New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-08
GENERAL NOTES.

The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal says that Mr..
Samuel Holmes Of that city has given 5000 for the found
ing OF five scholarships Yale College for the benefit OF
the youth OF Waterbury, Conn., and vicinity
Some Western newspapers are calling on the
Government 10 O. absh stringent quarantine reg
uatons San Francisco as 1t is asserted that number
OF Chinese emlgrants afflicted with eprosy have already
arrived IN the city.
Among the new enterprises recently engaged
IN I'm Nashville is that Of broom making. one firm has
building 100 feet long "a feet WIDE and three stories hgh
containing machines and giving employment to 80 per
This firm alone turns out about ~ dozens OF Oroos
day.
At n theatrical entertainment in Lafayette,
Ind few days ago-one Of the very few given in
the town-the audience was made up OF people who had
80 little experience In the drama that they did not know
when the play closed Aier S curtain naa a o e od
Jew Fsgin came and told them they might 60 home
Two English sailors who were sojourning at
the seamens Home in Cleveland, for several days, talk
ing and assOealng with each other have, accidentally
discovered that they brothers For IS years they
hayo been wanderers, ana tue interest a,Siu ,,
bringing them together. and having changed greatly the
discovery OF their relationship was Itself accidental
The Princeton Qll) Republican tells the story
OF young couple who passed through that town, one
day last week In an OK team their weddngt tour, TO
settle on new land In Iowa The young man said that
he years Of and his wife H. and that his father
iuaw had fitted hun out with team and $500 in cash,
and that he intended making his fortune by buying
new farm aud improving il. They hailed from De kalb
County. H.
An illustration of the ignorance that prevails
among immigrants as TO tho character OF our Western
country. is given by Iowa journal. train OF imm-
grants was passing through Wnersot Iowa, the
10 Kansas where IL had been proposed 10 settle In Win
the travellers informed that there had been
snow In Kansas, and not wishing TO settle In so
cold country they decided 10 remain and set up their
penates there.
A little boy six years of age and his two
sisters 1--WE and three years old respectively children OF
Mrs. Lewis OF New. Orleans wandered into swamp in
the Second District few Gays ago, and lost their
When night came the heroic little fellow stripped him
OF his clothing and wrapped around his sisters,
and they all laid down the ground 10 spend the night
when found the morning, all were insensible The
youngest has since died
The mysterious disappearance OF many per-
sons who business the Mississippi River IL at
length explained. As tho Lady Gay was passing
Island No H. about miles below Cairo last Tuesday,
she took In from Mr. Testers wood yard Hat 10
wood from, Mr.. Lester accompanying the boat After
proceeding abOut SIX miles the boat was cut loose Mr.
Lester received ti0 for hs WOOD and the Hat was hoat
ing back when skn put of from the shore, manned by
two men, who boarded the Hat and demanded Mr. Les
ters money. They said that they river pirates, and
would shoot him II he did not comply with their
demands. Mr.. Lester, who Ia an old man,
ouletly gaye them oil tho money lie had,
and thanked them for sparing his lie, but
OF them had returned to tho skn lao drew
his pistol ard shot the other who was Just stepping over
through the heart; no then shot the who In he
skin through the hips, and navgated both boats TO his
yard. Burns, the survivor, SAID that his companions
Moore and that they were members Of an or
ganzed gang Of river pirates that has been watching the
river between Memphis and Cairo Tor several years, and
that lie has shot aud thrown overheard four from
woody ards, who resisted his demands