The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-08-13
News Items.

General Grant is evidently contemplating flank
movement upon the politicians who are preparing to
capture him at San Francisco.
At Seattle Washington Territory, there is barrel
factory being erected. which when pleted and in
operation will turn out 1000 barrels per week.
fire occurred the Bullion mine, Mt Virginia
City, Nevada, on the Sd of July last, doing great
damage to the mine. The worst part of the report
is that several miners lost their lives by being suo
Gated before they could reach the surface.
While the steamer 0rpheus, bound for Koeuigs-
burg, lying in the harbo- of Stettn her boiler
burst and many persons aboard were killed. Ten
bodies so far have been recovered.
The United States is the greatest raisin
country in the world, and uses annually raisns
than the whole of Europe The market is mainly
supplied from Spain. the raisins known "Mala-
gas being considered the best.
The Canadian Finance Minister saws that for IL
years they reraned from imposing reciprocal duties
on American products. and they imposed them now
with the that if the United States reduced
their duties Canada would follow suit.
The smallest living in the Church of England is
that Of Shipton, near Ludlow in the diocese of Here
ford. which is valued at 93 per annum. The pre-
sent incumbent is the Rev. b. Mure, who has been
in the Church for more than half q century.
correspondent insists that the Southern people
can make honorable terms with Grant next year, as
an invncibe candidate for President and that he
quite willing to repeat the treaty he made with them
at Appomatox fourteen years ago last April.
There are two beautiful women made forever mis-
cradle by the ambitious schemes of reckless pretend
ers TO rUyalty-the fir lunatic Carlotta widow of
Macmillan, in her asylum near Brussels, and Eu-
genie, the childess widow. at Chiselhurst.
There is said to be in Milwaukee, U. s., the cham
piou marrying Justice. There is nobody to equal the
neatness and dispatch with which he ties the snot
This is the way he does it: Have 'er?' Yes"
I" Have lin ?' Yes" married; two dollars -
-Four suits pending in the Twenty third
District Court of California against james c. Flood
the Pacific Refinery and Bullion Exchange, and the
Executors of the late John s. 0'Brien, aggregsting
the effect of tying up the estate of O'Brien, which
was rJady for distribution and be any thing but &C
ceptAble to the legatees Of the ate millionaire
The Arctic exploring ship Resolute, which formed
part of Captain Aust'ns expedition in search of Sir
John Franklin in 1885, is to be broken up at Chat
ham d"ckyard. Ornaments and pieces of furniture
will be made from the best timbers, which the adm
rally intend to present to the president the United
States souvenir of the occasion when the Reso-
luto was found by American whalers abandoned in
the ice aud the government of the United States had
her repaired and reftted and presented to the Brit
ish admiralty.
From Forney's Progress. under date of July ~,
among other items of interest we find that in the
County of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of the 1870 900
cases of leaf tobacco raised in the Unted States in
1878, thirty per cent. raised in Lancaster Co..
and that during the year ending Jun. 80. 1879 lI6
Sli,OOO cigars were made in that county upon which
the tax paid into the u S. Treasury was $500 $685.
For single county we think this l. a good sh wing
from crop which is .idered a fancy crop among
the farmers of Lancaster county. The cultivation of
tobacco is comparatively branch of agriculture
there and is destined to occupy i'm puraut place
among the products OF that rich and fertile county.