New-York tribune., 1869-05-13
GENERAL NOTES.

convicts to escape from Siberia.
| 0f729 inmates of the California State Prison
| only 25l were born in the United States.
Davie Crockett has a grandson, Col. Bob
] Crockett, living in Arkansas.
Gen. Tom Thumb is building fine residence
| In marlborough, Conn.
There are over $50 German papers nubIsboA
In the United States-5O Of them daies
Queen Pomare of Tahiti smokes incessanuv
and plays ecarte to perfection
Of the eight colleges in Indiana authorized
to confer the degree Of Master Of Arts six admit young
| ladies.
| A bill has been introduced in the Italian Sen-
ate TO prohibit the Illicit expectation of boys "a og
grinders.
The London Common Council declines to
spend any more money on statues and memorials Of
Prince Albert
| A French chemist has discovered that the e.
% turpentne is anlote for poisoning by pho.
| phOruA
Two London clergymen appropriated their
sermons from the few Sundays since They
were printed simultaneously Monday morning paper.
Austria has 100000 acres of forests, pro-
duoed by planting Their value estimated at several
| hundred millions of 1orins.
| Indiana lawyers are deprived of source OF
much profit by new law making it penal ofense 10
procure divorces for persons not actual residents
The young woman of Bordeaux who threw
vro In the face OF her betraye has been convicted Of
! the offense and fined one franc.
A spirit photograph gallery has been opened
in Chicago. The mysterious pictures are made with
great success. a4
An Irish woman was arrested in London.
some weeks ago, and brought before O. court on the
charge Of stealing penny.
The British Post Office cOntemplates follow
ing American example by reducing the rates OF news
paper postage.
Creosote oil is used as fuel for steam boilers
in English manufactures 1t said to be cheap and
efficient.
A recent English religious paper contained
this advertisement Wanted Immediately an unmarried
curate for rural suburb Liverpool Gentee neigh
borhood, wealthy people.
A machine has been invented and put in Op-
Grafton in California which, IL is said has cut thrashed
cleaned sacked the wheat from 20 acres in 10 hou
with only three men to work it.
The Bangor Wing says: Salmon are running
large this season. and those who catch them doing
heavy business -Four of the largest taken from the
Penobscot weighed in the aggregate sci pounds
1t is probable that Oliver Wendell Holmes
viii write an odo for the opening Of the Musical Festival
to be sung by 10000 voices the accompaniment Of the
| great organ and an orchestra Of 100 pieces.
An elm, with a trunk measuring seven feet
IN diameter two feet from the ground. and three feet
feet the ground. recently cut down In Vermont
about 800 years DID, and made SO cords OF wood
| The United States Court at Charlestown,
West Virginia has Just gwen decision in favor Of er
Senator Morrill, Of Mane by which his title to largo
quantity Of land in West Virginia Is established
Gold-bearing quartz has been discovered at
Lyman N. H. The quartz, wheu ground up, is found TO
be valuable manure and worth moro for TINS purpose
thln for the gold found IN it.
The result of long course of litigation in
ths English courts has been TO reduce George Hudson,
the famous English Railway King, to state of penury
He is IN France, utterly destitute. =
A Frankfort expert in autographs asserts
that nearly onehd OF the much priced letters Of tho
first Napoleon, most Of which have been printed as
authentic at the Imperial job Office Of France are
nothing more than adroit forgeries.
An echo in Woodstock Park 0xfOrdshire,
Eng repeats seventeen syllables by day and twenyy
night most remarkable echo known is one on the
north side OF Shiny Church, in Sussex which distinctly
| repeats 81 syllables.
At Dunstable, Mass, in 1851 dancing at we'd
dings was forbidden, and in 1900 William Walker i'm
prsoned amonth for counting maid without the leave
Of her parents the wearing Of long hair and rib
bons to tie it up, prohibited by severe penaues
| curious robbery is reported in Hungary.
Burglars broke into the glass mandatory OF DuboE
near Pazega, aud carried of chest containing arsenic
The only object OF the thieves appears to have been
/ get possession Of the poison.
| The Chicago Tribune says that business de-
preston OF than ordinary weight Is felt In that city
There is duness trade; the receipts aad shipments OF
grain are below their usual average; and there less
1 o,,lH HpfVro roNaH
! property for sale
In Dennisville and other places in New
Jersey large business in raising cedar trees out
OF marshes in which they were buried many centuries
ago They covered with peat The wood raised from
these buried forests sound II recently felled and
is mostly made into shingles.
a plumber of Davenport, Iowa, bought 5000
pounds OF army belt buckles at tho Rock Island Govern
meut sale for about cents pound. They eost
nearly 81 a pound and would have supplied armyof
more than 100000 They are to be melted down for
the brass and solder.
A curious card appears in Texas paper. A
adverses that his brother is candidate for shenno
the County because lie hmsef dsfranchsed but thai
he is to be the real officer "You voting for me- no
says "tAat b for my benefit aud am 10 receive all Una
the pay. II my brother is elected"
The following is an exact copy of promis-
sorry note dated at Concord Nov. 2, 1913: "For an oo
horse which have bought OF Mr. Isaac Dow, promise
to pay him 50 wheat -four at cash prce; but the
horse does not live get TO Lebanon and three days ~
he gets there am to give but s. for horse Witness
my hand"
Red tape is not novelty in England. 10
1896 the Commissioners for registering proposed
that the Lords OF the Admiralty would please to move
the Lords Justices 10 the Lords OF the Treasury
order the Custom. House officers not TO permit vessels
be cleared without giving bond for the payment OF Sh
nepc. mar month ont OF their