New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-13
GENERAL NOTES.

| The San Francisco working people are Ia.
ginning to find out Kearney. At a msssmeeting had
ten days aeo no was denounced by speaker asta1
another One of them threatened TO produce Chin.ss
| accountbook, which would show that Kearnsy. vt1
money collected the Sand Lot had paid for wsshpS
done At Chinese laundry. This horrible pleasanr}
| general that Kearney must 90,
The first diminishing In the war between
Russia and China took place In Terk Pass where thi
troops Of the Car defeated with considerable oss
and being driven back to Klzu Khursan, distance Of
twenty miles. again worsted, with loss u
stores and ammunition The Chinese have
their army and they have considerable feet Of gui
boats but there Is no reason 10 believe that they will ID
able to stand against the conquerors OF Pevna, ~
their ports against successful attack by the Rus
enemy IL the asid AZ the beginning OF the war iSs
inexhansuoie numbers may enable them 10 onef mos
or less determined resistance.
The Passion play In Oberammergau wM
enacted June 81 Sunday, under peculiar dieulteS
Five thousand persons for hours IN drenchng aa
cold mist in order 700 performers 20 THROUGH
their trying task soaked 10 the skim and with their wee
garments STICKING close TO them In manner which
made free graceful notion hopelessy impossible
Plate was in dreadful state. Water flowed from h
diadem like rain from roof He told esponden>
privately, after the pay over, that he felt as h
never could get through with his part his were
half blinded with the rain, and he quite unable
papage his sosFe drapsry with the dignity for which
overcrowded, and. as thousands could find no place,
there proposal for repetition OF the play on Mon
day.
Granted that DR.. Tanner can go without
his yictuals for forty days. he will not be famous ssok
iasts as this are ordinary enough. bot country ex,
change laid the table that does not bear record Of
Them Even In the South, where there Ia so little enter.
prise, there is hero in every town who only eaa
twenty times year. and who has frequently tasted
forty days without the slightest degree Of per-
sonal discomforr. In Pensacola, Fla, for example,
there is pfous old who used 20 keep furniture
store, and who from religious motives has refralned
from eating anything for forty days and as many nghs
The number OF snperannuated IDIOTS and lndonitaos
crOnes who have disciplined their stOmachs for smas
periods is loosely estimated at lOOOOprovifed thsS
the country editors not ssrfeitInS their consueaS
Cies with tafry.
Public-spirted ladies in New-YOrk are SET
ting themselves to work to improve the tenemens
houses OF the worst quarters. Mrs. Mess sue
with her first houses in Mulberry and Parkts has
been than equaled In Gotham Court, which under
her has been cleared Of its dsreputabe
cupants, who have been replaced By more decent
derry and paying class OF tenants. The houses have
been put In good order, and q thorough reformation
made Two earnest ladies' have leased one OF the
buildings in the Five Points region. used as low cdg
inghOuse for the vilest class, with the inien,
tion OF changing It into decent and habitabe dwelas
The Sanitary Engineer, commenting upon the PRAISE
thropsts who talk and write about reforming
have little idea of the task which ladies' Lave
undertaken To put the place into even fair condition
has been a difficult work. Tho walls have had to 10
scraped and the whole building fun gated t. XIII tue
yermm and remove eontagiOn; The yard had 20 De re-
paved. an old shed used as bone house torn down. the
pryy oeaned out and school sink substituted A tbs
lease OF the place IL experimental, only temporary
changes could be made; but even these have tians-
formed It WITHIN and without"
A pointed remark dropped by the German
Chancellor at Of his soirees has rrated tue Free
He Is reported to have sadi IL Is easier
negotiate with the Jesuits, who sensible people,
than with the Freemasons who outwit the ceverest"
In the first instance notice OF this attack
but Herr WindthOrSt, having quoted Blsmarcks wC1ds
before the Commission charged with the examination Of
the bill relating to ecclesiastical affairs, the organ OF
the lodges has published an angry article. The FREQ
masons evidently see the words OF Prince Bismarck
the first signal for campaign against the lodges, for
the Ba,hihe proceeds TO say: We are sufficiently
we'll acquainted with the Imperial Chancelors tactics
to appreciate the value OF his words when he that
the Fleamasons are more dangerous chan the Jesuis
Whenever he has decided gage in struggle he al
ways announces it IN a similar 1t Is thus that
France warned on the eve OF the FrancoPrussian
war it is thus that the Imperial Chancellor aace Inc
Centre, and II again thus baj he warned the Liberals
before abandoning them. II is now the turn OF the
FfeemasOns. IL was Napoleon III. the great dipo-
mats', who taught him 10 sct this policy. Ths
FreemasOns. then. wish 10 oppose BISmaToks declare
solemn acts indie the adOptiOn
measures: First, international opposition o. the
united lodges or England France and Iay which would
be fertile Ia results. secondly. unanimous pfofessa
ton the part az the PTs'ian lodges, for Il 10
be hoped tBat the three great Pssian lodges Will en
ncumDent on them to protest ensrgeteay against thn
uncalled for accusation. Thirdly, action OF all Tho
heaIh> clements OF Fgeemasonry against Bismarck
policy