New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-21
GENERAL NOTES.

An old English game-hare and hounds
has been revived by the students OF the preparatory
school connected with the College Of NewJerscy Prince
ton On Thursday two Maryland lads were the haIes,
and although the chase led over rocky country Tor 10
miles they not caught The distance was madO Ia
hours and Is minutes
The session of the Church Congress which
was recently held at Plymouth, England was tame and
sprtess compared with the meetings Of previous years
but there was one wise thing said The Rev. j. F. kltO,
after referring 10 necessity for definite teaching ~
church schools aud TO the secret OF Thomas ArnOds
success exclaimed, Christianity does not need more
machinery, but more steam
A new steamship called the Rio Grande will
be launched to-day Chester Penn FOR Maorys Texas
line Ii is eplate vessel, 80 feet long, 80 feet
wide and 25 feet deep; has two iron decks and Is eX
pece1 average 10 knots an hour and TO carry 1000
bales OF cotton steam Is 70 be suped oy i9ut GYM
drca boilers, each II feet IN diameter and 10 ee long
The vessel will Dc ready for service on Dec 10 John
Roach a Son are the builders.
A Montana squatter built small frame
shanty on another mans land and when he was re-
Quesed to move, positively declined 10 do so. One night
q small company Of settlers gathered around his cabin
while he and his wife asleep and lifting the whole
concern. occupants ana shany with great dehDeratlon
aud care carried 1t TO the river and set small RAFT
Then they pushed the raft out into the stream and cast
found himself many miles down stream. Ingenious lei
lows, these Rocky mOuntaln-editOrs!
One of the latent causes of the increased
consumption Of writing paper Is growing tendency on
tl6 OF uil5g puDuC 5tHu
municatiOns to newspaper offices Here IS worthy
gentleman, for instance who makes serious charges
Rgains two city banks aud coal road writes clear
and concise letter over the signature Deposition"
and in am obiyious moment neieets TO send liz name
and address what can lac hope TO accomplish by blank
cartridge hrngf Let him send his and his proofs
70 this Office without delay.
The prosecution of the Mountain Meadow
murderers will end with the conviction Of John d.
Lee. In passing sentence of death the prisoner
Oct 10. at Beaver, Utah, Judge Foreman stated that
the witnesses, whose mouths had been unscaed would
be ready TO testify against the other leaders who had
plotted the wholesale slaughter OF the emigrants 10
years II the MOrmOns, by cODsenting TO his DEATH
taneied that public Indignation would be aPpeased by
ms conviction, they were greatly mistaken Those Tho
brought before the bar Of Justice The dread crime
would not down.
OF human ingenuity there is no end. A
Paris inventor has made ratesnake trap with sys-
TEN OF pipes which allow his snakesbp TO enter but not
70 retire. A Minnesota plumber has patented CON
triyance for preventing the ANNOYANCE 10 which saints
and sinners are subjected every Winter from the freezing
and bursting OF water pipes. An lndia-rubber tube
passes through the pipe aud is supplied with air from
areseryOr; when the water freezes the tube Is COM
pressed when the ice melts there Is space for eXpan
SON. by warming the In the reservoir the Ice in the
pipe quickly thawed no damage TO ceiling Or temper
Why NOT combine the two ideas, using tesnakes in
stead Of rubber tubes
Gen. Merritt has about 400 men with him
On hetr Of Crazy Horses band and the 5h Cavalry
the best regiment Of horse In the service the Indians
viii have rest Gen Crook intended TO strike north
from the Black Hills without delay, but mas
much he has been ordered east-hOw far
II 10 not knOwn-the original plan seems
70 have been changed. IL is probable however. that
Zen Crook win return and support Gen Merritt with
Hesh command before many weeks. The Impression
gains strength In military circles that vigorous Winter
campaign against the hostile Sioux will result in their
complete subugaOD, and that the chances Of the United
States troops will be better in cold than III warm
weather.
When German can find such keen logic in
iayor Of suicide in the Sorrows Of Werther" 1t seems
IDLE to squeeze argument out Of prayer-book The
Old gentleman who did this fortnight ago near Usage
Bun, Mo. was, however not al ali sentimental be was
ene OF those wrecbed msers whose features Rembrandt
loved TO outline passion Of his srunken soul spent
itseH In counting his money, after the manner OF
ohas Mariner. His neigbbOTs found him In the
gAfret OF his howell, hanging stiff and mOldy from the
faiters On table In the main there al old
herman prayerbOok opened at the prayer headed Who
would not like 10 dief His spectacles lay tie
page and evidently the last lines which he had read be-
aealh Ia resti There ends all bodily pain"
When lunatie started locomotive neal
saratoga last Summer the situation the rail was
oeedingly uncomfortable but even a crazy man an
engine Is better than nobody vt ALL An alarming aoc
oent occurred on the London and Western Railway
one mile nom Hartford Eng, about Sept 2s freight
nsln ran ptO engine aud tender al Acton Bridge sta
uon, about o'clock in the evening The driver anC
sucker OF the lattcr thrown off, and engine went
SntoTArd Crewe with no one In charge Of IT, When ii