New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13
late Thomas CARLYLE but he will first issue the frag
ment of the autobiography which Mr.. Carlyle left .
GENERAL NOTES.

From time immemorial children have eloped
from under their parents noses, II IL seldom that
frivolous widow Of sxtyhve Is compelled to circumveuo
her son by eopng Nash Bush. aged seventy fve LIVING
| IN the Catsklls, Kingston, wooed and won thu
widow Lockwood ten years his junior An obsterperous
son objected and turned his woudbe faibernlsw OUT
of the house. Nothing daunted Mr. Bush, IN letter "a
lis harris ide," closing with clever original versss
appointed a rendezvous on the public highway on sm
pon the Village Church, where tney
pronounced man and wife Just as the Troublesome son
man expects to treat his " awful dad decently.
Boston people are keeping close watch
upon tue elevated railroads OF this city thereby seqr
| ing store Of information bearing upon their own
The Boston Herald that IL will be difficult thing to
show that Boston needs an elevated railroad, and The
Transcript lntimltes the same It is probable that
other city Ia the world is we'll adapted to make ee
waited railroads NewYork The shape OF the
island, which, than any other cause, makes rents
within certain bounds and high everywhere.
sending the multitude as far uptown as their business
cal necessity But the utterly different with Bos
toD where nine surface railroads run within lalf ile
Of the Of the city, with branches tor local travel
A novel case was recently heard before the
Supreme Court Of Vermont at Rutland Cox, convicted
OF offence under the liquor law, was sentenced 10 pay
fine within twentyfour hours or be sent to the House
of Correction and during that time was placed in the
custody Of the Sheriff, who took him to the House Of
Correction for safe keeping. There Superintendent
Eayres prevailed him TO be committed at once aud
costs; whereupoD. against his protest. Cox
deprived OF his long beard under the rules OF tue
institution. throat resulted which endangered
his liie and Cox sued thu Superintendent for $4,000
damages At the trial last fall Judge Ross told the jury
that Cox had right to waive the twenty-fourshour
privilege, and the jury found for the defendant Tho
Supreme Court has reversed that decision Judge Pier.
pO,Dt holding IT, The law committed the prisoner fIo
certain time certain time. and that no power could
commit him before, that any one shaving hun without
bs before that tme liable and sent the
veldicr, as the proof OF the dam ige Is clear.
Every day some fresh fact proves that no
draw the line between eccentrcity and insanity.
has just died In Berlin at tho age OF eighty
two, no for nearly half century had lived In anoss
secuson, solitary female servant being the only
human being with whom she had held any personal
commune alton. This strange being, who Is supposed
have been crossed In love- rch and never denied
herself any luxury for which she cared but she
allowed her house furniture TO be cleaned She ay In
bed all day. rising Just DUSK and spent the night In
preparing sumptuOus meals for herself aud her CON-
panIOn she surrounded by dogs, cats aud birds,
aud slc caused every work zoology to be par
chased for her t published. After her
death il found that she had left handsome legacy
servant, aud all the rest VI her properly 10
erandDiece In England, to revert, after the atters
death asylum for dogs. For many years she wore
no body garment except q mans drcssing-govn. ON
one o0 she wore boot ana on tDe a Shsr ana
MN. Hage and Tegner, delegates of a so.
ciety OF Siberian founded at Copenhagen sent
Siberia for the purpose or establishing regular
muncation with Denmark report that they found that
VI stern Sb without being country OF the greatess
attractions yet vol up to its reputation The DANISH
explorers think thar It would be necessary for tho pres
eut year limit themselves to sending TO Siberia two
or three ships freshted with merchandise but TO pur
without interruption the investigation OF local condi-
tons. The agent the society at TOm-k Will be IL
position make during the winter and spring colIec
tons Siberian productions for expectation beard
the vessels that bring European productions The dele
gates believe that little BY little these COMMERCIAL reIa
ton, may take greater development, but that it wodd
he necessary begin by the foundation OF q company
having only limited resources and activity. Tho
concurrence OF Sweden aud Norway might Dc askcfJ
enterprise ought in general to be conducted With
great precautions. The Russian Journals approve this
hethOd proceeding Ihe failure " navigation In tGe
waters Northern Siberia during last summer teaches
great circuspectiOn the method Of conducting tho
nov,