New-York tribune., 1878-10-03
GENERAL NOTES.
Government

There are bits of rare pathOs in the Mem
phis newspapers nowadays lady going TO see SICK
friend heard her name called Turning, she saw slen-
der girl in mourning advancing toward her AS the
child came the lady recognized in her the dsugh-
tar Of neighbOr died the day before near the city
The little gir threw her arms about lady anu sob
bipg cred You aren't afraid Of me, you 2" No,
my dear" was tae soothing reply " Every oody e,sr
cause papa died of tine fever, and were with him.
ana mamma"
The most commonplace features OF jour
nasm are invested with poetic significance in Chicago
The sermons grouped under the comprehensive head
line, "The path to Heaven" with explanatory note IN
lower ease, When led by Experienced Guides the PHI
grim finds it rough Road as he expected" The
obituaries arranged with the edifying caption
BeckOned Beyond" and underneath that the more
specific details Death Of Captain Thomas Parker, OF
Mareugn; Robert HOtchkiS5 OF Plymouth and others"
The Weekly BlOOdTuO" IS the rhetorical figure under
which crime is secured aud msnged for reader'
Mr.. Beecher is returning across the conti-
nent in most excellent spirits and inclined 70 be rather
loQuaclous. At Chicago reporter naturally brought
the conversation down the lowest level by making the
remark People prone TO thinR evil" Yes" re-
Piled Mr. Beeoher, warming up, "yOu are right, aud
am sorry to say that be glad aud willing TO believe
evil is a prominent characteristic OF American people.
Be the question public or private in its nature,
concerning them OF their business, il IS all
the same. Their open 10 hear their mouths to
speak and their hearts 10 believe the worst OF others
You do not find this iu the church 2" CAS- much, II
not more So than elsewhere. Church people clique to-
gehor their little bands for and against and have
no charity for Others" Did you nd the Western peo
pie appreeatiYe1" Very; they are the best sitngs
handled like men, not babes They demand aud deserve
tie best man can give this right through the
than in the heart OF Wyoming Territory"
A faithful nurse who had poisoned by sheer
accident a patleut In the st. Louis Female Hospital,
committed suicide last Thursday night. after writing
letter her mother aud sister which cannot be read
without a heart-ache. Corrosive subllmate gwen
10 n young girl in place Of a solution OF salts. The
nurse could not account for her blunder and could
only repeat the words; my God, Doctor, l did 1t :.
alone am TO blame. I have killed her, ruined
myself and / only hOpe 1t will not ruin you"
She watched beside the patient for several days
frequently declaring that she would live Alice lived
and die II Alice died. When the poor girl breahed her
last the tsrrOr-strioken nurse cred; Don't talk
me; I'm crazy" Within an hour she herself IN the
boIc acd Among the last words written TO her home
friends were these: My dears, II It Is Gods will that
wenf Through thoDiEht 10 light" Sad enough.
After the canal horse-monumenta glory.
The Patriots Of Oriskany have known where to find
stone for the proposed monument TO be raised the
spot where Herkimer fell correspondent OF The Utica
Herald points with unerring finger to the abandoned
Chenango Canal and suggests that better material
could be desired the hewn stone Of which the
bmt The state has only to assign these stones
the Oneida Historical society and the Of the uon
ment will DO materially reduced The recommendation
Is not a bad oDe although is obvious that line must
be somewhere 1t is conceded that there is
enough ID the locks Of this single canal for a
huge monuments; and as there many hslf-used or
wholly abandoned laerals, the materials for memorials
20 the heroes the State ample. The Legislature
has only to give assent and line Of tall shafts and mas
Size obess viii stretch from county county IN honor
OF tOOso who bave fought and bea harangued or gov
erDed, designed mcnded the canal controlled the
OF the great contractors like Jarve," of ROebsster
viii need monuments Of brass but there is stone enough
IN old locks 20 meet Tie demands or every patriot OF
any reCOguIzed mOdestY
The account published in Saturdays TRIBUNE
OF the wonderful feat recently performed by Or Fowler
an American dentist, In walking the British
Channel from BOulognetO FOlkestOne In twelve hours
on fooi-siif attracted the attention Of a CORE
spondent Of The Hudson Republican The incident re-
minds hIm OF adventure which DR.. Fowler related
TO him IN Paris twenty years ago. On February "a
1S4s. the doctor Joined The who were rushing into
The Iuleries after the flight OF Louis Philippe. He fol-
lowed the crowd TO the cellar aud helped himself lib
eraly 10 choice wines. Being somewhat overcome by
Ms potatons, reeled into in the palace where
he found magnificent bed into which be pitched boots
ana all. On awaking, all was silence and darkness.
Fearing lest be might get into trouble he managed 20
get TO his lodging, and went 70 bed At breakfast IN
restaurant the next morning. attempting to draw
s hah1kercAieI 10 his surprise he pulled from bis
tOoAet Instead a ehemise. Ia corner OF which he
ioabl embroidered the Orleans monogram suFmOunted
dneal eOrOneL He had evidently slept in The he'd
~ see Duchess OF Orleans and had somehow got
OF her wardrobe In his pocket. The doctor showed
eoespOndent this garment and gave him piece OF
'o.'Setrem The throne OF Louis Philippe.
Lord Dufferin's suggestion in regard to the
lof~siion ofaD international park at Niagara Falls has
st thousand pens in motion record the crimes and
eDeanors Of the hackmen and The general depravily
'ne owners Of property near the cataract Nearly
ey one goes TO Niagara on bis weddng-tOur and is in