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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-03
FINANCIAL And COMMERCIAL.
MONEY AND STOCKS.

Now York Financial Market.
HEw YORK April 2-Xoney-On call Is easy
~ per cent. closing at per cent
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-03

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
) cents.

Merchants of the Lower Ontario
Province are asking that the duty on
corn be taken off, and the duty on
cornmeaI reduced from 40 to % per
cent.
The incomes of Baron Mayor Karl
and Willy de Rothschild have been
respectively rated for purposes of tax
alton at Frankfort at 9228,0O0 and
e237,OOO
William Reddick, who died at OF
tawa, Illinois, the other day, be-
queathed TO that city his residence,
which cost over $4,000, and $125, 900
in money, stocks and bonds, for the
establishment of public library.
Nearly all the EsquimauX of
Greenland are adherents of the Luz
theran faith, having been converted
through the missionary enterprise of
the Danish Church. They have neat
little churches, where they hold reli-
giOus services every Sunday.
The Nile is like the tide-it waits
for no one 1t is regular as the
seasons. 1t begins to rise about June
DIST, rises steadily until about Septem-
Der LIST, remains steady until about
the DIST, and then decreases regularly
until the next June. 1t does not vary
more than five or six days from year
to year in centuries, or since Heredo-
tus wrote, 400 years B. G.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
May 9TH
TUESDAY
CLAUS spRECKELS & co.'s BANK.

Monday, May 18th, 1885, should be a
Red Letter day in Hawaiian chronol-
ogy. It was a day of financial eman-
cipation and deliverance. For the
first time in the history of the King
dom every man had a banking. on
ton; that is, every one waS~i in a no.
sition to decide for himself how he
should dispose of his money, outside
the barre41&4nd Improbable recourse
of buying it in napkin" This
had been their only recourse of late
years, FOR so far as interest on depOs-
its were concerned, there was no diff
ference whatever between the cOnven-
tional sold stocking and Bishop &
Co.'s bank. But there was a very
material difference between the pri-
vate stocking and the bank stocking,
as it were. In the one case, although
a mans money might be Improbable
as an investment-was dead stock, in
fact-it could not be used against
himself; in the other case, while it
remained equally Improbable, the
chances were hundred to one that
it would be used in some way against
himself, his friends, or his interest.
He did not participate in the profits
resulting from the investment of his
own money; and no matter how
many months the bank should have
been his debtor, without paying a
cent of interest, let him Overdraw his
account and he was brought up with
a sharp turn and a stern demand for
interest and collateral. In other
words, the thrift of the community
was used to build up private bank
ing firm, instead of to foster trade and
develop the resources of the country.
With the opening of the Bauk of
Savings and Deposits of Claus
Spreckels & Co., the era of private
and irresponsible banking in Homo
luIu came to an end. The new
bank has given sufficient security to
depositors, and it also guarantees fair
interest on deposits. 1t does not pro-
nose to use the credits secure d by the
coin deposits of its customers to the
detriment of depositors. On the con-
trary, deposition in Claus Spreckels
e. Co.'s Bank of Savings will partici-
nate in the profits, and to that extent
have an interest in the business
He does not "bury his talent in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05

Napkin" but puts it out at usury and
reaps of the increase. It is by means
of just such institutions that all new
countries are built up, but uninter-
rupted expansion is Impossible under
the banking system heretofore in
vogue here.
The large number of depOsitors in
the savings department of the new
bank yesterday, proved that the peo-
pie appreciated the opportunity for
profitable and secure Investment
presented to them. Their Majesties
the King and Queen were the first
depositOrs, and, having inspected the
spacious banking premises, they left
full of expressions of good will toward
the new institution. But it was not
royalty alone who marked their APP
probation of what had been done.
Every class and rank in society had
its representatives. among the de-
positors. The wife of a mechanic
posted $1,000 in gold another de-
post of $500 in gold, and others of
varying amounts in the "yellow
metal" showed that the working
classes of Honolulu are in comfortable
circumstances, and that when a rea-
sonable return, with absolute security,
is offered, they are ready to invest
their savings. Henceforward "Old
stocking" banking is at an end in
Honolulu.
We congratulate Messrs. Claus
Spreckels & Co. upon the very fiat
tering reception their Bank of Saw
ings and Deposits has met with. 1t
is certain to be very popular thro ugh
out the islands.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
A GREAT NEWSPAPER.

