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The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-08-27
A NEGRO EXODUS.

Fifty Thousand Leave North Carolina.
RALEIGH, N. c., August 1.-The
committee appointed by the Col
ored Emigration Convention, which
met here last April, to go West and
Southwest, examine the country and
learn what arrangements can be
made for movement of large
body of colored people from North
Carolina, expects to leave here for
the Southwest on Sunday.
The committee say that over
$4,000 names of those who will move
have been enrolled, and that these
have agreed to start in forty eight
hours after notice has been given,
provided the commission makes a
favorable report.
1t is said by the committee that
the people in the Southwestern
States have held meetings, composed
of farmers, business men and CAPT
talists, who have appointed commit
tees to meet and confer with the
North Carolina commissioners and
to offer such inducements as will
direct the tide of immigration in that
direction.
If the conditions are favorable and
the committee shall so report, it is
thought by the committee that at
least fifty thousand people will be
moved next fall. Kansas, Arkansas,
Texas and California seem to be
preparations to increase
their colored population at the ex-
pense of the North Carolina exodus. |
Agents from Kansas and Arkansas
are expected here on Saturday to |
accompany the commissioners from |
his State.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-08-27
A NEW NAVAL TERROR.
England's Latest supply Ship-A Quick
Fighter and Fast Sailer.

EngIand's Latest suppIy-s hip-A Quick
Fighter and Fast sailer.
A new acquisition to England's
navy was launched recently and
christened the Vulcan. She is de-
signed as twin-screw torpedo-depot
ship, but is a fast protected cruiser
and formidable fighting craft as well,
and represents an entirely novel
type, says the New York World. The
| construction of the Vulcan was be-
gun on June 16, 1888. She is of
$500 tons displacement-larger, in
short, than any of the large Indian
troop ships, and three times as large
as many a cruiser. She is built Of
steel, her hull alone weighing 3,170
tons, and her principal measure
ments are as follows: Length, $50
feet; beam, 6S feet; mean draught,
% feet. The vertical keel is of an
unusually heavy and substantial
character, and is 8 feet 6inches high.
The cast-steel U-shaped sternpost is
extra strong, weighing five tons.
The vessel is divided into numerous
water tight compartments. and is
protected by a continuous steel deck
6 inches thick in the slope and q
inches elsewhere. The engines are
of the triple-expansion type and will
give a collective indicated horse
power under forced draught of IL,
600. They will drive the ship at
rate Of twenty knots (23 miles) and |
eighteen knots GOT miles) at sea.
There will be storage for 1000 tons
of coal, an amount sufficient for
1900 miles steaming at eighteen
knots an hour. She will have bal
ance rudder similar to that fitted to
the Spanish cruiser Reina Regent
and to the Inman steamer City of
New York. This will enable the new
warship to turn complete circle of
not more than 400 yards in diameter
in little over three minutes.
As torpedo-depot ship she will
be admirably adapted for the work.
She will be floating factory, full of
forges and workshops for the repair
u WI POuO DOlOo dLU WI JSuOto. Ole
will carry an immense supply of tor
Dedoes, submarine mines and all the
necessary gear of submarine work
On large scale, and she will also
nave upon her decks a small fotilla.
eight in number, of second
lass torpedo-boats of the largest +
ize. These she will be able to hoist '
,verboard and dispatch in all direc- i
ions at few minutes notice. The i
Vulcan will also have a torpedo
of her own, consisting of
tx launching tubes, some of which
re to be under water. Regarded
nore particularly as cruiser, she
nil possess qualities which will n
ntitle her to rank among the most
unarmored cruisers of
f the world. She will have weapons
,hich at close range will be capa-
lie of penetrating armor up to
early sixteen inches thick. The n
uick firing armament will be the l
lost powerful of any ship in the
,orld. 1t will enable her to dis
barge on each broadside storm of
'om eighty to $50 projectiles a
linute; and should she ever be at ]
lcked by unarmored cruisers or
,rpedo-boats, she would be able to
I've them a warm reception.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-08-27
A MODEL OF THE EARTH.

