New-York tribune., 1869-04-03
GENERAL NOTES.

MeyerbeeT the composer, leLt loituno W
100000
Gen. Robert Anderson thinks, of going TO
France has 266,166 fremen and 1920 fire.
engines. '-At- 90
In the Maine State Prison, each convict
given a worth OF clothes year. Y GA tiiF.tLJ
A State Woman's Suffrage Convention is to
be held at Des Moines, Iowa, This month.
ba Miss Dewey of Albany, Ind4 has invented
a quilting attachment to a sewingmachine.
The Sault st. Marie Canal has been eeded to
the United states by the state of Michigan
Two of the newly elected Trustees OF the
South Carolina University are colored men, r+
The Military Order of the Loyal Legion viii
hold convention in Philadelphia on Aprls'
Wade Hampton has been buying thousand
mules in Illinois for use on his Southern plantations
The Legislature Of British Columbia has ap-
propriated $4,000 bring servant girls from England
The home of the late Mrs. Sigourney, the
poeess Hartford has been sold for railroad
The PHILADELPHIA Press asks What enect'
~ any will the velocipede have on baseball this euni-
mer vol stT t.la "'. .tl 4rot at = f4'
The Deseret News speaks of snow plow on
the Ceptral Pacific Railroad, propelled by eight loco
motives. N 'shf l.I.i- tni
Mr. BurIingame's Chinese Embassy is to make
= Grand tonr 70 Berlin st. Petersburg, Stockholm, Spain,
and italy.
The wealthy Episcopalians of Syracuse have
purchased s25 600 residence for their new Bishop D
Huntington
Morjtz Hartmann, the Austrian poet ana
journalist says that there more buss oi Lipco anu
Grant In North Germany than OF all the German
There are fourteen convicts under sentence
of death in the Maine State Prson-eleyen Tor MURDER
and three for arson. .. 81. ...... l.. ..
The report recently circulated in England,
that the Prince Of Wales intends keep stud Of race
horses Is contradiced D VI ... r'e.r HHfI. -u
number of Frenehmen have appeared at
Decatur Illinois, with patent traps to catch 6uross ioi
| the New-YOrk market. ; ''f
Forty thousand Burman converts have been
baptized since 1872 the year in which the first one Was
baptized by DR.. Judson
When singer of the Theatre Royal at Dres-
dem becomes hoarse by singing outside the opera houses
months pay is forfeited
Two Oregon papers are at present vigorously
discussing the right State to secede from the Uon'
They are rather behind the age, IL f.f ..ee
Preparations are making in Kansas City
Missouri for budalo hunt The excursionists propose
| to go by rail 400 miles from the city.
| A student of Yale College has been passing
himself of in England Professor Of that Institution
and yictilnzing scientific gentlemen. ef
A thief in San Francisco pawns such of his
plunder as possesses personal value and returns tho
tickets to his victims with polite nOte
| The anniversary of the march through Balti-
more will be celebrated the 10th OF April by the sur
vivors OF the old 9Th Regiment. In Massachusetts
| Tile Detroit Advertiser thinks tnat Gouds
personihcation marble Of the West Wind, must be
| s(,,fo tho fastb N
| The Wurtemberg police have prohibited the
representation OF play the scene OF when Is laa In
| America one Of the actors represents Gen. Grant.
Two thousand young men Of Frankfort-on-
tbe-Mam have taken out naturalization papers as SWISS
citzens rather than be TO the Pgusaan military
conscription.
| w. W. Corc0ran is about to erect a mammoth
hotel bear MS name, Vermontave.. Senator
| Summers residence, in Washington. 1t will be ready
| before the December term of Congress
| The Emperor of Russia thinks very highly Of
his sister, the Queen OF wurtenberg. lie considers her
the brightest and abest woman in Europe In ST. Peters
burg they say that, in Of his sous should DO
able to Russian throne, he viii prefer his
sister to any Of his brothers. s
| The Boston Journal says it has been requested
to state that the sailors who comprised the Of the
United States steamer Kearsarge at the time OF the do
1
"head" money. under an old law of Congress, which 70
payable on application to the proper department.
| The highest mine in the world is the Potosi
silver mine. in the Andes of Peru which is IL 75 feet
above the level of the The deepest mine is the
salz werk. salt mine in wesphaia 1t 2O5O feet be-
the surface of the The average depth OF the
coal mines Of Great Britain greatly exceeds that Of all
other mines In the world
The salaries paid to good, though not very
aIf
year. FirstClass ehyoniQus receive at least l2OOOt
year, for which they have work only four five
hours day Albert woln Jules Noriac and other prom
inent locallst receive oof year. and make about
much by repubshing their attractive articles
in book form.
A Fejee Island correspondent of The Homo
tlu says there Libruka on the island of
0vaan about 80 foreigners, all sailors Of whom
away from ships. The principal among them, and
the who has most influence with the chiefs-a
respectable and steady man--s David whify Thirty
yeas ago he left Nantucks whaler aud making frendi
with the chiefs OF Libruka settled there. lie has
Der OF wives and large progeny.
A young gentleman in Connecticut town
recently answered matrimonial advertisement, found
in Eew-York paper apparently inserted by ayouna
and wealthy widow. correspondence ensued I; the adj
mring gentleman went to meet the adv ertiser, and
found her to bo perfect beauty in appearance very
wealthy, but entirely insane. constant watch had 10
be kept over her to prevent just such affairs
Ho returned TO Connecticut disappointed man.
Ex-Queen Isabella recently resolved to visit
all the converts In Paris. At OF them she
ceiyed without sort Of ceremony and leaving no
one but the Lady Superior accompanied her to the door,
why am not treated with more respect than thisT