THE WEEKLY P. c. ADVERTISER is the best
and most complete paper published in the King
dom. Having been thoroughly remodeled in all
its departments, it will be found be uniformly
bright, newsY and reliable. Being intended speci-
ally for the family circle, it will contain nothing
offensive to morals or refined taste. Arrange
ments have been perfected for giving complete
digest of the worlds news up to latest date, in
addition to all the local and general news of the
Kingdom. Correspondence, detailing facts, is in
vited from all parts of the Islands. Orders for
subscriptions should be addressed to the Manager.
THE WEEKLY P. C. ADVERTISER is mailed to
subscribers at So per annum, payable i'll advance.
Remittances may be made by p. o. Order.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NAVA
CONSTRUCTION.
NAVAL

There appears to be only one firm
of shipbuilders in the United States
that has any chance whatever of Sc
curing a contract from the Navy
Department. In the United King
dom there are scores of such firms.
The Admiralty the other day invited
ten firms of shipbuilders to tender for
the new belted cruisers and irOnclads.
These represent an expenditure OF
93,OOO.OOO ($15, ,OOO). This outlay
will be a very great help to the ship
building interests of the United
Kingdom during the present period
of depression. The designs are novel,
and will be subjected to the closest
scrutiny, owing to recent disclosures
of weakness, and faultiness in con-
struction. The competition for iron
clads has been confined to n much
smaller number of shipbuilding firms
than was the case in rendering for the
six new Scouts recently secured by
Messrs. ]. and G. Thomson, of Clyde
bank. For the ironclads, the follow
ing firms have been asked to tender:
J. Elder & Co., r. Napier & Sons,
and J. G.. Thomson, on the Clyde
Palmer Brothers of JarrOw; Barrow
Shipbuilding Company, Thames Iron
Work and Shipbuilding Company,
Samuda Brothers, Poplar; Laird
Brothers, Birkenhead; and Harland
& Wolff of Belfast. Mr.. Wolff, it
will be remembered, left Honolulu by
the Alameda on her last trip, having
spent several weeks on these islands,
and was ignorant of the above fact.
These firms have likewise been in
vited to tender for the belted cruisers,
for which also the following addition
al firms have been asked to compete :
Sir William Armstrong, and Mitchell
& Co., Tyne; and VIM. Denny
Brothers, Dunbarton.
If American shipbuilding had not
been paraIyzed by protective policy,
the Washington NayY@aDepartment
would not be>.sffF the mercy of a pro-
fesslon nas lobbyist, who has never yet
Earned out an honest piece of work at
an honest price. But the United
States must be prepared to spend a
very large sum of money on its navy
before it can be rendered worthy of a
great nation and the gallant officers
and nen by whom its obsolete ships
are manned. Should u great war take
place between European powers, it
will be able to avail itself of all i'm
provements in construction and ar
mament that may be suggested by
experience in actual warfare.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05

REFERRING to our article on Agri-
culture in yesterdays ADVERTISER,
we may add as supplemental infOr-
nation, that Florida oranges are laid
down in Liverpool at So 70 per box,
the first shipment being 81, 100 boxes.
On the goth of March a cablegram
was received to the effect that the
shipment had been sold and cleared
expenses. This was extremely salts
factory, in view of the fact that it was
a direct interference with the estab-
lished Mediterranean trade. Regular
shipments are to be made from Bos-
ton, and no doubt, when the special
merits of the Florida oranges are
known, they will grow in favor. But
the Pacific Coast offers sufficient in
ducements to our own orange raisers,
whose fruit is very much finer fla
vored and more luscious than the
irrigated orange crop of California.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
A ssignee's n office.

