New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-17
GENER1[ NOTES.

A zinc box recently fshed out of the Seine
at Paris opposite the spot known the Port An.
elais" found to contain letters sent from Mouns
Paris during the siege Many Of the addresses s
egble and far possible the letters we're delivered
TO the persons for whom they were intended.
A million and q half logs which had been
damned in the upper Hudson tumbled over Pamers
Falls with O tremendous uproar on Sunday evening"
II feared that the pulp and paper mills In which
Senator Warner Miller owns q large interest would be
carried away but the logs TOOK Tue Dst course anu bey
escaped Injury.
Shelley's house on the Bay Of Speza, says
Mr. Alfred Austin in The Ahen1uD will lose its chief
attraction projected road from San Terenzo to Lero
ia built The road may DO made through the garden al
the back OF the house it may pass between 1t and the
sea- and deprive 1t OF its charm in the eyes OF tho
poet may be constructed on the site OF the house
itself Even il the frame OF the building should be left,
the sOtudes which surrounded 1t will be destroyed.
A number of influential Jews recently met
In st. Petersburg to consult upon the miseries OF their
in Russia and to devise for the prevention
of further atrocities After several persons had spoken
none OF whom had anything to recommend except emil
grafton aged man named SchmerliDg, representative
Of the community OF Berditchef began TO relate the
trials TO which his neghbors had been exposed As he
proceeded he grew more and more excited until. ap
parenty by his emotions, he fell upon the oor
An examination showed that he was dead
In the action brought by the municipality Of
Marsees against the Empress Eugene to the
mansion given to the Emperor by the city, the En-
press is designated I'm the pleadngs Eugene Tebs
alias Montejo widow Napoleon" 1t Is ntimated that
this form OF description employed simply TO annoy
the unfortunate lady who welcomed in Mar
sees with unnecessary adulatiOn. few weeks ago
infrm English lady who was travelling with numerous
suite OF servants mistaken for the Empress at Lyons
and grossly insultcd by a crowd OF ruifans she
leaving the hotel in which she had passed the night
The best and largest peach crop ever grown
in Georgia viii be ready for the market in about
month but growers complaining that they have not
adequate facilities for getting 1t 10 market. In
sequence they anticipate that thousands OF bushels Of
the fruit Will the trees and that for what IA sold
comparatively small price will be obtained 1t Is sug
gested that the individual company that should
systematic and rapid freight service TO the North and
fortune and add greatly to the wealth Of the
State.
Messrs. Jackson s. Graham, whose failure
in London is reported with liabilities OF S1,000O00
were among the oldest and most celebrated furniture
makers that city. Their occupied almost
an entire block Oxfordst. The founder OF the firm,
Mr. Peter Graham, died few years and the bus-
ness has since been conducted by Walter Graham, his
brother The firms business chiefly among the up
per thousand and the embarrassment of thst class
in consequence Of agricultural depression has doubt
been one cause Of the failure. The firm among tho
first introduce decorative and art furniture. II held
medals from the Exposition Universele at Paris the
1t had factory Paris and supplied the palaces the
Sultan at Constantnope and the Khedve at Alexandra.
Some of s cabinets In ebony and black oak regarded
the finest specimens of modern work Ii was famous
for mural and constitutional decoration, artistic worR
In wood and metal, and reproductions OF the antique