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

The trial of John D.. Lee, the alleged author of
the Mountain Meadows massacre, Will take place
at Beaver, Utah, during the coming month. The
Mormons will try to obtain an ascendancy in the
Jury and thus defeat the ends of justice. The
San Francisco Call says : the lecture of Mrs. STEM
house, now being delivered in different parts Of
the territory, dwelling with thrilling interest, it
is said, upon many of the incidents of the massa-
ere, clearly duplicates some of the head men Of
the Mormon church in the bloody transaction.
The effect of these lectures is to strengthen the
determination of the Gentiles to bring the MUIR
derers to Justice, while they, at the same time,
intensity Mormon hatred toward her, and cause a
sharpening of Mormon wit to avert the danger
which threatens the prisoner. Any testimony
that will establish his guilt must necessarily i'm
plicate his associates, who were a numerous band;
and so many of these as still survive are nervous
in apprehension of the revelations that are ex-
pected to be made.s' The prisoner is said to be
losing his mind and is making unguarded state
ments in his rawlings that will do himself and his
coadiutors much damage. The Salt Lake Tribune
that he tells of fellow-conspirators and assas-
sins being hidden in a cave IN southern Utah,
armed against the approach of others, and DEFY
ing arrest, who were the principal actors in the
tragedy. He also declares that he is to be made
the scapegoat of the church, and put forward to
receive the punishment which should be shared by
each and every one, Of his cenfederates. The
strong point upon which the MormOns reply for
Lees acquittal will be to prove an abr. Excite
ment over the subject of the trial is at lever heat,
daily increasing. An honest jury is the one
thing most desirable, and which, it is anticipated,
be most difficult to procure,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24
Butter and Whitewash.

They have a new hired girl over at Keyser's
farm just outside our town, and on Tuesday. BE-
fore shgting to spend the day with a friend, Mrs.
Keyser instructed the girl to whitewash the
kitchen during her absence. Upon returning,
Mrs. Keyser found the job completed in a very
satisfactory manner. On Wednesdays Mrs. Key
ser always churns, and last Wednesday, when
she was ready, she went out, and finding that
Mr.. keyser had already put the milk into the
churn, she began to turn the handle. This was at
eight O'Clock in the morning, and she turned until
ten without any signs of butter appearing. Then
she called in the hired man, and he turned until
dinner time, when he knocked off with some very
offensive language addressed to that butter which
had not yet come. After dinner the hired girl
took hold of the crank and turned it energetical-
ly until two o'clock, when she let go with a re-
mark which conveyed the impression that she
believed the churn to be haunted. Then Mr..
keyser came out and said he wanted to know
what was the matter Will that churn, anyhow.
1t was a good enough churn if people only knew
enough to work it.. Mr.. Keyser then worked the
crane until halfpast three, when, as the butter
had not come, he surrendered it again to the
hired man because he had an engagement in the
village. The man ground the machine to an ac-
compartment of frightful imprecations then the
Kerser children each took a turn for half an
hour, then Mrs. Keyser tried her hand, and when
she was exhausted she again enlisted the hired
girl who said her prayers while she turned. But
the butter didn't come. When Keyser came
home and found the churn still in action he
blasted his eyes and did some other innocent
swearing, and then he seized the handle and said
he'd make the butter come if he kicked up an
earthquake in doing it. Mr.. Keyser effected
about two hundred evolutions of the crank a
minute, enough to have made any ordinary butter
come from the ends of the earth and when the
perspiration began to stream from him and still
the butter didn't come, he uttered one wild yell
of rage and disappointment and kicked the churn
over the fence. When Mrs Keyser went to pick
it up she put her nose down close to the butter
milk and took a sniff. Then she understood how
it was. The girl had mixed the whitewash in
the churu and left it there. a good, honest and
intelligent servant who knows how to churn can
find a situation at Keyser's. There is a vacancy.
Mar Adeler an. Danbury NetrS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24
The Spirits Defended.

