New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-17
GENERAL NOTES.

By way OF experiment lightning express
train was to leave Paris for Vienna tho evening o.
October 10 and make the run In twentyseven hours
gain of six hours the fastest time hitherto mads
between the two capitals. This trial train was t
consist of two baggage and express cars, four sleeping
ears a saloon car and hotel II successful tL,
| Guiding meals, will probably be 25O francs.
| From Rome come particulars of an extra
ordinary crime accident In small village of Sicily
young priest by the name Of Failla, at the moment
he raised tho wafer his lips in the celebration OF the
mass was conscious of intensely bitter flavor in hi
mouth. He thought little of it, however and at the
con, uson Of the services went home without making
an inquiry Put almot Immediately afterward he was
seized with burning thirst and with acute pains in his
breast and stomach ana Within an hour died IN extreme
agony. The priests Dlaeess character and peaceful
life forbid the suppositon that no had enemy
i'm the village and at last accounts the natural suspicion
that the wafer had been poisoned was entirely uneon
hrmed.
Last Sunday was great day for the Chi
nese masons OF Philadelphia for less % parsonage
than Loo Chew, q genuine mandarin, had arrived 10
initiate nine new candidates into the mystical order OF
the Gee Hing. The ceremony began in the afternoon
with feast at which generous supply of chicken,
rice and sharks fins put where it would do the
most good, and q considerable quantity OF American
whiskey where 1t would do the most HARM Philadel-
phla several Chinese singers OF the first rank who
enivcned both the fesst and the initiation exercises
with selections from native repeftOry,
which received with rapturous applause by the
heather and edge the teeth of passing Christians
The programme had been adapted TO -apig ses-
sion and there Is every reason to suppose that
carried out to the lettor.
The Board of Guardians of the little
Island OF sheppoy, at the mouth of the Thames have
been considering proposal to amaIgamate the par
shes OF Warden and Eastchuroh glance at the facts
presented TO the attention OF the Board to In
dictate that the people of Warden might get along with
ont separate local government The last ycstry meet
Ing for inc tance held at the house OF lady age
ninety-three years. who appointed chairman" As
only two other persons present she held the bal
anes OF power and became. In fact for the time being
the autocrat OF the parish. Other meetings OF tho
yestry have been held In field. In tho most Informal
manner clergyman on one side of gate and u farmer
ON the other dspaichlng the business In hand. Some
discomfort 10 prevail IN this otherwise peaceful
parish owing TO tho church having been pulled down
IN urey emf its topping the cliffs. Ii Is argJied
that Us there divine service held In the parish tthes
should not be any longer paid to the clergyman
The crazy Frenchman who ran through
Fourteentl-st the other day stahbing many women
ms he could reach with pair OF compasses may have
taken his cue from reports OF the trial OF "a singular
criminal who has Just been dealt with at Bremen and
strasburg The latter man named Theophile Mary
a hairiresser born at Barr, whose vicious tendency
took ths form OF ihnctng slight stabs with dagger
young women At strasburg he attacked Tower
than eighteen, nearly all OF whom he struck the
breast He made his first appearance two years ago
when for o month no spread terror among the nhab
tants, all efforts to capture him failing. Ho then
vanished from Asace, and time afterward turned
up at Bremen. where ho again distinguished himself
in o similar manner There, however, he was soon ar