The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-01-05


LoSDoS, November as A. N.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Daily News says !: The tidings
with regard to Cuba are serious enough in all con-
science There be little doubt bat that the ulti-
matum Of the United States to the Spaniards will be
sell or fight. Every admits that it would cost
Alfonso his throne listen the idea Of the sale Of
Cuba at q moment Ehen the Spanish nation is enjoy
ing peace.
POWER OF TIE Press IN EURoPE.-0ne Of the most
promising signs Of the times in Europe is the whole
fear Ct the press manifested by those in power.
real fresh column OF criticism in Berlin Zeitnng
is enough to give Bismarck the rheumatism, and the
Paris Ministry giving present indication that COL
Of loaded BREWER Of more consequence to its
councils than columns Of loaded muSkeis. 1t is now
engaged in the prosecution of Ronhers official organ
for stating that the Constitution Is but uncertain
regime established by group Of persons without au-
thority.
Post Master-C eneral Jewell humorOusly wrote as
follows to a woman recently, who applied for posi-
ton in the Dead Letter Office g We have only fry
seven ladies employed in this department, with the
exception Of few trauslators and experts. and not
more than two changes have occurred in that force
for the last six months. None Of them ever marry,
die, resign. In fact. the Dead Letter division
is n sort OF mausoeum OF buried Affections place
not governed by natural laws-for these who enter
its charmed portals TO lose all the motive and
hopes. and aspiration which sway and govern the
denzens Of the outside world. regret that it is SO,
but SO it Is"
The TURKISH DIFFicULrY.-LondOn, November
lsth.-Cabinet councils bsve been held almost daily
the past week Recently there has been reitertion
Of peaceful by Russian newspapers There
however, indications Of early Intervention in
Turkish affairs, according to arrangement Of the
Powers that participated in the Treaty Of Paris The
Times in discussing the Turkish insurrection. says
the Sultan Herzegovina; that it is fairly
out Of his grasp. Peace can be brought about only
by the extinction Of Turkish authority. If the dis
turbed provinces in the safe keeping of Aus
tria the Powers might take eisurely survey Of the
situation and provide Tor the necessity OF the future.
The official net revenue of the Government for the
last fiscal year was S2SS 0OO. O5l, distributed thus
Customs Si57.722 internal revenue. SllO 9O7, 4e3;
lands, Sl4lS go; miscellaneous sources, SPILL
1876. The total ne, expenditures S2T4, g., 1872,
divide thus Customs, $40 7lS 707 internal revenue,
5,lSS,5lS; Interior Department, Si,957, 35 Teas
ury proper, SSS.64S.262; diplomatic, SS.l99, 22O;
quarterly salaries S564 ST. Judiciary S. sO3, 9I5
net civil and miscellaneous expenditures, S7l 0707
War Department, S4l .645i Navy Department,
SCI 497 626 Interior Department, SS7 $40 1913 pub
lie debt interest, $685. ,54I.
TIE SCHEME FoR A Monument TO LIBERTY IN New
YoRK HARBoR.-PARIs, November l9th.-A grand
and successful tee was given to-day at the Paais dc
rIndustrie, in the Champs Eysees, by the Franco
American Union, the object being to give greater
publicity to AZ extend subscriptions for the scheme
for a monument to Liberty in New York har5Or The
zee terminated Dy Ol the rams In
dustrie. representation of the proposed monument
formed the leading feature Of the illumination.
large subscription is progressing very favo-ably.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masons in Paris and most
of the Lodges in France have subscribed literally.
The Geneva Award.
CHICAGO, November I9th.-A Washington special
says the Commission appointed under the Act of Con-
gress how the distribution OF the Geneva Award
shall be made, will finish their labOr the Goth Of
January, and they viii have about IS 900 600 Of the
SIS 600 600 unawarded TO claimants. The insurance
companies and individuals who took war premiums
have made combination, and will endeavOr to have
bill passed through Congress- at its coming session.
these losses. There is much feeling the
The direction Of legislation and the recon-
mendatiOns of Congressional Committees heretofore
have been against such claimants the ground that
the war-premiums excessive, and that, with few
exceptions, the insurers made money. There are
other claimants for indirect damages ruled by the
Act of Congress- who will join the insurance compa-
mics in the effort to pass supplementary Act The
insurers claim that they took the risks with the e1pec
taOu that Congress would rGioTc them they became
bankrupt through the contingencies of war. There il
prospect of these bills being defeated, that the
IS 900, 900 unexpended will 90 to keep company with
the French Spoiation Fund in the Treasury.
In the Court Of Commissioners Of Alabama Claims
to-day the following udgments rendered Case
765-N. G. kittle of San Francisco, SIS 500 90. Case
lOl7-Paul Jones Reilly, of Oakland, California,
$7S9.35. Case l203-Bernhard Simon of California,
$S,O52. Case l2o5-Henry B. wakelee, of San Fran
cisco, SSO6s5.