New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-01
GENERAL NOTES.

The scarcity of water from which Paris suf
fered last summer likely to be repeated during the
present year The winter just passed was period OF eX
ceponal drouth and the results of not confined to
the basin of the Seine In Eastern France the situation
s especiay distressing At Keh the bed Of the Rhine
dry I'm places the Meurthe was never before low
in August and the level OF the Mosee and the Meuse has
fallen.
The skeletons of nearly fifty Indians have
been unearhed at Oneida. The present chief of the
Oneidas saws that he there burial ground at
the place where they discovered, and that it
specially designed the final repose of warriors killed
the battle the chase and of their wives and children
The first eighteen of these skeletons brought to light
were found in and were all in sitting posture,
the feet against The back OF another Strange to
say each corpse had been accommodated with clay
brick Oh which to sit.
The London Times has lately published
most interesting letter from its correspondent in Rome,
in which evidence which to be conclusive is fur
nished that the Pantheon twas planned and built to
other purpose than that OF the hot air bath
room Of the ThermR OF Agrippa." Nearly fifty years
ago Stefano Pe read before the Ponttca Academy OF
Archaeology a paper i'll which he advanced and skill
fully defended this theory and thus began controversy
which has continued to the present time The proofs
now presented obtained in the course OF excavat
ing the famous baths OF Caracala. For nearly twelve
years this work has been prosecuted with varying
energy but it only recently that the ruins OF
gigantic circular chamber were uncovered which, ac
cordng TO the great weight of archaeological opinions
was the laconcum, or hot-air bathroom. This dscov
cry. I'm itself interesting acquires very unusual npOl
tance from fact that the interior Of the great cham
Der found to he in every respect almost an exact
OF the Pantheon. The Times correspondent
who writes with funess Of ledge, and whose
letter is accompanied by convincing diagram, declares
in substance that comparison OF the two STRUCTURES
leaves tor doubt that they were planned and
built to serve the same Identical purpose.
The Rev. DR.. Samuel X. Wilson, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church, OF Madison, Ind, was
elected delegate the General Assembly but the New
Albany Presbytery refused TO send him for the reason,
it is said that he had objected to admitting woman to
plead before the Presbytey in favor Of total abstinence
and prohibitory law. DIR. Wilson has published an
open letter the NewAbany Presbytery and the Pres
byterfan Church in general, concluding as follows.
"Tbus let the Presbyterian people of God everywhere
and all the Church God know that the Presbytery OF
New Albany makes il test of ministerial standing that
her members shall approve what Paul has forbidden,
and shall cooperate with n selfcOnstituted body OF
women who assuming without right the divine name
of Christian are using all their power and influence TO
secure the enactment OF law, under which, II Jesus
were at marriage feast in Indiana and were to make
and give to the guests for medicine but as festive
beverage quart not to say hundred gallons, OF wine,
as he did at Cana BE would be fined and imprisoned;
and the Presbytery Of NewAbany, II tn cir advocate,
Mrs Leaytt Is correct. would say he has been served
exactly right | would consent 10 this deed and,
while regrettng the shameful fact that not another
elder was who cared enough for the honor OF his
Lord TO Join tho protest, thank God for the grace
and courage given me 10 stand Alone WITH raul ana
Christ as my examples aud teachers.