New-York tribune., 1869-03-15
GENERAL NOTES.


st. Louis. ,
Pine lumber is being shipped from savannah
TO Scotland
A colored young lady is apublicschool teacher
al Fall River. Mass
Henry w. LongfellOv will return 10 thiS coun-
try next August it is said.
Marion County, Iowa. contains dozen anti
polygamous" Mormon families.
A gentleman in Cincinnati has had himself
committed 10 the Lunatc Asy um TO prevent suicide
Every fireman in Chicago has his life insured
for O by the merchants and property owners Of that
city.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has refused to
pass the bill opening the Boston Public Library on
Sunday.
Fifteen hundred women Of Centre County,
Pennsylvania have peutoned tho Courts to grant no
liquor licenses.
Some excitement has been caused in London
by discovery that three girls aged 1o H. and IT, have
been imprisoned for debt.
Queen Victoria has recently engaged, rs a
reader the daughter of the preacher who confirmed tho
late Prince Albert at Coburg
Texas has agreed to pay 500 and to give 90
OF land to incorporated company for every I'M
migrant it brings into the state.
The ST.. Louis Free Mason, newspaper, objects
70 the formation of Masonic Lodges of cOOred men, The
objection is unheeded, however
A Society for the Protection of Babies, in
Paris gives medals TO most careful nurses and to
mothers who suckle their own infants.
Each-side of -tbe-Sky, Streak-of-Light, and
Horned Snake the of three aboriginal gentle
men now their way to visit President Grant
The cigar manufacturers of Westteld, Mass"
complain that when they ship boxes Of cigars, the rail
way employees steal large numbers cut OF them ana tne
companies refuse to pay for the damage
There is trouble IN the North Western Chris
tian University" Of Indiana. The students celebrated
Washington's Birthday by passing resolutions denunca
tory Of the faculty, whereupon the faculty expelled
about so Of the students
gentleman in Rome, Ca, obtained an in
Junction to prevent engine company from erecting
house opposite his dwelling The company retaliates by
giving him notice that his house will burn down for all
any member of that organization will do TO save It,
An old lady lately applied for pension in
Indiana as the widow Of soldier Of 1872, stating that
her husband lost the Ohio River in l0i The De-
partment replied that the soldier st living and re-
ceivng pension The old lady is now after
the truant of twenty-five years.
There are startling rumOrs in Indianapolis OF
murder perpetrated in Of the euyrons Of the city
few nights ago. The victim decoyed from the thea
ter killed. his body burned His name is not known,
10 arrest three notorious characters.
Henry Taine, the philosopher and historian,
blind Of one eye and his physicians have told him to
write read very ttle lest he should lose the other
eye too. He is married to the daughter Of rich
butcher. gifted young lady, who has q volume oil
poems, said TO be very excellent in press
The Prussians are now cutting down the
trees In the public promenades Mentz Just if they
were on the brink Of 1t is reported from well in
formed parties that they working day and night in
their arsenas They do feel quite comfortable about
Austria recovering strength, and France being so well
armed.
The telenaphic communication between Eng
land and the Continent OF Europe has been completely
suspended It is said. officially announced that Of
the five cables which connect France and Belgium with
England two had ruptured by the tempest and the
land communications which Join the three others on each
side Of the channel have been broken.
There have been military schools at work in
Russia 1861 and successful has the experiment
BEEN that the army to form preparatory school
for the whole nation. The advanced soldiers at
once be made schoomasters magistrates clerks 1t
calculated that out of the 100000 who form the
standing Russian army at least 1000 may be drafted of
annually for Educational Civil Service"
Two very eminent French physicians, Drs. |
Monneret and Grzoe were, the other day. at the sick
bed of patient During the diagnosis they commenced
Quarremg about the disease. II say typhoid fever
exclaimed one Of them "And know 1t s not" replied
the other Unable his colleague DR.. Monneret
dnalyiexcaImed, g All right, then the postmortem
animation, sure, will show that was right"
An eccentric English lady who imagined her
self the destined bride Of Christ recently died. and the
furniture OF her residence which fitted mp accord
ance with insane Gea is to be sold In the drawing
room large and costly armchair the judgmentseat.
The room divided by curtain from the bridal bed
chamber intended for our Lord The bed alone cost |
slOO and the furniture Of the not less in all
than 925,OOO
Count Beust's personal appearance has re-
Gently undergone a very marked change His hair is
turning very gray. and his handsome face is becoming
very angular and enaciated Hard work is believed TO
the cause Beus said to be the most indeatRabe
European Prime Ministers He works in his Cabinet
until in the morning and rises again at The Emperor
entertains the Iveles admiration for him, and spprec
Rtes his industry.