New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-09
Boston Harbor. Original poems by Longielow, Holmes
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GENERAL NOTES,

The Alliance, Professor David Swings paper,
has been enlarged. Several valuable Re have
added. political department. OF independent tone.
being one More space will be given ALSO 10 the literary
department, and several prominent writers have been
engaged to write for other departments OF the paper
Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller who formerly edited The
LifRe Corporal Will conduct the Home Department and
articles wi be regularly contributed by Professor Swing,
u L. Ensign, the Rev. Washington Gladden. and the
Rev. Arthur 5wazey.
The sparrow will have to sign the pledge.
He has been drunk and disordery" in the language OF
the Police Courts. But his plea OF not premeditated
drunkenness viii be accepted Geneva in this State,
saw him IN his moment OF degradation town liquor
dealer, for nscrutabe purpose. soaked a Loaf of
bread in whskey, and then breaking it INTO fragments
threw II into the roadway before his door. Down
swoOped large flock OF sparrows and eagerly dcvOured
the bread And then there were hoarse chirruping and
quarrclsome birds, and universal fight, and could
hardly hgat from staggering ana altogether It sadly re-
seoed some scenes IN the e OF the superior creature
man.
The British magistrate that compeIs the
muzzng Of dog does at his perif tho dog belongs
to woman. Mr. Bgge, "A Brighton magistrate. having
enforced, instance regarding dogs,
received hundreds OF letters blaming him for his
Among the letters was one in a wOman's handwriting.
and signed Linda" IL put him in a pillory in this
manner: In dealing with a respecting hoy beng
bitten by little Maltese dog your decision WAS most
inhuman and cOWardly The dog quite right In
defending itself hope wll receive severe retrbu
tive punishment before You leave this world. How
would you Ike to be muzzledf
Ice did not become an article Of commerce
until the present century but already the United
alone thirty millions OF dollars invested in the
business OF gathering andSeng it, Large shipments of
made TO South America aud Asia; the European
nations supplying themselves with Ice from Norway.
There has been remarkable Increase in the OF the
article in the United states 1s45 8hen only $4,000
tons OF 70 used In the year 1876 the consumers
bought 100000 tons and probably 100000 tons
Beer brewers the best customers OF the ice
panes several using 10000 tons OF ice annually so
great has become the Ice thatt neatly
and clearly printed newspaper &C It's OwnIcs Trade
JOVTlthe first number OF which has lust been printed.
Bunty's Gulch in Caaveras County, California,
unaware morning in the Fall OF $50 that
State election 10 be hell that daY-bnt before the
day the Guch distinguished itself The miners
twenty Americans aud eighty Mexicans-were hard at
work wHen ut midday, strangers euerod the camp
bearing big ballot box and loudly announced that
election being held and that they had been appointed
of tie district For the OF the
day the actions of the inhabitants of the Guch would
have puzzled person looking them from the neigh
boring heights. There endless chain OF men
around building. and tho chain constantly in
motion. A the line would stop before o little
window, put 10 little piece OF paper walk TO the Othor
side OF tie building. at another little window ne
would drink thing evidently drciOus, ard would
Tue official returns o. tne election Of that Fail declare
that BuBty Guch 4j2 votes, and that nlneenths
of them FOR the candidates Of one party and
the successful one.