New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-10
GENERAL NOTES,

There was q carrier pigeon race in Europe
July 20 Forty eight birds started from London
O'Clock Tor Cologne. The winning bird reached he
Rhen sh city at second beforel2 CLOCK, hOu
so minutes and 90 seconds after leaving the British cap
ita.
Dr. Pusey agrees with Canon Farrar on an I'M.
portant question. He declares that &c Is not dogma
dc tide that those who die IN state Of sin cannot ps
reclaimed hereafter Canon Fsrrsr replies that tbs
all he has asserted In his sermons Oh eternal pun
ishment.
Mgr. Capel narrowly escaped being sent 10
prison in London fortnight ago. He was to have been
examined as bankrupt In Portugast. When his mans
called he did not On its being called asaa
his counsel appeared for him. and had to apologize for
his absence which owing to misapprebension ID,
registrar was very angry and would only be appeasSa
by the promise OF formal affidavit OF excuse.
The Auditing Committee of the Irish he
lief Association OF ST. LOUIS at meeting held last See'
submitted report of the funds collected aud distributed
and In resolution appreciative OF Mr. James ReGpasSs
services through his letters to THE TKIBUsE appopa
hun The almODer OF the money remaining Ia the hanes
the association 10 be expended by him among tho pop"
OF Isanaddy. Tee total 0monlt collected was VIZ
Ill 5O amount dsbursed, sl3,os3 Gs. leaving oaiADo'
Of Sl27 81.
Russia is continuing her military and naval
preparat on but the danger OF Immediate ou1ores'
OF war with China has been averted There now seems
every probability that negotiations Will be resuinedw
garding the Kuldja difficulty. Tie Pekin Government
has proclaimed its anxiety to preserve peace Sha Wv
MARQUIS Tseng has been ordered resume negol'
that negotiations would be moro hopeful II carried @
at PekIn though this hardly be Insisted upon ua"
it becomes rock In the way OF peace
From law advertisement In the London
newspapers II appears that the Will OF the late Ma
Helen Jane Gladstone. sister OF the Prime Minister
missing. The administrators OF the deceased lSH'
estate who the Premier and sir Thomas Gladstone
are I'm possession OF Documentary document cxecdpu
by her lar back 1882, but they have reason "
eve that another Will executed by the deceased
Rome or elsewhere about four years aficrwsrd u
tins will thai Is missing ana Information Pp c,crs
advertised for by the adninlstr it0Fs e""o"'
Miss Gladstone died at CoOgne last year.
The colOrod people of Halifax, Va re.
Gently held religious assembly and large numo'r u
them gathered daily in close proximity to me "e'
melon patch owned by white man IL was notcoU 2"
the owner that his melons rapidly tsappeAn"'
and he connected their absence with the presence
the negroes. Thereupon no put up large piaoaId ~
the wammgt " Look out These wateimeions ~'
poisoned !" Naturally enough tne colored people tho
tins sign was Intended merely 10 frigAton tbeu' ana
number Of them did not hesitate 10 attack t"e news
The result fatal to negro. AMI EFF four ori
others In critical condition. The Mcons cobt1",es
sJrychnno Introduced into them through Puhe1"''
tbe hind so Slnal. a. 10 escape obseiVatOn
serious difference seems To have arisen
between Germany aud the Grand Ducal Governments
Luxembourg. A French company obtained Toe CIV
eesson Of railroad to be constructed between the o
fortress of Luxembourg and the small fortified o"h~
Longwy situated IN tho North OF France TIE "o'.
had been begun; objection hat been raised TO u U'
the beginning OF July. when the German GoYernme'.
made pole mptory demand for the immediate shP'
slou OF the work. Explanations were tenderesi "'
Luxembourg Govern protested It had no ln'ch"'
OF sinking the Treaty obligations Of 1867, tuA' Wv
fortress had been demolished. as tho guaran'oe"s
Powers might see for themselves, and that Of con'Ss
therefore there was necessity for stopping the Vo'