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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-09-21

We want all the good
people Charles county to
know that we are selling
cheaper than any other firm
in the City. We guarantee
satisfaction. We keep a
Large Assortment of GRO
CERES, WINES, IL
QUORS, FLOUR s FEED.
Goods delivered on cars
free of charge. When you
come up don't fail to call
and see
sep Him FOWLER BROS.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-09-21
II THE

Baltimore and Potomac Railroad will
make its terminus there there can be
no question Of its paving. The harbor
at the mouth of the Wicomico is perfect
and never closed by ice Norfolk steam
ers could connect here-every coal yes
sci save one hundred dollars a trip,
which is paid for towing" to Alexan-
dria. A ferry boat to St Mary's coun-
ty would bring that county trade-thus
the humiliation of not having a town in
Charles county, would be removed.
WITH INTELLIGENT
legislation for the protection of oysters,
Lancaster's and Cedar Point will supply
the whole world and rest of mankind
with these necessary blvalves.
MR. WILLIE SKINNER,
the very intelligent Chief Clerk in Tobac-
co Warehouse No. =, who has been Wis
iting his uncle, Dr. Lancaster, Git is
whispered that he radiated every day to
The beautiful home of one of our fair
daughters) advises Charles Countians to
spend the time they employ in raising
"a and SIS tobacco in grabbing or fish
ing or improving their farms, as only
fine tobacco nicely handled can pay.
Orr WEALTH
is so good that Or. H. regrets that he
did not take a few weeks more holiday
lie could write up New York and Long
Island with Coney Island and an inter
csting tale untold" &c. The Doctor
has led very retired and quiet life
since his return, never leaving Milton
Hill" except to attend to his professional
duties
A TOURNAMENT
is spoken of for the benefit of the Rev
Nr Told's church in piccawaxqn Mr.
Todd has been for so very many years
50 (avorably known to all christians in
Charles. the ladies' of his parish are so
energetic and (sopula) that anything
they undertake must prove a success. NJ
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-09-21

SENSIBIE MEN ere This thai Of tho
many diseases and arrangements of the body
each has a separate cause or origin, and that
each needs different method of treatment ia
order to effect a cure, and moments reflection
must convince that any OF the quack nostrums
foisted upon the public claiming to cure all ofa
number of Numerically different diseases musI
prove failures even If we do not call them hum
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-09-21
School Notice,

DDS for Pomonkey School House contin.
ID u@d, and bids for one other. colorel
School House at Brice Chapel, near Bryan.
town is invited.
The Board of School Commissioners will
meet in Port Tobacco on
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WITH INTELLIGENT

legislation for the protection of oysters,
Lancaster's and Cedar Point will supply
1.-THE whole world and rest of mankind
With these necessary blvalves.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09
The Parker. Land Sale to the Natives.

EDr1oR GAzET1E:-It is always TO be regretted
that any discussion should become IN any degree
personal in its character as II is liable TO do mus
tice to It's subjects, well as infiict undeserVeu
wounds. In the above case, you remark that
,gjoyjfy of the Court rigifiy fOrHd that Srcb ron
tract crisied" Our Supreme Court has always
consisted of able and upright men. It's decisions
are cunfided in the judgment of Intelligent ana
conscious men. but all Courts are liable TO mis-
takes. They are fallible men. They Judge Dy
such evidence as they have, which Is often only
partial, and then too, in common with other men,
they are liable TO errors of judgement. The de
csiOn in this case, that there was contract, was
based upon the testimony presented-and YET II 7
seems that no receipt, running through peIlou VI
nine wears, in Mr. PITkerS OlrH Hujid irTttuW, al
Indies 10 any agreement or contract of sale. II such
contract existed verbal or written land only YER
bal one is alleged 1t is unaccountable that no
Gllusion made TO 1t IN any receipt II u exist
ed any alluson to ii must have been Intentionally
and studiously avoided and this could hardly have
been except for fraudulent purposes, OF which no
living man. think will accuse or suspect the de.
ceased father In my opinion, the omission ol
any ausion in the series of receipts TO the con
tract is due to its non-existence. The winter oI
the receipts had made no such agreement nor hau
he dreamed of doing so. Mr.. Parker was proyerD-
tally kind and lonien to the natlVes theY hau lor
wears run their cattle this land without charge,
and it was finally rented to them at $40 per year,
but true TO his nature he was enient IN the cOec-
tion of his rents and allowed them 70 run on whel
n more exacting business man would have enforced
nayment, and have no doubt but that the 500
paid through these years and the SlUO still uue'
was for rent previously unpaid. Mr.. Parker IN all
matters of business consulted his wife This was
his habit Upon the purchase of this land and the
subsequent sale of one acre from It, she was con-
sulted-but of this alleged verbal cont act OF sale
made years before his death, neither she, nor one
of her family ever heard one word, until after hls
death. In the absence of any such knowledge, III
the absence of any allusion TO any such contract
or agreement of sale in any of the series of re-
ceipts running through several years, written OF
signed or both in Mr.. Parker's own hand, and
knowing as well as did Mr.. Parker and all of his
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

