New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-05
GENERAL NOTES.

An English clergyman applied three weeks
sgo at London police court for order OF admission
70 St Gess workhOuse. He said that he had held var
GUS lvings but lad ruined by joint stock compa
ME. and on the score poverty his bishop had refused
70 license him.
1t is not strange that the bill for the repres-
,on Of dueiing hangs fire IN the French Chamber OF
Deputies There is pressure of public opinion behind
H. piOus young gentleman, who was recently chai-
lepre 70 uel called upon bishop and asked for ad
vice fought 20 fight not T. Come and ask me
after you have fought" replied the venerable preate
The heavyweight wrestling match attracted
srge throng of Harvard undergraduates last Saturday
The contestants were Kessler OF rs and Summons OF
so Five minutes after the bout began Simmons was
thrown backward against settee the edge OF winch
struck him in the side and inflicted severe injury He
vss lifted up water poured upon his face he stag
rered 70 his place and fought forty minutes until he
was thrown down and forced over till both shoulders
the floor. University sports OF nus KIM are NOT
edIfyins although the students stand ana cheer'
"Old Hill is a ghost. In the flesh he was
.Caifornia MINER aud he still has an eye-a spiritual
eve Of oourse-for leads" ard for prospecting Old
Hill on the 3lsi of March Springfield Mass appeared
70 Dr. George ". Frost "spirltuasi, and toid INN 10
take the Boston aud Albany Railroad go west
10 fourth station then leave the TRAM 1ooW the
railway certain gate-post, then UP mountain
70 cellar at the junction OF two wooG roads thence
70 an old wooden bridge mountain br0ok thence
70 an old sycamore tree the right thence To another
bridge up mountain again. then to an old barn. then
down 10 a mill privilege, where there would be
9 hemlock tree then dig! then for the goid! On
shc strength OF this the digging has begun, dhda VEN
Of gold and silver bearing quartz has been struck And
Aiming company has been organized ana inert y 70
more digging. and probably STOCK III inc company VIII
be offered for sale.
The San Francisco Mail uses plain English
says that The Aa and other papers that speak OF the
magnificent opportunities which California presents TO
the new coner lie in very gratutously criminal way
the unvarnished truth is" it says that our laDor
market Ia stocked 10 OVERLOOKING and every fresh ar
nvng train but adds to the miserable multitude tha'
waits suffers starves. and finally fights s desperate
way east again Men of brains and culture, good clerks
excellent accountants, business men OF uhdehaoie en-
ergy. of ability. walk the streets In dumb
Despair" Westward no ~ IL siren song III thls year
9; grace. Hard Times" Is the National tune III Call
forniA as well as in NewYorK, and wOrkingmen YOU'D
better keep step the music wherever tLey are 10 te
young who is about 10 put MS coege .t
and bis sOe-eather trunk on C2nOrnla-DOu,nu uitn
The MAI cries Stop Yes let HIM stay where De Is
AID II he can't find the chance he wants. e' lin Ae
u first that offers.
An innocent news paragraph in Thursdays
TRIBUNE, concerning the St. Louis and Iron Mountain
Railroad combinations has seemed TO the managers OF
the unfair and circular over the signatures OF
Thos Allen aud Henry G. Maryland has been forwarced
In reply 70 IT, It's substance is that the Wards as agents
OF the Barring have dictated the financial pocy OF tne
road during the past two years taking the ils'e III
s1finihk TIE company 20 buHptuu "a -
eel it, bonds and urging the funding policy for the
very purpose Of paying the floating debt which they mao
assisted mourning. The managers intended to pay
the interest on Nov l. 1876 and the bonds bad risen
considerably that presumption; bnt me Messis' bar
ings' agents different view, and reinsed To Co
operate IN the effort 10 small sum- winch was
needed TO pay the interest in full The managers. I'M
Der these circumstances, agreed that half payments
should be made until the finances OF the
company should be restored. 5. g. Ward had
expressed the opinion only month Deiore Ihls
That the directors acting Wisely III
paying such portion OF the interest could te met con-
cstently while the floating cebt being reduced ana
the ehbclent condition OF the road maintained IL was
therefore with little surprise say Messrs Allen ana
kArqnAnd "at learned that the Messrs Ward sought
transfer IS shares Of stock belonging 10 u.s. upon
which money borrowed nor any considers-
Ton BY u.s. with the declaration that they
Intended 10 separate ticket, ETC." Mr. Allen hss
awsys had the reputation OF being souhd ralnoau
manager and this company has inspired the commence
Of many railroad refOrmers In the East VINO were skeR
eo about the management Of nearly every othef fan