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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-12-25

FIRE ALARM.-on Sunday morning the 22d inst,
about 9 O'Clock, the fire bells sounded an alarm,
and the fremen rushed to their posts. Soon the
streets were filled with people and the excitement
was intense in the vicinity OF Beretania and Nuuanu
Streets the locality of the fire, which proved be
iG small house in the rear of Chinese bakery.
The fire was soon extuguished without doing any
damage. 1t was caused it is said, by child who
in playing with matches, set fire to some dry rub
bish" around the house. 1t is dangerous locality
for fire on account OF the narrow entrance, making
ingress and egress exceedingly difficult for person.
This makes the fifth alarm within month.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-12-25

EXCURSIONS TO THE IsLASDs.-Mr. Herbert Of
the Hawaiian Hotel went to the Coast in the
steamer Australia, on Tuesday last December Gath,
for the purpose of effecting an arrangement
with the P. NJ. S. s. Company to issue excursion
tickets at reduced rates to persons DESTROYS of avail
ing themselves of the advantages OF twenty days
sojourn on these Islands, that is d remain over till
the steamer returns. This arrangement we hope
will be effected and if 1t should be- there is no doubt
but that many persons of wealth and leisure in Cali
fornia would take advantage OF it. and thus increase
the travel between the Coast and the Islands. Mr..
Herbert also informs US that he can make like
advantageous arrangement with the owners of the
cossting steamers, by which he guarantee to all
excusonists passage to the Windward Islands, with
board and accommodations at a reduced price. and
in our humble opinion the arrangement will be one
that will be very acceptable large class of indi-
yiduals who under such circumstances would gladly
take advantage of it to enjoy the climate and
scenery of Hawaii mel. We wish Mr.. Herbert all
success in his praiseworthy enterprise.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
Mammals Diamonds.

'I am going to keep all my pennies, ; said little Kate to her sister "I have fifteen in my bank, and by and by I can buy diamond cross for mamma. She will look so pretty with it on her black dress"
 ~ '' Mamma does not care for such things" said Emma.
 ''But how do you know?"
 s- Because, the other day when asked her if she would not like to have ring like that of Mrs. H-, so beautiful and shining, she kissed me a great many times, and said the only diamonds she wished for'were those she saw in our eyes when good and happy"
 '' We'll, then I will buy her some other present" added Kate. ''for I love her so much"
 a s' I think" said Emma, " that mamma does not care for presents she would rather see us good. If we love her, we must try to obey her always, and quick i; this is what mean to do" '
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
A Woman Acting as a Sheriff.

In announcing the recent death of the widow of the late ex-Sheriff James H.
 Latty, of Des Moines, Iowa, the Haaok- Eye, of that place, recalls some interest
 ing incidents in her life as follows !: "At one time adesperado confined in one of the cells attempted to escape by making man of straw reclining upon his couch as usual, while the flesh and blood prisoner secreted himself in an empty cell and awaited the. advent of Mrs. Latty, who, in the absence of her husband, entered the jail-roomt to lock up the prisoners for the night. Vixen she came to the cell containing the man of straw, very clever imitation of a man at sleep, she called his name, and getting no response entered in and detected the cheat. Instead of calling for outside help in an emergency which plainly in- dicated plot and determination upon the part of the prisoners to break jail,
 Mrs. Latty quietly proceeded to the other cell and marched the prospective fugitive back to his cell and locked him up. As he was heavy, muscular man, and the Deputy Sheriff a slender, light built woman, ,itis evident that nerve triumphed over muscle. Womanly courage was more than match for brute force and the desperation of the criminal seeking to fly from the hands of justice. On another occasion, two young men in a cell refusing to stop their. profane and boisterous language, the Deputy entered the cell and gave them a sound fogging with whip until, with tears in their eyes, the rascals promised better be- havior. The last exploit of our Deputy,
 and one which recalled to our mind the preceding incidents, was the taking of a prisoner,to the Penitentiary few days ago. A man who had been arrested for stealing carpet-bag at the Union Depot in this city, last January, was sentenced at the last term of the District Court to two years imprisonment at the Peniten- tiary, and was taken to Fort Madison by Mrs. Latty alone, and without any assistance from others, and duly deliv- cred to Warden Kelsey. The astonish- ment of the Warden and the Fort Madi- sonians knew no bounds. , 1ss--as *,
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
A Crow Story.

