New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-27
GENERAL NOTES.

A large deposit Of kaOlin has. according to
The Nec orleans Democrat been discovered a farm
near Bremond Texas IL said TO be clay OF excellent
quality, aud suitable Tor the finest porcelain ware
lIquor-dealer in Norwich, Conn, on being
prosecuted Tor selling liquor Illegally saId to the prose-
cutting agent: You did not send your officers to my
Mace any TOO quick II mi-eraDle business. Yol
came jusI in time b. me am obliged to you
The act to provide punishment for carrying
concealed deadly weapons. which now awats the Cow
ernors approval to law Of he STATE OF south
Carolina. imposes a max mum penalty Of 5000 hue, or
one years imprisonment, both. aud further and
more severe punishen in the offender is convicted
Of assault with the prohibited weapon
The latest new departure in the City of
the Caesars IS return classical funeral rite,
nation, the Roman Communal Council having granted
site to company for the purpose OF erecting furnace
wherein the descendants OF Eneas be resolved INTO
ashes ac'ofdtI the rites WIEN wnleh that palrcn
houored the remains OF his drowned felow-wandereT.
An attempt is to be made to accllma'He
cinchona in Italy, ia which country the annual con.
SUMPTION Of duinue amounts to 22500 pounds. Ths
present annual production OF qunine estimated as fol
lows throughout the world America, $4,000 rounds;
Germany, 5000 pounds, ltaly $4,000 pounds france
10000 pounUs; England $1,000 pounds; Indld l-''Oo
pounds.
For Christmas decorations this year the
citizens OF Philadelphia used 10 900 trees 100000 yards
of anre and other wreaths and 900 barrels Of moss
costing in the aggregate about $4,000 to say nothing
of vast stores OF holly and flowers. The trees c"ma
nI1ucp ty from Maine and laurel and NOES from
the swamps Of NewJersey.
The cause of the scarcity of salmon this
year is a mystery to those interested IN pIscicuure.
That not the result OF excessive depletion evident
the fact that the FISH numerous last year
for many previous years Nor has other explain
alton prove satisfactory. while tn mystery
by fact that cod which travel nearly on
the same line With salmon. are unusually abundant
ElOpements are not encouraged IN Kentucky
by judicious parents A young lady in Falmouth, who
recently undertook to leave her home IN this romantic
overtaken by her angry father and literally
whipped home few nights after she repeated the
tempt and her father went after her with a shotgun,
firing and sending some buckshO unpleasanty
her ear The fuglves escaped by hard hiding and
now happy as doves.
For few days past Philadelphia has been
enjoying a corner in seds," a mercantile combination
hitherto unknown. 1t appears that account of
scarcity of aud small demand for boys eds for
the past two winters. large stocks not kept by
dealers and the recent snow-stOrms caught them
short" Manufacturers strove 10 meet the demand,
prices forced 10 more than double the usual
cost OF a hand-sird
A riot between the gallery and the orchestra
occurred some nights ago the Theatre des Nations,
Paris. The play "Garibadi." and the gallery gods,
fearful of ITS condemnation in the morning papers.
opened a fusiiade upon Nm Francsque Sarcey. Yitu,
and other critics, the munitions OF consisting OF
beans and brickbats decayed vegetables and defunct
quadrupeds arguments TO which NJ. Sarcey complains
test finally decided against both parties, and cleared tho
house.