New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-29
GENERAL NOTES.

| tuUeen gentlemen OF Boston BuDScIlDeu IOI
5000 worth Of tickets to the Gilmore Benefit as soon as
| the project announced.
They are agitating at Stettin, in Prussia, a
project to establish line of steamers plying between that
seaport, the Baltic, and Chicago.
The aggregate cash valuation of the real
and personal property of Detroit in 1853 $685. 9S3;
this year 1t is s70,452s43, an increase of T,46o26O.
In the vicinity of Kalamazoo apples and cher
rie dropping badly At the lake Shore in the fruit
region, there gray cutworm, which crawls up the
tree at night and deyastates 1t by cutting off peaches and
| young buds.
| The st. Paul Press says that half the business
OF the courts in Illinois TO be to satisfy the ven
geance of women because they can't get the men to
marry them and the other half TO enable women to get
| rid OF men who have married them.
! The L. s. Quartermasters' steamer New
bern which sailed from San Francisco to sitka the
10th inst took about half dozen military prisoners
Alcatraz who there to out their
ece Of hard labor There are from 100 TO 100 OF these
military prisoners at Alcatraz
! The gambng-hell at Wiesbaden lost, during
the month OF May 100000 franesa gang Of counterfeit
having saked large amounts Of spurious French
rency and nearly every day. Most Of the counter
felt money remained in the hands OF the propretors OF
the gambu ghe while the cOunereiters carried OF the
! gold and genuine bank notes.
| An American student at the Freiberg Mining
Academy created. the 18th OF May great
in saxony, by starting velocpede journey from
Dresden 10 Paris. The peasants the route had never
seen veocpede before, and some OF the women and
children very much frightened ut his appearance
In small city OF saxOny he arrested for travelling
without license ne a mountebank aud juggler
The Massachusetts, Legislature has passed n
law which provides that any baggage MASTER express
agent stage driver, hackman or other person whose
OF passengers and who shall wiuy reckessy h1ure
destroy trunk, yase box package or parcel while
loading Transporting unloading, delivering or storing
the same shall be punished by fine not exceeding $50
On Saturday, the 10Th inst, q well-dressed
young man, who got upon Western bound
train Of the Panhandle Railroad at Lock No. It,
was ordered of at the next station, he had
train arrived in Columbus In the evening, the con
ductor detected man in the act Of crawling of the
young man whom he directed to leave the train in the
morning He had roasted for 30 miles on the truck.
Biologists have maintained that there was
no hope Of finding Minnesota The northeast dis
trcts vicinity OF Lake Superior reveal tile gran
tie and trap with their mineral nfusons and the
Hest suran rocks and the Mississippi bluffs geoog
cally below the coal Aud yet Nicoet the Swiss sdran
81 Paul belonging TO the cretaceous system, which
above the coal that search Is now being made with
some hopes OF success.
A correspondent of The Springfield Republican
writing Alabama expresses surprise that reports Of
disturbances in that State do not reach the Northern
Press lie says that Sunday. short time ago. in the
town OF Tuscaloosa polite oicous darkey assisted
sompany her home This Was too much Tor some OF her
friends. quarrel ensued In which a white man was
killed and then the affair broadened into general riot
The battle resumed day or two afterwara' ana III
all two white and eight colored men were killed
The Boston Baby Show was " success INC
first premium was awarded set Of trples born at
North Brookfeld Mass. They are Il months Old and
were christened Nellie Hope" "Norah Faith" and
smallest child exhibited weighed one pound at birth,
and now, at the OF two months and ye days weighs
of the show, VII. ocr premiums for eoored babies IN
few DAYS and the exhibition will take place at Hor'
81, 4 Hall ,.rpl liz gu indie
The Prussian headman has been forbidden
by tho Government to hold interviews with con-
demncd persons the Of their execution. 1t
has been noticed these interviews add much 10 the
OF the doomed persons and that they nee
sanity talk OF nothing but the and the pam which
will them, after the eNecutoner has left their cell
couyersng with the prisoners whom 10 was 10 behead
lie always assured them that they would feel no pain
whatever and II they made their peace with God they
should not be afraid OF the scaffold
The Omaha Republican reports the arrival in
that city, one day last week Of stub boy OF IA years
who has been wandering over the United States since
1864 His name John Edwards and he formerly lived
in Baltimore but ran away from home when Dine years
old on account OF itreatment. The Republican says Of
him: ole has 'whackcd bulls In Wyoming, skinned
mules I'm Colorado TANNED gold dust Montana carried
water In Utah been captured by Indians In New Mexico,
ranched with greasers In Arizona slept win Shnaneh
In California and like the Immortal j. N has dead,
headed over different railroads, East West North, aud
south"
Letters from Elko, Nevada, to the California
papers report grand rush to some gold mines, both
ouarz and placer which have been discovered SO miles
distant from Carn. They situated in the northern
par OF EkO County the north slope Of the divide be-
tween the OF the Owyhee and North Fork OF the
said 10 be the richest found I'm the state Whte
declare that some OF the specimens are 1ns IKE
in the creeks OF the new Fl Dorado nave SET Ola Ca
lorna Place h LEAFS Tor IN. new diegings and IL
is thought that the rush wall equal that to White Pine
There is, on the north shore of Lake Supe-
ror fifty miles from Duluth Minnesota, hourishing
priyate colony known Beaver Bay The people con-
sst OF 1--WE rrothers Wleand by name, and two other
Germans and their families and were sent TO TINS wilder
ness IN 1886 by specuaters who failed IN 1851 ana
left them to shift for Themselves They have about sOO9
acres OF nine land sawmil, fifty acres OF cultivated
land 5etun schooner and considerable other valuable
property. Labor is divided among them 80 snat 10a
al the trades and professions are repesenteu ea Hu
acting in three capacities IL their grlst l tney
ground last winter $50 bushels Of wheat and have now Oh
| hand 100000 feet Of logs
horse in Eaton Rapids, Mich, nearly killed
| his master Mr. Geo Hamin, recently There had been
trouble with horse but his owners supposed him SUB
dued when on morning In question while ne was De
Inc fed and taken care Of watched opportunity and
| rushed al Mr. H., catching him by the head with ms
mouth and nicnga severe bite tearing MS scap loose
from the skull and rupturiug the temporal artery MT
Iaulins life was saved by the hOster who struck the
horse heavy blow the head with hammer MI;
man hearing OF the affair undertook to punish the morse
~han the animal made for him, and seized him by the
wasrband OF the pantaloons reared up MIN n and
| then completely tearing the pantaloohs on Hoh "I'
| Welman.
For several months past young man who
has been boarder in private family in Troy, N w. has
paid some attention to daughter eseorting her 70 the
tbeater aud TO church one or two occasions Ihere
had however been no lovemaking on either part ABOUT
two weeks ago the father OF the young lady came sndde
iy into the room she and her mother were sitting
and said 20 her and get ready you are going - ~
married in an hour" The mother confirmed the statement
nd fold her 10 20 for lady friend Of hers living near
10 stand up with her. The girl asked to whom she a.
20 he married. The father answered, Ito Henry tAe
boarder before intentionally Tho girl took II as oAe,