New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-11
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
Cincinnati has been building big City Jail,
and encourages euphemisn in calling 1t =" Workhouse"
The novel sight of the burning of powder
mill without explosion witnessed at tho Luzerne
works in Wilkesbarre Pa, the I'd inst. The powder
manufactured there is constituted that it VIII not ex
plOde unless confined in gun or blast hole
The whaling ship TruelOve, now hailing
from Hull Eng said to be the Oldest vessel afoat. hav
ing been built in Philadelphia the year 1894 Owing
TO regularity in her model which those who are inter
estod in building ships for Polar voyages should STUDY
she has several times when squeezed by the ice on occa
ons when other vessels destroyed risen up on the
surface and rested there till danger was over se mas
made 80 voyages Arctic and her heart OF oak is
still sound. Her owners believe with the poet, " True
owe can never die"
They are having lively time in Westminster
College Pa on Friday the 25th ult number of Fresh
ieTTopated they either declined to give ex
eusos, assigned for their eayins the r unsat
reprimanded each engaged in the stampede and re
qured promise that the ofense should not he repeated
The privilege OF stampeding class being too nyal'
able be surrendered the young gentlemen refused TO
give the promise. Eleven Students nearly one-haf the
waiting for the Faculty 10 Gae dOp under the pressure
OF petitions from other classes for miLde' penalty.
The manner in which clergymen often un-
Willingly aid swndlers to impose the public is Illus
trated by the following letter by the Rev. Peter
in August last msa Who represented himself be converted
Jew cast OF by be family and sggpg %Onei win Thiea y return To-
oergymen with whom vas sequalnied gde,a @y monaI as
and thoash b, m imposing iena b'e 50 f-r
Hundreds OF swindltrs collecting money, from
charitaby disposed people on the strength Of letters
could be held personally responsible for oil the swndies
which they inadvertently ndofse, We should soon cease
10 be imposed on in this way
Reports from ST. Helena Island, S. c.. give an
hec If A
trct Their schools well attended they rapidly
progressing IN the customs and appliances of civilized
life adopting improved methods OF farming building
story houses with glass windows and board floors,
and otherwise beterug their circumstances. The only
shock they have received 10 their new has
been suit entered into BY the old Rebel AGAINST
Northern men and freedmen who have bought lana OF
Government. But lately these quondam Rebels have al
parcntly abandoned legal processes and have adopted
the policy of appealing through petitions to the magma
minty OF Congress to give them Daek ther lands ihey
homes that few dozen aristocras might live at leisure
perchance rebel again, and certainly to make trouble
for the Government.
A remarkable negro named David Smart
died about fortnight ago in Franklin County, Ky. Al
though years old at the time Of his death and not
wthtandns the nrst l6 OF his life spent in
can never claimed to have the bodyservsn of Gen
Washington. This is not his only tile to fame. lie
method Of hunting. Having noticed that Wild
turkeys and black hogs fed Familiarity To-
gether IN the woods, the birds even algiting
on the backs Of the quadrupeds, he seized by the
novel conception OF making himself pseudo.s wine by
to catch any turkey that might light on his back. The
most brilliant ingenuity is not always crowned with sue
cess the dusky inventor quite seized turkey
leg although he was nearly frozen 10 death during his
experiments Death always comes TOO soon for the com
plcted work Of genius and, had Mr. Smart lived long
enough. lie meant TO try 1t again.
The suit of Mrs. Ruth p. Glenn, fortune
teller Of ST. Joseph, Mo- account OF some injury
ceived accident the Hannibal and 81 Joseph Rail
road, determined recently. She claimed 5000
damages. There seemed TO be question involved IN her
alleged capacity a, fortune teller ON the one hand
she could fOresee the accident she should scarcely claim
negligence the part OF the Company where her
was 30 evident the other hand she might have also
that the damages che could recover would fully
equal those she could sustain The defendants alleged
that they could show that che had agreed to compromise
$500 but her counsel threatened il that evidence
agreements The Court gave the option OF an award
Of $500, 10 bring the whole matter before jury
thoroughly tired, she accepted the small fortune Of 500
in full for her misfortune, aud thereby eoncusyey
proved that there not bit OF insanity about her,
The total number OF paupers in the Metro
potan District London the 7h day Of February last
was s9 against l57 oil for the In 1851 and
these numbers exclusive OF unatics in asylums ana
yagrants. The following statement shows the rate Of
mortality in eleven great towns of England In the
rates. In the metropolis the deathrae In 1859 was 24c6
per thousand of the cstimaed populations in Liverpool,
100 per thousand In Manchester 25 per thousand IN
Stafford 267j per thousand in birmingham, only q 81
thousand in Bristol "a p per thousand; in shef:
per thousand in Bradford, 1858 per thousand IN Hull,
2597 per Thousand; IN Newcaste.uponTyne' @l0 per
thousand. In London, Bristol. sheffield, and Hull the
mortality IN 1869 greater than III either Of the
two preceding years in Bradford and Leeds il
greater than In 1861 but less than lsGs IN Newcastle II
was than in 1867 but greater than in 1861 In Liver
pool Manchester Stafford, and Birmingham 1t was lower
than in either 1876, 1865 II will he observed that the
rate al mortality In 1869 lowest in Birmingham OF all
these towns il highest IN Liverpool but MaDches
ter has very little better ratio 70 show.
We wonder how one of our young ladies,
whose sole estO endurance is the fatigue of the ball
ROOM and capacity for keeping up the german" until
daylight would have encountered Il trials OF Mrs Ma
thaniel Moody OF Auburn, Maine. That lady started
from Lewiston, the 10Th INST, ia binding snow.
storm. Her conveyance a pung-a sort OF sleigh,
drawn by one she held her two year old baby
in her arms. Crossing Taylor Pond IN the dark, she
found sho had lost her way and had been for more than
an hour driving III q circle sps peI Tue emer-
gency with bold Sid sLliul naneu,er:
She embarrassed the horse, and turned him
o6.A tipped up the pung that 10 sheltered her from
The wind. end, wrapping herself aud child IN the sleigh
robes laid oyu ia he snow Ine drift against the plng
rather improved Us Protecting powers Ise horse iSahd
his way home by morning, and suggested The stoi OF he
night Prompt aid thus summoned rescued the mOlifS
and child who had suffered serious harm. The worst
night OF the Winter failed 10 chill tbs heart OF one OF
those brave England matroDs whose SONS grow up
erect and hardy 40 their own pine trees amid lher