The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-31
THE PACIFIC
Commercial bbertisfr.
MAY 3.
NEWS.
Pacific Coast.

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arriving in l25 days
W. g. Hieklin, while in n boat with Walter
5. Brown and Anthony Il. Smith in San Fran
cisco Bay, was precipitated into the water by
the careening Of the baOt and drowned. The de-
ceased was about 60 years Of age.
A despatch from Port Townsend says sc The
ship Otggo reports that a few days ago. in lati-
tude ~ deg. Ia min. north, longitude l29 deg.
81 min. west, sighted a schooner waterlogged
and dismasted. One man, a Portuguese named
Vietorine Roper, was found on board Iashed to
the wreck, alive but inseBsible.
ROper's mind was unsettled on account Of the
suffering be had passed through, and cannot give
the name Of the vessel or captain, but from the
description It is believed to have been the schoon-
er r. y. McRiHnOH, Captain O'Brien. which left
San Francisco on March 20, on 4 trading voyage
aorthward.
The steamship GTeal Republic was insured as
follows: San Francisco companies-Union, S1O,-
600; California, : 200; State Investment, 3d.
600; Fireman's Fund, $4,000; Commercial, g.
500; Standard, $1,000. Foreign companies-
Swiss LlOyds, 81 500; South British, 50, 500;
Paris Underwater, $4,000. Total, $50, 900.
The vessel cost 2. ID. Cornwall S25 900, who
afterwards repaired her, but at what cost is not
public.
American.
The proprietor Of the Gramercy Park Hotel,
New York, is financially embarrassed. His
liabilities are SI50,OO0.
Abraham Brown, aged forty-fve, died lately
in New York, Of leprOsy. Ii is stated that he
told several people that he contracted the disease
while IN Cuba, but declined to let them know
anything about his family relations.
There Is a strong emigration movement in
Boston, Lynn, Hayerhill and other Eastern
Massachusetts cities and towns, the fever being
generally confined to mechanics and laborers,
who wish to seek their fortunes in Kansas and
Colorado.
There was q national conference Of colored peo-
pie held at Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th Of May.
The leading question discussed was the migra-
ton of the freedmen from those sections in
which they are bulldozed to the free States and
Territories Of the West. The Southern planters
are becoming alarmed at the movement, and are
taking measures to counteract it.
An auxiliary sanity association, composed of
leading merchants, with Charles A. Whitney as
president and DIR. c.. Il. White as sanitary direc-
tor, has been organized to cooperate with the
municipal and health authorities in an active,
energetic and unremitting effort TO preserve in
New Orleans throughout the summer the present
unexampled good health Of the city. DIR. White
was for seven years president Of the Board of
Health and Is one OF the most eminent sanitarians
in the South.
The Methodists Of Boston have secured a
branch OF the Boston Common elm and converted
it into an arm chair. It was under that famous
tree that Jesse Lee, in 1870, preached the first
Methodist sermon ever heard in New England
when the churches Of Boston were closed against
him because ne was a Methodist. The chair has
been presented to the Boston preachers meeting
OF that denomination.
The Vice Consul Of Portugal at the port of
New Bedford, Mass, has received dispatches
from Lisbon, stating that orders have been given
TO return the amounts deposited at the custom
houses of the Azores by whaling vessels, for port
duties and fees for tTanshipping oil, &C., it hav-
ing been decided that they are not subject to
those charges.
NV.ah.r.Fr, N.FI,u (fEo ar Of Do,.,rr,, |
Nathan who was murdered some years ago), was
shot in the neck in the Coleman House, New
York, by n woman who registered rs Miss
Zuland. lt appears that Mr.. Nathan was call
ing upon Miss Alice Harrison, an actress. who
was staying IN the hotel, when Miss Luland sud-
denly entered the room and fired two shots at Mr..
Nathan. She then returned to her own room,
and Mr.. Nathan left the house. Miss Zuland,
who is otherwise known, it is said, as hirs. Bar
rett, soon alterward left the hotel. The cause Of
the attempted murder Is uncertain, and a great
effort was made to keep the affair secret. Mr..
Nathan's wound in the neck Is said to be severe,
but not dangerous. unless erysiPelas should
ensue.
General John Adams DIX, Ex-Governor of New
York aad ex-AIaior-G General OF the United States
Volunteers died in New York at IL O'Clock on
the night Of the 9th at the age Of 81 years.
In the mind OF many men, General Dix is most
intimately associated with his celebrated order.
" If any one attempts to haul down the Ameri-
can nag eu0OE uln Ou " eIDL-
The following Is the incident connected with
the issuing Of this famous order. The Captain
OF a Revenue cutter stationed at New Orleans
had refused to obey orders to proceed to New
York, being in full sympathy with the Secession
lists Of the former city. Ii was to the loyal
Lieutenant Of the Revenue cutter that Dix tele-
gTaphcd the memorable order authorized the ar
rest Ut the daslOy1l Captain, with the pregnant
condition above quoted
A game VI chess with living pieces was played
at the Academy of Music, New York, on the
evening Of the 10th ult. between Capt. George
Mackenzie, the champion chess player of Amer
lea, and Eugene Delmar, one OF the most skilful
amateur chessmen in New York. The pieces
were clad in costumes Of red and gold and blue
and silver, and stood upon tine stage in full view
of the audience Behind the gorgeous group
and overlooking the game was a representation
of Satan seated on a throne and playing at chess
for the soul OF n prince, while on the right and
left, reposing on smaller thrones, were tableaux
of Caissa, the goddess Of chess, ITALIA, the god
dess Of comedy, and TerpsichOre. the goddess OF
dance and song.
CHICAGO, May 5.-A Times Vicksburg special
says Stephen Duncan, a capitalist Of New York
and owner of large plantation interests here, has
authorized Major George c. Waddel OF Madison
parIsh TO secure for him five hundred Chinese,
and subscriptions are being raised to bring labor
ers from California at once. Arrangements arc
nsummat by which gangs of three hundred
at a time can be shipped from San Francisco at
twenty-four hours notice. These men arc hired
Mt SO TO Sl2 per month, with quarters and
ratIons. Their passage is contracted for Mt S13
per capita from San Francisco to Yicksburg and
vicinity. This Eoyemen is entirely independent
Of the New Orleans Joint Stock Company, which
proposes to import from the cOttOn-growing re-
eions Of China. This latter project will take
time, and the situation is deemed too critical to
admit Of delay.
CmcAGo, May Slate last night Mrs. Light
49, sc Daoria IN COmuauV with nine others. was |
descending in the elevator at the fremont Honse,
and when the third floor was reached the elevator
was stopped, but as she was in the act Of leaving
the elevator it began descending and crushed her
head and shoulders terribly She only lived a
few minutes.
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