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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-09-18

AN AUSTRALIAN SwINDLER.-A Melbourne paper
has the following: Some clever swndling has been
perpetrated recently upon various mercantile and
tioneering firms in Melbourne, by man about 35
years of age, giving the name of II. Eckhouse. The
offenders mode of operation by obtaining ad-
vances on forged bills of lading, and he conducted
the frauds so skuy that he has been able to pocket
aggregate amount of about fl 400. He repre-
sented himself to be in the and sugar trade, and
stated that he had ships freghed with that descrp
ton of merchandise due this month at Sydney. The
bodies Of the bill of ading he used drawn out in
hand writing like that of office boy, while certain
figures and peculiar business marks filled in by
a more experienced hand, and his name was en-
dorsed on the back in another style of caligraphy.
The names of the vessels and their captains, the
ports, freights and dates given found to cores
pond exactly with entries in the shipping register,
and the forged documents were most accurately
drawn out The offender insured the freights in his
and showed the policies to the victims,
who were thus disarmed Of all suspicion. The frauds
all executed previods to the 18th of last month,
but they were only discovered few days ago, on the
arrival of of the vessels at Sydney. Two warrants
have been issued for the arrest of Eckhouse, of
them at the instance of Fraser Co., auctioneers,
who have been defrauded of 9600. The offender has
had plenty of time to effect his escape, and his cap
ture will, therefore, be difficult task but the de-
tectives seem to have areay obtained trace of his
whereabouts. The China Nail says, "the person re-
ferred to was lodger in the Hongkong Hotel some
two years ago, with the avowed intention of doing
the whole business of this colony with Australia.
Happily his operations have yet been confined to
Australia
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-09-18

s. X. KAAI, Minister OF Finance
Department OF Finance, sept lst, ISIS. 7Is
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-09-18

NEw YOsk, Aug. 23.-The World says of Bogar-
dus: II DIR. Carver will name a day for the first
match after making good his forfeit money, Bogardus
is willing to bet him 81 900 600 each Of four
matches that be wins. The Captain will also make
Carver present of $50 if he will make forfeit money
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-09-18

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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

into scrape. The practice is Illegal, and the
treasury department is preparing to prosecut
persons who may hereafter commit the OF
Tense.
Alta public sale of real estate in New
York last week. not single bid could be oh.
tanned which the auctioneer would consider.
For improved property, which paid $1,000 u
year IN rents, no one would offer more than
Sl2,500, and experts said that the prices were
lower now by 20 per cent. than they were in
1865. Increased taxation Is the cause OF this
blight.
The English army has long enjoyed
the reputation of being the most extensively
dressed in Europe. The most costly uniform
is that Of "A staffsergeant in the Foot guards,
to clothe whom entailo upon the country
about $40 per man per annum, and the
cheapest man 10 equip is the II, gro private OF
the West lGdia regiments, whose picturesque
zouave costume costs about $l2 per annum.
OF the thirty-five votes in the house
against Forts joint resolution, declaring that
there should be no further retirement of
United States legal tender notes, but that,
instead of canceling them, the secretary OF
the treasury should reissue them as fast as
received, thirty came from the eastern states.
Gibson, of Louisiana, was the only one from
the south who voted no, while Garfield and
Monroe, Of Ohio, and Williams, of Oregon,
were the only ones from the west,
The expectation of ferest.tree seeds is
assuming dimensions in this country. Cali
fornia sends $4,000 worth per year. The
principal purchases are made for Germany,
Austria, England, and the colonies in Aus.
tralia and New Zealand and at present the
demsnd exceeds the supply. The seeds of
the Oregon pine, known also ss the yellow
FIR are most in demand. The timber of that
tree is as good as the British oak for ship
building, and has been found sound after
eighteen years use for this purpose.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

