New-York tribune., 1871-06-29
GENERAL NOTES.

At Middleton, Conn.,, the Wesleyan Univer-
sity will be presented with magnificent Hall of Natural
Science which 10000 by Orange Judd, on the 18th
OF July. Prof wlnchen, OF Michigan University, VIII de-
liver an address.
A colored woman in New-Haven, who had
saved s5OO by long life of manual labor recently died.
and bequeathed the money any poor coored student
who might enter Yale Divinity School with the view OF
becoming preacher III no coored student should need
it. then the is to be bestowed upon some Whe youth
who is poor and piOus.
Jonathan Morgan, of the ripe age of 04, is
travelling through New-Engand and delivering lectures
to refute the NewonIan philosophy Morgan boasts that
he can cut up Sir Isaac easily as e can gruD-WOrm;
but at last accounts Newton had not suffered as much in
the minds of the NewEDgland audiences as Jonathan
himself.
The London Punch has the following letter
--'D1 "ELYsIUM.
80 beloved Punch said, years ago,
Vid 10 scTitte a sommo di Una Porta;
Ldsciate ognf sperdn=d, uOi che 'ntrde .
"The inscription has been changed andt now STANDS
thus:
"Tbine. DANTE ALIGHERI."
The monument to Lewis Cass in ElmwoOd
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich, was completed few days
ago. 1t is granite column - feet high. composed Of
10 courses the lower being Of Quincy granite and the
remaining nine Of Concord granite on one side Is the
name, Lewis Cass, in simple Roman letters, and on the
reverse the Michigan coal-oaras. On the felnatHg i
sides are an oak and ivy wreath very eiaDoIate IN
workmanship, and the Names dates OF Drth ana dealh
u
Ubagns resting on two piers OF the same material Its
cost was $4,000 and its weight 46 tuns
The Lancaster PENN Express says the ex-
ecutors of the estate Of the late Hon. Thaddeus Stevens
will erect monument over his grave the present Sum-
mer. The Express adds "When Mr. Stevens discovered
that there was clause in the charters OF the several
cemeteries prohibiting the burial of any but white per-
sons the he declined to take any OF the lots ana
hbition existed He purchased two adjoining lots One
of his friends ia view of the fact that there was no one
cured 40 much ground fOh we'll he replied in his in-
imitabe humorous way, 'some poor devil may come
along one OF these days and VIII have no place 10 CO.
lie can turn in with me-"
That Interchangeable apostle of the unwashed,
Henry Clay Dean, spoke at the village OF Muscatne.
Iowa. recently; and while thus afflicted In their public
places the Muscatnes were also bese by gang OF rob
bers who rode quietly into town. hitched their horses
before the National bank entered, held revolver at
the head OF the single official present despoied the
place OF its available deposits and paedy rode over to
the place where Dean speaking In the open air.
Here calling out that the bank had been robbed and
with cheer for Wilkes Booth the robbers struck spurs
crowd had fairly realized what had taken place A
party started In pursuit and, after riding short
distance came within haing distance OF the robbers,
who waved defiance, darted Off with increased speed,
and were not caught
Few College Presidents, we suspect, are able,
after properly training the boys under their charge to
find time for the training OF cate but Dr. Gulliter
the President Of Knox College, at Galesburg, H.,
ceeds In doing DR.. Eggleston, OF The Independent
who lately visited him, says: I would not feel half
the interest boys with their Latin and Greek screwed
up to the pitch OF Yale that felt in the graceful
Jersey cattle that Craze DR.. Gullvers lawn and in
meadow not far away. And then there is nothing
ghtful as the enthusiasm Of the worthy Prex How he
made that calf (x weeks old and worth 500 put out
tongue which none calf OF the first families OF the
Island Of Jersey show Who could help liking trim
little cows that show their good breeding In their gentle
ways that give milk threeOurths butter and the other
fourth cream, and that calves worth $500 apiece
To a college President, veXed with waywSd animals
that play tricks than their monkey ancestors
could anything be soothing than the sight OF these
peaceful and perfect little Jersey cows, who know moth
| ing of original sin or total deprayityP
| The Hon. L. p. Walton, formerly editor of
The Montpelier vt) Waterman and State Journal COM
muncates TO The Burlington Free Press facts OF
aye oden time" which show the wonderful progress Of
the State within less than single century: The post
riders sent out by the printers Of Vermont to distribute
their newspapers the pioneers OF the mail routes
| remember time when there was but one mail route
through Central Vermont while the counties of Washing
ton Orange Caledonia, orleans, Lamoie, and part Of
Franklin Chttenden, Addison, and Windsor sup
piled by postriders the Office OF The Vermont Watch
man In February, 1884, seven years before vermont
was admitted 10 the Union, the General Assembly esab-
shed five post-ofices, located at Bennington Rutland
BrattlebOrO, Windsor, and Newbury Anthony Hasweli
OF The me Vermont gazette, Bennington appointed
p POSTMASTER sim General and the newspaper postmen
were the mail-carriers. In July, l1oI, post
TdeG was 5e1 and Hbanv n Y and in January, l7ss,
Daniel Marsh advertised that he had established himself
postrder from Clarendon 70 onion course
connected with the rider from Bennington bringing ihe
Vermont Gazette 1t Is worthy OF remark hat me p5ies
OF ohsa per uedr: bushe OF which 20 be lodged az
the time OF subscribing, soon after as possible
er fbe price ought TO have been nearly double that
M BRANDON But the farmers could not afford It, Gov
hand NOT bushci of which would he SELL FOR hard
cash. as ne had reserved 1t to supply the people at