New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-01
GENERAL NOTES.

II is estimated by The Record that there arc
1000 liquor shops in PhhadeiPniA' VI "ni0N 0N'
are unlicensed.
Nepotiations which have been in progress
for considerable time practically certain 70
rasult I'm the establishment Of lightning ran running
without change Of between Paris ana SI Feters
burq through Mainz and Berlin. The gauge Ia UNIFORM
70 the Russian frontier, where different wheels wi" Do
adjusted 1t is reported that the train will run al tho
rate of dfty,sx miles hour, speed hitherto unatS
tanned on the Continent Drawing.room, sleeping and
hotel cara with every appliance OF lux irons irasens,
will make the ne" Tram TUG Alo'' HO'''i' A"1 WV
yeyance in Europe
The Philadelphia Society Of Artists has
adopted the following programme for lSS3~s4: sketch
E,bibtop in November In the galleries at No. l72o
Chestuut.st to which all Philadelphia artists are ia.
vited to contributes Fifth Annual National Exhibition
of Oil Paintings at Ny l725 Chestnut-sL 10 January
1894 20 which all the of the country are invited
70 contribute; Third Annual National Water Color EIh-
hilton in March, 1884 at No 125 Chestnut'st open to
all the artists In the country The Society will give
reception to It's contributing members on FRIDAY, DeS
cember o. at the Pennsylvania Academy OF Fine Arts
Persons DESTROYS to become contributing members can
snd their names TO f. d. b. Richards, treasurer, or 20
H. Trotter secretary. a. No. 1920 Chestnut'st Ihe
membership fee ia IS, and the life membership Zee sou
Fvsry member receives a season ticket admitting hns
self and Two ladies all exhibitions OF tue SOcieI ana
cards to all receptions and private views
To DR.. Home5s long list of refcrmationi
which are sure to precede any necessity for ordering
ASCENSION robes, Mr. John o. Foering chief grain
inspector OF the Philadelphia Commercial Exchange,
adds the honest loading Of grain cars "The ingenuity
dtspayed by Western shippers to hOOdwnk us and cheat
their customers ia something to wonder at" explains
MIR FoerinE "when of corn, wheat or barley
arrives at any the elevators we sample 1t for the pur
nose of giving 1t rate which Will regulate Its price,
sometimes we find layer of good wheat on to? OF the
load three or four feet deop and then sandNched be-
tween this and the bottom layer will be foot or two Of
had stuff Sometimes bad corn or bad wheat is care
fuy placed around the sides of the car, with the
nsctou that the inspector will be content TO plunge
his tryer only into the main part OF the load Kansas,
ST Louis Chicago and all other great grain depOts in
the West are similarly afflicted. have heard OF cases
where farmers In loading oars have taken sacks OF
mouths downward, and when the space around them
was filed up with good grain pulled up the bags, Leaving
the columns Of Dad grain standing III Their pIAces.'
The expedition which The Ne,e- Orleans
7mess Deocrdt lately announced its intention OF send.
tn the Everglades OF Florida is to ASSEMBLE at jack
sonve on October Is and proceed thence by rail and
steamer 10 Lake OkeechObee where preliminary surveys
will be made and final arrangements completed
direct course will then be taken for whitewater Bay on
the Gulf coast When the centre OF the Everglades shall
have been reached camp will be established for two
weeks and surveying parties will be sent East and West.
The explorers are men of Vlgor determination and
scientific attachments. They Will take with them six
canoes specially built FOR the service with sails aud cen.
tre-boards rugged for and paddles and manned by
stalwart negroes. They anticipate much excitement
and danger for there exists the face Of the globe
more yserous wilderness than the region which they
hone to penetrate 1t is only Inhabited by Indians who
fed nher after the Seminole War and by negroes whom
they hold az slaves The Times supposes that
there may be 700 500 OF the former aud thirty
forty of the latter. few months Chief Tiger Tail
became dspleased with OF his coored servants, aud
brought MIN Fort Myers to offer him tor sale When
informed that the negroes were all free he ejacu.
lated "white mans Niger mebbe free, but lndan's
Niger no." WhereupOn Tiger Tai grasped the darky
BY the nape Of the neck pushed HIN into tue canoe, and
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