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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-04-21

WE ARE struck by a Characteristic remark in
the Ha,oaiian Gazette, which might seem to
disclose a practice IN this country on the part
of overseers of laborers, of indicting corporal
punishment upon Cinnamon and colored laborers
under their control. That Journal says that an
oyerseer of laborerS sin disciplining a refractory
Chinaman,'' beat him to death. En- 1866, when
the writer was attached to the editorial staff of
the Calcutta Enghshman, an Irishman, named
Dunn, employed as an overseer on an Assam
Plantation, fogged a eoolie SO severely that the
man died soon after; and subsequently Dunn
narrowly escaped from being hanged for this
crime, and was condemned to a long term Of
penal servitude. The Anglo-Indian Government
does not allow overseers to discipline refrac-
tory coolies. The highest man In India dare not
strike a colored man with impunity. Here it
seems thai, to discipline a refractory China
man, - is a matter of course with the editor of
the Ha,Ddiidn Gazette. If it were true that
laborers are liable to be beaten to death here as
q detail of " discipline - the scheme of import
ing East Indian laborers could not be entertained,
and Major WOdehouse would need to take pains
to ascertain how colored laborers are treated in
this country, before he takes any step to recon-
mend the scheme to his government.
This mischievous paragraph of the HaIcaiiaa
Gazette, if read in India, will set every editor on
the Anglo-Indian press against the scheme, and
may go far to prevent British subjects from any
part of Asia being introduced as laborers into
this country. Further the Ha,0aiian Gasette's
callous style of noticing the circumstance, and
his unfeeling talk about /" disciplining a refrae-
tory Chinaman, - to death, is calculated to cast
discredlt upon this country wherever that pas
sage is read abroad.
Since the above was put in type, we have learned
with qualification that the rumor upon which the
Ga=ette'S fippant remark was based was a false
one but that fact does not in the least degree
exculpate the Journal in question for its style of
comment upon the death of a human being, nor
does it detract anything from the pertinency of
our criticism.
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PORT OF HONOLULU, H. 1.
ARRIVALS.

April 15-Stmr kiiauea. Marehant, from Hawaii md Mani
ls-sehr kekauiuohi, kimo, from HanaIei. Kauai.
ls-Schr Utaua. Mana, from KohaIa. Hawaii.
lS-Schr warwick. 100 Boil. from Kalanpaua. NoIokai
Is-schr Marion, Christian, from NzziiwiH, Kauai.
l-stmr klauea, aarchant, from Maui e. Hawaii.
D-sehr kamzile, Clancy. from Waimca & Koloa.
Z0-Iahiiian bktne Mariana, from Tahiti,
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DEPARTURES.

April lf-HaE Eh I0lauf, Gansis. for San Fnncfsco.
l4-sehr Ka Moi, Wilbur, for Kahului, Maui.
16-Am Sh BIZ Eliza, Murray, for Arctic.
l6-stmr Kiauea, MaTchani, for Maui & Hawaii.
16-Schr ManuOkagai, Kalua, for NzwifEiH. Kanai.
l6-Haw bk Matte Maceay, Pope, for Portland. q.
lam Eh bk Florence. Williams, fr Arctic.
1T-Schr Jenny. UiIzma, for Kona and Kau. Hawaii
1s-SshT Warwick, John Boil. for Ralaupapa. McIokal
12-SchF KekauIuohi, Kimo, for Han.lei, Kauai.
2o-Etmr RiIauea, Marchant, for NaEiIiziIi, Kauai.
2O-Schr UIania, PuashiEa. for KohaIa, Hawaii.
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X

