New-York tribune., 1879-05-28
GENERAL NOTES.

Temperance lecturers will make q note OF
walkers end al Niagara. Powcrless TO contend with
the current he had lost lis oar he stood uD IL hs
boat look one long drink IRON his bottle, and then fell
fiat on his stomach. Quickly the boat was borne along
toward Tire dge OF the Falls. In jumping one Of the
lodges OF rock the cut in two but Walker cung
20 the forward part lying like an oyster on me Z ni
shell. AS he swept under too Goal Island bridge
he clugng to an OsI. IN moment ths poor oiuhh-
ara went over the Fails,
Paris detectives always make a point of ex-
ulouny away murder II they cannot detect and arrest
The crllinals Three weeks ago a shocking murder was
reported from Nanterfe. where man had been found
dead at tie foot of hi. bed with leg il the all While
al the bottom OF the steps leading TO the cellar bis vile
had been dscoyercd dead, with fractured skull and
one arm in the air The detectives, after careful IL
vesugaou reported that the husband. being in state
OF intoxcau0n his wife for another bottle OF vine;
that Tie wife. also the worse or i1uor IeIi do|h sho
steps the husband hearing his VIE coInt 10 giei
enGCaYored - go 10 hrI assl,t, ana tH1l % 'n1 eIoI'
produced "a fit Of apOplexy. from when he Gied'
A correspondent OF Vienna journal over
draws his account with public creduhy when ne at
tributes The following uteranccs to General lsnduch:
The remedy for the evil which eats INTO Russian sOc
ETY. is constitutional regime. not ike that Of other
European States. bat suited to Russian parliament
arism Russia is thoroughly democratic country, ana
ousbt to be constit1tionslly governed democracy
II the recent assassnatons and The attempt 10 assas-
snate the had occurred e Gar would already
have entered upon the patn OF Puhic reform Perhaps
before SIX months nave passed We WILL nave q iAii'-
uent which will at first De formed from the cxi,trg
Provincial Diets reorganlzed on more democIt!4G
basis Genera lgnaVeh liz o .,is ' i'
bat there no 10 suppose that ho Is out OF his
senEcs well IS out OF politics
touching incident is narrated Of the re-
cent VISIT OF exsecctary NcCulloch to Harvard Uni
yersity While engaged evening III conversation
with several visitOrz. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
now nearly seventy years Old related his earl
lest impressions Of Harvard University. He was
eight years old, he said, when young student of rare
ability ant superb physique was suddenly removed by
death He vas so pOpaag IN the that his classmates
erected a memorial tablet TO his memory, with a sua-
bic Latin inscription upon it, Aud that tablet St STANDS
in tte old building, wnero many men were gradu-
ated who have since become DISTINGUISHED in American
annals. He was Eastern man." added DR. Holmes.
- and though was a mere child, have never forgotten
The impression this young genteman death made
SIMON my hui mind" Mr. McCuloch, VINO had mani
tested great interest," ~ @ tG mar va u~CaIloc5
Ne rtspondcd with feeling. "l hat was my bIOih-f
Mr. TcCulloch subsequently, sied t1e spo5 -ld eI@p-
iped the now tune-woru tablet which Tie hands O.
sTangcrs had erected TO the memory Of muchloYod
The Whitehall Times does not mean to have
its advertisers buldOzs 10 with impuuy. clOhier
has ordered out MS advertisement because 500 Land-
bills were printed the job-ofiro ior rival clothing
house The newspaper retOrts by reading him sharp
lecture ia tue space which been occupied by him for
along ume and by directing public attention to it by
means OF four conspicuous hands Tho circumstances
OF the case are reced and the former advertiser
buked for making himself the laughing stock OF the
whole community" for setting himself "a censor
Of the press" and for acknowledging what everybody
knows TO wit, that hs competitors have OutTitted him.
and are seiDs their goods proYokngly cheap" lie is
accorl nC!y posted as q greeahVrG with mlnd
and declaration made that all who have heard OF
his lily action. look TO what manner Of covering
such man places mis- TO keep tho steepcs III
view Finally he is urged to cultivate more nobility
OF nstNNd % hSVug lAc appearance OF pos
sessmg soul that lcsks Ike the littc end OF nothing
whitfield down point" II tB6 rFd concern iocIs Its
humble gratitude it viii order 100000 Impressions Of
this lecture sruoE OF as ne" land,oii!. am "H ar
prOpr ate % Itself the space which tho WhitueddOWn
SOU Las FchBqulshed.
The spirits are still skylarking in the house
OF Esther Cox the mysterious maid of Amherst. n. s.
One day last week tho girl sitting a high stool
washing Dishes and feot high above the floor,
when suddenly the spectators heard crash. On going
forward ey found that tumbler containing paper OF
pepper had fallen from cupboard upon largo aartAen
bowl ahd been bfoken in pocos with the exception OF
the um. Esther went washing dishes. aud IN a mo-
neIt ;he glass rim hurled across tho room by un-
seen hands Subsequently, pio OF scale weights was
overturned and bath brick precpit.ted into the
room IRON !ho heights OF nowhere. On smother Sior-
miscellaneous articles deposited by trictsy
SpoOls IN the middle VI tho room Three eaIthenT~re
bowls sixteen fourteen and twelve inches in diameter,
which had been on the table were set top upward In
one a teakete from ths top OF tho stove, which,
with It's Contents weighed twenty pounds. In another
sconeopOt was found which bad bson on the shelf The
box itS side BASIN, which had been on II. WAS
moved considerable distance SUI containing water;
POI had ranged itself the kettle that one nght
nOl call the other names Bu. or all the attacks upon
TIC poor rl tho most serious that whon sh0 al
hims was made with tue blade Of an open l2ekknie
penetrating her clothing and cutting her back lady
Examined her back and aVeIrod tnat thS mysterious s
sassin drew blood.