New-York tribune., 1877-07-20
GENERAL NOTES.

OENEbdL Mules.
| There comes one voice from the exchanges:
No paey with rotous tradesunOns Let the law striko
down the strikers
| A crazy woman walked into the Congrega-
tonal church West Meriden last Sunday and whls
the organist was playing interiude screamed in q
shr voice 81 allure you, in the name Of the Almighty
to tr0t that hymn slowP
The great elm in West Springfield, Mass.
which Herman Day planted in 1916, by light
ming during a thunderstorm last Tuesday, and a
large limb was broken or This l. one OF the noblest
trees IN New England The trunk. which measures near
y twenty feet In circumference, Is sl sound.
Another anti-tramp association has been
formed near Philadelphia. About twenty residents OF
Montgomery County met at Jonknstown, on the North
Pennsylvania Railroad last Wednesday, took meas
ures TO protect their property and families against
tramps and professional thieves Thomas Smith, Phil.
adephia banker directed attention to the magnitude Of
the tramp nuisance which had to such dimensions
that it represented nearly every phase Of crime from
petty larceny to murder The crime OF childsteang
his OPINION should DO punished with death, swift aud
summary.
Morris b. Farr, who is one of the veterans
OF the 9TH Regiment, has undertaken the publication
OF monthly paper IN tho interest OF citizen sodiery and
rife practice The first number OF The National Gudrds
realty printed little paper Of sixteen pages CON
taning articles on "Tne International Rifle Match"
" Team Selection and Training" "Iucongruitlcs Of
Dress" Engineering" Rifle Practice in the National
Guard" and other topics; sketch OF Adjt-Gen Town
seud departments devoted 10 the months maneuvres
Of regiments aud companies to military gossip and
the CreedDOor matches and much miscellaneous matter
ere is room for such paper as this aud il ought 10
succeed. II will tend TO promote the eiceucY Of tue
militia and TO make them better soldiers well sharp
er marksmen.
The Savoyards now realize that they had
freedom under the sardlnian mJnalchy than they
expect to have under the French Republic The
projects employing the most arbitrary means TO
counteract the influence Of the local Republicans. The
Mayor OF Essert has been carried of 10 GenoDe the
ridiculous charge Of avoiding military service during the
warof 1870. Public houses and caf6s IN which pubi-
can journal taken have been closed, and peasants
been warned against drinking in any house whose
host lmpiousy subscribes to anti-Clelcal paper
parish priest publicly boxed the OF schoolmaser
Tor allowing Of scholars 10 sing couple OF the
Marseaise while taking walk with Dim. Subsequent
ly the imperous Clergyman mt complaint to Paris,
and tue scLOOlmasieI lost his place
Amos Fish, one of the queerest men in
Albany, n Y, died Monday, leaving estate OF ~
thousand dollars to charitable institutions, and cutting
off his wife with dollar day. In describing his man
ner Of lie to friend, he said: al buy shank Of
beef from the butcher which costs me ten cents My
wife makes enough soup from this TO DO us Que meal.
then the from II afterwards makes two more
meals, days food for ten cents. split the bono
and get the for cooking purposes. and my wife
finds uicentue In the bone itself to do considerable
cooking Then iron box save the ashes, wbicn
cents each" Yet when extra taxes were pat upon his
property, he very rarely, II ever demanded more rent
from than luey had been paying lie mar
red "A widow uo had chi. dren AID "a little mon ..
lie of red 20 borrow tho money aud 10 allow her seven
per His ptcd the propOsltlon ana he M- IN
charge OF the property Tor lOnS time. one ddi ho
forced settlement with her. bringing ia "A oi IOl hir
own aud tue cIdrcus board and leaving her ~ deD ~
him.
Tie suit brought by George ID. Lord against
the City Of Rochester the recovery Of sGJOOOO On
eontract the construction of was opened
in the SUPERVISOR room last Tuesday. Gen Martncae
and his colleagues in their places; hree sleepy
Aldermen were noddng in their chairs; the three ex-
Judges had been appointed referees, moOnrd 10 tue
counsel proceed and Mr. Cogswel loosening hs top
aiscoat button aud clearing his throat, opened The case
for his client the edihcatiOn Of large assemb age Of
lawyers Suddenly there great cOmmO. ion IN the
corridor and young gentleman broke into tie room ana
marched up the hldle Dassagrway swlnZng ais arms
violently. and snOrtng eXhaustiye!y Stumbling over
the yer chars. he strOde to the Judges desk and
taking of his cap, it the nO0I. The referees
moved uneasly IN their seats Mr. Cogswel broke on in
tnc mi lie his sentences; tdc three Aiderncn
opened their mouths AID craned thcr necA-' and the
crowd and stared the Intruder TIE young gen.
H. IN III spraug the side ot the room, zed small
table aud planning H IN front Of the rce'Ues nsIrd OUT
u ms pocket lead pencil aad anOe-oooS. ine rep rter
o tC evening paper now ready or the proceedings