Az erroneous impression Is conveyed 10y
an article published IN the daily p. c. 4,
Of May LIST. 1t is made to appear that
there Is some legal obstacle to the paying
of more than 1,500 to district physician.
We know of no such legal restriction: the
Board OF Health may have made rules for
itself in regard to this matter. but we
know Of no reason why the self made rule
should not be changed. The legislative
grant for this purpose is a lump sum and
reads on the appropriation bill, "Govern
ment Physicians and Medical aid S50.OOO.- =
There Is no necessity to tie themselves
down to paying such wretched pittances
as 81, 900 or 81 800 TO men who have little
opp0stunity of getting any outside prac-
tee II Is not to be supposed that any
man, worth his salt as physician, is go
ing to bury himself Ii any little out of
the way hole for S1,50O year. A doctor
requires special training. extending over
a considerable term of years during which
he receives no return for his outlay. When
he commences to practice be expects to
get a good living, and with even very
moderate aspirations SI.50O year, as
prices are in the out districts. a man has
but starvation pittance That the Board
of Health can, if they wish It, pay very
ample salaries, is evidenced by the fact
that during the smallpox epidemic very
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

On May 5th. 1888, His Excellency John
NJ. Kapena. Minister of Finance, has at
length complied with the law which re
quires the said Minister of Finance to
place before the public quarterly y full
statement of the disbursements and re
ceipts of the Treasury of the people OF
Hawaii. This will be found on oupfourth
page. 1t has taken some nine months OF
more to get this valuable document out,
and naturally the public feel particularly
thankful to that excellent officer for his
condescension in at last giving the Ha-
vain world a knowledge of how it stands
financially. As not one person in twenty
Will probably take the trouble to fully go
into the figures, and as the excellent Min
lister aforesaid has not supplemented his
statement with little tabular form, CIV
ing in a few lines of figures easily scanned
by the busy eye, recapitulation of the
prominent expenditures and receipts, we
must take upon ourselves the task of giving
a little analysis for the benefit of those
who have no time to analyze for themselves
OF course our analysis is from the printed
form before us, and if any discrepancies
are discovered. the table is in fault, not we
Well. then, TO commence with, we find that
the total expenditures of the Hawaiian
Government from March 81, 1882, to March
81. 1883, aggregates S1,3S5, ,531 81. This
avnanNit11rp was sDpnt as follows
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

mn S55. .SS3 42 have been spent during
one wear. and only $4,000 were voted. On
fine other hand. with an appropriation oi
S5O ono for Government physicians anu
medical treatment, less than szO,VOO mas
been spent. and the country IS crying aloud
fo, ,nedical assistance. The hospital vote
hos been drawn upon to the tune OF
SIC 076. and as we have only one hospital
for 4bat the leper refuge at hakaako, we
,,1nst opine that hospitals are very expen-
siye places, and that we cannot get much
for the balance of the appropriation IN
s,,ite of those devoted Roman Catholic
Sisters with whom the Premier is nego-
tiating to take charge of the buildings
free gratis and for nothing"
We have only one more thing to say,
and that is that not only are the tables, as
printed, completely irreconcilable the one
with the other, but they are even faulty IN
fact: they purport to be statement from
1923. ending March 81: the public are
led to believe that the full year for the
Postal Department is given. We are cred
iblv informed that this is not the case, that
there are only nine months of postal re
ceipts given. and that far from there being
a deficit there is an actual increase IN the
income of the department.
The :act is, that for any practical pur-
pose the tables, as printed, are worthless.
They display on the face of them an utter
incapacity Of the nature of accounts; no
small book keeper, working on starvation
salary. would dare to give such blunder-
ing statement to his employer Taken
however for what they are worth they
show what kind of a Government we have;
it Is composed of an extravagant, reckless
set of men. who do not understand what
they are about, who spend as the fool and
the spendthrift. who lavish cash on follies
and leave necessaries to take care of them
selves. By their own showing they have
been more wasteful than their predeces-
ors. who had, in March, 1882, balance of
S126.541.05 against S4S,230.7l, but they
have been wasteful without excuse, in that
they have had about $4,000 more of ac-
tual income and loaned money to the
amount of over S200,000 additional. With
out the money obtained by loan the Gov
ernment would have been absolutely bank
rupt This is not a nice state OF affairs
and it is decidedly not one which will in
spire confidence in the powers that be. II
| is a matter of no surprise that so damag.
ing statement has been postponed, and
that the duty to publish the quarterly ac
counts of the Hawaiian nation has been
delayed as long as possible.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

