New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-28
GENERAL NOTES

Black bears are reported to be musuab
plentiful in the Catskin region this fall
1t is proposed to celebrate the 250th ami
versary of the settlement of Portland, Me- the Fouru
| July next.
| The various State temperance organization,
of New-York will hold a State Constitutional Amend
nent Convention, in Syracuse, tomorrow
| The latest device for superseding the cash
boy IN large retail stores system OF tronghs aOni
which roll hollow balls, carrying money and change
and from the cashier
The sum OF 1000 damages has just been
awarded by a Western Court to who caught cold
while riding 10 an emgrant car when, as he claimed he
was entitled by his ticket 70 seat In parlor car.
In addition to donations amounting to
s75 900 within the las, six months, Mr. J. p Howard
of rlngton VI, last week gave $4,000 TO the Uni
versily Of Vermont to remodel and reht OF the
buildings.
A large party of Saxon immigrants passed
through St. Louis last week their way Arkansas.
They formed the third instamen OF colony of 5000
5000 that is being planted vicinity Of Little Rock
by colonization society IN the Old country.
The two great sheets OF plate glass, each
II by % feet in size exhibited In Philadelphia
in 1876. have been purchased by NewYork firm, and
win be placed in the front Of large retail store IA
Broadway.
The mourning drapery in the halls about
the Chamber Of Representatives. Washington has been
removed pca-green wilton carpet has been aid
on the floor Of the Chamber. This week the elevator
Will be finished, and carpets laid in the galleries
and c0mnittee-rooms, when all will be ready for the
opening Of Congress.
Great interest has been aroused at Bowden
College By the SUIT brought against eight students fOr
$4,000 each Tor damages fcllowstudent whose eye
sight was nearly destroyed by their wantOn "hazng"
The entire sophomore class and possibly the whole col
lege viii be summoned as witnesses. The trial viii 10
held in January by the Supreme Court of the county.
The enterprise of boring artesian wells ia
Tuare County, CAL has proved successful well CON-
T nnced on October 10 struck water twenyseyen days
afterward iepth OF $50 feet and has sine" been
yielding at the rate Of Il ore than 900 gallons per hour
Allowing one-four OF this for waste, the quantity Is
sufficient to twenty acres OF ground with 0nelnch
u water every twenty-fOGf hours.
A correspondent writes from Kansas that
since the pronbtory law went into effect there. there
has been remarkable increase in the amount OF liquor
used for medicinal purposes." One physician pre-
scrlbed for o patient and between August 10 and
August 25 four pints of sp.tus frument" and twelve
bottles Of beer Another patient, whose sole complaint
WAS boil the had prescribed for hin in eleven
days ten pnts spirus rumen" and thirty bottles
Of beer And now an epidemic OF boil5 on the arm IS
ternal application OF spiritus frunenu" aud bo5tled
beer
The work of retaining the Everglades OK
Florida Is being carried with energy, aud with nat
tering prospect OF steamer "a working ct tils
head OF the River, opening channel from
Lake Frt 10 Lake Hchpocbee. dredge boat Is rapid
ly approaching completion at Cedar Keys which III
have capacity for eIcavating in twenty-four hours
canal 22 feet wide, feet deep, and 500 feet
I'm length and will nj one handling deposit the material
excaYated convenient distance from the sides OF the
canal Il s expected that this boat Will be actively en-
gagged on tie Upper Caloosahatceee early In next
month drcdge of greater excayatng capacity is now
building on the Kssimce River, and viii be in operation
next month. 1t Will commence WORK b. cutting nom
Lake Okeo chObee cut TO tdeWater.
The FIRST English theatre in New Orleans
on Camps Faubourg st. Mary, is soon to be demolished
It was but about ffty-nve years ago. by Mr. james H.
Caldwell and was then located in n swamp where 1t
could be reached only in boats IL opened with COM
pauy OF English actors among whom was Junius Brutus
Booth and proved successful rival OF the old French
theatre on Oreauss at that time the only other theatre
in the city III the earlier years OF the Camp Street Thea
ire its boards were by such actors as Edwin For
rest the Plncidcs Cha otte Cushman the sOmans and
Others who have since become famous. Since the COM
pleton OF the San Carlos Theatre by Mr. Caldwell AZ
cost OF 600 the Camp street Theatre has seaiiW
declined In importance, and has, preparatory 70 ls IN
pending demolition been converted into an aUcu0h
mart