New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-15
GENERAL NOTES.


ing ink superior to any in The essential para
of the discovery that by peculiar process, tho ins
can be entirely removed from the surface of the paper AT
cost OF 90 cents for every hundred pounds ol pA1ed
paper and the material Is then ready Tor use again
1t is proposed to improve the Massachusetts,
Reformatory Institution by cla pLg The criminals &C
oordlng to their character The system Is used 1t tho
Amshouse and works well The worthy poor are IN one
part OF the building. the children IN another and ths
criminals in third Tie Of supporting prisoner. 10
the country prisons for last year $1,000 lie cafu-
ings were slo9'5O0
A writer from Richmond Va, notes the fact
that the school where coored studyin and NJ
ting themselves TO be teachers aud ministers IN the
building formerly occupied a. me S'sp5h 10 ., Us
Justice that TINS very place with the marks 'tl 90 70
windows OF the iron bars that held back the negro 70 e
dead level VI ignorance, shO9h no" De INC " -
instruction and the place Of his eager resort Tor
the Pierian spring, that has, TIL :" recently peeu
closed to him."
A correspondent at Nashville Is indignant at
the frauds practiced upon the freedmen IN that vicinity
lie says that trick among planters to make
field hands drunk aud to gain their assent while m nat
condition. TO long contracts at insufficient wages also 70
cheat the Ignorant laborers by false accounts lie tells
too Of a congregation ~ coored Methodist, who were
10 the Southern Conference Of The Methodist church,
and when they wished to leave the Conference we're ae
prived Of their church and only allowed I" Use u aEth
upon payment Of a rent OF slO month
A japan paper says that rats are So num-
erous in the fields about Honolulu that they defy cats
and owls and by their dcpredations have forced many
persons 10 abandon rice culture The only ehccthtl
remedy would be snakes. special Coinihl'Hoh'f VINO
has been Introducing valuable plants nom Salh! 80
sought to introduce The rcesHamp suaA', o java uu'
the Kanaka legislature fearing the conin- ~ me
pent devil they had read about, VINO tempted I've lnp
therhappy islands, COMPELLED TIE 10 '"O"
them overheard IN the baIbor u Honolulu.
A new kind of paper, specially adapted Tor
various kinds OF clothing has been invented m ingdL4
Both animal aud vegetable materials are employed 10 ~
production, the former being NewZellaud fax, Jue'
hemp. aud cotton, ana tie latter wool! SIX shIls t',
then feited i'm appropriate machinery. Inc mixture %
these materials gives paper OF eAuaolaiu"i5 p.''S.
Reliability and strength, which may be sewn together as
easily as woven fabrics. aud makes as strong seam.
very good imitation Of leather j. made OF IT, az when
last may be waterproof 10y the introduction OF Oils ana
India-rubber.
The San Francisco Bulletin says: ." We have
before us some data furnished 10y resident Of stka'
which shows that there Is an exen; Of country bordering
on the coast OF Alaska equal 10 20 miles ~ width and zoo
miles in length which the white ana yro" cedar pre-
redwood timber limited area. ana a, the present.
