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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-11-23
Perihelion and Pestilerce.

We ad wise the reader of the following to re-
main cool in view of the prospect before him in
the course of the next seven years. The best
thing ne can do will be to keep his soul and body
clean of all deadly things, and to look sharply
after his sanitary surroundings:
If there is anything in " astrological criology,'
we are approaching one of the most pestilentiaI
periods of the earth's history. Since the COM
mencement of the Christian era, the perihelia of
the four great planets of the solar system-Jupi-
ter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune-have not been
coincident. But this is about to occur, and. in
the language of DR.. Knapp, who has traced the
history of the greatest epidemics that ever %afiict-
ed the human race to the ~perihelia of these plan
cts, there will be soon IS lively times for the doc
tors The theory is that when one or more of
the large planets is nearest to the sun, the tenn
perature and condition of our atmosphere are so
disturbed as to cause injurious yicissitudes, terri
BILE rains, prolonged drouths, etc., resulting in
the destruction of crops, and pestilence among
human beings and domestic animals.
DR.. Knapp has collected a mass of statistical
data, all going to show that perihelion data have
always been marked by unusual mortality, and
that sickness and death have invariably CORE
sponded with the planets in perihelion at the
same time. The revolution Of Jupiter round the
sun is accomplished in a little less than twelve
years of Saturn in a little less than thirty years
of Uranus in about eighty-four years: and of
Neptune in about l64 years. If it be true,
therefore, that the p~erihelia of these planets
occasion atmospheric conditions unfavorable 10
life, pestilential periods should occur once in a
dozen years, and aggravated and still more wide
spread e~pidemics at longer intervals. In tracing
the history of epidemic5 for more than 1000
years, DR.. Knapp finds the facts in all cases to
validate the theory. Thus in the sixth, and
again in the sixteenth centuries, three of these
planets were coincident in perihelion, and those
were the most pestilential times of the Chris
tian era.
But soon we are to have, for the first time in
two thousand years, all four of these planets
against us. They will be at their nearest APP
prOach to the sun in or soon after 1880, so that
for a few years, say from 1880 to 1885, the vital
iy of every living thing will be put to a severe
and trying ordeal. Some persons think they see,
in the signs Of the times, evidences of the great
disasters in the immediate future. The excessive
heat, the unexampled cold, the prevalence of
food and disasters at sea, the general failure of
the potato crop, the widespread chill fever among
human beings, and the equal prevalence of the
epizootIc among animals, are mentioned as among
the premonitions of the rapidly approaching
perihelion.
Well, " to be forewarned is to be forearmed.' -
excepted, we know very well that the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-11-23

Let the person whose name you wish to know
inform you in which of the upright columns the
first letter of his name is contained. If it be
found in but one column it is the top letter; if it
occurs in more than one column, it is found by
adding the alphabetical numbers of the top
letters of these columns, and the sum will be the
number of the letter sought. By taking one
letter at a time in this way, the whole can be
ascertained. For example, take the word Jane.
j is found in the two columns commencing with
B and Ii, which are the second and eighth letter,
down the alphabet their sum IS ten, and tb
tenth letter down the alphabet is j, the lettr
column. where it stands at the top. n is sen
in the columns headed B., d and III; these are
the second, fourth and eighth letters of tb al
phabet. which added give the fourteenth, nd SO
on. The use of this table will excite nc little
curiosity among those unacquainted viii the
foregoing explanation.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-11-23

- The London Nature says that the English
Arctic exploring ship Alert is being again fitted out
for active duty, lnder the command of her old
captain, Sir Georg' Mares. She is intended for a
voyage of surveying service, principally in the
South Pacific. Hg first work will be an examina-
ton of the inner water leading from the Straits of
Magellan to the Gulf of Penas, along the seaboard of
Chill from this she will stretch across the South
Pacific Ocean from Fiji, adding en- route, as far as
practicable, to our knowledge of the photography of
the Low Archipelogo-Society and Friendly Islands.
After a few months spent in the neighborhood Of
Fiji and in an examination of dangers lying in the
track of navigation between that group and the col
ony of New Zealand. she will. for the latter part of
her voyage, be employed of the northwestern coast
of Australia, principally in ascertaining the posi-
tons of, and as far as necessary charting the vari-
Gus surfs and islets lying off the Australian CONT
nent, and between it and the ports of Netherlands
India, and at many of which reefs, SC, traffic has
been for some time increasing on the search for ire
pany, pearls and guano.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-11-23
Kew to a Persons Name.