One Of the novel exhibits at the
Paris Exposition is a model of the
earth accurately made to a scale of
one millimeter TO the kilometer, or
the one-millionth part of its natural
size Accounts of the model have
been widely published, from one of
which the following is taken: 1T is
a sphere 1872 millimeters, or nearly
~ feet, in diameter, having painted
on Its surface all the detail of the
earth's surface. This globe is built
up on skeleton of wrought iron,
with the outside surface covered with
wood, to which are affixed the card
board panels covered with hard
varnish. This great work was con
celved and elaborated by NJ. Til.
Willard and NJ. Oh. Cotard. and it
was carried out by NJ. T. Seyrig
(engineer) and NJ Albert Tissandier
(architect1. a twelve-sided iron and
glass structure with dome covers
the globe. In this building an ele-
vator lifts the visitor to a platform.
near the top, and from this point he
descends by a spiral gallery of al
most lmperceptible slope, which
reaches the ground after a great
many turns. Though the globe
weighs nearly 13 tons, it can be
easily rotated by a hand wheel. The
surface Is so great 1928 square feet)
that very considerable detail can be
shown. As an educational feature.
it is especially useful in permitting
the eye 20 more accurately estimate
the relative position and size of seas
and continents than is possible with
any plane surface map. An exceed
ingly interesting collection of statis-
teal and geographical information
Is also painted on the panels, in the
shape of the population of CONT
nents, cities, etc; sections of the
earth's crust; the comparative
heights of mountains; lengths of
rivers, railways, telegraph lines, etc.
In the matter of kilograms received
per 100 of inhabitants, it seems that
Australia comes first $3.50 per 100, |
oAo OOaF1 AuAA4 dllO OMllL6IldUQ u6AG /
with $50 and 100 The United States
comes in with 80, Great Britain 80. |
and Germany ends the list with 40. |
In the summary of ocean surface as
compared with the land, we find that
the five oceans cover 221,OOO,OOO
square miles, or 74.4 per cent of the
earth's surface, while the five CONT
nents cover 52,50O,OOO square miles,
or the remaining 25y6 per cent. of
-he total. As the highest mountain
IN the scale used would be only SIG
nch high, no attempt has been made
. show these in relief, but they are
in the painting to appear in
-ellef- The coloring of the oceans
represents by its intensity the depth
n FIVE shades ranging from pale
o dark blue. Steamer routes are
ihown by various colors for the
nations"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-08-27

Which affords al the advantages of Life
Insurance during the earlier years of life,
and at the same time makes provision
for old age, as the Policy-holder can sur
render his Policy at the end of the Sur
vivorship DIVIDEND PERIOD and receive
its FULL VALUE IN CAsH-thus combin-
ing INVESTMENT and Projection.
60 Any information cheerfully fur
nished.
JOHN II. PATTY,
26 1856 Agent.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-08-27

The old project of deepening the
present canal across Scotland from
Bowling-on-the Clyde to Grange
mouth-on-the-Fourth, SO as to allow
deep-sea going vessels to pass
through, is receiving fresh attention,
according to the London Engineer
ing. The present canal is 35 miles
long and 8 feet deep, has 35 locks,
and rises 156 feet. The improve
ments, it is said, would cost not over
f2,OO0,OOO.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-08-27

A new dog from Holland has
long name, a short body, a sharp
bark, head like pig, big ears and
no tail. He has appeared at English
dog-shows, and is fashionable and
expensive
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-08-27
OAHU COLLEGE
AMP
PunahOu Preparatory School
HONOLULU, II. I.
These Schools Open for the New Year
September 9, 1889.

The faculty of Oahu College will be the
same as last year. The Friend saws: 1--WE
think that there has never been an ADLER
faculty at Oahu College, or one better
adapted to impart high classical and
scientific education"
The Boarding Department can accom-
modate but few more than were in attend
ance last year, and all who desire to enter
should make an early application.
The Preparatory School continues under
the Principalship of Miss Malone: Miss
Carrie A. Gilman takes Miss Chamber
laln's position, the latter having resigned
to remove to the United States.
The Trustees are happy to announce
that, through the generous interest of.
friend, they are erecting a fine new build
ing and remOdeling the present one. SO
that this school will occupy new and com
modious quarters in September. When
thus equipped we believe the Preparatory
school will offer opportunities second to
none in the Kingdom.
E%Address all letters of inouirv or
applications to
REV. w. c. MERRITT.
oo-1oI 1Zo0-4t President
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-08-27
Builders Of. Steam Machinery
In all its branches.

