New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-30
GENERAL NOTES.


A touching story is told OF Miss Mary Nc
Career who was killed fortnight ago, at Tarfville
few years ago she was engaged be married, and the
preparations for the wedding going apaee Sud
denly her lover was stricken with fatal disease, and
the devoted girl went TO his bedside and took care OF
him until he was called away. few days before the
railroad accident remarked TO OF he friends that
she tired of living and waiting for the end ana
longed for the time wen c0ulG rtjOin her lover
The wranglng still goes on in English
churchysrds. In the village Of Cayworth the only
burial ground is connected with the National Church
respectable married couple living in the village neg
leced to their children baptized and the clergy
man demonstrated with them, pointing ont the grave
sponsibity which they would incur if they hndered the
little ones " from entering Gods family" Although
they were not members OF any Nonconformist Church
they display certain procyities toward Dissent and
refused to yield 10 the authority OF the rector Their
younlest child, a baby scarcely twelve months DID,
Gently died Of Group The parents went TO the rector
and asked permission to bury their baby III the village
churchyard. "God would not let ice bury him." said
the pous clergyman and then b. rebuked them FOR in
against their own flesh aud blood. His refusal 10 bury
the child compelled the mor-ners TO seven miles
Winters day to a Baptist cemetery
The directors OF the Bennington Monument
Association aro unwilling to leave shabby and insig
nifcant memorial of the historic battlefield 1he ap-
propratiOns OF the States OF Vermont Massachusetts
and New Hampshiro make available for the monument
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crease this TO $4,000, and have taken measures 10
secure the additional amount through appeals TO the
patriotism and public spirit Of the citizens OF the three
States On the site OF the CatamOunt Tavernthe head
quarters OF Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Bows
and OF the Council Of Safety VermoDts provisional
Government at the time OF the battle Of bennington
is the pedestal OF monument granite block OF seven
tons weight, to be surmOunted with catamount IN
bronze The bronze ia committed 10 the sculptor, I.
III. Bartlett, native of Bennington County, now re-
siding in Paris for execution The intention is to mark
ALL the hist oric localities about Bennington, par
tculary battlefield with the places of its two en-
gagements, the site OF ParsOn Deweys Meetn House,
tie house where Colonel Baum died. the spot where
General Stark made his famous laconic speech-a
or more in all The site Of the Old Continental store
be desgnated by The Battle Monument the association
having formally located the structure on that historic
spot
A well Informed graduate of Ya'e reminds
THE TRIruSz that Literary Magazine has long been
TO be foremost college publications.
That honorable position, he says II will surely lose II
influences opposed 10 the constitution and traditions by
which it has been conducted IN the past are allowed to
shape its course in future The present board of cd
itors acting single disbonorcd precedent, have re-
Gently rejected the chosen TO be their successors by
the class OF TO- whom alone the rgh; 10 election Ia
vested The virtuous regret" which the old board ex
press at being compelled to take tb, step becaus@ the
newly elected board do represent the literary talent
of the class" doubtless designed TO deceive the
bring added contempt upon proceeding thus shown to
be disngenuous as well as Illegal All who knOv the
facts aud are sufficiently familiar with Yale politics to
draw the unmstaksble inference, will OF course recog
nze the Niger IN fence" the desire to
the control Of the magazine in the hands of that senior
society 10 which all members of the present board
belong would have been hard. concludes this saga
ciols correspondent, t. devise weaker pr for de-
clinng prestige. Gentlemen OF Yale this looks Ike SOC
ETY. politics
The horrors of war are described with ghast-
" realism in some eide Notes from Artists Sketch
book" In The Daily Necs On the first morning o, the
year the correspondent ont from Frates for Puteneu
IN Roumana. Asr OFF long, dark line loving 10 cater
pilar-fashiOn broke the horizon. 1t column OF
Turkish prisoners marchnghe men who once kept the
flower Of the Russian Army at bay around Plevna Half
starved almost dead with fatigue and severe cold many
with fever burning in their eyesmere stalking bones
and foul the brave troops who made the famo
OF Osman Pasha. Thousands OF birds Of prey whrled
round and settled In front and rear always following
this grim procession like sharks round doomed ship
few yards further on lay half covered with snow nude
body OF her dead Turk stripped by his companions
for the little warmth Of the he wore. crow had
settled on his cenched hand and the dogs were sinking
round their victim. At night star and .he crescent
moon the only signs the clear sky shine brilliantly
There is the OminOus black line vending up the valley
more wretcbed prisoners oOtsore and weary with their
eadayerous faces and iceaden boards halt is made
the little bridge dole out 10 each their frozen loaf
OF bread. poor fellows throw themselves Down
the feryently after their fashion. How
the heavens with the bright symbols OF their fth gt
teng the frosted snow and on their misery, seem 20
mock these poor Turks
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