New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-17
GENERAL NOTES.


rbo French iron-clad vessels Of war are salu
10 sail much faster than the English !
The last of the broad gauge rahroauS III
england are changing 20 tho narrow gauge
The Empress of Austria counts her beads Oh
rosary worthAsvsnty- i've thousand forms
ou,rtsr Of amilion of pounds of chiccory
zen ,nportsd into San Francisco within SIX months
There are about $4,000 students at the UNI
,oysities on the continent Of Europe
An order has been received at Newport H.
,ro, paris for a furnace to warm church in Japan
oro.n Victoria has corespOnded regularly
,G tho old King Of Prussia since her daughter
married his son.
sill, weaver IN Lyons has invented q loom
40 simple that entire revolution III inc mShu@o'uI0
OF silks and sadns is predicted
Water rice, which grows abundantly in the
north west of Maine Of late being brought int use for
the manufacture OF paper
The wife Of = man who died of hydrophobia
in Cncinnati has sued the owner of the dog winch We
him for $500
Thirty barrels of wine from New-MeXlco
have bes received in st. Louis made ron grapes EroWA
40 miles southwest Of Santa Fe
BREAD is to be sold by weight in Pmladel-
bia under an order from tho Select Coun OA'So on "
old state law which was passed inl7s
The Whitewater wisconsin, Register reports
that pjgeons have become positive nuisance on the
rr,iios in many almost destroying Whole neio' Oh
spTngsswn wheat
Veloopedo tournaments have been introduced
IA 81 Iouis The exercises include fitting at she rhg
throwing the javen fencing with swords ana similar
trials OF skill by bicycle riders.
All tho sovereigns of Europe have now con-
tbuted money to the monuments to be erected AZ trieste
in honor of tho Emperor haximihan Inc SulI&h ssh'
one thousand and the King of Italy two thousand
The Central Pacific Railroad Company has
DISCHARGED about two thousand men already hoAt Oh
hcr, return TO California but many go to the White
Pine Mines.
This is an express way-bill received at Cleve-
land: zone child, alive to Mrs, Sarah A. Leonard,
cleveland o. from Mrs. W. Bush, Williamsport Pa
Charges s. TO-"
The Commissioners of Florida and Alabama,
appointed to consult about the proposed annexation OF
West Florida 10 Alabama, now in session at Mont
gomery.
now market, built by Miss Burdett Coutts,
IN Conbiasuuare Bethnal Green London, ~ COST OF
more than 81 100000 recently opened with imposing
ceremonies, in presence Of distinguished company
The portraits of Gems. Lee and Stonewali
Jackson that formerly hung in the Council Chamber a.
charleston South Carolina have been removed and re-
placed by portraits Of Gems. Grant and sherman.
A century plant is now in flower in nursery
a. Rocbester n Y Ths bud broke and frat showed II
self on the 25th Of April and is over four fse hEh
and growing from three TO four inches day
The Japanese have an annual feast of kites.
They 20 out upon the hills and fly kites Of s conceivable
sizes shapes and coors Hundreds Of kites may be seen
at one tame sailing and dancing in the air The fun CON
ssts in the flyers cutting down each others kltes'
The Duke of Hamilton is about to sell all his
horses and retire from tho lie has ostprodgous
sums OF money besides the batter part Of his character
and AS frghul example stands second only to the Mar
quis Of Hastings The Jockey Club blaskbsned him.
The Paris mint is to strike a medal com
memoratve Of tho centenary Of Napoleon the First.
copy in gold will given to tAs Emperor in silver TO the
members Of the Imperial family IN 0tonze TO the
chief dgnitarieI of the State.
man in Jacksonville, Fla, stole the re-
ceutly-lad cornerstone Of new Baptist church. In
order TO get silver coin and currency closed up IN It,
The stone was earned distance but the effort to
get the money out was q failure
The ScheremtieR family in Russia recently
gave the Imperial family entertainment which COST
one hundred thousand roubles. Fountains Cf eau de
Cologne were playing in all saloons through which the
Imperial family passed.
An old gentleman who rides almost daily TO
Boston from Lowell the cars, has card with slip
cut from It, just to width Of line in the newspaper
which he uses 20 read through. whether t assists the
eyes or not, we cannot say. --.-l-
At meeting Of the general baggage agents
recently held in Philadelphia, company
was formed for the benefit Of baggage and express
messenger similar its character to thatO the railroad
conductors recently organized.
Justice in Texas is still very rapid, if not al
ways certain. A black mare was stolen from livery
stable and, after search, heard from In dstapt
town. The propretors sent messenger after Der, and
day or two afterwards received a dispatch follows
"Your mare is here; will bring her; theft hang"
The principal Of n Commercial College at
Cincinnati recently received bank held Of
sent to the old country and being considered good had
paid out Endorsed, and finally returned to Cncin
natl for payment
The chief product of the Canary Islands now
is cochnea which has sprung up into extraordinary
pOrance Of late years Caot grown wherever there
piece Of safe ground. it the mother or DGdres Of
the insect placed The plants covered with
young insects.
The accounts from Northern Vermont OF
cattle starvation fearful One farmer has had eli of his
COWS die Of starvation and others have had feed them
on -four potatoes &C. Hay $50 per tuu and the roads
so bad that cannot be carried to the farms except
in small bundles
A gentleman in Pittsburgh, Penn, publishes
the following or 81 will donate go for every passage
OF scripture where the Immortality Of the soul Is mon
Toned to any Church Sunday school the finder NAV
elect" HIS address is John A Best corner OF Fthave
and Tunnel-st., Pittsburgh.
A visitor OF the famous Blue Spring In Flor |
Ida says the spring which half mile or 80 from tb.st
Johns River, eighty ninety feet across and soroo
athoms deep IL bols up with such force that bost
cannot be rowed upon it. The stream which "a Tins |
poured out makes river about ninety feet vida aud ak
deeD.