New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-22
GENERAL NOTES.

An English gentleman has had constructed
FOR his personal enjoyment novel vehicle twelve feet
by six in SIZE and divided into compartments which
he calls land yacht" The owners sleepingroom is
lifted exactly like yach,mans cabin leaving the fore
part az saloon. in which accommodation is also pro-
vded for servant This Gland yacht" Is so devised
Viii make his T e es reI on or T and The owner
a little girl of three years, who had been
attacked and was about to be killed by socaed tame
Deer in san Antonio, Tex rescued by her brother
only two years Older than herself The plucky little lei
low seized the angry beast by the horns and i'm ste ~
vigorous pitching and tossing, held Oh with great s,rt
and determination Hnu bis mother and servant inter-
Tered and reduced toe animal To subjecton
\ sample of water from the Sacred Well Of
Mecca has been analysed and found De polluted by
sewage to an extraor6 nary degree disoase-breer
lthiness In TACT Professor FranSland who made tie
analysis declares that 81 IS nothing less shan bottled
cholera and as this water in great demand through
likely to be III active agent in the dissemination OF dis
Crates who possess an obliging disposition
and wiling work hard for small wages are r,
great demand just now in England About forty such
sescrheiag gentlemen were advertised for in recent
issue of The Manchester Guardian. The most minute
particulars offered and required rest,ecfing
the possible curates opinions For EXAMINE
in one case, it is required that the anpli-
cant should be fairly musical He must entertain
no extreme views lie is called upon to adopt the east
ward position, and must be willing TO agree without de-
celebrations the vogue IN some naiehes In ofbr
none Dnt young men OF sound Evangelical principles
fewer number A" high Church views are called for
Schaghticolle, in this State, which used TO
DC famed for its line and healthfuness is now in the
grasp OF particularly vicious and vigorous tyne OF ma
aria which is supposed 10 arise from various sagnaut
pools formed by the construction Of the railroad en-
Dankment Ii is said that walk through the
village without seeing in the faces forms Of those he
meets clear traces OF the poison nom which the entire
community is suffering Everyone had the shakes
and the chief topic Of conversation when neighbors
meet are the past present and expected attacks
malsdy which bears that hOmey but expressive name
Various plans Tor removing the evil have discussed,
and IL is now hoped thar relief may obtained u some
OF tAer eonaon ~ an indcaton ~ the extent Of the
Infection y s stated that 1000 grains of qunine
sold daiiy In the village OF SchaghticOke
An article signed CO. In a recent number
Of The Pal Mall Gasee employs more direct and forcbs
language in condemnng the Rugby Colony To inevahe
failure than has been elsewhere used upon that subject
The writer says; Never IL viii be seen. has phlaa.
thropy defeated its object; has the desire
benefit individuals terminated with more opposite TO-
suits Commpnsense America jeers grimy at tine PHI
anthropy OF buying land So (when 81 ia said TO have
been an outside price, and retailing Il az $50 and
pointblank TO believe in &C. Few men indeed but Mr..
Hughes could come unscatAed OF such proceeding
Philanthropy they is philanthropy and speculation
speeulationone is respected but the other is toe
rated but combination az the two, blame
them TOR regarding the Rugby enterprise, is quito
another matter. English residents America are per
familiar with what big Etoniaas and Caniabs
can aud cannot do when they return 20
the land than the phisnthropic and genial gentle
man in question: and when il was announced that the
old, old poor land story going be enacted the
expense of the South. under far greater disadvantages
than had been before, and scale of unassed
greenhornism such az had before been known,
the hearts OF all welwishers the South within
them That Rugby be otherwise than a hopeless
failure has FOR moment been doubted by that
class who OF al others perhaps best capable udg
lng-nameiy, j
necessary 70 have visited that Utopia ana inspected rs
soil with tolcrable certainty lite fu
ture The lands have been notorious for their poverty
through all time which. IL is needless add 10 the
OF their being virgin Those points that 70
the inexperienced eye seem hopeful in the oommiss9n
ors report tke soil Rugby its cropping the
familiar stereotyped phrases In the South for desereiRs
worthless land"