New-York tribune., 1876-12-19
GENERAL NOTES.

Two popular preachers in the West are re-
formed convicts
Cole Younger, the leader of the Missouri
nightriders who murdered the cashier OF the Norhed
Bank, himself in the Farbaut jail by reading
"JOsephus."
Fac-Simile telegTaphing is the latest Boston
happy thought zinc plate receives the impression,
and pencil point reprOduaes tho very form OF the let
er words and sentences at the other end OF the hne
The regular annual convention of the Inter
collegiate Literary Association will be held at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel in this city on JAM A. There Is brain
enough in the association already What II needs is
movement. A large attendance OF delegates may put
bfe INTO THE association.
An unknown quantity of algebra was ellml-
mated from the freshman course at Hamilton college
last week The funeral services wero conducted in tho
old senior rectatonrcom. The Of tho algebra
were incased in rst-cass coffin with pretty handles
ana there were many mOu1ners The text OF the dls-
course was very touching one" lie has gone nom
among us "-and the dirge had pathOs OF Us own;
put away the leather brooches which our darling sed
to wear; he'll not need them any longer tWil W. Id Od
every mourner viewed the remains A bell was tOilel,
torches were fred. re wac upraised ana hclhera'oh
went ON apace
An Amazon on skates can cut prettier
figure than an s. group Of 8sses skating merry
ON the river near OmrO Wis, Dec. 10, when noisy
raeelcss scamp appeared upon the zee and began
them IN many ways So persistent were MS prosecutions
that the girls were resolving 10 take of their skates ara
30 home, when 10 avenger gNded from the opPossue su
bank II was only girla coy rosy, slender girl she
went up the vOung scapegrace, aud selzng nun ny ue
collar dumped him upon t!e ice Sbe banuitu nun nun q" @ o
would a feahe duslCr She took of her DAINTY glnIs
ana euod bis cars ti he r9ai,d Tor help she ut"Rse
also said something She rem nked thaI IL ne e'et
troubled them agam there would be eoroners lnques'
tnc river.
Macbeth with variations was performed In
bo Crcuit Courtroom at Saginaw last Thursday Free
man Cragn was charged with numbering sns brotheh-
law Charles Smith and the victims wife was called as
witness To the ama2ement OF the court she cohleSSou
her own guilt sac had endeavored to induce her lo'er
70 shoot her husband and he had promised TO do
ltbou0b she hinted a the time that be would not have
the grit When the time his courage failed him and
she had 10 hire the prisoner 10 undertake tie JOB Tor n
consolidation of 5000 in hand pad me In anI, J mD S
committed on the very nigh; the money was pau, nnu
tine woman in the louse-nay IN tne very room t
when tie fatal blow was srek she ran m Io bcr "a pr
room where her children were seeplns' u NJ. nisuas -
10 her ears aud heard nothing more. The hluurleT
dragged the body into the barn and set tre 70 me uu
ing The woman ont doors, and busted teisei, IN
Swing such property could ho easily removed from me
barn aud then composedy returned to the hea wherein h
tpr bushand had murdered. she had watched the
clock ana known when TO expect the murdcIcIs hhck az
eif-possesson She seemed have lost every instinct
of her SEX but not her reason.
Thirty years ago a law student married.
Miss Charity wisconsin lady, and set out for Calor-
MIA where the Of years, he made fortune oi
from 900 30 $lO0O000O His first stroke oi luck
was in the AInador nine; the Savage bubble sWelled his
income and the Crown Point bonanzA rounded IL on
His outside specuaaons have included dealings In real
estate gas water. oil, and coal stocks his NOME WIS
one OF the lovehest places the coast His health was
seriously damaged by the strain Of business anh he De
came 50 eXaCtnc aud uuTeasondOle an nst ILl' ~,
yaa developed what the strong minded champions Of the
gcnic section Of humanity call an incOLnpdllbl!. hs
80 ireistcd t1ot IN, lad been "psyChOogZcd," what
ever mai NAV moan. ls mind seemed 10 be completely
under the sway Of AN elderly cLnfNoyahl VINO N"S
attempting to neal hS bodily Ills oy mesh5 ~ ,tigs n"tg
-m p!us spirits ot cf"se kh"Wn as ~ 49, ,tttnco and
sJns The patients wife nnally Oht lcr lI'iehoo % ,u
APPLIED for divorce on toe ground OF dcsetu0h. lhe
,rg the feet aHd they lived apart over year lh'g
met accidentally three months ago IN their daugniFb
carly cuuTtsLip was TcGewCd: soon they were re-
engaged: two weeks AGO tnCre was giiid WednlnE,
the bride wearing brown brocaded SIX anu "o'
few.
The Papcr Makers Monthly Journal, the or
gan of the isugn manufacturers, In reprntng the ar
tc which recently appeared in THE TRIBUNE oD The ex
portaton Of American paper TO England, irdulges IN
much coarse irony about wooden nutnegs, CHINA cay
and tie untoddrn forests of the Great Country" II
thinks that America big. but that II cannot produce
everything for ITSELF while its wants grow every day
II utima,s that the American invaders will find that
ey have good deal hard work before them IN their
attempt to swamp the English market" II informs
them in patrcnszng way that they Will probably lose
thor fortunes and that II their nation aims at CONNER
ci IrrIuacy il must follow in tho wake Of free rade
- IN any case il Says British paper-nakcIb WIZ tit
10 hold their own" The prospect Oi hnd NOik WIZ io'
intimdatc American manufacturers. Ilcy alh ~ sup
ply foreign markets with better paper tnan ti' - E
etiios are makin Statistics harder nuts W crack
IMAM wooden nutinCgs. In 1869 nc imports vi NIlns
and printing paper amounted 70 S5oooII, n 90 .o 80
mort 10 {777. IN 1876 the mpOras were Tls'SoO 1nu
ihe exports Ssl 3G4 Trese figures indicate thal amer
leans cgn make pT Tor ON 0imens o s coyn wy them that
they are wrong matter OF act, the success oi tne
cXterIment which TIE American manufacturers naNe
made In the Eucllsh market has eAceeueu 'Noii '
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