The Hawaiian gazette., 1879-08-20
News and Other LIENS.

According to an official return, " persons died of
starvation in London last year.
A submarine cable is to be laid across the Caspian
Sea from Cape Gourgian to Krasnovodsk, a distance
of $50 miles. 1t will 10 900 rubles and is to be
laid in September.
M. A. COuvreaux, one of the principal engineers
in the construction Of the Suez Canal is to have d.
recton of the work of excavating the Ishmus route
He estimates the cost at 1900 900 100 francs and
the time eight years, and, like NJ. De Lessups, be-
lieVes in an open cut without locks or tunnels.
The editor of the Truth is sorry to learn that King
Humbert has foot in the grave. His spine is di.
seased and be splits blood The physicians attending
him prescribe the softer air of Madeira the probable
regent in his absence will be the Prince of Carigpan
his cousin. Victor Emmanuel's fast friend ANA leo
is unpopular in Italy. He is bigoted Ultramon.
tanist and hates Garibaldi.
Roman loungers treated to rare spectacle
recently on the Via Appia a bicycle race between
two ladies who both belong TO the best society and
are celebrated for their beauty. They appeared on
their iron steeds, arrayed in the most coquettish Of
Spanish hats, vests, and tights. The fair winner
was Nine LIE Ghait the pretty wife of the First Sec.
rotary of the Belgian Legation.
Two notable murder trials began in London on the
I'd Of July. those of Catherine Webster, charged
with killing Mrs Thomas, whose remains were found
in box floating in the Thames, and of Hannah
Dobbs, charged with the murder of Matilda Haker
whose body was discovered in a cellar. Both cases
began as mysterious" known respectively as the
square mystery.
is described as "l7 years of age, tall handsome and
straight as a dart, with dark hair and large dark
eyes, full lips, and the Nopoleonic nose. His fea.
lures are regular, and bis hair trained his fore
head and cropped, but Somewhat too short to be
quite in the prevailing boyish style. lie is very high
spirited and rash to point that gives his friends
much anxiety on his ACCOUNT
SPEEDY JUsncE.-The St. Louis Post Dispatch
not to be favorably impressed with the way in
which justice administered in that city. 1t says
The New York Courts made short work of Chastine
Cox. Within three weeks of his capture be was
tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged If he
had killed old Mrs. Hull in St. Louis he would have
had his case continued about twenty times lain in
JAN three years and finally escaped upon the plea of
emotional insanity.
United States War Department the whole number of
Federal troops who volunteered to fight the of
the Republic during the rebellion was two million
six hundred and seventy eight thousand nine hum
dred and sixty seven (2,67S,g 67). The great bulk
OF this colossal force in active service. These
troops were drawn from thirty-wo States and eight
Territories. New York furnished the largest NUN Der
467,O47j Pennsylvania the next highest 1865 10Y +;
Ohio next with 3I9,659 Illinois next, with 259 I47
and Massachusetts, next, with l52.04S. California
furnished 1925 Oregon, 800, and Nevada, OS0
The police have received the topaz necklace and
diamonds stolen from Mrs. Hull. They were given
by Cox to Bella johnson, colored inmate of II house
OF ill-tame to pawn. The girl was arrested in bed
with the necklace around her neck.
mass of rock, estimated to weigh 1900 tons, fell
the other day at the railroad suspension bridge be-
low Niagara Falls, shaking the bridge violently and
tearing away two of its wire guides though it is not
thought that the bridge seriously injured.
Mr.. William Huston, of Damariscotta, Me-, cam
very near paying life forfeit for his curio sty on
Thursday last, June Goth, by an attempt TO fire a
tallow candle through board. The gun exploded,
flying splinter striking him in the neck and laying
bare the jugular vein,
Henry Thornton, avowed colored Mormon, of
Macon county, Ca, has just died. leaving a brace
of wives to mourn his loss, and it is said that polyg-
amy openly and generally practiced by the negroes
of that county, some of whom have as many as five
wives under the roof.
The bodness of the Nhsts passes belief The
other day the Car retiring to sleep found batch
Of that sweet revolutionary Journal Zembo LvoJoda
under bis bed clothes, and while the search still
hot against the offender they discovered procama
ton posted up inside the Emperor's cabinet 1t is
apparent from the audacity of these acts that the
Nihilists have an agent living inside the palace and
suspicion has attached itself to very prominent
member of the Cars suite.
young American woman, aged 10 years, Miss
Leila A. Noble, of Rome, Ca, has distinguish d
herself by descending to the lowest depths Uf the
Docoath tin mine in Cornwall, England. She reached
a depth of 2340 feet, and in ascending she had to
climb up perpendicular ladders of 1900 rounds,
reaching nearly twice as high as the TOP of ST.
Paul's. The trip up and down occupied four hours
and half, and the fair adventures brought up a
large lump OF tin ore, dug with her own hands, as
trophy.
The London bankers are now using an electrical
machine for the detection of bad or light gold coins
stream of coins is gently shaken down brass slide
and one by they fell upon q testing bar so deli
caely adjusted that slight deficiency will set an ap-
paratus in motion which jerks the bad coins out at
side escape ole, while the good ones pass into an
other receptacle. The invention saves good deal Of
time and is correct to the minutest point.
MISUNDERSTANDING the rising cities of the
Northwest there is none. perhaps, that has shown
more surprising growth than Minneapolis, Mimi
From population Of less than 900 in 1862 it now
contains 4S 600, and its industries during that time
have been equally expensive. 1t is one Of the most
important milling centres in the country being in
the heart of the finest wheat growing sections in the
country, the annual shipments of -four having at
tanned to million barrels of -four. It's next most
important industry is the lumber interest which has
grown TO colossal proportions. In the last decade its
Wholesale trade has grown from one or two small
grocery establishments. selling $780, 900 annu-
ally to forty or fifty hrms engaged in all branches
of trade. selling over $40 ,00o, 600 annually These
do not include manufactures, who job their own
wares, the product of either the four lumber OIL
wOollen or cotton mills, which would swell the
amount to over $50. 000, 000 1t has banking capt.
tai of 900. and variety Of important industries
besides those already mentioned. The business men
of Minneapolis, q body, have q we'll earned repu-
tation for enterprise and integrity and they are offer
ing their wide-awake neighbors Of St. Paul sharp
rivalry in the for supremacy in the trade of the
Northwest In the language of the annual report Of
its Board Of Trade it requires prophets ken to
foresee greater improvements in Minneapolis during
1879 than in any former year in its history. unless
great calamity befals the city and country dur
ing the year"