The fact that human eyes, with the aid
of field glass, have seen rife bullets
during their flight rom the muzze OF
the rifle to the point at which they were
aimed, has been published, We believe,
several times but We nave never seen,
to our knowledge, the announcement
that they could be seen with the naked
eyei Yet it il we'll attested fact that
rife balls were seen in their flight by
several gentlemen without the aid of
glass or anything, at the rife rahse north
of this city, one day last week. A high
wind was blowing and showers were ire.
quentin fact, it rained almost constant
ly. When the spectators stood at one
side of the shooter they could only follow
the ball to the highest point of the arc
which it described, but when they stood
Immediately behind the shooter (he
lying down and they standing up) they
could follow the bullet from point
about ten feet from the muzz'e, all the
way to the target or Whatever object it
struck. One gentleman told the shooter,
Immediately after he had fired, that he
had shot too much to the right, and the
signal of the marker a minute or two
afterward confirmed exactly what he had
said. The balls were seen while the
shooters were firing at five hundred
yards distance. The rifles were of the
heavy military kind, which carry a large
bullet Those who saw the bullets in
their flight say that the arc described by
them is immense at that distance, and
that they al,o appear to curve to the
right as well as up and down.-[Ro
ter Express.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16
German Tunneling.

The famous Rethconberger water au-
dit for draining the Freiberg mines has
been completed, after period of thirty
years, and it is said to be the greatest
work OF the kind that has ever been un.
dertaken to aid the explorations of a
mining district. This immense tunnel,
as described, is ventilated by eight air
shafts, and lies some 400 feet below the
deepest Freiberger water audit. 1t has
a uniform height of nearly Is feet, with
a somewhat smaller breadth, and, when
completed. will be, with its rsmi6ca-
tions, 81 miles in length. The gradient
OF the floor is only 0.03 m. iu 100 metres.
This small gradient may make IL necesss
nv to clear the tunnel occasionally, but
this can be accomplished without dim
Guilty with suitable boats and dredgee.
Five miles of the tunnel is perfectly
straight, without curve, and along The
whole line the curves are very light. The
remarkable fact also appears that nearly
the whole driving OF this vast tunnel the
rock throughout almost the entire length
,f which Is solid gneiss, has been done by
aand,-T Gold Hill News.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

AN old lady, when she heard the min
lister say there would be a nave in the
new church, observed that "she knew
well who the party was"
THERE will always be more or less ex-
element in the household that possesses
a cat and back fence, or a poor piano
and good healthy girl.
EVERY high aim lifts you above your.
self, even though you fail to attain it.
No man can Jump without getting away
from the earth Tor a moment at least,
GEN. GARFIELD, one OF the six officers
which composed the court martial which
tried Ftz John Porter, says that the
latter escaped the death penalty by a
single vote.
A sTRoLLNG theatrical company was
at the dinner-table. A waiter approached
one of the members and said: /" Soup"
" No, sir" replied the guest, " am one
ot the musicians" + Utica Observer,
SHE asked the clerk if he was positive,
thoroughly convinced the eggs were
fresh. 80, yes" said the young philoso-
pher az know they are; why, the
farmer said none of his hens were more
than . year old" She bought basket
iull on the spot.
IT is human to doubt. Display a sign
with the inscription "Beware OF paint"
and nine men out of ten will draw their
forefngers across the newly painted sur
face to see if the sign is not merely "an
invention OF the enemy" The tenth
man never learned to read
A Coop SUGGEsrIoN-lt is well
enough to hang up chrome with God
Bless Cur Home" on it, but it will do
no har..' to help on the matter by Il
little less fretting. A great many people
ask the Lord to do what they won't lift
their little fingers to do themselves,
RAPID CORRESPONDENCE When a
man goes TO the theatre tor the first time
nothing surprises him more than the
wonderful rapidity with which an actor
writes letter-unless it may be the
suddenness with which the receiver
ascertains its contents. One glance and
he absorbs it all, and clasps his forehead
with his left hand Norristowu Herald.
A REFLECTION ON THE SEX - Jones
was always complaining of his wite's
memory. She never can remember
any thing" said poor Jones "it's AWFUL W
" My wife was just as bad" said Brown,
" till l found out u capital recipe"
"What is It'll" said Jones eagerly.
" Why" said Brown, whenever there's
any thing particular | want the missus
to remember, write it down on a slip of
paper, and gum it on the looking glass.
See Jones is now a centented man.
GJudy.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