William Sinclair, of Cambrey, Ont, ;,
 tanned young crow last Spring, and it made warm friends with hound on the farm, sharing the dog's meals, and ken nel, and when it was given food it would invariably share it with its canine oom- panion. It would not give it to the dog atonce but fly around just above his head with the morsel in his bill and then would finally let him have 1t. But in stinct began to be too powerful as the cold weather came on, end the crow pre- pared to migrate to warmer quarters :; then 1t was amusing to see how it tried to coax the hound away. It would, fly away little distance and then alght and cav to the dog then alight and fly back again, and be in great distress be. cause it could not induce it's four-footed friend to accompany it ; but finding the dog would not leave it at length flew off.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

A PLAaUE.-Much alarm has been created at Moscow by the appearance of the Siberian plague. One day laun- dress at the university, who was sus- pected of having died from it, was sub- jected to @ post-mortem examination, with the result that the suspicious of the several other persons have succumbed to the same malady, which is more dis astrous than either smallpox or cholera, and the police are now taking energetic measures to prevent the disease from spreading. It is believed that the seeds of the plague were brought from Tifis either by Turkish prisoners or Russian invalids.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
The Modern Seven Ages of Man.

All the worlds stage and all the men and women merely players, some of them most confoundedly poor players, too ]; they have their exits and their entrances,
 but large proportion of them would rather have whiskey as a steady thing. And one man in his time plays many parts - r1ght-feld, centre-feld, catcher, shortstop, etc. At first the in fant, mewling and puking in his nurses arms, and yelling fire, and then the school boy with his dinner bucket and whining, mournful face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school with sheep- skin under his jacket, and then the lover sighing like 8 furnace, with woful bal lad fearfu1ly and wonderfully made to his mistress eyebrow, and his coat-tail pockets filled with confectionery then a soldier full of strange. oaths and bugs, jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even ill the cannons mouth at $13 a month and found j; and then the alder man with bay window on his stomach, full of wise saWsage and other things to eat, who changes $2 for marrying man and kisses the bride without leave or 1i- cense. The sixth age shifts into the lean and ylippered pantaloons, with or with out ruf1es as the case may be last scene of all, that ends, thus strange event. ful history is second nchildishness and mere, oblivion, sans, teeth,,, sans eyes, taste, sans everything, except a wonder. ful faculty for lying about the hot Sum- mers and cold Winters of his younger days. .-- Oit City Derrick. ,5' Y ' .'. ". '.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
An Experiment for Boys.

Take two empty oyster cans and a stout, smooth string. Let small hole be made in the. e.a bottom, of each can, through which the astring-say fifty to one hundred feet in length-is passed and secured. Then let the experimenters set up their telegraph by choosing their stations asi far Eapart as the tghtiy- stretched. string will permit and while one operator hold his ear to one nGe'' of the cans and his companion his mouth to the can ct the other end of the line, they will find that conversation can be car ried on SO that most tones, and ever a whisper, will be. distinctly perceptible. What usually most astonishes those who make this experiment. for the first tune is that the sound of the voice does not seem to come from the person speak ing at the other end of the string, ,rbutto issue from the can itsef, which is he1dto the ear of the listener [ lTh1s at first ap- pears to be deception, but it is really not so.-z, Theaear tellspthe exact truth The voice thatish heaNlrea ally comes from the can that is held to the ear of the nearer. The voice of the speaker con- municates sound producing vibrations to the wall of the can with which his voice is in immediate contact. These vibra- tions are communicated to the string, but so changed that they no longer affect the ear. A person. may stand by, the
 fe 2 string while the sound ndislpassingJ and yet, hear nothing. T" A'v'a E'- .s92tfl f0' VI
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

.-It is nv shown that by the Barclay street disaster in New York city eight personsyefe burned to deatha two were crushedD Dy the falling walls, and fully thirty Nere bodily injured. z Up to. this time tn, actual cause of the disaster is not known. t.- ;1o" f . t. T, F. : -5. r .--Iuthe month of December the Uni ted States Mints coined 6, 148, ,933 pieces of gold and silver valued at $5, ,343, ,OS3.
 The Board of Aldermen of New York olty have passed resolutions favor1ng the release nf William M.. Tweed, The resolution passed by a-vote of 13 yeas to nays. 4a-. :. ... -. :'i--- a' 4 ... '.-',-.
 The staff of the United States Army is declared by Washington leade'aalt1non large enough for nrra 58oHp1y be reduced by slSasseF5ss.a asseF5ss -,."f,.s / -&'} :. ,''-1.
 Tt is denied that changes are to take place in the French Cabinet as stated in dispatches from Europe
 The London Advertiser hears on re- liable authority that official information has been received in St: Petersburg that the Chinese have massacred 15, ,000 men, women and children at the Kashgarian town of Manas, committing most fright ful atrocities. e s'tt,+. t- .-lsg -Ofthe 10, GOO cigar makers who went upon strike in New York ,oity, 5000 have returned to their work. ' }er&
 It is almost certain, says a Wash ington despatch, that resolution will be introduced in the House qn the re7asr sembling of Congress, carefully drawn by capable lawyers, and having the in tention to investigate the charges made in Mir. Chandler's recent letter affecting the electoral vote. ' t' 4, Go ,,, q .'-" 'A
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
The Horrors of War.

