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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08

Road making is thankless task
and brings more odium than glory.
1t is foolish for persons who have
not leisure and special knowledge
to guide them, to incur this odium
needlessly.
The character of the nominal
tions in Honolulu makes the appli-
ton of the electoral principle to
road boards appear of very doubt
full expediency. In any case the
event will probably show that the
extension of the road board system
to Honolulu was very unwise. 1t
can hardly produce other than dis
astrous results. Under the present
law the road boards have very ex-
tensive powers. They are appar-
emily entirely independent of the
Minister of the Interior, have full
control of the disbursements aud
in general are responsible for the
entire road work, within the lines
laid down by the Appropriation
Bill. The road supervisor Is sub
ject to them. Now this system is
very well, IN the country districts,
but in Honolulu where the work
of road-making is large business
by itself, and can only flourish
when entrusted to competent
persons who devote their full
time to it, the system would seem to
be entirely out of place. Either the
Road Supervisor will maintain the
practical control, in which case the
Board will be a useless fgurehead
or the work will be misdirecteC
and married by the interference O
thoughtIess incompetency.
1t is not to be disputed that the
present plan does not always worl
satisfactorily. What we wish tt
point out is the great unlikeli
hood of any improvement unde
the change now to take place
Of course it is possible that
Road Board can be secured i
Honolulu composed of persons VIII
are willing to devote their tim
and their abilities to it without re
Enumeration. Unhappily, under ex
listing conditions, this hardly seem
likely. 1t is true that in Englan
a large amount of important gov
eminent work is done by unsalarie
officials but the English system
very different from the America
Hawaiian. In England the offic
seeks the man. Here, the ma
seeks the Office. In England, hold
ing Office under the Government
a distinction. Here, and in Amer
lea, it seems to involve odium.
is pretty safe to assume, in thi
country at all events, that if yo
pay man nothing for his services
their value will pretty nearly COZ
respond with the salary.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08
NOTICE.
Election CT Officers.

THE PORTUGUESE MUTUAL BENE-
fit Society of Hawaii, Ga corporation, }
at its regular annual meeting held on the
Goth day Of December, A. D. 1891, at
Honolulu, elected the following named
officers for the year 1892:
J. NJ. Vivas .................P President
Jose G. da Silva. Vce-PreSident
NJ. Gosmao da Silva ..... Secretary
Antonio G. da Silva, Jr..... Treasurer
Board of Directors = oao Fernandes,
Jose NJ. Comes, Joao Pauline Dias, Jose
de Frias, Augusta o. r. Vieira.
]. a. MELIM, Secretary.
Honolulu, Jan. g, 1892. 2964-3t
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08
General advertisements.
e1 NEW GOODS TO THE
PACIFIC HARDWARE Co., Id.

Carbolineum Avenarius.
Glassware, Agate and Japanned
ware.
Platform, counter and even bal
ance Scales.
Paints, Oils aud Varnishes.
Open link and topsail Chain, as
sorted sizes.
Plantation Tools and Implements.
Vacuum Oils.
Stoves and Ranges.
Garden Barrows.
Oil Stoves, new designs.
Slack & Brownlow's Water Filters,
superior to all others; the favorite
since 1847.
Hose Reels-something unique.
$3.50 1890
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08
PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
SIX-PAGE EDITION

Be just and fear not;
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be
Thy COuntry's, thy Gods, and Truths.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08

CAPTAIN BABCooK has published
a statement in the Bulletin which
shows that there was no negligence
on the part of the Honolulu au.
thorities in regard TO the burning
of the bark John P. West.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08
T. W. HOBRON, Agent,

at the New Drug Store.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08
Hawaiian Hardware Co., Id,
Monday, fan. +, 1899.