Edison is "gawky," dislikes society,
and is deaf
California refuses 10 permit women to
practice law.
The Canadians are sending fish to
London, packed in ice.
Fifteen.ball pool is getting to be the
rage among bllliardists.
The earth, according to Prof. LOomis,
weighs 5,sS5,O00,00J pounds.
American palace cars are now to be
found almost the world over.
High bred women in Europe do not
wear jewelry, save in full dress.
A new and longer bayonet has been
ordered for the Britsh infantry.
Only two life insurance companies are
authorized to take risks in Texas.
Gen. Crook thinks there will be no
trouble with the Indians this summer
Gen. Joe E. Johnston dresses neatly,
has a short gray beard, is slight and erect.
There are nearly 10000 cases before the
pension bureau at Washington, awaiting
action.
South Carolina has sent the bale of
cotton which secured the first prize at the
centennial to the Paris exposition.
A number of Chinese have hired plat
Of three acres in the outskirts of New York,
and are going into vegetable gardening.
A bartender in Richmond, Va, neg
lected to register glass of ale which he sold,
and has been fined $49.8) for the omission.
A tax of ten per cent. is levied in Paris
upon all tickets taken ut theaters, public
balls, music halls, or any other place Of
amusement, for the benefit of the poor.
Artificial ice is sold in New Orleans at
$40 per ton. Northern ice, which has always
been held at $40 to $25 a ton, is entirely
driven from the market.
A German farmer disputed his tax
bill. He says: AZ pays the state tax, the
county tax, and the school tax but, by tun-
der! I pays no total tax. Pse got no total,
and never had any"
Baron Linden has been sentenced by
German court to six months imprisonment
and two year. and half detention for high
treason and defaming Prince Bismarck. The
printer of the pamphlet got of with half that
punishment.
The total cost Of investigating the
presidential elections in Louisiana, South
Carolina and Florida last year was S5S,35S,
distributed as follows: Louisiana committee,
s3i,i 8; South Carolina committee, sl4. .289;
Florida committee, $9,6i5.
The treasury department has numher
of letters inquiring at what rate the Mexican
silver dollars are receivable, and says. as they
are not legal tenders in the United States,
persons who accept them at their nominal
value do so at their own risk.
The Conn, cticut legislature having
offered reward Of one dollar each for all the
dogs killei IN that state, an East Haddsm
man bought all the female dogs he could
find, and raises pups to kill. This new in.
dustry beats the wooden nutmeg scheme.
Investigation into the opium. eating
habits Of residents Of the Shenandoah valley
reveals the fact that in the town OF Staunton
one hundred pounds Of the drug are sold
every week. Many young women aud ladies
Of the first families" are slaves OF the habit
The merchants in the south and west,
who are issuing advertisements In the form
Of legal.tender notes, are getting themselves
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

NY WILL II. HOwELLH.

They stood beside the garden gate,
He, leaning half way over,
Looked down upon her dropping lids
Aiar we're heard the katy-tids,
The air was sweet with clover
While twilight fingered dimly,
The summer moon was late.
There seemed to dwell upon her face
Some tremulous emotion;
Her nervous fingers plucked In twain
A rose whose bl0ssoming was vain.
Her bosom, Ike the ocean,
Arose and FELL repeating
The pillows wayward chase.
His love was calm, sedate serene,
He woOed In cool, grand fashion.
But when, with voice OF petulance
she answered, " No." with eyes askanco,
HIS love burst into passion,
And nloded all his being,
A wild iempestuOus stI cam.
Thus silently by the garden gate
They stood IL seemed forever
Then In u moment, fierce and brief,
As storm upon a lily leaf
In happy summer weather,
lie caught her madly TO his heart,
Now loves nOyitiate.
She smiled the dusky garden light
Revealed II TO her lover,
He stopped and kissed the dropping lids,
While near and far the Raty-dids
Made haste 10 tell each other
The red moon PEI ped above ;he trees,
And bushed acrOs, the night
1.-The Advance.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

