New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-26
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
very pleasing instance of charitable en-
terprse comes to from Little Rock Arkansas Within
three days after receiving the OF the great fire in
Chicago, Mr. John Edwards, wellknown architect I'm
Little Rock, and his sister, Miss Eliza Edwards an sc-
of the sufferers The proceGds aSoStnS 70 a Oepe er
Immediately forwarded 10 Chicago.
The photographer is simply irrepressible.
In Chicago he the first TO pick his way through
smOuderlng ruins In quest Of thrilling "negatyes;"
and an entorprisng operator Of that city is already
advertising In the Eastern newspapers Ave hundred
different Views Of the hreblasted district As soon
TO make hi. bsy IL Il striking consideration tha.:ers
long there will not be one earthly spot and not one hu
being left unphOOgraphed to say nothing Of ths
principal heavenly bodies
There is man "a clergyman, too at Walla-
Walla w. IT, who has heretofore taken The Co"1re0S
oaS BostoD) but who has sternly Refused to take II
any longer because thaourna does not denounce secret
societies. He believes Masonry, odd Fellowship, and
newspaper should be OF his own opinion anu therefore he
writes: Il propose TO convert you by Withholding
is p. b. Chamberlain, and we hope his parshoners WIZ
not treat him. when they do not Ike his sermons as he
NewburypOrt, Mass, is lucky city. Some
body named Bromfeld whether or woman, We
know not left money that city TO provide ornamental
trees for the highways and the result Is that rewDury
port heretofore distinguished for nothing but the pro-
duotOn of Mr. Caleb Cushing. Is likely TO be re-
nowned equally with NewHaven, as city OF trees We
control Of vanda oVerseers highways, whose whole
notion of official duty is to cut down trees which perhaps
have been growing for century just to make the hHhs
ways look trim ana square,
In an entertaining article on Centenarianism
in an English magazine, 1t Is stated that 1.-THE lease
Of Of the present race Of men Is me%res
why regard marvels OF OLD age Win so NUS @
ceeds 100 Years Of life has teach ms than the
man who exceeds eight feet In blight In short ns OF
no conseausnce 1t not usually found that these men
who are exceptions the rule have lived any differently
from their fellows or that tey nave any ~ ssedent
A tobacconist in Granville County, n. c.,
naturally anxious please his customers advertses bis
beautifully favored KuKlux Smoking Tobacco" and
thus shows what kind Of customers he has for his wares
h az eS' GOODS %S a. Delight
"The Iucendiary's solace," or "Ihe Ihlcyes Ohn,
W SG Gd SsS 70 eoars the weed
ably tho enemies Of Great Plant will derive several
brand but would that be exactly fart
It is somewhat refreshing to hear of one
man at least who has, after writing a book, had the
moral courage refrain from printing It, This
son was Thomas W. McWaly Of Jefferson Co, Ca, just
dead the highly respectable Of 90 years He was
greatly given during his whole HE to the study Of hero
which all apparent contradictions in sacred History
could be reconced he got volume on the subject all
for want Of publisher or pluck or out Of commendabe
our blesting brood OF Juvenile Verse-wrightsl
This isn't world which can get along at
present without soap, and probably 1t never will be-
gentleman writes from Liverpool to The Syracuse Jour
nal that salt may be used as partial substitute for
akal In soap manufacture, and Is so used now In
England for all kinds Of soap. from the cheapest PLAIN
TO the most elegant fancy article the beng sold at
from 81 SO to "a So for liz pounds Nobody would he sorry
II these cheap detergens could be introduced into this
counryexcept, perhaps the political leaders who do
stiff business III foul votes, ana who would have the
world believe that there Is close relation between Dirt
and Democracy.
There is great excitement in England, il we
may Judge by the articles in the newspapers,
upon the subject of oysters In the first place the price
charged for good ones has mounted dreadully-s five
times as great per bushel in 1871 as 1t in 1861 The
beds have dredged to DEATH and cannot restock
themselves Formerly the price was from sixpence "
three shing though there large. oyster sold
at fifteen pence per dozen. All the writer's agree tina,
cheaper but we have not observed that anybody pro
poses any practical method for Increasing the supply
A melancholy case of special judgment 10
sent us from Rome through The London Tablet ncws
paper, which duly improves the awful warning. OLe
Morelli, builder, employed on the public works at
Rome having mounted HIGH scaffo!ding, got into
furious passion with his wOrkmen, because they asked
for holiday that they might celebrate me Feast Of e
Madonna your Christ ether& bawled SynOr aOrelir
in and then his foot slipped a@a Ggw
sgnOr Moren which proves that man H GI s spTai
ground
We used to laugh at Mr.. Turvcydfop IN
Dickens's "Blcak House"-that eminent PROFESSOR VI
Department. But there is such science after ALL TOT
We and in Montreal newspaper Miss Marys Burroughs
advertising that she Will receive "seect private classes
I'm Deportment on moderate terms" while one eiGnOs
WazaIer WIN also take In hand Classes OF Egete aho
n%n"rtinent" Moreover, the SignOr has wlltth .
Book OF Etiquette" Which he offers Tor Saie at Ing
temptlngly moderate price OF twfnN-nVe CenS,; ~
must bo most iFreelamable 0rson VINO refuses W M
come POLISHED ehcyalrr at the 10" cos q! W. st
Iin0s. and we know men who wouu mn |" PIut
longed tuition under the SgnOra pleasant 'ng ~ 'o'
fhnirf