The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-02-25


jury do. and where Your Honor stands. am not
afraid TO die. l am Gods man, ana uou Al
mighty VIII curse every man who had a part IN
the procuring OF this unrigh;eous verdict. NO
thing but good has come from Garfield : reihoN-
al. and this Viii be the verdict OF poSteritS on
my inspiration. / shall have = glorious hSht 10
death. / shall have a glorious fight 70 glory out
that scoundrel. Curkluil viii have a perlnaheht
Job down below where the devil = preparing ior
him. He was taken back tn Jail without any
trace Il excitement and has since been very quiet
No one Is allowed 10 see him except IN the prs
ence OF witnesses and under the most rigid re-
StrictionS. Some rather CHASTITY examples OF the
thrifty Yankee spirit which turuS everything TO
account have been visible since the sentence. 4
Philadelphia firm engaged in manufacturing re-
frigerato.S have offered 80, 900 to his relatives for
his body. They propose 10 freeze II and thus
preserve it while they exhibit II through the
country. Scoville. Guiteau'S brother-ln-iaw, and
Attorney has written the firm that the relatives
look favorably upon the proposition and will
probably accept the offer. The exhibitors propose
to put the body in an elegant glass case, richly
upholstered, the deceased being made to look AS
natural as possible. Various other CHASTITY Of
fers have been made. One man tenders 5000 for
the rope with which he Is hung, another, n tailor,
offers to make him "A first class suit of clothes 10
be hung in. II they are returned to him after the
neck-tie party" aud less noticeable offers of
the same character are numerous.
The reigniug eastern sensation ut present is
OSCAR WILDE.
As the fame of this preternaturally inspired
idiot or fraud may not have adequately echoed
across the ocean, permit me to recall the fact
that Wilde is the boss apostle of Il new school of
art and aesthetics III London, the aesthetics of
the too too, - utterly utter and "incompar-
ably all but stamp which Du Maurier has
burlesqued III Pupcb and Gilbert III Patience.
He was brought over here last month, probably
by some Snowman SPECTATOR, though this Is not
known. and has been wined, dined, feted and
ilattered by the swell circles of New York, Bos-
ton and Washington. In each place he has lee
tured several times 10 crowded houses, and IN
addition TO ENJOYING himself generously has
packed up many dollars from that public which
went to view him as it would a two-tailed horse,
which laughed at his knee breeches and yawned
over his platitudes and periods, advocating the
worship of the beautiful and the pure. Several
amusing incidents of his trip are recorded. A
New York lady is said to have included a hor-
rible mess in the dinner preparations In his
honor, which consisted of stewed lilies, under
the impression that the gentle six foot poet
really ate them as reported instead of getting
gaStronomic satisfaction from merely contemplate
ing their beauty and inhaling there fragrance.
When he went to Boston to lecture he found the
Harvard College boys ready for him. Sixty OF
them, dressed in knee breeches, low collars and
bearing n huge sun flower apiece, marched IN
and took seats directly i'll front of the stage,
spooning over their lilies III stained glass at
titudes &" and setting the large audience INTO
spasms of laughter by their grave faces and non
sensical demeanor. Wilde got wind of 1t in time,
rushed back to his room and put on an ordinary
evening dress-appearing twenty minutes late.
He devoted a few opening sentences to a sarcastic
word of thanks to the students which rather
turned the laugh on them.
Locally there is not much of striking interest.
4 respectable young girl named Willis, has just
married a man named Gottung, who mas been
sentenced to San Quentin for ten years for muir
dering his wife. The marriage took place III the
County Jail, Immediately following his sentence
and prior to his departure for the State prison.
She met him while visiting the Jail, became in
fatuated, and being of age married him III spite
of her parents. The women of the city are max
ing geese of themselves over Wheeler WHO
strangled his sister-in-law SO horribly last year
and then packed her In n trunk. He Is awaiting
the death penalty, and n lot of silly femenines
are sentimentalizing over him and sending him
flowers, etc. He will be hanged shortly. Judd,
the Kings Secretary, came up by the last
steamer and went directly East. He made the
fact public however, that he had n commission
to purchase So, 900 worth of furniture for the
Kings palace and that he was going to get it in
the East and Europe. The result was quite a stir
among the local furniture dealers which, how
ever, would have amounted to nothing had it not
been for the treaty fight and the way i'll which
the abrogating party make every tride count in
their favor. The local dealers claim that at least
a part of the work could have been obtained
here, and it was not, they consider, n sort of
commercial slap in the face. King Kalakaua's
failure to supply the cup he promised for the
Hongkong races is another little tr1tie over
which the papers have INDUCED i'll some mean
comments. AS a matter of course it was not
parsimony which caused the neglect, but the
oversight has been thus misconstrued. Colonel
McFarlane is still here L believe, together with
J. b. Atherton. The former remains over n
steamer, TO arrange English business matters
and the latter gentleman L believe returns by
steamer Australia to-day. The new steamers
are soon to be built in the East, aud there is n
possibility that some will be purchased ready
built if any are found suitable. so as to COM
mence service July LIST. So the prospect is that
soon you will hear every two weeks instead of
once n month from CHIcoT.