The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21

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easy, from the endless belt elevator that
carries the sugar from the centrifugal ma
chimes 10 the dryers, down to the system OF
chutes from the furnace by which the ashes
are projected into cars that travel by a
special track beneath, and the construction
of the charcoal dryer by which the coal
drops automatically into the receiving
bin. Much cost OF carriage has been
saved by the railway coming directly
from New York city to the refinery Itself,
vet the outlay of money has already
amounted to two millions of dollars. The
electric motors for the cars that are to bring
the raw sugar from the store-house to the
melting room are being made in this city,
and many of the smaller engines and pumps
were also made here, the larger pieces of
machinery in Trenton, New York and
tice lin the support of the floors, the cap of
the pillars being made of iron, so that the
danger of settlingattendant upon the usual
wooden cap is obviated. This iron cap also
serves rs the base of the pillar or the floor
above so that no weight throughout the
building is brought upon the cross-beams
where they are unsupported, and the sup
port is uniform. The strength and solidity
of the great structure is most apparent in
going through the basement. \ strong wine
was blowing on Friday and suggested the
powerful drauGht from the furnaces when
the whole shall be III action. The chimney
was like a shot tower as one stood and
looked up at the sky through t,e great
opening at the top. There is an extra tiue,
indeed, the refinery Is full of provisional
! contriVanceS in case of emergency, and
should any obstruction clog the action of
the fiue in use, it can be entirely shut off
and the second one opened will conduct the
smoke into the huge stack without delay of
operation for cleansing or repairs.
With its present capacity the California
Refinery can turn n ship load of raw brown
sugar INFO white cubes for distribution
through the city, in the astonishing short
space of two days.
The news of the Old World at this jnfar-
esting period might be comprehensiveiy
epitomized with the single word "bang!"
There is the liveliest banging you ever
heard of going on all over the distressed
countries on the other side of the Atlantic,
The Fenians and Irish invincibles are bang
ing away with dynamite at the public
buildings and nerves of their hereditary
enemies, the English the Nihilists of Rus
STA are banging away with the universal
bomb in their usual wholesale manner, and
have caused the Cars coronation to be
postponed from May to June, by their
threats to blow up everybody and every
thing connected with the coronation. In
fact, it is doubtful if the Cars coronation
takes place at all if he does not make many
radical concessions iii the line of popular
government demanded by the people.
In France the Communists are uncom-
monty active and are banging away, as yet
only with the tongues, at all existing order
of things. By the way, this present agita-
ton in France has developed "a most extra
ordinary woman, Louise Michel, who is the
avowed leader of the Paris Communists.
She is a slightly built trim little figure of a
brunette, with a mild manner and
grave quiet expression, but is the
~fiercest and most bloodthirsty little
tigress of a woman history wots of.
She addresses great excited crowds of
laborers every Sunday-when not in prison
and urges them, with the most inflama-
tory language, to deeds of violence and
bloodshed, compared to which the records
of the French revolution and the Commune
read ike a mild sort of Donnybrooke fair
fracas. She is fairly worSaipped by the
people, who follow her and listen to her
advice, and is dreaded by the Government
more than any other person in all France.
She is known as the { Red Virgin" and is
said to be in fact what the last half of her
title comedies to her, even in wicked Paris.
She has a romance, Sf course, and a pretty
one at that. 1t is that she is embittered
against the existing social order of things
in France because of the wrongs it has liz
flicted on her old mother. The latter per-
son the Red Virgin supports in dainty
luxury, while she herself lives in IA garnet
and on crumbs and bread. She is just now
IN prison, charged with some political
offence, but boldly declares that if She gets
out again she will pursue her agitation over
the borders somewhere until she dies, or
the revolution, upon the brink of which
France really seems to be, has come.
In Spain the dreadful secret order of the
"Black Hand" are banging away with the
dagger in the most approved Spanish man
IleE. IlllS OIuGI L hllOWU 10 nuIllDGr UIlOu-
sands Of desperate men and women whose
VOW it is that assassination shall not cease
until the wrongs of the people have been
politically righted.
In Austria the Internationalists are bang
ing away with Internal machines and max
ing life generally unpleasant for the nobi-
lily against whom their severe attention is
constantly directed. From all this you can
see that in the Old World the life of a ruler
is not a particularly happy one.
The interest of the United States in his
condition of affairs is beginning to take a
new and serious form. Nearly all of these
secret assassination societies have agents in
this country, chiefly located in New York
City, who beg money from their respective
countrymen in this country, for the avOw-
ed purpose o carrying on their dynamite
plots and assassination schemes. The per-
petratOrs of several recent dynamite eXplO-
siOns in London and Glasgow nave been
found to be Irish-Americans, and most
of them very lately landed in Liverpool
from New York. England does not fancy
this sort of international warfare a bit, and
the British lion is beginning to growl
ominously.
1t is whispered about in Washington that
the American Secretary of State has lately
received several very sharp notes from the
British Government, demanding in no I'M
meaning terms that the United States shall
take some earnest measure to put a stop to
the open plotting against England, by Irish
men in New York.
England very justly claims that it is n
breach of Americans neutrality to allow
Irishmen in New York to openly send dy-
Mantle, arms and money to be used against
the peace and property of England. When
England once takes a stand of his kind it
has a good old-fashioned way of sticking to
it, and it will be very interesting to observe
what kind of excuse or remedy this Gov
eminent will undertake. One thing APP
pears pretty certain unless our Govern
ment take some decided position in the
premises very soon, the friendly relations
betwee England and the United States will
come to a sudden end, and then there will
be another bang /! and it will be louder than
any heard yet.
General DiHz, eX-PresideDt of the Mexi-
can Republic, and who will probably be
the next President, is now visiting the
country. The manner in which he is being
received, dined, wined and toasted in ali
the Eastern cities, by high government Of
ficials and money kings of New York, is
very significant. The fact is, all this is eX-
pressive of a popular demand on the part
of Americans for a reciprocity treaty with
Mexico. The popular tendency is for more