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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-09-27

Vessels for H0uSInIu from Foreign Ports.
Am bk Amy Turner, Boston, due Oct $40
Brit BIZ ne Frederick, Liverpool, due Sept $50
Am bk Laura r Durham, New York, due HOvE5
Brit * Viola. Liverpool, due Oct 20-23
Ger bk Auguste, Cardiff, due Nov 2o2S
Brio bk Lady Head. London, due Nov $50
Bdt bk CAEna, Liverpool, loading July "a
Castle from Glasgow 10 sail middle Of August
Am bGtne Hazard New Castle, NsW due Oct Sl0
Am bkrne Bureka, San Francisco, loading sept1
Am bk Cyane, San Francisco, leading Sept1
Am Blk A @ Dickerman, Hongkoog, loading Aug
Brit stm Zeaandia, Sydney, due Sept %
Am stm CITY of New York. San Francisco, due Octo
Am bk Camden, Port Gamble due
RalafeA sch Vivid. Fannings Island, due Oct 10
Catherine Sudden, Port Blakeley
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-09-27
DUCK.

CUIIUN UUCh,
NJOS. FROM 1 TO 10. T SAIL
IN TWINE, 5, 6, I and S-ply, ex Murray this day.
SEQ BOLLEs Il co.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-09-27

MEDIUM BREAD AND CRACKERS.
. -CEssrED -ur~ n4 nv
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-09-27

NEW GOODS,
ID ECEIVED By LATE ARRIVALS VIZ ;
IA Lady Lampson, Kalakaua, Discovery, and Australia.
Golden Gate, Extra Family. Bakers Extra, & Eldorado Flour.
Cracked Wheat. Corn Meal, Dat Meal, Wheat, Oats,
Ground Barley, Bran, Hay, and for sale by
my24 BoLLES & CO.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
Struck a Soft Thing.

They had dime supper in the neigh
borhood of Pawtucket, conceived and
carried out by the ladies. The condi-
tions of this novel supper were these:
For every word spoken by the gentlemen
at the supper sable forfeit of 20 cents
was imposed; but; On the other hand Gas
duties are always compensated with
rights and restrictions with privileges),
it was agreed that whoever could wealth
er the whole supper, submitting to all
queries, surprises and ingenious ques-
tions without replying, should be en-
titled to it gratuitously. Many and
frequent were the articles and subter-
fuges resorted to by the ladies in attend
ance to entrap the unguarded, and one
after another stout and discreet men
went down before the constant volley of
artful interrogations. At last all fell
out and paid the dime penalty save one
individual-a queer chap-whom no.
body seemed to know. He attended
strictly to business and passed unheeded
these jokes, jibes and challenges. They
quizzed him, but all in vain. He
wrestled with the turkey and grappled
with the goose. He bailed out the cram
berry sauce with an answering hand,
and he ate celery as the scriptural vege-
tartan ate grass; and finally, when he
had finished his fifth piece Of pie, he
whipped out pocket-slate, wiped it
with his napkin, and wrote on it, in a
large and legible hand: 81 am deaf and
dumh ~
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
A Convict Who Talked.

James M. Steele, convicted of shoot
ing at man, was before Judge Gaines
for sentence, at Dallas, Tex, and was
asked what he had to say. The follow
ing dialogue ensued: Steele-"I am a
gentleman, my ancestors were gentlemen,
and did nothing but what any other
gentleman would have done under the
circumstances. You have shown me
no justice" The judge" Shut up"
Steele" You asked me if had any
thing TO say, sir, and I have a right to
falkland Pm going to do it.'' The
judge didn't give you permission to
talk in that manner. In all my expert
ence as judge nothing has ever given
me so much pleasure as sentencing you
to the penitentiary for seven years"
Steele" Yes, and hope and pray the
curse of heaven my descend u pom you,
and that you will be sunk into the hot
test pits of hell, and only hope that I
will have the pleasure of meeting you
some future time"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
Eow Frontier Lass Captured a Big
Snake.