The accompanying table of letters affords a
key for ascertaining the name of a person or
word, and will serve as an amusement to the
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07
To An rhifors of All newspapers.

My Dear Gentlemen,-i on are eAtie.he'y :
kind, but let me entreat you TO deslst. l
nm 50 tired. Can't you write about some
thing else besides tinance2 Please do.
woman is copious theme, and the weather
is always, neat and handy topic. | quite
agree with both sides OF you. Your argyll
ments are absolutely unanswerable. There
ought to be no end OF greenbacks and also
nothing but gold. Both are great deal
better than either. You have convinced
me OF this so often that am in state OF
sublime addle. But this is not all. OBJ
serve with anguish and alarm that the more
YOU write about finance the less there is OF
finance. Let me beg you not to write any
more. If you do money will totally dlSap-
pear. Soon the surface OF the globe will be
covered with able editorials two feet deep.
There will not be dollar on earth, nor
living man, and the epitaph OF the human
race will be, "Died OF finance on the praln
without solitary red"
am, dear gentlemen, your suffering ser
want, G. WASH. MEEKINs, u. d.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07
MIR. Stearns'S Platform.

We copy tc-Gay from yesterdays wing
Mr.. FRANKLIN STEAESs-s platform. He is a
gentleman who has prominence as 4 man OF
wealth. aud also as 4 man Of business, and
much has been said in greenback circles as
to his financial opinions. We knew too
mucb OF Mr.. STEAENs's earnest desire for
the general welfare and bis practical sagaci-
tv to believe for moment that he could be
brought 10 so to the full length of the OK.
ceyses or the tangled tinanc:erS.
His platform is very similar to THUR
MANS, and cannot satisfy greenbackers.
One single point in It makes it death TO
crccnback enthusiasm. He wants the pub
lie debt paid of as rapidly as may be posi-
bic, consistent with the requirement to keep
greenbackS at par with coin. And now
what is that but keeping the greenbacks
convertible into coin? Mr.. STEARNs plainly
rejects the idea OF forced redemption OF
the public debt in SreenbackS. The mo-
ment the bunging idea OF requiring the
bonds to be paid in greenbacks prevails, at
once they would be impaired in value, andwe
should have great agitation that would do
a GREAT deal oil harm and accomplish
nothing.
But it is needless to go further. Mr..
,SrEARNs as Greenbacker is anything but
dangerous. We hope he will capture all OF
the color.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07
8 m : r, q. 4, {. 81, the Times.

-
President HAYES, In MS speech &C s,i haa''
son, wisconsin, made the following femark .
unon the state Of things
I. Tier ave years OF hard times asu en-
harrassnent I think we may look LOT .
change for the better 10 q retush % souna
cnresncy. a reduction OF the public debt,
,rt,s vast CROPS on every hand, for which
there is a steady demand, we find reasons
10 Justly us IN looking for prosperity. we
have touched bottom. and are4oW on the
ascending grade. tCheers.] 1t is not ai'
ways safe or wise to forecast the future,
but 1t is my belief that we have new era
OF prosperity before u.s."
There is much truth in the Presidents
Views. We believe we have touched the
bottom, aud that now We must steadily pusl
IN hin. There is substantial ra'caet-
wheel in the upward.moying machinery
that VIII not allow any loss OF ground
While steadily and slowly gaining. the
country viii hold on to all that Is gained.
Nevertheless, we should not expect any
sudden or rapid Improvement. That we
should not desire, for tie Improvement
that is sure can hardly be rapid. mall past
troubles from financial disaster and pres
sure the relief that finally came was SLOW
and steady. And this must be the character
of the recovery from the troubles OF ourca!.
we must bear in mind that the causes OF
our national troubles have no parallel IN the
past history OF this country or Of any other.
we have borne them for eighteen years !;
and know that they must continue, although
with greatly diminished force, for yet
longer time. But we must remember that
through the improved machinery and sklll
OF our day the means OF accumulatlng ma
tional wealth and force by physical de'el-
opment are incomparably more powerful
than in former days. SO, although tue
losses and the troubles are greater than at
any previous time, the power OF resuScl'a-
ton and recovery OF the country Is very
much increased. So that nobody should
dcSp,nl because the disasters have been
greater than in former times.
Take the account OF the imports and eX-
ports OF the country, and they show dcVe-
opment OF the wealth OF the land that mas no
pa-allelin the past. The country that shows
such recuperative energy cannot be kept
down long by foreign Indebtedness. From
1874 10 1878 our exports exceeded our i'm
ports by the sum OF S507, 459,237.
The process OF recovery OF the nation
will be accelerated by its elimination from
the questions which are prolific OF party
agitation and disquietude that now do inf
niteiv more injury TO peace and thrift than
any measure OF policy i'll existence.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07

