The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24

fonr pounds. can now be sent by mail. For two
cents one may send a package weighing a quarter
of q pound from Maine to California. and eight
cents will carry a pound across the Continent
A singular old gentleman, Atwood by name.
died recently near Chestnut. England. lie was
about so years Of age. and q bachelor. Histavor-
lite pastime had been the giving away OF anony-
nous checks Of SIS, 900 each. His books show that
he has given away 81, 100000 In that way Sz25,-
900 during the last year OF bis life. He left more
than a million pounds sterling, bat no viii. A
G. 1000 note was found lying in his room like n bit
of waste paper.
Parson Brownlow Is entirely happy Ia his re.
sumption Of the editorial chair. He informs a
Kentncky paper that he is getting up In the
world be is promoted be is now ia position Of
far more power and respectability than being a
member OF Congress. Small men, with plenty Of
money and no brains, crawl into the SENATE as the
snail crawled into the top ofthe pyramid. but snch
a fellow can't run a great newspaper" Which
sounds a great deal more like the parson than
anything he has said In a number OF years.
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy Who has been subject
ing smaller children in Boston TO excrnciating tor
lures for some years. has been sentenced 10 be
hung, by the Judge before whom be was tried and
convicted for the murder Of the boy MILAN. This
youthful felon confessed that In addition 10 tortur-
ing several children he had cruelty bntciicred aud
murdered one Kate Curran. IL Is said that while
the Judge was delivering a feeling address, and
pronouncing the highest sentence known 10 the
law, no person inthe conrt room seemed TO appre-
ciate the s~olemnity of the occasion less than Pom
eroy himself. During the proceedings he preserved
that calm, stolid and Indifferent manner which
characterized his appearance during the trial
not moving a muscle or seeming to care for the
fate which awaited him.
MUS1FIcExT DONATIONS By PRoPEssoR HOLLOWAY.
Whether there be any virtue OF DOT In Professor
Holloway's ointment and pills, there is a good
deal of virtue in the Professor. u IL stated that
no. only is he building his asylum for the insane.
near Virginia Water, at a cost Of CLOG, 0O9. but he
is now about to build n University for ladies at
Egham, on an estate which be has just bought there
for e25 900. This new school will cost altogether
9l50, 900. 1t is intended to give the highest edu-
cation to women by professors. and the building IL
to be /" the handsomest college In Europe" Talk
about there being " nothing like leather - Indeed.
pills and ointment beat IL by a long chalk. as both
the fancy Miss Dunstable, OF Mr.. Anthony Trollope's
novels, and the real flesh and blood Professor Of
Oxford Street can testify.
Kelly's London Post Office DirectoryG has
hitherto been considered the largest book. In q
single volume in the world. II contains about
twenty-eight hundred pages. But n greater has
now appeared-to wit - The Mercantile Directory
of the World for 1875 ,"-wbich contains 300s
pages. The names OF. all the principal baHhs aud
bankers, public companies, officials, manufacturers,
shippers, merchants, engineers, storekeepers, agents.
hotel proprietoTs, and other commercial bodies and
individuals throughout the civilized world are here
accessibly registered, the volume being mainly
divided into FIVE geographical parts, Europe, Asia,
Africa, America and Oceanica, with all the neces-
sary subdivisions and clahsideations, with q com
~ Soi BioSSoiy III pAA ihhkuukte4
There are thirty-seven states in the American
Union. On Wednesday the senate voted TO admit
New Mexico and Colorado. Further legislation,
however. is necessary to get them in. Colorado
bad a population in 1870 OF. SO, 6G4, and possessed
an area OF lO45 500 square miles. aud AZ a territory
has one delegate in congress. The present COVER
nor is Edward NJ. McCook, Republican, whose term
expires in March, 1877. New Mexico ia 1870, had
Ill 3o3 inhabitants, comprised 421 ,2Ol square miles,
is governed by Marsh Gliding, Republican. whose
term expires in March. 1877. 1t also has one dele
gate in congress. The whole vote In Colorado Ia
1874, was 1852, the Democrats electing Patterson
to congress by a majority OF 2,163. 1t usually has
a majority of about / 300. New Mexico cast a vote
of l6 1884 ia 1873, at which time the Republicans
elected Elkins to congress by 3,SlS majority. IL
usually holds about those dgures in majority Tor the
Republicans. Colorado has tweBty-one counties,
and New Mexico thirteen.
It is proposed to get up a second expedition 10
the Mediterranean and Palestine like that Of the
Quaker City, which Mark Twain immortalized in
his "lnnocents Abroad" The route is a charming
one. and the plan hag much 10 commend Il 10 peo-
pie who wish 10 catch glimpses of foreign places,
but have not time or means for an extensive foreign
tour. This method of travelling saves n deal Of e-
penses and troubles, lnsures better fare, more com
fort, and greater freedom from v~exatjons OF all kinds
than the usual cOnrse OF going alone. The ship IA
a sort Of moving home. to which the traveller be-
comes attached, and il he carries = good deal Of
America with him be probably3see8 Var more Of
other countries than though be depended on his own
unaided eyes, besides being sure OF good company.
This system is. capable Of extensive devslopnsnt
and there is no reason Why II spoaa nOsbeeoms
We end the following paragraph travelling
through the press
Mr.. Ross has said that the various detectives
searching Tor bis son have already expended more
thSn $4,000 looking for little Charley. Commits
sioners have searched from ocean 10 ocean (; zoe. 600
circulars have been issued printing and photo
graphing have cost $4,000 "a corps OF clerks have
been employed ia the correspondence f; 200 bands OF
gypsies have been examined 600 Charley Roses
have been reported, and fully 900, 900 persons have
been engaged in the inquiry.
And still 10 moresis now known Of the boys
whereabouts than at the beginning. 1t is becoming
daily more doubtful, too, whether the mystery will
ever be cleared up. n
The Judges Of England, with'one or two exccp-
tons, have unanimously come out 10 favor or
Begging as a means OF punishment. Chief Justice
Cockburn thinks that fegging should be exfended
to cases of violent assault Justices Blackburn,
Mellor and Lush, from practical observation take a
similar view. Mr.. Justice Quain says that foRRinR
is the only punishment, except the punishment Of
death that seems to retain any real deterrent mower
about it. Baron Bramwell believes that crime
branded in this way would soon become odioua.
With such eminent authorities in its favor logging
may once more become common in England. ID Is
very easy to speak Of glorious manhood, and a
fine thing for glorious manhood 10 live in q country
where it can pass it's leisure hoHrs in cutting
thrOats. kicking the life out of helpless womanhood,
and doing deeds of which a Soko would be ashamed.
But when glorious manhood has forfeited its right
to look an honest man in the face, when It's rufHan
hands are stained with blood, and its eyes wild
with the fury of the wolf or the tiger, IL seems 10
the eye Of English justice only right aud proper
that it should be disgraced that shame, II. nothing
elss should be called into ss4uisidon to eonvince