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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-11

cd cigarettes, which boys from knee high to
manhood are smoking on the street corners,
really ought to 60. Our temperance folks IN
their anxiety to save the young from the
drink habit, are apt to forget that there are
other evils from which they should be saved.
It has been demonstrated that the effect of
cigarette smoking is every bit as bad, or even
worse than the use Of alcohol upon the sys-
TEN of the young. The New York leRistla-
ture nov has bill before it which prohibits
the sale of cigarettes to boys under IL years
of age. The above from the Biddeford Jour-
nal is good common sense. 1t would sur
prize one to know the number of little boys
in this city who habitually smoke cigarettes.
Mr.. W. F. Allen, who was mainly instru-
mental in the introduction of uniform time
on the railroads, 10 now interested ia q move
to secure uniform signals. At present the
railroads of the country use the following
signals on trains: Hand and lamp, bell
cords, whistle, stationary and 6xed, and tor
pedo. The trouble at present is that while
all the lines are using these signals, there 10
avast and dangerous variety of their use
among the various roads, so that q signal
made at = junction where two trains, one
going north and the other going east, for
instance, are expected to pass will be inter-
preted in two different ways by the engineers
of the trains in question. This misunder-
standing has led to many accidents, and Mr..
Allen has therefore, submitted plan to the
general superintendent of all the lines in
America, whereby one uniform plan will be
used by every road, so that the engineer or
brakemen of one line will not err when he
sees a signal of another road.
Whoa hish" shouted q sinewy farmer on
the street Saturday forenoon, Gee star"
and he piled the brad to yoke of heavy oxen.
1t was in front of f. Stone & Co.'S coal office.
The farmer was endesvorng to force the
oxen to move upon the scales there, to be
weighed. The man 'hawed" and "geed" the
bovines again and again, but all to no effect;
they would not bulge an inch. Another man,
. bystander. having confidence in his persua-
sive powers took the goad and went through
with . performance similar to that of his
predecessor. but to TO purpose, Driver No.
2. then yielded to third man. who had no
better success. Finally broad shouldered.
grizzled old gentleman took the stick and
welding it aloft over the backs of the ami
mails. gave a stentorian shout. This was eff
fective and the heretofore contrary animals
backed upon the platform of the scales in
f"inkling. A storm of applause arose from
the crowd which had gathered around.
They'll weigh $500" exclaimed a bystand-
er. "Ill make it 3.4O0" came from second
individual and still another made the weight
$500. At this point Mr.. Springer. the
~eigher, stepped out with the information
that They weigh S.445. gentlemen" 81
came within As pounds of it," remarked the
$500 man. The owner picked up his goad
sick and drove the oxen off, while the crowd
dispersed
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
FIRE BELLS.

About ten minutes past / 2 o'clock
an alarm of fire was rung from the
different engine houses II proved
to be at the Kawaiahao Female Se-
minary on King street. One Of the
girls, on going up stairs to the
dormitory in the new building, saw
flames. She Immediately informed
Miss Malone, one of the teachers.
Miss Alexander the principal being
away at the time. Miss Malone set
the girls to work with buckets of
water, and in short time they had
put out the fire, which was begin
ming TO make considerable headway.
The fire department arrived promptly
on time, but their services were not
required. The fire started in a closet
adjoining one of the older girls
bedroom, in the new building which
was erected some eighteen months
ago. In the closet were the girls
clothes. The door of the closet, as
well as the bedroom door and the
woodwork above, was considerably
charrcd, about the only damage
done, and covered by insurance.
Miss Malone does not know how the
fire originated, but rather thinks that
some of the older girls have violated
the rules 10y having matches in their
rooms. Some damage was proba-
bly, done by the water used in
putting out the fire. 1t is fortunate
the fire did not occur in the night
time, when all the girls would have
been in this building.
About ten minutes after two
false alarm brought the brigade and
populace out in full force to the
same quarter of the city.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
PROHIBITION IN CANADA,

