New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-08
GENERAL NOTES.

The new combination letter-sheet and en-
veOpe. and folding postal card, which have been auth.
orizcd by the Government Will probably be in circulation
III January. The inventor OF the combination has
ceved order for 2O0000 OF them the price being
$4,000 The letter sheet is about the of ordinary
letter paper When written upon 1t is folded twice from
the bottom and from the right-hand side, which
postal card is half the size OF the letter sheet aud has
only gunlmcd Hap ut the top.
Apparently a miser's "perturbed spirit " las
been melting woman living near Atlanta 70 look for
his buried treasure. year ago last summer ss
dreamed that there some money which had been
concealed by miser buried close her home. She did
not heed the dream and the memory Of
lost A few nights ago she dreamed second time ot
the same circumstance. The dream made such a deep
impression on her mind that she determined to make
the search II pointed out She 20 the place."
cording The Atlanta Constitution land there hidden
by tho msers Eaud she found about 5000 Ia silver and
gold"
The plea for Ftz John Porter made by
General Grant has led 20 the writing Of an interesting
letter General Francis A. Walker has forwarded 10
General Grant from Boston letter signed By Theodore
Lyman, Samuel NJ Quincy, Charles f. Adams, Jr,
Henry p Russell, Stephen VI. Webb. Henry L. Higgn.
son. Charles p. Horton, Samuel A. Green, J. henry
Sleeper, r. y. Milton and A. p. Martin, cOntalng tho
following praise and thanks: "The undersigned,
soldiers under your command desire to express their
hearty and grateful thanks for your recent paper IN
yindcaon If General Fz John Porter They feel that
act whether OF yslor OF policy which has marked
your great career should bring you honor than the
moral courage apd the spirit OF fairness and justice e1
hibed in this defence or gallant Union solder con-
demned on insufficient or mistaken evidence"
An important suit in regard 10 the RESPONSE
bihy of telegraph companies has just been deeiied In
louisiana James Crangle sued Western Union
Telegraph Company for loss OF $40 which lie had
sus aimed In consequence OF error made BY tele
graph operator in sending his message The counsel for
the company claimed that the original dispatch, when
was produced In court, badly written that tho
operator responsible for the mistake In trans
mission, aud also claimed protection under the printed
the message particularly that portion re-
garding The repeating OF the The Court decided
that telegraph company cannot by special contract
lieye itself from responsibility for the faults nee
gence of it's servants and also that condition in con.
tract that telegraph company shall not ne responslDe
Tor errors or negligence oi It's servants uess ntssE9
Is repeated and ten only to the extent OF the cost OK
repeating sucn message, IA an UNJUST ahu uhredsohAo''
condition, aud cannot De enforced
The great national statue of Germania which
is to be erected ct Nederwald, overlooking the valley
the Rhine, u commemorate the triumphant war with
France is being cast in separate pieces al Munich
The head and other parts have already been COM
peted Some idea of the magnitude OF the work says
The Builder may be formed from the fact that tso total
weight of metal in II Will be not less than fory-ve tons
In the work casting and finishing many hity men
are often employed at time. The largest single
portion of tho satuethe throne with cloak lying on II
the whole weighing fifteen tonshas just been east IA'
blade OF the sword, which alone weighs ton, and WHICH,
enyelOped in an oak garland has been cast separately!
also finished. Other parts OF the monument are DeihS
cast at different establishments IN other cities. NUS
the figures Of the Rhine and the Mosele, TO be paceah
the foot OF tho pedes latter itself eighty el II
hcight-are being executed at Dresden The relieves "9
being prepared In Berlin, the great imperial cage ~
Lau6chhamner. and the a!lesorca hguTes oi " IL anu
Peace ut Nuremberg.