New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-22
GENERAL NOTES.

A new feature in journalism has been in
PRODUCED by the Ga=sa dIaia of Florence In It's sum
day edition 1t folds sheets. complete III.
lie foupage paper Of Itself half the size Of the
sheet devoted to literature aud arr. and the other
Italy.
BY authority of the Post Office Department
the United States Official Postal Guide Is pub
lIshed monthly and copy Is furnished every post
master and employee OF the railway mail service Tho
January NUMBER fresh from the press contains
the general lists of post Offices, which to be pub
lisned hereafter only year. Th issne Is Of pecu
liar interest inasmuch as It contains Gil tho latest
rulings and information abOnt postal matters.
The mothers of Middlesex County, New
Jersey owe the local c-nakcr thanks In hts
anxiety TO publish complete chrorics OF local events.
he has introduced In The Fredonia Farmers imanae
list OF births during 1870. the OF the mother
being suppressed IN every instance and that Of fhs
father inserted in it, place. The marriages. deaths.
weather. aud criminal and political history receive
ample treatment at the bands Of this industrious com
Dler.
One of the chief sufferers by the recent FIRE in
Boston was tho Helioiype Printing Company, well
known byits reproductions Of famous artworks u losi
not only all ts stock, material presses, tools
Etc, but collection OF negatives representing
the accumulated hbors OF seven years. and
number Of ginal engravDgs and designs. The
hrli0type process practically introduced here 10
1872 by MrJ r. Osgood who purchased the patentsfo
inventor. Mr.. Ernest Edwards great many other pat
ents were afterwards secured important improvements
were effected and OF tho company increased
very rapidly The enterprise aud energy which founded
before the cindrrs cold the company work
again, making pictures OF the runs
The autopsy OF the remains of the woman
who starved herself 10 death IN Cincinnati has not
yeacd any materially diseased condition OF Tie stomach
The fact that lived for thirty days without using
any nourshment whatever would Justify the conclusion
that persons possessed OF strong wpOwer aud having
the hallucinatpn deluslon that they suffering
with Orgnnic disease bodily disorder may i've
untn the body 81 entirely consumed. This Indy
possessed great power Will, and she had dcus0n
that had no stomach. and Therefore made up her
mipd that she would not take food drink and con
tiuued in this condition until there general ex
haustion OF the neFyecenires aud mental faculties,
when she quietly into calm sleep and died with
out struggle The pathological condition 81 The pas
leading 10 the stomach ali BENZ normal wit' no
obstruction. and all the organs To- hrhty state ready
10 perform their various aices, would warrant the
fusion that this lady would have lived groat many
years she could nave been induced 10 artakc 81 SUM
cient nourishment tu sustain lie.
Ex-Mmister Washburne, in recent issue Of
The Chicago Tribune, took pains express the graft
tude OF me old of IRE Gaena lead mines 70 Mr.
Woodmau for rescuhg from oblivion tho buriaplace Of
Colonel william J. Hamilton. Tor twenty nine years
the grave had been unmarked la Mr. Washhufnes
words: " When tue careless eTaye-diggcr threw his
shOyeul- OF earth on me CONN n c newly made grave
probably be- nte realized that he closing IN, and
forever the mortal rcmans Of ot tie most Illus
ros man. many respects that ever shone out 10 me
annals OF our history. In lsl9. when the tide OF
emcrai set in Cor California from the Glona aud
Wisconsin, lead mines, Colonel Hamilton JonCi the
thrung H. OF te earliest settlers Of Wisconsin,
Territory, AMI had extensive mining aud smelling
works at what WAS then called HamilioEs Diggnc'.
now W.ots. LAFAYETTE County. Wis. The mining M
tercst Nsron.in becoming uuch depressed ho con
cl1ded % try hs fortune IN California. The iatigues OF
the trip ana The change OF climate proved too much for
him. His health soon began 10 fail. and h. lived but
little more than year after bis arrival In California
Faith and courage never deserted hun, and he con-
frontcd death with brave heart and unsubdued viii
Colonel Hamilton was man OF great naturni ability, "A
good education, and correct persona hsbts. lie was
indifferent the convent Qualities or life. aud pad no
attention the claims OF society. Sipyeuy aud
less IN hs dress be yet ceanlv N bis person, and
gentleman Away. -AOns out from under MS some
what uncOuth gsrt. Under all This eNie Tor be wore
golden heart IL The soul Of pr0bity and honor.
Just liberal. honest aud generous bis hand was aw'ys
~ Opcu day deeds of charity and bcncyOeuce"