New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
STRAY MOTHS.
Philadelphia has 3S2 schools.
Ohio has 1853 schoolhouses.

hands.
The Maryland State Deaf and Dumb Asylum
opens In September.
The Maine Editorial Convention VIII meet at
Bath the 18th inst.
The wife of Mayor Blocker of Albany, died
| at Waterford on Sunday afternoon.
The entire road-bed of the Union Pacific
| Railroad is rich in mineral deposits.
Travellers say that Toledo, Ohio is about the
hlthiest city on the Western continent.
During the next month the German singers Of
Pittsburgh will hold grand musical festival
A gentleman of Troy who buried his fifth
wife Ii months ago, married a sixth last Thursday
At the fire in Rochester, on the night of tho
Sd nst a boy of six years old was burned to death.
! 6 C. Wilson printer, of Troy, n. "
about to take charge of Tie Bay Chy Aiichl Journal
COnnoisseurs say there is not bottle of purs
wine in the United States nor has there been Tor Is yea
Three new wells have been struck on the
Bennnghof Farm, near, Neadyille, Penn Total yield.
225 bbls. per day.
| Commencement exercises of the Vermont
University and state Agricultural College at Burlington
began yesterday.
William Patrick Wiley, son of Senator W.
T. Wiley, Is the Democratic Candidate Tor Attorney
General OF West Virginia.
The butchers of Schenectady are trying to
have enforced old law which prohibits the sale OF meat
| in the streets OF that town.
Three men, one day last week, killed
bear eight feet long the farm OF Emanuel Lebo near
Halifax, Dauphln County, Penn
Henry Reed has withdrawn from The Gin
cindn Enquirer because that journal would not urge the
organization Of the Third Party
The editor of The Evansville Qnd9 Journal
has been presented with Seeding tomato sixteen inches
! in circumference, and weighing 2s ounces.
The second annual picnic of the Milwaukee
CALIFORNIAN Club held Yesterday Several thousand
people were on the ground during the day.
The strikers in the Schuylkill coal region
went TO work again yesterday under the Oh tenhour
system. Six cOllieries resumed work last week.
of
Va while attempting 20 light fire with carbon oil, was
so severely burned that she died Monday evening last
On the ODD ult. the thermometer marked llOa
in the shade at Atchison Kansas. The mercury had
up that date reached 1902 every day since the Fourth
A congregation at Dayton Ohio, have lately
exchanged their pastor OF SIX eet three lhches
for another who stands exactly -FOUR iees eleven III h
boots
Elmer Walden, a boy, was killed in the VIII
| liams College gymnasium on sunday, whie plScIcls
upon the bars de fell upon his head ana uieu Id
stautly.
| A boy born at Delmar, Penn, on the goth
ult has father, mother two grandiathes Two grana
mothers two great grandmothers, one
and one great great grandfather all strong ana heShy
The Pennsylvania State Equal Rights League
will meet the City of Williamsport on IHesdSy, Aug
Of the state has been issued inviting "eyery lover Of
complete enfranchlsement" TO attend the meeting
The Legislature of West Virginia adjourned
on the 2Sth u meet again on the lJh day Oh NoNen
Der at 10 o'clock in the The Committee on Re-
vision in Wheeling ON the lltn OF August ana et
| The Manito,coc (Wis.) Tribune says that during
the transform on Friday night the lightning struck the
brewery Kewaunee bursting the large peeIiEs nnea
with the favored beverage of Teutons About $40 DarTss
Of beer flooded the streets in less than no time" Hhe
| loss was some 500. .
! A running match will take place at Akron,
Ohio Of Western Pennsyyan and
welshman named Johnson, formerly OF Cleveana 9ut
now of Akron. The match Is for purse OF NvV the
distance TO be 200 yards
i A country newspaper says: p" The ladies OF
this city have ore e G ot allow them TO talk about
living up to this rule with perfection whchis the first in
stance OF the kind on record"
While John Macomb of Chicago, H., was
experimenting with explosive gases on the 80 INST one
OF his small gas reservoirs exploded with terrible re-
port nurng him so severely that his recovery doubt
fu The wife and child Of the experimentalst were IN
| the room, but escaped unlDJured.
A contemporary says that whenever the month
of July has been unusually hot the following month ha.
been correspondngy cool Il invariably true that the
vice II this law is followed this year the Their
mOmeep this mon month tn WI, T average Gy ABOUT ''
A Philadelphia journal says that for unac-
countabe Philadelphia has been more backward
the life insurance business than any other ey 10 the
Union In glancDg over the transactions oneally re-
| ported, done by al companies IN the City OF Newlork
during the year 1861 fnd that they received IN that
period the enormous OF s530OO0 IN premiums aone
and among this large number Of companies hot Fha
delphia or Pennsylvania company is mentioned.
In the local columns of The Columbus (09
!
eSloot was run over three social evils bound
nile - one was conveyed TO the SAINTS Rest"
female fghtlsts Quarreled about Lowers ana were
was unable 20 "tote" himself around and in game OF
baseball Railroad whitewashed Cincinnati" which
must have been very interesting operation 10 WINGS
and all this III one day.
A gentleman residing in New England
city has been much annoyed by the boisterous worship
congregation OF Negro Methodists whose church adj
Joins his building He has proposed 70 buy the church
the lot which it Stands but the brethren refuse 70
SELL even at the high price offered hoping that Mr. TOur
elOe for that his may be irrated into offering
In the mean time no abatement OF the nuisance IS
OF their persecution has built fence between his dwell
ing and the church and another between the church ana
house on the next ot also his property These fences
are the highest IN the known world. They extend De-
yond the caves OF the church on DOM SUES anu ue th
tant from It's walls only two feet on the side INC
church he has painted the fences black. This darkes
the interior even on bright day and renders the sss.
during service positively sitting The NOISY wOlshpe'
have threatened 10 80 10 law.
The editorial excursion party which returned
few days ago from trip TO the end OF the Pa 1 Kan R
Ird,lse James Redp9th John Browns friend Of as
Mother" Bald OF The Boston Tareer, W. +. HuteblsSi
The Boston Post, f. Wright OF The Boston Journal, h
Bliss OF The Congrcgaonalis S L. Pierce Of The BakA
nan aud Reflector butler OF The Hec Haren PaaGdigm
Frank Wells; the witty paragraphs OF ne FhaaaP
EregiHg Bulletin j. w. Ascn OF The Norm Anle7eGh W
Neylns Of Forneys Press, j. L. Hamelln OF me A' a.
Fulton OF The Baltimore American, T. + Houston OF ~
PitSbTgh Gazette. NJ j. Mccain OF The Pihsbargh roy,
Dr. Fleming OF The Pittsburgh Post, JOS. C. Purdy OF is
Pittsburgh Commercial, Chas. A. Dana OF The sun, To-
Clarke OF The EUeRiHg Post Geo. W Hows Of me Ess,
H. ID. Faulkner OF The World, and 3 d. Page, late Oh A
! TRIBUNE
| Jenny Junen thus attacks two old fashions
lately re yved and gives withal some surprising ae.s re
ating thereto: People who imagine that the world pa
moved i'm any particular direction are astonshed ever
once in while mud by development OF facts that the
fools are alive IN large numbers as ever ana that tns
world after all stands pretty much where II ala year
ago Periodicals IN this country have been surprised
md English journals Of responsibility and influence ds
Tending the theory and practice Of tight laclng supporter
moreover by the apparently testimony OF the larger
port of their constituency Confident that American CIV
zation had progressed beyond the stage OF European
barbarsm they have confidently declared that no scno'