DAMoN-BEcKwITH la this city, April 18th, at the Fort
Street Church, by Rev " Frear, assisted by Rev $ e Damon,
Mr. EDWARD c DAMON TO Miss AMELIA BEcKwTrH.
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The FREQUENT recurrence Of fires upon plan
tations lately, leads US to make a few remarks
upon this subject. A short time ago, it was our
painful duty to chronicle the total destruction by
fire of the valuable miIl-house On the Coolidge
Plantation at Koolau on this Island. We now
are called upon to announce the unpleasant
tidings of the complete confagration of the
important sugar-mill buildings Of Mr.. Kinds, in
the district of Kohala, Island of Hawaii, which
the writer visited not long ago in the suite of
the Hawaiian Royal Commissioners. The sugar
mill in question was of the greatest service to
the cane growers of that part of the Island, and
it's destruction will be felt by them as a heavy
loss to their industry.
We sincerely sympathise with Mr.. Kinds upon
the weighty calamity which has thus suddenly
overtaken him, just as he was on the point of
disposing of the business in question. We re-
greet to hear that the insurance upon the pro-
perty consumed is considerably short of it's real
value. This gives occasion to US to suggest to
the gugar-mill owners of these Islands, a plan
which we are assured prevails extensively
amongst the corresponding class in the Mau-
ritius. In that Island, the buildings Of the
sugar-mills are constructed entirely of corrugated
iron, the roof included. No wood whatever is al
lowed to be employed in the erection of such
buildings. The reason is obvious. and the re-
suit is also selEevident. The amount of in
surance also upon such buildings is naturally
much lighter than upon wooden structures. In
view of the destruction of property on our plan
tations by fire, we throw out the suggestion that
it might be well for the parties concerned to
adopt here the Mauritius plan of employing COR
rugated iron alone in the erection of their sugar
mill buildings, and allowing no wood on their
premises whatever. Thus the danger of fires
would be greatly diminished. as well as the
amount of insurance on their properties. The
cost of importing from the United States or
England corrugated iron buildings of the sort,
would be amply repaid by the security from
fires, diminution Of insurance, and increase of
value of plantation property upon these Islands.
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DESIGNATION OF PARTNERSHIP.
NOTICE.

TNHE BUSINESS HERETOFORE CON-
Quoted under the firm name and style Of 2 7 LENEHAN
l. co. will in future be carried on under the name and style Of
GREEN, MACFARLANE & co, MIR G W Mscfarlane having
become a partner from this date. All accounts of the firm viii
be assumed by the undersigned.
GREEN, M~ACFARLANE L CO.
Honolulu, March Ist, 1871. ms
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California Honey, in tin and glass.
New Currauts. in 10 III. and a III tins.
California Raisins, superior;
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Capt. Whites Oriental and Cashmere Pickles,
Chinese Ginger. Cum Ouat. Chow Chow
Queen Olives, Stuffed Peppers,
Extra Curry Powder, in tins and bottles;
Duret's Salad Oil, in large and small bottles;
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Cavalry
Undertaken TO His Late Royal Highness-
Honolulu Fire Department.
Hawaiian Mechanics Benefit Union.
Improved Order Of Red Men.
Knights OF Pythias.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Order Of Free and Accepted Masons.
Members Of Medical Faculty.
Physicians Of His Late Royal Highness.
The Governor Of Maui and stan.
Military Escort.
Clergy Of Protestant Churches.
Clergy Of the Roman Catholic Church.
ChSir OF Hawaiian Cathedral.
Officiating Clergy.
His Lordship the Right Reverend Bishop Of Honolulu.
The Horse Of His Late Royal Highness-
Large Kahilis.
Ahahui PooIa Drawing the Hearse.
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NOTICE,

MY ABSENCE FROM THIS
MI. CECIL BROWN will act for me unde
power OF attorney. IL RICHARDSON.
Honolulu, April 81, 1877. IT.
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IN PORT.

NAVAL.
"a B Ms 8 Fantome, Commander Macqusy.
Am Miss brig Morning Star, COlcord.
Am BIZ Legal Tender, Manier, loading.
Am bktne Discovery, Shepherd
Am schr Loleta, Dexter.
Am brig HesperiaD, Winding, loading.
wHALER.
Haw VIII brig w II Allen, GilIey.
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IRA RICHARDSON,

AND IN BOOTS
Shoes. Fine Clothing, Furnishing Goods,
PeTfumeFy, &c.
Corner of Fort and Merchant St. lap22 IyI Honolulu, H. /
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The Report of the Examination by the Insurance Department.