Zoe Moreau is a girl of seventeen, of
mixed blood, beautiful and bold, and a
daring rider. On Tuesday of last week
she performed remarkable exploit.
While out looking up some other fathers
missing ponies, she encountered mon
ster rattlesnake, warning from which
caused her horse suddenly to shy, nearly
dismounting her. Getting command of
her animal, she refined up short dis
lance from the reptile, which, angered at
the intrusion, coiied itself ready for bat
tie. Cool and collected, the girl, swing
ing her lariat, hit it a sharp blow. Mad
dened, the snake several times struck at
her. Dexterousiy swinging her supple
cord again, she noOsed" the reared
head of the snake, and, wheeling about,
bore rapidly off for home, dragging her
prize after her. It was undoubtedly the
liveliest shaking" ever done in Monta-
IA. Arriving at the house, her father
and several COW boys stepped out to
greet her, and to them she proudly ex-
hibited the monster, its life now extinct.
Its length, by actual measurement, was
ascertained to be seven feet and eight
inches, and its girth at the largest part
sixteen inches. The rattles numbered
Twenty-Five complete ones and but
ton" This string of rattles was sent
into Helena, and in compliance with an
order accompanying it, an expert jewel
er has for several days been forming the
most unique necklace probably ever
made in this or any other country. tits
intended as present to Zoe.-Heleaa
(lMOatand) Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
How to Peel Onions.

She came on board as pretty daisy,
and as sweet and fresh as an elegant get
up could make her. There was q chat
tering aft, on the yacht what they would
have for dinner, and it was agreed, for
fun, that it was chowder; each one was to
do something toward the same. "You
have got to peel and chop them onions,"
says dandy kind of fellow to the pretty
girl. agreed" said she, not wincing
bit, and they all laughed, and pitied
her. When the time came for fixing up
things, kind of urged to it, brought
that pretty girl peck of the fercest
onions-real red-skin ones-you ever
smelled. "There is going to be a lot Of
crying" thinks /; elf that would be
the only sorrow in her life!" Says she
to me: "Mr. Robert, do you haul nae q
bucket of water" and I did it. "Now,"
says she, "just you put them onions in
that that there water" and / did it.
Then she took off of her white fingers q
lot of rings, and put them in her pocket,
and asked for knife, and the onions
being in the water, ahe peeled and sliced
them under water, and nary tear
came, nor nothing. Now" says she,
holding out the tips of her pretty fin
gers, "who will be gallant enough to
kiss these?" Seeing I was the cook l
didn't like to be so bold, but there wasa
half dozen of the men who rushed for
ward, and Of course / had no chance.
That's the way / learned how ladies can
peel onions, and not cry over them
Bob the Sea Cook, IN N. Y. Times.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
An Eagle for an Enemy.

Near Cedar Beach, in Sussex county,
Del, resides Mrs. Wiley, widow of Alb
ner Wiley, deceased. she keeps large
stock of poultry, and among them many
ducks. Hearing commotion in pond
near the house recently, she went out to
learn the cause, and saw what she thought
was hawk holding fast to a duck. She
ran up and frightened it of. but no
sooner did it quit the duck than it at
tackled her. She then saw that it was a
bald-headed eagle. 1t swooped at her,
entangling its talons in her hair, while
she fought all she could with her sun
bonnet, till her outcries and vigorous
slashing with the bonnet scared the bird
away. Singular as it may seem, she re-
ceived no injury whatever, although
terribly frightened. 1t is wonder her
face was not torn to pieces by the savage
birds claws.-MiTord, Delaware, Chroni-
Gle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08

outer rind but what comes off in tn,
handling. They also keep we'll in ropes
and hung up, the easiest way to make
which is to tie them on to a hay OF
straw band which is better than stake
This plan is useful where shelf-room is
scarce; but the points to observe are q
cool airy situation, warmth and moisture
being more inimical to the keeping than
frost.
a.E In cold weather give horses one pail
tuli OF water at time, three times a
day. This is enough, unless you are
working them regularly; then give a
little more, but not to exceed four pail
fuls day. In warm weather when they
are brought in, first sponge out the
mouth and nostrils well with cold water.
After few spongings they will wait for
it to be done. Then give them not to
exceed pailful apiece, and after feed
ing give one more pailful before you
commence work. Don't let them 20
without long enough to make them want
more than this. If allowed, thirsty
horse, when warm, will drink too much.
A common twelve quart pail is the size
referred to above.
CoRNs in horse are different from
those on the skin of human being.
They are first produced by blows or
bruises, which start Inflammation and
formation of matter under the sole, or
cause deposit of horny matter which
presses painfully upon the sensitive
inner parts of the foot. They are fire.
quent in fat-footed horses, the frogs of
whose feet have been pared away SO as
to bring the sole to the ground and sub.
ject it to continued bruises from stones.
The usual mode of shoeing is one that
protects the tender spots on the sole from
blows in travelling. This is to put
shoe of sole leather under the iron shoe
and stuff under the leather with tow,
soaked in glycerine, to keep the sole cool
and moist. If the sole is very tender
the feet should be prepared for shoeing
by keeping them upon a puddle of wet
clay for few days, and by frequent
dressing of cold water, and by giving
the horse cooling medicine, as Gig bit to
twelve ounces of epson salts.-Ruraz
New Yorker.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08