rate OF destruction will not last 80 years. Tue tme VIII
come when tbe cedar forests of Alaska will be "a
mons and a greater source of wealth than now the
redwood forests Of California Probably 40 Tree !, 10"
growing upon the Pacific coast 81 80 macE e 'a'"V ~
the red cedar OF Alaska
The CIereland Heyad of the nth inst, SAYS:
Curiosity has been excited ~ TO the Cleveland ctzes
who so generously rendered Mr. stanton check for i've
thousand dollars and many queries made We have the
privilege OF guessing, aud guess the Cleyeiauder,
unlue 10 bo Stman VIII We know nothing about %
other than the internal evidence ol the letter lse ana
our knowledge of the general character of TIE man. Out
we guess we guessed right" Mr witt was formerly a
citizen OF Albany, and j. weliknONn one 81 the sue
cessul Railroad men OF the country. H. has been a
tune and NGat Is better knows how 70 Hlny
the hearts aud homes he has made glad
The Coriane (Utah) reporter says ct an item
from The Net- To,k Ec,ig Iost relating 10 The mortal
ity among the Mormcn,: We sorry to 10y that The
Posts information Is In rcgori IN thc mortality
among Mormon children. " IL not, however very wen
informed or else wshr, To draw % very nd TOT h,'aH
of some of the bose, q! large hHrtu', lhe Ar'f h,,
balls buryng only g children, we can 20" ~ rs
po yganons graVcyart- Of one family. a. th'y can lhr
here. that will foot up nearer ~ As ms = D, Ger
the healhiest climate known - tourists "u1 'Sp ~
equalzed and modified as 10 - me }c3f l9HgH' ~ NC
saluary influences Of the Great SAT- Lake 10 j. in eay
matter TO point 10 this mortality e'l-It Is p"!s"Wg'
aud nothing else.
Professor IIalf0rd oi the University Of Mel
bourne Australia. may De remembered by some ~ inc
enthusiastic ntroducer Of cure tor poisonous snake
bites and allowed himself Go bc bitten by snake ana
nearly lost hs life by the failure OF his darling nosrum 70
counterfeit the effects NOW outstanding the rdSAo p
which his devotion Ia science subjected him % 81 Ocea'
sion has perseyercd ia bis efforts, aud doubei sue
cess has at length rewarded hn - has found an anti.
dOe for snake poison which hA roy ed successful IN the
most critical eases rl liquid ammonia ll!sctsS or
the purpose OF makp'E the Injection is manuactu Ell sna
without one. ~es
III
ing steps 10 obtain deUite Information concerning tie
insane in that srateviths view to doing more than row
done Tor thcIr proper feaimntJ is difficult the first
place, TO ascertain the number Of lnbatics in com.
muuy from the fact that families wish 10 conceal saoo
affections from the public eve. report ~ the NASsA
chuscttS physicians on The subject, few year, ase
showed that there about 26o0 of unacy ~
that state. though the municipal aud census reports ~
dlCated less than half that number it Is also very d
cult TO procure iudioous treatment for the more sgsrs
waited cases amer they have been placed 10 PuO an
institutions. Ia Indiana, supposed ncurabe- are soI
signed 10 the county asylums, where they are oheh
ignorantly, not to soy cruelty. matreatod
The National Observer Of Berlin saws: lhefe
is not single country IA Europe In which the press hA
been shamefully treated ss IN France The lmpeh"
Government has not been content with prescribing Ger
tain Journals which considers dangerous 70 tse anu
with seilng such numbers may he offensive, ia O.u
TO destroy them after causing them 20 bo eonderDei
Its courts, but more than this, has IN TIE uost
bitrary manner submitted every sheet 70 nsu tbat
ination by Its own officials ttts wekrowu iaSs
the German newspapers are condemned by the Qusnng
by the Minister Of the Interior so that their suOeges
In France receive cory ony scum oyysIoaM' march
ing at the head of civilization, forgels that such Pss1
Is calculated to turn against Itself he whole Of
press which thus becomes Interested in Tue oNef'NV
such stupid and brutal despotSm, =. 49,, AZ.
The Opposition In the Corps legislRtf has pau o ath
Tie attention 10 THIS abuse apd " mas shoNu ard
little appreciates the unity OF European lnteosS. ac
how slightly sensible 10 IL 20 the disgrace when S na.
ton OF the Government casts upon me whoiS an pa
pers that have noticed this abuse at all ana III & III.
Der NJ Garnior Pages has never been aoIe " g. Of
subject placed upon the order OF me gay on Seoort
receives from his political friends But hlIe tlns 70
has been paid 20 his interpretation ana III, III n
more characteristics OF the new era than lho
de FORBADE no states that 10 the past the
ment has the intention OF snppressng ony ~ fa an
may Ss sa 81 .nS may or may not dans
Gus, there Is no indication that the ss"m VI