New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-08
GENERAL NOTES.

GENEhAL NOlES.
:. e. Paul the work of woman suffrage goes
/" Last Tuesday between 500 and GOO votes
nv women N an election for school officers. In
,,-,.t there was good deaf Of wlrepulling, and
V' ,i.es Of ladies went from mouse 10 house TO beg
sters to vote the right ticket, and TO instruct their
L., lads and nurse girls TO do the same The wife
Dr,o,tlent merchant, soon after sunrise and at
- 4 eravely Informed her husband that she liked
nd would vote at AL the other polnSpaocs before
y 81 There were arrests for Illegal voting, hut
olh, a. considerable hart swearing ln several pre-
Ouors servant girls made 0alh that they had Uecn
ualurdkh
Inn, English museums and picture galleries on
- Afternoons. Among the signers are Dean
s.n,sv Canon DuckwOrth and the Wears Of several
.,,lrt marshes some OF whom Broad Church.
r. while others are Rituaists. They take the ground
% this plan win bring within the reach of the working
,,ssos new means Of intellectual Improvement, and
-. ~ Christian influence; that it would relieve the
.srb from an injurious msconception which aiionates
~ ueoplc from religion; that IL would directly
onTtersc. by tire competition OF an innocent rccTea-
g., the manifold compilations 10 drunkenness ana otter
W., and that &c would indirectly promote the mde2l
md religious welfare o. the people
George NJ. Pinncy surrendered himself to
,hs san Francisco police on Saturday, ANA was held IN
SooOOObd to answer two charges OF forging Govern
cerufcacs OF Indebtedness. He AYERS that he was
II the CcIHltkttN biiNuftN IN tNiutlitc
che ,,a Of spalding before the naval court martial So
q, ss the certificates which he hypothccaied
~, con,esuod, he says he left money FOR thch
-.S,r,nton. and trial will show in whose
hn,s the money to take them up placed
C,pt Lees says that PiDney took away with him only
nout I'D 600 United states DlstrctAttorney Coglan
savsbe has received no instructions Ia proceed against
Pnnpy aud is C1guiz9nt W no negotiations ntiWcch te
66rr9cnt and Pnney for the suppression OF suits
syairs him 10 Is understood that the Government mas
eyen him assurances OF protection" prov S Nv ''' 'uH
Bates evidence
tender idyl OF the Berkshire hills istold
nv The Iron Press Half century AGO there lived IN
Iapesboro Mass rich Old farmer WHO had daughter
NJ whom he was very proud. An industrious Young
blacksmith sought hor hand. but the farmer remarked
that he did not think anvil and p.suo would sound
well toSethor. Tn, blacksmith went West Meanwhile
the daughter had unobjcctonahle sutton whom she
was allowed 10 marry Ten years she lived happily ana
then her husband died Then years Of vdowhood.
but at last wdowcr happened 1lopg and she was again
married Another decade OF happy welded life passed.
and sire was again left a widow. II was then she re-
nrncd 10 Nc oetcral roof: and ufjcF few years her
tetbsr folowed ihe two husbands. Now was the hrst
lovers 0uplrtuny. within the present year, the young
yctb ,ay,n nearly reached the axe Of thleescoIc
and ten while on visit 10 Eastern friends learned the
situation, renewed his suit and was acc plea
Among the passepg gers who left st. Louis fer
the East last Wednesday night was large, wobulit
gentleman whose resessness annoyed every body IN the
ssepug coach he retired 10 his beTIh without ldAhb
Of coat collar or boot and feI into doze. Wmle 'he
train va speeding toward Mt Vernon, H. at the rate Of
30 miles an hour The pOr heard loud noise IN the car
and discovered that the queer passenger was walking u
and down between the berths and making great racket
The porter went MP to him and asked him 10 30 back 10
his berth The passenger was ravinr maniac. lie
eare al tue porter with bOcdhOt eyes, and in frenzy
OF rage feed hun 10 tho 1o9r and leapn2 upon hn at
ternpted to stab him with Owi-.niic. desperate
wounded THO conductor sprauc o. enc rescue luJ ne
lunatic struck him the face VITA ne E,9ct ~ u
Snapped deTriDger NJ ms mead we Pr ~ ~,
With ts,rblc curse he struck the conductor Win me
INIT OF psfo and then fed into the draNne-tOOm car
locking the door ociud him. smashing iig mirrors Oh INC
walls and loaplug head0ng from the PLATFORM
Haskell Derby, NJ. D.. who recently exam
med the eyes o. 22 members of the Freshman class Of
Harvard COLLEGE presented the results in compact
report to President Eliot The percentage of neaIsSht
Corresponds with that obtained by Dr. Cornelius A.
Agnew in the collegiate department OF the Brooklyn
POLYTECHNIC and the introductory department OF Tie
Eew.YorK College and also with that obtained at AN
herst College ny Dr. Derby himself THIS percentage Il
295 The examinations are 10 be repeated from year q
COR ninth the class ia graduated and the figures vii
illustrate the development Of myopa during coiles'
ourse Tho examinations conducted in the schools o
rrolau Vienna IAcarnc and 81. Petersburg as vel ~
he martial tests made Cincinnati Brooklyn, ana New
Vork indicate that myOpia II not consehhai, bII id
creqses steadily under the pressure OF study iht7t
conclusions the which bf ti"WC mas ivdVLSe
eftcr .xtr,jnillz the ewes Of 900 school children II
RuNalp He did not find a single cihd uHhri SIX year
tlat was nearsigbted, which proves lhat tHo Wrt''
bui net eI the ages of and IL inc percentage IadA
incressa his conclusion being that one ulnl OUT 0
every f1ur who is graduated at high school Is Haut
ncar-sighted fOr life.