New-York tribune., 1868-12-28
GENERAL NOTES.

A pilot captured laiEe sc"l III - 4,f,,
,,-or l.t Sunday Ills now alive ana "eA in "H LIN
city aquarium ,,.4;,
p,5Io Boyd was last heard Of in AUSTIN
r,yas a lobbyist at the Convention SDo '' H'i''N
70 push au immigration scheme
Iycomine County, Pennsylvania, has very
small weekly paper with very large ute-4"S -N"''9
L,aiaa,y aad Lyc0n.iny county AdrfrtseF'
vote was taken among the American resi-
,t f Honolulu on the 81 Of November lsst-it stoou
12l for Grant against for Seymour
Beavers have greatly increased in numbers
,yudp few years on the Penobscot River IN Name
The price of skins has fallen from Sl2 to Is cents
The Aca, which has just arrived at Mobile
direct from bombay is built entirely OF steel IL Is
the FIRST vessel Of the kind ever seen in Mobile
manuscript brought by the British officers
from Abyssmia is illustrated by pieuturo OF the ISf'
ties crossing the Red Sea, armed ,cih muS6sts'
Four hundred men, with 200 teams are now
engaged in the excavation for the new capi'o ouUS
iu Albany. viii be ready for the foundation Dy jan
The great ice-gorge in the st. Croix klver'
Minnesota opposite the town Of Taylors FaS' O'''
forty feet high and the Ice is still acoumuia'lng'
The quickest passage yet made by steamer
from Honolulu TO san Francisco was made III IL days OS
the Idaho, last month.
Opium eating has become very general in
Maine This a result, 1t IS argued OF the pfohiO'oiy
liquor law.
San Francisco has law against the pretty
yvaiterr saloon system recent decision in court so
construes the that girls may be engaged ito play
on the piano sing" thus rendering it dead leteri
The National Deaf Mute Gasette is a 1G-
page monthly edited and published by al association Of
deafmutes In California. One OF the association Is now
canyassing FOR it in Oregon.
Brigham Young is issuing paper currency
in Utah which resembles the national greenback The
Mormon President finds banking operations very profit
able, 1t is said.
Cincinnati now possesses, like Buffalo, per-
anent Gallery Of Fine Arts open to the public day and
evening Churohs last great work, The New Niagara"
is now exhibition there.
South Carolina has 100000 acres of land.
Only onefourth Of this under cultivation The restis
mostly forest land. Good farming land has been sold in
this State for IS per acre during the past year
The unusual warmth of the past Fall and
early Winter in Montana has brought myrads Of young
grasshoppers into premature existence. The cold
weather will destroy them of course, and the farmers
expect 10 free from their depredations next season
The neglect of spelling in our present sys-
TEN Of education recently Illustrated in the Nigh
school Of Madison Wisconsin. Only two out OF 20 pupils
could spell words of syllables correctly. Some Of
them missed 60 out Of 260 words
A man was arrested in Cincinnati soon after
the fearful steamboat accident for trying to eel full
set Of false teeth in heavy gold plate, which he had
found on the United States They were wrapped
in fragment VI handkerchief, marked Mary Morgan"
The Boston Cultirator has "known cider TO
be sold in Western Massachusetts, for IS cents barrel
within the past half century," also knew Methodist
minister VINO ran a whisky dislery made cider brandy,
specuated in sheep and preached on Sunday.
New-Orleans has been having a shower Of
burned grass cnders from the nehborug meadows and
swamps They fall in great fakes upon the sidewalks
aud roofs and delicate that the least touch dis
solves them as they descend.
There is a "leper colony" on Molokai, one
OF the Sandwich Islands, under the charge of Mr. and
Mrs Walsh. schooner load of lepers left Honolulu last
month colony. They presented pabe specta-
Gle as they passed through the Of the city their
way 10 the vessel
A noted Chinese bandit and black mailer Lin
slan.man has been captured in shanghae He will be
punished by beng put into box OF such shape that he
can neither lie down. Sit stand his head and hands
will protrude and he viii be left exposed to SUM- wnd
and rain, until lie dies Of exhaustion or starvation
Two boys, while skating on the Ship Canal
at fiuGaO few DAYS ago. saw the upturned face of
drowned man through tho clear blue ice. The body was
floating slowly along in the current beneath Police OH
GERS were called but before they reached the canal the
body had passed out Of sight
A clock, invented by man in Burlington,
Vermont run by electricity. 1t never needs winding
The most important feature OF the invention is that
single battery may connected with any number Of
dlas in the same building, along the entire line
Of railway
The C@aiifOrnia highway robbers, like those
Of Australia have peculiar respect for women
The last stage robbery have noticed resulted 10 the
eizure of money and vauables from gentlemen, while
The single lady passengers undturbed. similar
account came recently from Australia
# .e Hawaiian Legislature has offereda subsidy
o SO 20 year for weekly steam service between Homo
Iulu aad Lilo anu 5000 for weekly steam service around
tie island OF Kauai The distance from Honolulu to ilo
is 200 miles bu the would embrace 800 or GOO miles
contract could be eced for ten or even twenty years
san Francisco capitalis.s are on the alert
German prOspector has recently discovered
exceedingly rich gold miles n the hitherto unexpored
regions of Nevada Some Of rock Literally span
ged with free gold" and ED OF $4,000 IS estimated
from the ore sight The lucky dscoverer is In oman
dary-he IS afraid SELL lest tho mine may turn out as
rich as 1t appears aud afraid to hold it lest it may fail
entirely.
The cities of Sacramento and San Francisco
are always quarreng with each other about their re-
spectiye inducements to immigrants. Sacramento snow
tauntug its rival with its recent earthquake misfortune
San Francisco retaates by aludng to the flood OF 1902
which did 50 much damage 70 Sacramento. All OF which
very encouraging to outside parties who intend 10 make
either city their residence
The Army and Navy official titles correspond
in rank as follows: Naval Ensgns rank with Second
Ieutenants; Masters with First Lieutenaus; Leuten
ants with Captains; Lieutenant Commanders with Ma
jOrs; Commanders with Lieutenant ColOnels; Captains
with Colonies; COInmOdores with Brigader Generals
Rear AdmIras with Major Generals Vice Admras with