The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-09-23


FOREIGN ITEMS.
Mr.. Lopgfellow has been chosen poet and ExGov-
erncr Seymour orator for the Centennial celebration
of the surrender of BuIgoyne at Saratoga, on October
lS, 1877.
Tho King OF Burmah has employed an English
man to erect a cotton mill in his territory. The
establishment ia to contain 10000 ~spindles. and is
to cost 100000. He gave a hearty reception to
Mr.. Grosvenor's party from China.
The spirit of old Jefreysi is not extinct in England.
\ Judge at Birmingham attributes the increase of
crime to the humanitarians, who, in saving the
back of the rufian from the lash, give an impetus to
aggravated assaults that has told with frightful
severity on suffering humanity.
The United States ship Portsmouth is to go into
commission, to take the place Of the IuSearora,
which vessel has been ordered ou:. Commander
Miller and all the officers excep, the engineers have
been ordered from the latter to the former vessel.
The Portsmouth will sail on a surveying expedi-
ton.
From his dying bed at Fair Haven he sent recently
to an autograph collector two cards, one Of which
was inscribed, ''John s. c. Abbott, daily expecting
the arrival of the Chariot of Israeli to take him to
his heavenly home. July IA, 1876" On the other
was written, "Penciled on q sick and dying bed of
great happiness"
A curious lawsuit is being conducted at Toulouse,
in France. An oyster-opener, whilst opening a few
oysters for immediate consumption, found in one of
them a magnificent pearl worth several thousand dol
lars. This the oyster-opener at once pocketed, but
the buyer of the oysters insisted that it was his. He
claimed that he had bought shells, juice, oysters and
everything /; but the oyster-opener alleged that he
had only bought the oysters. The question of owner-
ship of the pearl has not yet been decided.
The latest dispatches from Bulgaria disclose the
significant and horrible fact that among all the thou
sands of refugees who fed before the advance of the
Turkish armies not a single girl above the age of 10
A - f.-l I.---- IL -
and Circassians capture q Horzegnrinian or scr.ian
or Bulgarian village, they slaughter the men and
seize upon the young women and girls to sell them
to the Weather Turks to replenish their harems.
1t is no wonder that the people Of the Provinces
prefer determination to submission to the Turkish
rule.
The WAR IN Embellishments SUCCESSES REPoR-
TED.-HAvANA, via Key West, August 13th.-On
tho 1st instant, sixty insurgents, belonging to the
regiment of Inglesito, attacked Fort Jacques, in the
jurisdiction of Cienfuegos, and demanded its sur
render. The men inside of the fort, numbering
fourteen, refused the demand and began firing.
when the insurgents set fire to the fort, which was
destroyed, and the beseiged all burned to death.
On the I'd 106 men and six officers of Spanish troops,
commanded by Fernandez, in the jurisdiction of
Villa Glars. were attacked by a superior insurgent
force, and Fernandez aud twenty-three men killed.
A Virginia (Nev.) paper of Aug. Sd says: "n
the truth, the whole truth. and nothing but the
truth about the growing evil Of opium smoking
could be laid bare for the inspection Of the really
respectable citizens of Virginia, it would be simply
appalling. The opium smokers held high carnival
in Chinatown last night; not less than one hundred
and fifty white persons of both sexes-the majority
of them being members of the respectable class of
our citizens-were under the influence of the deadly
drug. Reposing in rude hunks or on the floor.
their souls wrapped in forgetfulness of everything
but the frightful influences of the moment they pres
ented an appearance of degradation TO bring a blush
of shame to the most hardened. The habit is con.
s;antly growing in this city. and it seems altogether
a fH \ nNhnrrffao O. ofnn - 9 .An
they are inclined to make any efforts in that direc-
tion."
TICHBoRNE AGAIN.-It appears that we are to
have another Tichbourne infection. The Mel
bourne correspondent of the BalLarat Star writes
- Arthur Orion, the real, the veritable-that-
legal myth of whom so many were incredulous,
has been found, and Tichborne bonds are up a.
gain. By the time this is perused by your readers
the news will have been cabled to England, to
gladden. the heart of the confnee Of Newgate, and
the holders of Tichborne debentures will have
fumbled the crisp documents in their cash-boxes,
and have speculated how they shall expend their
prospective fortunes. To the Melbourne agent of
the Claimant belongs the credit of the discovery,
for after intent fOssicklng be has discovered. or be-
lieves be has. the real Author Orion, who has been
for many years under the alias Of Alfred Smith, an
inmate of the lunatic asylum on the banks of the
Parramatta River, within fifteen miles Of Sgd
ney."
METEOROLOGICAL TABLEs.-On this topic the New
York Times remarks as follows:
SOmu1Oniy received nOIlOoS u metSOToIOgy are
often surprisingly inaccurate. Perhaps nine people
cut of ten. if asked whether most rain fell annually
in New York or London. would reply unhesitatingly
in the latter. But the figures are Is inches for Lon
don and 49, inches for New-York. The two ex-
tremes of considerable cities are St. Petersburg and
Vera Cruz respectively the mean rain fall in the
being 1866 and the second 1873 inches per
annum. In San Francisco, despite its ''rainy season.
the average fsll is precisely that Of London. 1t is
said that the heaviest amount known TO be received
by any part Of this world drops on the Khasia Hills
TO the northwest of Calcutta, and is equal TO 600
inches annually. Rarely or never does rain descend
on ZahaTa, and no day passes without it on Juan
There is not the least doubt that the rain
is measurably within the power Of man to con-
SO that l. the once famous Prof. EsPY was
mistaken as to means, he was quite right as to ends
splendid estates in the West-Indies have been
almost ruined by cutting down the timber on them.
while in the upper provinces of Egypt where rain
Vas absolutely unknown a few years ago, there are
now frequent showers as a result Of the twenty mil
ions Of trees planted By MEHENET ALI. Even the
iesert, it is now known, can be made to blossom as
he rose by simply observing and copying the laws
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