The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-08-28
Foreign News stems.

Sara Bernhardt opens at Booths Theater on
November 9th. and remains four weeks.
An eruption of Mt. vesuvius began Sunday,
August list.
Relations between France and Mexico will be
resumed in October.
Germany has BITS periodical publications. Eng
land follows with 2,509, and France comes next with
1000. America boasts 1929.
The English riHemen defeated the American in
the international match at the Wimbledon range,
July oath.
A large party Of Jesuits expelled from France
have taken an establishment at Aberdeen. New
South Wales.
An earthquake of considerable violence visited
the City Of Manchester, N. a., shortly before z
o'clock, on the evening Of the 10th ult
Edison has given up his effort to devise an electric
light, and is now working on a noiseless, smokeless
and dusuess electric locomotive.
The London World says it is rumored that
the Prince of Wales will make a tour Of Australia,
visiting the Melbourne Exhibition.
Paymaster Fl. B. Colby, United States Navy. is
10 succeed Paymaster George Hendee at the Mare
Island Navy Yard. the latter having been de-
tached.
The Canton of Schwiz has re-established capital
punishment, and has enacted that executions be
public. This makes the fourth Swiss Canton which
has restored the punishment of death.
There are twenty letters in = Winfield Scott Han
cock in " James Abraham Garfield ~ and in Ches-
ter Absalom Arthur" The next president will be
the twentieth.
The journalists. clergymen and judges of South
Carolina have united in q. crusade against the carry
ing of concealed weapons. 1t is evident that public
opinion throughout the South is undergoing .
healthy change concerning the code of honor. Life
is beginning to be held more sacred.
General Grant has accepted an invitation, and 10
coming to Boston the last Of September as
the guest of the Middlesex Club. A grand banquet
and reception will be given in his honor, at which
all the New England Governors and many other dis
tinguished men will be present.
The postal department of the United States is Rra-
dually developing into a huge institution. For the
year ending June S0th the Government sales of
postal cards, postage stamps and stamped envelopes
aggregated, in round numbers $31, 900, 000-a re-
venue sufficient to carry on a small Government.
The late disorders at Mazatian was serious. A
regular battle was fought at Villa Tuion between
500 pronunciados. with four cannons with General
VanireZ at their head. and $50 Government troops,
under the command of Colonel Reyes. The killed
on both sides numbered 100. The rebels retired
leaving two of their cannons.
HAVANA, August 3-Advices from the city OF
Mexico are TO July 9th. The disorders and re-
volts reported recently from various parts Of the
Republic. though inspiring no serious fears. con-
time, Notwithstanding the assertion that all was
quiet. The situation of the country is confused
and underlined. President Diaz has called General
Gonzalez to the capital.
The demands of the watch trade in America now
amount to 5000 watches a day. OF this number
the large manufactures of the United States pro-
duce 1880 q day as follows The Waltham factory,
$50 the Elgin, 500 Springfield, ILL.,, 80 Hampden
Watch Company. 30 Howard, 20 Lancaster, 60
Rockford, 40 and lots of 'em are produced by
smaller establishments.
The United States navy is fairly represented at
Mare Island, Cal, where thirteen vessels, or one
ninth of the ships, and l,7S7 tons, or one-twelfth
of the tonnage, is either building, laid up, or in
commission. The aggregate age of these vessels 10
319 years, and their market value, exclusive of the
and the Ranger, is probably not over
$3.50 900. The .MohicGn and the .MonadaOck are
carried on the register as 90 repairing" but they are
merely dismantled hulks, while new vessels Of the
same name are being built TO replace them, and An
expenditure of considerably over n million dollars
will be required before they can be cassed and used
as fighting vessels.
The census returns for San Francisco are making
haste slowly. Those for most great Eastern cities
have been completed. New York has increased fifty
per cent during the past decade, its population now
numbering 100000. Philadelphia numbers 842.-
428, Brooklyn 49,, 493, Chicago Az 900. ST. Louis
falls one hundred thousand short of Chicago, where
at her newspapers are furious and charge the census
with culpable negligence. Cincinnati
is set down at 100000, which is 80 200 more than
Cleveland in the same State. The census shows
that several Massachusetts cities besides Boston have
made gains in population. Lowell, which in 1870
had Al 900, has now about 5000. Lawrence has
in ten years from rs, 1921 to 88. 500. and
Lynn from 28. 1872 to nearly 10000. Boston shows
as increase of 10000. The increase Of the cities
and manufacturing towns has not been made at the
expense of the country towns and villages, which
seem to hold their own. The last estimate Of Brook
Ign is 564 900, and of New York. 100000.
Late advices from Washington says that in Jan
uary last, while the sugar market was pending be-
fore Congress. the Treasury Department decided
to send IA commission Of experts 10 the sugar plan.
tatiOns OF Demarara and the West Indies. with O
view to determining the truth or ialsiiy Of the pre-
vailing reports that artificial means were being
used to degrade the colOrs OF sugars intended for
to the United States. Three gentlemen
were selected. one from the Smithsonian Institute,
ono from the Treasury Department., and the third
a sugar expert from the New York Custom House.
They have recently returned after an absence Of
nearly six months. and have prepared an elabo-
rate report, covering over 100 pages ioOlscap.
was today submitted 10 Assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury, French. the report shows that
the iIauds " hich have been attempted in the intro
ductinn of suglTs into This country are even great
er than hld b''U generally supposed ; that among
the sugar Iianlers in DrmaraIa no secret was
made of the practice of artitcially cOl0ring sugars
Intended Tor ihr Unitrd States market that suR-
as testing - TO IG Dutch standard, which were
exported TO Grrat Britain neatly pure. were.
prepared for export TO this country. arIihci-
coloTed TO grade apparently below No. 7. ID.
and that such sugars which. from their color,
would be expected TO test IS degrees OF saccharine
strength, was found, when submitted to the polar
scope. to contain 81 degrees Of pure sugar. IL is
believed by the Treasury officials mat the results
Of this commission will fully vindicate the policy
Of the department in insisting upon The use Of the
pOlariscope in determining the duiiable quality
Of imported sugars.