New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-24
GENERAL NOTES.


A brave lady compelled two marauders TO
run away her house IN Rochester Sunday night
Her husband, Professor Hopkins had gone Scotsvie
to lecture leaving his wife and child and two other
persons in the house. About O'Clock IN the morning
Mrs Hopkins heard rafting the silverware
that stored IN closet adjoining her bedroom. She
seized revolver that under her pillow and ran into
the hail. but had not gone dozen steps before she was
confronted by another man. evidently keeping guard in
the front part of the house. who flashed dark
lantern IN her face. Hardly knowing what to do
the lady ran into the sitting-room and began pound
ing on the stove-ppe OF the stove that
through the ceiling into the room overhead
hoping by that means to alarm gentleman who was
sleeping there The robber followed her into the roOm
and drawing n pistol fred a shot that went over her
head and lodged In the WndowslL he then seized her
10y the hair but she broke away from him and ran into
the kitchen. The two robbers then beat retreat ana
the lady, standing in the doorway raised her revolver
and fired twice, shot taking effect, OF the men
DROPPED his pistol and exclaimed Ay Cod I'm shot ID
Captain Eads is not inclined to rest from
labors after opening the mouth Of the Father
OF that it Is not likely to close again. lie
proposes put the whole body OF the patient under
treatment by his new method-the application Of JET
ties Quite recently he expounded this plan before
large audience at Memphis The essential feature Of
the plan is very simple it is to narrow the wide and
shallow places OF the river to cOnine
lts current to a uniform channel The rest VIII
take care OF itself, for the river will then
proceed to cxcavate its channel TO the required
depth No scheme yet offered for the Improvement Of
the Mississippi promises much since the prospect Ia
that the expense of new evees may thus be saved floods
will be less frequent and destructive snags and saw
yers will disappear the channel will be deepened and
made less tortuOus; and while navigation Is thus
simphned the adjoining lands the most fertile in the
COuntry-will be permanently secure for agriculture
The opponents OF the project have not yet been able 10
show any substantial objections 20 it, though the prom
with which IL brought DC the pubic
every opportunity for discussion.
Ex-MayOr Hall laments the recent dissolution
ofTweed inasmuch as it deprives him OF fine Opp0r
lnity for crOss-examinaton The BUgalo Express had
attributed to HIM these remarks: "Tweed deadl That
oil reprobate gone That wicked wicked man passed
on to judgment Thank Heaven" Mr.. Hall at once
writes the Editor OF that Journal after this sprghty
manner: promising that 1t is characteristic OF the
buffalo to try and trampe upon any heedcss traveller
whom an Express train have upset upon Western
prairie beg say that one could more selfshly
mourn the death OF my old Commissioner Of Public (as
well as his priyGe) Works than 10. since has de-
prved me Of n opportunity heretofore refused, but
which / W. reliably informed would have soon oc.
CARED of crOssexaminiug him. Next 10 cross-eXam
nation of Mira. Titon's various confessions do not
know Of one which could be suppOsedAmore Interesting
than rendered impossible in this world SO far
his later stories concerned me, my friends werc con
tent 20 place beside them the microscopic calculations OF
Mr. Ianter, the fiscal expert upon the dslrbnt9n o.
lie, hOwsoeycr the drowning or the shpwrecked might
dsiort themselves when In the jaws Of sharks h.Yyi
erOssexanination as well as the testimony VI the
figures"
DR.. Howard, Medical Officer of NewYOrk
HarbOr recently explained the recevin OF the
Royal Humane Society, London, bis method Of resusc
tang persons taken from the water in state Of nsen'
siby. The principles upon which he acts those OF
clearing the water and mucus which prevent the
entrance OF air into the lungs, and the imitation OF the
movements of the chest in respiration. lie first emptes
the stomach and passages Of water For this he places
the patient face downward, puts a roll OF something
hard under the PIT of the stomach that is above the
level OF the mouth and then presses with all his force CD
the back Aterward set artificial breathing instead
Of the partial rolling Of the body the pumping action
OF the practiced. the body Is laid upon the
back with the clothes stripped down TO the waist The
pit Of the stomach is raised 20 the highest pon! by
something under the back bundle OF clothing or the
body Of another will do for this The head Is thrown
back and the tongue be drawn forward by an as
sisant keep open the entrance to the AIR tnOes
The hands are passed the head the wrists crossed
ana the kept firmly extended In ths posllOh tue
chest is fully expanded The operator then knees as1e
the body places his hands on the lower part OF the RIBS
and steadily and gradually makes compression Balaue'
ing on mis- knees he ncnes himself forward TIL his face
nearly touches that OF the patient aud so lets tau no
whole weight OF his body upon the chest When TINS mas
yielded much as IL will he throws himself back by
sudden push TO his first erect position of kneeins ana
air into the lungs These mauWuvres must be repeated
regularly twelve or hlteen times in the minute
Several Baltimore ladies will have it that
thettle Demerara lad at the Home Of the Friendess
Baltimore is Charlie Ross, Notwithstanding the fathers
inability recognize him. Their theory that as NJ
Ross has been subjected 10 many disappontments DIS
mind has become morbidly biased against the probab
ity OF finding his child. except probably through Some
channel conceived by himself, and that when be under
takes the investigation Of a case In which there IS
probability in favor OF child being the real Charlie 10
so with much doubt that he is incompetent 70
Identify him Little squio Rio is the pet In the boys
department not only because there is strong tnge Oh
probability in history leading tothe belief that No
may Charlie Ross but because he is very bright ana
Interesting child. When he arrived in Baltimore on lbe
brig Potomac, about three months ago. he was tannea
from the effects of the tropical Of British Guiana ana
from exposure the voyage His hair also was unnas
uray black from thesame His residence al S'
Home has greatly changed his appearance He u nov
much fairer than when he came and his hair Is hghte