New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-10
GENERAL NOTES.

very precOciOus child has appeared, it is
said at jamestown, Penn. Though barely three years
Old he is four feet high has head, arms and legs az
large an ordinary mans strong voice. aud remark
$. Kingston, thinks Of exhibiting his phenomenal SON.
At Randolph No. few days since, Gideon
Hanes went out with his wife and boy to gather some
bluegrass seed. While engaged a swarm Of bees
alighed the child, covering him from head To foot
The father told him TO keep perfectly still, and gently
lifting the boys hat from his head TO BUSH the bees
sWarmed upon 1t. SO much for GOODNESS.
The overseer of the House of Refuge in San
Francisco was lately induced to go down into the new
well by two OF the youthful inmates, who complained
that they could work there safely for want OF plat
form After letting him down they cut the rope and de-
camped The unfortunate man was discovered and
drawn up "a hours aiterward, more dead than ahve
A wealthy widow, Mrs. Sarah Edmonds of
Pittsburgh PENN brings suit against her aanced hus-
band the Rev. E. L. W. Jones, teyidently man of let
ters for swndng her out Of $4,000 by representing
large property in the West and great expectations IRON
venturer, who deliberately set about entrapping the
widow into marriage for her money.
This is the way one extraordinary freak OF
nature Is accounted for. Annie Brown for years OK
cited rural communities by exhibiting an unusual cause
of affection nd has been given by many doctors as
one beyond cure She apparently been troubled with
a snake which, intervals thrust its head out OF her
mouth and instantly retreated down heT throat "A ss
picious ply in Wayne County Intrmary prepared
Tor sharp work the morning and when the snake
seized the poor the neck that the
repte might not retreat LO, when dsgOrged, nothing
more formidable than an inda-rubber Imitation OF q
snake forth, and now Annies occupation Is gone
Was the wine made by Jesus from water, at
the wedding in Cana Of Galee, intoxicatingi This
question substantially discussed lately in six sue
oessve meetings of the Presbyterian Ministers Assoca
ton of Philadelphia. The body divided on the ques
ton at the I'm the beginning OF the discussion;
but all united in the resolution THAT, in view OF the
deplOrable results temporal and eternal, which in SO
many clearly traceabe to the custom or WINE
aud In view also OF the Divine precept that the strong
bear the inrmies OF the weak not pleasing themselves
even Christ also pleased not HIMSELF this Association
regards the entire dsuse OF wne well as other ntox
icating liquors. beverage, by individuals or AT
social assemblies duty which, under the CHRISTIAN
The Christian Union is, we fear, rather
"shaky" on the subject Of the existence of per
sonal Devil. To correspondent, who avows his
own disbelief in the Arch Fiend and asks for
light, the editor says: "The medieval Devil, with
his impish pranks and jokes grotesque and ma
lignant in equal manner. is not found in Scrip
ture, by OF But do not that
modern and science need deny the existence
deceived and deceiving spirits, ambitious and nsubor
dnate, who working out plans under leadership OF
high Order-a kingdom of this world, with king con-
trasting sharply with the Kingdom of Heaven and its
King Do believe that there is personal Devil
Yes or Nor NO-nOt devil such the questiOner has
TO destroy whose works the Son Of God was manifested
But we reckon faith Jesus Christ more impOrtant
matter than fear OF the Devil or belief in his personal
existence"