turned black the gore rushed from his
mouth and nose, aud dyed the grass a
deep, dark red as he staggered and fell
He had ruptured bood.vessel, aud he
was dead man before his son could
raise him.
"ln that corner of the church-yard," "
said the old gentleman, after silence OF
a few moments, "in that corner of the
church.yard of which | have before
spoken, there lies buried man who was
In my employment for three years after
this event, and who was truly contrite,
penitent, and humbled, if ever man
WAS No one save myself knew in that
mans lifetime who he was, or whence he
came lit was John Edmunds, the re.
turned convict.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana, has signed
the Modett register bill.
Tennessee exchanges report the wheat
suffering from rust all over the state.
Two hundred different varieties Of
fruif are grown successfully in Georgia,
Copies Of Jefferson Davis letter, read
stthe dedication OF the confederate monu>
ment in Macon, Ga, are sold in frames at
ten cents apiece.
Chattanooga Times The hrst bar of
steel ever manufactured In the south was
rolled Thursday evening at the Tennessee
s:eel and iron company's mill here.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: Messrs.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

A GREATER curiosity than the Siamese
twins is on exhibition at Troy. The
Siamese twins were too nearly perfect
men united by bond of flesh, but this
visitor, the Canadian double headed
baby, has two beautiful heads, fat, blue
eyed faces, one resembling the father and
the other the mother, necks, shoulders,
chests and arms as usual, but Just at the
lawest rib the bodies are united, and
from that point downward are the limbs
and members OF one child only; one
navel and one pair o. legs. Each controls
the leg nearest to it. One may be
asleep, the other awake and crying The
child is of the female sex. The faces are
exceedingly pretty the mother is an in
teresting French woman.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16
FACTS AND FANClES.

"0h tell me, gentle seraph,
With those ruddy lips OF thine,
Tell me fondly, tell me often,
That you re- mine, forever mine"
Then she cope cape and nodded,
lheB mother cape WAS born,
And hor very silence answered,
" l am yawn, forever yawn,"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

AT indianapolis there is a newspaper
which says its mission is the emancipa-
tion of labor. If labor is so much en-.
shaved in this country it is little singu.
lar that 20 many poor men become rich
here. There is nothing that will eman-
cipate labor SO soon as good morals and a
habit of saving. The mechanic who has
learned his trade we'll; who has no pet
vice to feed, and who marries at the age
of twenty-five or thirty a young woman
80 skilled in household economy that
she can make every cent of his wages
bring to him its full value, is very certain
of becoming well.to do if not a rich
man. No young man can accumulate
property honestly without great self
denial in the beginning. He needs more
discipline than soldier, ior he has
bigger fight to make. One of the first
things he has to learn is the Importance
OF keeping out of the society of fools and
spendthrifts His most dangerous en-
emies are his companions,-I Courier.
Journal.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

A GERMAN correspondent says that
oysters have always been considered as
forbidden food by the Jews, the law of
Moses prohibiting the eating of fish with
out scales, In consequence, however, of
Mr.. Darwin's theories, a learned rabbi
has arrived at the conclusion that oysters
are plants and may therefore be eaten
by the Jews. 1t is said that the
problem will be submitted to the grand
council.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

WHEN a boy throws stone his arm
moves in plane parallel with the plane
OF his waistband. When a girl under
takes like feat, her arm is first held up
right in line with her major axis and
then moved rapidly in downward direc-
tion. The stone thrown by the boy has
4 enormous range, and strikes the
windew, the cat, the old gentleman or
other object at which 1t is aimed, at a
surprisingly long distance. The stone
which the girl attempts to throw desert.
bes q brief arc and descends to the
ground few yards in front of her. What
is the cause of this difference in thu sexes
is mystery. DR.. Watts took the ground
that nature had withheld from girls the
power to throw stones, in order that the
human race might have some little
chance Of perpetuity. He argued that
If girls could throw stones, they would
constantly hit the wrong objects, and
that 80 great would be the fatality from
accidents Of this kind that in com
psratively short time the world would
become depopulated IN. Y. Times.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

JOHN MoRRIssEY died at Saratoga,
New York, on the lst. He seemed quiet
and without any unfavorable symptoms
until little after the New York papers
were brought in, when he motioned for
his glasses to read one. About half. past
tive an unfavorable change occurred and
he sank rapidly aitcrward. Father
MMenomy, CatE olic priest was sent
for, who promptly came and admins.
'ered extreme JUNCTION. Although Mr.
Morrissey was rapidly failing, he seemed
conscious to the last. His wife and
domestics were present. Mr.. Morrissey
died clasping the hand of the priest.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

