New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-30
GENERAL NOTES.

The Chicago hotel prOprietOrs, being asked
to talk about the seaside Hebrew question, declined 10
do So but unanimously offer the hand OF impartial hos
pitality TO the Jews
f. ID. NJ, in The Cincinnati Gazette, shows
that the first ants avery paper In America not as
Is generally supposed Lundy's Genius Of JhirersaI
Emancipation printed Ut Jonesboro Tenn. IN ISL but
Charles Osborn's PhanhrOpiSt, issued at Mount Peas
ami, ONO, IN 1916
Three young men went bathing at SheldOn'S
Point, near Oswego, night last week. When they
had rubbed themselves down and were ready 10 dies
one of missed hts SHIRT. IL most Dysier'is
affair. No had been the shore. and noiha5
else was missing While they searching for to
shirt a sober "a quietly chewing her cad. All
at sac began to cough violently, and the young
men caught glupse OF the arm OF the lost shlt dang
Ing from her NOUN. One cuff Outton was saved,
The Gentiles of Salt Lake City are reported
as desiring the President patdon tie convicted bga-
MIST Reynolds, unless he can be subjected 90 adequate
punishment. His present imprisonment Is farce II IS
said that the Mormons going 10 build house fyr
him by the side OF the jail, where he can "sufer' IN
great comfort, with free Tor. MS family and
friends aud all the luxdres OF the lie Will p-
mic taller 10 sleep the n)or Ia the hal 3ud at ING
end OF term will De received Dy pruccSSltn' ana
escorted home With six par " mAk-"hlie stee"s
Oae morning during the civil war bright
eyed lady IN Scranton, PENN nead that her only son
had been killed IN Dattle. The news seemed to affect her
reason She goes the railway stations o1ce oe
twice a week meet the incoming trans In The hope
that he back. Sue stands and looks up tAe
track with anxious face AS the locomotive dashes
around tbs curve her face lights up with momeniay
ray of hope She peers into the windows scans tie
faces OF passengers and when the crowd has COMO
AID the tril has moved ON sue Signs ana passes "'"n
tue Dalrow street. with tears IN her eyes.
Tenemont-house reform is as complex a
problem in London as II is in Ncw-York. The Pal ha|
gazette SHOWS how heavy is the loss which the metro
pohtan raepayers likely to sustain from the opera
ton OF the Artisans mud Laborers' Dwellings set.
The main object OF the act 10 clear away the over
crowded dons metropolis. and provide for the
OF healthier dwellings in thor place WhenN
as passed II was thought that there would be niue
difficulty dsposng the sites at their cost price al
least but experience against that expectation lhe
Metropolitan Board indeed, have recently accepted an
offer made by the Peabody trustees for the purchase ~
the rate OF $4,000 an acre otertain vacant spaces os
winch the Board paid s4uOOOo au acre rue gross Ioss
TO the ratepaycrs this transaction alone j. esnau
5n e "htIncG for the aSd n be cleared undcr other
schemes before tho Board the total loss VIII 10
between SIG, 100000 and Sl3,O0O,OOO.
General Donald Mcleod, the centenarian
who recently died Cleveland, Ohio, was born at AOe
leeu Scotland. the LIST Of January, l719. Al tno
Uniyers ~ no knew Lord Byron. who then lad Oh
ten in the preparatory department He enlisted IN tho
Forty-secOnd III ghlndors and was Ia the battles OF o
Pennsular campaign. lie was OF the mourners at
the burial OF Sir John Moore In the var OF lS7
be fought Lundys Lane, ana when his regiment was
recalled TO England. Eo wont oack TO serve with dsno
at Waterloo. In the Canadian rebellion OF 1917 10
bore - conspicuous part planning descent on M"u'"'
Referring thu opening OF this rebellion he Ouee sara
a Trader reporter. II was In tho habit OF ooaslns
much OF British Constitution, and really believer
wa5 tie best tho wisdom OF man had ever promus'''
sai so once Ia the presoace Of another wac said Il Sss
Tar behind the American Constitution. seoh9d a. az
idea and DO gskod 10 take copy h0ine ana Iutu ~
did So aud opened my eyes. slld 70 M, sc' ss
a new . ole Thai constitution mAde me , a .o '>"
mo gritt.n Government for which haa iOuShI
| In a recent conversation, General Long
reported to nave said that the southern ormies
were never SO we'll organized and disciplined as those Ok
the North; that Jhore Was probaoy as mueh oo"f"so
ora army as In the other that individual bravery
aounts To little Ia battle, men must be fouSht III
sol,c hooks "a parts OF mschne !" that at no uno
during the war dld no think the rebellion would sue
ceed that the sentiment In FAVOR OF the Unioh ana s
anr WAS quite as strong and perhaps stronger than
the teeng aroused la defending states ana hohioS'
| that Grant was tho greatest Federal Genera any