A Rnssian officer, writing to friend gives the following horrible narration. He says: C Coming to place where the road somewhat -widened, about two smiles from Telis,4 we halted, and after driving away and cutting down in short Iskirmish party of Turks who were
 busy robbing our dead, we stopped to form before going on. As I rode along the front shouting out orders to my men, an agonized cry for help arrested my at tention. ] looked round. Nothing but heaps of dead everywhere. Of these none needed me. But hark once
 more, and again, and again these piteous
 cries. Hastily dismouuting, I threw
 the bridle over my sound arm and ran
 toward some bushes from behind which
 the sounds proceeded, and there, in a
 small pool cof clotted blood, lay that
 which Lat first failed to recognize as
 human being, though human it cer-
 tainly was in it's piteous cries, and the
 seemingly gloyed hands that clutch the air
 in their agony. The rest, from the waist
 upward, was one mass of raw, quivering
 fesh-the face featureless, eyelids and
 eyes cut ont, the man Aayed alive, all
 but the hands, whose white skin at first
 gave the impression of their being gloved.
 This ghastly object lay few steps from
 Q dead horse, one of our own regiments
 golden bays. Faint at heart I bent over
 the sufferer, evidently one of our own
 men, but now mangled beyond 'recog-
 milton. He prayed for death with his poor torn lips, and in a minute moreIW. T our surgeon, and two more of our officers
 were by mysside. I made room for w.,
 who stepped for a few. seconds over our poor comrade, and then rising, sadly shook. his head, .murmuring ''no help." A sudden impulse prompted me to seize the ponr helpless hand in my own, and pressingit, whisper a few words of com fort At the sound of my voice came the sadder appeal {: l" Niooloi, for old friend ships sake, send bullet through my heart. 7 q This voice sounded so strangely familiar, and yet I could not recognize it. "Who are you 9 "Alexis S." Alexis, my old schoolmate, who had few hours ago shared my breakfast by our bivouac fire, andthen rode away, handsome and
 bold, at the head of our gallant first squadron. He had fallen wounded, helpless, his horse shot from under him, and the fendiah Turks were slowly tor turing hin,to death when our approach drove them away. Clasping my hand in his, he still begged for death. My reyol- yer was empty, discharged in the scufiie few moments before. I looked at w. who silently drew out his, and shudder- ing in every nerve, placed the. muzzle against sa s breast, and with averted face,- | fired twice in succession, while I still ! pressed the poor hand in mine, We f wrapped him up in my cloak, and placing hi m in hollow ditch, rolled a boulder ove CT him, and then, with our. hands still moist with his blood, we swore to each other never to empty the last chamber of our pistols, but always to reserve 8 shotifR ourselves and friends, should any of us, wounded, have to be left be- hind. May quick :. death, a soldiers death, be ours. Anal1. a-l -2 ]. :- a. '...-.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
His Little Willie.

