The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-04-19
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Aoberttsrr
SATURDAY, APRIL L
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.

FONEtGN NE We IL MS
St. Petersburg dispatch reports that eight
officers of the Imperial Guard have been arrested
as Nihilists.
Pocahontas is to have a monument at Graves
end. 1t is about time; she died in 1616.
The Glasgow bank relief fund has reached
S1,750 900, a sum unprecedented in charitable
annals. Lady Burdett Coutts gave $4,000.
Sir Austin Layard has been directed to resume
his duties as British Ambassador at Constantine
pie on the lst of May.
The customary grand court reception on En-
peror Williams birthday will not be held. as his
physicians advise His Majesty to avoid fatigue.
A dispatch from Candahar says it is reported
that Abdul Kahn, Russian candidate for the
throne of Afghanistan, is returning to Cabul
with many adherents.
Sankey is meeting with great success in Eng
land, the croWds being about the same as those
that greeted Moody and Sankey a couple of years
ago.
A Berlin dispatch declares that it is now
beyond doubt that Bismarck is sure of a consid-
cradle majority in favor of protection. He has
lately gained over many Deputies at private con-
ferences.
A daughter of the late Brigham Young was
she had been treated in the capital. Her reply
was: by members OF Congress and the press
very well, but by Christians badly"
The Oldest inhabitant of Broglie and the Oldest
inhabitant of Toulouse both died recently soon
after the completion Of their hundredth year.
The foolish old fellows were smokers from early
youth.
The fund raised in Germany as a memorial of
the Emperor's escape amounts to over $500 900.
1t is to form the basis of a national insurance in
stitution for the laboring classes and poor, Of
which the Prince Imperial is named " High Pro-
~tector."
With great truth an English newspaper says
the crusades of Holy Russia against the un-
speakable Turk - are always ominous of the
plague. 1t has always been q camp-follower of
the Russian invaders.
Broken Heart is the romantic name of o rail-
road station in Minnesota. Touching as this title
is, however, all sentimental persons must ac-
knowledge that Fried Liver, a mining village in
Arizona, is still more tender.
In remembrance of the cordial reception and
most generous hospitality he met with in the
United States, and to meet the wishes of numer-
GUS friends, Dean Stanley has collected into a
volume his various addresses, and the publishers
add a photograph portrait.
King Oscar of Sweden is about to circulate a
reply to Pope Plus TX. IS attacks on Freemasonry.
The King Of Sweden has long been a distinguish
ed Mason, and proposes to prove, by facts con-
hGClC I'LL tnC nlolOII Vi VIC CIdlL3 lBdb IL
Pope's attacks are groundless, and need not be
observed even by faithful Catholics.
Why doesn't some New York woman strike
out in pastures new and wager to hold her tongue
2700 quarters of an hour out of a possible $500?
Such an accomplishment would make the feat of
walking 200 quarter miles in 200 quarter hours
look nightly indisposed.-Nor. Herald.
Gen. Sherman was received with more enthu-
siasm at New Orleans than in any other Southern
city he visited. HIS reached the Crescent city at
the beginning OF the carnival and was entertained
most heartily at the banquet Of the king of reyel-
ries, who decorated the General Duke of Louisi-
ana.
The NUMBER NINE.-The miners, who are in a
way as superstitious as sailors, find a connection
between the present rush to Leadyille and the
figure 9 in the year. They say that in lS49,
California was the attraction; in 1859, Washoe;
in 1869, White Pine; in 1879, Leadville, Snake
River, Frisco, Silver Reef and Salmon River
Toledo Blade.
A great religious awakening is in progress in
the city of Mexico. 1t originated in the Presby-
terrain Mission under the charge of the Rev. Nj.
n. Hutchinson, and all the Presbyterian Church.
es in the city are now enlisted in earnest work.
A number of prominent citizens are among the
converts from the Roman Catholic Church.
John F.. Harrington, a ~tramping printer, stole
n watch at one of Moody's meetings in Baltimore,
and was sentenced to two years in the penitentia-
~. In passing Judgment upon the prisoner,
Judge Pinkney said that Harrington's association
with printers should have made a better man of
him, and gave the craft this tribute: As a
class, none in the country are more talented, in
dustrious, or possessed of a higher character.
From the printers have been produced some of
the best men in this or any other country
Geo. Peabody gave in all 50, SOC, 900 for build
ing dwellings for the poor of London, where they
could have cheap rents without being compelled
to endure the bardships and nuisance of the tene-
ment-house system. Nearly SIS 900 still remain
unexpended, but will be appropriated to the
erection of more model houses as soon as certain
leases expire and the land comes into the market.
Thus far, 234S separate dwellings, occupied by
$500 persons, have been provided.
The most successful settlers in Texas are said
to be Germans. Their settlements along the San
Antonio and Houston Railroad, and in the west
ern part of the State, are said by local newspa-
pers to show thrift, comfort and plenty. The
secret Of their success is that there are no idlers
in their families. Men, women, boys and girls
all work with a will. They try to make their
farms yield everything that they need for eating,
drinking and wearing. They are frugal, but
live well. Their fences, barns, and houses are
kept in good condition, and their ground is well
utilized. At the same time the education Of
their children is carefully attended to.
A WESTERN FISH SToRY.-The sweetest little
fish story of the season is told by Frank Abbot,
Of Burlington, Iowa. At Clear Lake dwells a
little girl who takes a ride every day in a small
skiff drawn by two pickerel. They are regularly
harnessed, and by means of lines she is enabled
to guide them in any direction. The fish are
about three feet in length, weigh between seven
and eight pounds each, and are very powerful.
When the girl has tired of riding she drives the
pickerel to the boat house, where they are I'M
harnessed, taken into a commodious glass aqua
rum, made expressly for them, and fed. When
she poes To the tank to harness them for n ride
the pickerel jump almost into her arms, so glad,
apparently, are they to see her. The young miss
has been offered $1,000 for her team.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's new lecture deals
with amusements. He laid Town a number of
rules for one to follow who would seek rational
recreations. First-They should differ from his
regular occupation. Second-Intellectual, seden-
tary men should develop the animal nature. He
said no amusement was right or wrong in itself,
but only relatively so. He opposed balls as pre-