New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-19
GENERAL NOTES.

G.. Webster and Bishop A. Gardner have
planted about "a OF broomcorn In West Jordan
Utah. aud intend to begin the manufacture Of brooms
for the Salt Lake market this Fall.
Mr.. Valentine of South Armenia, Duchess
County has lost five head OF cattle within two weeks
from the cattle disease Carbolc acid administered
the OF the herd and they are considered out OF
danger.
Minnesota people believe that there are val
liable gold mines Just north Of the State line In the HUI
son Bay Company's territory Haltbreeds claim that
they make 81 $40 day by washing dirt In some OF
the small streams in that territory
A letter was received at the POst-0ffice De-
partment at Washington, recently, from sodus Centre
NY containing twenty five cents from the retiring post
MASTER that being the amount OF money on hand to the
credit Of the Government. He asks a receipt
A Tennesseean has invented machine for
cleaning cotton which takes the bos just as they are
gathered and converts them, by single process into
ribbon OF spun cotton composed Of flaments ald para
lei 10 one another and in much better eohultoh tndh
cotton prepared in the old fashioned way
There was race between two trains, one on
thu Chicago and Alton and the other on the Terre Haute
Railroad last week The locomotives ran eighteen miles
side By side neither gaining running part OF me ais
anoe the local Journals say at tue rate VI
miles an hour.
Three or four weeks ago the waters of Brit
sh Columbia were crowded with fish OF all sizes and va
reties and whales also present in large numbers
One of the colonial papers says that salmon were SO
abundant In the waters OF the lower fraser hVer as al
most to impede navigation
Robert B. Wentworth is on his way to Du-
buaue Iowa from Oshkosh Wis, with steamer and two
barges laden with 100000 shingles, intending to take
hack to Green Bay a cargo Of wheat and thus demon
strate feasibility OF navigation from the lsssslpp
TO the lakes through the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers.
Mr.. Martin +. Greene of No. 157 West
Twenty.thirdst New.York sojourning temporarily
with the Hon. stephen Baker POughkeepsie, has
purchased the famous trottng team Medoc and Naboc
from the Buffalo races on Tuesday One is dark bay
aud the other n white gelding
Landisburg, Penn, boasts of a woman who
practices as we'll as talks about the rights of the Sex
She IA the mother OF 10 children and goes into the ned
partay arrayed In male attire aud swings the scythe
with ali the ease grace. and efficiency Of any farmer
About the eleventh hour she repairs deT S%d aer
the repast-wlth rake in hand does duty Tor the re-
mglndor OF the DAY.
The ruins of an Aztec fortress have been dis
covered on the summit Of mountain near oriraba'
Mexico The place is so dense with woods and undor
growth that thorough exploration could not be made
6y the dscoverers They found four houses three ssc
nee stones several pillars, aud kind OF urn In when
were more than 200 skulls white marble from when
not tooth was lacking Several idos anu s'ono
statues we're discovered.
A steamboat captain on one OF the lakes was
recently feeling his way along In the dark when the look
ont ahead cried out Schooner without light IL was
narrow escape and a. the passed the schooner
the captain demanded "What are you doing Win y2nr
Internal schooner mere IN tno
his dsmay tho skipper who Frenohman answered.
Vat diable you do here VIE your ole steaDoas u
three feet OF water ehl" and just then the steamer
landed high and dry on sand BANK
The iron steamer Let Her Is, which was cap
tured during the war in attempt to supply the Rebels
with munitions OF war; and subsequently condemned
and sold as a lawful prize, purchased by CANADIAN
COMPANY who had her cut two md them passed tho
parts through the Weand Canal after which she was re-
tted aud became one OF the swiisst anu n0sI county
Chicora aud runs weekly from CollingTood Ontario,
rroceeding scrnss Axe superior Fort William, Canada,
snd Ar saiS en- run at the rate OF 20 miles an hour