The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-08-30
FOREIGN NEWS.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The Executive Commit
tee OF the National Board of Health has issued a
circular on disinfection. 1t advises thorough
scrubbing and moist cleansing. to be followed by
fumes of burning sulphur. at the rate of eighteen
ounces per 1000 cubic feet of the space TO be dis
infected.
WASHINGTON. August following is a state
meut of the coinage executed at the Minis last
month Gold double-eagles. l39,76 pieces gold
eagles. $4,000 gold half eagles. 2l.700; silver
dollars. l,650.00e minor coinage, cents. 81, 600.
Total coinage. pieces, 2,6S4z5O. Value, S4,6Sl.6l0.
WASHINGTON. August 1.-The President has re-
cognized Joaquin Gracia Condo as Consul for Mex
leo at San Franciso.
ST. LOUIS. August 1.-The recent cut in passen-
ger rates from this city East assumed a lively form
today. and e. scalpers > sold tickets TO New York
as low as SO. and TO Cincinnati for Sc. The action
of the general passenger agent at Chicago. howev-
ct. will quiet matters. and rates from all Mississ-
ippi river points, to-day. East. will be restored.
MEMPHIS, August I-Evening-Four more new
cases were reported to the Board of Health this
afternoon. Rev. Father Farley, assistant pastor at
St. Patrick's Catholic Church. corner of LIdden
and Desoto streets. being one of the number.
NEW YORK. August 1-Charles Otto. of the
steamer City Of New York. and William Kennedy,
of the steamer Moro Castle. have been sent to the
Quarantine Hospital sick with yellow fever.
NEW YORK. August 2.-Curtis n. Chapman, sec
ond mate. and Neil C.. Darnstedt. seaman. on
board brig Salisbury, which touched at Havana.
were admitted to the Quarantine Hospital to-day
sick with yellow fever. Three large buildings on
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disease increase.
SAN Francisco. August 2-The Mint in this city
coined last month l39. 900 double eagles. l.. 900
eagles. q, 700 half eagles. and 700. 900 standard
dollars in all. S72 700 pieces, of the value of So
TOS. 800. This is the largest monthly coinage since
September. 1878. The total coinage OF standard
dollars to date has been Sl5.974.000 or a monthly
average Of S99s,375.
BosTON, August 2.-It is asserted tonight that
Rev. W. H.. II. Murray is missing although som
people say he is in the Adirondacks on a usual
summer vacation. Friends. however. disclaim any
knowledge of his whereabouts.
MEMPHIS, August 3-Twelve new cases were re-
ported to the Board of Health to-day-six of
whom were colored. Two deaths have occurred.
According to the reports of j. II. Edmondson,
Superintendent of nurses OF the Howard Associa-
ton, they have s~ixty-Gve nurses on duty attending
to the seventy-three sick people, fity-six OF whom
are whites and seventeen colored. The death rate
to date has been $50 per cent OF cases.
Russia has formally declared that there are now
only three cavalry regiments left in Bulgaria.
BY the exertions of Commander Cheyenne. in
London. an Arctic Commission has been established
The projected expedition for the discovery of the
North Pole will, in all probability, leave England in
the Spring of 1880, and will cooperate with these
sent out by Sweden, Holland, America, Austria and
Denmark.
The Archbishop Of Algiers has received intelli-
gence that the African expedition sent out by the Al
gerian Missionary Society had arrived at a point
southwark of Lake Victoria in January. The lead
er of the expedition writes, expressing the fear that
unless futher supplies are Immediately sent from the
coast, the members of the expedition will starve.
CHARLESTON, July 13.-Ten whites and five COL
ored persons died from sunstroke yesterday. Heavy
rains and a thunder storm tonight lowered the tenn
perature over 20 degrees.
Memphis has instituted the custom of ordering the
graves of ~yellow-fever patients dug several hours
before they die. This fact alone should be sufficient
TO drive nervous people out of the city.
The Orangemen of New York and neighborhood
ara calahrafinn the 10Th If Jnlv hu IN a~onrSiop N.
the Hudson River. Boats, barges, men, women and
children are profusely decorated with the orange and
blue, while the bands, with " Boyne Water,''
sCroppies, Lie down." and Protestant Boys
make the people happy. There was no street parade.
"A confidential friend of General Grant claims
to have q letter from him, the effect of which is to
indicate that he Grant will not ailept the Presiden-
cy of the French Darien Canal scnen-s, should it be
rendered by NJ. de Lesseps, as the ex-President has
very different theories as 10 this canal question.
A Berlin dispatch says Cholera has made its
appearance in Smolensk. The terrible epide mic
of d~iptheria continues its ravages in Bessarabia. A
proclamation by the Governor is published, order
ing a universal fumigation of dwellings and cloth
ing of the peasantry.
Harry Palmer, of jarrett s. Palmer, died in Lon
don. Saturday. July Is.
Napoleon Bonaparte. colored. was hanged at
Sardis, Mississippi. on Friday. for the murder of
Tom Butler. coiored. ommitted last August. The
execution was witnessed by a crowd of 5000. prin-
cipally negroes.
The senai-annual statements of the banks of the
State Of California show a general decrease of the
loans aud deposits. Evidently there is a tendency
to call in the outstanding loans. and to increase
the surplus and cash us much as possible. This is
only natural. but the result will be that money
will be harder to get than ever, and business will
continue dull.