New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-27

= ...,~ rs~son must have been mfracuiousy pro
so Tbereupon there was JOY In Chameiet' ana INC
svor and priest forthwith arranged fete y" 'nausu
~ .ho shrne The great day had already come when
poroon the village idented the GorRse ss eond
ms e tbe body OF saint The fee had to be postponeo
cordngly and the Mayor Is now being tired ior pouy
enatching.
The annual meeting of the New-fork state
por Association will be held at Albany on Tuesday jan
80 Q beginning at IL O'Clock. The Grafton will be de-
Nvered by the Hon. John G. Milburn. OF Bunao' Tue
,r,ze assay will be read and report Will DC made upon
tbe recent visit Of Lord ChleJusce Coeridge largo
attendance Of lhe State Bar is desired ana
The forthcoming report of the Secretary OF
the Pennsylvania State Board OF Agriculture gives
pression to the anxiety which che increasing mPot"
ton OF Samaritan tobacco is causing the farmers OF tne
State The leaf of the Sumatran tobacco Is sinail anu
somewhat bitter but 1t is OF good color ana so nney
vened that cigar wrappers can be cut from any part VI
IT, Three pounds OF leaves win nearly or quo 20
thousand egsrs ths broad domestic seedeaf whose
thick veins leave only the tips servceabe Tor wrappers
When Christopher Gerke moved into his new
house in the outskirts of Philadelphia hve weeks ago. no
plsced thirty chickens in the cellar for until
nermanent home should be ready for them. Two OF
three DAVIS afterward only twenynne Of them were TO
no found fact which seemed strange at the moment out
as soon forgotten few days ago 1t became necessary
N remove one the cellar steps and there was the
an, chicken in the gloomy space beneath them Though
I;ve when taken out the enduring fowl was too
xeak to stand; but judicOus feeding has restored lts
strength and having escaped the dangers winch atteu
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas IL Is rather 10 DC coh
graduated than pited' Sl'.1a16
A negro named Joshua Williams, who pro-
claims that the spirit Of Charles Sumner inhabts MS stat
uart body has opened spirituastic campaign among
tbe coored population of Philadelphia and already num-
,rs his converts by the hundred according to his own
valuable testimony. This prophet and evangelist mas
formulated creed which combines Colonel niger SOIL
cheerful views Of the future state with the Rev. John
Jaspers interesting theory to the movement OF the
ann and which is nerspersed with anathemas against
oodooism and all other sperstitions except those OF
which he himself the exponent He has been Ing
for month in the negro quarter OF Phadephla "ho nus
IN reality succeeded in evoking much enthusiasm
The proprietors of The Morning Neaus OF Paris
have determined appears from correspondence OF Ihe
Roson Journal to establish French newspaper Tor the
prpose of rowing Parsians how the thing ought 10 De
done aAn the necessary capital" writes the cores
ondent has been subscribed; house in the Rue AT
renteu has been taken and quite probable that the
iournal will begin its career with the New Year Or
eourse the paper will be French in tone as well as In
language; most Of the contributors will be French but
the getting UP of the dispatches and the manner OF
serving them up will be American. 1t is nothing unusual
for French paper to have foreign directors but that
which gives the experiment interesting character is
the introduction of the American system Mr. ChanDer-
lain who has been the first at the head OF this
ageOus enterprise, seems likely 10 become PeTS0'''
Paris.