New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-27
GENERAL NOTES.

Pharisees and Levites are usually response
bic for the scandalOus IN English church
Yards but at Northampton March IL publican was
The sinner As the mourners leaving the grave an
,nnkecper stepped forward and emptied a bottle OF
brandy on the coffin remarkng that the young fellow
Lad Low ed the liquor III life he should have II III DEATH
The committee appointed by the lnterco-
legate Literary Association 10 revise the constitution
and bylaws SO as TO embody the recommendations re-
Gently adopted by the convention give the results OF
their labors in little pamphlet of 20 pages They were
convinced after holding consultation with Dwight H.
omsoad that act OF Incorporation would be neces-
sary and accordingly revised the constitution so as
10 make conform the requirements OF the NewfOrK
statutes The certificate OF incorporation, the revised
constitution and the bylaws TO be submitted to the
sssociatiou its meeting next Friday Inc pan OF per
Yct is rather complex, but as il answers
The practical requirements OF the asSoclatOn' IL VIII
undoubtedly he accepted without modification.
The American correspondent of The PaH MdH
Gazette saws that NewYork is almost solitary instance
Of commercial capital of large country which is not
Of the same time its political capital and that 1t is diff
clt in the anty and fnvoy of its society, not 10 re-
rret that taere total lack Of serious interest any
yhere-a common ground on which everybody can meet
which possesses higher attractions tan gossip OF
stocks II NeWYOrk he adds had been selected as inc
oaptal Of the country would undoubtedly have become
the most interesting, it is the richest, bcstdrcssen
bestbuilt and fnest-ooIng city in the country Wash
ingtou society lie regards at the peaSantest ana
least simple in country. II Is not rch city; incomes
are generally small and lavish expenditure Is Impossible
in place the great people who manage society
are comparatively II is the only city i'll America III
which society the hands OF the governing class ana
the result that there is common subject OF interest
Tor every body: and politics are losing thelf otel
il is always becoming pleasanttr ana more anus
moi Law aIy stress upon important fact Washington
is the on city the country where women take any IN
tereSt ~ public affairs. OF are suthclehIy Weh lloinoo
10 converse intelligently about thei1'
The Rev. T. s. Williamson has written for
the Minnesota Historical Society most inter- sung
sketch Of the intercourse OF the white settlers with the
Dakotas on the Missouri River and of the recent military
operations in the Yellowstone Valley His views on the
Indian question coincide in the main with those which
Bishop Whpple has recently expressed in THE TRIBUNE
ONLY he il even more outspOkcn in denouncng the policy
OF the Government He that the avowcd object OF
the operations against the hostile Sioux has been to com
pe them 10 settle reservations, the better part OF
which has been taken away from them. Hundreds OF
Indians according to bis vew have been pursued and
shot down by the eavarymen when they were attempt
nc TO reach the reservations and escape from the hor-
ror of war "Onr officers" he says tell of overtak
ing these poor fleeing wretchcs, OF nrlng on Them, OF
cturin and destroying their tents and baggage, and
eaptHring their ponies intimanG that those who
not Killed escaped with nothing except te cothcS uy
had on al the time Thus when ON the nhospitable
prairie far from any place where supplies can be oh
tained women and children are IIlyen from lntr oes
and tents in the night" The TURKISH pupariueS' nc
thinks cannot be worse than THESE
A doctors quarrel has been brought to an
end IN Buffalo About q year and half ago Charles
Bergman carpenter run over by cart ana seri-
ousy injured He first sued the owner OF the cart for
negligence and careessness in causing his injuries but
was nOn-suited on the ground of his own contrDutary
negligence. He then sued the physician who had been
attending HIM In the complaint it was charged that the
patients suerngs had been caused by malpractice In
ssmuch as the physician had not discovered that the
limb under treatment had been disOcated was IL hs-
location or fracture? That the question at ISSUE
and there was a startling conflict OF medical testimony
The court finally appointed commission OF medical ex-
perts examine patient and they reported that
case OF fracture and not OF dslocaton the PLAIN
tiff was again nOn-sulted. One OF the physicians VINO
held stouy to the theory that there was disocaton
once opened series articles on the case In medical
Journal and the doctors quarrel renewed: Mean
while the unfortunate carpenter was suffering IN Douy
and mind lie was unable to walk; his h0use was
heavily mOrtgaged he poor; he had not paiu MS
lawyers Last Thursday he fastened piece OF bed core
10 staple in ceiling and tying the other enn
around his neck, swung himself on into the eAt Worlu
where there will be carts and neither fracture hor
0sOcaiOn. Before strangng himself ne hau ihe ioIe
thought 10 commit ms body 10 the klDd Oiccs Oh tne
physicians whom he had set at lOggerheads Inc posi-
nOrtem examination showed cOncusVey that there hau
been fracture but 40 dsi0caton.