New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-21
GENERAL NOTES.

John D. Lee, the Mormon murderer, is said
TO resemble Gov Tden in feature. In domestic life he
has the advantage the Governor by Is wives ana o
children.
University ritualsm is rampant at Columbia
College The freshmen have douned the traditional aea-
demic robe, ana President Barnard likes the fashion,
The juniors willing 10 wear them next year.
Sour milk iewelry is the freshest Boston
fancy The milk comes from diaries in the cheesemakng
counties of NewYors and in the form Of curd looks Ike
popped corn. Colorns matter is introduced and the
butter after being subjected at high temperature to
enormous pressure Is transformed INTO American cor"
and jet
A cool-headed lawyer of WyandOtte, Kan,
has been driven crazy by politics During the contest
for the Republican nomination in the Hid Kansas Con-
gresslona District last Summer, OF the candidates.
II W Cook lost his reason and was taken TO an asylum
After several months nc resumed practice. but on at
tending ratification meeting IA lAe srcOnu weeA VI
March he became greatly excited ana is now INSANE
Two loving hearts a beetsteak pie; woe.
Early March breach OF promise suit was brought be-
fore the Bpdnn A>sizes, The plaintiff being WIDOW
age II ana the defendant, Richard Hamaton, age g.
They had agreed marry. but the OF the day APP
pointed for the uuptals the plaintiff made bee!stcak
pie winch was uupaat. be 10 the bridegroom elect
Thereupon he declared he would not marry her ana kept
his word. fcigulnc lGcSs on the appointed Day An I'll
glsh jury awarded her so damages
The Attorney General of Illinois, in response
to resolution of the Railroad Committee Of the General
Assembly has declared that, under the decision OF the
United states Supreme Court IN the Granger cases, the
operators Of ecpngcars common carriers and tLer
bushes, can be regulated by the Legislature Bills VIII
accordingly be introduced tins week providing FOR The
control Of sIceuinc-car traffic The sturdy ycOmanTy OF
The prres can assured that nedDucs wlll ne
legislated ont Of the 1ertIs that single uupes VII DE
converted double lowers and nat pJrters VIII Ue
o4lv too happy to brush boots FOR nothing.
Royalty is dying in a pauper's hospital at
bordeaux Gis Majesty, Ortlle-Antolne l., King Of
AIaucania and Patagonia, left France about Two years
ago to recOuqutr his kingdom but the Government OF
the Argentine Republic arrested him as dangerous
u,uIper and sen. him to Jail, where he langshed for
several months. He contyyed finally TO escape from
prison. but WAS attacked by disease in his place Of
refuge and WAS forced undergo surgical operation
in public hospital subscription was raised by MS
friends and he returned to France fehllleSo anu H. ne
is now wasting away the hospital ~ ~. AnrIe Leon
VII King Of Armenia, died in hospital at lillian i@s
year, and bis daughter Princess ioh'ta LuaIha' las
recently been married TO a working mason
Western New-YOrk has lost three centena-
rians with few weeks she oldest being Augusjn Picard
Of Rochester, whose age 10 years He was born in
Saint Pierre near Quebec, March 2i, 1867 lie spent
the greater pare of MS life in cabinet-shop' and ship
yards was twice married of late years was in the hab
of taking a little whisky before every meal and also a
uug OF ale II the evening; smoked pipe Tor over cen
tury used to get up very early in the morning and
smoke several pipes before breakfast went to church III
ram or shine never had headache; correspondent WIN
Temperance and antitObaccO ZcalOs cannot get huch
comfort out of TINS old sentlemans career.
The failure OF the Bank OF LanslnSburgh On
Monday WAS the result OF inuGicious investments il
coal aud railway stocks The bank had purchased io0OO
shares Of NewJerscy Central at rates varying Om lO2
ia - and So It had also sustained heavy losses from
The slrinkage Lake shore and other stocks The re-
ccyer saws that the loss TO dcpos!tors cannot III any
event exceed % per cent and it may not be more than
10 per cent The liabilities 10 dcp0sitoTs amount 10
SA-0 900 Tire bank established IN lslJ, ana Ha'
always roman led the confidence OF the Town IL Hds
maid gCo1uou. dividends and has generally had surplus
~ 5000 coo The cai:al beng %l50OOO. rs directors
v conniItcd the cgrcgiOus bundcr OF combining their
Investments 10 few stocks instead Oi distributing them
Pike. the phrenologist, who murdered Jones,
the spirItuast. week ago is 10 plead insanity The
confession OF Genevieyc Pike The murderers wife, is ~
unvbocsoinc "a bit literature the Chicago papers
have ever set before their readers, and that l. saying
.,rta deal Tho affidavit appended 10 this G.sSls Ing
ocument il bad enough, but the cvcrence Of tn coro
re.i, worse The prisoner when asked II he had any
Witnesses replied None but Almighty God; lie Is Iy
preseryer" Tic coroner buuly remarked that God Al
roiy. couldn't testify that case. Chicago can con
soc herself wirl the reflection that whatever A'f on
.taI. ,9v saw AMI whatever her newspapers bay PRINT
-. ,u,t OIt wal Cincinnati Ia 'dusPhchj. lie near
Irs with which one the Democratic papers OF tla
.f rour the completion ~ The COHnl ana TIE tlrc
,,u a. fIs-cs, mark The limits OF western '.-tf II
that direction