The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-08
GENERAL NOTES.

Memphis ships five hundred barrels Of fruit N"f'h
every day.
There are seventeen different newspapers and
periodicals edited and published IN NASHVILLE
The Northern Insane Asylum Of Illinois has been
located al Egn. The Southern one Is Al Anna
North Carolina paper nominates as the repuDll.
can candidate for President IN 1872 ulysses ;. Grant
OF Illinois
Three tons of solid silver bricks from Colorado.
sealed in leather sacks, reached Chicago one day
last week.
The Chinese in California are very skilfu ID coun,
terfeitlnX gold dust, auu succeeu III seiiinS s"""
deal OF the bogus article.
The Mount washington Railroad was completed
on the 81 at four O'Clock p. NJ, ana the cars now run
to the top OF the mountain.
Chicago boasts OF its big strawberries, which have
attained that degree OF size tnat tne are solo ~
SO much fore or hind quarter.
Deacon Joseph Merriam, the oldest inhabitant OF
Grafton, Mass, died Wednesday, ageu hlneJ-eRht
wears lie was born and died in the same room IN
which his parents were married.
IT'S estimated tnat the damage sustained annually
by farmers living In the White RIVER bottom IN
diana by overiiows caused by dammng that stream,
amounts to over ten millions of dollars
John T. Aexander's 40 600 acre farm in Douglas,
Champaign and Ford counties, Illinois, includes 5000
acres In corn three feet nigh; anu 5000 acres ID
wheat, harvesting twenty five busels to tne acre.
The abundance OF the wheat crop IN Virginia has
already brought down the prices o. nUI Of me
staff OF life Will soon he sold at 50 ana so per DdrTe
James stamp, the of the United States tax COZ
General Milton Stapp, was nlurutfet On Juut
III nj t;oliad Texas HIS boIY was found on Suncay,
perforated oy eleven bullets NO clue 10 the muir
derers
Mrs Nelly Smith, aged siXty-hve, committed sui
eide last tuesday. at GratiOt, Muskingum county,
OHIO by hanging herself To a bed post III such po-
siton that her knees were within less than two
inches OF the door.
A Cr,ndstone i've and half feet in diameter at
file mandatory, in Columbus, ONO, burst on Neu
nesday morning, while q workman named pceu-
melster was engaged In grinding ME baies. iarg'
fragment of the stone struck nIll In Tue iet picts
| Killing him instantly.
There nave been forty-three murders anu MONT
| cdes committed In the city 0f Memphis ana VICINITY
during the past twev months. Oh tue guilty pafuee
| none nave been punished, and only TWO convicted
| and sentencsd--viz. GAVIN aud Moody WHO are 10
4 be nung ON The 20tb OF August.
The gold deposits &C the United States Mint, Phis
dephia In June $6la,Oo and the silver 500 sb'
| In All sG75g51. The coinage at the same Time was
sqh5 900 of gold SAT 600 OF silver and $4,000 OF base
meta-a total coinage OF all kinds OF 81 Oss65o Tue
| number OF pieces coined during the month was onS
| l,g49,l5O.
/ Daniel Berry an aged citizen OF Fairfield county,
| ohio went TO Lancaster last saturday, had himself
shaved and his halr cut, and then bought pair Of
| blork kid gloves. Next morning he dressed hmseit
an used suit OF broadCoth, put on the gloves
went into sugar grove not far IRON his house aud
| hung himself
| The Jackson tMiss.) clarion Is using paper manu-
factured trOm the common okra stalk That nourshen
In that latitude. Georgia paper eays:-"Ihe plant
grows very finely with little cultivation, aud Is det-
tined 70 become OF the staple products ~ soon as
people get TO cutivatng variety o. crops "u ''
| smsll taTm system.A
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