8, the river did, by stamping and callsfor
another speaker. endcayor 20 keep him
daSSn. e hive no Interest lip the matter,
sna s content to leaveftswith those who
% are present. And besides, cannot un-
flerstai,d why IL is that two cttfzens-one OF
Them from Manchester. the other from
sChesterfeld should feel themselves to be
diyinsly Tor otherwise appointed to come
TO the rescue OF 8 the good people OF limo
yer.v whether they be Greenbackers or NOT.
A somewhat extensive acquaintance win
the good people OF that ancient borough
leads me TO suy that there never mas peen
land hope there will never Dela time "nen
thew could not take care OF themselves, and
vote for the nominee Of the party for Con-
gress.
September 6, 1878.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07

THE ABSORBING POLITICAL ISSUE EVERY
the New York Times, Re
publican. 1.-The financial question has
thrust all else into the background. What
ever energy has been thrown into the can
yass is expended upon the contest which
the Green back workers and their Demo
cratic allies have forced upon the country.
Tn Maine or in Minnesota only this. subject
commands the attention Of an audience.
The interest it inspires is still on the H.
crease. Every day brings forth some new
Greenback journal and some fresh evidence
OF the zeal with which Democrats are
trying to concliate Greenback votes. we
may regard the falIacies OF the Grecnhack-
ers with contempt. but at least we must ac-
knowledge their persistent energy.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07
Mr.. Stcarns's Greenback Platform.
RICHMOND, VA, September 3, 1873.

|
10 the Editor Of the Wing:
fear that don't agree with majority
OF my Greenback friends; and as l would
have every friend to know what my opln-
ions are, you will please publish the within
resolutions, as they fully embrace my views
on the financial question; and, II adopted
by the party, would, in my opinion, save
| the country.
You will see that am in favor OF making
haste slowly. Respectfully,
FRANKLIN STEARNs.
1st. That the resumption act OF 1860
should be repealed on the reassemb'lnS OIL
| Congress, and that the Secretary OF the
Treasury be instructed to receive green
backs for all public dues.
| Cd. That Congress be requested to pass
law recurring the national banks to surren-
der one third Of their bank-notcs on the 1St
dav OF July, 1879; one third on the 1st day
of July, 1880, and the remaining one third
on the 1st day OF July, 1881; and that The
tax on banks should be reduced in proper
ton to such surrender.
Sd. That Congress shall make it the duty
of the Secretary Of the Treasury TO call in
and paw for and cancel the bonded debt OF
the United States OF America as fast as 1t
can be done, keeping gold, silver, and green
backs on a par with each other.
| 4th. That it is the "Governmcnt stamp d"
that makes gold and silver legal tender,
and the same stamp placed on paper ana
llegalized by Congress will and ought to
make greenbacks equal to gold and silver
greenbacks being more convenient for the
people This policy should be declared the
settled policy OF the Government and the
peope. 1t must all be money legallzed by
our Government.
5th. That the Greenback party will vote
for no man, Republican or Democrat, that
does not pledge himself to use all honora-
BILE means to secure the passage OF the above
measures.
The above is substantially the THURMAN
platform. The first and second resolutions
contain identically TBURMAN's propositions.
The third nobody can object to, seeing that
Mr.. STEARNs qualities it with the words,
"AS fast as 1t can be done, keeping gold,
siluer. and qreen6acks on q par 1oith each
other" The fourth states truly that "it is
the Government stamp that makes gold and
silver legal tender." Oh course it is. But
they are just as truly money without that
stamp. Gold and silver pass for their real
value by weight. Ii we send million OF
our gold or silver dollars to England, they
are not counted there, but weighed and re-
ceircd for Just their real value. The trade
dollar and the Mexican silyer-dollar are not
IL Iegal-tendcr, yet they pass everywhere for
their value by weight-about ninety cents
and if the first had forty-two more grains
OF silver in it, the second forty-tive more,
and the new silver-dollar fifty more, they
would be worth each Of them a dollar in gold
without being made legal tender. We
have seen many gold dollar that had never
been mintcd. They passed readily.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07
Colonel A. FulkcrSon.

