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A Virginia marvel. Great Natural Ice-House on Stone Mountain in Scott County. In the north side of Stone Moun tain, six miles from the mouth of Stony Creek, in Scott County, has been dis covered a natural ice-house on a grand scale. One of the old settlers first discovered it about i8cSo, but owing, to the fact that the land on which it is situated could not be bought) he refused to tell its whereabout) and would only take the Ice from it in case of sickness. He died without revealing the secret to even his own family, and but for a party of "saiii-" diggers entering the region it might have been a secret for generations, as it is situated on an un frequented part of the mountain. The ice was only protected from the rays of the sun by a thick growth of moss resembling a texture, and like the moss that can be seen dangling from the oaks of Louisiana and Texas. Its formation was after the fashion of a coal vein, being a few inches thick in some places, w hile several feet in others 'The formation indicate! that it had been spread over the surface in a liquid state and then congealed. By what process it freezes or was frozen is a matter of conjecture at this stage of in vestigation. Some think that it was formed in the winter, and had been protected since by the dense growth of moss which covers it, while the more plausible theory is that beneath the lied is situated a great natural labora tory whose function is the formation of ether, and the process of freezing goes steadily on through the heat as well as the cold. The growth of moss resembles the hanging moss around Hudson Bay and indicates a frigid temperature. The bed covers one acre, and if it proves inexhaustible it will be valuable, since it is located near the Three C's Rail road. -Richmond State. NICARAGU AN WARFARE. How a Few Rebels With a Boy Lom Fon. mander Captured "Leading up the gates of the fort from the wharf was a winding road. Up this road the young rebel and his men marched, the boy leading off some twenty feet in advance, and swinging his sharp, razor-like sword much as one would a walking stick. I could hardly believe my eyes. Here was a mere boy with only a handful of men march ing straight up to the gates of the strongest fort in Nicaragua. Instinct ively I found myself on the dock and following them. "My arms consisted simply of a re volver, and I doubt if in the excite ment I realized that I might have occasion to use it. To look at that body of men swinging along up the roadway in splendid unison, one would have fancied that it was merely a re connoitering party in from a tramp. Surely, I said to myself, their real character will be discovered before they reach the gates. They never pos sibly can deceive the guards. "At this moment the great, ponder ous gates opened and an officer, the officer of the day, stepped out. He had evedently just sprung out of bed, for there was a half yawn around his mouth as he made his appearance. The sentry had told him that re enforcements were coming up the road. This was good news. It would mean lighter duty at the post and more com panionship. All this, doubtless, passed through the mind of the officer of the day as he stepped out to greet the commander of the re enforcing party. As for the thought of caution, it had not entered his mind. The rebels he had heard of, but had not seen. He doubted if any really existed; and if they did, they were hundreds of miles from Corilla, while, besides, these men coming up the roadway were dressed as regulars. "So, with a cheery 'Glad to see you; where are you from?' he advanced some twenty feet beyond the gates. "Inside the gateway the guard was drawn up, prepared to receive the new arrival. The cheery hail of the officer of the fort received an indistinct reply from the young Spaniard. In another moment the two were but a few feet apart. I recall at that instant whirl of steel in the air, a