New-York tribune., 1876-08-22
GENERAL NOTES.

Tho limited States Fish Commissioners are
endeayoring to stock the Kansas River with shad'
The last General Assembly of Connecticut
authorized the publication OF centennial histories OF tho
towns Of the State, and appointed the state Librarian
general editor. Two ont Of l67 town, have furnished
Se,ches and only G6 have taken be trouble TO answer
thc circulars This Is not making history hand over
hand" as Theodore winthrop once wrote Is the STOCK
Of centeparians exhau.tedl Has patriotism run to
wooden nufmessf
John s. Brown, librarian, has found among
The municipal archives of Baltimore series of vouch
era ard receipts pertaining 10 the memorial service held
An that city immediately after the death Of Washington
The regulars from Fort NcIIenTv aud the State militia
fook nart in the ceremonies Christ Episcopal Church
was thrown open, and the city pad all tho bills The
total expense Of the demonstration, shown by these
documents was S2S5. The cartridges and powder cost
SO; the sections Of the Presbyterian Church ana ~
Paus received 81 2s oil. each foI ling bells; and the
rest OF tho money went for Grape ribbons ana sareehe
The leading dry goods houses of Chicago
have years been buying il Europe instead o.
New-YOrk. A r. Stewart & Co. are TO open next month
a huge dry goods house in Chicago and to make a
STRAIGHT hid for the country trade. Their agent sa
K Smith, told reporter Of me iod that tnty & wv, mO m
take stand from the start though they had beeh e
,nesons obout fine STYLE credit OF anything, but the
would continue their trade ae ley tao DeGh M IS IL; ~
Sew-York. saving their country customers on thelr
way East stop right here and get your goods ana save
the Journey.
1t has been reserved for Colorado CORE
pondent of The Bosion Tarer 10 tell the biggest grass
PIotteyille nc writes: "Abou 10 o'clock in the morning
,ur attention was called to mh!ing dismal sound as
of many earthquakes and Immediately the air was dark
sned the sun hidden from view by myriads-thousands
of bushcls-of these terrible insects, which in few
moments began 10 settle down upon the gardens ana
fields in every direction For an hour or Two all hands
men, women and children, sailed forih, armed WIN
every c0pctv vabc weapon, 10 Hight the hOppers OF our
ysr,{eD Iuf all in vain While IHcn wore driving on
one thousand billions four times many more would
settle down behind MS, over ana az oIouhe US uhtI III
utter dcsuair were glad 70 heat IN ihg"llgHs Ict
10 the house. They Ged and covered everything The
vegetation the earth fences, stables mouse ana al were
literally block or brown with them ara IN Inc uicGcs
and hoOws they lay or crdWed nom TWO 10 iOur ches
deep"
Commodore Vanderbilt was once advised
"to get the law" OF certain matter. Law" he ex-
claimed "wAy have the pscer already Long before
the famous Erie ltgations fell into such hopeless tan
gle he ana Mr. Drew compelled to settle their
quarrel themselves, had conceived great contempt
for the courts of Justice. His first experience in tie
courts was in the course OF the steamboat ltigatons
which grew out of the charters granted TO Fulton and
Livingston bv the Scw-YOrk Les,latuTe, and when
ChieJUsicc Marshall brought 10 al t!d N Ia p w
Gliding that State could not grant an exclusive rlgnt OF
navigation. Capt Vanderbilt IN ISIS took command OF
Steamboat PtlOua OF the NewN OTE and NeW-Bruls-
wick line which was chartered by the NCw-Jersey Legis
laturc IFCy Press describes his Tst appearance 10
court He arrested by the sheriff or New-1OrH on
an attachment for contempt and brought before the
awful presence Of the great Chancellor hcnt at Albany
TO answer TO the charge Of vioEtnS on injunction
awarded The of John X. Livingston against Aaron
Ogden aud Thomas Gibbons, prohibiting CrlDDOns, ms
agents from navigating with any boat or
vessel propelled by steam or re tt waters IN the lay
OF New-Y0lk or in the Hudson River between Staten
island ana BOwles Hook. The c. aUccOr held that as
Vanderbilt was not in The empoyu nj OF Gibbons, and
as Gibbons hdd not been running the iona since inc
Injunction served and thdt as 40 cosgh mao Dccn
shewn between Gibbons and Tom bns Vanderbilt must
DC discharged from the attachment VIII oosls.'