The attitude OF Colonel a. Fulkerson be-
| fore and since the nomination OF colonel
Richmond is not marked with that consist
ency which is becoming OF an honest polltl-
| clan. That the AbiL gdon closet caucus was
gotten up with view OF uniting what was
Supposed to he the predominant element OF
district divided upon local issue, and by
Colonel FuIkerson, through his emissarIes
and ia his interest, there is not the slIshtest
doubt. Surprising that the work hau Deen
well done. Colonel Fulkerson cheerfully ana
confidently went to the Convention atW ytne-
Vile, expecting to be the nominee: In the
Convention some OF Colonel Fulkerson'S
strongest supporters withdrew when they
found they were not as strong as they had
supposed Not satisfied with the result OF
the Convention, because, by the failure 10
adopt reputation platform. the Con-
yention did" so Colonel FulkcrSon says.
! ssadopt az its platform the funding bill"
and he and his tricksters are staying yet
outside the paIes Of the Conservative party,
although they plighted their faith anew IN
secret conclaYc at Abingdon. Not only 40
Colonel Fulkerson and those who 60 his
bidding refuse to support the nominee OF
the Wvthevillc Convention, but his man-
of-all-work, his chief spokesman, the
District Deputy Grand High Tycoon
OF the Colombo closet caucus, Mr..
d. f. Baily, is now upon the forum
TO combat the cause of Conservatism in dis
cussion with Colonel Richmond, speaking
on behalf OF The great movement OF re-
form-grecnbackS and Tcpudlatl0n-Ol
which Beast Butler and Fayette McMullln
are respectively the grandsires. While this
outside work is doing, Colonel Fulkerson.
true 10 his instincts, keeps himself closeted
and does the "oftice work" First he is out
in card telling the public why he would
not accept the nomination OF the Wythe-
vile Convention, and gives rs one slgnlh-
can't reason that the strongest repudlators
voted against regulating platform.
After thrice pledging himself to the Con-
servatiye cause-in his speeches, in the
Abingdon caucus, and by taking delega-
ton 10 the Wythevile Ccnvention-Co
Fulkcrson is the first man prominent in the
district to cut himself loose and swing into
line with the so-caled National party,
whose avowed purpose is to break up
the Conservative or Democratic party,
and with the act, as we view the situation,
surrendered his principle and his man
hood. II Colonel Fulkerson proposes and
expects to 20 TO Congress this fall by Sc
cretly planning a greenback organization
throughout this district in defiance to the
party he has proiessed to love SO long and
we'll, ere the ides OF November he will have
learned that he has reckoned without his
hosts, and to his grief will learn that he is
dead cock in the political pit.-Lee County
Sentinel.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07

sis THE TRADE-DOLLAR LEGAL ZEN
DER ?''-Certainly not. The fact that 1t
passes at only its weight-value proves TINS.
But as the question has been raised by a
Richmond lawyer, we will look INTO 1t
again. By 4, joint resolution OF July ~
1876, Congress declared the trade-dolIar TO
be no longer legal tender. In the 1r'-
bune Almanac for 1877, page 40, the reader
will find that resolution stated as follows:
"The trade-dollar shall not hereafter be
a legal tender, and the Secretary OF the
Treasury is authorized to limit the coinage
thereoiD
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07

Editors Dispatch: The writer seems to
be placed in the remarkable position OF be-
ing called upon to answer objections made
by Messrs. Chalkley and Howle to what he
did not say. And but for the fact that
some epithets hive been used he would not
think it necessary to say word. My COM
munication o: the 4th instant IS SO much
garbed that really must doubt that Messrs.
Chalkley and Howle read it (for suppose
they are fair-ninded gentlemen). l inya-
riably spoke Of DR.. Chiles's MechanicSuilte
friends In connection with his Manchester
friends; and how the readers of my former
communication could have been the 1criters
OF the card signed by Messrs. Chalkley and
Howle ] am at loss to understand upon
any pleasant hypothesis.
That may not be misunderstood I dis
timely reiteTate (and can prove) that when
the time came for Mr.. Jones to make bis
second speech according to the arrange
mentl DR.. Chiles's friends from both sides
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07

