New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-09
GENERAL NOTES.

An astonishing variety of nets festOOn the
walls Of Chinese section OF the Fisheries Exhibition
in London. Some OF them are made OF silk OF exceed
ingly delicate fibre, Many unique and interesting
models relating TO the pscatoral art likewise show the
ingenuity the Chinese fishermen. One OF these rep.
resents fooboat," clever contrvance for convey
ing single passenger The boatman carries under his
arm paddle for steering purposes while with his feet
he works a wide-baded In this manner :" he often
rows from eighteen to twenty hours at o stretch,
only pauslng few moments occasionally TO take his
food, operation which Is very simply performed on
close beside him"
A singular accusation was brought in LON
don police the other day by the widow OF the late
General Bradshaw against the operate basso sgno Foil
The complaint charged the singer with assault and bat
terry no small matter even for generals widow, con-
siderng signor Folrs hugh frame. Mrs. Bradshaw de-
cared that one day March at Monte Carlo she fell
into dispute with the basso, who sat next her at the
dinner table, the OF which he pronounced ner
liar and base-born On the following day, I'M
der precisely similar circumstances finding his tongue
inadequate punishment, he shook her violently Inc
merits of the case were reached, however, for tho
Loudon magistrate decided that he had no jurisdiction
In Monte Carlo.
Visitors to Louisville, KY, remark that
though general business is not remarkably active there
the city can justly claim preeminence In the gambling
industry. "Thero is probably no city Oh
the size IN the country" says TIE Louis
rlle Post, "where gambling Is more prevalent
or where the facilities for ndngng in the vice are moro
open or more The money lost weekly in the
gambling shops in this city would build three or four
Southern Expeditions Every night during the races
the keno and banks have been throngd so that at
the popular places entrance was hardly possible 70
the late In short the central portion oltne Guy
nightly OF feyerish vice, excitement ana diss
patton"
Alfred Packer, the Colorado cannibal who
in the winter of 1874 killed and ate the flesh OF at least
belonging to the prospecting party OF which no
was himself member who convicted Of numbering
the whole party and sentenced to be hanged on May 49,
and for whom o stay Of proceedings was obtained. Is
likely to escape the gallOws altogether by means ota
legal techncay In repeating the statutes which were
in force when Packers crimes were committed and en-
acting code, tho Legislature failed to provide for
In which capital sentence was likely to be imposed
and this il were wiped out all legal knowledge OF
them II is said that the best wyers In the stare Rg
think that the severes punishment which can be ipw -
Packer years sentence under tue manslangher
Of the old statute, which the Legislature iaea 10
amend.
One of the neatest yarns which have thu
far diversified particularly duh season Is told oy
The Nashville American On the day OF the Cars coro
nation blooming in the capital OF Iennes-
see burst into bloom This sudden efiorescence was IN
itself somewhat surprising for the plant had not Do
trayed any previous symptoms OF wnas was ABOUT "
happen and moreover, night-booming cereus, WHAT
ever actual habit may be- is never expected 10 dos
at broad noon But these slight eceeh1rclues 'S"S
have been overlooked IL Mrs Ewing the owner OF me
plant had not made discovery which Will immortaze
every incident and individual connected Herewith As
the petals unfodod they revealed in the centre OF the
flower imperial delicate and so complete as
70 change admiration into What could the symbol
meant No one cOuld tell; but when The Sdshrme Amer
lean appeared the next morning with twocolumn ac-
count OF the coronation at Moscow, the mystery was
solved But the strsugcst thing Of all remains 10 oetod
The plant whose blossom typided tue great EVEN ia
Russia has grown from slip cut in the Cars pleasure
garden at ST. Petersburg years ago D tne rev. r.
9 Fall formerly OF Nashville but now OF Lexington,
XIV That is the whole story, and 1t would DC Dard 70
ind its equal in the history OF hot-wea'her iaotea'