New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-10
GENERAL NOTES.
snotted Tail is champion peace-maker.

Spotted IAN Is Il Cldiitio1 pt'i't- iii.'NOA'
At Ritualistic funeral in Cardiff, on March
as TIE coffin had fun length glass 'front.' the pail was
bue edged with crmne tie corpse was deposited beside
tle altar and the service lasted an hour ana d hdA
The Port Henry On. y Iron Ore Company
4, makns arrau gements for big explosion on Aprl ~
The roof Of their mine supported by three enormous
rars from 40 to 10 feet IN night and from 80 TO 100
feet in circumference These pillars are 70 be blown mp
simultaneously and nearly $1,000 tons OF ore released
Tha r. paers promise entertainment far more sen
eaaonal m dctHi aud comprehensive ID scope IMAM te
little affair al Hen Gaze.
The Superior of the Brotherhood of st. John
tbe Evangelist Father Benson Of oxford has purchased
Tho r,pv Of the Rualisc Church of the Advent, B's-
ton and with the proceeds Of this sale ground viii ilnoa-
aely be broken the lot BrmmeISt for The erection
of new church The rector. Father Grafton, has Dech III
Europe duug he past year ON account OF iI bcdt DH1
has recovered that his return may be looGedfor dur
ing the summer The church be beautiful build
ing with spirc in the early English style OF arcitec-
mn and IN the course OF time house Tor the clergy
rctory ccl,-houSr and house for the sistcrhOod VIII
h., butt around 10. The church has hOuShcd during tA
past year thc absence ol Inc rector ana
fbe congregation is too large 10Y the present eliict lAe
success OF THIS monaStlc mission IL the 10" O""o"
diocese OF Massachusetts Is remarkable.
A subject worthy of more than m0ments
Thought has been taken up by the Rev. B. futile OF
Auburn y y a chaplain Of the UHlted states Navy now
III London Il has asated by him III two letters TO
The AmeJ1caa TrgreeT, published IN London Accord
ing 10 these letters there IN Paris ana LONDON
large number Of educated and excellent American resi-
dents who are suffering extremely from lack OF employ
meut, and whose SCI, respect COM 'Is 'ieLl ~ I,
bitter hdrdshs which II would ne D,colln- III Alul
leans 10 relieve Several suicides have taken pace
under pdluul crcumsi noes /, 'li' M, ,,, nm
wealthy residents have already Gone SOMETIMES al" IH
London society was formed year a=0 "t-',l ii I
been the means of sending home over hvo ptopf ny
steamer Mr.. Tuttlc says that the TcLel is NOT Nto
adequate, and he is a1latlnS III iayof o 'ne t %
OF an American Brotherhood, when shall DIM 10 1le
relief of suffering Americans abroad quiet ana proper
sisev,l,rT. as a man OF worth and for his own good
deeds. and his suggestions Will carry weight Win
them.
humolist of some note, known to the
,o,blic a ELL Ar-a sort Of Southern Josh Billings-has
recently met his death after having 1t IS said, Viva
prsentmcnt Of the time and manner OF its occurrence
He left his home De atur-he was small planter III
Texas-to get load Of taking his wagon Tor t'J
PURPOSE Previous to starting, he had told his family
that he felt confident he should never return alive; but
they a1gLed at his statement not knowing whether he
was testing suffering FROM an attack of melancholy 10
which he seems 20 have been periodically SUBJECT nc
had got his load Of and had returned Whe "lHn
few wards OF his house he fell from the WAGON INTO me
road and the wheels passed over his neck Khs MN III
stant!y His wife had seen him coming ana had re-
marked 10 her children There's your father who looks
toler,lv well for dead man." few moments before
The fatal accilent happened Bill Arp native Of
Georgia where he had lived most OF Ms NE anu con-
trII IN Inc new .papes of Atlanta and other cities Of
the STATE number of humorous squIDs ana pdIaGapls.
MI b ,,ar ,ftervard published IN volume, under the
name Of sayings of Bill arp lie was WhoIy WIZ u,
putting things that indicated native talent oI 70 ~
arder and gave min some thing more than local re
Tnttion is cuTious tnat an lterate and eccentric
humo1st should have Ioreboims OF IN. at, ana
realize ike the heroes OF copOcleS anu -'CH9 V' VI
whom In ali probability he had never heard
Ladies intending to make long journey by
rail without would better read TINS ana stay 40
home: Mrs Florence Watson richlydressed ono LADY,
TOOK the ears at Chicago last Thursday for Iowa CITY,
where she intended TO visit her husbands relatives
man took the opposite seat and looked at her mtehy
Afer while he left the seat aud another man took his
place and subsequently four men sat there IN tu eac
watching her closely 1t was dusk The six men,
after ding consultation with the conductor entered
the car together and announced that she was crazy
woman and the wife OF one of them hence thepassen-
gers would understand why she had been watched by
them In vain did she protest that it was he Nobody
believed her At Rock Island her capors endeayored 70
nut her off the train saving that sho must change
ears for Iowa City, but she cung desperately 10 the
seat The passengers slrank neryOusly from her. ana
che was COMPLETELY IN power Of six desperadoes AS
the Durant she recognized her br"ther
i1law upon the platform He was waiting to meet her
in accordance with dispatch which sne had sent from
Chicago She shouted TO him, but her captors gagged
her aud in a moment the train was III motion: Al
Wilton where size had 10 change cars she at'ehpteu ~
escape, but surrounded by her prosecutors anu
forced take refuge il a baggage car, atef se nau
spraned her ankle, At Iowa CIV she lhauo ,tI
appeal 10 the conductor take her "a the itauE hoI'
where the landlords wife would vOuch Tor her sanity
The conductor asscnted. and the unhappy woman wa
identified and rescued The had been too great
ss tainted When the conductor returned 10 the tram
the SIX ruiians had disappeared. The pas-eheeIS VIII
they heart the conductor, account, admitted nat my
had acted ike fools IL allowing hall dozen I~Sc"4s "
swear away wOman's sanity.
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