TO travel on fast boats at
slow boat fare by taking tickets Tor Boston. The
slow Hoes have consequently Withdrawn from the
agreement, and competitions has recommended.
Sierrage passengers are now taken on some lines at
three gninvas.
PAEIs. sept lL-Senor Vega Armjo, the newly.
appointed spanish Ambassador. presented his
credentials to-day 90 President MacMahon. and said
he hoped the restoration Of relations would con-
tribute 90 a termination Of the war Ia the Spanish
PROVINCES adjacent 10 France. The President. "a
reply. expressed wishes ior the prosperity Of
Spain. aud promised friendly cooperation.
PARIS. Sept. u.-President MacMahon has re-.
summed his tour. He arrived at Lille to-day. accom-.
panied by General DE Cissey. The city was lllu-
minated TO night. The President will go 20 Arras
aud san Quentin. A. the latter place grand mtli-
tary mauuruvres will be Witnessed thence the
Presidential party will go 70 Lyons.
GENEVA. sept 1.-THE International Law As
~sociation. which has been in session this week,
AITAA ~ ~ way VIA - NNA w
ID. ID. Field, of New York, made "A speech. e1-
planning the objects Of the Association, which he
said were 20 obviatc the necessity OF war. Henry
Richard and Pcre HyaCinthe also addressed the
meeting. The Association held il sittiugs in the
rooms occupied by the Board OF Arbitration on the
Alabama Claims. Before adjournment, Count
Sclopis telvgraphed his acceptance OF the Presi-
drncy OF the Association.
Tar FIRING OK GERMAN GUN-no,rs ny CARIIsTs.
-PARs. Sept. lOth.-NcwSpapers here publish an
official Carlist dispatch, acknowledging that
Royalists fired on the German gan boats Aibaiross
aud Nautilus. at Guctaria. The dispatch declares that
the vessels were endeavoring 10 effect a landing OF
armed meu. under the pretcXt Of exercising their
crews. and says the Carlists will recognize no
combination OF Serrano and his ~accomplices, but
will exact respect for Spanish territory. aud reslst
the bravado with which Germany has Endorsed the
action OF the gun boats.
WITHDRAWAL OF ruE Cu1NA TRlNsfAcInc LINZ.
The experiment OF running a line OF British
steamers from Hongkong, via Yokohama, 10 this
port has proved unsuccessful. aud the china
Transpacihc Company has been bought out H.. the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The latter con-
pany acquires the Vancouver and ldScO do CANA.
Virtually the steamers are chartered. since no
foreign built vessel can be registered in an Ameri-
cans name. The next trip OF the Vancouver will
be under the superintendent OF the Pacific Mail
Company. The real projectors of the opposition
line were Russell a Co. of China aud New York.
). f. Bulletin, Sept IL.
Another step in the Geneva award case has been
taken I'm the official announcement by the Secretary
OF state TO the Attorney Nreftfhl OF the appoint
ment Of Messrs. Wells, of Michigan Porter, Of
Iowa. and Rayner, of North Carolina, as the com
mission under the act passed near The close OF the
last session 10 adjust the actual and undispnied
losses by the Alabama and other rebel cruisers.
A crop Of one hundred bushels to the acre, OF
any grain or root, would be considered something
enormous. Yet this kind of n crop Is reported
from Minnesota and Iowa. In the sections where
the greatest devastation has been wrought. the re-
ports estimate the grasshoppers at {" one hundred
bushels To the acre. This having been accurately
ascertained on at least one farm. There can be no
better idea given OF the vast numbers Of these in
sects, who defy enumeration on any other system
London has experienced n great and sudden rain
fall, less DISASTROUS, but not unlike in character
that in Pittsburg. Near Hackney omnibuses had
to cease running Tor a time from the hoods-AhorseB
being breast high I'm water, and the furniture In
the lower rooms OF the houses Heating about. The
rain fell 30 thiekly that. at times, IL yelled complete
ly one side Of the street from the other, as II by the
d0wnsweep Of a curtain. The lightning was nils
chievous, and in a good many instances fatal.
There are some prcBndiccs which. though
destitute apparently Of any reasonable foundation,
are too deeply rooted Ia the human mind TO DO
easily overcome. Among these In the prejudice
which associates the weight OF an argument or the
soundness OF an opinion with the moral character
of the writer by whom il Is put forth. Recent dis
patches state that a German house ut Leipsic,
which had commenced publishing n translation OF
the first volume Of Beecher's Life OF Christ" has
abandoned the enterprise in consequence Of The
Plymouth Church scandal.
That Philadelphia Ia {" the Mother City OF Free
masonary in America [" is thoroughly well proved
by an elaborate article In this weeks Keystone,
written by Mr.. Clifford T.. McCalla. He gives doc
umeniary evidence Of the existence OF the order
there in 1880, three years before Its advent In Bos-
ton. which has heretofore been claimed as " The
Mother City" The article Is interesting 10 all
-
Mr.. Arthur Winship, In a lecture against the USE
Of tobacco, asks the question, Z" would you stnOkdl
on your dying bedf" Certainly not but neitheHi
one would sign checks, read newspapers, makeli
bargains, indite poetry, nor deliver addresseaIl
against putting the weed In the last hour OF lifeFI
Mr.. Winship's startling query as 10 the Indulgence
in Partagas by moribund persons will not make
one smoker the less in the world, and must, ~ \
persisted In. and coupled with other conun1rumsl
OF the same dire import, render the labors Of thoI
enemy Of tobacco a mere trile ridiculous. -
As Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Miss Susan y.
Jennie june" and all the other Mis-
tresses aud Misses who contribute TO the ReUoiuAnn,
seem TO have been acquainted with the great
Brooklyn secret" the Cincinnati Commercial
that the conjecture naturally arises whether
It furnished the sauce piquant TO the delicate
dinners which used 10 be served mp TO
the Sorosis Sisters, and whether the desire 10 gossip
about IL with greater freedom did not lead the
Sisters to the determination TO exclude all members
Of the other sex from their periodical tea parties.
1t is rnnoured amongst Good Templar circles
understand, that a high dignitary Of the order
is about TO visit these colonies. No doubt the
presence Of a recognised leader Of this great move
ment will tend largely TO keep up the interest felt
in the work Of the order by its many friends and.
it as we do, as an important agent OF
social reform, we sincerely hope the proposed visit
may result in much benefit 10 the rder.-SotdheTn
Cross auckland.