New-York tribune., 1871-06-28
GENERAL NOTES.

A Maine man, at Livermore Falls, last week,
arose during his midnight slumbers, cooy leapcd from
second-story window IS feet and thence wandered
fences and bitches for an hour or more until he
finally brought up sound asleep before the barn door
Seventy-fiye years linger lightly upon the
head OF anxious Bosonan who Is seeking for young
wife upon whom he offers to settle $4,000 He specifies
that she must a native of the Curiousy enough
he has so far looked In vain for one thus willing To DE
held by golden chain.
The French Due de Polignac former Rebel
rough raider in Texas. credulous being invested
$50 900 in Virginia State bonds which losing no has de-
manded OF the State Treasurer the restitution, and in
OF REFUSAL 1t Is not Improbable he may make war on
the Old Dominion after the Of the Mexican crusade
One of the prettiest and pleasantest Observ-
ances of Glass Day" at Harvard College has for many
years been the dancing upon the college This
1T given for the that few lads or lasse
Dances and Sc has been found impossible TO do this kind
of huggng gracefully Oh the grass.
Teetotalism would gain few converts if Sam
uel Dunns process necessary Eighteen years ago
he hard drnker and inveterate tobacco chewer
but he moved 70 reform and this Is the way he
achieved that audabe purposes For he has laid
in bed never leaving his having his clothes
ieine He is now 80 years old with fesh as pupy as an
infants, and just good appetite as he ever had.
Oregon which has heretofore suffered some
what public estimation by its vicinity to Alaska Is
in unusual favor place Of settlement vast throng
has been pouring there during the Spring and all the
waste places are beginning ito brighten with the hum
of industry and the evidences Of civilization Lands are
said TO be cheaper more accessible and fertile than in
any other state in the West Each steamer from San
Francisco carries thther between 500 and 1000 passen
gers.
Our Dominion neighbOrs are disposed to
boast of Canadian enterprise above Yankee thrift in
the matter of making the most of limited resources
Some OF their notions certainly original. Abiding
TO the experiment of raising the Italian vine which is
going on in the Provinces Quebec paper dates on the
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Canada, hut moose are obtanabe, and having been
hched 10 the pl0w, are found 10 work we'll Should the
experiment entirely succeed and these vigorous beasts
be sufficiently abundant in that country the fragile horse
may then be reserved for steaks and race-courscs.
An interesting case, involving the rights and
duties of guardian, heard last week before the
Supreme Court in Boston. +. W. q. May is guardian OF
Frederick May person Of fortune co years Of and
said to be intellectually deficient This ward, however.
seems be sufficiently intelligent in many respects and
the guardian testified that there would have been
guardian appointed II Mr.. May had not been rch He
attends the opera and is specially fond OF music He is
also very fond OF horses spending much OF his time upon
the road. Having handsome residence In Medford his
the estate while the heirsatlaw OF the ward apply
the Court TO restrain the guardian from erecting the
stable upon the ground that it will he unnecessary
expense As the present holder OF the property cannot
make will these heirs, OF course look upon the prop
quarter OF q million OF dollars yielding an income OF
from $4,000 to s8Ooo there seems to be no why
Mr.. May should not have handsome stable IL he wants
The heirs make the mistake OF supposing the
be their ana not MS BY an act OF providence
Mr.. May is rendered incapable Of deyising his estate
but that is reason why he should not have the full
benefit of IL while he lives.
A writer in The Rutland (Vt.) Herald relates
story of stupid cruelty to horse, which, bad s Is
probably only OF thousands OF similar "Whie
walking" he says, in the outskirts Of Fairhaven, my
attention attracted to passing horse, which
harnessed in buggy and which kept turning ts head
continually to one side The stupid man who was driy
ing not seeing the cause began to whip the brute
numerically The horse then baked and refused TO CO.
As rapidly possible went forward TO point out TO
the man the OF the difficulty which ought TO have
been apparent TO the most ordinary intelligence. The
reins had caught I'm buckle at the side OF the animals
head and the strain being greater that side OF the bit
the horse naturally kept turning In that direction Be
fore i could get near enough TO make myself heard
the driver got out, and after kicking the poor brute
several times in that must have injured 1t greatly
he struck IT over the head with the stock of his whipun
the blood poured out Of ts and II staggered until
thought would fall In response 10 my expOsulati0ns
and explanations received nothing but oaths. The
rein was adjusted, however and the drove of with
a horse that trust death has delivered from brutal
owner regret to say that the man evidently an
American farmer, and the only reason that his name
does not figure here In full s that not fortunate
enough TO learn it,