The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-29
LATE NEWS.

outcomes of the Presidential aspirations
OF the Governor is the canvass of Lieut.
Governor Jones for the Democratic NOM
inatiOn of Governor. He says: Chill is
a candidate for the Democratic nominal
ton for President. All the acts of the
Administration have had the Presidency
as their aim, and now his ambition is
unmistakable. Hill not desiring the re-
nomination for Governor l have deter
mined to become candidate"
Jones was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor two years ago, simply as last
resort, after a stronger man had de-
clined the honor. He is a scale manu-
facturer of Binghamton, and when
nominated turned the affair to business
purposes as an advertisement and made
huge joke of the canvass. In business
he always speaks of himself in the third
person, IS Clones of Binghamton," and
signs checks that way. A standing joke
of the last campaign was a quotation
from his advertisement circulars, Clones
pays the freight
Cleveland Democrats, with the OBJ
vious intention of worrying Hill. were
circulating the following tonight as the
slate for the present year: For President,
Cleveland; Vice President, D. w. Voor-
hees of Indiana; Governor, William G..
Whitney OF New York; Lieutenant
Governor, Solomon Scheil of Buffalo.
WASHINGTON, February 18th. - The
Secretary of the Treasury to-day issued
an order to the Collector of Customs at
San Francisco to make permanent the
temporary assignment of ten men to do
duty in the Appraisers office in San
Francisco. The time of temporary SER
vice for which these men were assigned
service not been made permanent the
merchants and importers on the Pacific
Coast would have suffered great delay in
receiving their merchandise from
abroad.
BosToN, February 14th.-A bill in
equity was filed to-day in the Supreme
Court at Salem by the Trustees of the
Phillips Academy against the Attorney
General of the Commonwealth, visitor
of the Theological Institute of Phillips
Academy md five professors whose cases
come under the investigation by the
Board OF Visitors, upon accusations of
heresy. This is another step in the cell
ebrated heresy trial of Professor Smythe
and others, and is brought to determine
the rights in equity of all the parties
concerned.
New YORK, February 14th - The
World" which is prone to picking out
candidates for the Republican party, is
working up the chances of Chauncey NJ
Depew, the President of the New York
Central Railway, for the Presidential
nomination by the Republicans. 1t
publishes the views of a number of Re-
pnblicans approving Depew. Many of
them are prominent men, but the major
ity are not active in the Councils of the
New York Republican organization.
Depew himself says he is not candi-
date.
WASHINGTON, February 18th. = The
President expects to leave Washington
next Tuesday for short visit to Florida
He will be accompanied by Mrs. Cleve-
land and the Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Whitney and Colonel and Mrs.
Lamont. The party will go by special
train, and no stops will be made unless
for an hour at Savannah for a drive
through the city. One day will be spent
at Jacksonville and one at st. Augustine.
The party will return to Washington on
Saturday.
WASHINGTON, February 14th. - Mr..
Morrow to-day reported favorably from
the Foreign Affairs Committee the bill |
by him, appropriating So 900 |
to provide a suitable gift for the Japan
csc who offered succor to the wrecked |
survivors of the American bark CASH
mere.
The United States Consul at Callao |
reports that cholera was abating at Val |
paraiso and Santiago, and that owing to
the lack of confidence in the Peruvian
Government the paper money recently
issued by it has so deprecated as to be
almost worthless.
Representative Vandever on February
l4th presented in the House a petition
OF the Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Southern California, number
ing 1873 members, asking for the repeal
Of the internal revenue tax on distilled
spirits.