New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-13
GENERAL NOTES.

curious case was lately brought before
| criminal court IN the French Department Of Upper
GarOnne. man named FOurtane accused OF theft
played the Old game Of feignng insanity. medical
commission without hesitation pronounced him sane but
he persisted I'm violent and unreasonable conduct FL
nally when he brought trial there apparent
cause for thinking that his long stimulation of madness
had actually made him mad, and the trial adjourned
In order that second commission might ascertain his
actual condition
Not long ago the authorities in certain
Department Of France asked to sanction the found
alton OF free thinking and ant-regious association"
Permission withheld and angry deputation Of
nine radical citizens waited upon the Project to
strate against the refusal. That unctonsry was equal
to the occasion He calmly listened TO OF mag
niloquent phrases outraged liberty and justice,
and then operng record of convictions recalled to the
memories OF eight members OF the population that they
old Offenders and had, altogether spent forty five
years in pr SON The ~ond-1e society waited. for no
further explanations, but dissolved Itself on the spot
The old Mormon temple in the little village
OF Kirkland o. twentythree miles east OF Cleveland Is
undergoing repairs, and Is according to The 0iereland
Leader be rededicated the 9th OF next April in the
presence Of a thousand HormOns from the West to the
propagation Of the faith delivered to Joseph Smith,
few members OF the old Kirkland community remained
behind when their brethren departed TO field, and
st survive, faithful to the tenes OF N0rmonism minus,
it sad the poygany doctrine Inc creed Oh the re-
juyenated Church expected to make vigorous dec1-
alton against plural marriages and In that case its disc
pes will be tolerated III Northern OHIO.
In the middle of his sermon on a recent
Sunday the pastor Of ST. Georges VI. f. Church at
Smyrna Ca uttered the phrase, Let us praise Him"
member Of tho congregation, innocently otherwise
understood him to say Let pray" aud Immediately
knelt as for the final prayer. The movement naur
ally contagious and in moment all on their knees
The clergyman had chance to show his tact by
spending to the expectations or his hearers but he was
not equal the crisis, and exclaimed instead: did
say Let pray am not through yet-we VIII pray
directly" The rest OF the sermon was not success
The officers and employees Of the Western
Uuion Telegraph Company deserve and have received
generous praise from Western newspapers for the
prompt and accurate transmission OF the Presidents
message Many Of the leading journals in Ohio Illinois,
Iowa Michigan and Kansas unite In saying that similar
messages were never before handled with
such rapidly and precision The document contained
moro than 14OOO words and received by the oper
rat,rs Cleveland telegraph Office in hour and
nineteen minutes, the entire message coming of the
wires without break" The Hon. william Henry
Smith general agent Of the Western Associated Press
says the work better done than at any tmo
since newspapers began 10 use telegraph wires and
for the first time experience thepapers indulge In
cOIu pliIusnts without stint. IL was admirable"
The Ministerial bill for the construction Of
Notifications in Denmark asks for about $20,0000OO,
large sum for a nation OF 100000 inhabitants
correspondent OF The 81 James's Gazette asserts that
present Denmark Is practically indeed literally without
single fortified point which could resist invading
army or where Danish army beaten in the field could
seek cover The proposed Notifications principally
designed to guard Copenhagen against coup dc main,
such as that which contemplated during the Franco
Prussian war. when the French fleet had orders IL
cessary by boubardmcnt OF the capital TO force Den
marx TO conclude an active alliance with France against