The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-11-04
Foreign SUM mary.

Young Napoleon has been invited by the Car
TO shoot with him this fall.
The reredos for Trinity Church, as a memorial of
John Jacob AstOr, will cost $150, 00O.
4 st. Petersburg paper asserts that Russia has at
present nearly 1000, 900 men under arms and 2670
field pieces, and the army can be increased to $780,
600 men without calling out the reserves.
ANOTHER brilliant project came to naught. The
Bessener anti-seasIckness steamer, built for service
between Dover and Calais, having proved q failure
has been sold, and will be split up for old iron. She
cost nearly n million dollars, and was sold for $780,
900.
Germany and England, being Protestant countries,
have thought it their duty to protect che Protestants
in Spain from alleged intolerance. Spain has
guaranteed religious liberty to all her subjects, but
it is said that the government has not executed its
promises.
BIsMARcK's health is better, but he has been OBJ
liged to renounce all work and avoid all excitement.
He receives neither letters nor t~elegrams-all pass
into the hands of his family and official assistants.
Tue cotton crop raised at the South this year is
the largest since the war, and reaches the encourag-
ing figure of 4 ,639, 22S bales. The largest crop ever
produced was that of 1S59-G0. which was only 49,
bales in excess of this year.
In q recent discourse Brigham Young said ''For
forty years l have been more or less engaged
preaching TO the people. My talking organs are
now pretty much exhausted, but my general health
is even better than when I was a young man. |
never felt better.''
THE unfinished Washington Monument is now one
hundred and seventy-four feet high. 1t was begun
in 184S, more than q quarter Of q century ago, and
until this spring it stood in the center of an insight
ly square of mud, which is now a pleasant park. 1t
has cost, so far, two hundred and thirty thousand
dollars,
The hostile sayages are covertly creeping back to
the agencies to be fed during the winter, so as to be
the better prepared for the next summers campaign.
So little is known by the military authorities of the
Indians really engaged in the Sioux war that most
of Sitting Bulls warriors are not only likely to es-
cape punishment but to be received with open
arms.
The French are greatly exercised over the fact
that their numbers are decreasing. The population
of France is not as large as it was a few years ago.
The elder NAPOLEON once said, .'What France wants
is Mothers but it evidently wants children now as
well. The excess of births over deaths has largely
decreased of late.
SOME of the leading Mlethodists of Michigan are
much disturbed because dancing is allowed at the
State University, where many of their sons and
daughters are educated. They do not know exactly
what to do about it, but think that the dancing
ought, in some way or other, to be stopped. But
it is very hard nowadays to make young people
stop dancing till they are too tired to stand up.
ENGLISH papers bewail the hard times, and abound
in reports of failures. stopping of factories or run
ming on short time, indignation meetings of laborers
out of work, disturbances and riots, the growth of o
tramping class, and all the indications of proverty,
pr~ivation and suffering with which the great cities
of the United States have only recently become
familiar.
THE Ann Eliza alimony case continues to excite
intense interest in Salt Lake, and the people anx-
iously wait to see what Brigham is going to do about
the order of the court made on the 31st of July last.
The order was that Brigham should pay Ann Eliza
$4,000 limony and 500 q month pending the suit,
within thirty days, or take the consequences. The
thirty days have just expired, and Brigham has
made no payment yet.
Work was begun in August on the fair to which
the city of Paris invites the nations for May l. 1878.
The edifce is to be composed of the now generally
--.-a ,,a.a-,o1s oF lbs on1 ,~op u;f1 .Io -
ception that the two extremities, or two grand
facades, will be constructed in dressed stone, on a
~grandiose design, ~ornamented with statuary. 1t is
to be erected on the grand Champ de Mars, of which
it will occupy two hundred and forty square metres,
or nearly thirty hectares.
THE New YORK Times says that the Improvement
in mercantile and commercial affairs, which we have
heretofore noticed, shows no abatement whatever,
but, on the contrary, is rather increasing and be-
coming more general each week. The distribution
of merchandise to the interior continues on q large
scale, and its volume so far this fall is in advance Of
any previous seas,n since 1878. The active export
demand for -four and wheat at steadily advancing
prices is one of the latest AMI most favorable signs of
the general situation.
Mr.. JOHN WALTER. proprietor Of the London
Times, is the latest notable arrival at Philadelphia.
Mr.. Walter inherited the Times from his father,
who, in turn. was the son and successor of the John
Walter who founded the London Times. And with
the newspaper Mr.. Walter has inherited the talents
and enterprise of his father and grandfather, through
whose energy and ability the Times grew to the
power ii IS in Great Britain and in the world. The
present John Walter is the inventor or ~perfector of
the Walter press. lie is n journalist of thirty years
experience, O politician of note, and has been wei
coined to Philadelphia as one of the most prominent
English personages of the time.
4 WASHINGTON dispatch states that the internal
revenue receipts from all sources for the past three
months show a decided increase over the correspond
ing months Of last year. Since the country has
risen from the slough Of despond great activity in
many channels CT trade may be confidently antici-
pated. At few periods in our history, perhaps none,
was there such an abundance of home products of
agriculture and manufacture awaiting consumption.
The great basis of all enduring trade Is the inter-
change Of these commodities; and it is reasonable to
expect that the period is near at hand when the
traffic in them will assume gigantic proportions.