very unhappy if you were to 60 away
angry with me-"
unhappy! What am I, that pain
to me should render you unhappy" |
answered bitterly.
81 knew of no other way in which to
express my gratitude"
"Gratitude for whatw The question
was rudely abrupt, but she took no no.
tice Of my ungracious speech.
"Gratitude for the kindness given me
long ago, and which I have missed ever
since the day we parted here by the
roadside" ."
"Are you conscious of what you are
saying, Adelina?"
Perfectly"
Chow am I to understand your
wordsF
"That I leave to your good judy
ment," she smiled, lowering her eyes.
She had an instant illustration of my
"good Judgment in the way ] i'm
prisoned her two little hands in both
mine, and kissed the sweet mouth for it's
shyly whispered promise.
I walked home with Adelina-oh, so
happy! and when I asked her hand Of
Mr.. Maxwell, he said:
" I have anticipated your request by
keeping you under my eye for more than
two years. Adelina is the best and
truest girl in the world, but I believe
you to be as worthy of her as any man
living, and give her to you, confident
that you know how to prize the treasure
you have won."
And so, not long thereafter, I married
Adelina, the love of my boyhood, and
the browning glory of my later years ,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
MARTHY ELLEN.
BY JOHN C. WALKER.

There's nothing in the name to strike
"A Teller more n common like!
'Taint liable to get no praise
Nor nothing like it nowadays;
And yit that name o. her. n is jest
As purity as the purtiest--
And more'n that, Pm here to say
I'll live a-thinkin' thataway
And die for Marthy Ellen!
It may be was prejudust
In favor of it from the fust-
cause kin recollect just how
We met, and hear her mother now
A-callin' of her down the road
(The aggervatin' little toad D.
And kin see her, sorto' half
Way disappointed, turn and laugh
Ana mock her" Marthy Ellen!"
Our people never he'd no fuss,
And yet they never took to us;
We neighbored back and foreds some;
Until they see she liked to come
To our house-and me and her
Was Just together ever'whur
And all the time-and when they'd see
That liked her, and she liked me,
They, d heller " Marthy Ellen ;"
When we growed up, and they shet down
On me an her a-runniu' roun'
Together, and her father said
90 He'd never leave her nary red,
So help him, eff she married me,'
And so en-and her mother she
Jest aged the cyril, and said "she lowed
She'd ruther see her in her shroud,"
wrote to Marthy Ellen.
That is, kindo' took my pen
In hand, and stated whur and when
The undersigned would be that night
With two good HOSES, saddled right
Fer lively trayelin'-in case
Her folks nd like to jine the race.
She sent the same note back, and writ
F" The rose is redi right under it
Your'n allus-Marthy Ellen"
That's all, reckon-nothin' more
To tell but you've heerd afore-
The same old story-sweeter tho
For all the trouble, done you know!
Old-fashioned name! and yit its jest
As purity as the purtiest!
And more'n that, I'm here to say
III live a-thikin' thataway
And die for Marthy Ellen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08

A GENTLE, spirituelle woman who
can't go out into the back yard to hang
up her weeks washing for fear of catch
ing cold, will gallivant all over wet
beach for two hours in bathing suit,
and flop around in the surf of whole
forenoon, and never complain of her
health as long as there's man with
spyglasses sitting out on the hotel stoop,
st. Louas Times.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08

