New-York tribune., 1877-06-13
GENERAL NOlES.


,'.oD wass last Wednesday night The wife OF Fred
- trvant arising in the middle Of the night, kissed
-, ,our hdlen and bade them good by She then left
enc bouse and walked into netghhortng sawmllpond.
snSec, TO ATTACKS Of Insanity
So oossiping donkey has started tho story
,h, Nr samuel Bowles wants 10 buy Newlork news
rorer and Try his hand at metropolitan journalism Mr.
pres tried it once. IN mid way in Boston, and dis
sxes his ability in that direction all he wants to. His
MET ambition now build up his present newspaper
40 fiat he can get living out of (which Is more than
he has done for some years past
The Oneida Historical Society has called a
.h,c meeting to be held in Utica June 10. 20 make
aprcments Tor the celebration Of the lO0th annver-
..v Of the Battle OF orskany public meeting is also
ho held in Herkier County The time is short, ss tho
anniversary Of battle is Aug g. and hence an eab-
oTate programme Is out OF the question Several oraons
" 80 h. .efiOusly apprehendcd. for statesmen are AS
ssicS as puf-baii, in those parts
lanes A. Beal a lawyer in st. Louis, adver-
,.sd 10 obtain divorces without exposure An action
x., brought by the Bar Association to dsbar him for
ruo;essonal conduct The judge Of the Circuit Court.
On summing up, decided that such an announcement
a,esseted njurously upon the and the proies
,on and tended 70 bring both into disrePue. degree
a. pub,icity invariably attending judicial proceedings
hui AS the advertisement only appeared IN ii issues aud
,hs eart merely suspended Mr. Bea from pracdcng for
tbe space OF one term wholesome example
This is q great year for the study of natural
4, sny connection between the appearance OF the seven
,spyear locus,s and the mortality the fish in the
nelaware RIVER In 1850 1t is stated the fish in that
river apd 10 the ponds throughout the Delaware Valley
died in large numbers and this year. with the return OF
the locust the piscatOry mortality is renewed There is
theory that the eating locusts which drop
mo the river but large number of dead hsh having
been examined IN only one of them was locust iOusd
that h would appear that the recurrence Of the ns
AL j. Ony cOlncdcuce.
The tide of Chinese immigration has set III
agaip over 5000 Chiuamen landed at Saa Francisco
duriuy May and more are coming. Toe antl-Coohe
editors raise their hands in pious horror and groan un
eeasingly The land-srabbers and the hongohans'
they exclaim are the ogrcs Of California" There
viii he revolution in the Sacramento and san joaquin
valsys" Cooe labor is than the African slavery
which II has cost the nation than million Of lives
and more than four thousand million dollars 70 throw throw
od" The oppressed millions VIII Dc lmpeeu 10 u Ine
The Chico massacre last resort OF reyouIlonF Ihe
ed tors need 10 be muzzieh
Modern progress is Chinese ancient history.
What /. discovered nowadays was forgotten IN CHINA
q thousand years ago. There has Deen strife among
medical men over the discovery o anvSthetcs hut hun
deds Of years ago Celestial physician named Hao-Iho
was 10 the habit Of administering TO his patients prep
aration Of mayo. hemp which rendered them tempo
rary nsensible 10 probing cutting, ana miscellaneous
hacking An encyclopedia would seem 10 be triumph
OF modern research but the Chinese have had encycO-
pedias time Of mrd. correspondent OF me Lon
Don ZINES that there in Paris Chinese eneyco-
media entitled The KouH nitong,' which dates from
. period corresponding to 22O Of tne Christian era
In Newton County, Mo-, Jesse L. Lynch has
been sentenced TO imprisonment Of 60 years. and his
wife 70 one Of 50 years Lynch was the founder and
preacher OF new religion. and pretended to cure the
sick oy the laying OF hands. The couple Travelled
with a child which was taken s'ck Lynch affirmed that
II Was possessed by devil ard to drive out this evil
spt be and his wife pitched the child room to
each other Tho poor thing frequently FELL striking the
noor during this performance AT last IL struck Jos
which crushed lis skull aud SO killed It, The fanatics
were arres,et and though plea of insanity was set mp
they convicted The woman j. rrpcse' tea to be OF
propOsscssug appearance, and cntry under the con
trO OF her husbands VIII
The Cincinnati Times tells a very pretty 70
nance Of a Lackawanna coal mine. In the Diamond
Shaft there was no soador. harder worker than jim
Gardiner His dress rough 90 The toughest but
he carried 4 man who had been used TO face the
world smilmgly They called him " Gentleman jim" in
the mines but they all liked him "a man who always
played fair and asked odds In the accident OF last
April when the roof Of part OF the mine fell in,
Gardner was killed It appeared in tue evidence that
there were few seconds during the crack OF umbers
before the roof fairly down. ana IN That brief Tine
in those few beats Of the pulse Gentleman Jr" had
caught two boys and tossed them clear ou Of the fatal
CHAMBER into the safe main ALLY Th,u hc went down
with the roof When his body WIS found tne next cay
they found him with hs right hand thrust inside ms vest
aud c0spng ught hite pochetnoo" iheIe Na9 f t no
thing u slyo a card, on which was fastened With
rosebud ani two geranium leaves Underneath was
written In a wo1nan's hand " Marie-1oute toi-June
4. 1867" Just below written, IN a mans hahd'
"June. lsTO-AU wiihered-eXcept the thorn
The earthquake theory promises to be as
great to navigators to novelsts OF the
California school The officers OF the Pacific Mail steam
shp City OF san Francisco contend that at the time OF
the earthquake that destroyed Iquqe the Peruvian
coast there was an upheava the submarine reef on
witch the vessel struck The naval officers at Acapulco
entertain theory and the entries on the log
book OF the United States steamship Lackawanna in the
same harbor are cited proof OF the assertion that there
we're great many big tidal with troughs behind
them about the time the steamship wrecked. This
view ia confirmed indirectly by account which The
Tempar under similar conditions in the Gulf OF Tuuis.
The ship strike the rock; nay, the rock struck
the ship; and must have been rock from submarine
volcano for the vessel at distance OF ten miles
from the nearest known group OF rocks The shock was
accompanied by a runbing noise and by seothing OF
the sea into white foum all round the ship, and though
the ship was stopped her she soon began to
hl and had 70 be seered the island 0f Gala. where
the captain ran her shore In a shallow place. OI
course II steamer In the Gulf OF Tunis trpped her
heels submarine volcano, another steamer on te
Pacific be expected % stumble over an earth
quake aud be sucked uHder by tidal waves lt Is true
fhat the steamship Washington struck this rock years
ago. and British ship made sOundings around II IN
1862 but the theory explains everything, s handy for
aayIgatOrs. and edites the marines.
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