New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Frank LesIie's of this week is ann of ex-
ira SIZE and contains large number of pict 5 O. the
closing scenes at Ebero and the beginning OF the aeg
Administration with portrait of President Arthur
Il wanted to get money to GO l,ck n
Texas and stand trial for killing the man who lrael
my father, is the ridiculous excuse offered by Burto
for robbng the Aamosa stage coach HE sens &c souI
%i never be tortured by any such dire necessity in the
lie. 'i''-'0U ~ inpilsOAner1 Tor
1t is said by some one who has apparently
looked up the facts that only seven davs OF National
fasting and humiliation have been appopted bv \ -s.i
dents since the establishment of the Government and
that they have been designated follows Nav 1898
by Adams; January H. 1873 by Madison; the las;
thursday Of September s6I April 80 1858 and the first
i,29ssa TO June u by johnson; and September 70 by
c. NJ. Morton, who says that he is an Eng
hshman, and who seems 90 be in desperate need Of
money. jumped from the ~. Paul bridge last Sunday
evening ana disappeared head frat the river ninety
feet below After few he came to the surfaoe
and SWAN ashore, readyt 10 claim his onehrd Of wager
OF 500 that he could not accomplish feat X was
Ieapt ,1 ,, Tnatge OF 1isordery conduct but
would never make r ca "a fool Of himself again
1t has been proposed in Boston that the
open space about which Trinity Church the Art Mu-
scum and the new Old south Church should appro-
priaed for park and named in memory OF President
Garfield The Boston Journal says: n the city au-
thores viii lay ont the square the citizens viii see 10
its adornment The means for erecting statue OF rs
dent Garfield viii DE forthcoming soon as the money
is needed and already large pledged to the OBJ
iect In urgng attention TO the matter we are no, adj
vocatng an expensive project The expense OF LAYING
out square Ia the locality suggested would large
IN Itself, and would be altogether Insignificant in com.
pariSon with the benefit and pleasure such a square
would confer surrounded wou'd be by some OF the
hest buildings IN America and adorned bv the statue
OF mat President of the United States death
caused the whole world TO Garfield SQusre
would be not only source OF pride Bostouians nut
memorial worthy OF the IiOC record of a commune
NY which has never been cool in its patriotism nor lag
gard IN noble works"
Details of the cyclone which swooped down
upon Elmira last sunday show il was one Of tia
most astonishing aerial performances OF the season So
suddenly did the storm burst that a gentleman who
noticed white nln in the sky at great distance and
moving with great rapdity had scarcely time 10 raise
the query whether not n would strike Elmir before
the streets OF the city were filed with the wrecks Of
trees, fences and buildings In three four minutes tie
air was still again and the shining II is amazing
that amid falling roofs, steepes and chimneys hyine
glass, bricks stones and tilubers. a person was
killed. though several people more or less injured
and the escapes from Instant death were numerous and
narrow, IL n not known that lost
one OF her lives \ torrent OF rain which accoWpaued
the mighty rushing wind" lergcly increased the ai
age, especially where roofs had been lown OF Stn on
the whole Elmira is rather happy otherwise over
Its local entertainment in view of what might have e
from ITS brief possession OF genuine and Authentic
cyclone.