OF sOds that the swine had worked over,
was used, the corn is fully as large again
as that where the green stable manure
with all its juices and strength was used.
MANURE applied broadcast to meadows
early in autumn, or later if it has not
been done sooner, increases the luxuri-
ance Of the growth before winter, and
gives the grass an early and luxuriant
start in the spring. Manure which was
too coarse or fbrous early in the season
has rotted enough, if piled in heaps, to
spread well. An equally beneficial re-
suit will follow top-dressing grass lands
intended to be plowed and planted with
corn next season. Evenly spreading
over the surface is essential.
The horns of our COWS seem to be
neither ornamental nor useful. AS a
means of warfare they can only have
consideration, but warfare and goring is
precisely what we want to keep away
from the barnyard. English farmers,
where herds are probably more precious
and closer confined than in America,
have introduced the practice of unborn.
ing cattle by clipping the small projec-
tlOns in calves, when half an inch long,
using simple strong pair of shears II
is true it hurts the calves somewhat
There will be little bleeding, but that
will stop in an hour or two, and the
calves will soon resume eating.
A DRY, cold airy loft is the best fol-
to store onions. Do net let them lie
more than two or three bulbs thick, anc
look them over often, and pull out the
bad ones. Do not remove any of thu
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-22
Very Sensitive.

IohILAND, Me-, July Il, IoI9.
MR.. EDIToR:-Dear sir, would you please
permit me to impose on your valuable space to
make a remark in reference to an item in the
Portland Argus of the Dist inst, which [ consi-
der uni ust and unnecessary to say the least The
paragraph in reference is one headed " Bold
Robbery an LeWjSton," the substance of which
IS no doubt known to your readers, as you also
made mention of it. Your "worthy contempor-
airy wishes to impress ON those readers who are
as narrow minded as he is himself, that because
jew was seen i'll Lewiston that is sufficient
cause for suspicion in aiding the burglary
What ecessty is there to speak of the person
as jew? Is he not the same as any man?
Does his honest belief in a religion handed
down to him from his ancestors entitle him
to lower rank? Certainly not! Then why
use his religion as cause for suspicion? When
Jew commits q glazing crime against the
rules of social life, or is the subject of scandal
there is a great ado, and the entire persuasion
is condemned in the eyes of indiscriminate
people. But when of other denominations of
the best families take to forgery to enjoy ex-
travagant life and bank officers begin murder
ing their coachmen, the Puritan logic is not
used to the same account. Why does not some
one now argue that all merchants are forgers
or all bank officers murderers? 1t would be
quite as reasonable as using persons ire
hgion" as proof of dishonor. / do not
wish to infer that all Jews are with
out blemish. Far from it, hope l am not
SO egotistical. There are good, bad and indiffer-
ent in every class, but what want to infer is
that when Jew falls (Which your worthy con-
temporary must admit is not very often) it is
wrong and unjust to use his religion as suffi-
Gent cause for derision. Pardon me for taking
SO much OF your space on the subject, but where
see an unjust, unequitable attack on people
who do not interfere with the rights of Others
feel it a duty to resent it, Perhaps it is bet
ter to say nothing more, and l trust your
worthy contemporary will use better judy
after all to be more pitied than blamed
"Where ignorance is bliss" &C.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-22
The Pauper Tenantry Of Cities.

