The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-24

HE fACoA PoUND.-A correspondent complains
seriously Of the nuisance, dangerous to health Of the
neighborhood and otherwise Objectionable, which the
Government Pound, situated in the lower part Of
PauOa Valley, has become. He tells Of dead bullock,
barely buried out Of sight, filing the air with fetid
odOrs; Of constant and systematic cruelty to the AMI
mails by those in charge, ETC. We have been informed,
however, that the Pound is soon TO be removed to
some locality farther apart from town. in which case.
even if not better conducted than 1t has been, the
sights and smells viii not annoy residents
PARDoxs-on the 22d inst His Majesty in Privy
Council exercised the Royal Clemency in the fol-
lowing named cases Timoteo Kalapana, sen
fenced in 1862, for l~aTeeny,-pardoned and restored
to civil rights; j. Kealoha, sentenced in July, 1861,
for gross cheat,-pardoned and restored to civil
rights; Mu, sentenced in June, 1871, Eve years for
perjury,-pardon to take effect February l2, 1875.
In the case of J. P Zephyrina KahOalii, convicted
of treason at the last term of the Supreme Court
and sentenced TO death, We are informed that the
punishment will be commuted to a term of impris-
Onment, previous to His Msjesty's departure for
the United States. -
Coon TExPLARs.-Th Grand Lodge of Califor-
MIA I. o. G.. T. convened in annual session at
Vallejo on October 9th, about 100 delegates being
present. The present membership of the Order
within the jurisdiction Of the Grand Lodge il SSH,
an increase OF 1862 during the past year. The
general muster roll of the Order includes City
grand lodges, IL 900 subordinate lodges, and a
total membership of about 700, 900. One-half the
membership is in Great Britain. The Rev. Jabez
Walker, who is reputed as an eloquent speaker, is
the Grand Lecturer of the Order in California
and we learn by letter from Vallejo that he
intends ere long to make a visit TO these islands.
PULLING DowN THE IpoI---In the papers by the
last mail We notice that the question +" Did Shake
speare write Shakespeare 81 is being discussed
fully among students. Harpers Weekly has a cut
OF the process of pulling down the poets bust in
Central Park. As a fact showing that Honolulu
people are inclined to literary studies. we may
state that as long ago as 1868, a series of articles
appeared in our local journals under the heading
Who wrote Shakespeare ~ The author was
the Rev. DR.. Damon, of this city, and the subject
attracted considerable attention at the time, and
no little dissent from the position deduced, that
Lord Bacon wrote Shakespeare.
u. S. CoSsuLATE.-The Honorable James Scott,
the newly appointed American Consul for this port,
arrived on Wednesday by the City Of Melbourne.
Also J. NJ. PEBBLES, Esq. of Cincinnati, .. s. Vice
Consul. Both gentlemen are accompanied with their
families. DR.. Scott, we understand, was for many
years a member of the Legislature of Ohio. In the
Cincinnati Daily Gazstts-a leading Journal of the
Sept. %, We find the following hattering
notice of DR.. Scott
DIR. Scott, Consul at Honolulu, left last evening for
his post of duty, carrying with him the respect and
good wishes of all who know him. DR.. Scott has
served the people of Ohio with great efficiency in
many positions, and notably in the Ohio Legislature,
and it will be difficult to fill the position in the latter
body which he has vacated.
4 YoUNG HAWAII AT SCHooL.-The following is, we
believe, a pretty complete list of our Island youths
are now abroad securing an education H. M.
Jr., OF Honolulu, Amherst College, class
Of 1874; VIM. Bond, of Kohala, senior class at
Yale; Harry NJ. Black, of Honolulu, Military Insti-
at Oakland, Cal; Oliver 7. ~Shipman, of Hilo,
College; W. F. Damon, of Honolulu,
Business College, Minneapolis. Mimi;
Bond, of Kobala, Exeter Academy, N.
a.; ! Bruce Cartwright, of Honolulu, Vermont
Alexander Cartwright. of Honolulu,
at Benecia, Cal; w. F. Hillebrand, of
University of Heidelberg. Germany;
Clarence Cooke, of Honolulu, Oberlin University,
ohio; A. F. Cooke, of Honolulu, Ann Arbor,
E. Fletcher Bishop, of Lahainaluna,
amherst College. -
-FESTRILooUIsM.-E. D. Davies, who is said to be
he :" Premier Yentriloquist OF the World, :" is now
San Francisco and will leave with his company
or Australia by the next mail steamer, due here
bout the 10th proximo. Mr.. Davies is reputed in
England as greatly superior to any known ventril-
tquist, and as being at the same time a most
rtistic comedian and mimic, and possessed OF a
eady wit that keeps his audience in one continual
oar of laughter. He made a very successful tour .
4 the United States last year, and drew full I
ouses everywhere. He is a bit of an author also, c
nd has published a book. in which, besides giving {
is own biography, he treats in an interesting style :
n "what ventriloquism is, and the difference c
etween it and mimicry ; how the ancients used
entriloqnism y etc., etc. Mr.. Davies, as we are
by letter, purposes to give US Honolulu 4;
Us a taste of his powers, and will probably stay =
yer here one trip of the steamers. I
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to have recently taken q q
ew start, both in England and America. In
Philadelphia, the spirits, not content with the old
Ian of rapping, appear bodily at the seances, and
e read that President Lincoln thus appeared re-
emily, accompanied-appropriately or inappro-
riately-by the ghost of a huge negro. A late
lumber of the Liverpool Albion has the following
aragraph "Spiritualism has received Il an immense "
npetus from the recent conference in London. On
unday numerous meetings were held in various :
of the metropolis. The latest novelty was a =
,rmon by a departed missionary, who said that j,
bile in life he had been employed by a missionary :,
,ciety to preach to the beathen. Since bis demise =
3 had discovered that the doctrines he had "
reached 10 life were wrong, and he was now en- +
aged in travelling about the world correcting his :
asst errors.' Now this is at once interesting and =
the last because the departed seems not l.
have stated the locality of his mission-peThaps :,
was here Aud then again, how much more :.
fectuaIly he might labor in " correcting his past :
y if he would return and preach to the ;,
eathen whom he had misled, instead OF maunder- Y
II about civilized London. u
EUcALYPTUs FROM VIcToRLA.-Geo. y. Oakley, I!
So, the Hawaiian Consul at Melbourne, has for -
arded to the Foreign Office some ten varieties Of a
lie Eucalyptus of Victoria, which are botanicaliy v
assi6ed as follows Rostrata; ObliqVa; Globulas; n
.arninata: ColonhYlla: Fissilis: Melliodora; Amyg- y