New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-23
GENERAL NOTES.

The officers of Wherefore University, near
Xenia Ohio express their gratitude TO Congress for the
appropriation to their institution of $25OoO from the
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Few worther objects than Institutions Tor the education
Of the colored race obtained aid from either puDhc OF
private sources.
Census-takers are pretty likely to earn their
money One Of these officers in Chicago writes to The
Tribune detailing the trials TO which he is subjected at
the doors of the nabobs and aristocrats" one "lady
ordered the door TO shut in his face. Another told
him that "the Government had right to ask such
questions" and that gentleman would consent to
take such an Office" sometimes servant is a ns0!ent
rs fe mistress AT one house the complainant kept
waiting 90 minutes in the brOiling SUM- He seems t
last to remembered that he was at liberty 10 INVOKE
The authority Of the law and threats Of commencing
suit brought the most nsOlent to their senses women
whatever may be their wealth or social position WIZ
thus decline 10 answer the required nterrOgatores seem
to us TO be equally deficient in intelligence ana gOOd
breeding
1t takes a Yankee to get the best of Yam
kee As an illustration of how it can he DONE the follow
ing for which The Springfield Republican is responsible
is a case in point party Of seven BOstonians wished
to ascend Mount Washington by the new railroad on
Sunday and having ascertained that train ran on
Sundays, teleHaphed to ascertain for how much they
could be taken up that day. The reply being $50 the
party presented themselves on ne anu iounG l'e in
In readiness, hut well loaded IN TACT, hd WIN people
who going mp at the regular rate 10 me reio,
stances Of the party the reply was simply that the tram
would not have been run except upon ter special 3de
The Republican suggests the need OF swearing nand
resort and raise their such egoncies these,
where patience ceases to be "A virtue.
There is a tribunal Of justice in Massachu-
sets in connection with the almshOuse system OF that
State which is quite unlike any other in this country
II ia called Special Court" and is held alternately at
Bridgewater and Tewksbury 1t undertakes to nvest-
gate all the of persons sent to the three great aims
houses Of tine State and decide principally from evidence
Of commitment butt part from the testimony OF the
amshouse physicians, &C., whether they are respectable
Moor @
The Slate through their vice. The latter class thus
senarated are sent TO the BrdgcwateT AshOuse which
is really workhouse, for various terms Of confinement
ranging from three months TO two years Good CONDUCT
shortess their term Of confinement me system Is
said to work admirably the of justice Is not IN
erercd with by the tricks and devices that SO often De
poor are gamers by method which offers assistance to
! one and the opportunity OF reform TO the other.
There are many towns i'll the United States
in part or wholly lit by gas obtained directly from sub
terranean sources; but Erie PENN is favored with so
large supply that il is now used to obtain heat for
chanical and manufacturing purposes All that is ncces
sav is TO bore down and sink tube four or five hun
dred feet and permanent flow of comes rushing up
through it. One wei thus sunk eight years ago
the flow seeming rather TO increase than dmin-
| ish A brass foundery and soap wofkS nave also
period. The most recent well sunk, supplies grlstin
with abundant fuel to run 10ar ttod a
TO more than 500 worth Of coal per month"; All costs
gas company there would be no satisfaction IN cutting
off the supply OF a nOnpaying customer, when he could
at any time supply himself by sinking tube III his
| garden.
Apropos of a suit that has been instituted
in Portland, Me- correspondent relates the particulars
Of lawsuit in Scotland About 90 years ago, the father
of boy Appended to barber brought suit against the
employer to prevent his compelling the boy to shave
customers boards Sunday The necessity for people
to be shaved order 10 attend the kirk apparent to
the first Court that tried the case and the father of the
boy appealed from decision TO the Supreme Court tie
celebrated Lord jeffrey presiding Lord jeffrey decided
that kirk gOeTs could have their boards shaven on satur
dav nights and that the boy could not by law be
PEELED TO work Sunday. The barber carried up tho
case thence the Inner House and the united wisdom
thereof reversed the decision Of Lord jeffrey The boy
had TO 20 with shaving sundays as at first Both
parties 10 quite stripped OF means TO con-
tnue it, but the father Of the boy appealed in Jorma
DdDcrtS the House Of Peers Several years elapsed
but at length the finally adjudicated; the de-
cOn Of tile House reversed, and That OF LORD
Jefrcy's sustained. The boy had long since become
man and OutOwn his ndentuTes. Nevertheless, great
principle had been established and the rights OF the razor
determined