New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-16
GENERAL NOTES.

There is most interesting widow IN that
sDpropriaiely.named town. Hazlrdyille, Conn This
lady has lost five husbands by powder-mill explo-
sons Is she aarmed r. she discouraged Not al all.
She is about To Dc joined TO Inc bNh' ana ne ~ pow
dcrmior, also!
The London World well says that " there
are too many eulerprsng both sides the Atlantic
to allow OF loug-contuucd monopoly IN Geographic
business The great houses could not AFFORD 10
let 1t 90 on The when competition existed was
shilling word; 1t Is now three shillngs' ana there IS
talk of still further raising the price 1t cannot asi nd
we already hear OF cable company" cheap
teeaphng is imperatvey needed ON each side OF tho
Atlantic.
Twenty years ago colored boy was sold IN
Nashville Tenn his parents lived. and taken
soutn During the war he attached himself To Michi
gan regiment and followed the soldiers NORTH settling IN
Rock Island H. He lost all trace his early home,
only remembering the name Nashville. few weeks
ago he wrote letter eoored minister in that city,
rccitng under which he left his home
To his astonishment his mother answered the letter tell
g him that hi, father brother and four sisters were
alive and inviting him to 20 down and see the old folks
A CORRESPONDENT from New Hampshire writes
10 The TRIBUNE that although the late Mrs. Stark was
named elizabeth" and not Mary" II does not follow
that the General did not have Molly" Tnat was the
pet name which he always used IN addressing his wife.
ldre Tnurston native OF Bedford, states that school
Teacher william Hail. who used teach in the Stark
District and who had boarded Gen. Sark's family told
him that he General was In the habit OF can< his VIE
Molly" This would subsfantate the traditional
speech attributed him Bennington, which has been
doubted so far as 1t referred TO ms we' from the ac'
that her name was " Elizabeth
Four little black boys, the oldest not moro
than ten fonr little white girls, OF the age IN
Mobile last week. and with accord kissed them. rhe
next morning officer down the road, and finding
the four little black boys fast asleep under bridge. took
them before the Mayor. "Dd you kiss the little girsf
tho erply and Zach arkb 1V
SAID YES SIR" Then justice meted ont to these
dreadful offenders. They publicly spankedi Not
So BILL" the oldest sent To jai rur nine months;
pete" aud TON" got four months aud Hank" WHO s
immured at the expense ~ the period ~
two months. The foar little black boys were takento
Mobile arr now playing tag IA peace ana quot
A Standard ar-correspondent describes his
menu in the Kurdish Mountains as beyond all expecta'
ton lie had for supper chicken-soup, spinach with
eggs mutton IA tathat is, the roasted pieces OF
meat coverei IN eggs; and milk roast fowl piaH.
curIs and cheese and pudding, similar 10 what IN Aus
tra the classical land of buildings. are called snow
balls IL il true IL made OF barley meal, but well
prepared that the fame Of the best puddngmaker at tho
first hotel Vienna would pale before the skill OF the
Kurdish housewife. Eterythng was swimming In fai,
aud unfortunately not grain OF salt was used Coffee,
of course concluded the feast OF which the host also
patook Tne two sons Of the host lads OF thirteen ana
fifteen, waited on them. The couches We're sil anu
aud bllght nre cfachitu on tuc Htalihs ihV
breakfast The next morning at five O'Clock, equalcd the
supper and the host refused all payment aud only
begged as "A present empty cOgnac bottle III WHICH
there was sti a cork--a yarty in those regions.
Another Lord of the Churchyard has asserted
his rights British statutes respectable re
dent OF lost child and the Vicar the Rev Wise
Brown refused read the burial service the ground
that the little one been baptized He sent this
note TO the father: 81 hereby give you notice that will
not allow any service your dead child recon
mend you " take the body to OF the cemeteries In or