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

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Minor crimes have appeared enough to make a
Police Gazette on this Coast a good and CORY
newspaper proposition, but the worst of all the
murders was that of Mary Gibson by her hus-
band, John. The two, with their quintette OF
small Gibsons. lived in a howell on IoWnsend
street, near Seventh, down by Mission Bay.
Gibson came home at half-past seven on the
evening of the l0.h instant. a~bnormally drunk
He had no appetite TO speak OF. but nevertheless,
his evening meal not being ready, he took Mrs
Gibson out in the yard and reasoned with her.
The children, who had taken fight upon his APP
pearance, remained for some time at a neigh
bor's. Returning home at half-past nine they
found Gibson III a drunken sleep on his bed.
Hearing low means in the yard. they went out
and found their mother lying helpless and almost
inssnsible in the yard. The two little girls, Tor
the boys had not returned, crouched down shiV-
ering and crying at her side, and renamed there
for three hours, not knowing what to do, and
being afraid, from former experience, OF telling
the neighbors. About half-past twelve the
mother family managed to ask them If they
could get her into the shed, as she was AFRAID 10
go into the house. They would not consent to
this measure, fearful that the rats would attack
her, and, finally, by a display of strength won-
derful in girls so young, managed to get her into
the house and into their own bed. The daylight
revealed her to be a horrible mass of cuts, scars
and bruises, and she died in the forenoon by
internal injuries caused by kicks. Gibson
swept up the blood stains in the yard, and
quietly submitted to arrest. He will have two
trials, and be set free if he has money enough
to buy a lawyer. II not, there is a faint, dim,
far-away chance that he will hang, as he ought
10. That is the way we do things here.
THE EGYPTIAN soUABBLE.
There is nothing decisive yet in the Egyptian
controversy; though the advent OF Sir Garnet
Wolseley as commander of the English forces,
may shortly produce something decisive. For -
whole month past Arab Bey and John Bull
have been daring each other to knock the chip
off the mutual shoulder, but beyond slight Skin
pniShaG 2annnniSanaoE rnnnfnn nl1f an ncpn-
sionai iron-clad artillery train, cutting a canal
here or exchanging shrapnel there, nothing has
been done. As the loyal English correspondent,
his vslise packed with patriotic adjectives, is
numerously at the front, however, every popping
of the English guns evokes "A col@mn of lau-
datory comment, and keeps the wires busy. A
rough addition of the Egyptians reported killed
already will about equal Arabi's army, so the
fact that he is still said to be present in force,
either shows marvellous agility in recruiting or
shrouds the veracity of the correspondents in an
uncertainty which gives rise to some doubt.
Arab, by the way, has seventy thousand men
with him, is constantly gaining new strength
from the Bedouins, and is more crafty and more
thoroughly in earnest than ever, notwithstand-
ing that the Khedive has proclaimed him, in
obedience to John Bulls imperative hint, "A
rebel. The biggest breeze that has been created
thus far during the war, arose on the Goth inst,
when the English took possession of the canal
and Port Said, and prohibited all merchant YES
sells from passing. De Lesseps,. who was on the
Spot, REPRESENTING IO "a NdLlu company
Immediately made a formal and vigorous pro-
test against this violation of the guaranteed neu-
trality of the canal. The company held a wild
and indignant meeting in Paris, said it was an
outrage, and notified England that it would be
held responsible for all damages. All the French
papers, including Gambetta's organ, chimed in
on their side, and a monstrous muss was in pros
pect, when Sir Garnet Wolseley held an inter
view with De Lesseps, and told him that the
obstruction to traffic would last only a few days,
and would be continued only as long as was alb
solutely necessary. The venerable canal-digger
was pleased to be appeased, and so the matter
stands at present. The solution of the Egyptian
problem is nowise apparent as yet. England
continues to mass her boats and war vessels,
while Arabi's strength continues to be aug
mented by his most powerful ally, the bad
water and sanitary inhospitality of the Nile
country. He is a crafty leader, who has missed
no important trick thus far in the campaign,
and, considering that the English are on a
foreign and unhealthy soil, fighting an accli-
mated enemy, familiar with his advantages, the
respective advantages about neutrallze each
other, and the outcome is certainly long-con-
tinued and very doubtful. Meanwhile Ireland
is taking every advantage of the Egyptian
trouble. The disorganiZed state of things con-
tinues, and O general characterization makes
things about as unpleasant as a particular re-
~sistance could, and is much harder to handle.
The arrest of Henry George, who, however, has
been liberated, for seditious utterances, and the
sending to Jail for three months, for contempt,
of Edward Gray, High Sheriff of Dublin, and
a member of Parliament, simply because the
Freeman's Journal, which he owns, published a
letter from Edward O'Brien, denouncing the
jury which convicted Hines of u political muir
der as having been drunk, has not helped
matters.
THE ELECTION.
We are in the thick of the Republican con-
test for delegates to the State Nominating Con-
~vention, and the strife is bitter. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that it is all in one party, the
o,,,-oIo 20 no 1ctIy oonfacta1 aud aoriuannfonu
as if it were an engagement with the common
enemy, the Democracy. The various opposing
interests, the clashing of personal ambitions,
the opposition to the regular party bosses, and
the aspirations of cigues and clans, have
made the meetings of Ward clubs for three
weeks past n series of miniature riots,
bulldosing parties and Billingsgate matches,
such as no contest of the kind ever saw before.
San Francisco is a peculiar city politically,
though, possibly, it is not materially different
from any large American city in this respect
It is afflicted with an army of men, about one
thousand in number who have no other trade
or profession than politics. Their leaders com
prise six or seven men, who sometimes work
together, and sometimes are bitterly at variance,
as any considerations not partisan may easily
make them, where the nimble dollar is con-
cerned. Under the generalship of their leaders,
who, for policy's sake, affiliate with one party or
the other these followers Join ward clubs, cap
ture the organization, vote as often as possible
at the primaries of either party, control club
6lectlOnS, eject InelG CHOSEN delegates TO the
conventions, and get their friends into Office, the
friends reciprocating by squeezing as many Of
the lot into his Office as deputies, under the
largest salaries, as is possible under the law.
1t is this gang who, by unnecessary salaries and
wastage of the city's money. make the municipal
expenses about fifty per cent. higher than they
ought to be, and in many of the wards it is a
revolt against the professional or machine 3"
politicians of this kind which has made all the
trouble and produced all the bitterness. To-day
will end the differences, however, as the election
of delegates will be over by shutdown. They in
turn will nominate a Governor ard a State
ticket, the Democrats having already completed
that formality. The outcome of the campaign
is difficult to forecast, as there are so many in
huences at work. The bulk of public confidence,
however, appears to be placed in General Stone
man, the Democratic nominee, thus far. Despite
the mud-throwing of the Republican press, he
represents the anti-railroad feeling generally
throughout the State, and the railroad issue is
the great one. The railroad papers are attempt
ing to elevate the Sunday Law question above
the other. in order to divert attention, but have