New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-13
GENERAL NOTES.

| The rural districts of Illinois vie with her
great city matrimonial nelicities. In the neghbor
hood of Marsees, La Sale County. woman of IS years
OF age the wife respectable farmer and the mother
age, Who says he thinks her an angel" They purify
the morals of the community in that section with tar.
and Vigilance Committee carrying this material and
rail are IN search OF the runaways.
One of the most exciting races that has taken
place for several years the Upper Mississippi River
occurred the 3st u The rival steamboats, ran from
ST. Louis TO Quincy and the beaten boat con
ered the fastest ON the river was one hour behind me
winner. The latter ran from Hannibal to Quincy-25
mies-in IS minutes. Such affairs safer In persal
than participation. II the winner is to have cham
pion belt i to be hoped II will be Of the best wrought
The Weekly Northwestern of Oshkosh Wis,
is having laugh the wool gathering figures OF
the reetrade newspapers Of Chicago One of the latter
undertook to demonstrate that "a farmer purchasing
blankets with wool in Cincinnati would have to pay
about 81 Il pair more than in 1850 slight error in
his calculation surmised it proves that the
must have paid the farmer s7s cents for the
WOOL which he sold to him in the shape Of blankets at 70
cents. The practical facts that fne, white blankets,
such as were here sold at wholesale for rs cents per
pound before the war now manufactured and sold IN
Wisconsin for the equivalent IN currency OF 70 cents IN
gold The estimate of the wholesale dealers there that
wooden goods IS per cent cheaper, III
sold than they under free trade and the farmers
day they find them IS to 80 per cent cheaper in actual
purchase beside being better in quality. cOrrespon-
dent who has made it business to ascertain the sont
ment Of the farming community IN Wisconsin, was IN.
able to find man among them who considered the tariff
wool and wOOlcns injury him. But IL Is
in wool that Wisconsin finds her advantage in protection.
The iron interest ia comngup rapidly In 1850 there was
now there are thirteen built and projected with an an
nua capacity Of 5000 uns. Free Trade people there
s sh{ N " comes n0"' 1t Will damage us here i'ep''
The fact that the Weland Canal has long
since the requirements of trade between
Lakes Erie and Ontario, its tunnage in 1867 being less
than 1857 while the shipments of produce from Chicago
and Milwaukee in the same period have more than quad
rupled, has occasioned necessity for increased facilities
which the Ontario and Erie Ship Canal Company hope to
meet The municipalities Of the town and township OF
Niagara the respective Boards Of Trade Of the cities of
Chicago Oswego and Toledo the Chamber of Commerce
of Milwaukee and Others Interested pttoncd the Par
Lament Canada the incorporation of that Company.
The essential they propose branch OF the Wei
land Canal from the town of Niagara To connect with The
Weand at Thorod. 1t Is intended TO make this Niagara
Lateral cut scale commensurate with the Saul Re.
Marie Canal which can pass vessels of 1900 tnns willie
the Welland now can pass only those OF 400 AT Niagara
the mouth Of the Niagara River will furnish the
canal with a magnih cent harbor Then, instead OF ELI
to cut from Tkorod-the head OF the lateral cGtDsiH
miles to the Chippewa or Weland River which, with
in carrying capacity THAI river empes into the Mag.
ara River above the Falls. The new route is mtend.d
principally for steam vessels, which, coming from Lake
Erie, would pass down the Niagara River to the Cap
esnrS at e mouth RSe Up a e eRS% Line
ply made detour around the Falls. The Weaud Canal
would he left TO the enjoyment of the schooner trade"
The question whether paid medical experts
rendered prominent by the pccuartes of the McFar-
land trial. is not limited to that instance There was at
Tours DR.. Neuol, in the Victor NOR case, who saw
bruises Prince Bonaparte although he unable
be scientifically precise about their location In
the interior counties in this State there a murder
trial in which medical expert testified to a scrat, on
the Uf the prisoner, which, with the murder ITSELF
thus attributed to robbers. The victim the Vile
or the prisoner The expert could see nothing n the
appearance OF her battered and broken skull but the
evidence. " pistol shot at The hands Df persons
known. The people thercabOut having that reytr-
for which the and Jury DISPLAYED stl
think that at least twenty inches Of broken skull told
different story, and that the discharged prisoner,
after crushing his wiie's skull by other mode
violence, supplemented the work for appearance sake
with pistol The most recent instance o. the views
from Charleston, s. c. prisoner having been taken
before Judge Mackey, ply stefan came forward and
claimed the prisoner his patient declared thar the
trial OF the case at law would ruin the which he
was successfully treating. and ychementy Insisted
that the necessity of keeping the prisoner under the
Counterpart should be accep pied "a onter plea Tho
Judge however resented the nterfcrencc of The F ,i
plan expert and hs he persisted In II, imprisoned INN
for contempt OF court.
The National Board of Trade requested Mr.
+. II. Walker OF the New-YOrk Produce Exchange 20
make suggestions toward inaugurotng system 81
complete and uniform statistics Of commerce He states
that the information furnished by the Governs, nj A
cultural Bureau Is not yet considered very Trustworthy
The should give the acreage crops each
year compared with previous years Monthly repore OF
crops should be sufficiently Indicate prob
able deficiency surplus OF the harvest. Similar satl
ties needed In respect TO the consumption ~ live
stock the movements IN provisions. ana the prOuo n
wool Correctness Of reports and prumptness their
publication s especially urged The Boards Of Trade
Chambers OF Commerce of various cities, II is suggested
might with great advantage make their reports uor,
thorough The Chicago press, that formerly obtaih.d
Datti 4ars from the GoaId Aow nnhShes the RECRUITS