t THE EDITORS K EvNNo JOURNAL
SrEm-Hm caused Ahoahp mnHn Examination b. made The condition and s&sa thu Maud
which umnahnh the Acmgs Pehmenhn: hAA also pr@ohbpT participated dsmh 70 Ih pHH msn that The
IhaAen ee the same for qualification Yours Vy uspMny
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FIGS, in glass; LEMON SYRUP,
Yarmouth Sugar Corn,
American and French Peas, Mushrooms,
Truffes. in tins and glass;
symington's Peas, for pea soup;
Citron, Lemon and Orange Peel,
Menier and Epp's Cocoa,
Chutneys, quarts, pints and half pintsi
Crystallized Fruits, in glass;
Trufie Pates. in large and mail tins;
Picked Walnuts,
Lard, in 5 ID. 6 ID. and 10 ID. containers;
Asparagus,
4 GOOD ASSORTMENT OF
Meats /:
Sheep Tongues, Ok Tongues, Roast Beef,
Roast Mutton, HOtch-potch,
Beef a la Mode, Spiced Beef and Mutton,
Potted Head, Triple and Onions,
Ok Tail, Mock Turtle and Mullagatawny Soups,
Condensed Eggs,
Chocolate Cream and Cocoa and Milk,
Bird Seed-Canary. Rape and Millet Seed.
Island Sugar, different grades
LAUNDR STARCH, IN 6 n IL LIB. X
e Orders from the other islands promptly
filed goods packed with care, and warranted.
Give US a call before purchasing sewhere.
sp2I ct FRIEL * BUSH.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-18
Celestial Honey.
From the Sacramento Record Union.

In conversation with A. j. Du-
fur, not long ago, he informed me
that he had come across q strip
of country three miles wide,
stretching southwest from the
Willamette river, near Oregon
City, to the Cascade mountains,
which is a natural honey-produc-
ing district. In the foot hills of
the mountains the honey dew,
which is peculiar to the district
1t covers, falls so heavily as to
encrust the foliage. Throughout
this belt Of country bees are bet
ter off than bees in clover, for
they literally scrape up the
ready-made honey, and, after fill
ing their hives build new combs
on the outside. Mr.. Dufer says
he saw eighty pounds of honey
taken from the under side of
pole stretched across a fence. 1t
would be a very interesting re-
gion for nuturalists to investi
gate, especially as no satisfactory
solution of the phenomenon has
ever yet been reached, and this
especial locality seems to deyelop
the so-called honey dew year after
year IN remarkable quantities.
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A recent decision of the Supreme
Court of the United State render
ed 100000 OF Illinois county bonds
worth Just about the value of the
paper they are printed on. Several
Illinois counties Issued their bonds In
aid Of railroads under tho authority
of q certain act which was supposed
to have been regularly passed by the
legislature. The interest on these
bonds was paid for some years, until
an examination disclosed the fact that
the House journal noted the passage
of the bill while the Senate journal
contained no such record. The bill
had been printed and certified as a law
by the presiding officers of the two
branches of the legislature, but the
omission of any record of the passage
of the bill by the senate was believed
to be fatal, and the counties refused
any longer to pay interest on the
bonds, claiming that they were void
because no law had been enacted to
authorize their issue. The Supreme
Court of the state sustained this posi-
ton, holding that, as the Senate
journal did not show the passage of
the law, the bonds had been issued
without authority of law and were
void.
The case was transferred to the U. S.
circuit court at Chicago, which refus-
ed to 60 behind the certificates OF the
presiding officers of the two branches
of the legislature, and held that the
bonds were valid. This decision was
confirmed by the Supreme Court at
Washington; but, upon q rehearing,
that tribunal finally decided, five to
four, that the dedision of the State
Supreme Court as TO the evidence of
the enactment of q State law must
be sustained. So the taxpayers of the
counties are not only released from
the. payment Of these bonds, but 1t is
actually unlawful for any county
authorities to pay them or tax the
people therefor.
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wise Sayings.

