New-York tribune., 1876-07-25
GENERAL NOTES.


Thurman Station, the Adirondack Railroad so miles
north of Troy.
ThndeI-storms and deaths by lightning in
the Whe Mountains, the Connecticut Valley he Blue
EId-t-eyeryW
fright smart weather. they have been hav-
ing at Pixies Peak According to the last report Of the
Signal Service officers there bave been hail and thunder
storms auroral displays and snow for an hour out Of
clear sky.
There is a superstition in Minnesota that the
big singing Iocusts appear six weeks before the most
The call was sounded IN meadow and pasture last week,
but with the thermometer at So in the shade farmers
were shcpiIcil.
The venerable DIR. Charles Avery, now in his
slst year. who for - yeaS Professor of Chemistry
in Hamilton Coilcg" says that IN gong up and down
college TIul during that period he has made the circuit
OF the earth once and reached the quarerpoe Oh he
second 'trn
A brutal hostlcr in Southern Pennsylvania
has recently demonstrated intercOnyertiby OF man
and dog lie made a wager that he could get down on
ms hands and knees and whip bulldog. Tae dogfoi
three days aitcrigdrt OF hydIOphobia.
The aim of the National Liberal League
which has been organized at Philadelphia is TO accom-
ph the total separation OF Church and State 70 the
potcs ana freedom, virtue, and brotherhood in all hu-
man li:c may be established, protected and perretu'
Dir. Thomas Wentworth Higginson objects TO
Gov Buocks advice to girls not To study political
economy His for 1t is that he pegin the study
under HaIIct Martiucau, and continued IT under Mrs.
F.wcct and, make long story short seemed To- ain
ron tnrHI ali the political economy he knows Thisls
the hardest hing that has ever been said OF either of
these ladies'
State Senator James NJ Burt of Ohio has
bcen to the Exhibition with his hfcsayIng, centennial
obacco-Oox grandfather carried it the Battle Of
Monmouth a wastcoat pocket, where was 'ruck by
bail, which passed nearly thfough IT, carry hS away
Washington had hand IN H. lhe Conmander-n-c mel,
in stfOiIins through tie camp often TOOK tooaceo from
th3 box iUr suohing.
A book agent is an excellent subject for
retrbuli,e justice and lady in Troy has ueted it out
very sbrewly SIZE listened patiently TO lis talk, and
alter sancng at the book put it On the shelf with the
babe him good evening. " Bat / haven't been pad
price Of another book six months before and that he lad
forgotten 10 send It to her. She Thought ste would Keep
this secOud volume. and she dld
In 1910 New -Engander who had recently
emigraed 10 Kentucky, bought slave at auction for
?9OO after sharp competition. The negro learned to read
and write, handled paint-brush so weu that he made
- or ~ a day Joined the Methodiss, and subsequently
the Chris tn Church Gn1 developed nom an eNHorter
hIm a small ami enabled him to take hs family 10
Roc Isaud where be has educated his ciidren and won
the ~t;om OF Els neghbors ON Le Last national hohdy
hc de,e cred an Grafton m the Courthouse square.
The refusal of Sitting Bull TO return to the
reservation north of the Missouri has generally been re-
sard,i The cause Of the Montana war. Bishop NLip
pie denies tls "sittug Bat" says, had
refused TO treat with He has uniformly declared
that lie would make treaty with the whites. lis
people and blnd OF O-aal IL Sioux occupy THIS county,
when WAS Conquered from The crows. le believes tAlt
ihe iuGian who sells his country Is doomed Two years
ago SECRETARY Co"ah visited tle Upttr Missouri a4a
sent mess, 10 sitting Bul saying tha, be was walt
mg to taAc him 10 Washington 10 see tue Great FHhrr
sitting Bull sent back wOd lie Lad no wish 10 see ms
6 eat tather; at II tie Great Father wished TO see Ei
ue could come 10 lis unA and visit lin or ngB hAL
Sitting Bull simply believed our logic that ho was an ~
dependent sovereign. and WAS doinga patriotic duty 70
defend lis county"
The Old South Church Society must not DO
charged with mcanspr,ed sreed. 1t has debt OF over
100000 Its shoulders, and cannot afford TO DO
patriotic The land which the church stands thus
described in IA deed dated Apul l. 1869: one PARCEL
of aul scItUate lying and being within the lmmctts of
Boston TOwnC above named & y part OF the land that's
adjoining 10 my new Mansion House the said gucn aud
granted premises containing by estimation Fifty five po.s
post near Nathaniel Reynolds, along the Ligh street
leading from RoNbdry To Boston, seycn length O, laes
Being scaNCtS nine iOotc ana hac, roe thence 10 to
mddlc icucu now stanuinS pnlAg ot Orchard ani np
pasture, fla length Oi rallies, from the lame or stree eaE
Ing from M Peter OlluciS, and back INTO The pas
tuc mnety-lur Ootc The SAID SlN length OF satS coz
tey ming ae"ucn one ioote or tEcrcaboS iiOm 'aor'
10 the dividing fence between the saji pasture q Ml:
Richard Price LIS Car en- ono htn ltd iOoie, al'ubs.
The ta3d fence, this lane a,orslyd sixty ioy'' aG Vi
thence to the said conner aIoIcsayd, ucNt tie sJt
NathaiclI EeynodS his dwriluS-h0use. tWo han'reI
i1. n5 !'Y'si' oO'e aud one 1"o Ioy'' DC 1t a'' y
\ representative Of the Indian Department
gni au advocate OF The peace policy takes pains IN p
yate letter CouEr, contradict stai'lneH
recently made by tho Secretary OF War, To the eHeei ~
Gen. Crook destroyed the Village Of Crazy Horse one VI
the hostile chiefs, during the spring caml"'-| '''
insists that Gen. Crook did not 50 within - hes % ~
camp OF Crazy Horse and that the village ihat Vas "
stroyed comuo>cd OF 10 lodges OF Chcyennes a n
SIX lud OG SiuUN,Wno were U;urhlng 20 l' ~ j
According 10 the representations OF Hed ,Yn" ,Ynhl"nt
Spotted idii, they we're poccaD.". .i"idhs iiu ',,-
been engaged m hostilioS. That Attack upon TIC.
loving Indians, hc concludes haS led ,O ali INC "",
there was peace before, and there has Deem wa. 90
since" The Indian Department Is 100 rcauy 20 lla' s
the tattlc OF nibrccd scouts aud agency liuihs. II
correspondents who accompanied oen CROOK .iti
tLe village a. n strurgly fortified camp ainlB sulpn.
WI ammunition. Acsc peaccIoNng Indians s'sn,
To be at nome on the Warpath. Moreover theJ Hd" NV
cured aims and ammunition at the agencies ,
About fifteen wears ago Henry Berry, Il well
todo South Carolina planter, diseu,erred The remains
two children and on discovering their condition Io"e.
that when he died his body should DO pnrheu-
buried Not long ago he took member OF MS ian,V
into little grove his house, ana poihteu ou' '
place where he desired be burned, and the trees w
should be cut down and used for the purpose. 10 na