New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-06
GENERAL NOTES.

TybO In which TO hold services except gambling house.
and in response of the sentences Of the Lsany
excited worshpper, with bis panalOons stuffed Into
his boots, cried, KenOi"
A Spanish lady of high degree has been ar
rested In hotel at Auteuil charge OF being
cerned in bank robbery Her name is Nine. Bal
domerd; her age Is hfty-fve; and In 1873 she
opened bank In Madrid, and paid such an enormously
high rate Of interest that she had heaps OF money
in her ts She paid the interest regularly for several
months but morning in May 1875 she disappeared,
leaving deficit OF million reals. Since then the
police have searched for her In vain tl the other day,
when she found living with her sister In the Pare
DIES Princes
The sweetest little fish story of the season
is told by Frank Abbott Of Burlington Iowa. At Clear
Lake dwells little girl who takes a ride every day in
small sliG drawn by two piekerel They regularly
harnessed and by OF lines she Is enabled 10 guide
them in any direction The fish about three feet in
length weigh between and eight pounds EACH and
are very powerful When the girl has tired Of riding
she drives the pckerel to boahouse, whore they
embarrassed, taken into q commodious glass aquarium
made expressly for Them and fed When she goes 70 the
tank to harness them for ride, the pickerel jump
almost INTO her arms. so glad, apparently, are They to
her The young miss has been offered $1,000 for
her team.
There is no vanity so overweening as that
Of a sefmade man who honOrs in public his ingenious
and enterprising creatOr-hlmset Lord Cranbrook's
sefcOmpacency at the banquet given recently by his
neighbors of his elevation TO the peerage
what Charles Reade would describe as 4" bumphous'
"The elevation which have attained" he remarked.
sis only that to which every Engshman may not only
ASPIRE but attain to, II he shows capacity 1t cannot be
said that this country there ban any man. The
highest possible honor may be obtained by any man who
lays himself out 70 serve his country" Claiborne Hardy
mas made good the of English politics
and appears excellent form as Lord Cranbrook aid
Secret ny for India; but then he had most
eollent sendo He born TO great wealth, the son
OF a Member OF Parliament, University man. chosen
by ford Bateman to sat for LeOminster IN 1886, an
UndelSecreary two years AFTER selected 0y the Torres
OF Oxford University to be the medium by which they
might express their resentment at Mr. GadstOnes adj
,aneng Liberalism. He had uncOmmoDlY good start,
aud his pace throughout has been the respectable jog
trOt OF a party politician.
George +. Seward, United States Minister
70 Pekng who arrived at San francisco ten days ago,
says that the prospects American trade with Chinese
ports good as they are to-day There are
nearly hundred sailing vessels carrying petroleum TO
the East cotton manufacturers are beginning TO lind
good market in competition with English goods and
the general disposition Of Chinese Government is to
abandon to some extent the policy Of sOatiOn which has
been the rule for many centuries, and TO favor
foreign which, although in the first instance
thrust upon them against their will, has proved bene-
fetal He states that the Chinese Embassy has not
been abroad with reference to recent ag1atOns
against cheap labor IN California TIE chief Am6assa
dor is man largo intelligence, and the new diplo-
matte policy will be apt 10 promote intercourse with
foreign Powers. For the first time in forty years the
Celestial Empire is ut peace The famine mas been me
only incident Of late years OF an unfaYOraDe Hnd us
extent has been exaggerated AT the lowest estl-
mate 5.OOO,OO0 OF people have perished The region
effected has the most favorable seasons. TOO httle
rain and when the usual supply falls the consequence u
a general failure OF crops The afflicted REGION has
suffered from short rainfall fof the past Two years
Fortunately this the rains have been abundant
That il is exceedingly unpleasant to be
struck by lightning. the account which Mr.. Wilson gives
Of the scene the Gospel Tent in Philadelphia last
sunday goes far TO prove. getting things ready
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only Mr. Conner and myself, Of the adult members Of
our congregation, and seven or eight children who
sought shelter from the rain. was standing near the
TWO little girls who injured, aud the entire party
were around one OF the tent poles. We had not the
slightest warning. The first thing knew was terrible
shock to my whole system, particularly 10 my head and
was knocked senseless. When came to myself the
ten, was burning, aad some of the benches. busted
myself in putting the re all the time feeling ike
man In a dream, and when / came over home asked
my wife II my head not broken open. That was the
sensation felt-that my head had been split into two
Unrts" Az Sr Wilson spoke, his hands Involuntary
sought the top OF his head-a proceeding be repeated
several times during the conversation do not think
mar lightning set fire 20 the benches" he continued
Ny theory Is that u ran down the oentrepoe' gnea
ON ne ground, which, IN It's turn, burned the OencueS
A person whose business relations to theatn
ca, managers warranted reliance on his information
lately made public certain statements relative to tho
bankruptcy of j. H. NeYcker, which an Ease0le paper
IN Chicago great haste and ferVor to dcnounceas
exhibiting entire ignorance Of the subject" II then
adds what all friends OF Mr. McYcker and his many
theatrical relatives will be happy 20 hear that that
gentleman stands high to-day as he did before he
filed his petition IN the bankrupt court HIS schedule
shows that he Is q solvent far being able 10
pay all debts contracted by himself account OF bis
busness. His books in the hands OF bis assignee wiz
show that McVicker's Theatre has steadily yielded
proat-t has not had losing for sixteen years
Mr. McYlckeI's action in going into bankruptcy VIII
prove to be only diplomatic step in order TO relieve
himself from debt Of S50OOOO fOr which amount
tue city has obtained judgment against him as one OF
treasurer. Jefferson, Lolita, Maggie Mitchell and
others loauing Mr. MoViekeT money without interest
that is bOsh They not only well secured but nave
been receiving and win continue TO receive 10 per cent
TnGrs bss not Sns Of Pe IgsS sp@ed Out wan
A political drama in three acts entitled
"Dzzy v Bizzy or che Carving Of the Turkey" is the
latest political satire published in London. The time OF
the nrst act Ia given as 1875; scene tho diplomatic
garden; DIZZY pointing the noble bird" exclaims;
You shant amputate his legs and wings, Il know ID
This have sworn before great God, lingo" The
time aud place of the second act 1876 and Constant
uople. The Of the third act is the RadziWih
Palace and after "squarng accounts with GeTtsenN
Grassy and Bizzy, the inmitable Dizzy brings ha
theatrical display close with this epilogue; bpS
soft my apotheoSis approaches; the telephone iad %
70 Charngcross and is even now IN action. LISTEN
hear already the reclamation OF a Millennium the
star Of the occident sets forever, and by means
OF my magic sway the tide OF ancient civilization
flows back once at the Orient Britain
mia has completed her career; the Queen OF the h~'
fades into the vista of the dead past while the sun
OF Palestine again covers the terrestrial and cees.a
disks Yet triumphant return 10 the tawdry balls q ns
Claour which detest Listen say As l earacoo
Though Parliament-st on the noble ong.eared EaSsa
but hitherto despsed qusdrured, hear them cry
ali hall n 10 thee, Moses Secundus thrice Lbefaos
the Eiusnian race, Grand Nizer OF independent A"'
and luke Of Jerusalemp
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