New-York tribune., 1870-01-29
GENERAL NOTES.

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The Government sales Of 100000 acres of
Texas lands disposed OF for unpaid taxes brought into
the Treasury only $1,000
! CONSERVATION prevails among the ice-cutters
on tho Maine rivers. New companies have been formed
and new houses built for gathering the Winters harvest
but scarcely any ice has yet been obtained.
| The Nashville courts seem to have been
selected the sport Of cruel fate One day red-hot
stove was upset In the Chancery Courtroom, creating
panic. and on another the floor Of crowded courtroom
OF justice OF the peace gave way precipitapg the
| hurt IN either case.
A man, blind in one eye, says a correspond
ent OF The baltimore Gazette, aiming his gun at duck,
killed, instead, young girl who suddenly up on
the right side. The murderer e1cupated on account
OF his blindness IA men always shut one eye IN taxing
aim, this defense would argue that he shut the
wrong eye aud took aim with the blind one.
Thomas Welch, an employe in the cotton
mill of Jeremiah Carpenter, valatie, N Y, was In
shafting and whired several times over the shaIt ID
Of less than foot His left arm was torn from
aud mang ed in horrible manner welch 80 years
Of age, and leaves wife and five children
Among the "things not generally known
says a. Birmingham paper, is that Tennyson the poet
laureate, numbers among lis chosen friends Black
Farnord and he is presented by the poet with each
of his volumes @ as they aPpear Ia R pudaer ng, S
praise, but hitherto not line has seen the light
Benjamin F. Keplinger of Rush Co., Indiana
who Is years old, six feet high, 46 inches
round the chest, weight 235 pounds aud wears No IL
boots accepts the challenge OF George W. Crawford
Of sciota County, OhiO who Is is years old. six
feet and inch hgh a inches round the chest weight
ls pounds, and wears No. 10 cOwhdes, to trlal OF
strength for $1,000 side.
A sugar planter in Jamaica announces an
improvement the method Of separating sugar from
molasses. The concentrated syrup Is to be introduced
into vessel having bottom of fine wire gauze. and pro
yided above with AN ariight cover. vacuum Is pro-
duced In the chamber below the pam aud the air above
expanding forces the molasses down through the sieVe
leaving the crystals OF sugar behind.
Wounds made by the teeth often prove
poisonous. Detroit struck another in the teeth
on Christmas Day, cutting his knuekles thereby.
The hand swelcd and became very much inlaned, aud
since then the flesh has deeayed from the wounded mn
ger The diseased bone has been scrap1d, but Without
effect ANA the phy scans think anpuation Will be neces-
sary.
A charter has been granted to company of
Virginia gentlemen who propose TO establish new
wateringplace the vicinity Of Norfolk. The company
proposes purchase about 1000 of land to erect
hotels, bathing establishments private residences. To
nances Of trstcass wacringplaee The capital stock
to be not less than than s2OJO nor more than sz1oo
In shares OF go each
1t is stated by a correspondent of The Chicago
Tribune that tho cases Of h.chiHe srirds in Kane
County, Illinois, In number, have resulted from
custom adopted by some Germans OF eating pork raw
IL has been estimated that cuDlc lnch 1l PORK
by parasites contains l.0OO00 No sure cure oI
them has yet been discovered EeciHclty'h is con
tended, will prove their destruction as shock which
man easily bear Will Kill mice or yernin instantly
Nathan Mathews, who returns the largest in
come in Boston-s73O OOO-aceording TO an exchange
failed business few years ago. but got started again
hy industry and paid every cent OF bis indebtedness
He then got a little capital, which he invested IN suDnr
ban building lots selling whenever he could realize the
smallest profit He also built houses, selling them when
he could get the smallest advance. By steadasy
pursuing tnl5 p9ncy a oncc pee . .aaao ~ 'o oss
ttau 30
friend: 81 am now a little better than have been-I am
able TO sit up read aud little but cannot walk
or even stand without assistance. now feel deep IN
tcrest in what going in State, and IN reply 10
your inquiry this subject all can say Is, that II
utter no word To the pubc ana take no part even iee
ble as am, II s Ouly because do not see that awning
could say could possibly effect any good God, ia
his Infinite mercy, only knows what ID TO become OF this
country and Its Institutions
An amusing paragraph states that in Van
derburg Coz Indiana Of the red children Of the forest
is officiating Methodist minister After he has mn
shed his sermon he delights the congregation by giving
the war.whoop and executing scalpdance with which
bcpedctory performance the brethren dismissed ul
of puuaciiy and picy Isn't this just the kind OF mis-
rebelious To be sure lie would have to begin
with the whoop and sealrddhee. inns S9uu aouSn & t9
native heart and prepare II to acqneSce IN GOOD soma
treaty Christian principles The quaker agents may
vhoOp, bat they cannot III cOnscleuce dance ana the
Indiana man might be had uncomnOnly cheap.
The case of "Drn Simon NJ. Lands at Phil
adclphla charged with vending obscene publications.
and sentenced pay fine Of 500 and to imprisonment
for year. is chiefly remarkable Tor the impudence OF
thr defense The Doctor" pleaded that he was scien-
tile characters that he had no intention OF mlhlsterihS
10 uhoy passions that his benevolent purpose VAS The
dissemination of anatomical and physiological knoWledge
the Court made pretty plain rulings upon tins
point which had their proper influence upon the jury
linn goes scroggy, who Is NJ Doctor who has no
scientific beneyOesce, but who has been convicted OF the
same Ohensc.
A Cleveland boy, 10 years of age, swallowed
beap. which passed down his wndppe into the opening
which leads 10 the lung and finally stopped there He
oppeared TO dead. deadly pallor overspread his
cOdnenancc, the eyes were CLASSY Sh "a "i.Vus
trtly suspended Shortly after the surgeon arrived
breathing ceased ehlrsiy or nlnto h , mil ino
bean then extracted lOngtuuiha helsloh hhNinE
been made the neck just below the Adams apple AN
instrument was inserted, aud the bean drawn up ana
pulled by forccps, the boy sun presenting the ap.
pearanco Of hfeess corpse Alter the bean hld been
extracted incsion was held open by two hooks ana
by pressing the chest the air ia II was driven out
The blood at the opening was spunged on ana ny feeV
beneath the arms air was through the aperture
made by the ncson mesianicaI passage @ 81 ar was
thus established and by continued Efforts the chd began
to 9rsaihe. ana Was saN99.
King George of Greece is eXcavatng the
ancient Panathenac Stadium at Athens. He has pur
chased at his expense the land supposed to have
been occupied by the right bank OF the
poss of earth. AT depth Of several feet perfect semi
circular wall of compact marble mas been exposed anu
corresponding interior wall OF perfect masonry between
these the spectators passed ascending through marble
enrances-two OF which have also peen dsooveted-Io
the seats III the airphitheater above Incso walls ao
supposed to have extended arOnnd the ente ebSth OF
end is I'm nerfect preseryaon Parts columns have
been found with carved work at the bases aud other
II iIi not be snrprisIngif King Georges discov
cries ual made along the shores OF the Acropo
WHICH are now only second to the ParthenOn aud the
Tharum Tfe length OF the Stadium was coo hundred
yards the semtccle end was arteisl ana ihe natural
sope of the banks formed the anphheaer, whore some
oGcs kcus constructed the marble steps and seats and
l,t.f tho xvnFku