New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-14
GENERAL NOTES.

The advertisement of Western stOne-cuttcr
reads: "Those who buy tOmbsOnes OF us, look with
pride satisfaction on the graves of their friends"
A German expressman tried to deliver q box
as follows: Ringing bell he said to Bridget: Ihave
got one small pox. and If you like viii prng him In"
The door slammed
A doctor living in Pierce City, Idaho, has
come the sodest kind Of grief Not content with tor
menng the insides Of pale faces Dr. Doan went into
the business Of selling re-water 10 the redskins under
the guise OF medicnc Tor which reprebensblo specula
On he has been sent to the penitenary for year.
An illustration of the sharp Yankees pro-
pensty for bargaining, and eyerready inclination TO
settle question by "swOp," Is given by a Connecticut
mans proposition for the settlement OF the Alabama
British Government give to the United states in salts
faction for the Indirect damages the fortress OF Gibrh
tar and that the United States then oEcr II ~ Spain In
exchange for the Island OF Cuba
A lady, who had gone largely into the forging
business was quite recently arrested In Rochester She
Mrs Loomis Of Marshall. Mich. but has been residing
temporarily in Syracuse whore she forged her husbands
name 10 checks amounting ~ between $1,000 aud 5000
and rot the money for them Then she went 10 Rochester,
where policeman from Michigan picked her up, ana
will take her hence TO answer TO charges not only VI
forgery, but OF adultery.
Nashville has been enjoying one of the
pleasantest sweetest and refined OF recreaons-a
single combat between dog and catamount, each
being "thorough-breds and awful the bite" The
contestants were chained together and, after fifteen
20 the dog. The catamOunt was Is inches high, and
weighed 20 pounds; tho dog Scotch bull with "a
hOund-cross and weighed CO pounds. As the betting
was very spirited, IL is quite comfort to know that
somebody must have lost a neat OF money!
A lovely little domestic incident is recorded
by The Waterto0n Wis) Democrat A husband and wife
had been divorced met at the railway depot in that
place the latter having their child only nine months old
with her This poor infant the woman wished 10 leave
with lis father, but he declined TO receive IT, SO II was
left TO Us fate on the platform the mother starting down
the railway track and disappearing. The baby, how
ever was in better nok than might have been autic-
pated. for certain sanartans who witnessed the heart
less nsactioD cared for the little wall which has
adopted by family IN WatertOwn.
A case occurred the other day in Chicago
showing how hardly the rule Of law respecting the
potency Of witnesses sometimes works. Dennis Kenney
a man advanced IN years. indicted for committing
an outrage on the person Of little German grl, Who
could not speak English and only years old.
appeared that she entirely ignorant Of the nitnre
OF al oath, aud 80, her testimony being ruled out the
prisoner was acquitted The states Attorney said that
II the RUE OF the court 10 tie adhered 10, he
have clefeymen present 10 Instruct such witne9os.
"ilOW, nc tald, are going 10 protect the helpless
and ignorant II that rule Is guide the pacte. oil the
court q ul htfe was no hep Tor 1t, and the aged beast
went unpublished