The New York herald., 1868-12-24
GENERAL NOTES.

Santa Anna is In st. Domingo
Who robbed the Waterbury Post Onlce2
How to destroy ice-Sprnkle salt on your side
walks.
John Pemberton an old and worthy citizen OF New
Orleans, is dead.
1t is proposed to abolish the property qualification
for voting In Rhode Island
]. A. Gleason, q merchant In Charlotte. N. c., has
been killed BY negro policeman.
How to destroy carpets-Tread on them after
walking your sated sidewalks
There are some 275 hotels In New Hampshire and
scarcely good one In the whole lot.
The report that General Rousseau was about raj
ing cane In Louisiana Is contradicted.
The Cleveland and Toledo Railroad bridge at El.
more, Ohio was burned on the Goth inst.
Farmers In Litchfeld county, Conn.,, selling ont,
preparatory to emigrating South or West
George s. Yerger dangerously shot George L. Pot
ter, Jr, In Jackson, Miss, on the 18th inst
How to Judge OF the prosperity or town-Look at
the advertising columns of its newspapers.
A daughter OF Thomas ii. Benton is said to be
teaching primary school In San Francisco.
There is not q single woman in jail In Fairfield
county, Conn. But there are i've married ones.
The Pnte Indians call the locomotive 'smoke
wag0n.n The Shoshones, cheap wagon, no hoss."
There may be two sides to the stories about Ar
kansas butcheries but they are only Of one color
blood.
Lorenzo Kendall Elliott well known attache OF
the Phenix Hotel, Concord, N. H., died suddenly on
the 10th Inst.
town watchman named David s. Faulkner was
murdered by an unknown man In Medford, Mass,
on the 22d inst.
In Indiana the dairy women stamp their butter
with set OF false teeth. This prevents 1t from
"nelflng In the mouth"
large building in process OF erection in Chicago,
on Adams street. fell with tremendous crash on the
goth inst. Nobody killed.
E.. Boullgny, collector OF internal revenue for
fNn nlIf al al
on the charge OF malfeasance In Office.
The reports Of the deplorable condition OF the
Swiss immigrants on the Atkinson plantation, near
0oldsb0ro, N. O., are positively denied.
Agriculture the Hope Of the Southn Is the title
OF sensible editorial article in the Charleston
Courier OF the 21st inst. That's the talk
There were four incendary fires at Thompsonvllle,
Conn., on the night OF the 10TH which destroyed Mr..
Charles Cooper's house and three large barns.
A German citizen Of Quincy ILL.,, has on his right
cheek blood-red birthniark in the form Of deer In
the act OF eapng. IL Is absolutely perfect % the
best artist could have made It,
On the 10th inst, by the explosion Of steam boiler
o. marble excavation West West Rutland ,a 1 Vt, Amos
badly though not fatally injured.
The Louisiana Paper Manufacturing Company is in
process OF organization at New Orleans. site has
heatlful region, with excellent water power.
Some OF the colored brethren in Washington are
opposed TO the movement lor female snifiage. and
element away from home 70 da0ble IN de dirty
water"
1t Is stated thai Senator sprague, Of RhodeIsand,
has purchased very valuable island on the Georgia
coast the mouth OF -. Mary's river, and also
near Fernandina. Fla IL contains an area VI 1900
| acres, and IL extremely fertile.
Two executions were to have taken place IN Wind
s0r Canada, on the 20ta insts being those Of the
murderers OF Captain MirrOb two colored men, but
one was resplted for the time being and the other
| sent to the pententary for lifce
warrants have been issued from the state Trca-
sury Ia Richmond In favor OF Randolph Rodgers for
$4,000 In gold, payable in New York, TO pay for the
two trophies Blli OF Rights and Colonial Days, cast
| In Italy, for the Washington Monument.
There Is Hebrew word. It Is said. which Just nlls
| q vacant space IN the English language and ought
to be adopted. IL Is shie1iei, and signifies OF
those fussy fellows VINO are always making great
show OF doing something and never doing any thing.
The Fredericksburg WAY Ne,cs learns that E. A. w
Tore for several years past Sheriff OF stafford county
has resigned 1t has been difficult, since the war; to
get sneriu for the county. 1t Is not paying Office
nobody In Jail and but little else to do than collect
| taxes.
A Frenchman styling himself q count has made
his appearance In st. Louis and put IN q modest
claim as the rghtful her To tract OF land covered
with fine buildings, which Is worth. exclusive o.
those structures, s150o000. He has brought suits
to test the titles.