New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-18
GENERAL NOTES.

The trade in the decorations or foreign
orders is perfectly organized in Paris If one may trust
which lately came into the possession OF Ls
Figaro and has been published by that journal This
letter appears without signature, but It evidently
written by OF these decoration merchants TO a
toner. He mentions among the Orders whose ribbons
he Is able procure upon demand tile Lion and Sun Of
Persia Sylvester of Rome and Saint Gregory the
Great Rome, ana the price varies from 1000 ~ 1000
francs All the Orders named are Recognized oy tue
French Government.
A gentleman lately returned from COnstanti-
nople to London, who knows the Turkish officials IN.
tna IT, and familiar With the language reports that
Turks terribly afraid that will beaA out be-
tween Turkey and Greece. The country never be-
fore III such wrotched condition The people
who are seen in the OF Pera and SamOOul look
hafsaryed, and there is dire poverty everywhere ex
cept IN the rKs OF military pachas in whose hands
are of the country The sultan Is said 10 be
ms strongly opposed to his subjects bur he Is
AFRAID Of his military advisers who threaten a revolt If
he yields 10 Greece Competent authority says that 1t
would cost IS 100000 to put thc Turkish navy III oier
able condition for sea.
The latest contribution to the British land
question is o Blue Book on the tenure land In the
Province of Prince Edward Island. The Pail MOI
Gazette the matter UP as follows: Rather mUts
than century ago all but small part OF the island
disposed Of lin day by lottery In London before the
Board OF Trade and Plantations" ct qurents, which
were never paid, and certain conditions OF settle
ment which were compiled with. Although the
rears Of qurents committed IN 1902 for mod
crate sum. the reduced amount was left unpaid,
and tbs lapse OF tnrty years time the Government
has only received $4,000 out Of about Gas 900 act
authorizing the purchase OF the estates propretO
VINO might disposed sell their interests voluntarily
was passed In 1853 and under It's provisions many thou
sands Of passed from the landlords the tenants
but fual settlement Of this perplexng question was
not arrived at until 1879 Since that day quieness bias
regnrd in the island Tne agricultural depression OF this
laaf retarded
the tenants OF the interest AMI the Insanens a az
purchase money. but the COmnss,oner o. ayo MAKING
reports that the majority OF the tenants ~ "
coilmendabie efforts" to meet their ensaee'H01''
Another of BostOn's landmarks is ABOUT TO
20 the way OF all Old structures WHICH s'auu W '''
land The building at the corner VI u' a
Court.ss il 20 be- sold at auction Oh MouuaS au"
hoyinD changed ownership. will probably give place
'no Ioa,r,, ed,noe This building has social
d ,,,e,l bistory which makes its demolition mat.
800, ro,-ot mis- not known IN just what year It was
crected bu the chances are thar Iohn "ehds Boston
merchant who lived in the Iihe VI "oNe'hor SURREY oc-
u,ed n IA residence II was there mat oid governor
IIL ,oa his unwilling visit to Washington after
dinute az 20 precedence OF President and Gov.
%. crn building was then occupied as a boarding.
49,, 4, ma Jlln Iucersoll, with whom the President
.S 49,, mia abode Washington would not yield an ota
", h dignity and the Governor was obliged TO capitu.
,,,n do was carried up the stairs enyeoped In red
b,z for he had an attack OF real or assumed govt and
tr N spe OF his dignity according TO the statement
&c ~, janlr Hancock. Harrison Gray Gus was ono OF
tirs tO Occupy John IngersOlps quOndam boarding.
ho,,sa as law office, and after HIM, Webster Healey,
g I,cl Rogers, Leyerett SatOnsall, Judge Burbank
and host OF legal iuminares received their clients
there
Ibe San Francisco Chronicle '.as secured from
all parts OF California reports concerning the crops
which indicate that the coming will be Of the
most fruitful In the history Of the State The heavy
rains and high water have damaged only acOmparatvey
small of land, mainly Yaba YolO San Joaquin.
and Shasta counties In Yuba, the damage Is tbs
heayieet, amounting to between SS00O0 and $4,000.
The northern counties have suffered from nordnats
quantity OF rain, but O rule the crops will be good
In Shasta the damage to low lands BY
the good effects Of heavy rains the highlands. In
Mendccino the best crop ten years will probably be
harvested In the great wheatprDducing counties the
acreage sown is less than last year. but good yield
expected. In Colusa the is twOhrds that OF
1880. and the crop will be three-quarters much as
that Of last year. Santa Clara County 10 good for
100000 bushels Of wheat aud bushels Of bar
ley In Yolo the yield will not be than one-ha Of
last years CROP while San Joaauins crop viii be almost
10 per cent or In MERGED the wheat erops far above
the average, 100000 acres being under cultivation.
Fresno will have 100000 bushels OF wheat about
hd more than last Tbroughout tho southern
counties lack Of rain Is reported but the croos nroms