family cannot believe that any such contract
ever existed. For fortys years have done anu
eo II in every phase Of life have, not unfrequently
been called to counsel and advise, and any such
sale without the concurrence of his wife and tend
ing TO defraud the natives, is at war with al the
antecedents of the family, anu utterly heIeoIole,
the testimony before it, yet have no belief that
any such contract ever existed, and believe tha'
the whole money, paid and due, was but the ac-
cumulated rent -,
FTcnse this trespass upon your columns. felt
that This statement was but the tribute of justice
and friendship due to the family from one who
has long known them well.
yo1rs truIv $ n. CASTLE.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

Cbiof Jnstice Judd rendered his opin-
ion last Saturday in the suit IN equity OIL
tbe Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company
AGAINST the Oriental Telephone Company
III London limited), dismissing the plant
if-s hill of complaint with costs.
The bill alleged that the defendant by
its agent. Z. 2. Adams, obtained 45O OF
tb9 shares OF the Company complainant,
In the absence from the country OF ID A
Widemann. President of the Company,
by threatening the Secretary, G. 0. Berger,
with loss of his place if he refused to Is
sue the shares. and by assuring S. g.
Wilder. the Vice President. who signed
the certificate of shares thattthe London
Company had assumed all the obligations
of its vendor, the Oriental Telephone
Company Of Boston; that the Honolulu
Company had been assured by Samuel
Hubbard. agent for the Boston Company.
that no telephones could be imported,
used or sold in the Hawaiian Islands
without the consent Of his Company, and
that he promised to secure to the Homo
lulu Company the exclusive, importa
ton and sale'o telephone instruments III
this Kingdom. if his Company should re
ceive 450 shares; that this promise was
illusory, fraudulent, not performed, and
the 450 shares ought to be cancelled.
The defendants answer denied the
charges of fraud, threats, and misrepre
sentation; alleged that the promise OF
Hubbard was confined to the telephone
| instruments held under the patents of the
Boston Oriental Bell Telephone Company
and that this promise had been kept; also
that the London Company had spent
much money in the expenses of himself
and assistants, who came here from Sar
Francisco and organized and started the
Honolulu Company, as well as 81 ,233 fol
plant transferred to the latter Company
The answer denied knowledge on the part
of the defendant Company of the prom
ises alleged in the plaintiffs bill of com
plant, and denied the authority of al
agent TO make any such promises.
The hearing Of evidence and arguments
of counsel occupied two days. The cour-
in its opinion sustains the statement made
in the answer concerning the nature o
the agreement made by Mr.. Hubbard, anC
finds that the agreement had not beer
| broken: but the court gave no opinion
upon points made by the defense, that the
London Company was purchaser fol
value without notice.
All this expensive, and in some respects
irritating litigation well illustrates th'
| immense mistake which people make il
being their own lawyers, for it seems tina
all the papers for the organization of th'
Honolulu Company were drawn withou
reference to counsel or attorney. Thu
way of doing business may and does fur
nish the legal profession with tirst-clas
law suits and fees; but it is not the way il
which business of any Importance is usu
ally done in older communities.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

