The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-14
GENERAL NOTES.

Kansas claims to be receiving 1000 new settlers
day.
A Free Trade League has been organized in Buff
falo.
The Ohio Legislature il asked to nut ND suitable
monument ON General Harris0n's neglected grave.
Judge Trmbe, Of Atascoco county, Texas re-
Gently died from the effects OF snake bite.
Kansas reader Of the Declaration OF Independ-
ence ON July began with "Know all men by these
presents"
Efty-three women clerks have just been placed on
duty as copysS 10 the Patent ONCE salary 500 per
aHnum.
young circus rider won horse at Louisville the
other day by turning twenty-five sOmersaulis IN sue
cesslOn.
The people OF Oregon are again talking about the
separation 0i the eastern ana western portions Of
the state.
Albany has become one OF the great lumner marts
OF the country. The lumber business OF last year
aggregae ed the sum OF about l4,Oo0oo0.
man In Illinois has been fined fifty dollars and
steal kiss rom Mrs. Slppery.o
James Croxton on trial for several days &c Louis
vile for the murder OF his partner Benjamin Miller,
was on Saturday last acquitted
Rev. John Long, OF Thomasville, N. c., a Methodist
clergyman, was recently stricken dead with apOpleXy
wnile III his pulpit preaching sermon.
An uninjured whiskey bottle was the only thing
capable OF Ment'iication about q poor fellow VINO
was run over on an ONO railroad the other day.
Shick's mll on Barren river near Glasgow, KY,
was blown up on the 9TH Inst. Two men were
killed Instantly and two others seriously If not fatally
injured.
I Canada has new patent law. It excludes from
Its benefits all aliens and residents. n person
may secure patent only by residence VI year IN
the Dominion.
A wedding took place near Dry Grove, Miss, a
few days since, IA which the bride had scarcely
reached her tenth year; the groom being over six
feet high and thirty-elght years VI age.
There Is lacy in Sutton, this state, who was mar
RED at twelve years oi a1e, who Is the mother OF
sixteen children. WelIlS III BOUNDS. and
iat and forty.n
John Tyler Jr. son of the ex-Presdent is reported
to be wrtinY series OF essays on ''rhe Course OF
Commerce during the First Historical Cycle Of HUI
man EyentualIe5N
few days ago colony of sixty SWISS mmi-
grants arrived at Goldsborough, n: O., 20 settle IN
The nelghborng counties. On the day OF their land
ing there were three marriages among them.
A man ana wife named Fink OF Springfield, Ohio,
have both been sent to the insane asylum at Dayton
They leave family OF seven Ghdren the Oldest not
over twelve years Old, at home.
The German tavern keepers of Pittsburg are gong
to work in earnest TO insure the rigd enforcement
OF the Sunday law Their object is 10 make the law
0diOus, and 10 secure Its repeal
Chicago has never seen the time when she con-
tanned so many persons out OF employment as at the
present IL Is computed that no es3 than 1910
iaen, boys women and girls are out of'work in that
city.
observations by physicians In some parts OF Texas
show thai while the natural growth OF The white
race has been uninpeded. the coored people have
per cent III four years.
The flood III the Arkansas s subsding. So far
very little damage has been done, though an add
tiOnal inch III the rise would nave submerged many
the nice farms and W ought great destruction.
Five thousand salmon, two aud half inches long,
have recently been placed In The Pemmlgewasset
river, New Hampshire. century ago THIS river
was full of salmon, but the nets and the dams along
the river had so completely exhausted the supply
that we doubt II single salmon has been seen
there for five and twenty years. The state has
undertaken to stock this and other rivers with
salmon and shad.
Hiram Wade. an old and respected merchant OF
Sandy Hill, uhiO committed suicide On sunday
morning last by hanging himself In his barn. Mr..
Wade was siXty-i0ur years OF age, and was highly
esteemed III all the relations OF HE. He was in easy
circumstances and able to meet all Obligations at
maturity but the lear That he would not be able to
pay small sum soOn to become due induced the
commission of Inc rash act.
At Adrian, Mich, on the Sd of July, man named
Gillespie, eighty-six years old, committed suicide by
taking iaudanum anu jumping or falling out OF his
CHAMBER window. lie had selected MS best suit OF
clothes and laid them aside with paper pinned on
them, on which was written, "These are my grave
ciothes." He was Sprltuallst and said in the let
Ter that he should visit his friends on earth from
time 10 time.
the Council Grove tKansas) Advertiser states that
nearly the whole OF the Kaw tribe OF Indians braves
squaws and pappOoses, and 800 Warriors OF the
Sac Indians, accompanied Dy their squaws, passed
through Council Grove on the Attn inst, ON their way
70 the pans, buffalo hunting. They made body
OF over 300 the Sacs had been on q visit to the
kaws on their reservation tor over week, 10 induce
Them to go on the coveted trip.
The Burlingane (Kansas chronicle says the tor
nadO that passed eight or ten miles west of US,
through the eastern portion Of Waubunsee county,
week or TWO snce says an eye witness, was in
many places not over ten or twelve feet wide. The
grass and vegetation looks exactly as though fire
had passed over 1t. In one instance q small frame
house was carried some sixty feet without injury to
the inmates or building, while wagon box setting
alongside Of the house was torn to atoms.
man In Adair county, Iowa, has invented q can.
non which he believes Will send q ball fourteen
miles, The popularity ia the ball ITSELF which Is
in seven sections, with SIX fuses The powd OF the
cannon sends the ball humming Two miles from the
muzzle lighting fuse No. l. which burns to the DOW
der in the ball In the time the ball travels two miles,
when an explosion takes place which sends the bali
two miles further, where fuse No. does Its duty
and propes the ball two miles further and so on W
the end OF the fuses and the fourteen miles,
Cincinnati paper Ia responsible for the follow
fng:-Recently Jephtha Smith, young man OF
eighteen. living near Cassvile. Barry county, NO.
slipped and fell over q bluff aS Carlise's mill He
first fell distance Of fOrtYfve feet aghtng on his
feet. Here he rebounded and fell another thirty feet
bringing up on his shoulders, and then by series OF
falls OF ten or twelve feet at time brought I'D
against q tree, making distance OF some hundred
feet in all. Slngulary, he sustained no serious
l1lurleA and aDDut as "A p " davs