The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-10-28
Foreign Summary.

THE LoNpoN bears; have cleaned up $25O,OOO,-
900 on the fall in securities during June ana July
On Turkish bonds alone the depreciation during
the year is placed at as high a sum as S3OO;OOo,-
900. California street doesn't show of to advan-
tage alongside of such figures as those.
ONE of the largest droves of cattle ever brought
from Taxas was, a few weeks since. driven from
Captain Kings rancho in Nueces county TO Kansas.
The herd numbered so, coo horned cattle. and need
ed 700 drivers. The outfit alone cost $4,000, and
the cattle were disposed OF for S32O,O0O.
The official report gives the strength of the
French army at 455. SG6 men and l23, 66S horses.
an increase of IL. 079 men and l4,S77 horses over
last year. There has also been a great increase in
the expenditures, but in spite of all this, She last
review in Paris was unsatisfactory, and 1t Is said
Marshal MacMahon Is not at all pleased.
TIE coroner's jury ca The Hamburg massacre
find seven persons guilt Of murder. and that forty
four citizens of Aiken county, thirteen of Edge
feld county and thirty Georgians are accessories
is one of the accessories. The Democratic County
Convention OF Edgefeld county, which met a short
time ago, passed a resolution unanimously to stand
by Bniler and his murderous gang to the last.
The tremendous pressure of deep water was
lately ascertained ninety miles north of the Island
of ST. Thomas. Soundings were made TO a depth
of 1875 fathoms. and so great was the pressure
that the bulbs OF the thermometer collapsed:
though they had been made to stand a force OF
three tons. The Oakland Transcript thinks the
fish must be built very substantially down there,
if there are any.
A private letter received from San Diego says
that times in that section of the State are very dull.
An $50, 900 bank building is being used for 4 barn;
and q market that cost 1000 is ont OF use. and
slowly but surely going 10 decay, Though we may
talk about hard times. we have not rs yet convert
ed our shaving shop" into a stable, though 1t
cost only a small portion Of the sum OF the san
Diego bank.
ONE MANS MEAT ANOTHER MANS P0ISON.-Ne
can well remember when-we had been carefully
so educated-we supposed it to be near to the top
most height of human wickednesst to learn TO dance.
and to 90 to 4 ball: when we wondered why the
lightning did not strike the theatres, and when We
should as soon have dared to hold in our bands 4
puff adder as a playing card-thank the Lord we
don't know the name OF one of the greasy things
from another, even to this day; and we should as
soon have expected to find a kOhinOor diamond IN
the ash barrel as q real Christian who played any
Of these sinful games, or went 10 the opera. or
drank a glass of wine.
1t would have been Is unlikely il our search
had ended with those who had been educated as
we had ourselves: for one so educated to have
done these things would have been to work vio-
lence 10 the existing conscience. which must neces-
sarily be a grievons sin. But as our eyes looked
ont more widely over the world, we saw that
rockets soar according to the slant in which they
lean before they are fired; saw that others. who
had been educated differently, danced with as
good n conscience as we walked: listened 10 the
music of Moses in Egypt, or even TO that OF Of
Norma" and went away TO sell-denylhg WofR
for Christ which rebuked our unwilimgness-h pos
ton foHJreg1fiOEdiSt.