Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 45, 11 Nowemapa 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

Ooe hall"of Persiii is depop»lated by f»mine The restoration of the fortifications of Paris is goiag oo rapidly. A mon«y order system is established be* tween the United States and Rngland. Jules Favre has resuraed practice as Bars rister in Paris. The Burlington, Vermont, University hasvoted to admit women. Rev. E. C. Bissell (formerly of the Fort Street Church, Honolulu) has been called as pasiorof the Winchester Church, Mass. Kochefort. the noted Parisian editor and Comraumst, has been sentenced to transportation to a penal colony for life. A lot of conlies who have completed their term of service of eight years in Cuba, are now at New York, en route for California. The rtewsfrom Persia is sickening. Deaths, slavery, pestilence, extortions, insurrections and inundations continue. Two Englishmen have been enten by the Feejeeans, who speak highly of their tenderness and gamey flavor. An experienced boatman Bsserts that the Esquimaux kayak is the most seaworthy boat in existence.

D. H. Wells, third in Morrnon authority, is arrested oo the sme charge as Brigham Young. Brigham expresses himself as having no fears of the result. The Imperialists are becoming bolder in Paris, declare Tfaiers a failure, and predict ihe restoration of a government that gave the country twenty years of order. The Grand Duke Alexis, soon after reaching New York, will visit Washington. He will remain there a day or two and then retarn to New York, whenee he will go to Niagara Falls, Chicago and other Westem cities and to San Francisco. He has expressed a desire to see the prairies, about whieh he has read so mueh. He will again visit Washington during the session ofCongress. The Popk and the Cardinals.—During his Pontificate of a quarter of a century, Pius IX has witnessed the deaths be nearly a hundred Cardinals, and has all but twice renewed the Sacred College. There arealive to-day only nine Cardinals, who were presented with their hats by his predecessor, Gregory, and the youngest ot theseis seventyfive years of age. Several others are more or less infirm. Twenty-two hats—an unusually large number—are just now vacant; and the members of the Cardinate now in Rome and belonging to the Curi;t are only tw*enty-eight in a number, of whom three or lour are reduced, more or less, to a state of inactivity by age or sickness. Poisoned \Yhisky. —The Philadelphia Price Current says : Western distillers have recently invented a new system of manufacturing whisky, by means of whieh a peculiar stiength and oder are imparted to the product highly injurious to the health of eonsamers, *nd certainly not creditable to those eagaged in its sale. Neither the noxious ingredieots themselves nor the process of manafacture are known to many outside the ring, but sufficient has leaked out to show the character of the men and the business. Sulphuric acid is blended with the mash or applied directly to the product of the stills, whieh imparts a disagreeable odor to the whisky; and so powerful is its effect upon it that itcorrodes. and eats up the inside of the barrels in whieh the foul compound ts kepL BostoN, Oct 3. — The Amenean Board of Comtnissiooers of Foreign Missions has | been in annual ueeting in Salem to-day. The Secretary's report shows that $48,201 has been expended in the Sandwich Is. lands, China, Svria, Persia and Gaboon; ■nd recoonts the prospects, whieh are considered encouraging. The whole number of missionaries and assistants is 1,214; number of churches, 172; members, 8,486; added doring this year, 978. The debt of the Board w»s reported to be $4009. The year prevk>us ii was $22,000 at its session October 4. It waa Yoted unanimously to include in theiTWork «ending missionaiies to nominally Christiaa 3aations.