New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-19

The horrors of the voyage of the Russian
prisoners TO saghaen 10 have been exaggerated
The St. Petersburg correspondent o. The Daiiy AeUs
says that from unofficial information which he has OBJ
tanned he to the conclusion that there IL no ruh
in the report that 2SO prisoners died board tho
Mini Noygorod aud that $50 were landed in dyiug
state He also thinks that 1t extremely improbable
that there was a single political prisoner board tho
ship, and that instead OF there being 700 PERSONS on
board there were only 59O none OF whom were women
A French collegian named DOumc, son Of
lady teacher at the Conservative, shouted "VIye 10
ROiw the prize distribution OF the SOrbOnne fort
night ago. Some papers say that he educated by
Jesuts, and others represent that it was the Marsts
who responsible for the education OF this bold
youth The Pays declares that both these accounts are E'
accurate young fellow having been brought mp NJ the
Lyc6e F0ntaues. and giving his name as Rene Darwin
leading article devoted to the subject In the Temps
The deduction It draws the somebody's shout Of
Long live the KING IS that the most opposite Qpn-
ions united beneath the roof 81 the university ltbe-
lives that the boy Is the son Lcgitimst parents and
that he ala not utter the cry simply for iun
p. T. Barnum assures THE TRIBUNE that
the shOwmen in Cincinnati who have been summons
ing him for the last four years, claiming $4,000,
5000 900 and last IN Chicago 1900 900 damages have
withdrawn their suit and thrown up the sponge. 1t
appears that when nows Of tho last "summOns reached
Cincinnati TIE PLAINTIFF counsel slegraphed their Chit
caco attorneys dismiss the suit 4" as II was brought
by mistake" These shOwmen never asserted that Mr.
Baruum hired men nture their property In any shape
What they claimed was that in affirming that they sur
repttiouy obtained eectrotypes OF MS show-cuts and
copied his bills in order the public he injured
their business and was guilty OF libel These never
served "a writ on him. They merely left a summons
with hIm which any man with dollar can 90. They
never gave security for costs nor eNaced security rom
hun Their summons had Doen three times thrown ou5
of court and they never OOt0lned Yerdct against MN
for q peuny. Their attorneys say tue case is ended.
There has been an imprOmpCu wedding in
tho Office OF Squire Hoeper II Dubuque. The bride
WAS sixty to month although she only confessed tho
soft impeachment OF torty-seven and the bridegroom
was forty-seven. The bride arrayed in a faded
black alpaca dress, without ornamentation Around
her neck she wore white linen pOcket-handkerchef,
aud on her aged bonnet, with white fril
in front on her she wore pair OF brassbo1nd
spectaces through which she peered ourousy first ar
the Squire and then at the bridegroom, while the
ceremony was going After the man or law Lad pro-
nounced the happy pair man and wife In his most i'm
pressye manner he addressed the bride and eoDgratu
lated her upon the event The old lady replied that she
believed she could get along with her man. She said
she was not IA I'm the marriage buslness-haviu9
Ind two husbands before this She had talked this
matter over with him, and had given him t. understand
that n he didn't behave himself she wOuld throw him
over the fence. said had only known her nus
band three days. but had married him on the recommen
dation OF her cousin II the husband dd not prove
good and kind oue she would go for her cousin, and
the cousin would in turn, make things lively for the nus