New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-05
GENERAL NOTES.

The snirits which haunt houses come, some
times to material grief So it at PEORIA where an
cdiAce was greatly disturbed by ghost but the i'll
mates Instead sending for to lay the appar
ton watched and walked until they got chance to put
half pint OF blrd-sho into the spectcr, when 1t turned
out that mysterious visitor named McGraw and,
%%s ike n lady hS Fits faE solid es
would not he many OF these gOblns II the birdshot
remedy were oftener resorted to.
The great tidal wave scare to which we have
occasionally alluded, is producing good at least in
North Carolina The Beaufort people according to The
Ncwber Tes) in great fear of being washed away with
all their real estate, holding prayer-mcctngs by
night and Ivy day. and with might and main praying
against the There il great rush to join the
church and the general RELIGIOUS excitement Is Itself nj
ing will hardly cause 1t stayed. One cannot help
thinking what pungent paragraph Mr. Buckle would
have made OF these scnseless apprehensions
Now here is one of the most perfect of ras-
cals-a scamp worthy of whole paragraph by himself
William Sumner Plat OF NewJersey went, according to
agreement, to Boston TO marry Miss Hill. While in the
lady's he managed 10 steal tlOO note from her
trunk lie LETT the house with his booty; its loss was dis
thicvish arrested and now to cap the climax OF
sweet Williams niIuty, II is foundOut that he has
wife and child already in Connecticut and another wife
ard child In Newark, to which city he fed and from
which place he has been brought by officer to Boston,
Behold how good thing it is for brethren
dwell together In unity AT 70 meeting Of the Sons Of
Temperance in Boston, last week. Son Geo. Wheeler
pulled the nose of his brother L. II. Parmenter for
which George ordered to pay fine Of $40 and
But the conclusion OF the affair beautiful to behold
for just soon as the sentence was passed Bro Parmcn
ter the dock In which Bro Wheeler ignOmin
iousy placed stretched out his manly hand in token Of
forgiveness and reconciliation and offered to pay the
and unity prevailed in this late divided Division.
The liOn-hunters sometimes do not bag much
with all their zeal bomebedy OF this kind lately logged
Mr. Teniy son, who, with his family, was visiting the
Royal Academy. Wherever Mr.. T. went this devoted
pitcher with long went also His perseverance
was at rewarded for lie actually heard the poet say
something And what does the reader suppose that the
poet saidi Why, he actually remarked to the lady,
bcer!" Could anything he moro unPoetcaf lie did not
say, While 20 TO drain crystal Deaker fun Of the
may be not even half-aud-half!
How is this for a scene in church, The
place ia sacred ednce In Bath, Maine. The pew is
crowded. Tho sermon is long, respectable citizen
goes to sleep In close proximity to him Is lady The
preacher was In the midst Of the closing prayer when
the slumberer astonshed the congregation by gruntng
I'm tone OF complaint: Come, come sarah lay along;
don't crowd so lay over lay over! sarah, who was
fortunately in the pew Also meyer foa lost net
her paraSo which awakened her dormant lord aed pre-
vented any further remarks on bis part, warning to
s SGirS. auditors or '0nS'"'H'e" D'''''
There is O certain Count Schwabe in Boston
(his native Land know mott whose hobby for several
has been to establish gallery OF Portraits of
Heroes who fell In the Rebellion His method was 10 go
to the families Of the fallen TO get from them photo
graphs Of the deceased soldiers and what was OF more
Importance, rOusing good price for their portraits He
then beng short OF money, he morgaged inc whoe col
lection The holder Of this dubious security mas Tore
closed his mortgage. carried on the pictures ana now
proposes to sell the at public auction most ~
nonous conclusion Of this schwabe enterprise, which
has a faint flavor Of swindiing.
John Rogers, defaulting cashier OF the Pc
epscot Bank Brunswick, Me- for the theft OF $4,000 has
been sent to the State Prison for six years He has been
twenyone years stealing this money so that the annual
average OF peculaton but small In an affecting
statement made 10 the court Mr. Rogers showed that lie
had neverbe engaged In speculatons, but that the
deneit Was occaoned by his living beyond his salary
WHICH, we must say, was miserably small He began
with 300 YEAR this was raised s55O then 10 $500
then 10 " 900. He said: "The property which ] have
conveyed TO the bank and what have used IN meeting
my FAMILY expenses represents all have received from
any sources ~haever Play, what did the corporation
paying such a nggardly stipend expects
IL would not be wonderful If the imagin-
ave Communists should eagerly long to receive deporta
uon 10 the land which the American agent pcturesquey
represents as land bordering on the vermilion Sea -
teV vacated BY the Lotus Eaters, where IL wasaways
saturday afternoon; flowing with cocoanut milk and the
wiuest kmd OF honey. the coasts strung about with
pes on the hat shell and sofes crabs, the inland
otha Win yams the sweetest Of potatoes aud
otner euccnent roots carpeted with Towering herbs
ny serene mild atmosphere. Fedoent OF
nu perluics, vocal with the songs Of huuning birds
hs plg as ducks the fertile so rests over gently
agst rocks swollen with aurtferous veins. Old
WHITES hato Nainy deued that this WIS tho land Of
"P"'r' Wnrico snVmgns clippers returned. loaded "
~ "a" "Ie Win gnd and peacocks aud monkeys II Is
~ Paradise before the appe.