In all its branches.
| Steamboat, Steamship. Land Engines L Boilers.
High Pressure or Compound.
| STEAM VESSELS of all kinds built complete.
with bulls OF wood, iron or composite.
ORDINARY ENGINES compounded when ad-
visable.
STEAM LAUNCHES, Barges and Steam Tugs con-
structed with reference to the trade in which
they are to be EMU loyed. Speed, tonnage and
draft of water guaranteed.
SUGAR MILLS and Sugar Making Machinery
made after the most approved plans Also all
WATER PIPE, of Boiler OF Sheet Iron, of any
size, made in suitable lengths for connecting
together, or Sheets rolled, punched and packed
for shipment, ready to be riveted on the
ground.
HYDRAULIC RIYETING, Boiler Work and Water
Pipes made by this establishment, riveted by
hydraulic riveting machinery, that quality of
work being far superior to hand work
SHIP WORK, Ship and Steam Capstans, Steam
Winches, Air and Circulating Pumps made
after the most approved plans.
SOLE Agents and manufacturers for the Pacific
Coast of the Heine Safety Boiler.
PUMPS-Direct Acting Pumps for irrigation or
city works purposes, built with the celebrated
Davy Valve Motion, superior to any other
pump.
ISm Room No. 8. upstairs. Spreckels' Block
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
THE FAYETTE RoBBER-HUNT.

Dwellers in cities in these parts can
not fail to be struck by the extraordinary
state Of things reported from the mountain
district of old Fayette. The masked rob-
bers at McClellandtown, the diabolicaI tor
lures which they visited upon their victims,
and their escape, were all thrilling enough
rather more like tale of the wild West
than of one of the oldest settlements of
Pennsylvania. But whether the exigencies
of existence, much dime-novel reading, nat
ural disposition to desperadoism, or all three
influences, can sufficiently or not account
for this bold defiance of the law, the still
more surprising inability to catch the rob
bers is not explained.
Reports during the week stated that they
were known. Even their names were vol
unteered and the residence of some of the
supposed malefactors was located and sur
rounded The Sheriff, however, seems to
have returned to Uniontown empty handed.
The strange and astounding circumstance
is that persons whose identity. truly or
falsely, is thus proclaimed could success
fully lose themselves for any length of time
in Fayette Though the mountain region
has extensive iorest tracts it is surrounded
by population which should long before
now have succeeded in laying hands on
fugitives in hiding. That there is any SYM
pathy with or fear of the desperadoes up
there is not to be believed. Still the rob-
bers are at large.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
ARIsTocRAT1c ENTANGLEMENTs.

That centennial quadrille at New York is
steadily becoming a complicated affa ir
The announcement that the participants in
that important ceremony must be the
possessors of Revolutionary ancestors, has
had the effect of bulling the ancestor market
so much as to create suspici ons of a corner.
The fashionable world has thought with
envy of the happy fortune of Major General
Stanley, who was able to purchase whole
abbeY-tull of ancestors; butonly one eminent
lady of fashion who has adopted the tomb of
General Marion and sent orders to have it
repaired at her expense, has been able to
rival the good luck of Gilbert's military
man.
And now come rumors of war between
those lights of fashion Ward McAllister
and Stuyvesant Fish. Mr.. Fish claims that
he 'saved the quadrille from ruin" and in
Inmates that McAllister was the author of
that terrible disaster, while the latter replies
has committed the sacrilege of addressing
him, Ward McAllister, as if he were "a
subordinate and delinquent clerk in a rail-
way or factory" We fail to see how such
an insult to the eminent and blue-blooded
leader of the Four Hundred, as to reduce
him to the level of beggarly hireling can
be atoned for, otherwise than by the spilling
of blood. Messrs. McAllister and Fish
should prepare at once for the field of battle.
But a conflict between such eminent
characters cannot be of the ordinary class
Let it be the real old-fashioned ordeal Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIES.

