New-York tribune., 1879-09-17
GENERiL NOTES.

There were four English travellers IN Rome
a fortnight ago who hal travelled IN Francr, Germany,
Russia, sweden, Norgay. America. Turkey. ENpt,
Cnina and Japan, hunting after butterflies. Their col
lection will lee curiosity, u ever they return safely ID
England.
The provision merchants of Chicago arc
negotiating Tor the sale he Great Eastern h.
om Portland 10 England, in The interest o thr Grand
Trunk Railway The new rfrlgera'ing process by
which fresh meats and dairy products are conveyed
across the Atlantic will be emuoyei. The great docks
and .torehuu.rs but for ho Great Eiscfu's coinm-
dation long ago. cost Of 100000 IL - reported Vii
De again USED.
4 polo accident, similar TO the one Which
oUyLf t. have put an end 10 this dangerous game IN
Buffalo although strange 10 say t has noO. occurred
recently m Phenix PARK, Dublin. during mat~i be-
tween the Fusers and tie All Iciaud CUB Robert
saunders barley, ahcn forty years oi a4e Was heavily
thrown from hi- pony. which rolled over hin car.us
very severe fracture o. lar skull Every remedy was
trled for ,,t,rrnc Ju.ue.- bn' without await
Madame Mustachc. one Of the best known
gamblers on thc Pac.Ic slope. committed ucie ioEt-
night ago near Bodic. Size Wa Fronch""m'n' WY
ouet and noleusfye. but with strong propc"sf
for gambling Her fyor!te gaue was " "t"eh's-ohc''
which she dcat fol many years IL seems 'h"l' uer
bank running low, she borlowc. $500 81 ulrn' anu
with her own funds opeled faro bank II lasted h1t
few hours wien II was broken. She sait not word -
any uerson but wandered % secluded spot n tho
sage-bush where with her dead body vas discovered IN
.rfv n,i.nn ,isl which told ihr sale of suicide Den
one Z the hcsknovn -porting-m'n IN san France go
heard Of Aer DEATH he exclaimed: oog Madame .1,-
taehe, Her nfe was as square game as Was ever
delt The world played against her alth ah sois ot
c0nhina. ions, sut Sine generally beat u. IAr tut" vs.
nm ,sse the tnrn none the old boys were tA,i' 20
cover ia, De-, Tor her, and sAe pae',d lh pr cAe'"''
game TO the las Poor MADAME AH'thche!
The Association of Old Defenders OF Bal
timore" assembled at the city Hall al 10 o'clock ~
september I2. to celebrate the anniversary ~ ITO
Battle of North Point by mtrchins around Tie baite
Monument. ON Monumentquare, erected IN memory Ok
tnose who fell in tie battle sixt, hyc years ago Co-
panies and a. Of tie 9th NJ ,ryland Regiment. with
the regmeutal band under com nand OF Captain bro"n
we're present 10 escort them Tie line % march oni al
the streets leadllg TO the CITY Hal, for several
squares distant. were tlronged " Nh people. Tho
little band numbered fourteen mon. A. ther
hcad was william Bachelor the stand Igd-oearcr'
nnety-two years oil, the oldest member of the a,s-
ciation and by his side Henry Lghtncr TIE drnm-
mcr, eighty-Dne years OH, the youngest Tie t"o
companies Of the 5th were drawn up In line aud re-
ceiyed the veterans with salute as they tio"y
marched along and. falling IN. escorted them around
the monument the band playing " thhre Do"de' vs.
they passed around tlc mpAIm cnt the veterans Dared
their heads. Tncy then returned 10 tie Cly h"' AAu
took sireet-car 10 Hlls Springs. TO rarahe OF ther
annual dinner. for which the city council Appr'P.'s
1goO Annually They there listened 20 an orailon.
1'De Associatlon OF OIL Defenders was oignal1tI II
1871 with about 900 mr.1ers. General N"lltlt
Mcdonald the hg-t Irr-' lrAt since Tue ~ ahF
onc Joshua Dryden, The president o the assca o Az
present, only tWents-tWU survive; eifhech oI WIN
tive iu Baltimore two in Mary land one Ju4H tu' -
Washington City, and two john s"i'zer ana l. "'oH
ia NpU.YurL