New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-02
GENERAL NOTES.

A Skaneateles constable recently posted the
following notices The following eeeks OF John Down
les Rochester Uncle Tom Cabin show will be sold in the
ball room the Centre Hotel viEi heven in scenery
bull pups Cmuzzes and blanktsl, ice scenery and
champane basket Adam Norton, eOnst,"
The Khedve's medal for the English troops
who took part the Egyptian campaign is in the for
OF star, Of similar pattern to the one given TO
the troops who took partn General Roberss march from
Cabu 70 Candahar. On the diverse are the name and
initials OF the Khedve In Egyptian, while on the reverse
10 an engraving OF the Pyramids
This Is the way in which the Meteorological
ONCE London in response underwriters inquiry,
dsposes OF the remains Of the late Professor Virgins
1.-The prophecy which you allude emanates from some
man In the Finance Department OF the Canadian Gov
erument. It is utter nonsense No living pre-
dict tho weather two DAYS beforehand, much less
months The idea that the Admiralty have ordered ships
70 be In port Is also absurd and utterly false"
Another plaster cast of human form has
lately been taken from the mould left in the ashes
Pompe From the place and posture II ia evident that
the vertaken by the ashes while endea
escape and suocatsd The nguro lying Its back
the head is bent backward and the sku perfectly pre-
served The open lips disclose five upper and five lower
teeth white and even The left arm half raised and
the fingers one-half shut; the right is pressed
against tue body and the closed s rests on the stomach
Two rather small keys were found near the body.
The establishment and alarm at the rapid
further stimulated by official report drawn by ~
Challand director OF asyl um at Berg He declares
that every year average $50 deaths directly
duo 10 alcoholism and that from l60O to LOO moro
are Indirectly caused by excessive drinking The work
men Switzerland, who are very poorly paid, exc out
their scanty supply OF food with cheap eau-de-yie
which is nothing more than alcohol obtained from
potatoes and very poorly rectied, but which con-
eumed at the rate fteen twenty quarts yearly
to each inhabtant and thus constitutes widely dis
trtbuted national poison
About four years ago, Lawrence DeGraff, a
farmer of Amsterdam, y. " was robbed of $3.50 which
no had careessy left in q she'd Suspicion fell ON
young man named Dugan bul there was not evidence
enough to convict him. Recently. however, In the
course of his trial for strengthening, Dugsn ad-
ud ged to and the Utica Asylum. Last
week. Thursday evening, DeGraG and his daughter
sitting at home when they heard knock the kitchen
door, and moment later, looking out OF the window
saw the retreatng figure OF a On the doorstep
they found package and the following rotei Dear
fren This money Is yours. My took 1t out OF your
COW shed. On his death-bed he wants me TO give 1t
to you" The package contained 1857 i9 bills, The
police think that Dugan was tue thier ana thht he
gave the money his father whose conscience, stmu
lated perhaps by his sons calamity has ut Last COM
PEELED him TO return It,
A man who encounters the stern realities of
life under the poetical name OF James Torrington
Spencer Iidstone lately sued London furnture-maker
for $50 the price OF 100 copies OF work which he
called "Tno Londoniad" and described advertis.
ing medium. The defendant admitted receiving the
goods but said that they worthless and that he
had induced to subscribe for them by the
traordnary representations the part OF the plaintiff
who declared that he commissioned by the Govern.
OF Canada to ascertain the OF manufacture
OF artistic furniture etc. In England by means
of his poems" to for those who advertised
vast amount OF business from tho native Princes and
others in Manitoba 1t may be remarked passing that
"natye Princes" wasa stroke Of genius The defend
ant accordingly paid for poem," and this Ia sample
OF IT.
Him fore whom each furniture vender. Dagon-like,
doth fall,
Supplied tho whole Of my mothers rooms In Torring-
ton Hall"
When the defendant discovered tho fraud he his
messenger with the books TO the plaintiff who refused
TO take them and admniste. ed shower bath TO the
man IRON upper window, In doing which the handle
OF Watering broke aud the utens fell upon the mes-
sengcr disabling him for several days The Judge gave