Early yesterday morning, says the Detroit, Free Press, 8 man with his back all bumped up and face expressive of deep sorrow entered grocery store on Michigan avenue, asked if he could have a private word with the proprietor and when taken around behind the cheese box said:-
 's'I am old and poor I have little boy named Willie am afraid he is on his dying &ed. The poor darling has been talking about what he'll get in his Santa Claus stocking, and oh how do long to get ten cents of some one and buy him an India rubber duck or 8 little wooden stable with g. gray mule in it.. Are you father, sir? "0l rC,r sr=7l----s '
 "Yes, :" sulkily replied the grocer. ," "Haye you dying little Willie, who is clinging to life only because he ex- poets Santa Claus to bring him some thing"
 "No.". -s.,.7 - ..--- - -zs---. . "Then-then, ho! Heavens! won't you feel for me! Won't you weep in unison with me! I could not beg for bread-I could not beg for lodgings could not ask for even one cold potato if my dear wife was stru ggling in the fangs of death. But, in this case when the happiness of my dying darling Willie is at stake, must force myself to ask you for ten cents to buy 8 little stable with 8 mule in it. ''fts &.HsY
 "I don't know you, said the grocer, who didn't even shed one tear.wr-- ----7 -" I know you don't, but it is my dying Willie who speaks to yout There he lays, only an old coffee sack over his emaciated form, his face as white as snow, his hands wasted; his voice most gone; and every little while he whispers, Oh! do hope Santa Claus will bring me a little stable with mule in it! Oh! sir, don't this touch your heart ',.f . ,,,..o '. ,.
 The grocer handed him ten cents, and the: man wept ikea sprinkling pot as he backed out and started for toy store About an hour afterward the grocer happened down town, and he suddenly came across the father of poor little Wiilfie The old man was hanging to 9hitching post and looking both silly and jolly. ,y,
 We'll. did you get that present witt my money?" asked the grocer .7rs-
 =" Whez peshent? . blankly asked the old man. G-.r.9f z i1-s.zz "Why, I gave you ten cents to get f little stable with mule in it. . .-e
 "Sho yoa diz-sho. yoa diz," muttereG the man, as he reached out to shak, hands. We'll, ,whez I got iown town ! foun' at all CT lzzle stables had fell jow1 an killed all CT lizzie mules, an sho I-' l "So you bought whiskey!" exclaimed the grocer. s a -.-e CT .-s .e..
 |" Yes, sho did, but am mi Ter blame Could I help all CT lizzie mules bein killed"
 "What will little Willie do?"
 "Nozzing. Lasht fng fore lief homo zhis morning he tole me t be shure bu, big zhrink whiskey pug in my Chrismu stomach, an could I jlspo1nt zhat darling boy? Greaz heavens! could I j'sobe, his dying request?"
 | The citizen |" lifted" him and passed
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.


 The wholesale New York market quotations show:
 Beans-Marrows $225a2.s7; fair to good 2.00d215 per bushel.
 Btater.-N. Y. sold at 30e. for choice ill pails, and 22d25c common to good. Western sold at 30a32c. and the common Western at 9d10c: Cteese.-Factory fancy 121Ea13c.; do. fair 111aa12c.; farm dairy, prime 12a1213c., and do. fail 11a11Lc.
 Eygs.-Quotations ranged from 16c. for or dinary to 24c for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
 Tzour-Superfinc New York and Western $4 S5a5.25; extra New York $5 3Oa5.35.
 Ray.-Shipping 50a55c.; clover 40d45c.; salt 4Od45c.; straw 40d50c. yearlings 3a5c., olds 1oSc.
 PetyoIe,cn,.-Refned- 13Ilc.; crude 2 3c. in bulk; in barrels 10c.4 Naptha 7c, in ship ping order, and 1614a1S19c. in cases, and 13I. Pork-New mess s12.5o Family mess 1875 extra prime 1925; dressed hogs 5ySa 51S.
 Thanksgiving No.2. s1.32 Milwaukee No. l, 1.3919; Amber 1.4s White 1.32 Rye.-State 71d75c. xxx 4Sa52c.; xxx 44d46c.; 42a46c; No. l, 43d46c.; No. 2, 38a40c.; common, 35o37; New York and Western xx 39d42c.; and No. l,
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
 Flow-State family S6.50; rye flour 400 Wheat State 1.41 Amber 1.43. Corn, yell low, 52d55c. mixed State 5S15c.
 Petroleum. Refined 12a121sc.; crude, 105sd Il.
 WooL-State and Western xxx 44a46c. X Ala 46e.; medium 44d46; coarse 32a36c.
 CATTLE MARKETS.
 BUFFALo.-Cattle, good quality, $.5.50. Hogs, fair to good 4.25d4.5 50 best 4.50. EAST LIBERTY, PENN.-Best cattle $50; medium to good 5.O0a5,25; common to fair 45oo5.0o Hogs, Workers, 4;2Oa4;35 Phila- delphias 4.40d4.55. Sheep, 4.25a5.3O: WATERTowN, MAss-Cattle, choice s.25a $50; extra 775as.0 00 first quality 6.25a6.75; second quality 5.25a5.75; third quality 4. 75a 500. Sheep and lambs-wool sheep 3.45a55o extra 3.25d5.00; sheared 3Ad61c; spring lambs 4o51Ic.; veal calves 4G61ac.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
THE.HOUSEKEEPEH.
s --DoMEsr1c+ RECIPES. z s