"AYING BEEN APPOINTED ASSIGNEE
of the estate of J. II. Bruins, Jr., bankrupt,
notice is hereby given that all amounts due
the above estate are payable to me, at my office,
over BishOp & Co 5 bank, Kaahumanu street,
w. c. PARKE, Assignee.
JonoIuIu MAY > 1850 DIFF
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
T H e
Pacific Commercial Advertiser
NOTICE.

Mr.. A. NJ. Mellis has secured the exclusive right
to the city routes for the p. c. ADVERTISER, daily
and weekly. and is authorized to collect sub
scriptions therefor.
Payments on account of subsc rptions may also
be made at the Publishing Office, Merchant street,
where orders for subscription, and notices of
change of address, etc, will also be received.
Subscribers will please report any complaint for
non-deliverys or other cause, at this office.
L. MONTGOMERY MATHER,
Business Manager P. c. ADvERTIsER.
April 30, 1885, If
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05

Mr. J. Z. Wiseman displayed his usual
energy and thoroughness in distributing
notices of the opening of Spreckels & Co. 5
bank yesterday.
The High Chiefess Kaahumanu, vino was
the favorite wife of Kamehameha l., and,
after his death, regent during the minority
of Kamehameha H., died forty -four years
ago to-day.
The Deputy Marshal served four execu-
tious on collapsed Chinese eating house
yesterday, the gross sum of the levy being
S625 %. The total value of the goods found,
if sold at good prices, might be S25. The
remaining 5000 and the % cents will not be
realized.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
CORPORATION NOTICE.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PER
4 sons that at a meeting OF the shareholders
Of the PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
COMPANY, held on the 9th day of April. 1885,
1t was voted to accept the Charter Of Incorpo-
ration granted to them, and their associates and
successors, under the corporate name and style
of the
PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
COMPANY,
and that the Corporation under said Charter was
duly organized, and elected the foIlowing-named
officers, viz:
Secretary and Treasurer.-.......L NJ. AIATHER
NJ. GIFFA RID
Notice is also given that, pursuant to the terms
OF said Charter, NO shareholders shall be ndividu-
ally liable for the debts of the Corporation beyond
the amount which shall be due upon the share or
shares owned or held by himself ap25tf
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
NOTICE.

a IL APPLICATIONS FOR BOOTHS AT
n Kapiolani Park for the lIth of June Will now
be received by the undersigned at his Office.
]. Z. WISEMAN.
By order OF the Executive Committee OF kaplo-
lani Park Association l03-ap2S-d
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-05
WANTED.

DFNNETT'S DIRECTORY AND SKETCHES
ID of Hawaiian History, published in 1870, for
which a fair price will be given.
w d. ALEXANDER,
Government Survey Office.
or at the office of this paper. 1I6 myI1&wI
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18
Making Dollar,

At the corner of Chestnut and Juniper
streets, in Philadelphia, is square, ugly
building with bed or two of red
geraniums in front, and a United States
flag flying overhead. In the centre of
this building, in an open courtyard are
piledup crates covered with stout wire
net, and guarded by men under arms.
These crates contain partially refined
silver ore from Colorado, and the value
of each is about a thousand dollars
Some thirteen or fourteen thousand
pounds of silver is melted every day, and
comes out of the grimy smelling room
in glitterlng ingots. These long bars
are held each in turn under the topping
mschine, which is heavy steel shaft
with knife edge that smooths off the
ends of the metal bars as easily as if it
were pairing an apple. The ingots then
have the shape, and a good deal the APP
pearance, of bar Of white cream candy
in the confectioners' jars. Each one is
next put under rollers, like dough, and
tlattened out to the thickness of a dol
lar The precious dough is then heated
and handed over to a gigantic cook made
of revolving wheels and steel bars, who
swiftly cuts it into tiny biscuit, two
hundred and fifty in the minute. These
little cakes are seized by another ma
chine which mills the edges, and then
pass into a trough filled with acid to
wash them, and from that to a revolving
tub of sawdust. They are now smooth,
bright discs of silver with milled edges.
The press which makes them into coins
is like a monstrous dumb. intelligent
creature. 1t is waited on by a pretty
young girl who drops the discs into
long tube, from which this dumb mon
ster who seems to be thinking of some
thing greater than its orll) picks each
one out with its clawlike fingers, places
it between its lips, on one of which is a
head of Liberty. and the other an eagle.
The mouth shuts on it with terrific force,
and splits it forth, dollar
Each dollaris weighed. and if too light
or too heavy, is rejected, and sent back
to the melting furnace.
The government is thrifty manufac
turer; the fragments, we may be sure,
are carefully gathered up, that nothing is
lost. The pieces out of which the coins
are cut. and the silver filings from the
milling machine, all go back, of course,
to be melted over. The floors and walls
of the mint are covered with iron graf
ing, through which the scral ings and
precious dust sift. These amount in
value to thirty or forty thousand dollars
a year. Al certain intervals the grating
itself is melted down. and Yields its prey
of the precious metal. - Youths Com
pdti0H.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18
Is Every BODY DrunIt,e

