New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-02
GENERAL NOTES.

One Of the English election phrases for which
there equivalent in the United States Is plump
Ing" Wherever constituency returns two members
each voter give vote each to any two candidates
but he cannot give his two to any candidate
date and this is termed pumping"
| The steady going old Journal of COmmercecan.
stand the advance In paper It accordingly advances
subscription rate SIS per year. for its SIX Issues
each week. Other journals, which made the mistake of
reducing rates what was already the cheapest thing
sold in America the daily newspaper are preparing
The arithmetic men out West are getting in
training for the next election. The Chicago Tnes com.
putes that II r. Vanderbilt should constantly renvest
and comDOund bis Income from his present 81 invest.
ment in Government bonds he might, without living to
be very old man. come to have the whole national debs
owing to him. This seems startling prediction
The Buffalo Express pushes II step further: Suppose
that Mr. Vanderbilt having acquired tho whole Of our
nations" mortgage should take L into his head 70 fore
own the whole United States"
A Bohemian inn1eeper was bitten some
weeks ago by his own housedog. Unwilling to kill the
animal he consigned to the town gravedgger enjoinina
that solemn person take Of 1t until further orders
few days laor the innkeeper attacked by HYDRO
phobil, and ded in excruclaing agony. The sanitary
authorities applied to the Rravedgger for the mad dog
committed to HIS usody. Their astonshmen, NAV he
readily conceived than described when tho sexton
calmly observed 1.-The mad dogt have eaten him 70
shoS e is S TT n 70
pei not only that n man Of strange appettes had
had agreed with him.
Statistics cited by Tho Pail MdH Gayeffe
show that there 15s040 members Of religious orders
in France-127,753 women and 30,297 men-the i'm.
majority belonging to authorized orders There
4i6 associations OF men, only SO of which are author
lied but the members OF the 80 far numerous
than the 4l6. the Brothers" alone COUNTING 20341
mi min izod
count 74i4 members. Including Jesuis; aud, In addt
ton TO tho Jesuts, the Dominicans, Frapciscaps
BarefoOed Carmelites, Capuchns, Trappis.s, kedemp
florists. Eudists Marsts Oblates etc. The number OF
belonging TO authorized orders s 75O and TO
unauthorized orders only 140O3. uf, therefore. the
Government connc their operations to persecution Of
unauthorized ORDERS thay will have over 81 900 paraona
To prosecute. Tho Conservatives their side, hold
oat will, DC @e n ri inconsistent n for republican
II they have never been repealed, entirely nj va
ample now Republican GSvernnent could eaio l nn
edict OF 1862 iorbidiing Jesuits to within ten
A prOSpectOr who has spent some time in tho
Eagle River country Colorado, thinks there are plenty
OF paying MINES there In q recent private letter
extracts from which published In Tho REGISTER.
Call of Central City, he says: "Tnero are
fow people who know how many
paying mines there are on tho Eagle
Prospectors getting sharp to blow about good
""'' as locations around
md odjoining 1t as they want. They woud rather
take trip to Leadve. and sell small interest to
some OF their friends and get grub stake aud 10 back
and work away anu get all the territory they can There
arc not less than 200 claims being worked
between Eagle City and Red elf. n were 20 nenuon
Tho lanes Of the hundreds OF good pairing mines on the
north side OF tho Eagle River would DO breach Of
confidence, and tho prospectors would be very
apt to put hemp necktio around my neck and swing
NE 10 the first limb of tree that could 10 found The
act 49, there VIII be no profits realized until there ara
,Ome smelfers built There will be six smelters on the
Eagle River inside OF six months. Battle Mountain
Hone can htnish enough or ore from tho Clinton and
Belden mines at the press mt time tO keep two ty-t0n
meters ut work constantly day and night, besides
10 Mountain and nos much said about them. The Hay.
len Mining company OF Central City smart enough
% get twenty claims on close to The fnr.fam16
eagle, from which they VIII realize millions OF doiars5
$3.50 TO u, 900. ~