New-York tribune., 1871-04-13
GENERAL NOTES.

Near Denver, Col, WIN, i. OlcAald, VINO
had made 100000 or 100000 by mining operations Is re-
ported TO have attempted To hang himself recently be
cause he had not money enough to buy his breakfast
with,
IL is repOrted that not less than seven women
have appeared in different parts OF Great Britain each
OF them claiming the lawful wife Of the eccentric
Earl of Aberdeen As the Earl was always presumed 70
be "A bachelor these wives are probably oil tho SuppO'
titiOus sort.
Mrs Jane SwiSshclm, irreverently called by
some western journals the sheThersos, ia explainngo
western audiences why and wherefore the Bibe one Oh
She does inform her hearers whether the sacred VOL
ume was written for that special purpose
A Chicago journal, by way of creating sur
prise and sensation among s readers, declares that
undoulingly and hopefully believes In Goa ana o le
The statement though all of them admit the novelty VI
the news.
The Dunning family of NewEngland have
appointed one Of their number, David L. Dunning OF
Maine 10 20 abroad TO look after large estate left by
Sir John Dunning the first Lord Ashburton, created
Ear0nct i'm I7s3 Strange that Americans have not YET
discovered that such erands are the most VI
iOllies.
The Louisville Couricr-JOnnal, after mention
ing the fact that block granite weighing % tuns had
been quarricd in Rhode Island for use IN Ne"-lOrk
sneerngy says Another block or so or te same Sz
and there wont be much of the STATE ci me Naia a
tion OF property IN this little STATE III loo' WIS 'o'
327,sis
More than a year ago. Mary H. Rogers,
minister OF the Society NJ Friends visited the Iowa rem
tentary and preached to the prisoners with feryor ana
power The effect upon her auditors was very marked
Two of Them John Walker and Richard Allen, were 80
powerfully impressed that the warden and keepers re-
gardcd them "a converted men. subsequently other
Ouakers visited the prison and these two men asked 10
6e taken into the society Of Friends Hs memiers 40
the society after careful inquiry, rece we'd them John
Walkers sentence for five years had nearly expired
"a hard tlllTIn ntH
recently ordered to make bardcurs He demonstrated
vit the officer saving cannot do il gambling caused
me 10 be- here am willing to work and do not "lltuy
disobey the rules; but am conscientious IN thls hhg
encd with punishment but finally the warden Withdrew
the order Walkers term expired soon after his adnil-
sion to the Quaker body and the monthly meeting ap-
pointed committee to extend 10 hlm klnd welcome,
c1se might reomire He il doing well Those who nro
make them agencies Of reform well OF punishment,
will find encouragement in facts Ike these
Every now and then some platform person.
age pulpit gentleman starts crusade againt the
theater, and says again what has been said
I'm better style, countless times before. The
general effect Of this Is keep away from the play
house single person who is fond of IT, but to intensity
the hostility OF those who without seeing for themselves
have adopted resoutey the opinion that theatcrs are
the headquarters of vice. nquity, and nhdelitS There
never debate since mankind began To disagree,
purpOsclcss and more likely To DE endless ta this
about the moral influence OF the drama, which has lived
and will i've in spite OF its enemies and in spite Of its
many and grieyOus faults Ouractors ~ NewIo Iork,
however, always pleased when clergyman say "a
good word for their craft don't know, however how
much they Will fancy champion the Rev. j. L. lidtch
OF Boston, who, after lccturing about everything else,
Las ken up the cudccl- I'm behalf OF sock and bskn.
Mr. Hatch according n report before lis, denOunces
the Overbearing dODHtsm by which theaters are pro-
scrhed and the hypocrisy of those professors Of religion
who patronize them cOvertly" But man. without be-
ing n hyuucrite, may visit the thcatcr and condemn
what he sees there VIZ often ind ourselves in the play
house, partly from habit and partly from business and
confess to seeing and hearing there great deal
which we do not approve Jeremy Collier has been stig-
matizcd "a hypOcre" for writing against the En-
glsh theaer time when the plays OF Mycherly ana
Congeve the stock favOrcs Of the town. yet who
there that will say that Love orLOye Corusanee),
even ~ cleaned for modern presentation, IL sound
moral production We might speak Of other ndeccnccS,
gr0sSeT because they are physical II managers are
criticised pretty severely by mOrass pray who Is real
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