sharp agonizing cry. and the next instant the body of the officer of the fort lay writhing on the ground. "Without so much as a look at the man he had cut down in his track, the young Spaniard, with the bound of a panther, sprang into the open door way, and quicker than it can be told he had cut down the soldiers. Like the sudden blast of a mighty wind every man of the command rushed forward Carried away with the excitement, 1 followed ; and as I did I stumbled over the bodies of the dozen men of the guard. Every man had been bay oneted where he stood." Utirper'. Weekly. The First Gold From California. On Monday, the 7th day of May 1849, there arrived in Boston the ship Sophie Walker, Captain Wiswell, from Valparaiso the 2nd of March previous She brought with her the first gold in dust and bars ever received in this city direct from California. The whole amount was something m ire than $80,000 Of this amount Captain J. H. Spring, a passenger, lately the commander of the shir Huntress of New York, which was sold on the coast, had $40,000 in dust on account of his owners, and the re niainder went principally to Baltimore in other consignments. Three ol the bars, however, valutd at $18,600, were t.iken to Philadelphia the following day by Adams & Co. S express to be converted into coin.- Uostun Htratd Cwieval 3UHiCtt!tttenU. TAHITI Lemonade Works Co, 23 Nuuanu, Honolulu, H. I. MAN I IFACTI High Class Lemonade, Soda Water, Ginger Ale, Hop Ale, Sarsaparilla, Plain Soda A Trial Order BENSON, SMITH & CO., AGENTS. HENRY DAVIS & Co., 52 Fort Street, Honolulu, H. L GROCERS AND PROVISION DEALERS ! Purveyors to the United States Navy and Provisioned of War Vessels. AMILY GROCERIES. TABLE LUXURIES. ICE HOUSE DELICACIES. Coffee Roasters and Tea Dealers. Island Produce a Specialty FRESH BUTTER and EGGS. We are Agents and First AND SELL AT LOWEST MARKET RATES. I'. O. Box 505. Both Telephones Number 130. H. S. TREGLOAN & SON, Merchant OFFER TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THEIR LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF Foreign Woolens for AT 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT FOR CASH, Business Suits Reduced to Twenty-two Dollars and 50 Cents Business Pants Reduced to Six Dollars and "() Cents. Corner Fort The Hawaiian News Co.L'd STATIONERS, News and Music Dealers, 25 am. 27 MERCHANT STREET, KEEP ON HAND A Superior Assortment of Goods Blank Books, all kim'.s, Memorandum Books, in great variety PIANOS, GUITARS, mandolins, Sheet Music Subscriptions Received tor any Periodical Published. AGENTS FOR Klinkner's Red Rubber Stamp and Yost Type Writer. TH ReYWAMAtf IflR, TIlf'ksiiAY, JUL i i - , ir ii mm ' mfcii i i i ' RBRS I F Beverages 3i8M -a Sarsaparilla and Iron Water, Seltzer Water, Etc., Etc., Etc. Handlers of Maui Potatoes, Tailors ! Spring & Summer & Hotel Sts. rn anV (General Jlbtttrtisttttente, K, I. MeCBESNEY k SONS, Wholesale Grocers, Honolulu, H. I. A FULL LINE OK GROCER1 ES Always on Hand FRESH COODS Pet I'.very Steamer and Sail. SPECIALTIES! Cheese, Lard, Hams, Butter, Codfish, Milk, Onions, Crackers, Potatoes, Salmon, Macaroni, Corn Meal. Pickled Skipjack, Alvicore, Herrings, Flour, Crain and Beans. Saddle Leather, Harness Leather And All Kinds ok Leather and Nails for Shoe makers. H. W. McCHESNEY & SONS, AGENTS Honolulu Soap Works Co Laundry Soap 42, 56 and 63 bars to case One Hundred Pounds. HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR TALLOW! Criterion Saloon AGENTS I OR E x T 11 A Pale Lager Beer, Per- Australia. A Fresh Invoice of Califor nia Oysters. Oyster Cocktails a Specialty, L H DEE, Prop'r. ohn Wietand Brewing Co W, 10M,-0tl PiOSl. - 11 i i - 3cncval JVoocvttecmcntG. HARDWARE, Builders and General, always up to the times in quality, styles and prices. Plantations Supplies, a full assortment to suit the various tk mauds. Steel Plows, made expressly for Island work with extra parts. CULTIVATORS' CANE KNIVES. Agricultural