New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-02
GENERdL NOTES.

The cities of Great Britain compete Tor the
privilege Of being selected the place OF meeting OF inc
British Association for the Advancement 81 science INC
American Association Of the same character by yleds
little TO popular desire to have its dlscussloh ana i7
memberships not too exclusive IN t'lr cnar'c'oi' may
vet render It's sessions equally object OF desire 10 III
rept ltles The next meeting Of the American Assoc
alton on tho l7h init, will he held at Troy ~ vi
some accounts better selection OF lgoahig ,io
becn made Large iron and steel works ana eAfnsl,e
mining nd manufacturing undertakings In Hil ElnIty
will afford local subjects Tor sclentnc Us. ~
not fail in being OF great interest TO the helShDoins
community.
The New Orleans papers give an account OF II
disturbance which occurred on tine Wllaudon Plantation
between the Chinese employed there and the contractor
who has them in charge, or rather who contracts WIN
the aborer on the one hand and the plantation owner
on the other The Chinese had been induigng IN CAD
bages nor exactly forbidden fruit but articles DOT oo"n
in tho contract; and planter MI. Merrill decHed to
pay the bill The Chinese seized the contractor, himself
Chiuaman, by Cum Wing, apG carried Lin LOdly
to their headguar nat they proposed TO 90 %i tb b
interference be liberated / is ,a quite eyG tb1 exac
cabbages are the bottom of the mess, Dnt ug.A".{
composition of this celestial saue rat b. not
even by the aid OF an Interpreter It seems TO have set.
itself At all events the Chinese are al WoIk * ~
far be ascertIined IN stafu quo d"teoeN""''
The exact facts are perhaps as yet in doubt
respectinp either n most egregious bunder I'm United
states surveying or an utterly preposterous claim on the
part OF Canada. The United States Government ma" OK
pended in all hitherto about $4,000 in improving ue o''
Clair Flats and constructing the ST. Clair Flats snip
Canal Not along ago the Detroit CusomH0use oihcerS
arrested one Hiram Little, who supplied the CONTRACTOR
for this work with wood and seized also the steam barge
and scow and the timber that alleged to have been
brought into America territory without paying u,s
MFR little claimed that the work proceeding on inc
Flats was not IN American territory survey ING
missioner have invesga gated the affair and me Bnydo
COBtmerct0l IN anticipation, II Is supposed, OF IheII
mort SAWS IL was intended that the Canal sh0un po
Entirely within the bounds Of the United states put on
the contrary il IL found be wholly within the D0lh-
ion OF Gambia" II such an incredible Dhdef nae pcch
made there is at least this consolation there w" DE 10
frontier line between the United states ana Sahada
within very short period after TIE latter Is caed UPON
directly Indirectly, to defray the expenses OF De
gums neutrality
1t frequently happens that what is called
female eQuestrianism" exces the admiration OF every
body except the horse. There two other excep-
tons among the spectators OF such display on the 2ah
ult In Cincinnati An old woman, sentenced to the
workhouse m vagrant had been placed in charge OF an
officer TO be taken out OF the city that institution She
eontryed TO eyade the custody OF the officer but AFTER
taking two or three glasses of whisky, was again Sc
cured The officer then undertook 10 take her ont IN
wagon and put her on the seat between himself and the
driver The trio thus proceeded along Cenralave. or
a sudden the woman knocked the driver out Oh the
vehicle with hand and, turning, upset the officer
INTO the bottom OF the wagon with tne other. linen
climbing out OF the wagon seated herself Oh the back
OF the LOr,e, giving fierce yell and Striking inc HIdl
with her hal0s and feet, that he was frightened mo
extraordinary speed The amused ana astonlsled spec
tatOIs the avenue only deprived Of Their ENJOY
ment when length the officer succeeded IN selng ie
lines and brought the horse to sudden halt that the
rider went hcadfOTemOst over the animals cars. Tie
vgnli IN bOth the men recovered their cOIplaccncy
on tiudlag her much quoted b. Ler ia