| A happy life is made up of hap
| Ply thoughts.
Benefit your friends, that they
may love you still more dearly
benefit your enemies that they may
become your friends.
Some men make a great flourish
about always doing what they be.
lieve to be right, but always man
age to think that is right which Is
for their own interest.
Night after night we die and
are born again. We lie down in
our bed as in the grave, and the
time comes when we lie down in
the grave as in our bed.
If God sends you q cross take
it up and follow Him. Use it wise
ly, lest it be Improbable. Bear it
patiently, lest it be intolerable.-
If it be light, slight it not. If it be
heavy, murmur not.-[Quarles.
The world is a looking-glass, and
gives back to every man the refiec-
ton of his own face. Frown at it,
and it will in turn look surly upon
you; laugh at IT, and with it, and
it Is a jolly, kind companion
Thackeray.
The Lord takes up none but the
forsaken; makes none healthy but
the sick; gives sight to none but
the blind; makes none alive but
the dead sanctifies none but sin
ners; and to all these He is pre-
cieus.-[Lut
If some are refined, like gold in
the furnace of aflliction, there are
many more that, like chaff, are
consumed in it. Sorrow, when it
is excessive, takes away fervor
from piety, vigor from action,
health from the body, light from
the reason, and repose from the
conscience.
Don't complain of the selfishness
of the world. Deserve friends and
you will get them. It is a mistake
to expect to receive welcome, hos
pitality, words Of cheer, and help
over rugged and difficult passes in
life, in return for bold selfishness,
which cares for nothing in the
world but self. Cultivate consid-
Grafton for the feelings of other
people, if you would never have
your own Injured.
Every duty brings its peculiar
delight, every denial its appropri-
ste compensation, every thought
it's recempense, every love its elys-
ium, every cross its crown; pay
goes with performance as effects
with cause. Meanhess overreach-
es itself; vice vitiates whoever in
dulges in it; the wicked wrong
their own souls; generosity great
ems; virtue exalts; charity trans
figures, and holiness is the essence
of angelhood. God does not re-
quire US to live on credit; he pays
us what we earn as we earn it, good
or evil, heaven or hell, according
to our choice.-lChas. Midway.
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agate over your orb of vision and

Papa! papa! exclaimed Ida.
"Oh pray-papa stop! It is hide
Gus! l know why you are doing it.
I'd rather promise anything than
hear you talk as you do"
"My dear" said her mother,
''we have only been showing you
yourself as others see you"
81 know it, sobbed Ida, and
I'm cured. I never dreamed it
sounded so horrible, and 1 ask
everybody's pardon for offending
their ears. But, papa" and she
half smiled. I never talked as
you did. Why, where did you
learn so much slang?'
am sorry to say that I hear it
from day to day among the clerks
was the reply" and 1 have been
almost tempted to fine them. But
when I hear my own daughter"
ooh, papa, don't" cried Ida,
putting up both hands.
"Well, then, 1 won't" he re-
spOnded, laughing. az think you
have had a good lesson, and we
will all resume our company man
ners. We will let the whole mat
ter drop now and not even refer
to it again.
1 am happy to say that by this
lesson Ida was completely cured.
Companion.
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We Lave quite an interesting item
through letter received by a friend
from Washington. When Mrs.
Hayes arrived in Washington from
Ohio, Miss Virginia PeytOn, a high
ly educated young lady of twenty,
and granddaughter of the1ate Bish-
op Johns, of Virginia, living near
Washington, determined, being a
teacher by profession, to apply for
that position to the Presidents chill
dren. She had no influential friends
and so determined, without letters
of recommendations, to apply in
person. So one morning she went
to the White House and inquired
for Mrs. Hayes. The Presidents
wife received her kindly, and hear
ing her business. promised, after 8
long conversation, to make inqui-
ries and communicate with her
forthwith. The result of her inqui-
ries was SO favorable that the intrep-
id young lady was engaged as gov
erness for her children at q hand
some salary.-[Staunton (Va.) Vim
dictator.
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Good Manners.

