The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-26
Che @ailg 8nlletin.
TUESDAY, MAY &c, 1888.
NEWS AND MITES.

the 10th, goth and 2lst of this
month.
Sixteen thousand eight hundred
and twenty-five families in Boston
were provided with free soup during
the winter.
The English lifcboat service is said
to have saved G33 lives and eighteen
vessels during the past year. Shore
boats, manned by volunteers, saved
159 more in the same time.
Mr.. Phelps, successor to Mr..
Lowell, u. S. Minister TO England,
is said to be great admirer of
English manners aud institutions.
A general conference of the Sec
retaries of Y. M. e. AS Of the
United States and Canada was held
at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 9th.
Two hundred delegates were present.
Mrs. Hiram Pfoutz, near Lititz,
Pa, threw her five children into
mill pond and then jumped in her.
self. Three of the children were
rescued The other two, with the
mother, were drowned.
A murderous assault was made by
Cinnamon in Victoria, b. c., on
Capt. Marden, of San Francisco, on
May 18th. The captain was a wit
ness in a Chinese lawsuit. He was
not seriously hurt, although murder
was attempted.
An elevated railway has been
opened in Brooklyn, n. Y. 1t has
greatly enhanced the value of pro.
pertv through which it runs, making
the favorite field for investment and
speculation by New York and Brook
Ign capitalists.
The courts are going for the
Mormons. Deputy City Recorder
James Taylor, of Ogden, was re-
Gently up before the commissioner
and held in 800 bail to await the
action of the Grand Jury, for unlaw-
full cohabitation. tliLl8tH
1t is estimated that S1O,OO0,O00
has been paid into the United States
Treasury for Government bonds that
will never, in all probability, be
called for. Year after year the in
terest on these bonds is. carefully
computed and credited to the holder.
At the meeting of the Military
Services Institute, at Governors
Island, N. T., ON May 14th, Lieut..
Eugene Griffin, of the Engineers
Corps, read a paper on Our Sea
Coast Defences, wherein he showed
that the coasts of the United States
were almost without protection, and
urged the necessity for prompt action
by the Federal powers in that res
pect. I-a Ip...a
The people of Victoria, B. c.,
have been notified of the coming of
two vessels from Hongkong with 700
Chinese coolies aboard to be landed
at that port. AS there is not much
for these immigrants to do in Victo-
ria, they will scatter themselves over
the American territory which they
may be able to enter,a at points where
Customs officials will not be on
hand to challenge their coming.
Captain Kennedy, Of the steam
ship Gcrmanic arriving at New York
on the 10th, reports being struck by
tremendous wave ON the night of
May 4th, about 500 miles west of
Fastnet. He was in the pilot-house,
and the spray prevented him from
seeing the wave until it was about
100 feet from the ship. 1t swept
over the boat and rushed along the
deck like Niagara. The top of the
pilot-house was crushed in and fell
on the Captains head, knocking him
down and stunning him for q
moment. The firlnly-braccd winch
just abaft of the forecastle, weighing
a ton, was lifted and hurled into the
hold; the rigging was carried away
all the compasses were lost and the
ratings were twisted into fantastic
shapes In his twenty years ex.
perience in the Atlantic the Captain
says he never had seen such wave
He believes the disappearance o.
many ocean tramps may be accounted
for by such waves as struck thu
Germanic.
The monthly statistical publication
of the Agricultural Department TO
May, just issued in Washington
contains comprehensive Statement
of wages paid farm laborers in al
parts of the country, based upol
what Mr.. Dodge, Statistician Of tn
Department, believes to be ehtirel,
trustworthy data. The averag
wages in the Eastern States is S25.
80; Middle States, S23. 49, Southerl
States, S14.27; Western States
$22.26; California, S28.65. TIL