New-York tribune., 1867-07-15
GENERAL NEWS.

under cultivation increased 9cCO the present year
A baker in Syracuse gives public notice that the
OF his bread has been reduced u per O OVes anu
this too without reducing their size or their quanty
The Sheriff of Tishamingo Miss, is author
ized by law OF chat State TO SET to work some l2OO per
sons that they may pay their State taxes
Wisconsin naid S2,334 for wolf scalps. They
were easier hunt than Indians and only brought ~
each.
An elegant carriage made in New Haven for
Gen Thomas was destroyed by fire On railroad tram
Going out OF Cleveland, Omo lately
Two members of a family ia Mississippi re-
GENTLY died Of starvation They had lived Tor some
time on sassafras bark and roots.
A lady in Madison, Ind, has recently mar
ried her fifth husband Could greater coInIhimeht DC
paid 10 the sterner sexf
A farmer in PapstOwn, Ill, hung himself last
week the day after his marriage 10 beautiful young
girl because gossip said his wife had been prostitute
Sosebody having spite against a man IN
Ali over his meadow SO that when he began 10 NOV the
other day the scythes wenld require constant grinding
California proposes to hire of the General
Government ISLANDS connected with Alaska,
and make penal colony OF IT, Her prisons are running
over.
The whole city debt of Boston on the S0th of
April was sl3O 465 The net cost of the waterworks
mp to that time was $l1tiG9 IA The amount OF deDtOh
account OF the war is H,s$7,osO
The new State library at Harrisburg, Penn,
was formally opened last week by Governor Geary The
capacity Of the at present is $1,000 Volumes capable
OF enlargement TO 100000
A Cincinnati barber, shaving customer re-
Gently seized with fit, when the razor fell from ms
hand customers hand severAg an artery ana nood
ing the floor with biooG
The last report of the Paris Omnibus Company
states that the superstition of Friday being unncy
day sensible influence on the receipts OF the
Omnbuses
A gentleman who has recently died in California
has left legacy $4,000 to the United States the IN
terest TO be applied 70 the reduction OF me national Gen
Twelve hundred dollars does not seem 70 De very great
sum- probably the testatoP hoped to set an example
which might be initiated by others
Ida and Ella Snow, twin daughters of Har-
xev QDoNV of Maftap0isptt Mass, four years
zion matches when it was discovered that they had
swalIowed the poison the mistake made OF trying to
expel by catartc instead of emetic cremedies with
fatal result
The Tldeont PENN Journal tells a story of
n diving man at whose request dance was held the night
previous his decease, in the building which he ocen-
cent funeral The receipts $50. "Gfory be TO
Godp said the dying man. now III have decent Dury-
ing, and the children can Ilde III a mack"
In 3S days prior to the first of July, nearly
loOOO Immigrants arrived at Columbus, One. Two
thousand reached there in the single week ending Jpy my
hemn intended settling IN IN different de5ert p0T pSd
the reed1e i Illinois Indiana Wisconsin Minnesota, and
Nebraska. while few 60 TO Kentucky.
wherry race will precede the college con-
Rn ob has been invited To- row over thrceme course
that day against time. On thursday lst the Dase Dal,
clubs OF the Freshman and the sophomore classes ol
Yale and Harvard win play match games and the Uni
Versity match between Harvard and Williams Will take
place on Friday morning
George A. Hill, cOlored barber at No. Es-
ST. Boston is reported to have eloged recently with
white girl ls years Old belonging IN Mfs % @ ana ana
children living. police officer was put on their track
and they were traced TO Chicago where they were ar
rested and hin arraigned before the Police Court and
held for trial ON criminal charge. Inc young woman
come home with the policeman.
There is an exciting negro minstrel war in
Cincinnati ThodoOrs Of WoOdsThea were barricaded
by the law Monday evening in consequence OF as
sres TO which had the right Of occupying the house
La band has been in possession but the manager
that he had therefore rented the house NewcOmb The
result counter unctons and no performance at all
The quarrel Is before the courts.
A few days since three little children came
untmely death in Clay County Ind under the fol
lowing circumstances woman residing near Center
ing taking With her thTee small Children The two elder
ones while playing about the woods were bitten by
venOmous snake and their screams attracting the aten-
ton of the mother she hastened TO their relief thought
iessy Leaving the smallest child which, during her abb
cmdfen ded the same night from the effects OF the bite
Mount Hesmer, on the Upper Mississippi,
was is said named IN honor Of Harriet Hosmer who
the steamboat which she passing up river
named They accepted the Sl s1e I u1 and sn
their best enoto leave her the rear she reached
sharp contest; aud the admiring citizens OF Lansing
gave her name to this c in honor VI the deed she had
performed
Recently, says The Troy Times. n collection
was taken up in the Baptist church. West Troy TO aid
society in rebuilding their house worship
fributIOns flowed In pennly the plates ran ever with
sreenbacks 1t was placed the receyine stand
and allowed 10 there until the eOngreeafson was
dismissed Then the trustees went up 10 count the
money and takS cgs ~ q One Dec o stnge 70 say the
ALONG the aisle showed that some adroit thief robbed
the plate and decamped with the remainder OF the
gregation.
Five buildings are now in course of erection at
Amherst 10 be occuped the Massachusetts Agricultural
College and are expected to cost about S9 OF which
o ma viii he expended for the dormitOry $4,000 for the
laboratory 5000 for the cluhoese ana $1,000 ior the
heianical cabinet and plantbOuse The number OF ap
,Jcafions for admission makes IL necessary 10 provide
femporary arrangements In addition TO those nrst con
fenuaied The HalnpsbiIe, Worcester, Northwest a1u
lssex Agricultural Societies have endowed schoaI
10 the institution and has also been founded ~ en
William sutton OF eaen President OF the Essex sOeley
The nstutOn begins lis career with the good "shes VI