and we've turned another leaf
in the book of life. The page
is as white as the snow that
caps majestic Maunaloa. Now
fetch along your resolutions.
Here's ours
Better goods than ever; l07OeT
prices than haze been dreamt OF
in your philosophy and absolute
satisfaction. We've made
other resolutions, too, but
those in italics are the ones
we intend keeping during
1892. We say this with the
same ardor as does the fellow
who declares he will shake all
the bad habits he INDUCED in
during the year just closed;
but we will keep ours. Watch
us
There are a dozen estab-
lishments of the cart preserv-
alive" in Honolulu, maybe
more. In each one every en-
ployee from the de9I up knows
the disadvantage Of the ordin-
airy carpenters mallet used in
planning when it comes to
making up forms; the plane
goes to pieces and the splinters
drop in among the type
there's a sulphurous halo
around the foreman's head
and the paper goes late to
press. This may be avoided
if checked in time by the use
of new Undiscovered Mallet
which we have just imported
for use in printing offices
Light or middle-weight as you
wish.
; One magnificent banquet
> lamp remains from the holiday
exhibition. A beauty in every
respect; a little different If
: style from anything else in the
! line so different that it would
take a {" littery Teller" to tel
Just what it is. Well wager
/ anything there isn'ta duplicate
4 of it in the Kingdom. We
buy the finest lamps imported
here, so we know.
Silver Toilet goods, Mirrors
Frames and What-not. Com
} mercially silver, but you mia!
k be assured in some stores tina
similar goods are solid silver
or, at least, that the meta
parts are. The factis that thu
basic metal is white compost
n ton, covered heavily with sill
yer and lacquered. The resul
!. is durability and elegance ane
t. t. they are not discounted a sin
If gle whit, because you know
It the worth of them. Wha
ee sort of good resolution would
$ we keep if we would tell yol
they were solid !
Weddings and dear know
! what brought lot of peopl'
to see us last week for tabl,
ware in silver line-it seemed
to be epidemic and the las
. purchaser found as many strik
3 ingly beautiful designs ii
n Spoons, Forks and Knives a
n if we hadn't sold a single doz
en-. 1t pays to have full line
Of everything just as well a
it does to have your money il
any dividend paying scheme
= Our dividends are your dollar
e dropped into our till-your
r. are the marvellous bargains
you get over our counters.
The Little Wonder
Freezer will make anothe
appearance in our store afte
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2964-6t 1409-2t
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08
W hat Is

The EDISON MIMEOGRAPH 1t is
not talking machine, yet it can talk
on paper There is no electricity about
it but it will reduplicate letters, music,
programmes, drawings, ETC., with light
ming rapidity. 1t is simple, compact,
clearly and cheap. Nothing to get out
of order as in some machines. You
can take 5000 copies OF your own hand
writing, or, if type writer is used, 1900
duplicates, each as good as the original.
Every busy man should have one.
The circular letter which you send out
from your office will look like personal
one and the recipient will read it. All
users on these islands endorse it.
How much do they cost? That de-
ponds on the size. A small machine
SIS, and $22 will buy mimeograph
9x12 inches, suitable for general work.
They are fitted out completely; with
paper and ink ready for operating.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08

THE LATEST THING OUT.
A Baby Edition of Vistas of
Hawaii" price only TO cents.
Like its Mama it is bound in
blue and gold; and it has TO
pictures of Island Scenery. See
them at the Pacific Hardware
Company.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-08

The general verdict-"If you
don't read the ADVERTISER you don't
get the news"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

REv. JouN V. TALMAeE, brother Of
7. he Witt, died ut his home at Bound
Brook, N. j.
IS JUDGE JESSE LYNCH died at Peoria,
I'LL, aged T5 years. He was the father
of the republican party, having intro
duced resolutions in the convention
held ut Mayors hall, Bloomington, ILL.,,
May 2l, 1851, that the new party be
called the republican party, which were
adopted. The judge served one term
in congress.
GEN. FRANKLIN SAWYER, prominent
attorney, who commanded brigade at
Gettysburg and was promoted for gal
lantry, died at his home in Norwalk. o.
EDWARD X, BERMApuEz,' late chief
justice of the Louisiana supreme court,
died at New Orleans, aged 60 years.
AT II meeting of the republican state
central committee of Nebraska the
name of j. 7, Myers was placed on the
ticket for lieutenant governor in place
of j. c. Tate, found ineligible.
WILLIAM $. DABoLL, famous COM
edian, dropped dead at his summer
home near Holiston, Mass.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27
LATTER.

