New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-04
GENERAL NOTES.

Whom Mr.. Vanderbilt drove Lady Mac ana
gu rIres ON the Fleetwood track In 2;23-tne pest
40 ble.team time record-he remarked 'hSt sun D0V
Md he made Small Hopes, he said, hal pulled
Vi -. ioos and with an equally handy and speedy
could trot 10 the pole IN 300 He has been looking
he,f.r mate and has found him, rs western turf
,a naevs IN Little Fred-a trotter for wmch ne mas
- s1OO 600 The sale was made IN Chicago l%et Flasy.
fitte Fred already mas recoru o' -'-0 v" INV A''
track. ..-., IL
The British flag has been ANONYMOUSLY hauled
~, IN ,be harbor of san Francisco and the American
,,s RIM ND IN its place week ago man before the
mast of British vessel went shore and drank great
des ~ hskey and sighting junk store while he was
under full pressure Of canvas hove to and captured TWO
an American flags He then crowded all sail for the
barf and after boarding bark, went aft, hauled
dvn the British coors and with three lusy cheers ran
mn the American coors 10 the peak The mote OF the
vessel appeared on deck and asked poor Jack what he
was doing "Blawst your larry tOphghts, was the re,
h6rnppe and cheered the nag until the mate snapped
pistol al him.
A travelling show company advertised bal
loon ascension Kngstree = c., last Wednesday ana
All the negroes for miles there TO see IT,
Two colored men consented 10 hold the ropes while the
balloon was oeing inflated with hot air When every tug
WAS in readiness man IN par % red drawers ana
red shirt came ont aud cheered Justify Inc balloon
swayed violently to and rO and the aeIonaut TOOK BIS
seat upon a small bar which dauged nom the air SHIP
the balloon shot upward like arrow from bow To
the Consideration Of crowd il seen that one OF
the negroes had become enauged in the ropes and was
being borne alo!t with frehtfu rapdity With remark
able presence Of mind DC grasped the rope with his
hands and climbed up to the bar uPon which sat he man
In red Instead OF remaining upon TINS cObpaIatl tF
cure perch he began siding down the rope %.n' 'nu'
upon reaching the end let 40, ana WIS dsheG 60 .c
earh, falling about Sky fccL several men mo Hele
near bJ .ut up 10 thc negro, ana i0uAu ma et ~ -
fustly from tho mouth aud UNCONSCIOUS mo man VN
tn bar q seconded III SAFETY.
The Crew house on the battlefield OF NAL
vern HI was burned last Saturday This dwelling stood
on the bill upon which McCican's line Was form d. The
Confederate bgades advanced across the open neid IN
der the fire OF 90 and of the mUskety Of large
bodies Of Uaion infantry, ana made several determined
efforts capture the house. Some OF the regiments
broke and fell back before they reached the house. but
portions OF the column forced the advanced batteries to
retire The assault weak however TO break the
Union line which was shaped like crescent with this
house near the eft-centrS Tho Arisg continued until
D. IN and The Confederate forces were compelled 10 re-
To their original positions The house was frame
structure owned by MI p j. Crew, OF Richmond ana oc-
cupicd. when IL burned, by the oVeseer o. bS lai
Another building, interesting from wartime .ssoca ions
elgbt miles below Richmond, winch was II ldc IN, Con
fedrIae lines during the campaign OF Ioo- anu ""S
USED "a time as a hospital
An exhaustive article in The London Times on
teeaphc progress has the paDtve tone of national
ereud The success OF the recent experiments. where
by four ressages--twO in each directOG-were trans
ritted simultaneously by single wire between London
and Iiveruo1l naturally suggests the inquiry, "What
are English electricians about. and what is the Society Of
Telegraph Engineers doing for practical biography,
when American inventors allowed to carry Oh all tie
lonors Inasnuch ~ Charles Morrison invested IN
1913 what he pleased 10 name An Expeditions
Method OF Conveying Intelligence "a clumsy appara-
tus which required separate ware for each letter Of the
aphabet-Grea, Britain called the cradle Of the cleo
NE .w.aHf adm ata
lac gradually fallen behind tie younger country (Which,
thirty years age sentus the Morse instrument, and IN
the,e later years the Duplex and tie Qusdruplex Tce
graph Tho tole hone, too, although The Invention OF
Scochman, comes 10 us from America as also does The
Exchange Telegraph while the t5pe-priuung instrument
gentleman who well known in tEis country ana the
continent II i certainly Y6ry giatlylug TO Americans
that although England bias furnished the capital
icr >nS ana Gleii9s me great tSegIapnle nhes OF
the world she mas 10 di" upon the YANKEES Tor Drains
Mr. Bryant's q" ISlex Expurgatonus," for use
IN newspaper Offices. has been published il the London
journals, and shower OF communications TO the editor
,Ae subject Of Ameuca4..ms is the result. For i'll
stance H. y" wishes TO ASK what objection there
De 90 TIE word D." piraut." which nc finds IN dc
uon-ry, Todls Johnson. aud which be "a confident mas
been by respectable writers. # comes from the
Latin, he says but does candidate" and one IS
obocuouabo the other. Then, again, Entered"
used by shakespeare, Dryden and Addison and tho
pOet-edtOr, TO whom 1t Is disaseiul Is quietly scoded
Tor being lypercrtcal The Globe remarks that the II a
jory OF the words in the Index ExpmgatoTius" are
distinctly vulgar and illustrate the main evils OF
uewspapcr English the undue Of abbreviated forms
and the adoption Of technical terms where common
words are equally expressive. While the editor shuddors
over such denominations pants" gents, and Sc
cesh" and sees why taDis,"" debut" ar
ts,e and "I6o" should appear IN an English aper he
thinks that Mr. Bryant rides his hobby too far when he
O. rc;s 10 banquet, RAD Telegram, ana issue,
fof which be would substitute dinner attack, as
patch" and question" The English editor also con
graduates his readers that they IN their
papers the word "casket" Dor " collin ,. Fail uOI
Autumn >, and transpre" QOr " occur ,.