The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-10


education of women in New York has decided to
present a petition in Furtheranee OF its object TO
the Trustees of the Columbia College at their next
meeting. The petition simply prays that the
Trustees " will be pleased 10 consider how best
to extend, with n little delay as possible, 10
such properly qualified women a. may desire il,
the many and great benefits of education in
Columbia College, by admitting them to lectures
and examinations.
II Is always a pleasing duty TO record the sue
cess OF Hawaiian youths abroad, and in perusing
the Enterprise, published in Globe City, Ari-
iona, we are pleased TO learn that an offspring
Of Hawaii, Mr.. f. Booth, son Of the late Joseph
Booth, OF this city, is at present located at
Riverside, Arizona, fulfilling the duties of
s-choolmastsI with credit 10 himself aud advan-
tage TO his pupils. To quote the precise words
OF Mr.. Geo. Scott, in his letter to the Enterprise,
he says My private school is progressing sat
isfactOrily in charge Of Mr.. L. Booth" Mr..
Scott Is a capitalist and stock-raiser, and has
established a private school at Riverside for the
benefit Of his own family and those of his EN-
ployees. II will no doubt be comforting to Mr..
Booths friends and relatives in this city to learn
of his welfare. -
We notice occasionally a petty journal which
goes into a freLzy OF irrational deuuncialon
whenever it beholds the reelection of its own
lmbecllty cast forth indIifereutly from the calm
mirror Of public opinion. Such a journal rarely
attracts any attention from a weI-balanced.
healthy mind and surely IL sensible, enlightened
community will hardly give consideration to in-
ludlclouS, frantic utteranceS, unless they reach
that degree Of indtcency or seditious iuceudiar-
ism which constitutes a public nuisance when
the peace and purity Of society demand protec-
ton, and the obnoxious sheet must forthwith be
prescribed by universal assent. 1t Il not mere
acrimony and Bil'inCsgate, or opprobious epithets
and low-lived innuendO that digniies a case, or
wins u cause. 1t is the deliberate and logical,
normal, but vigorous, statement or argument
that merits and obtains alike public and private
credence. 4 journal, like an individual. that
raves and thunders only tears itself to pieces,
and lends defeat to the cause 1t so foolishly en-
deOvours TO serve. Neither the depth of the sea
nor the height OF the mountains Is measured
from the crest OF the s~torm-wrought billow, or
the lowest part Of the intervening furrow in the
waves. 1t Is from the calm level Of the ocean
that both heights and depths are calculated, and
so, from the tranquil wisdom of a journal alb
staining from all excess and extreme, are the
influences it exerts asccrtained and measured.
Jesse Seligman, the head of the firm Of Selig-
man Bros, New York, is reported in a morning
paper as saying: American finances were never
in better condition. The country is full of money,
and its prosperity now is genuine, not fictitious.
We are conducting our home improvements with
home capital. American credit stands at the
head of the list among foreign and home capital
lists. l have always had great confidence in
American Investments. My investments were all
up to my expectations, and have been very for
tunate. l have not lost faith in the rapid ex-
tension of railroads. These roads have done
more to build up the nation than you may sup
pose. The resources of the country have been
brought into the market and have been opened
up by these new roads. immigration has fol-
lowed every line and branch, extended west and
south. Stock speculations are having less and
less power over the actual monetary and COM
mercIal conditions. The finances of the country
are in such a position that do not think Wall
street can create disturbances, as it once did.
The violent fluctuations in the value of stocks
10 not ,,nraf tha rao1 cfo1i11fv, ~ ,rr lon1, W.
have profted by the experience of 1873, and are
now prepared for a rainy day James Selig-
man said: 81 think with my brother, that the
general outlook of the country is very favorable
to a large spring business among the banks,
merchants, manufacturers, farmers and the
people. Our correspondents report most favor
able, and loans have been coming in back to us
sent out last fall. There is a large amount of
home capital idle looking for investment"
The New York Times gives the following s%atiri-
cal description about the powder-mill explosion
at Berkeley 1.-THE seventh regular biennial
misunderstanding Of the Pacific Giant Powder
Company Occurred Sunday afternoon at their
wori-S near Oakland, Cal, and it appears from
The able report of the Coroner that one white
man and some thirty Chinese simultaneously
knocked off work and left the premises in about
nine hundred different directions. The disap-
pearance of about eight tons of dynamite Mt the
same time led the intelligent jury to suppose
hat there had been some sort of trouble at the
of the affair, and 50, after wisely looking
the hole in the ground where the works
once stood, and viewing the three switches of
lair, two handfuls of fddlo-strings, and a back
found on n neighboring sand-hill by n
Ooy, they sat down to a wild orgie of jacB-pots
20 think the matter over and come to a verdict.
It was conclusively demonstrated that no Irish
nan had this time considered a cookingstove
he proper place to dry n tray of Eliminating
being the suppositious origin Of
he explosion of 1871 that no volatile coolie
lad so tar forgotten the proprieties as to dance
jig in the nitro-glycerine tub-such as prompt
ID the eruption of 1873 and as the present, or
ather just departed, foreman was not given to
he use of tobacco, the theory that he had been
icratching matches in the powder-hOuse to hight
lis pipe with-as was s~orrowfully considered TO
nave been the case with his lamented predecessor
ust about the time the sporadic calamity Of
.S75 was developed-was somewhat untenable.
The upheavals of 1877, 1879 and 1881 having
only in presence of such witnesses as
we're afterward not in n locality where a subpoena
.ould reach them, no clue could be obtained
,earing upon the mystery in hand"
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