A CI.oUDBURsr visited Roanoke, Va,
on the 23d and in half an hour over
100000 worth of damage had been done
and one life lost. The business portion
of the CITY, which is on low land, was
the principal sufferer.
CHARLES HAvREs, the man who es-
capped from the Allegheny pa work
house after beating the watchman,
and who has committed half dozen
robberies and assaults since his escape,
was caught on the 23d.
THE Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern switchmen at Buffalo, n. Y, struck
on the Esd because they were ordered to
handle freight from tied-up roads.
About 125 men are out
THE Homestead lodges of the Anal
gamated association are spending in the
neighborhood of Sc, 900 per day to sup
ply the wants of those who are entirely
dependent upon these resources for
their sustenance. AS yet there has been
no shortage of funds and all demands
upon the committee have been met
promptly.
EX-Gov. MYRoN II. CLARKE died at
his home in Canandaigua, N. Y, on the
23d Deceased was born in Naples, N.
Y, in 1906. He was elected governor of
the state in 1886.
AT indianapolis on the 28d the Order
of the Iron Hall was placed in the hands
of receiver in the person of James i.
Failey, a well-known wheel manufae-
turer of that city,
AT Cleveland, o., on the esd, Charles
H,,fnl,frgAY, hNyl l,.iY,lr nd iao L
ousy, attempted to kill Lizzie Jackson
a servant girl in the employ of ex-Mayor
Buhrer but failed after shooting at
her and Mrs. Buhrer several times. He
then turned his revolver upon George
Talcott, a coachman, killing him in
stantly He then shot himself, infict-
ing fatal wounds
THE shops of the Cincinnati, Ports
mouth & Virginia railway, at Ports
mouth, o., were totally destroyed by
fire on the 23d, including all machinery,
four freight cars and Il locomotive. Two
engines and five coaches were damaged.
Loss 1000.
THE business of concoctipg in New
York and selling foreign kilograms of a
fraudulent character has long been a
source of annoyance to every news or
ganization in the country whose efforts
were hampered by considerations of
honesty. The New York World has just
been proved to have printed forged in
terviews with Astronomer Schiaparelli
and bismarck, and will be compelled to
forfeit 81 900 which it had put up as a
bluff, claiming that the kilograms were
genuine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27
FOREIGN.

NEARLY 5000 new cases of cholera
were reported on the 18th in Russia,
but the plague was decreasing in
Persia. ...a.
ELEVEN lives were lost by the burn
ing of n lodging house at Monmouth
shire, England.
A DECREE has been promulgated re-
moving all existing restrictions on the
expectation of cereals from the Russian
empire.
a FIRE in the town of Sardovsls, Rus
sia, destroyed 800 houses and made
., 500 persons homeless.
EXTREMELY hot weather prevailed
throughout Europe, the thermometer
in some places reaching 1O7 degrees.
THE British bark Ashbank, Capt.
Oats, which sailed from Algon Bay
May 81 for New Castle, New South
Wales, was given up as lost with the
crew of thirty-two men.
FIVE severe shocks of earthquake
were felt at Milford Haven, Pembroke
shire, Wales.
MCDoNNELL and Hill, the accomplices
of the Bidwclls, the Bank of England
forgers, were released from prison on
condition they leave England forever.
Hill is an IDIOT, and his hair had turned
white.
As A further precaution against the
introduction of cholera into Canada the
Importation of rags from Germany and
Belgium has been prohibited by an
order in the dominion council.
FIRE at Callao, Peru, destroyed u
whole business block, the loss being
estimated at $780, 600.
SEVEN THOUSAND new cases of chol-
era were reported throughout Russia
on the goth and 1876 deaths.
A MOST disastrous fire swept through
the town of Sontra, short distance
from Cassel, Germany. One hundred
and forty buildings were destroyed.
DISPATCHES from Zanzibar report
that Baron Paul and four leading MEM
bers of the German punitive expedition
have been murdered at Kilimandja
AT Berne, Switzerland, the inter-
national peace congress opened with
over 800 delegates present, including
Belva Lockwood, of the United States.
IN hurricane there fell at the City
of Mexico a shower of fishes 3 inches
long and number of small pelicans,
eut no rain, while at Mazatlan the
! ground was covered with dead winged
ants.
OWING to threats of strike the
master tailors of England have ordered
! a lockout of journeymen. The number
of, men affected is $4,000
The British steamer Rome was
wrecked near Algoa bay and all on
board are thought to have been
drowned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

Mrs SHIRAs, wife of the newly ap-
pointed justice of the supreme court is
described as a woman of fine attain
ments, with fondness for entertain
ing, which makes her home on Stockton
avenue, Allegheny City, a favorite re-
sort with the society of that place.
Justice Shiras still retains his college
fondness for reading the classics in the
original Greek and Latin. In addition
to fine voice he has ready wit which
renders him an agreeable companion
at table and charming after-dinner
tallSer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

EDWIN OTIS HAvEY, PHI. D., of the
Missouri State Geological bureau, has
made an examination of some large
bones and tusks, found some few days
ago by some miners in shaft, near
Carl junction, Mo- He says that the
remains are those of an American ele-
phant. The beast when alive was
larger than Jumbo. Prof. Havey ex-
poets to obtain almost a complete slIele-
ton. He will articulate the bones and
mount the skeleton and it will be a
part of Missouris geological exhibit at
the Worlds fair
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27
PERSONAL AND PoLITIcAL.