The Parliament of Canada passed
local option prohibitory liquor law
in 1878. For the first four years
after its passage it was only availed
of to any extent in the Maritime
Provinces. which already had in
great part outlawcd the liquor traffic
by license laws so severe that licenses
could not be obtained. Demands Of
the temperance party for absolute
prohibition having been made upon
the Dominion Parliament, the reply
of the politicians in effect was that
until the people showed they desired
prohibition by adopting and cnforc-
ing the local option laws (bcsldes
the Dominion Act there were Pro-
vincial local option measures lying
unopcrated) it would be premature
to enact national prohibition. The
Dominion Temperance Alliance,
therefore, ut its annual session in
January last determined to institute
a general campaign for the adoption
of the Canada Temperance Act. The
result has been that, in pitched bat
ties Of press and platform, fifteen
counties and one city had up to
November lst adopted or sustained
the Act, mostly with large MAORI
ties, while in only two counties was
the Act defeated. Campaigns were
in progress and proposed, at that
date, in seven cities and about forty
counties. Since the passage of the
Act there have been tifty-three con-
tests, and the Act has been success
ful in forty-four, the total majority
for it being about 10000. 1t speaks
well for the cause Of prohibition that
no constituency has repealed the
Act, for which an opportunity is
afforded at the expiration of three
years. This is the more remarkable.
rs the measure was practically dead
letter in the constituencies that first
adopted it, on account Of continued
litigation over its constitutionality.
which was at last confirmed by the
Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council, the highest court in the
British Empire. Canada is evidently
tired of the sway of strong drink, as
some Of the counties that have
adopted prohibition not long ago
bore n bad reputation for drunken
an.r
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

An earthquake shock in Essex
county. Ontario, Canada, on Nov.
18th, broke glass in windows and
badly frightened the inhabitants.
The cholera epidemic is considered
ended in Paris.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
SUGAR NEWS.
TIE AMER1cAN-srANIsn rREA.

/ THE AMERiCAN-sPANiSH TREATY.
The protocol of the treaty of COM
mercc between the United States and
Spain, so far rs regards Cuba and
Porto Rico, has been signed. Madrid
papers state that the treaty provides
that sugars of not over No. l6,
Dutch standard, be admitted by the
United States free of duty, but that
tobacco from the Antilles be subject
cd to moderate duty.
\ REFINERY IN DIFFICULTY.
At st. Louis rumor is current
that the Belcher Sugar Refining
Company, the oldest in the West, is
financially embarrassed. The con-
Germ suspended Thursday, but claims
that it can pay every dollar of its
liabilities, The general depression
in business is given as the cause Of
the suspension. 1t is said that there
is an over-production of sugar. The
liabilities will reach S7O0,00O.
\ SEw YORK VIEW.
The New York W0rld of Nov.
18th says: The sugar trade is pass
ing through one of those prolonged
states of stagnation into which the
market sometimes settles and out of
which it is so difficult to revive it.
Prices are lower than they have been
before in thirty or forty years, and
while the members of the trade pro-
fess to believe in a revival of bust
ness, there are rs yet few signs of
improvement. Still this is the dullest
season of the year and, as usual,
many refneries are closing tempo
rarily for repairs and improvements.
Several have done so in Philadelphia
and Boston. The causes of the
stagnation care several. Cuban
planters have been in great financial
straits and many have failed, and
this has forced out great deal of
sugar at very low prices. Then q
war has been going on in this country
between reliners and importers,
which has caused much depression.
Formerly the former purchased their
supplies Of the latter, but for year
or two past they have gone into the
business Of importing directly, and
this has been gradually crowding
out importers. Several great houses
which formerly did large business
in importing sugar scarcely touch
the article now. This competition
has, of course, depressed prices,
which have declined about two cents
per pound in about a year. Claus
Spreckels' Hawaiian sugar monopoly
of San Francisco has caused much
trouble to Eastern refners, and
determined efforts have been made
to secure the abrogation of the treaty
with the Hawaiian Islands, allowing
the free entry of sugar grown in that
country, it being considered unfair
to Eastern refiners who have to pav
duty on their importations from
Cuba. But Claus Spreckels has
been a power with Republican Adj
ministrations, and all efforts to
overcome the monopoly have failed.
Spreckels has been able to ship sugar
rs far East rs st. Louis and under
sell Eastern refiners. 1t was reported
in the sugar trade yesterday that
this monopoly was showing signs of
disruption, and if this is true, there
will be much rejoicing among East
ern refners.
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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03

