New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-05
GENERAL NOTES.

Indiana has s31 aboriginal log school-houses
still In use.
The Michigan Agricultural Society offers pro.
NUNS for yelocipede racers.
There is baby in Hartford three months
old which weighs only two pounds.
Gen. Tbayer who is still living at the age Of
a. was the first supe intendent of West Point
A sensational writer adyertises his services
"to let" on long short leases, In London paper
A converted Jew, Joseph Stern, is preaching
in Kncardine, Ontario. to very large congregations
"Velocipede rink" Is one of the new comb.
nations "Bathlng rink' we hear already mentioned.
The wages paid to female laborers, upon the
carbon farms I'm the suburbs Of Boston, from q "A
81 so per day.
James Armstrong, Semmes's lieutenant on the
Alabama is a resident Of Halifax He has become q
British citizen.
Rose Hawthorne, the youngest daughter Of
tho novelist Is studying painting in Dresden She has
talent, 1t is said.
One oyster establishment in Baltimore en-.
poys 500 men and women who Gll seal aud pack about
10000 cans every day. s-,
ANT. Goodwin of New-Haven offers for sale
COO scrapbooks which he has made up from newspaper
during the last i6 years.
The candy consumed in Chicago every year
Is worth 81 100000 One firm manufactures about
third Of tho whole amonnt
A two-edged dirk, with the handle at right
angles to the blade, like choppng knife, tho last
deadly invention Of California
A lady in GAINESVILLE Ohio, Mrs. Clark, whose
husband been mssngfor % years. has just discovered
that he was killed in the Mexican war;
The Runlet Car Company of Laconia, New
Hampshire manufacturing adjustable freight
cars, for broad or narrow gauge roads.
The Rev. James NJ. Sims, the colored preach
er Georgia. addressed large audience at the Rev.
d. Kinks Church, last Sunday afternoon.
A boy in Southbridge, Mass, Is the recipient
of numeous thrashings from his sehoomaes account
Of his unfortunate name Andrew Johnson.
The Savannah News says that Western
pork dealers combination will make tho price Of bacos
for the Southern market very high this year.
Three hundred and fifty workmen have been
discharged from the Charestown Maryland within the
past two weeks There st 700 men employed there
Deer, it is said, were never more plenty IN
part Of New Hampshire than at the present.
This is the result Of protective law rigidy en-
forced.
Some disconnected young men In Granite.
ve South Carolina, wished to break up social party
They accordingly shot the musician as the surest way OF
doing it
Anna Gagarin, the daughteri of Moscow
merchant ia the wealthest heress Russia. Her proc
pectve fortune is estimated at lOooOOo roublesabou1
s75,OOo.Ooo.
A girl in Berkshire, Massachusetts, walked IA
miles through the snow last week. to meet and marya
young man who had been forbidden By her father 70
enter his house.
A gentleman in Portland proposes to publish
CyclopHdla OF Meannesses." He has been making
notes several years. and the result he says will gu
quite largo volume.
Each of three most popular female Lecturers
OF France, Nine. Ernst, Mile. Devaisne, and Mia
Clemenco Rogers, make moro money than any literary
man there except Dumas.
The actor, John Mccullough had benefit al
Salt Lake City recently at which the receipts consisted
principally In the sweet potatoes white mice.
young pigs, and 200 ax-handies.
The Second Adventist Conference, held al
Springfield last week. passed resolution against the
practice heretofore common, OF fixing the "preciss
date" for the final cOnfagraton.
Nearly all the members of the Rhode Island
Legislature live at their homes during the session They
20 home every evening and return every morning. ts
our suburban-resident business men.
The Church of the Good Shepherd In Hart.
ford built entirely by Mrs. Samuel Colt, was dediestsf
on Saturday. Four bishops and sixty clergyman vses
present. The building cost about 100000
John Parker of Douglass, Mass, has copy Of
the Acts OF Parliament published in London in l6is
years ago. The book contains pages and printed
in old style German type on coarse paper.
There is said to be more timber In Southern
Minnesota than there ten years ago. The prairie
fires are checked by roads and cultivated helds Tbs
people, too, guard the timber with great care.
A convict in the Ohio penitentiary, sentenced
for life, killed his foreman last week, for threatening 70
report his conduct This Is his third murder having
mItted two before being sent to the penitentiary.
Judge Cantwell of Wilmington, North Caro-
Tina, has decided that whipping wife does act under
any circumstances within the limits 0; reasonable
correction" as that term Is now understood in Law.
Five of the European soyereigns are bach
elors One has been dyorced-wthout going 10 Illinois
Twenty-six of them marred-espeeally tho Sultan
OF Turkey. Six have lost their roy BY death
A fog-whistle. to be worked by q 10-horss
power engine Is being constructed for Thatchers Island
OF Salem, Mass 1t will DO ready by the LIST OF June
This will be the largest and most powerful fogwhiste
the world.
The old gunboat Harriet Lane, which was cap
tured by tho Rebels at Galveston lying Gbsops
Wharf East Boston She has been htted up handsomely
o bark. aud Is going to tho west coast Of South
America.
Three men were seen bathing and swim.
ming In the Charles River, Boston. morning a
week. There ia professional gentleman In Nespo6
who has bathed regularly the breakers during the en-
tiro Winter for several years.
The recent judicial decision in the Mccarthy
case, at New.Haven, is interesting II man neslec's
refuses to provide for his family he can be treated ~
mn and ~ fha