New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-01
GENERAL NOTES.

The Adjutant-General Inspector General an6
superintendent OF Public Instruction OF this State have
been directed to vacae their Offices in the old Capitol
and remove to quarters assigned them new CAPT
to, about September l. The superintendent of the
latter building states that the Governors rooms. IN the
south and southeast portion, nearly ready fos
occupancy the Adiutant-Generars, adjoining, win be
OF Education can soon be made ready.
In summing up the good results of prohibi-
ton in Maine, under Republican administ ratio eK Coy.
ernor Dngey states that the number ramshops has
been reduced from one TO 25 inhabitants
TO less than secret groggery every 1000 inhab
ants in 1881 while the sales secret shops are
less than onc-fourth what they would be in openly
licensed saloons. He refutes the charge that
more crime In Maine than in other State by showing
that there is in Maine Prison convict TO 27oO
inhabitants; IN Alabama, one TO l400; in California
one TO GOO in CONNECTICUT one 10 21Oo in Massachu
Vermont, one TO Is00 and in NewYork, to / 400
scene both ludicrous and CHASTITY was pre-
scented in OF attempted suicide in Columbus
OHIO The woman who wished 20 end her life nired a
little boy, ten years old to assist la the desperate
deed She succeeded in breaking, not neck but her
nose and at the subsequent judicial Investigation that
made the boy testified follows: She got on the
box and asked her for the 10 cents before
head in the rope. She wouldn't give the 10 cents and
let her and she didn't put her head in. She hol
lored and fell down. and then You running and
got out of the way" One cannot help wondering how
tn friends OF the little fellow, and indeed he himself
after he had grown older would the woman
succeeded In her designs and also the probable effect OF
Is probably unique IN the annals OF crime
The Gettysburg Battlefield Association has
now obtained possession OF the grove where General
Reynolds FELL Little Round Top the north slope OF Round
Top, the park opposite the National Cemetery, Nc
knights and Chips Blls making in all about acres
and comprising the points of greatest interest
OF the great battle II has been decided by the
association 10 open what line OF
battle Of the Eleventh Corps and also along OF
Hayss Division OF the Second Corps past the spot where
Longsreets famous assault repulsed; thence
lowing the OF the line OF Gibbons division and
STANDARDS Vermont brigade passing the spot where
has just been finished 10 the summit OF Round Top
from which commanding view OF the whole field aud
great sweep OF country may be obtained.
An indignant head-clerk in the Baltimore
Post Office wants the newspapers convey the pub
lie bis emphatic protest against the latest popular mania
confined yet 10 sentimental writers biets doux
namely, the sticking OF postage stamps upon unusual
and out-ofthe-way parts Of envelopes. There is, IL
seems, postagestamp code" of Irritation, and each
sition OF stamp expresses particular sentiment
Now the law allows the stamp be put anywhere the
envelope the sender Ioay please But its position is
matter Of Importance 10 the oancening clerks. As
long, says the Baltimore official, stamps in
the orthodox placethe upper righthand corner-they
work away like bees. and get through quickly
cause the motion from the fnkpad 90 the stamp a
continuous one but just as soon they have hunt
around the letter - find where the stamp wafere
through your paper that every letter that here not
stamped with siugie stamp In the right-hand upper
corner we uso TO make paper chickens out Of"
The Baltimore american reports a remarka-
BILE OF hystera and epilepsy in that city The sub
ject Is Louisa Fuerst young nineteeI years OF
age. overwork at the sewingsnachine with poor pay
and consequently fare, brought depression OF
spirits and finally developed into the alady orn which