New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-26
GENERAL NOTES.

| A farmer living near Watervliet, N. T., had
not been TO church in fifteen years Last Sunday hs
went and pleased with the When be entered
his house surprise awaited him. Thieves had broken
and stolen bis watch and hi: money viii
Three blind girls went out for walk in
st. Louis last Saturday. They reached the intersec
ton OF Eighth and st. Charlessts, where the founda
lions OF large building being Laid The excava-
ton was twentyfeet deep and extended to the curb
stone The poor sghtess girls unconscious Of the dan
ger and before any could them. walked over
the edge Of the hole, and shrieng loudly, precipt
tated 70 the bottom The workmen who witnessed the
ghtfu fail rushed to the helpless girls and
procured, and after q short time they recovered.
The Spectator considers the phraseology OF
Mr.. G!adstones letter udged. lille the substance
cords important political There can be
doubt that Austria was swerving toward policy Of
annexatonsin the Balkans, which has been abandoned
mainly in consequence of Mr. Gladstones accession
power. That change Of purpose 10 now officially re-
corded. and in view OF 1t Mr. Gladstone afford to
greet expressions which made Count KarolyPs position,
personal we'll as political, very difficult. Neverthe.
less regret this first evidence that the Liberal Gov
It so necessary maintain Lord Beaconseid would
have defed Austria 10 three campaigns and made her
exclaimed: What herop"
After the "bump supper" at the University
inflated with wine and boysh spirits, screwed in Mr.
Chayasse the Senior Proctor other Dons arred
their doors The authorities called upon the under
graduates to give up the offenders names, and on their
refusal rsticated them all-eighty In number-except
those actually under examination. The screwug.up OF
college Don In his rooms Is practical Joke lmmemor-
ally dear TO the undergraduate mind That which dis
tngushes present episode from others the
the object OF attack not q mere college Don, but
superior officer Of the university In whose case the out
rage would naturally be resented not only by the Pres
dent and Fellows, but also by the Chancellor and
Masters and In word. the whole stan OF officials
whom the discipline or the academic BODY entrusted
The Senior Proctor s dgnitary inferior 10 position to
resentatve OF the executive force OF the corporation
Nevada's first nugget was mined witk 49,
butchers knife John Orr started across the plains
1849. The roads bad, the weather worse and
he obliged to remain through the Winter at Salt
Lake. In April he resumed bis journey He had part
ner named Nick Kelly after whom Kelly's Ravine Is
named, and In the company was William Prouse, now
living In Nurb CITY, about forty miles southeast OF Salt
Lake. Prouse had worked In mines before gold was dis
covered IN Coloma, and was good prospector One
day the train stopped the edge OF what now known
Gold Caon the Carson River TO let the animals
feed on some bunch grass found growing among the
sage brush. Prouse at noontime took milk pan and
going down to the guch began washing dirt, in few
minutes getting color TO the value Of few cents Orr
then named the place Gold Canon The train after
resumed travel going 70 the nead OF tue carson valley
There they met party Of seven, who had left the rain
at the sink OF the Humboldt intending to In advance
TO California and select good locations for the remaindef
Of the party They had been unable 70 the
try and had been lost In the IN the mountains four
or ve days, unable and the divide TO Hangtown.
stay In CARSON for thfcs weeks followed, when Orr.
Kelly and several ornefs to Colo Canon and
sumed prospecting. Kelly and Orr went up the canon
until little fork reached when work begun.
The party had few tools. and Orr had nothing but
knife. While Kelly working he noticed very
place ut the fork wafer barely covered
slab Of slate rock. Idly he examined IL, and noticing q
small oreyice near the edge drove the knife into II,
breaking piece The water running it washed
away the underlying dirt, and In few seconds no dig
covered gold nugget where the rock had covered It.
II quickly removed and afterward found weigh
So 90 This was on the LIST OF June 1850 nearly thirty
years Prospecting continued and though gold
dust found In several places throughout the caon
Orrs the only nugget He still has it IN his posses
zion, the first found IN Nevada.