Tn number of cases of fever which we
have amongst us just now, causes every
citizen. who cares for his own health and
of those under his charge. to consider the
causes which bring on an occasional cpl
demic Of this kind. First and foremost
must stand the question of the water SUP
ply. Let any one take jug of water
from the tap. and il requires no chemical
analysis TO see that the stuff is really I'M
fit for drinking purposes IT is positively
full of vegetable matter, great pieces of
linn are floating about in il and many
minuter fragments can be detected by
careful observation There is secondly
much decaying matter about town, more
than usual in fact, for in consequence Of
the absence Of anything like rains, a con
siderable quantity of refuse which would
ordinarily have been washed into the har-
bor. remains to rot and tester on shore
Others and purely local causes may be
in fact. are at work but these two. bad
water and decaying refuse are undoubt-
edly prime promoters of any fever that
may be about Our advice to all house
holders would be TO either filter or better
still boil all the water that is to be used
for drinking purposes, no one can be too
careful in such an important matter.
The Government should see to it that the
garbage and filth of the town is properly
cleared away, and as we showed only last
week there had been, for some cause or
another. an entire cessation of this work for
several weeks. A Government which felt so
strongly about the sanitation of Homo
lulu, as to ask for a very large appropria-
ton for the purpose whose watchword
has been the health of the people, cannot
do anything else but take active measures
to preserve the health of the people In
spite of promises up to the present there
has been neglect Now there is an oppor
tunity to awake.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09
Notice of Intention to Foreclose
Mortgage.

Il Eli OF sale contained in rrrlIin nIarfrer dsirf
sept ith. isss made By Wou- Kanl bed Erta sl1z a
Wailukus MIuI. tu W. y. hrluu. Hf s1Ia NlIlTEt
of record in tir Office Of the la.trHr ef crFrsref
ir Libcr q, pages ~ and - and Cor HrHsfn rI fHH
conditions iu s1ft mnl-lcr frfH fnIfHIni ir Ht ta
e-t that il 1uu siugilr. fhr lands. lrursarlr arl
hcrrditHuIrut- i1 siu uiHTilleH deed arfs.r-I eln
no public auction ulrnuui ul flr breach Hl tGH
ditious a- hrrriaIr Irfsrr uirufiuuHl
The property iu said rurrl-r lrHrfHrl nHIH aI IHr
light boz thr i-e of certain reCr ui f.-r Ial a'is1H
u kulhuv1a- Maiiu.ls also, afurr Dol Wrnrr. krHln
by the name 90 WOu- Kong
W b. kEANr uuffear.r
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

UNDER the management Of the Hon. ii.
NJ Whitney. the Post Office is rapidly i'm
proving, and it will continue to improve,
for reforms TO be of value must neces-
sarily be somewhat slow. and every
change cannot be made at once. During
the quarter ending March a1st. 1882
letters have been despatched to the United
States, G,547 to Europe and there have
been also 2SS registered letters. making
in all 25.427. During the same period
6.S94 newspapers have gone TO the United
States and 2005 to Europe. This shows
how active our people are in communica
ting with those abroad. Then of course
there is the large and ever increasing in
ter island mail and the foreign mail com
ing into the country To handle the
mails in Honolulu, there are the Post
master General. Assistant Post master
and six clerks. and when we think how
much work has to be done. this force
seems by no means too large. Among those
employed in the Post Office great credit
must be given to Mr. Peterson he is
cashier of the bureau and has charge of
the money order accounts he shows
special qualifications for the work. more
over. he supplements it by preparing
statistics which are marvels Of detail and
neatness. Mr.. David Manalu. another
employee also deserves mention as having
developed fitness for the business Mr..
Nlanalu Is one of the few Hawaiians who
have shown this aptitude
Outside of Honolulu there are some 40
post offices these require more system
about them. Mr.. Whitney has visited
great number already for the purpose OF
personal inspection and plans for intro
ducing a systematic delivery and despatch
OF letters may shortly be looked for.
Financially the " Post office is flourish
ing !" for the year ending March 31st the
receipts were nearly $4,000, and there is
every prospect of an income of over $50,
600 for the biennial period as against
S4L73713 for the period ending March
3lst, 1882 Would that every department
Of the Government were in as good hands
as the Post office.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

Tur many improvements I'm the way of new bull
dincs. now going on in this CITY, is indicative Of
the clicrrv and enterprise that characierizes our
capitalist and land owners. Among those most
prominent in his energy and nm the erection Of
substantial buildinus Is uur worthy fellow citizen
Mr. James Campbell. who has not hesitated TO in
west his capital iu Improvements that will be Of
lasting bcuciit 10 the mercantile community, offer
inr the new buildings do, ESPECIALLY noticeable
u Beaver Block In the square bounded by Nor
chaui Queen. Fort and KAahumanu streets. in
creased and enlarged facilities for the transaction
~ business. Other ventures which tins gentlemen
has engaged IN has also rcdounded 20 the benefit
~ thr community. notably his undertaking. the in
iruduciiun of artcsian well boring into this king
dom and which custly experiment on his part has
.lnnn nrnNul D Lln..inE % mamN lanu owner.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09
NOTES.

