The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-03-25

proposed TO eat Her Majesty alter shootihs nei"
one Of the unsolved problems.
OTHER Events ABROAD
Show little that is novel or interesting. In the
House of Commons, on a motion TO appear "
the Gar on behalf of the yersecuted jews o.
Russia il was made known that since the crusaae
began 2Ol Jewish women have been violated, %
men killed, 20 wounded, 10000 persons maoS
homeless and eighty million dollars worth 2.
property destroyed. Hand fighting still presalis
between the French and Tunisian troops, the
French being gradually gaining the upper hand.
I Affairs IN Paris are quieting somewhat on the
Paris Bourse, the shock Of the Union Ccre<ee
failure having disappeared somewhat though the
list Of magnificent milionaires who have been
/ reduced TO paupers is something startling 10 con-
template. A big war cloud IL looming up on the
Austro-R Russian border. The bone over which
the war dogs are growing is the Siav territory
about the Danube which both empires are
anxious and determined TO control. Skobeleh 10
bold and audacious IL mis- utterances against
Germany, and EmperorNi lillian IL getting angry,
while the Car, locked in the safest cell OF his
little bomb-proof villa at Gatschina, apparently
paws no attention to the promising row in pros
pect, possibly believing that a good bell'cose
thunderstorm in the shape OF a foreign war, wall
do more than anything else to purify the
troubled atmosphere Of his turbulent dominions.
ora CHINESE TREATY
Is at last on its way toward adoption. Last
Saturday was declared n legal holiday by the
Governor OF California ana Icncuuuuo maro
meetings were held all over the state TO express
the popular will that the Chinese must not
come. The Senate had been talking for weeks
over the matter, Senator Miller having made a
brilliant speech in favor OF the bill ratiiying the
Treaty. It's opponents were a clique Of Eastern
sentimentalists who talked about the rights oil
man, a free country and the other inapplicable
platitudes of a constitutional government WHOM
the semi-civilized character OF the Mongol in
yader is considered. Finally the question came
to a cote on Thursday, the 9th inst. aud tho bill
passed by n vote of % to 10. Ii has yet to 60
before the House where some opposition IS ex-
pected, though not enough 10 defeat 1t. Mean
while the Chinese are pouring in here In multi
tudes. Six thousand are on their way here over
the ocean and thirty thousand more await trans
p~ortation at IIongkong. So many have been
rushed in here lately and there is such a largo
surplus on hand that the ameliorating effects oil
the Treaty will not be apparent for n long time
to come and, Notwithstanding the present Jublla-
ton, there is destined to be much dissatisfaction
among the laboring class here should a season OF
hard times again bring it to n head.
GENERAL GRANT
Is once more passing before the nation as a.
beggar. 1t appears now that the two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars raised for him has been
iniudiciously invested IN railroad stock and has
shrunken to a mere pittance. The htory IL a very
limsy one but it is being spread by ils admirers
asa plea to pension him off on the retired list.
Taking the money which will thus come TO him
together with the income he must have remaining
out Of his money gifts he will have Mt Toast
$50, 900 a year. Grant has been n waning staS-
ever since his globe pilgrimage. His Unsuitable
greed, his lack Of self-respect and his slavish
subseryiency to a political clique have reduced
him very far below his former high place ire the
popular estimation. His third term prospects
have faded away into utter nothingness and the
expressed wish of Press and people is coming to
be that he get out Of the public view and,
closeted in private obscurity. aflict no more the
weary public eye.
DE LONG AND HIS MEN.
The gallant individuals who, with the Jeanette
started out to find the North Pole and advertise
a New York newspaper have not been found and
the prospect is that the brave captain and q third
of bis men have persisted. Lieutenant Eisenhower
who was among the rescued has been vigorously
searching along the Siberian coast for traces l
the men in the third boat which left the jean
nette has almost given up hope, and although
every Oflort has been made. Dancnhower ant
his men had to travel 700 miles over the ice from
the ship to the mouth Of the Lena. They had I
finally to wade two miles through shallow water
to get TO land and then had 20 travel 100 miles !
father before they reached any shelter. Out o.
the thirty-three men who composed the ofic
and crew Of the Jeanette, only thirteen
known to be living and one is known TO be deA y
The PANAMA CANAL
is progressing very slowly. Death has been max
ing sad havoc among engineers as well as labor
ers, and there is a serious hitch in the finances
SO serious that most OF the workmen have been
discharged. The second installment Of funds has
not been paid in yet and several prominent bank
ing firms connected with the enterprise are dis
playing a disposition to draw out Of it. The col
lapse of the entire enterprise, at any day, would
create little surprise. The panic on the French
Bourse doubtless has something TO do with il
but not all. and De Lessep's genius appears to
have deserted him. Somehow there is a lack OF
confidence in the scheme beginning TO exhibit it
self in Europe, and the abandonment, or at least
the suspension Of the scheme is very probable.
The GENTLE MISSISSIPPI
has been making IA nuisance Of itself and foods pre-
vail generally through Arkansas and the adjoining I
country. Fifty thousand people have been render y
ed homeless by the rush Of waters, and where were
miles Of farm lands, prosperous communities and
general prosperity there is now only a dreprY |
waste Of waters and starving desolatiOn. y
direct loss of life has not been as great ~
ultimate loss will be. Congress has seq
large sums to feed the starving, but unlesst
relief comes and unless the lost crops can
placed by immediate seeding upon the REID
the waters, a widespread famine is IN prof
later in the year. In many places the levee
broken and cannot be repaired in time to
the annual June rise Of the river, 50 that d
gether the Mississippi settlers are badly of.
mediate repairing Of the lcyees will requireA
least a million dollars, and Congress is at present.
debating the appropriation.
Your FRENCH RESIDENTS
and all who have viewed the g~littering capital by
gaslight and all who have heard, during the last
forty years Of the reckless revels Of the Jardin
MabiHe will be interested in the fact
that the well-known resort has been sold and
is to be broken up. For four decades its glitter
and glare have attracted throngs from all the
world TO Alice des VeuUes and the Champs Ely
sees and the little suburban dance house founded
by Pere Mabille has become the best known re-
sort OF all the world and the shrine Of Bacchus
and Terpsechore to which the foreign-born tray
eler paid his first Partisan d~eyotions.
Marking in his career the rise, decline and fall
of Partisan public morals, it has at last given
way to the brick and mortar march Of improve
nent, and where Mabille used to be, the melan-
choly guide will soon point out the prosaic BUSH
ness house and the unromantic shop.
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