New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-31
GENERAL NOTES.

Rochester is worrying over an historical ques-
ton OF pressing interest Dr. Mary Walkers age A
picture frame dealer In Safest. airms that in 1855
1856 he framed parchment diploma which certified
that Dr. May WALKER spnster was entitled to practice
medicine.
The middle-aged Englishman who committed
suicide fortnight ago In ST. Paus Cathedral BY throw
ing himself down the viii perng gallery pave
ment below telegraph clerk He had been suffering
from nervous debility long time and had been pa
tent In public hospital The only cause assigned for
the act was the receipt OF letter his sister at Har
vicb which stated that his brohern law had met with
accident and would have TO nave hs arm ampu-
tatcd.
Ii is not strange that General Butler quotes
Scripture gby in Congress for at the Boston end ofs
the noble old commonwealth where he lives and moyos,
and has his being OF session. no breathes the
phers OF piety. Business is conducted with
air Of Righteousness. and every wellreguated shop.
keeper has religious notices hung up behind the
Fur instance this notice Is posted on the walls q
helps himself but God help the man caught helping lam
self here" doubebarelled gun is suspended near by.
One Of the prOpretors of the Astor House
recently cited Painfcld n. j., Illustration Of tho
bightng effects of au antcense system upon general
trade As soon rs IL decided to sell more liquor
I'm the town the principal hotel closed and coun.
try people living by carried their produce Rah
way; and in this way the business Of Plainhold
nearly destroyed The Central NepJersey Times pub
shed in that town. sarcasticsly remarks That one must
go away from home TO hear me news that the business
OF The place has been ruined by reason OF tho enforce
ment OF he anti-icense law
Colonel Ingersoll has an ally: the oldest in
habtant OF Rondout on the Hudson. This man did not
know Tom Paine, but he employed on his farm
Sam Johnson an intelligent colored man, who was tho
bod, during his last days In New
Rochelle Sam had admitted 10 the Oldest irhabtan.
that his master inorfinats snuftaker but had
denied that there any truth in the current accounts
of tho deathbed Sam with his 10 the
last and knew that he had died did every day,
deceny and in order, and without any fuss The Oldest
inhabi,ant $50 remembered Sam Johnsons son.
able runt, whose dmlnuuve size was believed by Lany
to be o visitation OF divine wrath upon tGo father for
having contributed 70 the relief of such an archiend as
Tom Paine
The Typog aphcal Union of Albany has won
great victory. On Monday night apprentice EN-.
poy ed by Weed, Parsons Co., stopped by two men
near Dclavan House and questioned In regard 20 the
business Of the Office where printers connected with the
union longer at work. He said that he did not
know what was going outside OF his own work The
two union seized him by the collar aud undertook
10 shake the information out Of him. when policeman
interposed and ordered them t6t the boy alone The
apprentice went on unmoested. until he reached DE-
ysionst where the two ssSaGnts were Joined ny Tour
union printers and tho attack resumed Surrounded
by six men, and closely questioned he again refused 70
answer A violent shaking did not produce any eject
and finally OF tho printers knocked MIN down ani
shattered his dinnerpail and saueers Inc Iypogfapn
cal Union had vindcated lis dignity, and Its hero'o
champions Withdrew from the field eatod The receut
strike has caused the firm very little embarrassment
T, rty-eight nonunou comrostOrs have been employed
10 take the places those who left their cases. ana many
snpneations for work have been rejected 10 the nrn
POINTS the moral. workmen make great mntaHe "a
striking" under the erroneous dea that ei,s' ,hay
world or u printing -ohce must stop moving unieS' ''
turn the crank. e
The career Of NJ Gunzburg, prince U
finance and the fayolite banker Of the Russian Coon'
Paris has boon brought 10 close ny IN a's"oA VI "
plexv His family were serfs In Southern h'ssa' anu
he began life by hawking oranges In the Street "
fine Crean War broke out he hung oil the sAs Vi tn'
Russian army and extended his business 10 iui'"'s
supplies to troops IN the field. He dspsyeu ~ 4"u
intelligence and zeal that nc attracted tne a'eh'H0'
an officer OF rank who took him under Es pr"'e0o.
procurny for him contracc for raons ior the 'nen ~
fodder for the horses lie found thai IL was eSso'
money than reputation, and the more fiones ""
acouirod the mora enyious enemies he mace i'o oou
not get ON at home the stigma OF the s"r' We s''n
taohed To him. and ia went TO Paris where nc opoNeN
a laree banking house. He took splendid hO'e' AZ '
Enc de Presbourg and furnished 1t magn'heeH"' =" ~"
| Russian STYLE ornament.ng his anteehahloes VIZ"
massive gold bedstead, which raised the "noi' NM -
satrists against him He announced MS ihten''o
giving q splendid bell. Invitations we're ssue"' Wv
best orchestra In Paris was engaged, ana oHe'e' "
| given carte blanche as far supper ana WINGS "
| concerned. One thousand invitations Laa oeeh s0
ont but only eleven persons had responded, ana wen
they went to the house aud found tlie sOn yames
,oight be removed fro the list II they remained 10 Icp
resept The ABSENT onss a. Ghnzburs took the esson !"