New-York tribune., 1879-12-18
GENERIL NOTES.

A lady had been grossly insulted in tn,
Evansville frequently, and determined upon
revenge. She armed herself with hatchet, ana the
Insult being repeated she drew her hatchet and sunkt
i'm The check Of the blickguard, making a cash five
inches long, and cutting thrcagh the bone.
IL is not often that q man is killed by
meteor. DAVID Meseuthaier atOckman, OF Whltestone,
Kansas lately while driving bis to the barn early
In The morning. struck by aerolite ami Instantly
killed. The stone il described as abeu, the size Of
common waterbucket, and u was formed of iron pyrcs.
Fnc was frariuly mutiisted.
The heirs and trustees of DR.. LIE MOyne
will permit the Of his furnace for cremation pur
poses. II fired up last Monday TO be in readiness
for a corpse from SeW-York which expected 20
rive Tuesday II is said that more Than fifty persons
nave by letter opened negotiations or being burned in
that furnace. The do not wish advertise,
but they have answered that the furnace would oe
ready 1t any time.
A boy named Roach was burned to death
with oil Of vUo AT tAe Continental Mines, scran-
PENN on the 1871 INST file had been sent to Tay-
orvlle OH of yitTio for "A sick mule. He boug1 II,
put IL in his pocket aud started back horse
back IL supposed that the cork worked out OF the
bottle aud the deadly fluid soon penerared hs clothing,
and reached bis dsh IL L. prooabie that he iel nom
his horse. the NAL back ridrFless. lie
died
The Regents of California University have
declared themselves against I'll societies, aud
require students on entering the Institution TO refrain
from Joining any such while under the college rule.
The occasi,uec considerable feeling but
far disturbance. The z, ia Psi. of the most
spectacle Greek letter societies, has property valued
$4,000: for which considerable debt was inc rred.
This process Of extinction. The acion Of tie
Iacut leaves the society embarrassed condition,
the association lett bankrupt.
A singular railroad accident occurred on the
eyenin OF the Ijsh inst the Atlantic express train
Just as It reaching Clyde n. Y. "DOwn breaks "
had been wh.sted but the speed OF the train not
much diminished. when a young woman who had sp.
paTenty been asleep started grnsped her bundle.
ran to the platform OF the car and without waiting
Information. jumped from tho train. Her body rolled
and tumbed over and over and the bundle IN her nand
was in two beneath the wheels Hall dozen sleep
inc cars passed her as she lay Just outside the rails upon
the OF she found he badly bruised
but seriously injured. She supposed that tue train
had made the HIATT At clyde aud that she had been car
rled "a short distance beyond her stopp place. she
refused Ia tel her name.
The alliance between the negroes and the
Readusters 10 the debtpaying larty
In Virginia II said that these combined elements are
about to dispace all the County Judges IN the
they will replace with those Of their following
The purpose Of this ac.ion the revenues
from taxation on real estate ard personal pro-
perry. Moreover the county Judges are on
GERS OF great political importance and by Tho
substitution OF their judges the eoaonists 10 eto
gain control OF the whole political machinery OF tie
state aud elect in two years the Governor and new
LEGISLATURE The Legislature then elected will appoint
"a new Court OF Appeals which vii reverse
the decision OF the present court Is serious ques
ton wifh the debt-paying party whether can afford
ever again To make fight upon the debt question.
It Is sad TO be probable thst on January
there will he money the State Treasury To meet
the interest fall II isnOr believed that the
new Auditor would apply any money TO that purpose
General Mahone's election is victory OF the
Rcadusters In the vrgnia legislature. he having been
unanimously nominated by them In caucus on the even
ing OF the 18th. He born In Southampton va III
1927 was graduated from the virginia Military insli-
tute In sl7 aud afterward aatl the outbreak OF tne
war OF accession devoted himself 10 civil engineering.
He WINS constructor OF Norfolk aud Petersburg kai-
road. He embarked In the secession movement; 'ooA
mart In the capture OF Norfolk Navy Yard IN 1851
raised and conmanded the 9th Virginia Regiment anu
was with In OF battles In the Peninsula Ca
pagn those OF the Rappahau mock and those arouna
Petersburg. He made both Brigadlef oenc anu
Naior-tieneral In the year 1854. and afterwsrd COM
mapd corps Hills Diyislon. Al the close Oh tne
war n. returned Co railroad engineering and became
president OF tho Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Lne
which afterward into tho hands OF receiver, M
soon after tho close OF the war; he was looked upcs
ouits conservative. but recently has been 10 poa~
sympathy with tho Democrsts and she n
l OF the Rapudiatfon party, whoss oandiaa0 -
4 the last QubornatoriAi Convention