New-York tribune., 1876-10-18
GENERAL NOTES.

A London paper contains the advertisement:
Wanted situation, either private detective, or as
publisher Of "A weekly newspaper Can DC recommended
in both capacities" This is decidedly the peasantes
hit at the trade since Byron took pains to represent 70
John Murray that Barabbas publisher" Another
London paper recently announced For sae-Piano-
fOrte-cOtage-seyen octayes-tbe property OF lay
leaving England in remarkably elegant case, OF beau
tfully carved support
An entcrprising Yankee, whose reverence
for historic landmarks only eInaed by Lis zeal IN sell
ing groceries and provisions, adyeriises Ia Boston
paper that his built IN l7s2 as city market
and that Lafayette, during the siege. stopped there
one day with his stan and ate bread agd caeese On
was erected aud Lafayette not in America during
the siege But natter the grocer is there nOw aud
ready TO his customers every morning.
A Paris landlord not being able to squeeze
rent out OF one OF his tenants recently made visit to
the fifth floor and caught him in the act OF conceing
something under the tIbecloth The poor lodr lnally
yielded to threats and showed the landlord bana-note
of 80 francs when he had been copying Iol scoun.
dre" said the landlord are y0u running The rsS u TIC
galleys miserable sum OF 30 francs ?" Al Non
sieur" Whined the odgcr, " entirely OF your oin
ion 1t is wrctched sum to forge, but the model Of
bigger note is wanting 10 me-"
The remains of Cook st. John of Walton,
~ Y, were followed to the grave last Friday by five
generations of descendants. Although he in his
lO4th year at the time Of his death, his mind was re-
markably clear. He recalled the events OF century
with the ease with which men of middle lie Ie-
view their younger days. In tue last hours Of his
life he seemed to be dwelling ou the scenes OF youth
and manhood and contersng with tose ho died sixty
seventy eighty years ago lie mad voted at every ffcs
idential election since his majority.
Centennial memories were on tap in san
Francisco oct s. One hundred years pous Catho
lie missionaries the Order OF St. Francis laid Oun'
datons OF the Mission Dolores far from the center OF
tie present city. The mission became the nucees TOR
small white settlement on the peninsula the Indians IN
tne neig bOrhOOd were taught 10 work for living; but
the city did not have its real birth unti y years after
the Franciscan fathers planted their cOiOhy Among the
of the Centennial celebration were high mass
at the Mission Dolores military ana CIV Itocesi&on, &
OraOns III Spanish and English ana the allb OF IAe
corner stone Of church The Old mission church
will be preserved AS long as 1t vii hold together
An Englishman has been narrowing up the
soul Of the British farmer by writing letter 10 inc
London Times lie says: The vessel in which eft
Liverpool for NewYork had potato bugs board. 1t
must be borne mind that the vessel had been lying in
one Of the Liverpool docks for several days aud sev
eral days lts journey when saw two 0l these ~
sccs creeping the upper deck" 1as" he adds
is those to causes that 0uSht not 10 pass IN
noticed" Wei, 20. The rapid development oi Tue ~
tatO bug Long Island andin NewJer,cy was one Oi ue
maryelspDf the past summer Americans good naurcdy
supposed that the beetles came from the West pos
sbe tnat these blaIsted Engishmen, YOU Know ha''
been smuggling them nto American portsf
Here it is: The precious blossom rock OF
the Far West. II worked into the mosaes OF a new
literature il viii catch the eye Of the English critic Is
thing OF beauty, fresh. unique. and unconventona
MINER with "a revolver Ia each bootleg. and gallon Oh
California whisky under his hat, lOunging IN ths
streets Of Deadwood CITY In the Black Hills when sud-
.enly stranger happened TO brush against him. Ods
came the pistol the right boot aud up went the
right arm with flourish "NOw look yer everybody
I'm this yer gulch look at me ana crawl I'm Nnd Cav
Tip from Bear Guloh CIT out here haf dozen Of yer:
ana line OF battle, cause can't hold onto THIS yer
hammer much longer; So trot em out" Sone Que In lne
crowd fired pistol in the air, and simultaneously ny
ten ogg struck TIP between the eyes I'm murdered,
he yelled dropping his revolver and falling belViy
the ground. In a moment he 20 himself ana.
straightenng up, remarked paintyey: Boys. let me
soc tne caliber OF the gun what shO0ts eggs"
The Celestial can hold his own when hs