Grace Greenwood writes as follows to a New
York paper Now, | have no special interest in
the matters in dispute, but l like to see justice
done and Christian charity extended even to
ministers and mediums, and so am moved TO
state that during a sitting at DR.. SHADES last
spring | had this very test several times repeated.
In fact, there was no writing for me 8" under the
table, All was done on the table, in broad
daylight, under my eye and under my hand. At
one time l placed in the double slate two closely
folded notes sent to me to be used as tests, of the
contents of which l knew nothing, nor did 1
know the names of the persons or intelligences to
mediately and c~orrectly answered on the slate with
the right signatures as 1 ascertained on unfolding
and reading them. The medium, BY the way, had
not even touched these Eotes his hand during
the mysterious writing had rested lightly on the
slate, which / grasped tightly while listening in
tently to the scratching Of the tiny bit of pencil
within. As for the other famous mediums,
Messrs. Foster and Mansfield, l will not say that
they never cheat in their business, after the man
ner of business men, but l will say that they
have not cheated me perhaps, because though
wary and watchful, | did not set out to cheat
Test questions, carefully prepared before
hand and not written on thin paper, and not IN
have been satisfactorily answered by or
through them and such facts are of more &C
count to me than startling phenomena of raps,
moving and the grasp of invisible
hands. l do not pretend to be an investigator of
l have given to the matter very
little time. Almost all the opportunities | have
had for witnessing its strange manifestations have
been accidental but l know what l have seen
and heard and felt. / have here given a little of
own experience, and, as grand old Horace
once said, :" propose to stand by it,"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24
UFror The Springfield Republican, March s.
The Sandwich Islands Question.

Although Mr.. David 4. Wells has appeared
against the proposed reciprocity treaty with the
Sandwich Islands, By letter, and denounced II as
a swiudle. we trust that the subject will not De
dismissed either by the public or the Senate with
out a hearing and a discussion. He objects that
the treaty will result IN the loss of revenue which
would otherwise be imposed on the Hawaiian
sugars, and that the six or seven hundred thou
sand dollars, thus sacrificed, will simply be trans
leFred 70 the pockets of a dozen wealthy planters.
The benefit Of the free-trade viii doubtless be
divided between the islands and the sugar refners
and co1sumers of the Pacific coast. The Hawai-
ian plantations produce at the present about TO-
O00, 900 pounds of sugar a year, and the Rdmis-
SION Of this amount free OF duty viii probably
spoil the Pacific coast market for our eastern re-
fners. On the other hand, the principle Of free
trade and its extension FIRST to our near neighbors
are OF importance. and can be followed in this
case with no injury TO any interest which rs not
abundantly able 10 stand 1t. Second, there is a
political and a future element entering into the
case which ought not to be disregarded. King
kalakaua has a larger area under him than the
king of SaxonY and nearly as large as Governor
Castor. As to how far it's agriculture can be
extended is a problem. but the islands are likely
in the future to be the home of an active COM
mercial population of our own race, and it Is a
matter Of Importance that their trade relations
with US should be intimate. The destiny OF tue
islands with a very little guidance on our part is
American and republican. On the other hand,
we want 10 exercise over them a moral protect
crate and a commercial supremacy, rather than
assume to annex or to dominate their politics.
They govern themselves ~passably well, and better
probably than we could govern them. Reel
proeity gives US, at small cost, this moral and
commercial supremacy and shuts the door against
annexation schemes or foreign protectorates. 1t
is worth all it costs, if it only does so much it is
worth a thousand times more, if it shall point the
way to similar arrangements ultimately with our
Canadian, Cuban, Mexican and other neighbors.
We hope, therefore, that the treaty viii be ratified.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24
From the Charlton County (MOj ~Brunswickerl
That Handkerchief.

Tuesday evening a young man called on a gen.
tleman acquaintance whom he expected to find
alone, but was ushered into the presence of five
or six ladies. Under ordinary circumstances
this unexpected array of beauty would not have
awed or perplexed him, but just at the time he
CHANGED to be laboring under a huge chew of
tobacco. As the juice of the vile plant filled his
mouth, he glanced around in search of a spit
toon. No such article was visible. He grew
warm, and to questions addressed to him, he
could only answer with a nod or a shake of his
head. Just as the tobacco began to steal out of
the corners of his overburdened mouth he be-
thought of his handkerchief Hastily drawing
it from his pocket, he raised the other hand and
pointed towards the window. While the ladies
were looking in that direction, trying to ascer-
tain what had attracted mis- attention, he quickly
squirted the load of tobacco into his handker-
chief, folded it up and placed it in his pocket.
Thus relieved from the cause Of his embarrass-
ment, and feeling that his strange conduct had
excited the surprise of the party, he exerted all
his powers of mind and manner to remove what
ever unfavorable impression had been created.
He cbatted and laughed, told stories, perpetrated
puns, and was so agreeable that the ladies wished
he could be with them always. His previous
singular demeanor was forgotten, and as jibe and
jest leaped from his lips each fair listener inward
ly wished that " heaven bad made her such a
man. He told a joke on himself, and it was a
good one. They all laughed loud and long, and
nc - lOuu anu AOhS g any VI thCm' TIC AouSuC0
until the tears came in his eyes, and he pulled
forth his handkerchief and wiped them away.
That handkerchief!
That tobacco-laden handkerchief!
In a moment of forgetfulness he wiped away
the tears of Joy with that reeking handkerchief!
"He has broken a blood-vessel :" the startled
women cried, as, swift-winged with fear, they
few for assistance. When they returned, their
entertainer was gone. He is still gone, and anx-
ious friends are dragging the river for his body,
as he was last seen flying in that direction.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24