Among the many stories Lincoln used to
relate was the following: Trudging along q
lonely road one morning on my way to the
county seat Judge overlook me with his
wagon and invited me to a seat.
We had not gone far before the wagon be-
gan to wobble. Said l, "Judge, think your
coachman has taken drop too much"
Putting his head out of the window, the
judge shouted: why, yon Internal scoun-
drel, you are drunkln
Turning around with great gravity, the
coachman said "Be dad but that's the frs
rightful Session your Honor's giv'n N twep
montl"
Ifpeople knew the facts they would be sur
prised to learn how many people reel in the
streets who never "drink n drop" They are
the victims of sleeplessness, Of drowsy days,
of apoplectc tendencies, whose blood is set
on fire by uric acid. Some day they will reel
no more-they will drop dead, just because
they haven't the moral courage to defy use
less professional attendance, and by use of
the wonderful Warmers safe cure neutralize
the uric acid in the system and thus get rid
of the drunkenness in the blood. The
american Rural Home.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18
Government Farms.

There are many queer attachments to
this great and complicated machinery of
government, says Washington letter.
How many people know that the United
States is a landlord on large scale
Titles to no less than eighteen farms in
South Carolina are vested in the nation
These improved places vary in size from
40 to 800 acres. the average being about
100 acres. They were bid in by tax
commissioners of the United States
away back in reconstruction days, and
under the existing statutes no authority
can be found to permit their redemption
or to sell them. Congress passed an act
twelve or fifteen years ago providing for
the disposition of the income from the
farms. They are in the custody of the
internal revenue collector, who adds to
his ordinary duties of looking to the
tax on liquors and tobacco the renting
and keeping Of the property. Under
specia legislation to meet this case, the
rents received are invested in govern
ment bonds, and the interest on these
bonds goes to the support of schools in
the parishes of St. Helena and st. Luke,
South Carolina. Last year the farm:
yielded a rental Of only S521.45, and the
year before not half that. The endow
ment fund grows. 1t now amounts tC
81, 500 in United States IS aud 800 in
AIS. The income from the bonds i:
about $4,000, which is disbured in the
parishes by a board called the South
Carolina free school commissioners.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18

Many of the Cd railroads in the South
in existence in 1880 have been purchased
since by syndicates, and vastly improved
and extended so as to develop new ter
ritory or make new connections. Beside
this, however, many millions of dollars
have been expended in building new
roads, and wonderful impetus has been
given to the development OF the resour-
ces of the South. The increa se in mileage
alone in five years has been o, 1928 miles.
The smallest increase of any State has
been in Maryland -forty-two miles-and
South Carolina comes next in smallness
with 1876 miles. Virginia shows an
increase of 1914 miles, which is exceeded
by only two States-Texas and Ar
kansas
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18

