New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-11
FIFTH AVENUE THEATER.
GENERAL NOTES.

Indianapolis girls are smarter than the boys.
At spelling match in the high school there recently the
girls beat the boys three to one.
The Lord Mayor of London, at a recent meet
ing TO promote emigration, estimated the number Of
skilled workmen of employment in England as be-
tween 5000 aud $1,000
The production of petroleum during 1869 has
been 10 per cent than in any other year since the
lucky pioneer first struck oil" The production OF Penn
sylvana 1889 has been 21,5jJ,lOO barrels
An alligator Il feet long and weighing go
pounds was recently killed in the swamps Of the Waeree
River South Carolina. He very ferocious, and with
a snap Of his immense TAIL broke the leg OF coored
boy beside woundng several Others before lie couu Oc
secured.
In the French Chamber of Deputies Theirs
mournfully pointed the Government to the lively and
most justifable Indignation Of our seaports which see
with sort Of despair the flag OF the stranger every
where taking the place Of the flag OF the nation The
maritime commerce France is perishing under British
Trade that of the United states has been sacrl
feed to the remOrseess lust OF Britain 10 nOhOpOZe Tue
industry and trade OF the world
We really thought that cOck-fghting was an
nlquy and folly belonging to bygone ages, but there
has Just been rooster tournament at Michigan CITY,
Ind great many battles fought and number Of
chandeliers killed, the contest being between Ind
ana and Michigan. We begin to be little hopeless
Pretty soon We shall have the bulght naturalZed ana
Rome There is more sense allowing men 10 fight and
TO kin each other. that the people may have little
who fight to the death, Is both inhunan and unmany'
The French journal OGciel gives the follow
ing interesting OF Geographic progress: The
Great Northern Telegraph Company, having its head
office at Copenhagen. and NJ. TetIen "a Dance as IT'S
head now controls a system OF lines connecting England
Denmark. Norway, Sweden. and Russia. Inc RUSSIAN
line trayersng Eastern Siberia Is now completed as lar
as the Of China and the establishments on tle
AMOR II will shortly extended To the principal ports
of China The Company has obtained from mo RUSSIAN
Government the exclusive right to use the Russian me,
while on the part OF the Company is stipulated that
they will lay cable between Posetta Bay ana shan gna
in Japan is contemplated, also, 10 connect win hong
Kong and the principal Chinese ports IL is sala DANISH
frigae aud Russian vesselO war nave DeeI
10 aid the conveyance aud laying OF te cables on te
Chinese side The Chinese section Is Intended az laer
period TO connect with an American line from japan 10
the Pacific coast.
We never heard of anything of the kind
more cruel than the murder Of one julius Guck at Vim
cennes Ind Two years ago he convicted OF arson
and sent to the PenItentary. When released he sought
and obtained work in hub and spoke factory near
cennes and Housekeeping with his wiie ana Tor
anything that appears, he had determined to become
good member OF society and an honest man. ON the
evening the LIST INST he shot It Is supposed by
the Regulators" of jefferson Township lie had already
received notice to quit the vicinity oenorts nave Deeh
made to find out the perpetrators OF TINS outrage anu
yet Jefferson suppose, calls itself clylzed township
IL is encouraging TO be informed Also ta at Nlncenhes
only five miles from the OF this outrage revival
OF religion is going and there have been 80 CONVEX
sons Perhaps these Regulators" could be brought
under "conyctiOu" doth religious and Legal, II would
be good thing well done But If first caught and al
anty in the solitude OF prison. we should feel ralher
sur of the sOftenng OF their hearts and the Regeneration
OF their souls
No man, unless tied to the untruth by bribery,
defect Of reason or fanatcsm resist the argument
IN behalf Of the protection Of established industries made
by Theirs in the Corps Legisatf on the 22d OF January
last The great historian said " can nderslanu n INV
n nation when at the beginning Of its career IKE
America for instance might say To itself Would u
not better for me TO send over to OLD Europe my corn
NV cotton my tobacco. In exchange for her manuiae.
lures dear Monsieur Theirs, America does not need
To exchange" these. Europe has got 20 have as much
of them as she wants. To get them she VIII
pay gold for them. II she does not need
In I'm she will not pay freight ON thcml "
can understand that, though think the nation
would bc mistaken aud the example OF all young ana
free nations proves that she would be mistaken can
understand however. that she might hesitate before EN-
terlug into the industrial and manufacturing career
But that when she has developed within herself an ina
msnse amount OF skilled labor when she has covered the
face of country with manufacturing establishments
that she should allow these To perish thing cannot
comprehend and Justify. IL would be wanting
in good sense. wanting IN humanity, wanting IN the pih
Cplgs of CIVILIZATION