New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-10-27
GENERAL NOTES.

There are several bald-headed young c0lored
women in and around Whites Station, Tenn, who, If
they could lay hold of certain white man, would be
likely to endoayOr TO reduce his capillary display par
with their deficiencies 1t appears that lie has been
selling them hair wash to take the kinks out of their
hair; result which IL accomplished by taking out the
lar also Another liquid which hc sold them, neatly
done mp in sOplcrcd riaf was 10 he used three times u
day, diluted in The proportion O spoonful to bucket
OF water, to produce Caucasian complexion" This
was not however, so powerful as the otnc preparation.
aud left their epdermis, Wc as their eshtints, un-
changed.
If there is anything ridiculous in this world
II is haought ring rencOnter rIdcly interrupted by
the constabulary. Jim Murray and Jerry Donovan
undertook battle at Pcnrose Ferry Philadelphia,
last Thursday The "beaks" came down upon them in
time to prevent tho contest there, whereupOn tho pair
with their pleasing tail OF roughs took refuge in New
Jersey. Here the pounding began; but when Donovan
had been badly hammered and tho spectators be
ginning little scrimmage upon their account the
police reappeared, and the milP again suspended
Nothing came of it ALL that several of the fstic
champions were conducted to cold and gloomy
dungeon The p r. once had certain kind OF dubious
the Giant OF tue Ring, angushes in the Massachusetts,
Prison All that was ever claimed for rizeghtng has
the maness and the absence OF malice. Prizeghts
now simply murderous riots in which pistols aud knives
There are s Is t pnG i b% tSeT nre na
more regarded than the statutes of the State. The sport
anticipate its absolute disappearance within very short
period Of time.
recent discovery in Amelia City, Oregon,
came near creating formidable abone excitement as
that dc cribcd D. Trutlf, J.anos. Amucl-lccOmpoged
skull was uueaitlei bya 90 c.d-aer Taking tlat prac
tic i View OF Tie occrrr..e which Glst.a-, hes the
settlers OF our western c3aaf tie discoycrcr instead Of
apotrophizng after the style OF "Alas! poor Yorc"
took his own hat Off put the newound skull In it, aud
repaired TO the nearest stream pan out" The dirt in
,he skl may he said TO have caught his pracccd eye.
nor was ne mistaken IN his surmie the result Of the pm
was was yield 81 Sl2 IN gold; Immediately lac formed
hofh ,Oh1ny TO buy mp all the old graycyards in the
Vicinity, ana various headSoncs and f0Othoards that
mhhen me fcsiugpaocs OF haiOrgottcn pioneers
sahei OUT and pruspccied. Just about the time how
market som" sM To gS 10 p" put upon the Portland
the fragments OF the gold ieding skull and ascerained
thtJ IL hah originally belonged to buffalo. As the
chances OF discover other places seputure of that
luPiruped sccd Remote the stock was for tho present
coVeIer does not however credit the buffalo theory and
wants 70 dg up The remains OF them Eastern felers
mat came here long ago with more money than brains
1t IL to be wished that some of the Fathers
IN Israel would meet together aud construct supple
nenary prayerbook suited to the OF all dononna-
tioDs OF Christians containing, exclusively proper
service to be employed by the spiritual advisers OF per-
Sons about to he hanged AZ it il now, without any
proper guide In the premises, each does 1t his own way
ana The variety OF styles quite remarkable There
one Rev Mr. Fleming, who, the ith inst performed
thls delicate duty for George Chalmers stranguated
according to law at that date in PERTH Scotland few
minutes before the end Of the performance the Rev
Fleming smoohed the passage Of the condemned by the
following appeal:
into the eternity that before YOU with lie upon your lips
have reason To fear that you brink ruin
verge Of the boome pitt AMI therefore you sight
TO relieve Us rom e very distressing position which
placed nd 70 say whether guilty
which about because Won arc about 10
enter into the gre. eternity As your truly
IL appears however that the about to be hanged did
not snfcehty appreciate the distressing position" OF
the people VINO hanged him. IL may. however, be
sdered that whether innocent guilty Of tho crime for
which ne was punished, man who would refuse salts
faction to those people OF PERTH who thus left with
such uncomfortable doubts. desoryed hanging