Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-08-06
SATURDAY PRESS.
Foreign News.
AUGUST q. 1881.

BY the bark Lady Lompson from San
Francisco, bringing dates to July 10th, and
the steamer Zeolondta with Auckland
papers to the 10Th, we receive the follow
ing late items of foreign news:
WASHINGTON, July 7th.-The storehouses
of the whole country are open to the Pres.
ident. Fine wines and liquors of extrava.
giant age are received daily, labeled for the
use Of the President. They come from all
over the country. One Temperance man
sent wines placed in his cellar thirty years
ago, and never touched. Patent medicines
asking for trial, are sent.
Suggestions innumerabe are sent by tel
egraph to the doctors, and the mails are
now being overwhelmed with quantities of
advisory letters to the physicians.
A scrap-book is being prepared with the
different accounts, editorials, public express
sions, etc. 1t will be an immense volume.
All the kilograms of sympathy will be pre-
served. The dispatches from abroad will
be kept in the records Of the State Depart.
ment.
All tho Cabinet and the Diplomatic Corps
called to-day, also seveval Representative
kilograms were received to-day Mt the rate
OF one every three minutes, mostly cougrat.
ulntions now, are from nearly every poten.
tate in the civilized world.
New York, July 7th.-Sir Edward
Thornton sailed for Europe to-day.
WASHINGTON, July 8th.-Mrs. Garfield
went for drive this morning with Mrs.
Col. Rockwell. This is the first time she
hau hnn,, e. a 4 AZ
since her arrival from Long Branch.
WASHINGTON, July 8th.--Among the dis
patches received by Secretary Blaine this
morning was the following:
PARIS, July 9TH.
Secretary of State Great grief on ac-
count Of the event. Warm sympathies.
LAFAYETTE FAMILY.
NAPA July Sth.-McNamara the would
DO ASSASSIN of Blaine, is supposed to have
been at one time confined in the asylum
here. From the records of the asylum it is
learned that Daniel McNamra, n native of
Ireland, aged 81 years, was admitted March
90, 1876. He was Sergeant of the first
battery, first regiment of mounted ar
tillery, was discharged from the army July
81, 1874, and was discharged from the
asylum in July, 1879, as improved, and it
is supposed that afterwards he went to
Philadelphia.
CHICAGO, July 8th.-Miller and Lapman
were nominated by the caucus at Albany
for Senators, in place of Conkling and Patt.
ALBANY, July sth.-Depew withdraws
from the Senatorial contest.
NEW YORK, July 15th.-A Washington
special to the 1elegrom, says: Senator
Conkling expresses his opinion that the
Albany Legislature will elect Miller and
Laphnm. He seems totally Indifferent.
ST. Louis, July 11th.-Parties Just
arrived here from chihuahua, Mexico, say
that paper was fonnd in the road uearthe
place where Thomas Pugh was captured by
Indians when they attacked the stage some
forty miles below Ell Paso several DAYS ago.
The paper bore these words, written by Mr.
Pugh, son of ex-senator Pugh, and son-in.
law of Ex-Governor Hendricks of Indiana,
under the prominent head line of "Take
notice. The finder Of this is entitled to
500 on delivering it to Mormon d Co.,
Chihuahua. / am prisoner among the
Indians. Do what you can for me-" The
paper was dated at 3 O'Clock in the morn
ing.
The dead and mutilated body of Mr..
Pugh has been found.
WASHINGTON, July 13th.-Henry Glass,
commanding the United States ship James-
torn at Sitka, has forwarded long and in
terosting report to the Navy Department
He says the Indians everywhere are quiet
An industrial school for boys has been es.
tablished at Sitka, under the auspices of
the Presbyterian Board of Missions, New
York, and there are twenty intelligent In
dian boys in attendance. Their progress is
very flattering.
New YORK, July l4th.-The Times edi-
torially says: 1t is an open secret that Ka-
lakauo, King of tho Hawaiian Islands, is on
n voyage around the world for the purpose
of selling his Kingdom. We have right
to regard with some uneasiness the trading
expedition of King Kalakaua. Virtually
the United States has n mortgage upon the
Sandwich Islands. That we have a mo-
noply Of the trade of tho islands, both as re-
CARDS imports and exports, is well known.
The Government is independent of all other
nations, it is true, and it is true that the Gov.
also undeniable that the worthy gentleman
who is King of the Hawaiian Islands, by
virtue of his descent from the head chief
who seized the Government once upon q
time, is merely iigurehead, and that he is
less Of n ruler than constitutional Kings
usually are. The 6ercest annexationists in
the Islands are naturally American planters
and traders. They fear to have their prop
erty interests transferred to the dominion
of European power. They long fora time
when they will not obliged, as now, to sub.
init to the payment of an import duty on
their own products imported into their own
country. They argue that nearly every
thing that the Hawaiian Islands export goes
to the United States, and nearly everything
which is imported into the Islands come
from tho same Republic. If annexation
ever arrives, it must take tho Islands to the
United States, and that this step would DO
denounced by foreign residents who are not
American is also true; but in any event,
although our Government cannot afford to
promote any policy of annexation, tho other
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