New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-17
GENERAL NOTES.

Having strengthened the service by the adj
dton Of powerful dogs trained TO assist the sentine on
picket duty the Russian War Office is engaged in
teaching swift hounds to act as dispatch bearers L.
wod be hard to catch such messengers, anu Eafuef sun
corrupt them.
The aluring game of draw-pOker, Ike the
English language bound 10 make the conquest or
the globe and to possess elements requisite for tr
umphal progress The game has lately become domest
Gated i'm Japan where IL is said the stakes already
too high, q rule, for men OF moderate anDltlOn
In celebration of its twenty fifth anniversary,
the Vienna Chess Club announces by its chairman,
Baron Albert Rothsehd International Chess Tourna-
ment to begin on May TO- Six prizes have been offered,
the first 81 900 and the last $40 The entrance fee IS
$50 and entries will not be accepted after May 2
Since its completion entire satisfaction is
expressed with the temperature ventilation and light
Ing OF the St. Gothard Tunnel and with the sodity OF
its construction. The obstacles which caused most
anxiety and at time threatened to remain ln-
surmountable give no sign In the completed Work thaI
they ever existed.
Although an official declaration and COM
meorative medal announce that Cologne Cathedral is
practically complete, certain amount Of decoration
considerable in the aggregate though Insignificant IN
comparison with the whole vast work-stl remains to
he apped The London Echo thinks that another gener
aon NAV pass away before the structure with all It's
world OF detail, will be declared perfect.
An extraordinary and melancholy example
Of the miscarriage fustce Is reported from the English
Leek About year ago TWO Farmers near
that place convicted upon strong circumsantial
evidence upon the positive Identification Of the pros
ecutor Of committing outrageous assault upon him,
and sentenced to years penal serytude The prose-
cutor has just died leaving full confession that the IN
ues were inflicted by himself Ia the hope OF extorns
money from the accused persons and their friends In
the meantime one of the innocent cOnyicts who has
dependent wife and nine children. has lain in Jail I'll ana
near death through imprisonment and despair IL Is
slight consolation to that the Of the heart
less devil whose confession been made public is held
I'M such utter ioathing by the community IN which no
lived that the difficulty experienced In hiring
men to carry his body to the grave.
While at Santa Fe a few days ago cEe OF
the commissioners appointed by the President TO e1'
anime tie Atlantic and Pacific Railroad beyond Al
buquerque dropped In at the NacOna Palace" TO pay
his respects 10 Governor sheldon. The Governor hap
pened to be opening his correspondence, and as an
Illustration of frontier justice and procedure he read 10
his visitor following communication from the Sheriff
of an adjoining county: :" have the honor to ntorn
Won that we traced of the cowboys to the house Oh
third one On breaking open inner door OF one or
tbe rooms we found these men lashed together very
tighty and hanging % the beam overhead ~ a rope
with fbe moose around their necscary cold IN death
| notified the Coroner jury was summoned ano an
inquest held. The jury returned verdict Death ny
suicide,'"