New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-18
GENERAL NOTES.

The old PRESBYTERIAN Church at Easthamp-
ton T. T. in which Lyman Beecher preached many OF
his most noted sermons has demolished II was
wears ago, since which time II has been unused
The White-Story quarrel has been converted
into burnt cork burlesque in Chicago, and band OF
Ethiopian minstrels present nightly to crowded houses
The local abound in ancient GkSs SS9 30 v
etc. Indeed the great prairie village In the absence I
any arsteiass horror or dsSisng ayIfee s'' 10 NiA
Levi X. Joslyn, Providence Or. ~ mer-
chant ia an eccentric Spirualst who attempted to re-
cite one Of Shakespeare's tragedies on recent Sunday
while in n trance state The Press newspaper reported
tie performance in the humorous yein anu Josyn, VINO
is OF serious rn showed his lack OF appreciation py
bringing suit for libel against the paper 10 NC Iny
30 made so even by special PROVIDENCE
A PALMYRA letter to % Cincinnati paper says
that the KuKux OF Northern Missouri having abducted
and probably murdered, Union man named Ausand
Gen Mcneil published order to the effect that IL Aus
land were no; returned within days. he would take 10
Rebel PRISONERS from the JAIL and have them shot. he
kept his word Ausland was not forthcoming ana ~
man OF family n Young man volunteered to take his
place, and was shot with the rest strange STORY truly
though yOucGed for.
The manufacturing interests of Pittsburgh
and Allegheny City represent total capital of nearly
OO comprised In 1861 different establishments, of
various manufactures; employ 1866 hands pay sl743
sec in wages annually, consume raw materials to the
of s7sSs9953 Here are say $3.50 men employed, by
whose labOrs tine very least l32G00 souls are sup
abnndance-in "a style Of living said TO he unknown
among the artisans OF Europe and especially vi Great
Britain.
The Schwab Opera House of Hamilton, Ohio
which was drawn for and not won has become the sub
ject OF special election to be held in that city, May go
Mrs Caroline schwab, wife Of Peter schwab, who by
hocuspocus, has become possessed OF the house
which her husband put up To be disposed OF by lottery
10 las
for public Offices, FOR .G5ooo which Is Just half It's original
the Mayor to Vote upon the question whether the offer
should lie accepted. Meantime the opera house has also
got into court, IN suits upon mortgages.
There is rarely anything new in the medical
way or in any other way, for that matter paragraph
relates low out West" wherever that may be. six men,
to them Of scuryy, planted in the ground,
when pack Of wild beasts ate the six heads or But
esrenre wos discussed in England mny Years ago and
was funnly caricaoured by Punch The botanical prac-
Southey's Doctor" As for bleeding and quicksilver,
they old Paracelsus, and probably much Older
and poor man wiz doubtless DO depicted 10 ueah uhtn
time itself shall DC no more.
One of the strongest passions of childhood is
to stuff itself with noxous and niigestible food and
even judciOus parentsthere not too many OF them
forbid and protest and spank in vain boy ten years
old gorged himself death at NewLondon, Conn, last
Wednesday with "raislns and cOcoanut candy'-the
DOOR young, involuntary suicide! 1t is presumed that
this lated lad perpetred the fatal deed upon the sly
board only little slowly and right under the az
feecnate parental nose aud are even pressed to eat
after their little abdomens are as tight as drum heads
There is help for it, Ia this world there must DC iools
and funerals.
Somebody writes from Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
to Boston newspaper that is charmngly peaceful
and orderly city, its citizens shaving yielded philosophy
cay to tho inevitable and renowned dead issues" Only
the other night few OF the citizens indignant that
black man and white woman should live together, bat
tered down the door OF the offending couple and, being
fred at by the negro fired back again and shot MIN dead
His shot, however had also told one OF his charming,
peaceful, and inolensye visitors died also, and this
pretty party retired Mortified at tho tragcal ending OF
the lark" When the peaceful Tuscaloosa next go upon
sne games they mustn't If they would avoid traglcal
ending, go with loaded firearms.
They have had o fearful illustration of the
insane folly OF walking railways at Sharon Vt Miss
Parkhurs so walking tainted and fell the track just
as train came round curve at full speed Her mother
was with her. and made frantic but vain efforts TO
move her. and she was killed "her body" says the
count being crushed and mangled in such way to
leave only OF flesh and bones on the track The
peculiarly OF these accidents Is that they seem to con-
little warming most people in the country at
least using the track FOR footpah all the same,
IL 1t affords the shortest cut from point to anothe
and using IL, too In violation or the law. Under SUCH
circumstances, what the most careful engine
drivers do to avert fatal caasrophesi What could they
have DONE for instance, To save Robert W. Fields, at
Great Darlington Mass who used the track or the Hous
atomic Railroad the other day for highway, being also
nebratcd, and being, of course f0und dead Sunday
morning, ain frghtfully mutilaed conditionT Then
consider the caelesSucss or parentS enid Is months
old. at Westboro, Mass last week, selected tho railway
bed for a play ground and was killed. Also as matter
OF These accidents must be mOurnfully accepted
suppose inevitable results of the railway system
IL s or to say that human beings might be wiser
we are not by any means sure OF It, 80 In making up the
profits and loss OF railways we must set down public
convenience and, per contra many people to DO killed
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