New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-05
GENERAL NOTES.

Just as a passenger on Hudson River train
had finished regng his noghbors with an account o.
runaway match his attention called % the fact That
the happy pair were occupying the seat Immediately In
front OF him Fortunately he had the sense not 10 Deg
their pardon.
The eighth annual soldiers reunion viii be
held this year no Cincinnati septemberJj. 10 and H.
These reunions, begun In Caldwell Ohio ia 1874 have
been Increasingly successful Last year Prsi TENT Hayes
Wa present IN 1879 General Garfield delivered an adj
dress, and doubt The President ~A Dc expected u AZ
tend The meeting again this year
The Abba Delta Phi Fraternity, which has
long occupied leading position among college societies
and includes IN i;s membership many distinguished
names, will hold It's forty-ninh annual convention with
The chapter ai Brown Univ orsity, Proyidce Tues
day and Wednesday, May "a aud 25. The Hon. John
JaYJudee Bradcy President Chase Of HaYerfod College
ana others viii make addresses ahd te ysitors Nh &c
entertained With an excursion down Aafrlgaiheit Bay
While the Legislature Of Ncw-York has been
TOYING with The question of REFORM Vermont hss put
into successful operation law which secures an eqhta
bic srssncnt Of personal property BY VIVA. Is called
the listing system tn valuation OF personal property for
the purposes Of taxation has been enormously increased
si of nine towns and cities, supposed 10 ne lAty rep
rcseniatiye OF the ate, has been phDlshs,l ~ Will
the valuation has i1cleascd from 95ilsUo IN le5Vt ~
-, ,ss7 IN 1851.
If Massachusetts is more fortunate than
other states IN the possession OF historical antiquities,
she Is nevertheless constantly subjected 70 tie pang Of
seeing them disappear with the march Of modern I'M
movements The Governor CradOck house, IN Aedford.
probably the oldest building standing within the limits
OF the thirteen original States f. to Dc sold AZ Gnciio On
the 18th n-t and there Is To fear that the land
on which It has stood for nearly two and bali CEN
turtles Ril know u no more forever lhr hntICi htt
ture was erected u 1884 IN The centre ot large estate
owned by rch merchant In IT. early days y SAs, no
Doubt. regarded an elegant nAnsDh' tuu oVbh nov ~
bears few marks OF decay.
The demand for sailors in San Francisco ex-
ceeds the supply wages have risen IN conS9 renee ana
several captain. have obliged 10 resort N Chinese
sailors. Captain Hutchinson, OF the English snip h"ck
Terrace has inst gone 20 with fourteen OF them e
expected to hire thom at moderate wages but the Willy
Mongoans had been apprscd Of the value q therser'
wees and after haggng went cheerfulg ON board
under contract for s2j month and three months pay
In advance Several ancient skippers declare that such
wages for the heather Is enough 20 make mariners
hair turn white IN night They say that II Al very
showed themselves be good sailors when subjected 10
preliminary Trial In port, but that Whcn STORM ores
on he viii repent Of his bargain In the meantime seYe,
raj ot her captains negotiating for Chnese nsn ana
don't seem In the e; dsmaycd AZ growing q tD' sort
A dismal picture of horrors the Philadelphia
Society Tor the Prevention of Cruelty 60 Children has
drawn Of the Philadelphia Alushouse and OF The found
ungr living. or rather dying tbore. Anything more
dreadful according 10 tho report than the locality Of the
Institution cannot be- imagined II n upon th' Danr OF
"A sluggish stream trbd and offensive with the outflow
~ numerou. sewers and factories. The surrounding
atu,sphere ck with malaria. The building IA badly
drained aud ventilated The walls saturated win
pertferous cfluyla." The nurses are igDOrant ana
clumsy pauper-. The diet Is bad The milk Is tlckened
with roe nour very deicer0us article or FOOD Tor
rlren rh rc is tax 81 taking the infants out of
tli- house hy hahcas corpus aud OF an huhncilOh 10
rrstrnin the ulhagrs from receiving any more nat "i
IN "a. siuft i,ory h0ad OF intelligent ladies l. recon-
mendrd Tbs touches the point exactly u nuch a
hnard rs Organized, thorough reform may be expected
and watch uDc-s made keen by love aud lily which
man eau seldom uoaSt "i'