New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-15
GENERAL NOTES.

During the present season AZ, ,064 pounds
of salmon have been canned the Pacific coast. The
future of the business In that region depends largely
upon the results of the seasons foreign ship nens, re-
garding which much interest and some naturally anxiety
are felt.
No fewer than five enterpTsing shOwmen"
have visited Cleveland in the hope OF purchasing the
funeral car which conveyed the remains OF President
Garfield, and have offered very large prices FOR IL
$4,000 il is said in one case. The persons in authority
have refused even listen to such offers The car TO
be enclosed in handsome constructed in large part
OF plate glass and preserved in the cemetery.
The war on mutilated coins which has de-
vasacd many pocket in this city has been carried no
the country and general is the refusal to clip
ped punctured money that its speedy determination IL
confidently anticipated. The bogus circular repndated
by the Treasury Department, pretending that the
Government had fixed the value, Of uutilatcd coin,
seems have done the business eectuay II could
have nad hal ii been Official
French papers, not ihe best authority upon
most subjects publish an account horrible treat
nent which ten peasants III the district OF Dambro
vita, Rounana, subjected in order TO compel item
10 Acknowledge themselves guilty of theft OF which
they suspected, but Of which, in fact, they
innorent According this report, they frat
United bastonnade. As they snl persisted IN
asserting their innocence, they stripped and beaten
with uettles Next by orders of the subprecct duck
quIs were forced between their fngernails and flesh
These t0rtures being without the desired effect tine
wretched men were subjected TO understandable outrages
and finally suspended 10y their feet After being kept
this position IA tHey were bait ead' they acknow edged
themselves guilty and were sent Tor trial Before the
Judge thew described the treatment which had
been submitted their wounds bearing their
statement. Their innocence established, and they
were acquitted; hut nothing is said the punishment
OF their tOrurcrs
Young Otto, the Nez Perez Prince, has been
astonishing san Francisco by his feas of marksman-
ship acquired his phenomenal and almost sup"rnat-
skill with the rifle under the instruction OF Captain
C. L. = Macdonald belle that his pupil Il with
out rival the world The San Francisco papers
tain minute descriptions Of the performances with when
he recently amazed large AMI fashionable audience at
a benefit performance. For the purpose OF Illustrating
his skill a0d without the east idea that the story Will be
believed, the following account Of one Of the young In
dams fancy shots is quoted pistol barrel is placed
In a small frame behind this with the edge
facing the audience. On each side Of this glass
ball securely placed for the object Of this feat The pstO
barrel razor and balls masked with covering Of
white cloth The boy is then bnifodrd his back turned
10 the iccts, the "ADOut-aCc" rs given, when He
fires down through the pistol barrel splits hls snRr rifle
ball the edge and breaks both glass balls
the right and left.