The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-03-27
Foreign Itenls.

iails Of two-thirds Of The Juvenile criminals ia the
next year il he could Danish certain plays from the
boards OF the variety theaters, and pat certain books
out of print.
According to n prominent member Of Plymouth
Church the defense 90 the Tilton case Z. win prove a
b~ombshell for the whole oommunit Of Brooklyn"
Perhaps Plymouth rather prides itself upon is ca
paeiiy for generating eOmbshsllA
The fourth Of March. 1877. will come on Sunday.
kand by statute the inauguration Of the President
elect does not take place until the next day. This
fact viii give President Grant one more day in Office
than he was elected for.
Hon. VIM. Orion recently sent President Graut a
pass, allowing him the free use OF the wires Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company for private
messages. The pass was promptly returned by the
President, with the remark THAI he did not wish to
be under obligations TO the company.
A good deal bias been said about the harsh treat
ment or the South since the war, but there Is one
little fact upon record that goes a great distance TO
prove the reverse. A list Of members elected 10
the next Senate and House Of Rep tesentatives con-
tains the names of no fewer than Eighty Owe per
sons who fought in the Confederate ranks during
the rebellion. II there had been a spirit of con-
tinued hostility this large representation Of the nm
rnly element would not so soon have come TO pass.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks there is no
more notable figure in modern history than that Of
theItalian patriot, Garibaldi, entering Rome Ia hon
orable poverty, aud declining peculiarly assistance
from the treasury Of the kingdom because il could
not afford IL, to be welcomed by the populace with
GhNh bt NatAOu u . Nu1 AOA ~ u In
their days of glory. The Italians have not forgotten
that to Garibaldi more than any other one man living
or dead they are indebted for the realization Of their
Of national unity.
A recent circular from the Bureau Of Education,
protesting to give a statement Of the theory OF
American education, says: In commercial cities
and towns the tendency preponderates toward
forms of punishment founded on the sens. OF honor
and towards the entire disuse of corporal punish
ment. This object has been successfully accom-
pllshfd in New York. Chicago. Syracuse aud some
other cities. In the schools Of the country, where
the agriculture interest prevails, the tendency TO
Lhe family form Of government is marked"
7 Mr.. Gladstone's withdrawal from public life IL the
subject of abundant comment on the part Of the
English press The Times declares ,ha, the Prime
Minister would have remained and fought, and
fought well, snd with increasing courage. as the
needs of the battle were more clearly reTenled. had
he been able to define for himself the ends toward
which be was prepared to shape The course Of his
followers; but he turned aside because he knew not
what he would have them do Tuis, il says. Ia the
open secret Of an act determined upon last year.
President Eliot, Of Harvard, says Of compulsory
exercises in scholars g They should form
a part of the programme OF every school for bnys,/
and should be insisted upon just as regularly al
Latin and mathematics from the Tim n bow M fen
years old until be Is sixteen OF seventeen. Most
American schools entirely neglect this very import.
ant part OF their proper function. Many young
men therefore. came to the University with unde.
veloped muscles. a bad carriage md impaired AZ
gestion, without skill in outof-door games. and nm
able TO ride, row, swim. or, shoot, II Is important
the University should give opportunity for ~avariety
OF ptnyslcai exercises. because this student prefers
one form and that another,
How MUcH DO We owEf-we have been aeous-
toned to consider the national debt as representln0
the real Indebtedness Of the country. That debt h
now $2,l49. 725,277. But the aggregate debts Of
the country, State, county, and municipal, added 10
the national debt may be summed up as follows;
Bonds TO railway companies. a. sszs'sia 90
Unse,Ird HahIIiies, timated........... $50 go 600 90 q
Loans, etc, BY national bank. l SG%SsSSS 9
Loans, etc, by State banks, etc........... BI1OsI.sao 0o
Loans, etc by same In t"en'y-eight States,
Individuals to each other, etc estimated. 80. a0OO.oOo,oOo 90
Funded, etc. Of railroads. ............... 1911 67s o44 90
Making a total Of. s952 s7J.Oa7 OF
In this season Of revivals, the Indepeadenf says.
we have interesting religious reports from all over
the country. Among the Methodists reviyals have
been taking place in Illinois at Pecatonina, Arlington
Heights. Vermont, and Sparland, at Cherry Valley,
where twenty have been converted; at Reading.
where thirteen have lately Joined The church; also
in Minden and Sherwood, Michigan, and in Long
Prairie, Minnesota. Union revival meetings have
been held in San Jose, California. Large plumbers
of conversions arc reported. The various denomina-
tions in Houlton, Maine, have united in holding
union meetings, which have been largely attended
Al brattleboro'. Vermont, and Le~aveuWorth, KapsAs-
me Me1hodis's and Congregationalists have been
holding successful meetings. There has never been
such general religious interest among the New
Hampshire Congregational churches as at The present
time. The powerful revivals az Nashua, Manchester.
Canterbury and Tilton are spreading
into the other towns Of the State. AT GoHstown the
interest is remarkable, the conversions Numbering
nearly sixty. Considerable interest is manifested
among the Bartists in Albany, N Y, aud Gosport.
Ind. In the Presbyterian churches at Potoka, ind,
an interesting series Of meetings has Just closed, aud
at Sinking Valley, Pa. fifty coz versions are reported.
The Lutheran churches at Reedsburg and Pfsgah.
Ohio, have received n~inety-six converts.
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