New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-06
GENERAL NOTES.

on Saturday, l62 students presented themselves
The railroad bridge over the Missouri river
was completed last week. and trains now running
over IT, The structure lie s7 feet long and it is about %
feet above the river. The draw is IS feet WIDE
An oil well on the Benedict Estate Com
pany's property at Enterprise Venango County was
torpedoed week, and the production increased from
50 to IS barrels per day. wen at scrubgass, on the
day, and yielded instead OF 40 10 barrels per day.
A few days ago a fisherman residing on the
Ogeechee canal ten twelve miles from savan-
nah, Ca. sold his wife to another fisherman for 90
punches Of fish, valued 90 cents per bunch The wife
was perfectly satisfied with the sale ana is no" living
with her purchaser.
A man named James OmerrOrd an employee
az the Hamilton PRINT Works, Lowell Mass was bitten
through the nose a few evenings by rat He bled
profuscly for nearly two hours. His Up was much
swollen and his nose nfamed. Two or three evenings
previous child six months old, also bitten IN the
arm Innictiug dangerous wound. Both father and
child arc recovering.
The Dutchess and Columbia Railroad Com
many propose 10 name their station in Fshkil FishRl
village to which The Journal protests that there are
Fishkis enough already. "Most Of neighboring vii
lagos" says The Journal, aspire to be ctes' ana we
ought 20 be as ambitious as they Besiaes Ihs s oe
original Fshkiu Of Revolutionary fame, ana people mere
r6anee Of name us would be necessary landmark of
the history Of the nations BIRTH
Justice provinces Of San Francisco has de-
,ided that Chinese testimony not admissible in Court
ultted a common assault upon Chinaman' The CHINA
man An Choo took ont warrant for her arrest and on
the day appoiaed for hearing the complaint IN tne Police
tHat connlainait being Chuaman, he had legal ex
isteHce before California 1ucicature The Justice de-
cided as above, ana dsluis ed the defendant
Mr.. Carter Galley, on behalf of the "Cincin
matt Lumber Company" presented the Red Stocking
Base Ball Club Friday evening, with champion bat,
aestmonial TO their grand tour TINS pat is rather
gigantic dimensions, being Of ash and Is 2t feet long.
"a inches in diameter the butt and ~ at the wrist It
eco auIds II is ettered with the names of the first
aud the two substitutes IL was turned IN ten hours
pose
The wild man captured in Ohio, descrip-
ton Of whom recently printed in these columns has
been asccrtaiued 20 be Edward Holtz. He has sue
rumbed 20 cravings Of hunger, and eats raven
ouy The pastor OF OF the Columbus churches Wis
tied hun on Friday and had long conversation with
hun lie ioid t5e p5stGF; AMONG 9 o 6 d st m
rivers His conduct since taking to food appears much
starvation.
Congress, at its last session, appropriated
$4,000 for the Improvement Of Michigan City harbor In
diana, aud the work nearly completed The aim
Guilty feared from accumulation OF sand IN the creek
and lake is not serious as was antlcipatea,
that II Is demonstrated that tlns
h purposei ny any other pont on Lake Michigan The
lmpO lance OF this work 20 northern ,I Sotcs
De furnishing as II must equi @ ne
Tsh of pine umher ana Lake Superior
Of the "elevatng" business that State the first Gle
vator having been put in operation at Vallejo on the 25d
ut The Company proposes TO receive grain In bulk
and thus secure 70 the saving Of the cost OF
tine farmer for receiving handling weighing, and load
the grain board Of foreignbound vessels VIII be lO
cents per tun including for month fraction
thereof II maintained by the Company that ms
saving to the producer OF - SOOO per 'ul az aes o
d u sacks ,-''I'' ''-'
For many months past poor woman, meanly
clad has sitting every day at the corner OF Blum
and Longworth-sts, Cincinnati Her husband died IN
the army She would never believe that he was dead,
and was firm in the faith that he would return to her
Constant brOoding begat arrangement An lmP0steI
street corners every day her absent lord would soon
back to her She did So and every mornink tle
patient watcher found at her post waiting Weafyt
despite wind and weather Last week sue was lssed
from her accustomed place, and inquiry was found
that she had been removed to the Long view Asylum
Prof. Butler of Madison, Wis, in his lecture' |
Gems from Three Continents" fails to bring
down the house where describes Americans abroad
One sentence thisi "The with its heayeoferngs
80 Neptune is such king Of teTrorS that Yankees shrink
ushered into the old World then they long onger there
longer than they had lnlehdeaano 40 20 II men
and family VIII let theni so hey may De aiIl{ G
certain calf whose ears must be pulled on before ne
would begin suckiugand then his tail must be pulled
of before he would stop"
The Columbus, Ohio papers report the kill
Ing OF an snake the ChIttenden farm, near
that city, last week. The monster had been seen on
several occasions and Monday it chased two boys
nearly half mile Thursday morning the same two
bows again visited the Chittenden farm better prepared
the foe should he put IN an appearance
They had not been the grounds great while before
they discovered the monster who was approaching then
with evident warlke intent The boys took position ana
opportunity presented, made SUCH wen III
rected shots rs place their enemy entirely IN their
power, when they soon dispatched him. Inc monster
measured 6 feet in length aud was propoftonaey large
The ice factory at New-0rleans is great
success 1t Of six retorts Of chemical freezing
mixture From these six pipes descend to six
huge chests which chests IN radiate everaly of In
20 four compartments IN each compartment are long,
thin tin side aud eight on the other
This making by all the rules Of arithmetic total OF nifty
six cases box and there beng four boxes chest
and chests 70 factory, 10 follows that at full blast
eighteen inches long broad, and thick al the
completion OF each process The ice much colder than
naturally aud lasts much longer The factory
Is joint stock enterprise and the property Is exceed
iDgiy lucrative.
Last Tuesday night gang of boys went to
rOd Gid Meads" house, near the burying ground, in
Gens Fails, n. Y, demanded entrance, and swore
they would break In the door 1t not opened They
supposed that some disreputable girls stopping
there, and wished 10 md them. Mrs. Mead told them
daughter. The boys continued 20 throw large stones
against the house and door until they frightened Mrs
Mead 90 years old, that she died between and
o'clock in the morning An inquest was held and YER
dict found against the boys Sheriff Hicks and Officer
llen alesleu the AGcseu ana tley were atIagneu on
"Wednesday evening Tor examination. The investigation
continued until the next day, when further exami
patton was waived.
The Central Pacific Railway Company has
begun the construction Of % for transporting fruit
from California to the East These ventilated
by Of funnel airpump ventilators wire screens
and crossbars and will adoit of slowing fruit packages
in such way as 10 give free circulation of air No
other arrangement 20 insure GOODNESS will probably be
required unless zinc lining may sometimes be used for