The New York herald., 1869-02-03
GENERAL NOTES.

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rAe Down East Ice men are In good humor again.
A0sinthe Is said To be more subtle poison than
PrJIssic acid.
Rochester youths, to the number or 1900 annually
spend $4,000 on billiards.
What is the difference between watering railroad
horses and watering railroad stocxp
benevolent citizen OF Orange county, New York,
has been giving sleigh ride to 200 clildren.
Two men and a woman Haye been arrested at AL
toona on charge OF stealing $1,000 IN Indianapolis.
Josh Ward Is getting up crew TO beat the st.
John men next summer. Waiter Brown is counted
among the crew.
There Is great deal or sickness in Newburyport,
Mass. Thirty seats were vacant In public school
on single Gay
A "girl OF the periodr was recently detected In
Davenport, Iowa. ..shovingn counterfeit money and
put iuli stop 70.
On the 18th uit, at his residence In Drew county
Ark. Thomas Brewster was murdered, IL Is sup
posed. by colored man.
Quas are fast disappearing rom the prairies even
a. lar west AS Kansas. The LEGISLATURE Is called
upon 10 PASS law against catching them by nets.
Pennsylvania radical politicians yly push
Ing Governor Curtin for Grants Cabinet. Buf the
Conductor Grant has put the breaks down on that
tram.
The Boston Trdueiler irtlrnatrs that the cores
pondence between the War Department and General
ranks, relative to General Grant, viii be pub
lished.
A southern paper says there is a common aunt to
all children born IN New Engand--aliDatly. Baby.
Puntans.
Hon. Joshua Hill, curiously termed By the Atlanta
Nesc Era lradical 'our senator IN Congress- is IN
Atlanta According to the record Mr. lil Is neither
senator nor u radical.
The Columbus (Obio) Journal showers the follow.
Ing compliment upon the new Indiana senator:--
"Lariett DAVIS has q voice like three-weeks' fan
squirt.v
Seven persons contend for the republican non,iDa.
ton 70 cobgtess IN place Of Mr. Pratt c.ecled sena-
"a IN he hals an
tue iltn Instant and the election has been ordered
| on the 2Ota.
Colo Colonel J. u; scMahon, widely known as at dif-
Ierent l!nes editor ol the Memphis Eu9te and En.
quuer, 1futeisa and Appeal and throughout the war
| PMS on the 18th uii.
| san Francisco's latest Invention in the way of +,
deadly weapon - Two edged dirk, Win the handle
at right angles with the blaoe ike chopp,ng
knife. The blow ~ delivered giral-hl fruf, thc
shoulder, ant goes clean tATough i iaan tae rrsf
| tllne
Aman named woodland shot snd killed two negroes
near Lebanon, tenn., ieW aays ago. uehad trtat.
ened 10 Ali The negroes IL ne c4lgat theu ~, ~
father's farm, and hiding them on the urarnises
against ns ordefa ne carried tue threat INTO ecu.
| tion.
country editor thinks the idea Of gettinr a cty
EDITORS llc Insured iOr 10000 and taxing fne cost
VI the policy taO0ut ~ 900 per anuumj Olt In adyer
tlsing about the same rural editor alyerts,uz 3
| the business VI al undertaser ana taking tha pas
| out In trade.
| In GAINESVILLE Ohio man who hsd BEEN yuarrico
| found q fuli lunged newborn infant Ia MS room
glacdening ine heart, &c, Ibe Columbus Journai
| wants 10 know whether the mans wife was with
hin IN this trying hour.
Mrs. Kelly. OF Black Brook, N. r., ig thirty.eiVbt
years Old, has been married tweptyOne years and Is
now the mother Of nineteen children without ever
| having had TWINS, tue youngest child being thirteen
months old. There u but ten months' difference in
the ages Of her nrst born and second born cnil1.
| The New Haven Register says the democracy oi
Connecticut have opened the campaign win . better
prospect OF success than ever before. Their pros
poets arc so glorious that chicken convention naa
Just been held In New Haven 10 make arrangements
for supply OF roosters TO crow for tne democratic
| victory next April
A virginia gentleman was aroused from steep one
night last week and found bouncing boy baby In q
basket At hls door, accompanied By notc asking
him TO be mother to the little darling He proposes
| 10 make an attempt 70 comply with the request by
| rearing II on the bottle, as most Of the bouncing
| youths nowadays are reared.
A hfe-size wax figure Of living New Orleans belle
| has been set MP In tbe New Orleans Museum. She Ia
member OF the most fashionable society, and ID
justly distin guished for her beauty. Il was manu-
| factured In New York, from an ambrotype sent for
| the purpose. fhe young lady knew uotning OF tue
ubsru taus taken WA hsr psrSop.