Implements, I es, Shovels, Mattocks, etc,, etc. Carpenters', Blacksmiths' and Machinists' Tools, Screw Plates, Taps and Dies, Twist Drills, Paints and Oils, Brushes, Glass, Asbestos Hair Felt and Felt Mixture. Blakes' Steam Pumps, Weston's Centrifugals. SEWING MACHINES. Wilcox & Gibbs, and Remington. Lubricating Oils, General Merchandise, t is not possible to list everything we have; if there is anything you want, come and ask for it, you will be politely treated. No trouble to show eoods. c CO 0 h O G o- U I E U - y m u 0 a 8 For the Natures Grandest Wonder. The Popular and Scenic Route IS BY Wilder's Steamship Company's Ai STEAMER KINAU, Fitted with Electric Light, Electric VIA The Kin Leaves Honolulu very 10 Days, TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, Arriving at Hilo Thursday and Sunday Mornings From Hilo to the Passengers are Conveyed in Carriages, TWENTY-TWO Over a SPLENDID Macadamized Road, running most of tht way through a Dense Tiopical Forest a rule alone worth the trip. The balance of the road on horseback. ABSENT FROM HONOLULU 7 BAYS! -EF TIC IK Including All For the Round Trip, : : Fifty Dollars. For Further Information, Call ai rm Office, Corner Fort Mid Queen Streets, Volcano THE Bells, Courteous and Attentive Service HILO Volcano 30 Miles, MILES, IE T S, 1 1 Expenses, 3 (Sctttntl Abbcrtfactttenti We are Still Importing Goods. Among other things the bark" (',. . Wilcox" brought us the following: Hubbuck's Genuine. No, I and No. 3 White bead, in 25, 50 or 100 lb. iron kegs. Hubbuck's White Zinc Red Lead) pale boiled and raw Oil Stockholm and Coal Tar, in barrels or drums. Castile Soan. Shot. HI. to 'o. 10. 'utlched Horse Shoes, Sal Soda, crnlv d Anchors Rrunh Door Mats, flexible steel and ironWire Rone. Seine Pwine. m w Harris' Harness Liquid, Day & Martin Blacking, galvanised lucketS and Tubs, Chain, blk. and galvd '4 to 3 ; galvd Sheet Iron. No. 1 8 to 26; Tinned Wire. Copper Wire, No. 10 to 20, black and galv'd Fence Wire, Nos, l, 5 and 6, blue Mottled Soap, Anvils, 7o to 200 lbs.; Blacksmith's Ises, all sizes: a large assmt. of Bar Iron, kegs Dry V ene tian Red, Yellow Ochre, Paris Yellow, Burnt Umbre, I It. Blue, Paris Green, Metalic Paint, etc. Also, received ex Australia, 2600 asst'd Elect. Lamps, Hose, Butcher Knives, Carv ers, Carriage Gloss Paint, Sul phur Bellows, Scissors. Shoe, Paint and Varnish Brushes; Buckles, Picture Cord, Furni ture Nails, Tape; Measures, Jennings Bits, Yale Padlocks, Oilers, galv'd Swivels, White Shellac, Gold Leaf, Leather Washers, and at last our fine assmt. of Wostenholm Pocket Knives and Razors has got here. We were almost out of those fine swing Razor Strops, but have a new lot this steamer. We have a fpll line of Elec trical Goods, and can wire houses for Electric Lights on short notice. Now is the time to leave vour order for wirine, is in a few months the current or lights can be furnished and then everyone will want lights it once, and those whose hous- s are wired will of course get IghtS first. E. 0. HALL k SON. Limited. Cor. Fort & Kim. Sts. A FEW OF OUR SPECIALTIES. Compucts Assortment or "SUPERIOR" Stoves and Ranges Kl KKK.V KANGES, "CLIPPER " CABI (OSES, I.AUNIikY STOVES, FRENCH RANGES set it, brick. AGATE IKON1 WARE, ind TIN WARE, COLUMBUS' WROUGHT STEEL sinks, Galvanized ami White Enameled, RUBBER HOSE, CAL. LAWN SPRINKLERS. Shed Metal Cuodi In Tin, t'tHTpai ,n , venlaed Iron un hi:., ot made to order. l ull line ,,f sanitary ( Joint's, liatli Tulw. Lavatories, Waici Cloaeta, rtpeand lining. We arc equipped for v,.rk of all kindl in tin Sheet Metal and Plumbing Trade, ami ran guarantee thoroana worknianahip an,l ful cia" ,, i. . in inu-c In,,-. We solicit your patronage. j. Emmeluth & Co. No. 6 Nuuanu st., and 104 Minhant t. C. R. COLLINS, Saddler and Carriage Trimmeri Kepatti in the aliovc hSBMhea, j'ccially. " i 'turves Moderate. Hereon! attention given to all ork. 4i Kmc St., Next to Mimuj carnage shop otl