EX-SENATOR PALMER, Minister to Spain,
speaks very excellent Spanish. He spent a
long time in Spain during his youth.
Mr.. CLEVELAND will call on his sister, Rose
Elizabeth, before he returns to New York.
Miss Cleveland is in the south of Florida.
MRS NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs sailed for
Europe with her two children on the Cunarder
Servia yesterday. She returns in the autumn.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's typewriter, Miss
Sanger is said to be the first woman ever en-
ployed at the White Honse in clerical ca
pacity.
BUFFALO BILL will leave this country for
Paris in a few weeks with his famous band of
cowboys and redskins. He will camp for the
summer near the great Exposition.
A MONUMENT to John A. Logan's memory
is projected in Illinois, and, as the Senate of
that State has projected $4,000 appropriation
for the work, it will probably be completed be-
fore some other important undertakings of a
like character are well under way.
AN old lady living in Portland. Me-, offered
for sale to an agent of one of the Vanderbilts
ten years ago painting by one OF the old mas
tiers. an heirloom, which straitened circum-
stances compelled her to part with. The price
asked was $780, and the agent was instructed
to offer her that sum per annum for the work
be taken from her until after her DEATH She
is now so years old and still drawing the $500
year.
ISAAC PTTTMAN. inventor of shorthand
system. the jubilee of whose publication was
celebrated two years ago, has done all his own
printing for As years. He was accustomed
during most of that period to go to his desk at
A. M. and remain till 8 or 0P. NJ. He is now
past 76 years of age and is beginning to indulge
himself He begins work at the usual hour,
but ceases at P. NJ. He does not however,
ask any of those in his employ to observe the
same hours.
THE most valuable freak among dime mu-
scum curiosities is Lucia Zarate, "the Mexican
midget" She has made her father rich. She
maintains her family, takes a maid and in
terpreter around the country and draws sal
ary OF 500 a week. She receives more than
almost any operatic star in the land. She is
small enough to make money, but large enough
to enjoy it. She insists upon living at the
most luxurious hotels never rides in anything
but a coupe and always eats a handsome sup
per washed down by champagne at night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24

grains of wheat in three boxes, one hundred
to box. Then he mentally encouraged
the wheat to grow in one box, discouraged
it in another and left the wheat in the third
box to work out its own salvation unaided
and undeterred. The result was that every
grain of wheat which felt the farmers men
tai encouragement, sprouted and grew apace,
only few of the discouraged grains broke
through the ground and the grains left to
their own devices grew but moderately we'll.
1t just comes to this: If Christian meta
physics can accomplish this, the ugly and
unsentimental part of farming, the hard
work, can be dispensed with at once. A
man can just sit on his front porch and con-
centrate his mind on his desires in the way
of crops, and the seeds will come hustling
prepaid from the seedmen, the horses will
be willed out of the barn, the machines
will harness themselves to the horses, the
seed will get into the machines, the ma
chimes will move upon the fields, and the
fields will ripen to the harvest without
much ado. Such will be the triumph of
mind over matter.
However, till the editor of the Christian
Metdphysician states in loaded BREWER that
ne has succeeded in getting out his paper
by the simple exercise of will power and
mental concentration, and that he will not
ask subscribers and advertisers to pay for
what he can produce for nothing, we advise
the honest farmer to rely upon the sweat
of his brow and the kindness of nature to
fill his barns Wind will turn a windmill,
but it will not run even two-acre farm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
A STRANGE AFRICAN STORY.
How the Discovery of New River Was
Coupled With an Unusual Tragedy.