THE Iowa democrats in convention
at Davenport nominated j. II. McCon-
logue for secretary of state, Charles
Ruegnitz for treasurer, Ezra Willard
for attorney general, $. p. Van Dyke
for auditor, w. G. Kent for railroad
commissioner, and Nathaniel French
and w. w. Wilmer for presidential
electors at large. The platform in
dorses the national convention held at
Chicago and the nominations made,
favors the election of United States
senators by the people, tariff reform,
and favors the movement for better
roads.
AT the state convention in Spring
field, Ill, of the republican league
clubs w. w. Tracy was reelected presi-
dent.
The following nominations for con-
gress were made: Michigan, Seventh
district, p. L. Wilson (rep); Illinois,
Tenth district, A. d. Metcalf (pro j;
mississippi, Sixth district, 7. $. Stock
dale (dem.); Georgia, Eleventh district,
b. E. Russell (dem.); Maryland, First
district, G. NJ. Russum (rep); Indiana,
Fifth district, John II. Worrell rep j;
Minnesota, Fourth district, j. n. Castle
(dem ) Tennessee, Third district, II.
Clay Evans Arep.).
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed
William Harrison Bradley, OF Illinois,
to be United States consul at Copeu-
hagen, vice Ryder dismissed.
THE peoples party in convention a
Nashville, Tenn, adopted resolution
f,,I TD1 y,
independent candidate and pledging
him support.
THE prohibition party of Nebraska
in convention at Hastings nominated a
full state ticket headed by c. Il. Bent
ley for governor.
RIVAL democratic state conventions
were held at Houston, Tex, each
nominating full tickets, one headed by
James S. Hogg for governor and the
other by George Clark for the same
office.
The democratic national campaign
committee decided to locate branch
the states of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South
Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
THE republicans in state convention
at Moscow, Idaho, nominated United
States Senator w. ]. Mcconnell for
governor, l. n. Sullivan for supreme
court judge and Willis Sweet for CON
gress
| CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Kentucky, Fifth dis
trict, c. S. Bates (peoplesO; Pennsyl
vania, Twenty-fourth district, DR. Will
liam A. Sipe (dem,); North Carolina,
Second district, E. A. Moyr (peoples').
Mrs. PATSY SEARS, the oldest inhab.
liant of Indiana, died at the home OF
her daughter at Kokomo aged 1Os
years.
PRESIDENT HARRISON celebrated his
fifty-ninth birthday at Loon Lake, N
| Y, on the Goth.
ABRAM SMITH (colored) died at Alex
andria, La, aged 1lO years. Uncle Abe
remembered Gen. jackson well anC
often spoke of him and the battle OF
New Orleans.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27
Gladstone ConsuIts His Cabinet.

LONDON, Aug. 2O.-The first meeting
of the new cabinet was held Friday, all
the members being present. The sub
ject of preparing home rule bill
for the meeting of parliament or No
vember 4 next is said to have been
discussed. 1t is understood that
Chief Secretary Morley will have
charge of this work under Mr., Glad
stone, and is to be specially advised by
Prof. James Bryce, Justin Mccarthy
and Edward Blake when that gentle.
man returns from Canada.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

