The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-04-05
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COMMERCIAL Aooertiser
SATURDAY. APRIL 5
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.

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a Texas paper estimates that there were at
least 800 persons murdered in that State last
year. Twelve men were executed.
The number Of vessels ut present under con-
struction in the Clyde ship building yards is 70,
compared with lis in August, 1877.
At Mount Yesuyius lava is flowing into the
same TavIue a. was entered by a stream Of lava
during the eruption of 1872. The eruption is
expected. to become more violent.
Prince Amadeus, Duke d'Aeosta, and ex-King
of Spain, will meet Queen Victoria at the Italian
frontier. The King will visit Her Majesty at
Lake Maggiore.
4 Boston money-lender has customers, on fair
collateral, at 2 per cent. per day, and one per
cent. additional when the money is kept oye-
night
The letters to Bayard Taylor from famous men
fill fifteen packing boxes in the attic OF his home
IN Pennsylvania.
Bismarck has announced his intention of visit
ing England, but he will accept no official hos
FATALITIES and will pay his own bills
The West Texas Methodist Conference refuses
admission to any minister who uses tobacco, IN
less he promises to quit it.
John w. Young, son Of Brigham Young, has
just showed what he thinks OF the law and the
Supreme Court, by taking his fifth wife.
The COngregationaIists have l ,604 ,S4 sittings
in Great Britain and Ireland, and the Baptists,
I,O28,s5
None Of the Methodist churches in Chicago
now use fermented wine at the communion table,
and only a few churches Of other denominations
use ir.
In Calcutta there are 100 Hiudoo temples. III
A~Iahometan mosques, 81 Christian churches, aud
p Jewish synagogues-
Near the cite Of Jacobs well, in the City of
Samaria, Palestine, there is Baptist Church
mel n cor~reyoff1u uuuuheriuD ono huudrpd |
The Spectator estimates the cost Of war with
Afghanistan at "a millions sterling. A pro-
tracted resistance would bring the total to a sum
much beyond that figure.
It. is believed the British Government is about
to lay q cable 10 Zanzibar, MauTItius and Natal
from Alden, where it will join the Eastern Tele-
graph COmpanys system.
The Rev. IL. W. Bcecher says he has no ques-
ton good souls are as largely found among
members Of the Roman Catholic Church as can
be found in any other communion
The issue Of a patent to Mr.. Edison for the
electric light - opposed in England on the
ground that he Is not the frs; and true inventor
thereof.
Gen. MoItkc estimates that fully 60 1000 Rus
sian soldiers persisted in the campaign of 1873.
In Cincinnati, New Orleans, and other Amer
lean cities, the theatres are open on Sunday even
ings, as well as n great number OF small variety
halls m which beverages arc sOlu-
Such was the glut Of maid servants in Frank
fort, Germany, in November last, that they were
Offering their services at nominal wages IN order
TO secure q home for the winter.
a native Of MarseilIes has purchased the right
of extracting chlOrate Of potash from the Dead
Sea, and expects to net IS a ton on an indefinite
quantity Of it delivered at London.
No season within memory has been go %unfortu-
nate for the Greenland whaling fleet as that just
past. The whole Scotch feet secured but six
whales, and one steamer was totally lost.
The business depression in England is very
Great. The iron and coal trade in the South
Stahordshire district is growing worse, and the
Kentish hOp-grOwers are clamouring for pro-
lection.
An appeal for relief of the shareholders of the
eity OF Glasgow Bank has been Issued to Scotch
men abroad, and sent to the principal cities OF
the United States, Canada and Australia.
TricycIc and bicycle riding are quite a fashion,
able amusement in England. Lady Dudley Is Ell
ricycIist, and Lady Granville may frequently BE
seen working one betwixt Walmer Castle and
Deal.
Tho Rev. MIR. Moses OF London. says that the
Jews have not that transmitted predispositIon to
imbibe alcoholic drinks which the children OF in
temperate parents possess, and vainly strive to
overcome.
Sixteen plantations in the Mackay district,
Queensland, report having produced $500 tons of =
sugar this season. The present crop continues
promising !
The proposed tunnel between Spain and
Africa, according to the plan at present contem- y
plated, will be nine miles in length, and the ap-
proaches will have an extent OF six or seven
miles.
One half Of EnsIand's supply of bread comes '
from abroad, and she is moving in the same
direction in regard to her meat, one fourth of
which Is imported
Nine. Anderson, the champion female pedes- !
TRAN OF England, is about to give an exhibition
Of her endurance in New York. She proposes to
walk 2,6SS quarter miles in as many quarters OF
hours.
dulgence. the sensational character of our amuse-
meats. and the deteriorated character of our ,
literature, are the signs Of national decay.
The Rev. James HodgdOn of Petersburg, Vir-
sinia. who soIemnly announced that the world
would positively come to an end at SO p NJ, |
January 5th. 1879, was, 1t appears mistaken n
his calculations =
Il propose to have the Democratic nomination
for the Presidency in $780," says Samuel D.
TIIden, and several respectable parties are trem-
bling in their boots with the fear that the shaky G
old man Is a prophet
Gossius here have it that Secretary Evarts
will be nominated Minister to London in place OF
WcIch who, they say wants to come home. 1t u
is said that ESarts has become weary of the
monotony Of the State Department, and that he
prefers two years in London.
There is soon to be an exposition NJ Panama.
The buildings are nearly ready. Woods and
fruit grown IN the State, animals and fabrics Of I
the interior, were expected at last accounts.
Sheep husbandry in Western Texas has grown
ar a marvellous rate. In 1866 there were /
shipped from Corpus Christi COG, 600 lbs of wool;
this year there will be shipped 6,50O,O 900.
A ship canal through the peninsula of Florida,