New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-11
GENERAL NOTES.

The census man has struck something in.
terestng away down East In Oidtown, Me. He has
found and " enumerated" a youth twelve years old,
named Joseph H. Fortier He is the fifth in succession
bearing the same name further circumstance Is that
each OF the five the first born, and all five were
born on the arst day OF April
Thaddeus Tanney, brakeman, can save a
wOmans life when lie tries few days ugo while he
sitting the pilot Of moving locomotive near
SusQuehanna, In this State, hesaw woman walking
the track few rods ahead of the tran he gave leap
from the head the pilot landing safely his feet
He like deer up the track and reaching the
selZed her with hercuean effort and threw her OF the
track The engine was By this time within fow feet Of
him. MASTERING all his siren 9Th he despt
bound ana landed safely among the bushes along the
| track
The moral Of "Over the Hills to the Poor.
house is pointed by The Miners Journal. OF Potts
| vile. Thirty years ago DR.. Benjamin Becker had
lucrative practice and large income He was
centric man and had many hobbies, upon which be
| squandered his fortune. Ten years later he had
amassed another fortune which was also lost N vision
arg schemes As years rolled be became too old to
hold his practice. which fell of until he could not make
enough supply himself and wife with the
o. lite One day last week. when be was nearly eighty
Of be aud hs wife were removed to the aims
house TO be cared for by the county until death should
come.
A society for the repression of duelling has
been formed in Camden. 8. c. The OBJECTS TO
regulate and the public opinion and moral
Of the people TO true perception of the crmi
naty of the wicked and perncious practice to take
measures procure adjustment OF personal Difficult
ties which might tend 10 induce duel, and TO aud
enforce all legal means OF preventing" dueing Judge
Kersbaw Maor-General in the Confederate SERVICE is
the president. The Charleston He1s and Courier
sders that the maia benefit Of the society will be the
moral effect OF the example Of body OF gentlemen who
deliberately repudate the socaed Code OF Honor aud
who determined that the State law against duelug
shall NJ longer be dead letter whoever sends or &C:
IA plAliA In Hyhf wi 6Qn nf
the right OF suffrage and be disabled forever from hold
will be imprisoned in the Penrentisry for NOT
exceeding two years"
DR.. George l.. Porter, an army surgeon, who
examined the bodies Of the conspraors at Washington
1861 been trying bring body Of an execu-
ted murderer life In Bridgeport, Conn. He coufeses
his failure to the Medical Society after this fashion:
"The electrodes applied, to the right and
left snper-"Iavcuar space, and the other the
gIon or the heart This the supreme moment, for
could the central engine Of organic life be
motion and the stream OF blood freely pass
out OF the lungs, the problem OF living az
satisfying the penalty OF the law would have been
successfully solved In favor OF Hoyt, and many VI the
questions OF theoretical physiology and many Of the
mises Of that unknown country from whose bourne
traveller has before returned might DO answered. Fur
science, hs return to life would have accomplished
many stops In her royal progress for the examiners
proper repue, connected with the great discovery
Slowly the thorac:c walls expand the lungs diate
long breath drawing In the atmospheric air. then the
electrical current interrupted horacic cavity is
diminished and the air expelled respl.
ration has been completely performed. Again the bat
terry applied and the enters and leaves the
mngs the flame OF candle Is dra wn toward the lips
and blown away; the muscles all. one, obey the
mysterious power Of elecl rcity, but that one, the
MODEST OF them all upon whose acton the neurishment
OF all 80 largely depends rested mOOnless In the perl
cardium like Achilles m his tent. and no Pairoclian
death or indgny to the other corporate would
arouse IL from is stupOr Thus far ana farther
tie fat Of lower greater than The fame OF the
lamp Of that life had gone out What Othe0 spoke to
reaZud."