New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-12
GENERAL NOTES.

A great circular panorama of the battle Of
Grayelote has been completed and placed exhibition
In Berlin II represents the moment when the Prusssn
Corps Of Guards and the Saxons having pressed round
by forced marches 20 the extreme night OF the french
position are moving forward to the storming OF Ct
Pryat The spectator supposed to be standing one
OF the first OF the Villages shattered and burnt By Ger
man Shells around him being eharred rafters aud all the
debris Of war The landscape 10 true 70 nature "a ~ ~,
are given. The artist Is Professor Hunten painter OF
pupil Of Camphausea at Dusseldorf. and went Through
| the campaigns Of 1864. 1866 and 1870
The influence of tho Village Improvement
Societies Of which the germ planted in stockbrdGc.
Mass forty years ago, and which have done much
within recent years IN beauty New-Eugland towns,
has extended beyond the Rocky Mountains bids fair
10 bring forth good fruit where is need OF such
harvest The small towns ofCalifornia present dis
tressng appearance They were built for the most part
literally at railroad speed, and dry climate and dusty
soil gone far to destroy whatever Sghtness they
may have ever possessed but they not beyond the
help Of improvement societies citizen OF Berkeley
offered prize or $50 for the best hedge other than
SsVs 6se estaDshed several towns The
have taken the subject ana there reason 70 1sess
amazing change throughout the State.
An unusual though not unique competition
has just completed by the award Of prEes offered
year ago for the best yield Of and potatoes rad
by Vermont bows under seventeen years Of Frank
j. Hubbard Of Whiting received first prize OF $25 ana
scholarship In tae University for the production q
122 bushels of dry sheled to the acre. and Lewis
S. Breed of Goshen, first prise of the value for
the production OF 492 bushels of potatoes the acre
There were 305 competitors from LAG towns and, a.
many Of the boys raised both corn and potatoes the
number OF plots under cultivation was about 400 Tho
average production of VenOnG farms for year 1S70
was thirty-nne bnshes Of corn to the acre and lsS
bushes OF potatoes tnat In spite Of unfsyorabe
hay unra than frphipd
duction. The competition suggested and carried
out by the University and Agricultural College.
nrSsv aSnsSoated tSroushout the wealth
similar competition has been maintained IN Maine Tor
and somewhat better than those obtained In Vermont
The value Of Agricultural colleges eas been sometimes
" tSeCry and very little practice bnt Il d an excellent
combination Of theory and practice which can rsiso
6e2 bushels potatoes on an acre Of veriuont land.
A few weeks ago o scheme to reclaim the
Everglades Of Florida announced but there were no
details Of the proposed plan. and 10 GENERALLY no
Earded a. the visionary project Of some Colonel
Sellers in real ia BAT day before yesterday the Pais
dephla papers contained an ntssble account 81 .he
undertaking. which IL IN the banda Of Phladeiphls
company TO be known as the Atlantis ana East Coast
Canal and okessh0bes Land COMPANY Florids oum
the land by tjnited States patent che state Lens'
ature has granted charter aad he sum Of $1,000 has
been deposited wi til tbs state Treasurer guarantee
Il "a announced that Hamilton Dsoh Il 10 By the prss
dent Of the company. and W. H. Gasmer the treasures,
and that WORK will begin immediately. The plan az
described In the philadelphia papers, IL followsi ms
company will dig canal ten miles iohE nom Law
okeohobee to the head waters OF the 0aioosshatcms
River This river flows into the Gulf OF Mtsico ana i's
mouth Is, according 70 the surveys made ~ ooioh~
Meigs Of the Typographical Ensiheers uDea 7'ases
Coast Survey, and General Gilmore, tsens-shsec sna
half feet lower than Lake Okeohobec fLc WORK o. w
engineers Is simply TO drain the lake suceay 20 pse
vent re overflow II this overflow which causes .ns
Everglades 10 be submerged WITH water the lse LAM.
no natural outlet The Everglades are sqfrouhaso yS
limestone ridge. which aots 20 adsm W tne Ha''F -