The HdicditaH MoWhiy for De-
cembcr contains the regrcttablc sn-
nounccmcnt that the experiment of
IFS publication is abandoned with
this the closing number of the first
volume. Mr.. NJ NJ. Scott, Princi-
pal Of Fort Street School, treats of
Evolution " as clearly and com
prehensively as may be in five pages.
The story 4" Madeline from the
necessity of its telling now or never,
to those who have begun it here,
occupies moEc than the usual space.
4" Editorial Comment " comprises
only the announcement above re-
fcrred to, and a short reference TO
Mr.. Scotts article.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03

known to be one Of the McrchuBts
principal patrons, it would seem to
be necessary TO reinforce the efforts
put forth from that quarter by the
best possible presentation Of the case
that can be made, both through all
the influential newspapers available
for the purpose and through diplo-
matte channels.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1884.
THIS EVENINGS DOINcS.

Oahu Lodge, No. 1 X. Of p. 1880.
Bethel Prayer Meeting, at 1880.
Fort st. Church, Prayer Meeting
at 1880
st. Andrews Cathedral. usual
services. $50.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03

1t is to be hoped the Democratic
Government will not be misled into
opposition to the treaty with this
country, at the instance of Eastern
sugar refiners, who may regard that
the only way to break the Spreckels
monopoly. An article in the New
York World gives token of danger
to the treaty from that cause. If
ever it was necessary that American
Legislators should be thoroughly in
formed regarding the treaty and its
reciprocal advantages, il is at this
juncture. The literature that has
recently emanated from the Office of
the San Francisco Nerch0nt, which
is being widely disseminated among
the public men of the Union, cannot
fail to have good effect. As Spl ecliles
is, however, the great bugbear of
the Eastern refners, and he is we'll
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The cholera is now nearer to this
country than it has been yet. A
despatch to American papers an
nounces that several mild cases of
the disease have appeared at Santi-
ago, the capital Of Chill. Our health
authorities will have to look sharply
after any possible arrivals from that
quarter.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
WANTED

A SITUATION as Manager or Sales
"A man in Store. Speaks Hawaiian
and has had twenty years experience.
Apply at L. G. Fishbourne & Co. s Office
No. Kaahumanu street.
8S2 lwS w. G. NEEDHAM.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
JOSEPH. Z. WISEMAN,

oSS1-A LII Lis wv 1NlNlAlVs
Inc only Recognized General Business Agent Hawaiian Islands
ESTABLISHED 1870.
oceS in Campbes Feproof Building Merchant St. Honolulu
q. Te,anbo,,o
DI1PA
E2 AZ I-Bys and sells Real of
Offices, nm
SOLICITING AGENT
% Wn ne travelling Public will apply
AGENT FOR THE INSURANCE CO. OF NEW
~ '"' 'o'"'' ihsu'uuoh OF lis KIND in the
AGEN FOX THE GREAT BURLINGTON
the choicest ,nn
comfortable 's N"' ''o ''n'son'esl anu most
MlNI AGENT-Fnd Employment vari
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The best known Company n Islands ~ -'N'1N-SHNO.
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Freight and Duty Bills under of Attorney
MoNE1 bROkER-oans Money securitv
copying Engrosng
attended 10y '"'"' pi'"'P'y anu accurately
HE NEW MUSIC HALL abroad
wIn
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Ea Information ppeinng correspondence faith
o-o JOSEPH II. WISEMAN
80 General Business Agent, Honolulu Islands,
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
SICKNESS IN THE SCHOOLS.
j. II. BRowN,
Agent Board of Health.
FOR SALE,

FOK SALE,
sEas The furniture of rooms,
a including stove and cook
YiieN ing utensils, large bath
A tub, &C., VIII he sold
cheap, if applied for i'm.
mediately. Apply TO Mrs. W. Fennell,
% King street, up stairs. SS4 1w
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
MIR. w. C. PARKE

vi AS AN OFFICE over Bishop & Co. 3
IL Bank ald will be happy to attend
to any business entrusted to his care.
S82 6m
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-12-03
NOTICE.
NOTICE.

n1EA From and after the 1st of
<ESftefS: December next, Tickets
Iss6Z=ssssizs both for Cabin and Deck
Passengers per steamers of the Inter.
Island Steam Navigation Co. can be
had at their Office, on the wharf, at the
foot of Fort street. Those who fail TO
provide themselves with tickets will be
charged extra. Per order,
j. ENA, Jr., Secretary.
Honolulu, Nov. ~, 1884. S74 st
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-02-09
How "Ciyll Service Rules" Work.

