New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-06
GENERAL NOTES.

A startling method of dispensing justice is
announced Gen W. T. Bentley, exsuperyisor Of Internal
Revenue North and South Carolina charged with
oppression while in Office Thecase tried the Path
CHRONICLE in describing trial adds this serious piece
of information: The jury Is hung suth an appalling
fact should be warning 10 ODstAate JUL! AoA IHVuSA
out the country
There is melancholy in Kalamazoo that is,
amonC those who believe the Constitution it
There wac grand spellingmatch in that town on the
2lst ult 1t took place at The principal hotel and aroused
great popular interest tine great the noble ana the
wise were present and their sons and daughters com
down and carried of the laurcls was Miss Nellie Dye,
who is by nature, as well a. by name coorcd srI Inc
local paper suggests to the shocked citizens to ask advice
OF Nasty.
The famous expression of an Irish orator
respecting political rival that che never opened his
mouth except TO put foot in it, may apply to horse
owned by T. Il. SmOntOD, o. Camden, Me. That gentle
man found his horse last week In condition resulting
from surb An cXperimeD lie had got his hind hoOf ia
his mouth and could not get II out ENeutudy Tie moor
had 10 he pred ont with wagon stake pushed in behind
H. This gymnasium practice injecting all ranks OF so
ciety i5 however new for the equine race TO begin
at playing circus
At last accounts there was prospect of
Inutiny among the militia Of San Francisco Captain
OF Home Guards threatened IN certain emergency to
withdraw his company from the procession the giOri
ous Fourth. The danger which the young man antci-
paed with such dread, that cOlored soldiers would be
permitted march IN the procession IL is hoped that
the penalties Of COurtmartai VIII De hghty hnlcted
the Captain Will DC tIOpptl from to IOll ~
would cruel 10 in1ct severe punishment upon such
feebleminded youth.
Since this City has OutgrOwn a fire depart
meut i'm which men have other daily occupations than
those connected with fires, can look down with com
pacencs upon cities that have not yet attained 10 this
system On the 18th ult there great fire at san
Antonio Texas drayman, member on one OF the fire
Compaues was anxious not to lose job which he had
undertaken and drove his loaded cart INTO the street
where the fire raging halted amid binding shower
OF sparks and stepping up 10 the foreman OF tc engine
To which he is attached asked to be excused IRON service
and relieved from fine. The foreman thought the nne
81 would have be paid the dryinan rcmOnstrated
sN'bat are YOU cartiDgf" asked the foreman. Gun
nowdcr" was the reply The foreman glanced az the
load OF kegs turned pale, and WIN strenuous voice OF
command said, "Ho fine; only COZ Inc uoiIAr sa'cu
was fully earned
Grasshoppers and crickets have taken the
field IN the Pacific States in formidable numbers The
Grass plots OF the San Francisco plaza suddenly dsap
reared under their tread and onactments even more
vigorous than those employed against the Chinese
failed 10 dispense them. The black crekets in belt one
mile wide and Of unknown length struck the HumD0lt
Iiver about miles above Exc, New. and crossed IT,
MS surface bSck6ned for hours and fishes ghered
frn M and down the river u feast them. IL was
1uDd that horses driven into the column Of c1ckets,
became frightened and could not De induced 10 proceed
Sgme of tie individual cIckets weIe OF extraordinary
ze tn Utah RrasshOppeEs said 10 subeide' some
what after flock Of sheep is driven Iapruy ABOUT III
fid containing them Near Stockton, as raEOad uhlI
,sss going an a steep grade In Echo canon, II was
brought 10 a stop by these insect AnoneI tIaih csI
"a ~ ass stance and with pientful Distribution Oh hhhn
md use of brOOms by standing on the co"eatonei,
fhe LEGALITY SO infested with dhculty PAhetu "adt
q miraculous story this would have made TOT the
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