New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-26

Fitz Hugh Ludlow has lately visited the
Elmra Water Cure where he has been making arrange
ments to test his plan OF curing those who are addicted
10 the use Of opium.
City Engineer ChesbrOugh of Chicago received
Thanksgiving present OF $1,000 worth OF the Cy wafer
Loan bonds testimonial to his skill and success In
William Pardoe of Findley Township, Mer-
County accidentally killed his SON. boy OF Y yehrsi
on the Sd. The father was shooting hogs, and BAN
passed through the chld's head.
Patrick DOnnelly, Philadelphia butcher,
died last spring, leaving $4,000 N government Donas
track who discovered that stephen Als, who had
nursed Mr. d. in his last Illness had mace large invest
rested and indicted for the robbery
John Shackelford freedman, formerly OF
Amherst County, Va, aud now Of Murrees6oro Ten9t
sisters who were freed IN 1883 and came nom virginia 20
Ohio about 1852. His mothers name was Caroline and
his brothers sam. His address is care OF Capt K VIII
son, Freedmens Bureau, Murfreesboro.
DIR. White, the Iowa State geOlOgist, has dis
covered beds Of peat IN Muscatne and Linn Counties;
line of the North Railroad about two and one
half miles southwest Of Calmus station. MT White has
also added to the Of Iowa another valuable
item in the form OF vast gypsum bed near Fort Dodge
Gen. Basil w. Duke, late of the Rebel army.
has published letter considering what kehtueKy sho9o
require her candidate for the Presidency to ndore He
says HOratio Seymour is not perhaps the man TO trst
Gen sherman's Every decided idiosyncraey units lin
Available but Mr. Pendleton he thinks. the coming
md tho desirable man.
In 1860 three citizens of GAINESVILLE were ar
raigued for keeping their sister imprisoned without legal
authority the neghbOrs having become suspicious rom
seeing the house shut up aud that tie srl
OUT OF doors. The allegations wero not sust9leu ahu
the sister voluntarily returned to 1--we with her brothers
since then she has not been seem ana none OF inc fanny
90 ont OF doors at rare intervals Smoke coming
from the chimney il the only sign OF the house beg IN
habted Why ouch a mode OF life * pursued The ZdHes-
rifle Times from which we get the story docs hot po'ehu
| TO explain.
| The San Francisco Commercial Bulletin or
late date Gays: For month past every steamer rom
rho Fast has brought unusually large numbers O omen:
over onehrd OF all the cabin passengers nave oee Oh
the female gender. The matrimonial market OF the IA
cic coast although not in the line OF our legitimate re-
marks u becoming quite object OF attention al the
East Tho consumed over SoOoO men, ana IN some
states the excess OF women the sterner sex IL
almost seven or eight The Pacific States and Ter
rores contain nearly thirty times more men than women,
and IL the right Of the latter seek this market In
ouet WAY the probabilities great IN favor OF chang
ing their names after their arrival This would re-
sult In building up thousands or hOmesteads, rendering
orr pOnuatiOn stable ana moral increasing respect
aud obedience 10 the laws, improving aud unfolding our
resources sthenng the market generally, and lettering
our condition In al other respects.
The Deseyet Ners of the Sd inst. gives the
address OF Brigham Young at the opening Of the Hgn
which ultimately is 20 embrace University proportions,
in which Theology, Medicine &c. are TO be taught, az
well as the mere primary branches OF edaelou ce ~.
by President NOung's remarks that "sch0ol on me
Prophets" started by Joseph Snth, TOT INC euu
cation OF the Elders That in January 1877, ana
commencement was made in small room over the
stances OccuredsO President 1oung hat Su 20 ho
bringing forth Of the "WOrd n WISDOM from which We
learn the influence tobacco chewing The members oIhe
School of PrOphets who met Smiths Kitchen
inordinae tObaccO-cheWers, and Smith becoming dis
gnsed he inquired Of the Lord and the word Of wisdom
was given" That school broke up IN month or two
whether bv obstmacy OF the tobaccochewng Elders in
Lot being willing " forego their disgusting habit, or what
does not appear.