New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-12
GENERAL NOTES.

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican states that
the city have been reduced S 900 from 1862 and at
the same time the school tax increased 9O0and the city
library tax $1,000
One John O'Neal, who kept liquor store in
Keokuk Iowa. must be credited with inventing Of
the meanest methods Of obtaining money devised
has been reading the advertisements that describe
missing persons, inquiries OF anxious friends &c. and
the missing individual and stated that he sick and
needed money He has been successful IN number OF
Boston We trust that man with such aptitude for
which he do the State some service, While actually
"nissing" from among the community.
Bathing is not necessarily ablution. On the
4th inst three young men in Cincinnati were supporting
another in astyle of walking known as taking up
dressed. The hat of of them blown off by the
wind and he pursuing it, fell into the open th SIN
deavor TO help the first one out also fell In The
around the opening. jeered the unforunates beneath
them They were eventually dragged out by means Of
dIf fhase es of Ro 9 families Of
emerged to vew the crowd discussed the question as to
whether the inside the outside huid LII winch tey mad
INDUCED was the more degrading.
By some bunder in the revised statutes of
louisiana it has resulted that repeating law passed at
the close OF the last Legislative session. operates to set
Indictment. Friday last the moved
before Judge Abel that II persons whom he Named In
bnrrary larceny and other crimes be discharged from
arrest. The Judge admitted that, as the law now
State would have to be set at liberty; but
he proposed delay action in the faint hope that some
saving might yet be discovered I'm the statutes by
which such a calamity can be averted. The District
Attorney said that there was not at the utmost more than
500 copies of the new statutes and he himself had been
unable procure The motion postponed until
next saturday; but one OF the prisoners woman whose
case had excited some sympathy, was set at liberty.
The Indian chiefs who from time to time have
come to Washington concerning the affairs Of various
triho have in ms become
dents OF that city There is even an Indian boarding
house" correspondent of me Chicago Tribune de-
yOraby impressed by their appearance. He especially
RIr to be-
tie Chicagonese 1t Is curious by what roundabout pro-
ing about the Hon Eli Parker, the Commissioner OF
Indian Affairs, and himself Indian, who Is
s sg%nsa grave Tsey and s ey
oyerseer OF all the Indians in the country in all
10000 or the total population Chicago" 1t will prob
ably be 10 the worthy Commissioner that he is tho
OF the total population of that wonderful city
especially the next sentence states that 1t Is
these few people who give us much trouble"
The prejudces of color have developed a new
phase In Baltimore. The city railroads, in compliance
with judicial suggestion, had provided separate cars
for colored people some Wnlte people selected those
Others rode in them or In other cars indscrninaely
did not suit Mr. Duyal member OF the City Council,
and he Offered resolution In that body requesting the
City Railroad Company to instruct their conductors
the ears reserved for coorsd people. His notion which
he expressed i'll speech, that the object OF tho
white who rode in colorcd cars" obtain
the suffrage OF the cOiored citizens Mr.. Duval would
DC an invaluable contributor to comic newspaper. The
discussion of this resolution seems TO have awakened the
Councilman to the possible Inconvenience which might
TO white II they restricted by regua-
lions similar to those imposed upon cOlOred men, 1t
feared also that agitation the subject might result
In iniscriminate riding and the resolution grayely
and decorously entombed by reference to committee
who will never report.
If there should ever be split among South
ern Baptsts who hail from Alabama will probably
constitute Old School, There Is association Of Bap
lists in that State whose generation for the past is such
that they fail to perceive that there peace in the land
There had been intercourse between committees Of
the Missionary Boards Of the separate organizations Of
Northern and Southern Baptists. The Home Mission
Board at Macon, Ca, declared that "these fraernal
0yertures and interviews emnently proper be-
baina organization In its wrath and sent Bro.
Brewer to the Baptist Convention in Louisville charged
to fling the weight Of its displeasure a bombshell
into tho latter body. The announcement made
In formidable preamble and resolution, that this frater
niZatiOn must he stopped the Alabama would
cut the Southern Baptist Convention adrt and let IL
float away To destruction One little difficulty interfered
with the spirited undertaking OF the Aabamians tho
delegates to the Convention required to contribute
500 to its objects and this little formay wanting
In the credentials OF Bro Barker. The fuse his bomb
shell WAS wanting cloak OF silence thrown over
the terrible resolutions and the indigant Bro Barker
and the projected explosion was happily stihed.