Of those who exist and keep up appearances
outside the aims house, by fitting from one
tenant house to another, having made by a sys-
tematic lodging of the law their payment of
one months rent answer for the payment of
three, the number is perplexingly large.
SO large that the average business man once
well rid of his real estate does not care to en-
bark again in the hazardous enterprise of
house-letting.
Whether this fitting population is actually
in condition of pauperism, or whether by
falsehood and dishonesty such condition is
affected, it is all the same to the landlord To
all lntents and purposes, as far as he is con-
cerned, it is population of paupers He is
taking care of them as SUCH while paving
taxes on what is bringing him in absolutely
nothing.
The representative tenant who calls at your
door desiring ''cheap rent is an exceedingly
fair-spoken individual. He knows well the
dishonesty and trickery of the retiring tenant,
and "could have told you you never'd get a
cent out of him"
He is cheerfully willing to pay month s
rent III advance, and as additional security his
employer becomes responsible for the rent $50
long as - shall remain in my employ" A
month passes, and one or another of the usual
things happens with the new tenant. He
changes his employment, runs off, meets with
an accident, is charged with being common
drunkard, or what is more generally the case
pleads inability to carry out his promises and
gives you to understand it is no more than you
ought to do to let him occupy your house rent
free, and that it is the height of oppression in
you to do otherwise.
1t is not ALWAYS possible OF practicable TO oh
tain surety for the payment of rent. Indeed
this is an extreme measure. Nine out of ten
cannot give you such surety, and will evade
payment if possible. Meantime one tenant
goes Off owing you twenty, another owing you
ten, another five.
Warnings and eiectments mean fees to ex-
ecutive officers To sue beggar while in the
situation into which he has brought YOU is to
become one yourself. The city offers you no
redress for the constant and undermining losses
you are bearing. Upon the landlord falls the
burden OF its taxes as well as the care of its
poor.
Many an enterprisng citizen has succumbed
to this constant pressure and gone down to the
grave, his brain whirling with a thousand I'M
adjusted wrongs.
What are you going to do about it? This
much, to ask for legislation more in the in
terest of the landlord than in that of the law
less tenant; to claim that the city instead of
the citizen should provide for it's poor, and that
taxation be in proportion to the actual revenue
accruing from real estate.
The suggestion has been made by several
well known and long-suffering citizens, here
and elsewhere, that society be organized for
the protection of the house-letting community,
the main feature of the society being an agree
ment to publish the names of dishonest tenants
1t is earnestly hoped that this suggestion will
be acted upon before these vampires of the city
tenantry sap the very life-blood of the house
holder j. HI. S.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-22
Sunset at Portland,

recent letter from this city, published in
the New York Times, closes thus:
after supper in Portland it is the genteel-
est thing possible to ride on the Western Prom
enade and see the sun set. Thrice favored is
any city that has such a promenade and SO
glorious view. You are ON bluff some 70
feet high, the waters of the bay are at your
left, the city is behind you, the back cove
and the railways are at your feet, a stretch of
hills runs to the horizon, and there, distant
but in sight, stand the White Mountains with
Washington chiefest, between you and the
setting sun. Such picture as that, set daily
before the people of city, is itself an educa-
ton. Two high schools, an English and a
Latin, are not worth so much as this every
day sight of natures scope and beauty. The
view reminds one, by its water, its hills, the
distant mountains, and the setting sun, of the
noble lookout towards and ON the Highlands
from the hills about Edinburgh. AS a view it
is not inferior to that; it lacks only the poetic
and historic clothing which in the old coun-
tries humaniZe and give tenfold interest to
every rood of land or water;
The Western Promenade is level and wide
street. Paths and resting places are near the
edge of the bluff, and for mile or more beau
tiful houses line the street suppose these to
be among the most desired residences in Port
land. In the street carriages are passing and
repasSlng, and not seldom the young men of
the city were found trying the speed of their
horses. No horseback riders were there, but
that cheap and steady-going animal, the by
cycle was carrying smoothly along several
skillful youths Dozens of loiterers and lovers
strolled or sat on the grass, and many who
seemed to be laborers released, lay at length
lazily watching the passers the mountains, the
clouds and the descending sun. The entire
scene was one of happy repose, and fruitful to
the mind. When the sun was about to hide
himself behind the mountains 1 lifted my hat
and babe him good night Waiting yet half
hour, watched the array of colors that fol-
lowed his departure; and when the mountain
tops had lost their purple, and the skies, no
longer, orange and pale blue, had become an
ashen gray, l set out for my hotel"
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-22
Naples.


Last Friday forenoon Mr.. William Williams
buildings, consisting of house, barn and out
buildings were burned Loss about $1,000;
insured for $500.
Mr.. Sanborn's buildings, reported burned
last week and not insured, were insured for
$780,
The corn packing shops of the Portland
Packing Co. are being enlarged by the addi-
ton of a bean house 20x4O, and the ere ction of
a large boiler, preparatory to the canning of
corn and beans the present season.
The Elm House is receiving its usual share
of company. At present Prentiss Lorlng and
family OF Portland are among its guests.
The political cauldron commences to warm
up and we shall soon commence active work.
A trip to Bridgton is being arranged for next
Friday evening to hear Representative Reed
and Hon. Daniel f. Davis, the Republican
candidate for Governor "The Little Corpor-
all will be well supported in north em Cum
berlanG
Very many of the farmers have finished
haying, and all are well under way. The
crop is better than was expected and the
weather has been so good as to secure it in fine
condition.