Washington, Feb. 2.-Secreti ry
Chandler said to-day that the ex.
animation Of papers certified to by
the Civil Service Commission has
satisfied him that all Of them we're
unfit for the work to be done, for
the reason that they were deficient
in penmanship, copying and or.
biography. He returned the pa
pers to the commission with a
simple statement to that effect.
He did not wish his action to be
understood as an attack Oh the
civil service law, ~ he had no In.
tention of attacking that law. He
was strongly in favor of the civil
service act, but he did not feel
that it's provisions compelled him
to accept . clerk whom he consid-
cred incompetent. He would
rather have . vacancy in the cleri-
cal force than appoint . man whose
examination papers showed him
TO be unable to meet the require.
ments. He had referred the mat
ter back to the committee in the
hope that they would send him the
names of more competent men to
select from. He would, however,
be bound by the action Of the Gem
mittee in the matter.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-02-09
Bear Batting wItAsut any Bear.
New York Herald /

- @--AAAAaI
The Republican Senators must
have been greatly disgustsd by
the upshot of Mr.. Sherman's
bloody shirt resolution. The
Senate took up the resolution and
Mr.. Sherman made a mild speech,
which was followed by the read.
juster story Of the Danville affair,
told BY Mr.. Malone, of course.
These preliminaries resembled the
oldtime bear pit method of first
drawing the bear and then wor-
rying him. But no Democrat re-
piled; the bear was not worried !:
he was not drawn; he did not
even seem to be awake or know
that anything unusual was going
on. The silence must have been
painful and disappointing. There
were many spectators who had ex-
pected some fun or a little excite
ment. One dispatch said that
most of the members Of the Lower
House were present, but there
was fun for the Democrats only.
and the Republicans we're obliged
to call for q vote without having
heard one single word from the
opposition. The resolution was
passed, but the victory was fuller
Of discomfort than o first-class
defeat.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-02-09
aOId BulIIonr and the WoolIy Horse
[Pittsburg Dispatch.l

One day Barnum noticed q man
leading q peculiarly shaped horse
through the streets Of Washing
ton city. Turning to friend, he
said he would bet $500 he could
make O pile Of money out Of that
horse. The bet was taken, and
nothing moro thought Of It. One
morning the people Of Washing
ton wakened to see the city plas-
tered with bills, on which was a
cut of a woolly horse. The small
bills said it had been captured by
Fremont during his explorations
in the Rocky mountains, and that
1t would soon be on exhibition
near the capitol. Thomas Benton,
Frcmont's father-in-law, saw the
sign ont ss he went to the capitol.
He was with some congressman
when the show bill caught his eye,
and he remarked: Il am going
to put an end to this internal
swindle,r and the two started to
20 in. The ticket-iaker stopped
them and asked them for their
money. Benton handed him q
quarter. He attempted to STOP
them still, saying that was not
enough, but Benton pushed him
angrily aside. with. II have had
enough of this foolishness," and
striding past he went in and jump
ed over the rope which separated
the woolly horse from It's audi
ence, and with q cut Of bis knife
skinned half Of his woolly cover
of him, showing the same old bo'
ny, bay steed, with the ordinary
fur on him common to horses.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-02-09
Douglass and wife.

II Is q curious circumstance that
the colored people take the mar
risge Of Fredrick Douglass to q
white woman much more to heart
than the whites. They think If
the veteran was to marry at all,
he should have selected one from
his own race. II, however, Mr..
Douglass and his wife are salts
fed and happy, it is their own
business. Neither Of them under.
took to marry to please the public.
Cincinnati Commercial. Gazette.
We sincerely trust that no social
race conflict will mar the harmon.
les IN court circles becuase Of the
mutual crossing Of tho race equator
by the dusky Douglass and his
fair BRIDE. There are grave sol.
emn indications of a very singular
social warefare of an exceedingly
complicated nature. IL seems that
''society" il practically unanimous
In condemnation, but curiously
divided as to reasons for frown.
ing upon the variegated union,
The white society win "cut" the
fair bride, while the coIored high
joint will frown npon the dusky
groom.-Cincinnati News-J Journal.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-02-09
Not Crank