Modern surgery has achieved a great
triumph in Germany. Eleven years ago
Professor Nussbaum, of Munich, took
charge of boy so malformed aud
crippled that he was obliged to crawl
about on all tours. Nine serious opera
tions were performed, four crooked bones
were broken, three stiff joints forcibly
extended, several sinews cut through
and nerves stretched. Weights were
then attached to certain muscles, and by
means of massage baths, ointments and
electricity, so much progress was made
that in few years the boy was able to
walk erect with the aid of crutches and
a special apparatus fastened to his feet.
Subsequently he was able to throw away
this apparatus and exchange his clutches
for a cane, and to-day he is a healthy,
vigorous youth, able to walk, dance and
ride on horse back.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18

Victoria, born Morosini, married to
Hulskamp. Schelling, her fathers coach
man, has now secured permanent posi-
ton as a minor performer in light
opera company, where she sings five bars
of music during the evening. Her
husband, the famous Ernest, fallen from
his high estate Of coachman, conducts a
raging horse car on Sixth avenue, New
York. The young couple may never set
the world afrc again, and yet, AYERS the
Current, they are undoubtedly earning
more money than Nictoria's father and
mother made at the same age.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18

OF the 300, 900, 900 eggs annually used
an Paris every one is inspected by being
held before candle. Rotten ones arc
thrown into q vat, which is emptied
daily. Those "spottcd" and unfit for
food are sold to manufacturers, who eX-
tract their albumen and other chemical
ingredients. The price of eggs is rising
in Paris, owing to the increased demand
of other countries and to onerous Gus
toms duties on those imported.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18

In Brazil the telegraph lines have to
contend both with the natural decay,
rapid as that is in a tropical country,
and with the sudden fall of the tempera-
ture at shutdown, that causes wires and
insulators to break by contraction. All
nature is leagued against them. The
luxurious vegetation of the tropics, de-
spite all attempts to keep it down,
causes no end of trouble. Birds build
their nests on top of the poles, and ants
up their sides, while skunks and arma-
dillos undermine them and cause their
sudden fall. The ants nests ha We to be
chopped off with axes, when old and
hard. Wasps build nests in the bell
shaped porcelain insulators, apes meddle
with the wires, and enormous swarms of
birds, flying by night, often wreck or
tangle them. More mischevious than
any of these is huge spider that weaves
its web between the wires and intcrferes
with the electric currents. Worst of all,
the tremendous tropical thunderstorms
smash wires, poles, insulators, and all.
almost daily in their season, despite all
precautions.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18
A Missionary Romance.

The story of an interesting romance
comes back from Constantinople CON
corning the little party of missionaries
sent to Turkey from the vicinity of Bos-
ton, by the American board some
months ago. Among them was DR..
Graham, an es,imab young man, de-
scendant of Robert Bruce and graduate
of the university of Michigan He did not
go under the auspices of the American
board, although travelling with the party
Early last summer he volunteered to go
to Turkey as a missionary physician. The
officers of the American board were very
glad to gain so valuable a recruit, but
the young man was unmarried. 1t is an
inheXible rule of the American board
not to send single young men to the
mission fields. The services of unmar-
ried women are readily accepted. Dr.
Graham was urged to provide himself
with a wife before the time of sailing. The
young man hadn't thought seriously of
matrimony. He certainly had no specific
plans made. He did, however, make an
earnest search for a wife during the few
weeks interim. The details of his search
no one knows but himself At all
events, the time for departure came and
he was wifeess. The American board
declined 10 employ him, and he decided
to go at his own expense. He selected
Aintab, Turkey, as his field of labor,
and he sailed from New York with the
rest of the party. Among his fellow
missionaries was Miss Ella Bray, young
woman of twentv-three years, of great
attraction of mind and person, who for
some time had been n teacher in MOunt
Holyoke seminary. She was assigned to
Adana, Turkey. Intelligence comes
from Constantinople to the effect that a
mutual attachment sprang up between
DR.. Graham and Miss Bray in the course
of the voyage. The romance eliminated
in the marriage OF the couple at Con
stantinople on the 1st inst. Both DR..
and Mrs. Graham will go to Aintab. The
American board will now probably make
both husband and wife its missionaries