 2 Ap,,,e Short cake. To one quart of s1fted flour add two teaspoons cream tar tar and one of soda, half a teaspoontul o1 salt, quarter of a pound of butter, sweet milk to mix 1t. Have a dough rather stiff, roll and bake in a-sheet. AS soon as baked, split open the whole sS5e; caK5ee; spread one piece oHtigahhed apple sauce, cover ths5ne thick sweet cream, grate Tn nutmeg, place the other half on this, crust side down., spread with butter, cover with apple. saucey cream and nut meg E%-3 7 < eaF 2 5 < '=@'
 nd Rslish .for Breakfast.-Take one- fourth ofla pound of fresh cheese, cut in thin slices, put in sfrying pan, turning cup of sweet milk over it add one- fourth teaspoonful dry mustard, pinch of salt and pepper, and piece of butter about the size of a butterhut stir the mixture all the time. Roll three Boston crackers very fine and sprinkle in grad ually, then turn at once into warm dish, send to table immediately.
 Corn .Griogdle Cdkes.-To one quart of sour milk add one teasp oonful of soda, the same of salt and one egg, one half cup of wheat flour add corn meal suf- feient to make batter thick enough tc bake on hot griddles. '..5 ..... r..E
 Vegetable Soup.-Take four potatoes. three turnips, one carrot and three on ions cut them into small pieces and put them into stew pan with a aquartel of a pound each of butter and ham, ano g. bunch of parsley; let them remain 1( minutes over a brisk fire, add a large teaspoonful of flour; mix well in, mois | ten with two quarts of broth and pint | of broiling milk boil up, season witl salt and sugar, run through ahair sieve put into another stew pan, boil again Skim and serve with bread in it. ! Ya,ekee BroaO,a Bread. Two quarts of Indian meal, one quart rye flour, two thirds teacup of molasses, little salt, on' teaspoonful soda mix with sour mill quite soft; bakeesix hours at first witl good heat, then more moderate until nice dark brown. I. .ts : .sS@-4
 Breakfast Rolls aOithout Soda. a.-Tw' eggs, one and half cupfuls of milk, teaspoonful of salt, and flour enough t. make g thick batter. These must b baked in an iron gem pan or they will b @ complete failure.~-A quick oven is de l sirah1e
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

A RUINED LIFE.-"A young married man, of fine abilities, very respectfully connected, and moving in the best so- ciety,''ris the description given of Eugene A.. 4Shepardson, paying teller of the Rochester Savings Bank, who has stolen $9, 9,o0o. a He got rid of the money in ex- tensive dressing, keeping a horse and bug uggy, and stock gambling; and avoided detection for years by contriying, when the bank examiners sscrntdnized the books and assets, to obtain q loan, of sj money from some other bank to make up the deficiency.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

A CYonoPEAN Hos.-A few days since MT. Miller, of Uniontown, Pa.s who keeps pack of fifteen hounds, captured an earless wild hog in the mountains of Fayette county. The animal not only has no auricular appendages, but no ori- fee in the head for tho admission of sound. It has also but one eye, which, however, is large enough for two, being nearly two inches in diameter. The ami nal weighs about 160 pounds and is as ferocious as bear.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
Tine Best Recuperaut

Of failing energy, that to which the faggod- out man of business, the brain fatigued author, the tired advocate or tho weary artisan can resort with the greatest certainty that it will Stomach Bitters, most genial tonic cordial, as well as benign remedy for disorders of the stomach, liver, bowels and urinary organs, and means of eradicating and preventing in- termittent and remittent levers. It not only enriches the blood and creates new fund of energy in the system, but it has the effect of eXpelling impurities from the life current which beget disease. The injurious influence of abrupt transitions of temperature, of an un- wholesome climate and injurious diet, are appetite and sound repose. Give it trial and be conyincdd rEt -rs -~
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

The principal of a Southern female academy calls on the young men of the town to let his teachers alone. He says every time one of them gets fairly to work some fellow comes along and mar ries her
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

For a model Western town take Garland, Colorado: They rang out the old year with four murders, and ushercd
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

-Tha Weste,7e. Farm yourysul is of theL opinion Lthat tAneither;seo cooked nor ground food promotes growth and in- creases flesh ,in animals commensurate with the expense of grinding and cook ing.ssss2I says that there are plenty of in stances where feeding the whole grain raw has been followed by as rapid gain from given expenditure as when pre- pared food was used. The Fa5noey is entitled to it's opinion, although there are many stock raisers who differ with it.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

t" t Nature never sdgs that which reason
 win contradict.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17

The. difference between aA:L9and 2 pill: One is hard tol get up and the other is hard to get down.
Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
CHEW The Celebrated |" Matchless !"

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 New York, Boston and Chicago,