A young fellow in England was
recently invited to visit an old
gentleman who had a ''maniap for
pedigree or genealogy. As he had
also a reputation for his dinners
and his wines, the young man
stooda good deal Of talk about
his hosts ancestors for the sake
of the other things |; but when the
old gentleman took him through
his picture gallery, and, showing
him q portrait of an old fellow
painted 200 years before-the time
of James lI.-and said that was a
portrait of his father.in.law; and
another of his brother-in-law, who
at the age Of IS, fought at Edge
hill 1912 (being born In 1924; and q
third Of his nephew, who at the
time of his death was ninety.two
years older that his uncle, the
guest got out of that house ct the
earliest possible moment. He vas
dealing with q "crank." As 1t
turned out however, the old gen.
tleman was correct. For his "broth.
er-in-law," at the age Of IS, mar.
ried, in 1903, a young girl Of II.
Her father was at that time q
young man, bnt he too, married
when very old and had children,
his youngest being born in 1879.
In 1916, when she was n years
old, the old gentleman who owned
the picture gallery married her, he
being 10 at the time. So that the
old gentleman's father.ili-law was,
as he said, alive in tho time oil
James Ii. but as This fatheT-ln-laW
had son.in-law many years older
than he was. this gave the old
gentleman brother-In-law who
would have been 257 yers old if he
had lived until 1881. As this
brother-in-law died soon after his
marriage, bis young widow mar.
ried again, and had q son who was
born ninety-one years before his
uncle tby marriage) was born, so
that old man was not . lunatie.
unless il was when at the ace Of
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1n44z 6I@[44 Cham I.. ....
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-02-09

Boston, Feb. 2.--Wendell Phil.
lips is dead. lie began to show
signs Of dissolution ut i:30 this af.
ternoon, and died at Up. m. He
was conscious up to within an
hour of his death. Mr.. Phillips
was III just one week, but II was
not until Thursday that his condi.
tion was considered dangerous by
his physicians. Thursday night
he failed rapidly, but Friday he
reused slightIy and passed a fairly
comfortable night. This afternoon
bis illness took a critical turn, and
he gradually failed and passed
quietly away about Q o'clock, In the
presence Of his wife and niece.
Mr.. Phillips was in his seventy
third year.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-02-09
For THE GEElSvnLK TNEs.1
IL Overheard CsnVersatIoz e. he
New District Bill.

Said one LAWYER to another. whom be
met at the corner.
With cenntsnance as grave as the face
Of i mourner,
I'VE have twenty-seven brethren in the
town Of Greenville
Who are taking an interest In the fate Of
the bill;
For Judge is to be taken from out Of
that nunber.
To enseounee him In comfort aud tighten
his slumber.
Three thousand i've hundred Il a sum
that Is worth while
To seek without further cavil. and ac-
eept with smile.
What does II matter II taxes Of the peo-
pie are high.
Since By this method the living Of =
lawyer we supply.
And We thus shelye from practice, and
his fees we divide;
And hence by this happy method for
ourselves we provide.
But say, upon whom shall this mantle Of
fortune be thrown.
Is query now disturbing the people Of
the town."
Then quickly spoke the second, to bis
talkatiye brother,
While he thought OF his children and
their pennlless mother,
And way down In his heart there lurked.
well hidden, the sweet thought:
II Judgeship should crown his efforts
his fortune was wrought,
And that he alone was able the position
to illl.
And the entire bar should express II as
being their VIII.
MY modesty forbids," said he. In q
voice thick and low,
"That | should speak a word about this
district bill just now;
For my kind friends In the country a
petition have sent
To solicit the Governor and obtain his
assent
To appoint me as the Chancellor, should
tho bill pass,
AZ most deserving the honor from
smoug al our class.
Therefore, my brothsr. must refrain
from expressing : view.
Though I trust In this contest yosl
friendship is 50 true
That your influence you will lend fol
the Office | seek.
By signing my new petition going for
ward this week"
"Alas," said the first, ''thls favor am
compelled to decline.
Since II is now apparent that we are oil
Of one mind.
For all. including myself, have sent Il
the Governor
Petitions from their friends to be the
Judge ard Chancellor"