The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-11-22

To the Editor Of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser :
Sir: We hand you a samph OF Cuzco Corn"
q small quantity having beeusent US for distribu-
ton to those who will take cre oft Our objecti is
to introduce it into this Kingdom. Parties requiring
it will please call on US. LANE & Co.
The following is from thu Rural Press of San
Francisco
CUzCo CoRN.-For many years past Tiburcio
Parrot, Of this city. has ben endeavoring to OBJ
tain, through bis correspondents in Peru. some of
this wonderful aud famous corn, for the purpose
Of introducing it in this Stae. His attempts have
at last resulted in success, md by the last Panama
steamer be received 1900 pounds OF it 1t has at
tracted great attention and caused universal won
der, owing to its color. aze and quality, each
grain being very soft. erisI and full Of meat or
-four. The size of the grain is from three 10 four
times the ordinary corn. aid it looks like small
well-baked crackers. Thiscorn is raised by the
Indians in the province d CuZco, Peru, from
which it derives its nam,. Cuzco is situated
about $50 miles from the sea and has an elevation
of over 1900 feet. The climate in winter. which
is very long. is very severe with heavy snow and
cold. The summer is short, being very cool and
temperate. About eight m'nths ago Mr.. PARROT
received from a friend IN Peru a half dozen grains
of the corn. some of which we're badly broken. A
couple Of the grains were plsnted in the garden.
go Folsom street, late in the spring. say in May.
1t has grown well, the stalk being now between IA
and Is feet high, and is bearing two ears, one
b out II inches long and the other 9. Fearing
that this corn would not mature, it having been
planted so late, and wishing to secure the seed.
Mr.. PARROT had the stalk enclosed in glass. and it
is now maturing finely. Mr.. P. would have not
gone to this expense and trouble had he supposed
that he would receive the lot mentioned but af-
ter having written for il for so many years be
supposed that it could net obtained in quantity.
As our readers are aware, a few ounces of this
corn was received By the press last spring and
planted in the University grounds in Berkeley.
1t has grown finely, and the success of the grain
in California seems assured.
A fourth Chinese theatre is being erected in
San Francisco. 1t will be a substantial iron
building, seating $500 persons. There used to
be hot rivalry, and the three theatres lost money.
Then the competing managers pooled their issues
in the Wing III Ping, or Company OF Eternal
Peace; but the peace has already been broken by
the new project.
By actual enumeration thirty-three democratic
newspapers in Mississippi approve and commend
the murder of Dixon for the a%trocious crime of
being an Independent candidate for Office in oppo-
sition to the regular democratic ticket.
While the mining towns of Utah, which are ex-
clusively Gentle, are rapidly increasing in wealth
and population, the Mormon villages are decreas-
ing and drying up. st. George, formerly known
as Brigham's Southern capital is dead, and where
formerly three stores were comparatively well
supported, there is not enough doing to support
one.