New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-07
GENERAL NOTES.

1t is not generally known that Secretary
schurz very nearly being caught with Thornburga
in the MIX River corral. lie wanted TO go to the Ute
Reservation aud Agency TO quiet the quarrelsoIne
braves. and made partial arrangements TO 60. but
turned aside into the Indian Territory in order tokcep
a prior promise. n lac had followed Assistant POST
master General Tyner he might not have escaped 50
easily.
A question of nearly ten years standing has
az last been disposed OF IN Boston. IL is the
question which has So long obtrnded Itself tho
deliberations OF the Medical Society. Attempts
have repeatedly made to the admission II
women TO membership. hut conservatism, Away OF
rigid tyne I'm this organization turned lily each
time from the proposed innovation. Year by year pro-
gressye spirit has gained ground among the ranks Of
younger members aud last wednesday at A meeting of
the Council the Board OF Censors very quietly
directed examine all female applicants for admission
The young members very happy over their victory;
tue older accept II Win what good nature tnry
can but insist that does public and
Is said about IL the heller. II Is believed
that very few female members will result from this de-
cisiJn.
1t is reported that Senator Davis. of West
Virginia. VIII Introduce into the next Congress bill
caueelnng the loan made by the United States to tho
several States In 1887" which amounted to the snug
SOS Ol GA o. OF this amount. nearly onehalf
distributed to thc Southern statcsand rerhaI rho
fact that hoy have only quarter tho popu-
hilton OF the country aud eighth OF the wealth
counts their willingness to cancel the debt" The
reason which Davis Is represented urging
this extraordinary cancellation Is that keeping
81 the debt 4 useless To the Treasury
Department The trHing circumstance that Illinois,
which has property amounting To S2.l2l 6SO579 got
only Si77.9l9 of the money. while Virginia which has
only SiO95ss 1888 worth 81 property. a-t 81 l9si27 ~
the money-that Is that Virginia got about twenty-five
times much "a Illinois IN proportion To her wealth
possibly Interfere with this phanthropic scheme OF
Senator Davis.
John Wise, Jr., n grandson of the aeronaut.
present a. tho ascent IN -. Louis and
yet has great anxiety Tor the fate OF his grand
father. lie writes his father In Philadelphia that
Professor Wise very much iaigucd a the time tho
balloon went up aud says he believes that II
down forest when the Professor asleep.
that he Is lost Michigan prairie. The balloon
was In good order. II Professor Wise. and Burr tho
bank teller. prairie. they will, In the nature Of
the ease be time IN getting ont. They had u
pass with them and plenty OF matches by mears OF
berries and game, which abound In Michigan. they
might 1--we In forest several weeks As each day. how
ever. makes Il probable that Wise and hts com
paniOn have been lost the disaster recalls the
similar fatal ascension of Donaldson, and the strange
pamphlet which Wise published year after the death
Of that daring aeronaut This puiported to be tho
diary OF Donaldson the voyage. hut written by
Wise rom his experiences, aud his conJectures Ok