New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-31
GENER1L NOTES.

The six school girls who have been spending
their summer vacation in 40 miles tramp through
the mountains OF North Carolina nave reached their
homes IN safety and delighted with their expert
ences They had need Of mans protection, and
laugh al the IDEA that they ought ID hayo taken ma on
VITA tnem Tor responsibilities sake. Tney were hos
pabiy received farm houses along their roDfe en-
countered no snakes, either with without legs aud
ho returned with ardent hopes of repeating the per-
fornance next summer. local paper Mentions with
respectful sympathy that the Only drawback from the
beginning to the end OF the ,ng was tno e1iDAIh,,
which for few days only, alhlrlVd MISS AiOuOo' Hse
seventeen, the youngest u the parry.
The unfortunate persons who have taken
shares In MI Keeiy pending some tangible product oil
his genius TO which they make transfer, held one
of those Singular and my sterous meetings FOR when
they are famous. nigut before last The inventor was
prcsent bnt the beNidered Mr. Boekel not, having
probably been exhausted by bis recent efforts to conpe
bend me " new force" Mr. Kcey signed papers bind
mo himself to give more explicit description of his ma
chine so soon ne has complotcda ne" one He then
announced that In short time he should De prepared 10
Pm, a train from New York to Chicago at Il for uel
NOT exceeding 30 cents. Reporters were not admitted TO
tnc meeting, bat 10 tunu' was auoioe F91i iAe areeI'
and II is supposed that motion 70 Nil Mi Aeeiy "as
Iid on the cable
The projectors of the monument to COM
oemorate the battle OF Bennington. fought on August
M lz7 have not suffered their enterprise to grow less
~ thnn the mountains around the historic battlefield.
ma ting OF the directors neld the anniversary
If tn pattlo aud the plans already submitted were
.,oincd and discussed \ plan was received from
,lo.srs l. o. A Ward and Richard M HonC Of New
vorL Mr. C. VI. Bliss, OF the directors recently
stated 10 u TRIBUNE correspondent that the monument
fund had now reached the sum Of $4,000, AMI CON
adorable additions expected. The probable site is
rho su,noit of the il ON which the village OF Centre
Tuniu,Ou stands Tar FROM the site OI the old Cata-
nonIt tavern This hill just north OF Mount Anthony
nj commands "A fine view OF the valley and the
rurc a design which shall harm0nze with the uDtural
sui rouudngs well a. embOdy The spirit OF The event
cOmulcmordied
A man advertised in a Philadelphia paper
the other day for partner IA liter ry ents prise. one
of the RESPONSES was long, queery spelled and more
oueerly conceived document III which tho writer de-
scrlbed some his literary acqurements OF Goethes
works in general he declared himself an ardent
admircr and with Faust" in particular. he
had the following most extraordinary expert
ence, 81 believe that made me sick; 1t took
such an effect on me that it laid me low. to the
crisis OF my DEATH with the yellow jaundios and rhe
atism-Whioh was all owing TO me setting nigh eight
houres day. which made my blood lethargic and liver
tord and from below ms body was like Ice and above
lke uhoenik fire. But The thought, when ayed low,
az moi h.ng able to finish tho OF Goethe Ike
snkIng into dark Eternity with only half soul Just
think II YOU ever read Faust to stop forever In e
miadst of that superhuman piece that nend MefOStO-
pho.es And that only one Thought believe is what
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