The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-09-09

frs, attempted to run as a delegate at large. but
was generally repudiated throughout the whole
city. Driven back To his own ward, the ward IN
which he pi;eously remarked in an electionoer-
ing speech, he had lived for over twenty years,
he was ludicrously ~snubbed, getting only twenty
eight votes out of eighty. This would be sui.
heient for any less sensitive organizations than
Pixley's. but he takes smilingly 70 his diet, and
the insults and snubs have glanced OF the armor
of his egotism like paper darts from an ele-
plants hide. The very plain fashion, however.
in which hs party have tacitly remarked that
they do not want him az any price, makes his
present persistence rather nauseating.
CONGRESS ADJoURss.
Congress has adjourned. and the country
breathes freely once more, the respirations being
inteIspersed here and there with gfoans. IL has
become quite the fashion in the last decade TO
remark upon the closing Of the session that u
was the worst Congress the country ever saw,
but the remark never had such a basis OF trath
in il as on the present occasion. The parting
bombshell, which tore a last rent ia the Treasury,
was the River and Harbor Bill, which devoted
eighteen millions seven hundred thousand and
odd dollars to fixing up rivers and harbors and
creeks, and brooklets. and dew-drops, all through
the length and breadth Of this glorious land.
IL was one of those community bills in which
every member got a slice. One representative,
for instance, desired an appropriation for some.
really necessary repairs 10 SONS harbor In his
district. Another representative, when consult
ed, said that IL he the first mentiOnedt would
consent that the back waters Of the Skookum-
chuck, or some other docayed creek, be run in
for a hundred thousand or so, he would stand
in. They all stood in. They wrote down, each
man what he wanted. added up the sum, and
passed an appropriation for the whole amount.
Arthur promptly vetoed IL, but the ink was not
dry on the veto message before both houses had
passed it over his head by an overwhelming
majority and made il a law. The Congressman
have all separated nov. al er the most expensive
session, by many millions, that the Government
ever saw. Representative Page arrived home
on Thursday evening, and was enthusiastically
received in Oakland. A procession, the blare OF
brass bands, torches, bonfres, and the usual
evidences of unusual popularity were visible ON
all sides. liumor hath IL that, while the honor
able representative does not propose TO endangcr
his chances for reelection TO the House, which
are certain, that he would not be altogether dis
pleased if he could take Fariey's place la the
Senate, which he is reaching vigorously after.
MOTIFS.
The general strike nj the East has gradually
fzzled out. Nearly all the strikers have gone
to wVrk at the old wages.-Bishop Nestor, Of
the Russian Orthodox Church, committed sui
eide some weeks since while under the influence
of neuralgia. He was on his way 10 Alaska on
the st. Paul, and jumped overheard President
Arthur unfurled the new Presidential flag ON his
recent trip to New York on IA man-of-war. IL Is
of blue bunting. with the United States arms In
white, surrounded by thirteen white stars. IL 10
the invention OF Secretary Chandler. and this
W u AlG bAo NAoIih1 VI ~ y ~ ~ -
Newport, having n hugely good time.-The
Leigh Smith Arctic expedition has proved a
failure. Ths vessel was crushed in tho ice on
the Sd instant, and the crew went by boats and
boots to Matoshkin Island, where the rescue
steamer Hope found them and took them back
TO England.-The Board of Trade have appoint
cd n committee TO investigate the feasibility Of a
line of steel steamers from here 10 New York
and Liverpool. The representative Of a million
dollar ship-bu;lding firm says We have iron ore
enough, and that he can build here Just as
cheaply as on the other side Of the Atlantic
Ex-Judge Delos Lake died of heart disease ON
the Sth instant. Il. b.. Redding, Fish Commits
sioner, and q greatly esteemed citizen, died
quite as suddenly of apoplexy on the 20th.--An
attempt to raise some money for the widow Of
John Brown, the hero Of Harper's Ferry, proved
a dismal failure, through mismanagement, at
Chicago. She was called on there, however, 10
witness it, and now Chicago generally has taken
it up, and will send her home with money
enough for q homestead The Star Route case
hangs on. Counsel for defense have the floor
at present.-The Gar is slowly, but surely,
being scared to death, and is afraid TO fix ON the
day for hiG public coronation.-Two hundred
Apaches are burning. numbering and making II
otherwise lively for the peaceful settler in
Sonora, Mexico. The Union Square Theater
Company, OF New York, are at the California
Theater, and have given two weeks Of magnificent
performances in 1.-THE Bankers Daughter" and
Daniel Rochat." They play five weeks more,
with "a False Friend " and THE Lights o.
London" in the list.-Lord Charles Beresford,
whose gallant exploits as commander Of the
Condor during the bombardment, and afterward
as ohiccr-in-chief at Alexandria, is the Same
States arms at the Consulate in Hawaii during
the war. Some Of the papers here have revived
the story, aid the paragraph Is going the
rounds.