The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-12

was shocked beyond measure, except Wheeler.
who Joked over 1t. He was tried and convicted.
The plea OF insanity even was not tried his head
being so plainly clear and his depravity so evil
dent He was sentenced to be hanged. While
everybody was congratulating himself that one
murderer was TO receive his just deserts, the news
came the other day that the Supreme Court had.
as usual, found a word mISspelled or Il page
wrongly numbered and given him a new trial.
Hhis freedom Is now merely a matter Of time.
The third instance Is Duncan, the famous Joseph
{: How he must in the light of experience.
kick himself for his long days of hide-and-seek
with the police, and the privations and miseries
OF his attempted escape from the city after the
Pioneer Bank burst. Duncan stole all the
banks money, forged the Safe Deposit Com
pany's stock, created an over issue Of it that
nearly ruined the company and bankrupted and
impoverished some hundreds of poor depositors.
be was such q conscience stricken thief that he
did not dare give himself up. fearing be would
be lynched, and yet four years have passed.
public indignation has died away, and two days
ago Duncan was tried and the Court instructed
the Jury TO bring in a verdict of not guilty and
they obedlently did so. Verify it is q strange
country and a goodly one. If his majesty Satan
1 were put on trial here tomorrow for the pet
test crime he ever committed he would stalk out
of Court merrily the day after for it would be
impossible to convict him.
CONGRESS-.
National crimes do not appear to receive any
more rigorous attention however. The grandest
swindle of modern times is the =" Star Route
system In the POst-ofice department by which
the Government has been coldly robbed of mill
lions. The Star Route prosecution and the Star
Route thieves have been the central object of in
terest IN Washington for a year past, and the
leaders of the swindle have been burdened with
the objurgations of the whole country. The
other day however, the Grand Jury reported that
it was unable to find any indictments against
the Star Route conspirators and Judge Wyllie
or will a verdict of
acquittal. There is no question about the steal;
nn. l,1,It ~ thn Nh - a. a-IA r. =.
merely a question as to the character of certain
evidence. That's all. The Washington weather
is getting SO hot that the Congressman are get
ting very impatient and want to adjourn. They
threatened to do so on the second day of August,
but will not adjourn SO early. Business is not
so far advanced as the last protracted sess ion
which lasted till August 18th. The international
Revenue bill Is the main cause of delay and
murnurs are audible against it and in favor of
its postponement till December. The sum of
S50, 900 has been voted Mrs. Garfield which
makes up the Presidents salary for his full
term. This is to enable her to pay the demands of
those surgical sharks of the DIR. Bliss stamp,
who having killed Garfield by malpractice pro-
pose to charge small fortunes for their services.
If he had gotten well their bills would don btless
have bankrupted the nation.
AT THE WATERING PLACES.
Everybody on the Pacific Coast as well as the
Atlantic is spending all the time they can at the
watering places Just now. Monterey and Santa
Cruz and Soda Bay are crowded, and fair
fashion Is sporting in cool waves SO generally
that it will be as sun burned as "A hazel nut
when it gets back to town. There is quite a
change in one respect this year at the seaside.
There has long been quite "a crusade against the
fashion in which the ladies arrayed themselves
for the water. A simple waist and pair of knee
pants was deemed sufficient, and thus arrayed
the bellies and shapeiy matrons splashed around
in the surf to their hearts content. The cos
tunes were homelier than sin and twice as bur-
densome, and under the restraint the fas hion-
ableS SIGHED fOr "a while until last wear fbara VI
something of departure and the bright tasty
naughty costumes of the Trouville order began
to be seen, while the misshappen Jumps of in
digo flannel tied in the middle like a meal bag
and capped by en inverted coal scuttle began to
disappear. Then the old maids and the prudes
began their campaign justihably enough. They
objected to respectable women who went into
the water In costumes which barred their arms,
shins and every wrinkle of their bodies, and
gamboled with Tom Dick and Harry in the surf,
The bathers got mad and said they would do as
they p:eaaed. The papers took it up and the
fight is still waging the sarcasms at the Wasl
being particularly amusing and effective. The
prospect is that the women who call themselves
respectable will have to give up the amusement
and that the waves at the public beaches will be
adorned only by the gaudy Leotard suits of Tia
doubtful sisterhood.
NOTES.
: The campaign proceeds slowly, the campaign
lie gradually becoming numerous, Stonemar
and the anti-monopoly party have every pros.
pSSt u NlCtOTy, CSlee Will D0 IQe prODaDle lie
publican nominee for Goyernor.-Mary TodG
lincoln, wife of the assassinated President
: died on the 18th distributing Wilson, tbs
, the champion pugilist Of England, allowes
r Sullivan, the American champion to knock hin
down twenty-seven times IN iiIte II n. nutes, il
New York last week. Sullivan wagered $500
that he could knock out Wilson, in -four
= rounds, but lie filled and Wilson won the
t money. Sullivan Is some forty pounds the
heavier has been again arrested in
, London for publishing blasphemoui libels-The
coolies continue to pour iii here by thousands
|, There is some trouble with the Apaches i'll
Arizona again and the able-bodied vote of that
Territory is not as large as it was two weeks
since, by several. The Indians are being steadily
killed off however.-Russia Jewish refugees
are being sent back to England from Philadel.
phia,-Over one hundred boys in the Eastern
cities have died from lock-jaw produced by the
explosion of toy pistols on the F~Ourth.-Fannie
Parnell, the famous poetic daughter of the
agitator, is ~dead.-Cuba's sugar crop this yeal
is estimated at 6O1, 500 tons a large increase
over last year.