The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-01-31
FOREIGN NEWS!

| y SOOu vein OF DlIuIllQOuS coal ma
been found on Yaquina bay, Oregon
Operations at the Brooklyn Nav,
Yard are more active than in man!
years.
Wong All Hung, Chinese procurer
has been granted a further stay il
the execution of his ten years sen
tenee.
The tearing-up of the streets in
New York, of which there has beer
much complaint, is causing a great
! deal of sickness.
A rich Buffalonian by his will left
his body to the local medical college
with instructions to carefully pre-,
serve his skeleton.
Canadians are establishing ranches
in the Northwest Territory and ship
ping cattle to the European market
by way of Montreal over the Canadian
Pacific Railway.
The week before the holidays a
whole train of twenty-five cars, load
ed with dressed turkeys and geese,
went from Ottawa, Canada, to Bos-
ton, the value of the poultry being
over forty thousand dollars.
The British bark Kildonan, arrived
at Baltimore from Prince Edward Is
land, encountered a great mass of
logs, supposed to be part of the big
lumber raft, which appeared to be in
the Gulf Stream, the current going
north.
Matters are lively in Reading, Cal.
There are from 1900 to $500 people
in the town and not house to let
The white tents of people camping
out are to be seen all round. There
is a proposition to bond the town for
$4,000 for erecting electric lights,
grading, macadamizing and building
a system of sewerage.
DR.. Peter Parker died at his resi-
dence in Washington, Jan. 10th, aged
81 years. He was United States Min
lister to China thirty years ago, and
has lived in Washington since 1858.
He held the Office of regent of the
Smithsonian Institution for. many
years, and was one of the most emf
nent and respected citizens of the
capital.
By train on the Boston & Maine
Railway leaving the track, on ac-
count of a broken wheel and switch
frog breaking in consequence, at
Haverhill, Mass, Jan. 10th, about
fifteen persons were killed and fifty
injured. Two or three cars were
hurled against tank house, bringing
the fabric and 10000 gallons of water
down on the rest of the wreck.
Mrs. Theodore F. G. Demarest,
whose maiden name was Mary Lee,
died at Los Angeles, Cal, on jan. 8th.
She was the authoress of "My Ain
Countree," which has been sung by
many thousands who never knew the
authoress' name owing to her dislike
of publicity. She had been an invalid
for several years, and was in Califor-
MIA for her health. Her death was.
unexpected.
The Pacific Coast Fish Commission
will do all in their power to promote
the fishery interest of the Pacific. A
carload of young Eastern Holsters
will be sent to California, to be plant
ed in the waters of the Pacific. The
late Commissioner Baird once pre-
dicted the development of the fisher
les of the Pacific Coast would result
in more substantial benefit to the
people of the Pacific Coast than the
entire grazing and cattle raising in
dustry of California.
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR TEACHERS.
Senator Stewart of Nevada intro
duced bill in the United States
Senate on Jan. 10th, to establish a
National University in Washington
for the education of teachers. The
bill creates a cabinet board of regents
to manage the university, appoint a
faculty and fix their compensation.
Tuition, rooms, board, books, station
cry, etc, are to be furnished to stu
dents free of charge. The course of
education is fixed at four years. The
President is empowered to appoint to
the university fifty students. Each
Senator and Representative and Ter
ritorial delegate shall appoint one
student, resident of his State or Ter
ritory, each year. Both females and
males are to be admitted and the
regents are directed to see that the
membership is equally divided be-
tween the sexes. Students, while
pursuing their studies in this ideal
university and after graduating there
from, while teaching common schools,
or in State or Territorial institutions
maintained for the purpose of in
structing students in the art of
teaching, shall in addition to any
other compensation they may re-
ceive be paid $50 per month from the
United States Treasury. Stewart
says he does notrelish Blair's Educa-
tional Bill, although he voted for it,
but he thinks that it would be the
better scheme to educate at the