New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-07
GENERAL NOTES.

The Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph heads its
column of items: Newspaper Homeopathy"
The lumber trade on the Muskegon River is
duh Nearly all the mills have shut down night work
and some Of them are short day time.
Chicago has started n subscription which
already foots up $4,000 for the purpose OF organizing
baseball nine to beat Cincinnati next year.
A reverend gentleman in Hampton, Va, has
invented machine for picking and cleaning peanuts. IL
Is claimed that II will pick and clean 1000 bushels per
day. doing the work OF twenty men.
A number of scamps who boast that they be
long TO theiDemocratc party tho poor mans party
cut TO pieces and demolished night recently new
thrashlng machine belonging TO Wallace Tresslar. OF
Union Village, Ind. because he employed negro men on
his farm.
The Chronicle recently started in Boise City,
Idado greeted its readers with the following original
saiutatory. "we have started newspaper. Name
Capital Chronicle acknowledgements to the hilt
Objectro make living: ohce-On Man'st. about 800
yards below the Overland Hotel opposite an old oyster
can in the road And we'll run 1t or bust"
The workmen at the east end of the HOosac
Tunnel have unexpectedly struck VEN OF soft rock Of
the mica slate order, which is quite easily pred and
picked of without blasting What will be developed
TO the extent OF the vein is Of course uncertain and future
Committee Of the Legislature visited the work on Tuesday
Gen. Joseph +. Johnston, on behalf of n
committee appointed for the purpose has presented
report TO meeting OF citizens OF Savannah setting forth
the advantages Of that port as the terminus OF the pro
iected OF steamships from North Germany. There
are several other contestants for this prize. Including
Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, and other Southern
ports
The Germans continue their enforcement of
the Sunday law In Pittsburgh They have held meeting
to select men to look out for the different street railroads
and one OF tho speakers said Tho sole purpose the
society wishes reach is the EXTREMIST Observance OF
equally compelled TO bear it's advantages and dsadyan-
ages The Courts are already fun OF cases growing out
OF violations OF the law.
A stratum of genuine porcelain clay has been
discovered in MoMnn County Tenn, five miles south
west from Athens 1t was struck at the depth Of about
25 feet below the surface with depth or forty or fy
feet from all sand or rock or 0tner ~ so
feet highly variegated with yellow and red IL Is withn
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
At the locomotive works in Taunton, Mass,
very novel machine designed for freight service ON the
Pacific Railroad is building 1t looks Ike Two engines
ioned IL has six driving wheels on each side and weighs
The enter are the stations of the engineer and hreman
IT carries IFS own wood and water. dispensing with
lender and can be driven In either direction equally
we'll The machine will be finished in the Fall
Tin ore has recently been discovered near
Augusta Me- at the point Of junction between scious
slate formation and granite. Several small but well de-
fined veins varying from half an inch to fyo inches in
thickness nave been found, and some work has been
done toward their development. The In the
form of orystallned oxyd OF tn IN mioaceous gauge
The Tenesco mine In California Is being worked by
San Francisco Company, and II Is said that the vein
proyea TO DO much larger than had been supposed and
that they have raised large amount OF that con.
tains four to six per cent Of TIM
A Chicago policeman discovered man fight
ing the wooden Indian IN 'front.' OF cigar store
few days ago. After beating aud pound
ing IL no threw 1t into tho gutter, where he
got upon 1t, pounding it with his fists and klok'
ing It, The officer took him to tho police station and
niaced him IN cell During the night he became so VlO-
ient that ha ndcus placed Lis wrists, In tho
morning asked for wafer which no poured on MS own
head repeating the formula Of baptism. Beforeteathg
he repeated two long prayers supposed tina! he h@s