New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-15
GENERAL NOTES.

III unpacking a bale OF American cotton q
fortnight ago at English mill the workmsn found
breec-oadng pistol bearing the mark Massachusetts"
II wa- Loaded moreover. and when discharged in the
mill yard the ball passed through "a thick DOaid-
1t is said that the whIpping-pOst bill " re-
Gently passed b. the Maryland Legislature for the
special benefit OF wie-beaters has already produced
sanitary impression upon that class of ruElans yng
10 niggers to woop, and not daring TO woliop their
wives, lie must indeed seem 10 them dreary pilgrim
age.
This seems to be good year for the ma
terna instincts Of animals il captivity. The advent OF
baby elephant and baby tapir has already electrified
two continents, and now dOube-humped Bactrian
camel has presented SIR FOrepaugh with ugly Tinia
ture Of herself This Il rare though not an unpreee-
dented occurrence.
Since the death of Jesse James made the
whereabouts Of his brother Frank matter Of consider
able interest persons who have to fear hs
geance have been popping up all the re-
gion distinguished by his operations to announce
through white lips and chatteng tooth their conviction
that they haze recently entertained the devil unaware.
one of the asprants this kind OF nOtOIley is Nash
vile barber who s certain that he dyed the despcrados
hair fine brick red about two weeks ago He
Tiscd that should wish his hair 10 assume color
which most people prefer elsewhere ta ON tAeir heads
but noticing that his customer Was equipped Ike an
scnai he did venture 20 push hs nq'drics photo
graph has convince hnn that his discretion was ju-
dclOus
agraph about scandalous proposition addressed to
"Any Shareholder" in Constautinople by two young
men Of BlunswIck Miss who expressed desire 10 pur
chase for travelling companions upon tour u Europe
two Young and pretty female slaves. Tho letter
timing this proposition sent 10 this Office 10y the
gentleman in Coustantlnople into whose hands FELL
gether with scnihng deuuuciation OF the insulting and
dsgraceful propose which II contained. The names
Of the TWO young who signed and the letter
were concealed by The TRIBUNE IN the hope that secret
shame might be- more useful to them than public dis
grace. From Of them TIE TRIBUNE has received
letter containing frank aud wholesome aY0wal OF his
renorse and au explanation that tho letter written
while he was intoxicated and was merely drunken
au- Joke which he had thought Oi pursuing further
lie writes have suffered thousand deaths since
have ,ecn your article. n X thng so al grace
III that scarcely live under H." TIE TRIBUNE bas
no with crowd a repfntan sinner TO the wall, ana
chrerully agrees not 10 publish TIA correspondents
name. ili- companion I'm tie disgiaocnh cpistOlary
episode has yet sgnllod LIS rep ntAnce letter
fiOm him Is in order.
4 Philadelphia dispatch states tina, within a
few DAYS Charles Langhemer the convict In the Eastern
Penitentarv OF Pennsylvania who has gained nOtoriey
from the fact that Charles Dickens wrote about him
In his American Notes." describing the system OF soil
tary confinement Will be discharged from that nstitu-
on after having spout the greater part of forty years
there Langhcimer who Is now ghty years 0fage,
nrst sentenced 20 tho Penentiary May H. 1910, hay
Ing been arrested for thieying operations. When
he WINS discharged he stole some small article and was
sent back again He gories in being in prison. and
having been lnmOr'aized by the great novelist. HE