WHAT 4 pARTY.-The Virginia Patron
endorses Mr.. NEwBsRRY' statement tnat ne
is in favor OF issuing greenbacks enough to
nav off all the national bonds, and thus save
..oyer two hundred millions OF dollars paid
as interest to bankers and holders OF bonds
annually" as avery liberal calculation: y
meaning, we suppose, that the interest on
the national debt amounts annually to at
least that sum
In the same issue OF the Patron is the
official statement of the Secretary OF the
Treasury, showing that the annual interest
ON the debt is less than one hundred millions
OF dollars.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07

THAT MIsTAKE.-Mr. i. s. GREGORY, in 4
letter from Lynchburg to the Petersburg
Appeal, still insists that Mr.. DANIELS reSo'
buttons were adopted by the Lynchburs
Convention He says:
We knew no more than our worthy frien d
OF the Dispatch, who prophesied this morn
ing thuSly:
The Lyuchburg meeting's platform was not the
he cannot tc expected TO Snto mat sort OF Il mole
liz The "mou1tain" will be the platform 10 be
adopted to-day. To this h" may be called upon 10
go. Bat pretty sure that II Will not be mod
tlicd after that OF the Lyncnnurs meeting.
The secret OF the mistake in our calcula-
ton was this, however: MIR. Tucker, on his
arrival in the city last night, appears to have
gone into conference with various gentle.
men on the platform question, and gave
them to know that the Daniel resolutions,
with the exception OF the sixth (for the pay
ment in paper OF the principal OF the bonded
debt were altogether approved by him, aud
that he desired them to be adopted by the
Convention.
1t happens that that feature OF the DANIEL
resolutions was exactly the feature to
which our objection was made. We care
not straw for the resolution in favor OF
State banks. What Senator THURMAN says
about the old State-bank system we quoted
day before Yesterday; and he is Major
DANIELS candidate for President. The
sixth resolution is the only other one which
is not contained in the THURMAN platform.
1t is this that ditterentiates bis platform
from Mr.. TuURaAN's, and it is this thst was
rejected by the Lynchburg Convention.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07
m 5esreenbacks n Tlaeirs.

s. ssss.RTRKEyfr,1E d, Eeptember 5.--Ata meeting
held nj NOttoway Courthouse o-day, ON mo-
tion OF Edgar Jones the following resoiti-
t;on was unanimously adopted:
ResoLued, That the meeting ratafy tne
nlntform of the Conservative party as laid
down by the Petersburg Concentration the
Fourth congressional district, at Peters,
burg. and -tlIat they utterly refuse TO sena
any delegates to Greenoack convention, OF
IN any other convention, recognizing alone
the Conservative Convention OF August GID.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07

By the legislation which fastened the
funding bill upon her she is stripped OF her
sovereign right to control her own reve-
nues.- Valley YirYinian.
That means that Virginia is compelled to
receive her greenbacks tcoupoEs) for taxes.
The Federal Government is in The same
predicament. Willthe Virginidn say that
the General Government lis stripped Of IFS
sovereign right to control its own reye-
nues: Participated.
No parallel at all, the Dispatch is inform
ed. The coupon on the nations bonds
says nothing about "receiyable for taxes"
The bond provides for payment OF coupons
in coin, and they are paid when presented
at tile Treasury By legislative authority.
I The coupons Oh the Virginia bonds arrest
the revenues before they get to the Urea
sury, and take from the Legislature all au-
thority over them, and deny the right OF the
State TO control her own revenues Valley
Vsrgiaiaa.
Then we understand that you would not
object II the Virginia coupons were printed
in the similitude OF paper-moncy, and made
receivable for all dues to the State. The
ereenbacks are by law receivable for all in
ternaiYeyenue dues, &C., to the Federal
Government, and SO state themselves. They
are a paper promise to pay money, and this
y exactly what the States coupons are.
Therefore. IL the States 6 control OF her
. own revenues 2 is lost because she has to
/ receive for taxes her paper promises to pay
money, then the Federal Government loses
: control of It's eYn reyenue les e whenever
81 g compelled " take Tor taxes Its paper
Il PROMISES to pay money.