The essence of good manners is kind
thoughtfulness of others. The man
who goes to his room in a hotel stamp
ing and talking through the
corridor slaming, his door,
and flinging his boots down
heavily upon the floor is merely
brutality selfish. He is not aware that
he owes duties to other people who
will be affected by his conduct. He
does not think that he rudeIy awakens
some one to whom sleep is indispensa-
BILE, and whom he has no right to dis
turb. Hadon's picture of the man in
the chop-house waiting for the Times,
which his neihgbor has held for an
hour, and is evidently bent upon hold
ing until he has read all the advertise
ments, is an Illustration of his COM
mon selfishness. The talk and con-
duct in the cars are generally signs
of vanity or a morbid self-concious-
ness. A well-bIed man keeps his
toothaches and headaches to himself
and does not assume that strangers
are interested in his digestion. A
weli-bred woman keeps her children
quiet, and does not assume that ali her
fellow-travlers must share her fond
ness for them. If Mrs. P, with her
vivid sense of Mr.. P.'s peculiarities
and of her fine house and equipage,
could only once knew how supremlv
unimportant any individual is, how
well the world Jared before Mr.. P.
arrived, and how unshocked the uni
verse will be by his departure, she
would be a modest and well-mannerd
woman That knowledge, indeed,
would be a general corrective of man
ners. A certain kind of personal con-
ceit often accompanies undeniable
superiority. There are men, like Chath-
am, who like to have their going and
coming regarded as events, to move
with pOmpous hustle, and to be con-
stantly recognized as great men. But
if they could only know it, that very
taste constantly accounted to them
for weakness, aAd their influence is
just so far Iessened.
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Eastern .BuSSIery.
Interview with Nine. Blevetsky, in tn
New York World,1

Interview with Mime. Blevetsky, in the
New York World.l
1 have seen q man throw a large
ball Of twine into the air, which un-
wound as it assembled, one end be-
ing fastened to the ground. AS the
ball unwound it disappeared IN the
clouds and the cord remained sta
tionary. In g few moments the man
sent little boy up this cord pre-
tending that it was to find out what
held the other end up. The boy
went up and up, till he was lost to
sight. And he staid up so long that
the man pretended to become ca
ragged, and climbed up after him,
with q drawn sword in hand, and
he, too, disappeared from sight
and presently down fell q bloody
foot, and then another, and then a
leg, and then different pieces of the
boy, all bleeding. We dipped our
handkerchief in the blood to see if
1t was really blood, and it was. At
last the boys head fell down, and
presently the man climbed dewn, all
bloody, and still Stimulating rage.
He collected the fragments of the
boy that lay around and threw them
into heap on the ground. Then
he threw a cloth over the pieces,
and the boy instantly jumped up,
alive and we'll. The man and the
boy were entirely naked, and the
trick, as You will say it was q trick,
was done on an open plain out of
doors. say it was actually done.
There were hundreds of spectators.
That is the kind of thing that East
ern magicians do.
"Oar Western civilization is
young YET" replied the occult, sand,
as 1 have said, the mind of the eau
casian is not as well adapted to the
perception of subtle truths. But
there are many Europeans who are
real adopts, and there are quite
number in New York who are stud
ying ocultism. Some of them only
study it phflosophically, but some
are prscticing it. There is one whe
has several times accomplished the
separation of his astral body from
his physical body, though only for
q few moments"
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Sewing machines 10 come
Down.


Down.
All the really vital points of all
classes of sewing machine patents
will become common property,
May 9th, and the public will OBJ
tain relief from the extertionate
prices charged for sewing ma
chimes for the past twenty years.
The only patent which will re-
main in force covers simply some
unimportant minor details of con-
struction-the vibrating needle
and reciprocating shuttle, vibrat-
ing needle and rotating hook and
continuous feed. In connection
with the above, there is question
whether the wheel, or what is
known as the four-motion feed,
will become common property.
In 1865 combination was form
ed between Grover 81 Baker.
Wheeler d Wilson, Howe and
Singer, by which all patents be-
longing to those companies were
consolidated, and to be used by
each of them in constructing
their several machines. One of
the principal stipulations was
that no machine should be sold
by either company in the combi-
nation for less than a specified
sum. This gave the four COM
panies absolute control of the
price which should be charged
for every sewing machine made
in the United States. The Batch
elder patent, under which the
combination acted, has been twice
extended, and the net profits of
the four companies on that patent
have been at least 100000.
Strenuous efforts were made to
obtain a third extension of the
patent, bills for this purpose hav-
ing been introduced in the last
three Congresses, and some of
the ablest lawyers in the county be-
ing employed to argue for the
extension before the Committees
on Patents of both houses. All
the efforts of the combination to
secure an extension having failed
the manufacture of all sewing
machines is now free to all who
desire to engage in the business.