ON n Cd OF NOVEMBER LAST.

eEEP PINK PRINTS, LARGE PATTERNS,
Assortment Fancy Prints, new styles,
White Ground Prints,
Black and White Prints, French M~uslins,
Heavy Blue Denims, plain and striped,
Blue aud White Striped Ticking,
Brown COttons, assorted qualities,
Blue COltOns, White Cottons,
Horroekses White Long Cloth, A and B, Sc
inch and 80 inch wide,
Hickory Stripes,
Linen Sheeting. 70, 90, so and 100 inches wide,
Cotton Sheeting. So, y, so and s0fnebes wide.
Victoria Lawns. 7-yard pieces. asstd qualities,
Indigo Blue Flannel, Black silk Alpacas,
Black CobOurgs. Gne and medium,
Scotch Waterproof Tweeds, all colors.
Mosquito Netting,
Silk Corah Handkerchiefs,
Turkey Red and Yellow Cotton Handkerchief,
Ladies' Cotton Handkerchiefs,
Assorted Cotton Stockings and Socks,
Linen Thread, Assorted,
Black and COlOred Silk Neekties, new styles,
Monkey Jackets, assorted qualities.
Heavy Wooden Blankets, Scarlet, Orange, Blue
and Green,
Fancy Flannel Shirts, Linen Shirts, Cotton do.
Aerino Finish Undershirts, Cotton Undershirts,
Assorted BurIaps, French CaIfskins,
English Saddles
Genuiue Eau de Cologne.
Macassar Hair OIL, Labin's Extracts,
Fins India Rubber Dressing Combs,
Fine WOODEN shAvls and Travelling PIaids,
Fin and Common Pen and Pocket Knives,
Fins Steel Scissors, Common Scissors,
Timed Spurs on Cards, Iron Teakettles,
Galvanized Pals, 10 and IL inch,
Galvanized Washing Tubs,
Performed Metal for Centrifugal Machines,
Charcoal Box Irons,
Bright Fencing Wire, No. 4, 5 and 6,
Full Asstm't Of Best Refined English Bar Iron,
Swedish Irou,
Muntz's Yellow Metal sheAthing, and Compo-
sition Nails, Block Tin,
Galvanized Iron Pipe, Hoop Iron.
Porous Water Monkeys, Pressed TumbIers,
Cut Porter Glasses.
Hubbuek's Patent White Zinc Paint,
Hubbuck's Patent White Lead Paint,
Hubbuek's Pale Boiled Linseed Oil,
Black Paint, Paris Green, Red Lead.
Caustic Soda, Best Lagos Palm Oil.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24
ALARGE ASSORTMENT OF
GERMAN, ENGLISH & FRENCH



Liebigfs Extract Of Meat.
Stearine Candles, 4, 5 and 6 to a pound,
Ultramarine Blue,
Castor Oil. in tins and glass,
EPSON Salts in bulk and boxes.
Nests OF Trunks, Birch Brooms,
Wrapping Paper, Market Baskets,
DemijOhns, COrkz,
Assortment Of Blank Books,
Press Copy Books, Shipping Receipt Books.
Assorted Sizes Horse Rope, Hemp Packing,
SPunyarn, Flag Line, Log Line,
MArIine and Housing,
Swedish Safety Matches,
DevOs's Kerosene Oil, In patent cans,
Heidsieek & Co.'S Champagne, in DTS. and pts.
Ruinart Pere s. Fiis' Champagne, do. do.
Sparkling Hook. in qts. and pts.
Genuine Hollands Gin, in jugs and baskets,
Genuine Hollands Gin. in glass, green boxes,
BouteIIeau & Co.'S Brandy. in glass, one TO
four diamond
Boutelleau i Co.'S Brandy in casks
German Ale and Lager Bier in qts. and pts.
Jesrey's Edinburgh Ale and Stout qts. and pts
Assorted Clarets very dne to common
LiebfauenmiIcb & Laubenheimer Rhine Wines
Small Assortment OF Hungarian Wines
BItters. Alcohol in I gal. demijOhns 90 per cent
German and Havana Cigars.
Fire Clay, Coal Tar, Stockholm Tar
Stockholm Pitch
Empty Petroleum Barrels for TAlloW containers
Oak Boat for Coasters,
Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc. Etc.
The above specified Goods, together with a well
.ssorted Stock now on hand ex recent arrivals,
70 offered for sale in quantities to suit the trade
So Orders from the other Islands filed at
west market rates sos
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-26

