New-York tribune., 1869-05-06
GENERAL NOTES.

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A company is about to be formed in Begium
for the purpose Of constructing railways and telegraph
lines in China
special mission has in charge the work of
planting Young Mems Christian Association at every
| Important station on the Pacific Railroad.
Nneteen-tw twentieths of the rice raised in tbs
United States is grown within narrow limit upon the
seaboard Of tho Caronas and Georgia.
| M. Frere-0 -0rbans, the premier of Belgium. ia
ST years old. He said to be fne looking His father
used to be doorkeeper at the University of Lege
| great International Plant and Flower Show
| will be held at Hamburg next September durnp tho
sitting of the Congress Of bOanss gardeners and hOrt
| cuturists.
| The Russian lCOuncil of State propose "a
grant more power to the municipal councils throughout
the empire to enlarge the number OF voters, 70
modify the press law.
The Massachusetts Legislature proposes to
prohibit card playing railway trains. and give tho
conductor power TO eject all players This IS 20 prevent
| gambling and confidence swndlIDg.
| Since the adoption of the free seat system in
the First Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati mopey
has been raised than under the pew system and the
| grcgatlon has increased.
| A man recently died at the Bicetre Hospital,
France who had slept there months and three
days On the morning of his death he woke up and
broth, and some wine.
Lamartine had the same hairdresser for Is
years This wise barber preserved the supeuOus hair
clipped the head of the poet and be is enabled
to supply all his friends and admirers with lock thereof
for a consideration.
The French Minister of Finance NJ. Magne,
does not pay the slightest attention tho argumentsOr
warnings Of the watch dogs Of the Treasury among the
Opposition. usual 10 them is reference 10
his preceding speeches.
The horses of the EleCtOr of Hesse, conGs-
Gated with the of his property by the King Of Pru
sia were recently sold at auction. Hessan sfieer
bought two Of the finest. and Immediately shot them
dead, to prevent their falling into other hands.
The Government of Great Britain publishes
three papers, Tho Gasetes OF London Edinburgh, and
Dublin All three make money but The London Gdzettc s
by far the most profitable. The net revenue from the
three last years more than $4,000.
Capt. Dan Ammen, just appointed chief of
the Naval Bureau Of Yards and Docks used to 90 TO
school with President Grant, in Ohio He says that they
often used Hght, ami that Of them got whipped
every time, and he wasn't the one.
A San Francisco paper says that the fare from
that city, us miles to the end OF the Central routes
greater than from the eud OF tho Central via Omaha
and Chicago, TO New-YOrk, 2.226 miles. The Central
charges 10 cents per mile in gold. ST 50 to Salt Lake
lDe COmmittee Oh Jno DOSlOH DOtliu VI ~
dermen on Public Buildings report the present public
library building inadequate to its requirements, and
recommend its and the erection OF and larger
building in q quiet locality on the Back Bay lands
Van Amburgh's rhinOcerOs, which cost $4,000,
lately escaped in Carmel, Putnam County, NJ Y, and
made for tho water. big dog belonging to the
menagere sent into the pond after the animal and
by desperately clngng to he finally succeeded ~
bringing it to shore.
L. L. L. g., och ~
promise offered 500 to settle Whatw he cried
"two hundred dollars for ruined hopes shattered mind
a blasted llfe and bleeding hearth Two hundred dol
lars for all this, Never neyer Make 1t three, and it's
bargain"
A colporteur in Illinois has been brought
before the United District Court for not bavngs
license as pedder. Tho Judge has decided that booh
partly sold and partly given away not for profit were
not within the Of the law, and did not require
license.
The Hon. Eugene Casserly, United States Scna-
for from California outside lands IN the city Of San
Francisco which have been assessed at S26S57OO Mr.
Cassey owns also. extensive tracts Of land In Santa
Cruz and San Mateo counties, besides other valuable
productive real estate in tho heart OF San Francisco
Near Maunalua, in the Island of Hawaii.
there two lakes side by sde one of fresh water and
the other salt Both far above the level Of the
and it believed that there connection between the
salt lake and the The deposits OF salt in the
former utilized by parties who have established
salt works.
One of the female clerks recently dismissed
from the Treasury Department called there to ascertain
II the demand Of Congressman that size should be rein
stated would be successful must know ut once" said
she for l have received an offer of marriage, aud
although don't fancy the man. If can't get rcinstaedI
must accept"
| resident of Treasure City, in the White
Pine mining gon recently died, aud man was hired
to d his grave. When the funeral cOrege arrived at
the spot they informed by the gravegger that no
had struck q splendid lead, and had staked Of a claim.
Ho refused allow the body be buried in the hole he
had dug.
Mrs. Sale Elizabeth Lincoln, step-mother OF
the late President Lincoln, died at very advanced age
in Coles County, H., the 10th Of April Mr. Liucoln
was reared by her. hs mother having died when he
was very young She much attached TO and very
proud OF her ilusrious stepson For many years past
she had lived with her grandson Mr. John Hail. farmer
in good circumstances.
There was regular battle, recently, mt
Methodist Chapel in Yorkshire England, between the
trustees and sundaySchoo teachers. The latter had
been ordered OF tho building by the trustees Que OF
the teachers had largo piece bitten of his thumb and
another person seriously njarcd by buffet thrown
ut his head from pulpit Bibles and hymn books wero
freely used in the fight
Morsignoro Bauer, the fashionable preacher
m the Chapel OF the Tucries whose sermons before tho
Emperor and Empress attracted much atteuton'
is an Austrian jew, who. II years turned Roman
Catholic lie IL still young looking man, with heavy
and rather yOlCptuOus features. IN lSl he was nem'
Der OF the Revolutionary Academic Legion in vienna
and hc has now become an ultrarcacuomst
The number of German newspapers published