TN report comes from all quarters that tho Chi
uszs represent that their couutrymen now arriving
fT1m China have been deceived that when the
KING uus in CHINA he stated publicly that there
uns rsun here for many Chinese. and should they
c1rnr that the only cost on arriving here would be
the two dollars hospital tax and that they would
b. free io choose their own employment Whereas
they ara charged hy tho Board OF Immigration
FROM - 60 81, each, and are not allowed to 60
free. Great wisdom and prudence needs 20 be eXer-
ciaisd iu this business
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09
SprriaI Nafres.
American waltham watches

Awarded TwU Gold Medals. The only medals award
cd for Watches Melbourne International h1hiol'on'
1850. -
first prizes, sydney. lsil.
The Gold Medal Paris, is's. -Four First frze Nco
ais. Philadelphia, is'6
The uneoualcd success OF these Celebrated Watches
h.s rro5ueed host Of worthless limitations. Buyers
,ri1, ohscryc the Trade Mark -waltham, Mass, en-
,,l an the rlate OF all Genuine Waltham Watches;
told cases arc stamped A. W. Co.. lek. OF In, anu
Silver cases are stamped American Na'eh NVisP9n'
Waltham. Mass. Sterling
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09
Deficit as per tables. .........

Now let us look at the statement little
more critically let us take a glance at
some of the items of expenditure. There
is no doubt much instruction to be gained
from study of it. The following facts,
we are sure. meet with general appecia-
ton. There has been S11, SIS 07 spent on
foreign guests. We had exactly five Jap
anese gentlemen as guests during pc
ROD of little over a month. They left
this country considerably dissatisfied with
their entertainment, and yet this Govern
ment had expended somewhat more than
$4,000 on each. Munifcent Government,
ungrateful Japanese. Another instructive
fact is that the money for decorations is
almost exhausted there are doubtless a
number on hand. however, and the $500
left will purchase all that may be needed
during the next twelve months. While
drill shed. arms and accoutrements and
ordnance have been paid for with lavish
hand, in the two latter cases the whole OF
the appropriation being expended within
few dollars, the National Library and
the Museum have had hardly a sixth OF
the money appropriated spent ; so much
for Foreign Affairs.
The first item that strikes us IN the Inte-
rior Department is that Of S566 % for
Civil Engineer. The present Ministry in
serted 5000 in the budget of the Green
Ministry for this purpose. 1t was under
stood at the time that this officer was to
do great things in the way of planning
landings and SO forth that he was to see
that Government and the public should
not be heeced by unscrupulous contractors.
We are glad to see that he has been ap-
pointed. and has commenced TO draw his
salary, but why has he not not been ga
zetted, and why have not the public been
informed of his name. We have a shrewd
suspicion, however, that he does not exist,
and if he does not, what right has any one
to have drawn on that appropriation
There are many other points which Me
would like to dwell upon. but we know that
figures are but dry work to most readers.
We must point out. however that it is very
evident that the present rate of expendi-
ture at the lepeT hospital cannot be kept
The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-05-09

Cases Whole PomintO, i'll Id tins;
Whole Cinnamon, in lb tins;
Whole Ginge r, Blanchard, in 10 tins;
" Whole Cloves in lb tins;
Carroway seeds, in lib tins;
Z" Neopolitan Macaroni, in lb tins;
" Neopolitan Vermioii, in lb tins;
" Tapioca, in and II Id tins;
I" Elime Figs, in jars;
- English Plum Pudding. and lb tins;
" English Pie Fruits, doz. in case;
" Newtons Pickles, . dOZ. i'll case;
81 Crosse d Blackwell's g Pickles,3 doz. III case
" Robnson's Patent Barley and Groats;
&" Imperial Plums, in lb jars;
" Gelatine;
Wellingtons Knife Polish;
-" Black Pepper, in glass;
" Black Pepper, in and lib tins;
4" Mustard in glass;
&" Ground Mace, in glass;
50 French Peas, 100 tins each case;
b" French Mushrooms, 1G0 tins each case;
'' I.ebig's Extract Meat in jars;
Kegs Canary, Hemp and Rape Seed, 1l2 lbs each;
Kegs Split Peas, t12 lbs each;
Casks Day & Martins Liquid Backing
Casks Pure Malt Vinegar, 80 gals. each;