The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-02
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God save the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts"
saws the Boston Advertiser, because Ben. Butler
has been elected Governor.
The Bi-metalGc Conference at Cologne has passed
a resolution in favor of the supervision of German
sales of silver, and calling in the gold and paper
money below the value of ten mark.
1t is said, on good authority, that Mrs. De Long
has engaged counsel to appear before the Naval
memory. This will have the effect of disclosing the
relations which existed between De Long, Melville,
and Eisenhower.
The Cholera Plague has committed great ravages
in the Philippine Islands. A private letter received
here states that the whole of a family of five per-
sons were attacked with the plague and succumbed
in five days.
Elsewhere a correspondent asks if it is absolutely
necessary that the pipeman, when the Fire Depart
ment turn out for drill, should flood the roads and
private gardens. drench passers-by-especially
hacks and their drivers-and break off limbs from
the trees at the side of the road, as was done last
Saturday. We opine not, but we may be mistaken.
Meanwhile. why not irrigate the ground around
Aliiolani Hale, the Palace, and Thomas Square
The following is a list of the Members of the
next Congress, elected 18th November for the State
of California First District-W. S. Hosecrans, d.
Second District. H. Budd, d. Third District
Barclay Henley. D.. Fourth District-P. 3. Tully.
d. At Largc-Charles A.. Sumner D.. J. r. Glas-
cock, D..
The Premier Tor some editor supposed to be
the Premier) says the E0zetic took over a column
of last Saturdays paper Q. Z; A. " to tell the
pubic that he ala not care ABOUT the OppOSlIlOn.
. He Tor the said EDITOR made a mountain out
of a mole HILL That's a fact,
The San Francisco Merchan says: For the
first time in a number of months the refinery rates
for sugar and syrup show a change, a reduction OF
a quarter of a cent a pound in the price of sugars
being announced recently, and of seven and a half
cents a gallon in the price of syrup. This change
is undoubtedly based on the ruling rates in New
York, which have been declining of late"
The School Board of Boston is insisting upon a
more strict. Interpretation of the section of the
saloon license that prescribes that no bar room
shall be permitted within 400 Yards of a school
house. 1t has been the custom to grant licenses
for bar rooms within that distance where II corner
building was occupied. the door or windows upon
the same street as the new school being boarded
up. The reform movement has been helped by the
imposition of Il fine of 500 upon a saloon keeper
who carried on business under the conditions in
dictated,
listing. and this with the full cognizance of the suthori-
ties. 1t is more than a disgrace, it is an outrage.'"-Ga-
zehe, 22nd November. a
Deputy Marshal Dayton. who grants licenses to-
all express drivers, and also the Inspector of ex-
presses and drivers, Mr.. William Wond, declare
the above is an untruth; there Is not, among the
200 drivers of expresses one tepeT. No one is bet
ter acquainted with the disease than David Day
ton. the Deputy Marshal, and there is not one.
There was one man who was suspected and he was
taken before DIR. Mckibbin and examined, and was
pronounced as not being a leper-but as there
might be a doubt about 1t he was not allowed to
drive.
II lOlAO"Ah6 SN'iN vi
mate of the Arctic contains figures of much inter-
est. The report extends from November, 1881, to
August, 1882, and is the work of Lieutenant p. Il.
Ray, at the United States Signal Station in Alaska.
In temperature the monthly mean of the thermo-
meter was as follows: In November, 500 below
zero in December. 21.5o January, 1852 Febru-
arv. %. 90 March. Csc. In April. 2.6e above zero;
in MAY, 21.2s June 34.IS July, 1872. The lowest
temperature experienced was 500 below zero, in
December. In this month the maximum was 11.5e
above. The highest temperature was in July, the
thermometer standing 65.3'; the minimum this
thermometer was in November, 44.S": least daily
range. also in November, 2.1s. The greatest daily
range in July was 2O.1o least daily range, 4.6o. -
The following telegram from Chicago explains
itself The advantages of the reciprocity treaty,
as viewed by one who has had large benefit by its
existence. were expounded yesterday Nov. 12l by
w. q. Irwin. of Honolulu. Mr.. Irwin enters a square
denial to the charge that peOnage exists in the
Hawaiian Islands, and declares that the United
sta{Ss. and the Pacific Coast especially, profits
largely bv the reciprocity treaty. He says that the
Islands nur, base all their agricultural and other
machinery from, the United States, and that the
whole trouble grows out 81 jealousy; The English
and French Governments would IKE 10 see the
treaty abolished. Mr.. Irwin Is accomplished Dy
Samuel Parker, an attache of Kalakaua, WHO'S
going to Europe To buy cattle, and who reports
everything on the Islands in a most satisfactory
condition, and SAYS the coming coronation will be
a magnificent affair.
SUGAR MAKING IN LoUIsIANA.-The fires are now
lighted in over 1000 sugar houses through twenty
seven parishes in Louisiana. From Red River to
the Gul1, from the fellClanS to the cattle ranges OF
Calcasien, the thousands of laborers engaged in the
production of this great staple are busy. 1t is, in
fact, a vast manufacturing centre. The cane carts
follow the leSiOns that are leveling with knives the
rank rows of cane. and all night is heard the grind
ing of the rollers and the whirr of machinery
throughout all this district. Industry is s~econding
the efforts of capital agriculture and manufacture
are brought together, and the welfare Of at least
100000 laborers depends uPon the result. while
OVER S40,000.000 of capital is awaiting the return of
of its investment. All will be a rush throughout
the sugar districts Tor the next sixty days, and
Christmas viii scarce find the years work done.
The Times of August 23d contains a letter from
a correspondent at Singapore on Missionaries in
India and China The interest of the Anti-opium
Society in the Chinese people, he says. lis of
illegitimate birth-the progeny of the disappointed
zeal of the missionaries, who, having failed in
China, as they have too often done elsewhere, are
driven to find plausible reasons for their failure,
the true one being too unpalatable." There is no
reason to doubt the truth of their assertions that
the Chinese do allege the opium trade as a reason
for THEN not becoming Christians. One reason is
as good as another, and this one they know to be