New-York tribune., 1879-12-10
GENERAL NOTES

The Chicago brewers are about to raise the
price OF beer 81 barreat which there is considerable
CONSERVATION thereaway.
The Milwaukee dramatic critics have been
overwhelmed with genius rsen and still rising In tho
person Of Mary Anderson. Que OF them. who seems TO
rely upon his Imagination rather than tape-line for
linear measurements estimates that she Is about SIX
feet in height when Ia reposc, but when her frame Is
charged with AMI she gets mad or excited. she
seems ito right up of tho and telescope
until she eshteen nineteen feet high and others
look like dwarf" at times, 1t seems, she puts On "a
sweet lovely look, and yoa woud have to be held by
two persona 10 keep you from mounting on the stage
and telling her that you loved her ike steam engine.
and then she would put dying look, and Wild.
scared desperate expression. 50 you want rush out
after n doctor" Moreover she has lungs Ike q dck-
smlths bellows when she exhausts them she looks 80
that her backbone eau Do traced win the naked
eye but when she Initiates them her dress MS her Ao
paper tie wall"
The recent pistOl-practice at s0clable IN
Waco Texas more spirited than the press dis
patches Indicated. When the fddles hdiling for
Gear life and JOY essentially unconhDed. up rose
Colonel Budd Wood aud asked Miss Grace Stanfeld
would she with him. She would not. Whereupon
the Colonel whipped out srevolver from bis boot and
shoo. the hdders tboy scraped another
scrape. The hddles cresked no more. "Silence like
poultlce to heal the blows OF souDd" But Major
Currie wanted dance and said much. The Colonel
and the Major retired to the backward. where BY
the Colonel was wounded The Major himself. after
ceiyng slight wound the hand. feed his antagonist
10 earth with pair Of tougs The Colonel returned to
,he % 70 n.S c s onn S s SdSn n S snSt
aud then announced his Intention OF going home ny
kuoc1ug down one OF hs acqusiniances with the butt
of his pistol.
At the II Paso Mine, near Leadyille, re-
comfy. Mark Quinn, miner. started down deep sbaf
In a bucket or tub. which being lowered by a man
named Patrick Roach When about ten feet from the
wndass the brake holt broke. aud for II looked
ike Qunn's time had come. But Roach. with
ence OF mnd caught hold OF the detached rope the
lower end Of which hs friend Quinn hung suspended
Hold on there. Mark. me boy" shouted Pat "and I'll
bring you up" Quinn held but Pat found impOssi
BILE to hold him. Little by little she rope Slipped through
his hands He held like EriIs death. out the cruel
rope dragged through HE tearing away skin and
nesh Finding he could not sustain the weight he
despariugly cried. can't hold any longer. pard
goodby," and let 60 Down went Qninn INTO The
started "A help take out what he supposed 20 be
mangeu corpse. the surprise OF tho fescueis may DO
imag wnrn, going down the SHAFT. they found Marx
Dunn So nearly uniniurcd that hc enabled walk
10 his cabin without assistance.
Details of the discovery OF the sources o
the Niger given by the Rtpubiique iraneaise. ZS.-
iel and Mousiier traverscd the nokso and Limbah
countries. which. covered with forests winwood
Reades visit years ago. now found very little
wooded tho demand for the oily almonds Of the palm
tree havu induced the natives 20 plant oil palms IN the
place o. forests. At Falabah. Koranks mission ar
rived day after themselves. bringing with II the Kings
brothers, whom they had released thus cnecing peaoe
between the two tribes THIS mission told the explorers
That the Niger passed between Mount Lomat aud an
other mountain aud that It's thrre Sources the Junction
| OF which fori.ed q small lake. were two days march
from tue latter. After dangers ami privationA
the traveller. ioand The main source tho village OF
Kouas on the frontier of KoIanks Kssl and Kono its
native ua'ne eebs the Temb The invasioD OF AN army
OF bach, Ir,u BoaAsA said TO be $4,000 Infantry and
10000 oayalry suong. the meeting With whom would
have involved death captivity alec famine Obliged
tho travellers abandon tho dss Of entering he san
CARA country IN the right eanh hs rveri but they
are confident the femb h the obgcst of the three
streams mentioned by the Korapks and consequently
| the origin OF thu Polba or upDer Nlser