JOHN MoRRIssEY died comparatively
poor. One OF his most intimate friends
and advisers, and who has had charge of
his business affairs for many years, says
that his entire property would not rea.
lie but little over thirty thousand
dollars, If that, and that the estate would
not be able to settle up the debt against
IL,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

AT Amity Church, Clark county, Ala,
pine tree groans like human being in
distress or dying. Numbers of persons of
both colors visit the place to hear the
doleful sounds. With colored people the
interest in the mysterious sound is en-.
hanced by the fact that the tree stands
Eard by large graveyard and is also
near the place where a man of their color
was killed by lightning a year or two
ago.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-26
ScoundreIs Az.

Anderson is a scoundrel, but, re-
marks the Chicago Times, Stanley
Matthews rocketed his outrageous
insults, seeking all the time to
serve him, and President Hayes
wrote to Evarts, asking his ap-
pOintment to consulate in warm
cline, as his was a special case.
Dennis is scoundrel, but Presi-
dent Hayes wrote to Secretary
Sherman that he would make q
capital special agent of the Treas
ury, and he was SO employed. Nc
Lin is q scoundrel, but President
Hayes nominated him as Federal
Judge of the Territory of New Mex
leo; and IL it were not for the DEM
ocrats in the Senate, he would be
to-day upon the bench In that Ter
ritory. These fellows were all un-
worthy of credence; they were dis
REPUTABLE and leprous, reeking
with political putridity; but Presi-
dent Hayes was DESTROYS of finding
every one of them public employ
ment, just as he has provided for
every man who was especially en-
gagged in making straight his path
to the White House. In their
fierce, unlimited denunciatiOn of
these scoundrels, the Administra-
ton journals have no word of GEN.
sure for the official who proposed
to quarter them on the public
purse. Was he simply their vic
tim? Was he so blind that he
couldn't see what is now apparent
to every cross road Republican
journal?
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-26

The Louisville COurier-Jou, nal
paragraphs thus: Orville Grant
having spoken, the Chicago Times
suggests that young Fred's views
be given to the interviewer.-The
strong-minded women are calling
Judge Hilton a Conspicuous
fraud" More work for the Potter
Committse.-A Democratic Sen.
ator from Oregon will be a beacon
to the Republicans such as Cronin's
nose could never hope to overcome.
The title of Mr.. Anderson's
lecture will be "rruth." Mr.. An
derson is endorsed by many of the
leading Republicans of the country
and cannot fall to please.-While
all was quiet on the Potomac, a
few nights since, burglar broke
into Gen. Burnside's house and
carried off $50 watch and other
articles. Fortunately the careless
rascal overlooked the Generals
whiskers.-J. Howard Smith, of
Columbus, Ohio, has absconded,
defaulter to the amount of 5000. No
doubt this j. Howard Smith is no
other than John Smith, the "Johnu
being skillfully concealed by the
Introduction of the protuberant
"Howara.n-We do not belieya
a series of orations by Little Hale,
Garfield, and others, all through
the South, would have any other
effect than to add at least half the
nine Republican districts to the
eighty.three districts in the South
ern States now represented by
Democrats.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-26

If you want first class Piano
Box Top Buggy, with steel axles
and tires, made of the best quality
of material and warranted, GO to the
Cortland Wagon Agency and buy.
one for $3.50. They are the came
as other makers sell for $3.50. If
you wants delivery wagon for your
business,a spring wagon for riding,
family carriage, wagon to go to
arizona in, an express wagon or
wagon for any purpose that Is
strictly first class, buy only at the
Cortland Wagon Agency and save
your money. From $50 to 500
can be saved on every purchase
and if the vehicles are not as rep
resented your money will be re-
funded. This is o permanent insti-
tuition, dealing in first class goods
and is not to be classed with those
which have sold cheap work made
for auction trade. I have the best
made wagons and buggies on this
coast. l.. w, LUITwIELER,
Sole Agent, No. II Also street.
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