New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-21
GENERAL NOTES.

Tho population of California Is $4,000 less
than that OF Philadelphia
A grocer in Auburn, CAL, sent some clothes
10 n washerwoman to be Iaundricd. The woman found
in the pockets OF the trousers $4,000 In bills. and
promptly returned tho money to tue owner what dii
the grocer He gave her bar or soap and thanked
her.
A terrible balloon accident occurred at Le
Mans on July NJ. and Nine. Petit were making their
seventh ascension from the Quinconce des Jacobns in
large balloon, under which was smaller one contain
ing their son. age fourteen. When they had reached
height about 400 metres the large balloon burst and
fell rapidly. NJ Petit most dangerously wounded
and removed TO the hospital In hopeless STATE Nine
Petit escaped with bruises AS Tor the SOD, hs
made his descent without any accident.
Memphis is the only city in the United States
which shows positive decrease OF population daring
the decade. In 1870 its population was 4O226 nowis
is 49, 200 The contraction OF the city limits and the
ravages yellow fever account for this result Charles
ton has remained almost stationary the rate OF Increase
being only per cent. Savannah has done lit'io
better the rate OF increase being per cent. New
Orleans has run up from 101 AIS TO 2lo,l23 az per
cent? Mobile from 034 to 35,037 10 per cent? Hich-
mond from 5lO3S to 62500 (22 per cent? Nhsn'ihe
from % sos 43377 1917 per cent?, and Atlanta IRON
n to- SSoU as S e sr ontrppsd by Boston with
rate OF 40 per cent. Washington, Fronting ny ue an
as ne, cent and. with population of 100000 Is now
the eleventh city IN the Unlon Wing.oS 81, nas
q population 81 oo'ooV' L"u''''o - ~
from 1O0,753 to 1906.
Hostilities in Thessaly and Eprus may be
the beginning of the end OF the Ottoman Empire III Eu'
rope In Vienna 1t is confidently ANTICIPATED that no
sooner will tho Hellenic troops have crossed me OLD
Greek frontier to take OF the coded dia-
trIcts than Pan insurrcction Will break out
In Ruo.ria and East R0umea. The sum OF 5000 900.
recently advanced by Government OF Prince Alex
ander 10 East Roumeia for agtaon PURPOSES II 70 DC
repaid in SIX months, with per cent interest In the
interval however which Will eapse before u ias due,
people in the two States expect that general rising IN
fovpr of their union Will taken place One or the
signs OF the noted in the TACT tha Tue secretary
sfantnopls AleEo himself Who regarded the Porte
with great disTust, would not leave DIS pOst Dut M
surnmon Turkish troops to East Rou,nell although
uuder the Berlin Treaty 1t would be his imperative duty
TO do so.
An Englishman, who had most respectable
earance and seemed be a Of means was sum-
moncd TO London police court fortnight ago 10 an
swer q charge rioous behavior in the Church Of ST.
Michael during Divine service. AT o'clock the de-
PENDANT went the church to partake OF the sacra-
ment When lie found that the element presented 10
bin was what IS termed wafer" bread nc flung 1t TO
the ground declaring 1t to be not bread, but "bas-
phemous mass" Tie congregation were naturally scan
dalized and by OF the more militant among them
the defendant summariy elected from the sacred
edce not before, however, he had secured the wafer
or o portion of it, Subsequently the vicar or 81 Mi
chaes called OIL him, and very amcaby tried to induce
him TO return the fragment Even when the case came
before the magistrate the clergyman offered to forego
proceedings defendant wOuld surrender what re-
maiced of a symboca disc mode OF -four and water.
The defendants solicitor however, said that his client
declined to make the concession GemGnded The magis-
trate being OF opinion the defendants conduct had
been calculated TO wound the feelings and disturb the
devotOns OF the woIshppers at St McnaeFe inflicted
the full penalty Of $685. but offered ut the suggestion VI
the pacabe vicar to remit the 1ne III tue YIer were
restored This defendant obstinaey refused 10 do
The Tucson (Ar.) Star wrinkles with sidereal
ustre in the armament of Western Journalism. Tue
miners are enlightened datly after this fashion: And
now the railroad along Ike giant anaconda,
embracing the continent In its COLL and its poDderous
machinery brea,hes the vitality of civilization In sonor
ous respiraions breaking the silence OF the desert and
awakening the OF the mountains for the
first time since planet commenced It's revolutions IN
the universe The name OF the blder OF the Chinese
Wall lost IN the Asian mytery Eleven Of solid
masonry not served TO preserve the name o. the
builder OF the Pyramids of elijah. They were OF no
benefit TO the human But the names OF tho build
era OF roads arc immortal. The Monaghan shepherd
VIII show you the road which GenSbls hban maze
through the Nankon Pass The Swiss peasant will guide
You by Hannibal across the ALPS;
and the verest yOkel III England, watching bis Kline
aze over Salisbury Paln from the ia as OF S0neDengc,
Will question, VINO Dult tlas ROAD 10 the
heights or Old Sarum Caesar. The typical New
Z.aander in crossing this continent by The southern
Pacific Railroad thousand years hence 10 visit the
rufus OF London will stop at the Casa GIande and ASK
descendant OF the Pima I3dians who built the citadel OF
that name and the gentle WEI replT ia the soft
dialect OF his tribe. Pmac'h Il dost know; but ask
him who built the Southern Railroad and TIC Guild Oh
centuries Will answer, CrocAer"