| their revolvers and fred upon the soldiers
under his command, civil war would have
| broken out that day in New Orleans, and the
| white population of Louisiana would have
been exhibited in overt rebellion against the
Government Of the United States. When once
| things had come to this point, the indignation
OF the Northern States would have been
reused, and the Democrats would have been
loaded with the odium which would have at
tached to a revival of the old secession temper
The selt-contfol of the Louisiana Conserya-
tives has frustrated this design but it is ex-
ceedingly diff cult to resist the belief that it
was really entertained.
We are well aware how grave charge this
is to bring against President Grant. To am
at provoking civil strife in order to secure II
party advantage is as great crime as a public
man can well commit. If there were any
other way of accounting for President Grants
attitude in this matter, we should not suggest
this one But We have seen how inadmssible
the alternative explanations are, and in this
way the choice has come to lie between taking
this last explanation or none at ALL Presi-
dent Grant does not seem the sort of mar
VINO would act in a matter of this gravity
without any conscious motive; and with alE
the care we can give to the consideration
what his motive is likely to have been, nc,
other seems to present itself which is not
demonstraby impossible Nal GozeH,
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. Feb 2i-The House met to-
night, when Mr.. Garfield made an attempt
to 90 into Committee of the Whole on sundry
Civil Appropriation bill. This was rejected,
the Democrats all voting aye.
Mr. Poland then called up the report on
the Arkansas case, which the House decided
to do
MIR. Coburn was making strong effort to
get the Caucus Force bill reported by him
last week.
There was great deal of excited converse
ton and caucu,lng among members pending
the proposition, the ultra Radicals expressing
a willingness rather to have an extra session
Of Congress than to permit the bills Tor the
control OF the Southern States to be pushed
ash le.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Ex-Govenor Par
sons, whose name for the position OF United
States District Judge for !Alabama has been
before the Senate vi the winter, has been
withdrawn by the President, and the name Of
John Bruce sent in for the position. Mr.
Bruce is said to be n citizen OF Wisconsin,
and his nomination does not give satisGcli Il
to Mr.. Spencer.
WASHINGTON. Feb 25.-There was n seven
hours debate in the Senate to day on Morton's
bill T. regulate the count CT votes ~ presi-
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MAINE.

SOUTHWEST Pass. Feb. -, Noen.-Barome-
ter 80. Wind northwest, strong. Weather
hazy.
Steamship State Of Aobama, Flint, mas -er,
from Liverpool, caine to the bar for pilot
and went to Pa,s-a-. Outre at 10 A ~
No departures.
Ass-A-LOUiEE,F Feb. . Noon-Wind north
west, blowing suoug. Weather clear.
No arrivals.
SAILED Steamship VIM. P Clyde, last even
ing, and schooner Fabens, this morning.
Key WEST, Feb, y The bark Witch. lum-
Der laden, from Pascagoula tor Liverpool, put
il here leaking.
The ship Evardale, from Pensacola for Liv-
erpool, with lumber, Iilged hear Carysport
reef
SOUTHWEST Pass, Feb. ., P. M.-Ba-
rometer 1920 Wind northwest, light.
Arrived: French bark Alphonse ana Marie,
Privat master, IS days from Bordeaux; steam
ship Chas ". Lord. at 12:l5 P. NJ, Cotton,
master, from Philadelphia Vi. Havana, to E.
A. Yorke; schooner Ailavella, Walker, master,
5 days from Ruatan
No departures
PAss-A OUrRE, Feb. 25, P. M.-Wind
n. \. w., Light. Weather clear
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RIVER AND STEAMBOATS,,

