New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-30

goo The total delivered and collected In the month
this year was 1,6sS,T72-s gain OF sh,77S
| A Hindoo lady has brought suit In the Cal
cutta courts for damages by having idol stolen from
her She explains the troubles which the loss Of the
image have brought upon her thus have children.
I want my bones back. am starving, and by crying
have become thln.'
There is n veteran negro soldier out in Wis
consin who went into business hunter and farmer
after his discharge from the army with capital except
his sharpe's rife He has now homestead Of 100 acres,
with q ten-aore clearing double logcabin Wild irnlt
trees swarms OF bees sugarbush pasture lot for his
Indian pony and q bank account at Eau Claire.
The Water Commissioners of st. Louis pro-
pose to build stand pipe feet high and 6 feet in d.
aneer AZ the base TO air chamber and relieve
the pines from the wearing pusaon OF the stream FROM
the great engines The water being forced up into this
structure by the engines, viii permeate the pipes
throughout the city by its own gravity.
Large beds of btuminOus coal have recently
been discovered in the eastern part OF Lyons County,
Kansas not far from Emporia. company Is being
formed and laborers employed TO develop them. and
The Nes thinks that the deposits are near the nne OF
the Neosho Valley Railroad that is being rapidly con-
strncted will prove to be very profitable discovery
They are to have a new bridgeGover the
Sacramento take the place OF the present structure
for the passage the trains Of the California Pacific
Railroad into Sacramento City. The bridge is TO be
the Howe truss pattern, feet long There will be
four spans feet each and draw 200 feet long, with
two openings Of 10 feet each IN The clear Tor the passage
OF vessels
The Alta California describes the discovery
by party Of miners magnificent cave. the entrance is
small that barely admitted the passage OF man. After
getting in, large chamber with ceilings so feet high,
hung with staacttes which reflected light from burning
torches, found. 80 vast this natural structure,
that the explorers after travelling its marble floor Tor
half mile did not find the end. Another party will
leave In few days TO more thoroughly explore THIS treat
wonder.
Jacob GOtzlar, who was at work in furnl-
ture factory at st. Joseph, Mo-, last week met with
serious accident He was near q small circular saw,
which was running so swiftly and noiselessy that Goz-
lar not to have known IL was IN notion and care
lessy laid his hand on IT, IL cut through the bones and
flesh of the left hand just back OF the little finger to tho
depth OF an inch and half and delicate the OPP
GRAFTON that the did not know he was Injured TIL he
saw blood streaming from his hand, when he remarked,
" believe cut myself"
Hilderbrand, the notorious Missouri desperate,
recently oyerhauled by Col Brown Of Ironton but
he did not him. Hlderbrand 1t is raid, showed
such determination not 10 be taken alive that Col.
Brown declared himself TO be one Gr1gsby, formerly
Sheriff OF Madison County, whom he resembles whether
HdeTbrand had respect for the former Sheriff OF Mad
isOn County which he did not feel for any OF the name
OF Brown does not appear at any rate his weapons We're
lowered and aTmistce agreed upon during tendency
Of which the begerens managed to put themselves QUE
Of range Of each others pistols.
There is horse at Marshall, Mo-, which is
subject to fits o. insanity in OF which, few nights
ago, It left its stable broke into tho yard OF Mrs
Walker then through the hall door OF the house. and
door leading into private sleeping apartment where u
In the Nobody at home except two boys, who
sleeping in adjoining room and thus had their
sumbers disturbed by the entrance OF this mad animal
10 remained In the until day whcD with the help
Of ghbor the boys putt out again upon the commons
The following epitaphs were copied from
stones in q cemetery in Jahrey, n. H.;
Sacred Sacred
70 ssm.morOf to the @.noE, Of
By sale the slave Of Who vas born Tree 10
Amos Fortune bv mirr- Africa slave N America
bs wife: BY her be Pareh,ssd hbeHJ
fidelity bis freHd anil proisised christianity,
,ole, died hi, wiio- ivsd respectfully,
A correspondent says that some of the slaves
in Richmond have accumulated considerable fortunes
One who began To while he was a slave is now the
possessor OF excellent livery business aud Is said TO
be worth 10000; another. plasterer by trade owns Y
houses and lots and II vacant otshe Is worth s4OO
another who Is hall haekman and half parson, Is dong
dozen worth from g. 900 to 5000, and quite number
with 1000 fortunes Some Of them buy real estate but
horses, mules hacks wagons little stores
and 10 be the most attractive. ono congre
CATION has built land paid forl u church costing $1,000
Jefferson Il. Baker has instituted suit against
the Hannibal aud ST. Joseph Railroad Company, in the
Circuit Court OF Buchanan County, No. FOR injuries re-
ceived by him by accident tho road. at Cameron
the 18th Of July last In his petition he states that ne
was wounded. bruised, and mansed his head being
brued, and the joint thereof dlsocated and
aud faulty. and is SIN and always will be disabled" He
also that he has spent 5000 TO get cured OF his IN
1urifs, Tor Wnlcn ne asks uHmhBts 10 dhounN VI
10000
The messenger in charge of the car Of the
American Express Company. the night express train
from Erie this city. discovered few nights ago that
the contents OF the car fire. His situation
fghtful The belrope connecting with the engine had
been passed the top OF the Both ends OF the car
were crammed with packages, only small vacant place
being left the center occupied by the messenger aud
the train was whrng along through the darkness at the
rate Of thirty miles hour tho fire rapidly spreading
through the dry conbustibes, and fast filling the car
with heat and smoke. As last resort he rolled one OF
the iron safes to side door and dropped H. BY
lucky chance IL struck the steps OF car caused an
alarm, the train was stopped, aud his life saved
The cafe in st. Marlts-square, Venice, where
EuQenie took her curacao shut up. There
no locks 20 the shutters TO tho windows. Some
OF them have been open the days OF the First Napo
leon having been closed only twice IN all that tmeoDce
i'm lss and second time In $780, when they were cleared
ont by the police These cafes the centers OF Venetian
life They are the drawngrOOms OF the gentry aud aris
tocracyhe pailors and c!ubrooms of the people Peo.
ME receive visits and transact business at the cafes as II
they were NJ home. Ladies' and schoolgirls go there.
Whole families st down coffee and turn the piazza
into a drawing room. the band playing there at certain
hours, and the whole beau monde OF Venice passing
through