New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-28
GENERAL NOTES.


s,rrgue OF as minutes oysters" skull proved tho hu
o., and Loony" withdrew with sore head.
Local observers place the number OF visitors
.. Tho Hoosac tunnel during the past three months az
"a ooo One thousand hundred to 1900 often come IN
day One train not long ago took 10 passenger cars
full Of people. -"S~-'' =, ~3.~
Macerators are to be placed in the cellar Oh
the Treasury Building at Washington, to DO uSeo III
destroying the condemned currency by this means ~
M be dissolved into reconstructibo pulp, instead Oh
burned TO ashes as heretofore -
The picking I'D of q fallen elephant III YER
mont the other day, something like the tying down
of CULVER by the Liiputisns. 1t took about % men
with ropes levers pulleys and other Appliances hou'
| 10 raise this immense creature upon her feet
Toledo. Ohio, has "He Sorosis," and the
members held their first banquet few evenings ago
! After the cloth removed the dear depar.eu,
we're remembered in many toast put whether d m lei.
tea or stronger beverage the reporters 1aeu u ~
| The mines of California are not very active
lust now while both foreign and domestic trade Is uh
usually brisk reducing the amount OF coin IN crcuaton
and crampng business by the want of circulating med
UNI There was, on the 18th lust, sS,oVoVoh 'no N"'
| ton. House in San Francisco
The fishing vessels of New-England appear
70 he very successful On board Gloucester (MassD
vessel recently, $1,000 Of fish were spoiled for want OF
sufficient salt and schooner recently arrived IN y nco
n Of goldfish Every member of tho crew received si7o
| as his share OF the profits OF the trip
! DR.. Plough of Louisiana has recently visited
Memphis for the purpose Of arranging for Marine In
dusria Exhibition for the Southwest He proposes 10
gather before the city, some time next Spring rs many
steamboats, and other craft OF all descriptions ana dmen
sions as possible aud TO hold IN the city an eAhDio Vi
| domestic manufactures aud machinery.
| Ont of twelve iurymen on n case at the Merl-
one thshre aszes only four could understand Enghsh
The evidence in English, the counsel plead III En-
elsh and his Lordship charged IN English No wonder
that the four Englshspeakers emphalicAy
| Ter II endcaYOrlng
freres the that they never had Auch Jop W
| tackle afore." ---
The charges against Mr.. b. Wardwell, the
superintendent OF the Virginia Penitentiary have been
dismissed The order OF Gen. Canbyi announcing to M
Wardwell the result OF the examination, sums up the
case follows ut Is apparent that you have acted In
bave edopted such modes Of action novel and
usual but does appear that you nave been
guilty OF wul neglect OF duty or criminal Vi cOrr"p'
| conduct"
There may be nothing in q name but there
certainly something in tail-at least to Chnaman
1t so perpetuay leading him into trouble, that Is
extraordinary how the Chinese submit to it so Iong-a
people so shrew clngng 10 custom simply because Ger
tain Tartas 200 or 800 years ago. ordered tnat u souu
bo Yet this is scarcely to DO wondered when We re-
member that II "a only rev years since QUEUES MJ,o
banished from European nayeS. by ana by when Johh
This and other ecs Of past tyranny will disappear be-
| fore a free and enlightened civilization
The demand for Chinese women for base pur-
poses In California reproducing iu China some OF the
|
writer says: within the last two years kidnapping has
been going most frghtful extent In the Tonquin
| Empire-the lowest estimate II 10000 Within one ms
sonary district In the Tonquin territory, during the Last
| year. coo women have disappeared-no one can say
where they have gone Many OF these gr are taken Sy
Chinese cOole scamps 20 Hong Kong aud exported Dy
them TO California The Chinese petty oclals sut ther
| eyes 10 this most horrible traffic In human blood"
| Visitors to the Holy Land are familiar with
edace reared the spot which the Mes
stab said been born. letter from Jerusalem
In the AH0epeine Zeit,0 says that fire broke out in
the Chapel OF the Nativity at Behlehem which appears
star belonging TO the Latin Church was carried OF from
tam has ordered Tie streets Of the Holy city to be made
passabe-an undertaking the practcablhty OF which ut
Is added those who know the streets OF Jerusalem VIII
| be disposed To doubt.
| History is continually repeating itself Cen
turtles ago certain royal parsonage IN England under
the pressure of political and personal eIieences not I'M
frequent In the good old times OF which poets love TO
drowned In a butt OF his fayorte wine. A Cleveland
paper informs that brewer In that city man OF
with no desire TO cleave 20 life that he found
densome, attempted the other day. 10 put an erd to his
was S,T rescued by his family.
| A novel man-trap has been invented by an
ingenious citizen Of Carroton la Stimulated by tho
rapid and unaocountabe Disappearance Of his chickens
lit upon the idea Of building his chicken house Just
above a WELL and constructing over the top Of the wei
trap door, go arranged that party entering tho house
game bagged. At the foot Of the well in couple of
feet OF water sat chicken fancler IN woefu plight
lodged in jail second Individual similarly captured
several days later.
As a means of distinguishing counterfeit from
genuine bills the Bank OF Engands system Of sterous
and almost mpercepbe dots upon each note and
known only 70 the the bank might be advanta
Reousy adopted In this country Careless and ignorant
SeScy would @ exist Int II Would exist under more
stringent adverse conditions aud counterfeit engraving
would by and by become an Improbable occupation
e..
already In progress in various localities Bos
ton is to have four regular courses the Music Hall this
season--the Continental on Monday evenings the
Fraternity" on Tuesday eveningS the Boston Lyce,
Thursday evenings This will give lecture entertain
te On GSa q Library 3, ,as to
open in the middle OF October. =.
The Genesec Cll.) Republic gives an interest
Ing sketch Of John T. Alexander, extensive Illinois
farmer II says: "He commenced business for himself
with little capital other advantages above the average
OF He In plain homespun fariner-ta goodlook
ing free ana cay ID ahss ere ess d i1r
ing In Illinois good many years and has been very sue
under improvcment This is about ore township and
half about nine miles square, and all good land. He mas
of grass He is now feeding about 900 head CATTLE
and buys and ships east from Chicago from 1000 to 1900
by his own talent energy aud integrity HIS business
and every amounts TO millions of dollars aud
common welfare OF the State"
The Buffalo cypress relates a curious piece of
good luck which beel lady In that town. In the Inter
nal Revenue office, in which the Legacy and succession
tax looked after the Assessor discovered that life
annuity Of $500 year had been left her time ago
Tho annutant was accordingly notned OF the LAX she
must pay under the law. She came 70 the Office
In great surprise having had previous knowledge OF
the legacy Somebody seems to have been keeping her
out OF IT, and possibly she might have discovered
good fortune but for the agency Of the revenue Office
The baby tower of Shanghai is one Of those
Chinese institutions which could only exist in country