g. A. BRITo, sheriff of Cameron coun-
ty, Tex, was assassinated from am
bush at Brownsville.
THE Whitney woolen mills at South
Royalston, Mass, were totally de-
stroycd by fire. Loss, SlT5, 600.
WHILE resisting arrest at Bedford,
Ind, Constable Stultz fatally shot two
brothers named Lentz and seriously
injured another.
A LIGHTNING bolt near Grant, Neb.,
killed James McHugh and Levi Gastin-
eau and rendered unconscious several
others.
Mrs. LIZZIE Hicks, a widow living in
the suburbs of Richmond, Va, shot
and killed her 16-year-old daugher,
an only child, mistaking her for a
burglar.
The big four-masted schooner Roa-
nolle, the largest wooden vessel ever
built was launched at Bath, Me. 1t is
81 feet in length and 40 feet in breadth,
and has gross tonnage of 3, $50 O3 tons.
IT was reported that the strike situa-
tion at Buffalo was becoming more Sc
rious and that a general tie-up of all
eastern roads was imminent. During
an engagement between soldiers and
strikers one soldier and four strikers
were killed and several others severely
injured.
The visible supply of gram in the
United States on the 22d was: Wheat,
81, 779,0 900 bushels; corn, 7,149, 900 bush
els; oats, 5,016,000 bushels; rye, 35S, 900
bushels; barley, 356.OOO bushels.
Mrs. Rose QUINN, of Philadelphia,
took oxalic acid in mistake for rochelle
salts with fatal results.
WHILE attempting to escape from
Sing Sing IN. " prison, Charles Vim
cent was shot and killed and Thomas
Welch probably fatally wounded.
The biennial session of the supreme
lodge Knights of Pythias of the world
convened at Kansas City, Mo.
The American mastodon now being
eXhumed at Carl, Mo-, has cost two
lives Buck Lawrence descended into
the shaft out of curiosity and was over
come by bad air: Tom Wright went
down to his assistance and could not
get out.
AT a meeting held in Pittsburgh of
the river coal operators it was decided
to reduce the wages of their miners to
three cents per bushel. 1t was expect
ed the miners, who number 10000,
would strike.
j. +. RIvEs, an attorney of Searcy,
Ark, committed suicide by blowing
out his brains.
ADAM HAAS and David Mason, two
well-known residents of Erie, Pa, were
killed by an express train while at
tempting to drive across the track.
PRINCE CHARLES A. PERKINS, a we'll
known resident of Syracuse, n. Y, was
found dead in his bed. He had been
consul at Stockholm and Barcelona and
minister to Portugal. He married
Princess Maria Isabella, of the Spanish
royal family.
ROBERT VAN VOORHEES,, his wife Mary
f. and her sister, Miss Hannah f.
Wells, were drowned while bathing in
the Hackensack river at Riveredge,
n. j.
THE Burton family, having over 20,
900 representatives in the United
States, are holding reunion at Mitch
ell, Ind.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

ACCORDING to the latest statement
from the treasury department the total
amount of coin or paper money in this
country is more than 50, 200, 900, 600. OF
this enormous sum $1,000, 600, 900 is in
the hands of the people and in the
vaults of the bank, while about $780,
100000 is locked up in the treasury.
Every month about 81, 900, 900 is being
added to this enormous aggregate in
the issue of legal-tender notes in pay
ment for silver bullion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

A HINT for street improvement comes
from Boston. fremont street is to be
made wider, not by cutting off slice
from the fronts of the buildings from
top to bottom, but by taking portion
of the first story of each house to form
an arcade extending the length of the
block, thus furnishing a footway shell
tered from sun and rain and obtaining
a fine architectural effect with theleast
possible encroachment on private prop
ertV
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

THE governments August crop report
Is by no means discouraging. 1t does
not estimate booming yields, but a very
comfortable harvest to carry us through
the winter. The yield of wheat will be
about $50, OOO, 900 bushels, of corn 1,7OO,-
100000 bushels, of oats $40, 900, 600 BUSH
els, the total being 500, 900, 600 bushels
below the cereal yield of 1891, but con-
Siderably greater than the average of
the five years preceding that phenom-
email croD season
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

A LATE census statement gives 7,47O,-
300 as the number of Negroes in the
United States, of which $50, 9S9 are mu-
lattos, 1O5, ,1S5 quadroons and 60. 936 oc-
toroons Six-sevenths of the Negroes
are of unmixed African blood. Five
hundred and eighty thousand Negroes
i've in the north
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

THE staid old city of Philadelphia has
just awakened to the necessity of hav-
ing food inspectors, several of whom
were appointed few days ago by that
city's health officer
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27

PERFECTLY preserved salt fish, proba-
bly, ten thousand years old, are found
in Nevada, Utah and Arizona, where
salt strata are often struck in making
excavations hundred yards beneath
the surface. These fish resemble the
pipe and pickerel, and are wholly un-
like the living fish found in the same