The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-23

} Senate allowing man 81 day for a month
/ whose only claim for the money, Senator
Perry stat q openly, was that he had kept
an open bottle Of whisky in one Of the
coInmitte--rooms during the session-D.
/ II. Carmen, treasurer of the New Almaden
| r. r. Co., has skipped with S1100.-The
! wife of Deacon Sidney S Brown of Bagdad
| has been acknowledged by the Court Of
/ Queens Bench an hciress to Lawrence
! Townley. The value of the estate in Eng
land Is 800, 000, 600, about $40, 600, 900 Of
which is believed to be her due.
March 18th
A rise is reported in Manila raw sugars
! from 499 cents to 5.07 cents.-Spreckels
! Bros. have applied to the Harbor Commits
| siOners for permission to erect a covered
| shed on Harrison street wharf for landing
sugar.-Judge Sullivan has decided that he
| has no power to enjoin VIM. Sharon from
| preceding in the case of Sharon VS.. Hill in
| the {. ). Circuit Court. Application was
made to the County Clerk for writ of
| execution on SharOn's property for the ali
! mony and counsel fees, but was refused on
! the ground that an appeal had been taken
| from the Judgment OF the Superior Court
and was undecided. The examination of
| Sarah Althea and George w. Tyler in the
| Nelson embezzlement case is concluded;
| they were followed by Mrs. Eudora Smith
anu -NCilIC I)1dChGlI- CECNGeLlGy yluG uOJO~
rious suspect, is a candidate for Collector
of the port OF San Francisco Washington
society is shocked because Cleveland works
in his shirt-sleeves.-Idl Naval officers at
| Washington are being ordered to active
| service. Mackin and Gallagher, Chicago
election conspiratOrs have been sentenced
to pay fine of $1,000 each and to be i'm
prisoned IN The penitentiary for two years.
General Grant is slightly better.-It is
generally believed in London that war with
Russia is inevitable; Cabinet council yes
terday considered the situation after the
EqUerry in Chief to the Queen called on
Gladstone. - Active preparations for war
are III progress throughout Central America.
"A commission will probably be appointed
to settle the colonial claims of English and
German subjects in Southern Africa-The
Chinese lost 1900 in the fight before Ke-
lung.-It is rumored that KaSsala has fallen,
The channel fleet has been ordered to
proceed to the Mediterranean. The Gov
eminent has ordered the naval and military
pensioners at the Portsmouth dockyard to
be in readiness for medical inspection This
is the first time such an inspection has
been ordered since the Crimean war. The
Government has issued an order directing
all unframed soldiers forthwith to be put
through a complete military course. Con-
soils touched 96A the lowest price for six
years, but recovered at the close of the
market. - James Stephens and Eugene
Davis, Fenian leaders, have been arrested
and ordered to leave France-An attack
was made upon the ordnance Enclosure
garrison by Ell Mahdi's men last night
The rebels, in answering the challenge of
the pickets, replied ''Friendsr' They then
swarmed into the zGreebG, overpowered the
pickets and attacked the guards, but hear
ing men landing from the gunboat Condor,
they decamped, carrying off with them all
their dead and wounded, except the body of
their leader, Abdul, who was Osman Dig
mas standard-bearer. Six British guards
were killed and seven wounded. The
Guards have gone to ngola.-Mapleson
will realize $175, 900 for the Patti opera
season; the first fortnight brought in over
$90,000.-John A. Reichart, the peculating
registry clerk to the City and County Attor-
ney, borrowed $3.50 from California street
broker to pay his passage to Honolulu
where his wife will soon join him.
March 18th.
All differences in relation to the exami.
nation of papers in the Sharon case have
been adjusted Secretary Manning has dis
missed forty men in the Treasury Depart
ment.-Morris Greenwall, the well-knowD
theatrical manager, died last night of con-
sumption Pope 81 Cole, metal dealers of
AOuAIl4llOIS nave IdlIGOl lOE ,OOU, OUO-EAu
agreement between England and Russia
has been reached on the Afghan frontier
question by which neither party is to adj
vance it's outposts.-The French are bonn
harding Chinhae and have destroyed one
fort.-The Mahdi has evacuated Metemneh.
Another British steamer has been search
ed by a French man-of-war in the China
seas.-James Stephens, Eugene Davis and
Mortimer Leroy, Fenians, were expelled
fro1o Oh
England and Russia cannot agree IN defn-
ing frontier they ought to ask America to
arbitrate. Orders have been sent to the
arsenals at Bombay and Bengal to prepare
all kinds of ammunition. The details for
two army corps have already been COM
pleted. The Admiralty is making arrange
ments to have q feet of transports in read1-
ness The tone of the Russian press is very
warEke.-Six torpedo-boats have been or
dered to the Red sea from Naples. Orders
were received for the speedy dispatch of
$4,000 troops.-General Graham decreed
that the inhabitants of Suakim be disarmed,
as he apprehends treachery.-A mutiny
has broken out in Osman Digna's camp.
He is only able to maintain his authority by
a system of terrorism, beheading few mu-
tHeers every mOrning.-Osman Digna is
concentrating large force at Tamanieb to
oppose the advance of General Graham to-
WarQ D6rDer.-1no MANU- Tears an 1nVa-
sion is about to be made into the Soudan
from Abyssinia. Prospero Fer
nandez, President of Costa Rica, is dead.
March 18th.
Henley, Tarpey, English and Foote |
yesterday had an audience with Cleveland. |
Captain Bush expects to be appointed |
Pension Agent for California.-Blaine |
called on Cleveland on Friday evening, |
and yesterday Mrs. Blaine, Walker Blaine |
and Mrs. Logan visited Miss Cleveland at |
the White House.-Chinese immigration |
is now entirely checked at Victoria, B. c.
The exclusion is absolute, none being al
lowed to enter upon the isIand.-The war
in Central America is one of the leading |
topics of conversation in commercial and
political circles. Barrios, the President of
Guatemala, who aims to consolidate the |
five republics of Central America under
his dictatorship, has many personal friends
in San Francisco. The coffee market is /
very unsettled in consequence of the war.
The Democrats are bowling because
they fear that Blaine is about capturing
the Administration. They were much sur
pIised to learn that Cleveland requested
Blaine 10 call on him Yesterday. The