New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-11
GENERAL NOTES.

Here is philanthropy for you. and in Con-
pecticut tool good-natred Danbury man has broken
in 1855 pairs of boots for friends during the last ten years
II ia not however that charged something
thing NJ In sS some Of the New-England States
A sadly brief honeymoon is mentioned IN
the Lowell newspapers. william r. McNeill and Eien
Even were married last Thursday. on certificate Cd
tanned from the City Clerk upon the representation tna
only nfteen. Poor Miss Ellen was arrested the same
night as stubborn and disobedent chlia roof n''0
bridei She was really most absurdIy treated =,
English prize-fghts are even more brutal
than our own The newspapers notice one which TOOK
place at Dover Sunday afternoon 10th uit between
two soldiers who fought for 90 minutes In the
Of about $50 Of their comrades including as Iept
senseless on the ground by gallant friends and COM
panons, and died the next day. Inc Cofousn Jd
found verdict Of granddaughter against tne surviving
brute.
We read of a wonderful sealed bottle found,
short time SINCE in Grants Pass, ON the coast OF Ala
bama On being opened 1t was found to contain mem
orandum dated of the coast Of Alaska, June ~ ioo
stating that the ship James had foundered ana a
North and South Pacific Oceans, doubled Cap1 ~, n th
been swept by the great equatorial current nnd
the circuit Of the gulf and landed, after voyage OF
two years and half, on the Alabama shore
There was to be lately an investigation OF
most remarkable incident" In England. Ine ~
tention Of the President OF the Boaru Oh ifnoo nos
been called to the death Of James Harris an ENGINE
cleaner on Great Western Railway who was Durneu
10 death In the nre-box OF empty engine He nad
been at work 80 hours without relief exhausteu
tigue he crept into the empty hreDox OF tne
had been cleaning fell asleep Soon ater tne
to light the engine fire. and not snspec sn
the lad there. threw shoyelf OF Dazmg eoa o'ei
hun and burned him to death.
Very curious story is this. AT Mathews
Courthouse, in Virginia, Mrs. Silla Summers was
dying. A few neiRhbors sitting in lower cham
ber where Mr.. Summers confined to his bed win
rheumatism. Suddenly he asked them to look In the
fire and ten him II they anything remarkable They
looked and all at uttered an exclamation OF
ishment for the face OF charred log was plhny
traced in fiery letters, the name OF Sa Inc iettes
began gradually to fade out, and just then burst VI
grief was heard from the upper chamber AZ tine ast
letters disappeared the lady expired We tell tue story
as we find 1t, and very odd story 1t Is
A passenger on the Stonington Line 10
New-York complains to The Daily Advertiser (Bostonl
that he was surprised at finding In the forward cabin Oh
the steamboat bales OF wadding and bags OF hight loose
cotton and this within three feet Of open, burning
gaslght He says that he demonstrated with the cap.
tam who said there was danger II the gas was not
captan said ait might have been In the morning wme
they were getting breakfast ready Yet TINS Forward
cabin contained the bar-room. in which smoking ana
drinking were going The passenger wants 70 kno v
II IL proper thus TO stow cotton and seems 10 tnihk
he has had lucky escape of being roasted.