How the Discovery of New River Was
Coupled With an Unusual Tragedy.
From the New York Sun.l
The report from Africa that Lieutenant Clerc
of the French navy, has been the first to visit
the headwatcrs Of the Cassni river calls to
mind one of the strangest stories of African
exploration ever written. In 1855 the French
merchants in Senegambla became aware that
the coast towns were being flooded with spuri-
GUS 5,franc silver coins bearing the efigy
of Louis Philippe. 1t could not be found that
these coins came from Europe, and it was soon
evident that they originated somewhere down
the coast. Finally some natives were found
who said they received the coins in exchange
for ivory from two white men who had a trad
ing post on the Cassini river. Nobody had ever
heard of the Cassini river, and Lieutenant Wal
Ion, now an Admiral in the French navy, was
sent with small expedition to find the mys-
terious stream which was reputed to be the
source of the counterfeit silver.
The party coasted for 200 miles south, enter
ing many an inlet on the way, and at last they
came to that complicated system of water
ways known as the Rivers of the South. One
of these rivers the natives called the Cassini,
and the travellers at once assembled it. Not
many miles from the mouth they saw some
large huts, and two white men presently ap-
peared to see who was approaching their re-
treat. AS the boat party was landing the white
men, gathering few things from the huts,
started to run away. They were pursued, but
were not taken alive. The two criminals ended
their remarkable enterprise by shooting them
selves dead. The discovery of a new river had
been coupled with strange tragedy.
A counterfeiting outfit was found in the
huts. These men had left one of the trading
posts with a deliberate purpose of burying
themselves in an unknown region and making
snug little pile in the counterfeiting busi-
ness They bought ivory of the natives with
their spurious coin and sent it up the coast for
shipment to Europe
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
OAKS AND ACORNS.

The litigation just started over the owner
ship of stock in the Monongahela Water
Company throws some light on the profits
of that corporation. From small proper
tions it has grown in value at rate CORE
spending to the enormous growth of the
Southside. While che stockholders are de-
batting in the courts the legality of the al
legged injection of nearly half million of
something like, if not quite, water into the
capitalization upon which consumers have
to foot the dividend bill, outsiders will re-
feet that the city should have whatever
profit there is in supplying commodities
such as water and gas. Or better still
would it be if the city furnished these at
the cost of production, allowing q fair esti-
mate for running expenses and interest on
the plant.
But the era of perfect municipal economy
has not yet arrived. Franchises are not ap-
preciated by the taxpayer at their money
value until the growth of towns and cities
shows their bonanza characteristics. Then
they have become vested rights" and
either no remedy of repeal exists where they
are exorbitant, or they are powerful enough
to disregard inquiry and overcome Opposi-
tion.
These remarks are not intended to convey
any expression as to the extraordinary
charges which one set of prominent bust
ness men bring against another set equally
prominentIregarding the management of the
company's affairs. That is for the courts.
The squabble simply serves to remind the
taxpayers that the profits which are being
fought about would, under wiser policy,
belong to the city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
cLARKsoNs EXQUISITE REASONS

tits instructive to be assured by Mr.. Clark
sons own organ of his reasons for accepting
the Assistant Postmaster Generalship. He
tells the awed public that he refused Cab
met position, a frst-class foreign mission
and four other posts of importance, but
when it came to the Office that he is now
filling, he recognized the call of duty. He
knew the obligations incurred in the cam
paign and the necessity of testowing this
army properly. He does not intend to stay
in the position more than few months and
when the $4,000 postofices are divided up
among the party workers he will retire, evil
IDENTIFY claiming the gratitude of the nation
for his labors.
The stunning picture which is thus pre-
sented, of Mr.. Clarkson throwing one high
place after another over his shoulder, until
he gets down to where he can SOW fourth
class postofices broadcast, is rivalled BY the
implied spectacle of great country going
down op its knees and imploring that gen.
tleman to do as no one else can, the lmpor-
tant work of ladling out the pap. But even
these are cast in the shade by the implied
avowal of the Assistant Postmaster General
that the raison d etre of the postofices is to
pay for campaign services. The idea that
postofices are things exclusively for public
service never entered Mr.. Clarkson s mind,
or if it did it was rejected as an utterly Mug
wumpian heresy.
Some day the idea of paying for party ser
vices with Offices will appear as semi-civil-
lied as Walpole's practice of buying votes
with them; but it looks as if it will have to
be after politicians of the Clarkson stamp
have been killed of.