New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-19
GENERAL NOTES.

| In the Superior Court for Plymouth County,
Mass few days since, the of willard Ames agt
Sally Ames action brought to recover for board Of
the defendant was referred by Of Court in accord
ance with the Teement and wishes Of the parties and
their counsel bOardO five referees consisting OF one
man and four wOmen-the award Of majority 10 he de-
cisiyc and final This believed TO be the first instance
the state where litigation has been left to the decision
| Of women.
Does Mr.. Bergh know how badly the unfor-
walrus il treated by American whalcmen in the
Arctic seas There is Wholesale slaughter of them for
their oil i'll the months of July and August, when the
females their way North to calve. 1t is estimated
that in 1870 $1,000 of them killed for their OIL.
Moreover the natives of these regions greatly de-
pendent upon the walrus for food clothing boots ana
buildings Wherefore the merchants of Boston sign
ing petition to Congress asking that some statute regI
ation may be made for the protection Of this animal H.
enforce it for if the ships I'LL up with whale OIL
the walrus oil is great temptation and helps out the
voyage amazingly.
Mrs. Lucy Stone has been addressing
Committee of the Maine Legislature the matter of
woman suffrage She touched, also, upon the right OF
married TO hold property not having, 1t would
aIunar taken the trouble to inform herself that in
Maine since 1874, married women have legally held
property free from interference and control Of their
husbands. so too, in Maine. woman may not only
hold but also sell and devise her property withLt
ne "reoTe COPY & Mac
admits girls well as boys to the collegiate priv
ieges So ALSO i'm Maine the softer Tor hardeD Is
welcomed TO the state College Of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts.
Mr.. Sturgeon recently spoke in his chaTac-
terisc way the burden Of his pastoral duties to
audience In the Tabernacle London. lie referred TO his
Illness and advised every congregation to give their
ministers a rest They need send them Jericho
but let them have little leisure. that their brains
might be refreshed As for himself he had been six
without taking rest, and he found that his physical
strength seriously weakened No one living knew
the toll and care had to bear He pleaded for sym
pathy, but asked Indulgence II ne sometimes forgot
charge of church with 900 members sometimes there
were marriages and burals to be performed, there
the weekly TO be revised The Soord and T0Cc
to he revised and beside all this there was weekly
average OF 500 10 be answered This however
was only half his duties for there were innumerable
churches established by friends. with The affairs of
which closely connected to nothing OF those
of difficulty which were constantly being referred
TO him.
The Pure Milk Movement is still kept up in
Boston. Before private meeting OF ladies and gentle
men held last week to consider the subject the Rev l..
Hale stated land he is perfectly responsible for his
ments that the mddemen contractors do what they
please with the milk before it reaches the consumer;
that they do please, the first place. to take of ali
cream; that they add water and IA mixture OF burnt
sugar give color and then Of salt and plain
recfy flavor; that the popular taste has become
perverted that this vile is preferred to the genuine
fud: that this spurious milk causes fearful mortality
among children. Mrs Caroline II. Dale submitted
port from a subcommittee setting forth an alarming
mortality among the young from the use OF Impure
milk, and stating that the profit of the
tractors nearly 100 per cent Dr. Jarvis cOrrObOatcd
former statements regarding the infant mortality The
Rev. Mr. Angler cited the example OF Two families IN
New York both known TO him, one OF which fed
upon pure and the other upon aduterated lnllk The
members Of the first "were manly, healthy, robust,
happy" and those OF the other thin dyspeptic ana
daycfous." The plan adopted by the meeting l. to buy
milk directly OF The producers 10 be supplied regularly
on city routes by an Association thus taking The bnsi-
much possible out Of the hands Of Tie middle
men.