CINCINNATI, Feb. % River seventeen feet
nine inches and rising. Ligh. snow at
noon; now cloudy and colder. Arrived:
Longworth and Exporter, from New Orleans
PIITsBrRG, Feb. 25.-kiver ten feet eleven
inches and rising. Showing in the forenoon
freezing to-niglt.
CAIRO, Feb. 25-Arrived; Future City,
from New Orleans, at 6 A. NJ. Departed
Alice Brown, for New Orleans. River eleven
feet line inches and rising. Weather clear.
Mercury A.
EVANSVILLE, Feb. 25.-Light snow this
forenoon. Weather clear tonight. Mercury
36. River nine feet nine inches and rising
fast. Up: Means and barges II 4. NJ. Down:
Mary Houston 10 4. NJ. The Bodmann was
fgronnd at Henderson bar twenty-four hours
The james Howard is aground at Trade
Water
LOUISVILLE, Feb 25-River eight feet ten
inches i'll the canal, and rising. Weather va
riaole and fire. zing to night. Arrived: Cher
okee, from New Orleans, Indiana and Hale,
from Cincinnati. Departed: Cherokee for
Cincinnati, Indiana, for New Orleans. The
Hale and three barges are waiting water to
descend the falls.
KNOXVILLE, Feb. 25.-The water is five feet
below the great flood of 1867. Many houses
and bridges destroyed. The weather is still
threatening. Inundated mills in all dircc-
tons have been swept away.
NICKsBrEG, Feb. %. No boats up or down
to-day Weather clear and pleasant River
Tell inches.
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Arrived: British steamship State of Ala
bama, at P. NJ, Stewart. master, from Liv-
erpool, via Bordeaux, to A. X. Miller & Co.
brig Esperanza, Adolfo Basso, master, six
days from Alvarado, Mexico, to NJ. PUG
Co.
Sailed: Banks Esther and Weser, and
schooner Sam1 f. Fabens.
GALVESTON, Feb. 25.-Arriyed: Steamships
hutchinson from Brashear, Clinton from In-
dianola, brig J. G. Fichte from Hamburg, for
Indianola, in distress.
Cleared: Schooner A. Dennecke for Fall
River.
Sailed: Clinton for Brashear, Hutchinson
for IndiaAola, schooner George Sealey for
Havana.
The German brig J. G. Fichte, from Ham
burg, for Indianola, with an assorted cargo,
experienced heavy weather between Arkansas
and Pass Cavallo, and was obliged to slip her
cables and put into this port.
New YORK, Feb. 25.-The Queen, from
Liverpool, is ashore at Squam Inlet.
Arrived Idaho, leasing, Gaelic, and AL
geria Departed homeward Fleetwing, Sabra,
and Moses.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

ALBANY, Feb. 24-Geo W. Chadwick, a
New York broker, convicted Of nttering a
counterfeit United States bond, four years
ago. and sentenced to the Albany Peniten-
tlary for ten years, has been released by the
President
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. pa colored man
was fatally struck by Lis brother with cotton
hook
PrrTsBrEG, Feb. 25-It is claimed the as
sets Of Hart, Coughey & Co., who failed yes
terday will fully cover their liabilities.
New YORK Feb. -Wheatley,, Williams
& Co., sugar retiners suspended.
CHICAGO, Feb. PA meeting of the Com
munists demand more equitable distribu-
ton Of the relief funds All the troops in the
city are placed in readiness.
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THE CITY.

LIE REED ROBBERY Three Parties arrested
1t Will be remembered that on the morning
OF the 18th INST, the residence of Mr. Reed.
loI Bayou Road, was burglafized of a large.
amount of jewelry, and the thieves, though,
suspected, made their escape, and for long
time eluded the vigilance of the officers.
Specials Pecora and Malone have since bee,,
on the lookout, and Yesterday, at s o'clock
A. NJ, arrested Lucy Wilson, Carrie John
son and Edward II. Marks, all negroes, at the
corner of Polymnia and st. Charles streets
They were lodged in the Third Precinct Sta
tlon for safe keeping. The manner in which
the officers entrusted with this case worked
it up deserves commentator.
JUVENILE VAGRANT.- A young and promis-
ing looking youth by the name of Charles
Matson, who has passed about IS years upon
this mundane sphere, was found loafing
around the corner of Lafayette and Roman
streets and was locked up in the First Pre-
clnct Station, where he will, it is presumed,
sojourn until he is brought before Judge
Evans for trial
BAD MEN.-Edward Bermudoz and Thos.
Lavey two men of rather doubtful character
took stroll AROUND the corner of Gravier and
Clrondelet streets, and We're lodged in the
FIRST Precinct under the charge OF dangerous
and suspicious.
SO was Louis Abrahams, aged % wears: but
he Was found on the corner Of Soniat and
streets.
Nor SUIT.-One J. Wagner comes for
ward and states that he has a good suit
against one James NOLAN, who has not
good suit, but who did steal, in the most
vlllainous and felonious manner, one pair of
pants from the aforesaid Wagner. Therefore
NOLAN was locked up in the First Precinct,
charged with larceny.
CHARITY HospITAL-A man named Billy
Johnson. about thirty-eight years of age, was
found at South Market street, hear Peters in
1 sick and destitute condition, and was sent
% the Charity Hospital at O'Clock last even
ng.
A young man. IS years of age, and named
William Bound, was found at No. 81 Delta
street, III a sick and destitute condition, and
vas sent to the Charity Hospital