New-York tribune., 1878-06-07
GENERAL NOTES.

Italy is to have a jubilee of destruction
next year when 800 years win have elapsed since the
two cities OF POmpen and Hercuaneum were destroyed
By earthquakes and eruptions rom Mount NosuNlCs
Is now intended to celebrate the day" and the scene
Of the ceremonies is to be at Pompe ITSELF as being the
better known Of the two buried cities
The Yale Glass of 1853, which numbers so
many distinguished men among its members, celebrates
the twentyth anniversary of its graduation this year.
and the Glass Committee having the matter in charge
has taken steps 10 make the occasion Of unusual
interest The class will meet in the Battel Chapel on
Wednesday, June 26, at - m Immediately after the
close Of the Alumni Meeting, when Grafton will be de
liyered bs the Hon Benjamin K Phelps, of this city,
be followed by poem by Edmund Clarence stedman
In the afternoon the class will attend in body the eer
cises OF the Law School Commencement and listen 70 an
address from another Of its members, the Hon Randall
h Gibson of Louisiana From responses already
ceived the circuars OF invitation II IS judged that up
WARDS Of fifty OF the class graduates viii be present The
esss meet NJ and supper VIII come Off the evening Of
the same day at the Sea View House, West Haven.
The Rev. Justin d. Fulton gets nothing but
cold shoulder from the press OF his denomnauon Df.
Brghts paper. The Examiner. recently described him
as a calumniator Of his brethren" and The Baptist
Weekly confirms the title (which nuetenths Of
those who know him viii acknowledge he richly
merits" DR.. Fulton. IL seems has been boasting thar
The weekly never had Of his sermons offered 10 it,
and the editors Dr. Patton and Dr. Middledteh. fatty
contradict him. "We can only say that he has ne
last time be brought into this Office, i was
kept in the editors desk several days, and Dr. Fulton
offered If we would print H. take 500 copies Of the
paper containing IT, After looking II over, 10 was
encalled again he was informed hat il was not as good
Of his published sermons 70 which he demurred
Both editors need be- could testify that TINS is not the
only occasion in which his sermons nave been refused
publication in this paper" little wrangle Of this KIND
Is not especially edfyng to those who concerned in
the salvation OF souls but IL is interesting sOcial
study OF the amenities Of the cer cal profession.
When school boys undertake to decide
whether their teacher is good by rolling HIM 10
the mud smashing his front door and leaving schO5.
they are obviously stH OF age FOR spanking THIS is
the only be drawn from the recent 1nsurrecton
OF Wilston Seminary, EasthamptOn Mass, concerning
which there il a sharp controversy among tn students.
One Of the bows now writes see in to-day's TRIBUNE
aparagraph relating 10 seminary It that
Of the students IN letter to the Editor that there
is not shadow of truth in the report that there is
"a state Of there and that the breaking Of the
organ and the damage done to the principals house
were both the work Of few students, and are con-
demned by the school The student VINO wrote that letter
certainly could not have been well informed do not
care to say anything that could in any way uiure the
seminary yet truth compes TO state that although
there il not state OF riot here there Is stroug
feeling throughout the entire school against the rnci
pal and II was this feeling which prompted the boys 70
express their sympathy with Of the departing teach
ers by rendering him sernade and furthermore their
antpatby DR.. Wilton by pulling down the pillars Of
his portco iuicng some slight injury the organ and
rolling Dr. Keep, Of tue principals colleagues ~ tGe
mud. The students condemn the act only so ar as IL
affects tie property he seminary and are IN synpl
thy with the motives which prompted the perpetrators
OF the deed" The folly OF spaung the rod was never
more strll1ngly illustrated
Schuylersville and the villages round about
from Saratoga Troy all agog find out who SHOT
Mrs Billings The house where the murder occurred is
situated the main road the side Of the Fort
Miller dam. about half dozen rods from the rivers
edge II is a large, comfortable mansion, surrounded
with trees. Toward o'clock Tuesday evening, Mrs.
Billings was sitting in a rockingham, not over three
feet from window, while daughter was on the other
side OF table which stood against the wall The hired
girl was sitting further back in the lamp stood
the table Suddenly the sharp report OF pistol
heard and the Inflated sank back in her chair
without word and expired almost instantly. The fatal
shot had been fred from cump Of bushes opposite the
window. The husband Of this hapless woman, Jesse Bill
lngs. is Of the wealthiest the line Of the
Champlain Canal He builds boats. credit, taking
mortgages on the vessels and receiving his pay install
ments By this means he has amassed much wealth
He was not the time the shot fred, but
was at a ne hb0rs eighth OF mile distant, when
q er told him about the assassination About
building erected last year by Billings nOmioay for
banking house but really used private Office. In
tbs uDper part Of the building lived Weller Curtis and
hs WIFE Young lady OF tWentYOne years OF age pretty
be had quarreed with his wife, presumably over his at
tentiOns his lady tenant When ne entered the room
IN which bis wifes remains bad been hastily laid out he
spread out his arms ana crying y uedrl hhat uOeb
This mean 2" sank TO the floor His daughter answered:
YOu are my father and YOU the man who did THIS
deed This is the third time you have tried 70 90 IT,
iom the 0or quiyered like aspen But he says he is
INNOCENT.