New-York tribune., 1878-05-27
GENERAL NOTES.

gines ia the department called out He cspied oe
OF the Fire Commissioners shambling along the side
walk and invited him to go to the hse The offer was
gladly accepted and the Official seated himself in the
buggy The pastor let loose the steed, they dashed dOgn
the stree; breakneck gaop, and reached the Our
ing building in advance Of the boys and the machines
American rihemen may draw any inferences
they Please from the refusal Of their British rivals 10
accept the challenge to send team OF marksnen
to compete the targets this year The Globe ondon
acc0rds them this gracious privilege They are
| toned against harboring the presumption that hs
Briton has eayed IN" because he has not bound him.
self shoot this year, VIII 1t be safe for them 10
inter that the American breechloader is the best shoot
ngron in the world. The critic not disposed 10
derrate the merits OF the weapon or the msrksnel;
BO admirable; but 10 IS Thought lat Ia the unitea
the native team divide the credit evenly between
the rifle and the who uses IT, The critic concede
that In fancy shooting Americans have reached stale Oi
perfection TO which British rhemen have not asplred
General TrepOtf is to visit Berlin for surgi-
cal treatment. famous surgeon ID TO make an effort to
extract the ball which Vera sassuch lodged In his
body and private hospital In the Potsdamer Strasse
will have an nlusuous patient. lie Is described from
the Russian point OF view as model eh Ell OF police
keen sagacous, fertile in expedents' endowed Win
singular personal courage and great bodily endurance,
with a penetrating knowledge OF men and character
He was also of the few officials in that country
whose integrity has been questioned But these
virtues were not incompatible with many grave Iaults
and Trepof was by nature and by professional habit
woman for the mere sake OF enjoying her anguish. lie
could strike helpless prisoner IN The race I'D order 10
impress the bystanders with his power ana authority
A city church i'll the country is as anomalous
az fire-hydrant or a sewerppe in village road 1t
seems that at ROckaway, L. l., there is thoroughly
rural church. which combines with the landscape aud
almost natural feature of It. Trinity Church, which
has recently been dedicated is described in The Aer
can architect as a rambling building, whose low wal'
and porches group with the beautiful Towering shrubs
/ ha I'm
trees and whose spre and bey rise quite above them
The shows the construction which is simpla
very fully the colors are rich but quiet The bodyo
the glass is Of svery touc with border OF soft green
The apsda chance has been made the focal point Of the
building and its nine memorial windows mosaic Of
the choicest antique glass, in the richest cOl0rs the
whole GLOW wing like mass OF Jewels Whe the windows
in the TO reflect the sentiment OF nature the
trees and the sky those OF the chancel suggest glory
beyond that OF nature In cost, too renarkabit Be
ehtIre expenditure falling short Of $1,000.
That the recent lumOrs of a compromise eff
fected between the Vatican and Berlin ground.
less IS manifest from circular which Cardinal Catern
prefect OF the College Of Cardinals has addressed TO all
the Roman Catholic pastors in Prussia who are In 70
cept of State pay. He reminds them that according
to the Prussian law OF April %, 1875, the customary
ecclesiastical income is not to be paid by the Govern
ment to any clergyman unless he assents and sub
mts himself demands ot certain laws which have
been condemned by the Church. Parish priests who re-
oelve regular pay from the Government, are warned
that they either repent OF their wcKednesS or else
be prepared undergo the penalty OF suspension from
all sacred duties merely by their own bishops, bui
by the authority OF the Cardinals. They per
emptory ordered, under penalty Of ipso acO suspen
sion. Q) to make within fourteen days solemn aid
nnblc declaration that they have not intended sub
NIT themselves to the laws, in any degree 10 assent
to them, C) TO cease Immediately from drawing tue
incomes or from putting forward any claim To thein
That it Is as dangerous to sleep over toy
shop as over powder magazine shown on the even
ing Of May Ia In Paris when small stock OF ammunition
for drawingrOom pistols exploded IN the Rue Beranger
with such that it brought TO the ground house E'
habted by over 100 persons The terror which the
plosion caused in the immediate neighborhood was I'M
mense; and audience In the Trosieme Theatre Fran
cas waiting for the curtain to rise rushed from the
house in The ground floor OF the house toy
shop and manufactOry owned by man named Bian'
chon Above the shop there were twenty eight rooms
all of which tenanted the total number OF occu
pants being ninetytwo; besides the Maison Banchon
ITSELF which employed sixty workmen and women. The
explosion took place luckily at the Paris dinner tme
about o'clock so that OF the people away.
Athalfpast o'clock followed second explosion bring
ing down the walls OF the contiguous houses This caused
another panic for tue moment Many Of the women had
tainted from fright and were brought down In the arms
of the rcmen Others tore up their sheets and blankets
aud ropes descend with One poor Old man VINO
had parayzed for years rescued just as TIE
n,or OF his room was fall in Three little girls
VIII had been locked up while the mother went out 70
attic Of the danger which surr0uhded then
Many striking escapes occurred snch as mat o.
ft gr who was found buried in the RUNS with table
over her which had to be sawed IN TWO before SUE cOud
ne rescued when she found safe and sound The
rescuers worked all night at the ruins, beneaeh wheh
the croans and shTieks OF human beings were heard
dozen bodies found before morning.
A week before he attempted to assassinate
tho Fmueror Hdel had his photograph taken Berlin
He advised the photographer to make as many copies
os nossille Tor in a week lac would be dead
hut his name would be known all over the world. ana
his likeness in request wherever took interest IN
current events. His father is dead, his mother being
now married to one Heinrich Lehman, shoemaker al
Leipsie HGdel frequently called Lehman, though
he had no right assume that name As boy, he was
nogped at Lepsic for theft. Two prosecutions one or
forgery and another for coupling the Emperors mans
with Insulting language, are pending against nun ~
Naumburg. He was iOurneymin tnsmith ana oegsH
his Sociastic constant frequenter OF ueeE
inos Attracting the attention OF SOciastc leaders nc
was subsequently employed as member OF the one'"'
clqqne and did wonders IN crying "GoodF or " near
hear 80 as circumstances seemed to demand. ne t"eu
rose TO be a hawker Of pamphlets ana leu an easy e
tayerps beergardens. and meetngrooms The leadesw
che Marty os he took pains TO inform friend, had once
bea noor devils of compOsitOrs glazles and locksmtD
but were then gentlemen large, with handsome IN
comes and nothing do They had certainly to undergo
imprlsonment every now ana then but What uu
materl Terms of Imprisonment very lenient ana
the more persecutons the greater the stpends paid 's
victim from party funds. He was employed ID ths
ereat sociastic printnghouse at Leipsc, where 'ne
Vor,oys the leading organ OF the party is publish le1
1rre months ago he quarelled with the foreman Oh @ ny
| printing house, and was expelled frOn the par
ierence with the Red Socialists seems to nave 80
him 10 20 10 Berlin and attend the meetings OF tas
christian Socialists, new sect endeaVorlhy 10
Proeslantism and loyalty with stilkes ana nr,DsftI
| defined attempts at modifying the existing pi'p''"