Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — A King Coming. [ARTICLE]

A King Coming.

We have had a Lord or tw.Q and aGrand Duke as visitors, but not a King for many a day. And—uorr-tt-"Krug" is coming. He is not a monarch of very portentous power. His navies do not sweep the Soutliern seas, nor do his invading hosts spread terror and desolation through continents. He is not the King of the Cannibal islands, but comes very near deserving that lyric appellation, j He is, so to speak, a King of shreds and I patches, but whether he be a one-horse ' or a six-in-hand monarch, a King’s a King I for a’ that. His name is Kalakua, and he reigns in Hawaii. His visit to this continent is purely one of business, for be comes to-negotiate a reeiproertydreaty with the United States. His predecessor was invited over here two years ago, but death cut short his visit and his reign at once. The Honolulu Gazette states that the American Minister received a dispatch from Washiagtoh directing him to invite King Kalakua to the United States ; that the United States steamer Benicia was placed at his disposal, and that he would leave some time in October so as to arrive in Washington about the time that Congress meets. Kalakua is a bachelor, and wil 1 probably have time for pleasure as well as business. Those young ladies who wduld prefer reigning in Hawaii to sweeping carpets and kneading dough in these United States had better commence preparing the caps they are to set at, him forthwith. — Chicago Tribune.