New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-11
GENERAL NOTES.

of the Methodist Church In America, be honored by
the erection of massive grapits monument over his
The advertisements which adorn the rocks
and fences near Belgrade No. are 90 hdeous that tho
people say 1t Is impossible 10 drive any blind
horse along the highways OF that place. $3.50.
An inmate Of the Utica Insane Asylum has
had needles extracted from different part. Of her
20 tell. Suffice 1t 10 say she was drossmaker
The vast consumption Of clans is gradually
4 finishing annual yield, and the Connections and
ode Island people afraid that they Will have 70
abandon their tme-honored clam bakes.
A boy in Nelson, ILL.,, by constant attention
10 business has killed 1900 of the Star Spansec Ban
nor, poatobugs The work was done by contract, and
the boy makes 800 and saves the potato crop
Prof. King, the @ronaut, has collected enough
money IN Buffalo by subscription 70 build balloon
by I'VE other persons. during this month.
The ladies of GAINESVILLE, Wis, organized
Temperance Association and marched 400 strong to hs
Town Hall with prohhitory petition. The CITY Coun-
ell received them standing and promised speedy action
ON the subject.
The Titusville, Pa, maidens in o card agree
not purchase any dry goods after O'Clock In the
provided the dealers will close their stores a.
that time. This q sacrifice that only men with families
can appreciate.
Lynchburg, Va, is on the qui-vive to ind
out who that hangs internal machines about tho
streets and keep watchmen out Of breath running
round at night what damage was done at the last
explosion.
The ravages made by cockroaches in .Au-
gusta Ga seem TO rival Of the famous plaques OF
Egypt. They eat and thrive the various nsectde-
them In ABUNDANCE
A st. Louis "gamin" has been lavishly
distributing among the newsboys Of that city some
$4,000 worth of Silver Lake Mining stock Fortunately
the boys didn't know what it was, and the pohce nave
recovered most all OF 1t.
A South Western man recently forwarded to
Washington IS mutlated three-cent postage stamps
and modestly asked the 70 either
send good in return make IL right Dy CIV
ing him an appointment OF some hnd.
A man who has been experimenting with the
Monaghan washing machine gives 1t up, and has made
to have class OF 800 students from the
Reform School at Sing Sing, whom he Will instruct In
the desirable art OF wringng and rubbing snirs W
out taking the buttons on the bosom; InaL hor
succeeds, will the uudyng gratitude Oh all Dscheo
A PENNSYLVANIA newspaper makes mention Oh
new swinde practiccd by who travel through tho
country in wagons stopping at arm houses and villages
and Offering generously TO exchange new feathers for
S n They ynRay and Then they
away the old feathers promising soon TO come JACK
in vain for their return. This pretty sort of plucns
indeedl
Carson, Nevada, has recently been visited
by Queen, Miss Sarah Winnemucca- She is reputed 70
be the daughter of the old chief of the Putes IL
also represented that she born OF Digger parente
She was educated at a Catholic academy in Marysyle
She the Pute tongue well enough to act US an inter-
prefer aud dh she r II pOP Se ham little body and
dresses like the average American woman sue re.ds
English Il must also be added that queen saran "f''
poetry"
1t is a pretty state of things when boys
cannot pick few wild berries without being shot AT
Berlin Mass one Z. W. Flagg discovered several lads
feonously aOstracting huckleberes from one OF Ms
fields He seized his gun and poured a. quantity ?,
boys, who may or may not recover fiagg mas DeS1
seen ey sg ba S aS know that there were any buck
shot in the The bnckshot IN the Doy seems " 10
the important point.
A fierce personal combat recently occurred
at Elm Creek Kan, between George saumer and James
Sweet in which the latter gentleman sent bullet
through Mr. Georges eye permanently destroying It's
usefulness visual orb. The popularity OF THIS incl
dent is the description which me I9pSSa OosmoSaas
OF genial nature aud we'll liked by all who know him.
and has many friends in the neghborbood in which he
lives" kindheared and pleasant way OF knocking
mans eye out is certainly novelty.
A mares nest of great sizes has been dis
covered by The London Practitioner the editor of which
has chemically examined several homeopathic medicines
supposed to contain copper mercury and BELLA
DONNA and has failed discover any trace OF these
drugs either in the pellet diutons. But no homeo
pahst preteuds that these substances dscoyerabe
| deciIionth OF anythingi How you TO bring TO
sight by the microscope what innitesimali Hahne.
| is only fair, whether 1t be solid or hollow.
They were in terrible want Of O coroner in
Jackson, Miss weeks ago, but not one was TO DC
found. justice OF tho peace would have answered.
but this article equally There the body
OF a eoored man who had died suddenly on the train
waiting in depot 10 be viewed but the quest for -
orowner" only revealed the fact that all the officials
engaged in the wild hunt after Office which has
taken possession Of six out Of every ten men OF the
Radical persuasion In the city, 80 the coored
| buried ignomniously without being sot on oy
any body.
| The farmers of Florida have recently been
trying o highly recommended Caterpillar Poison IL
seems to be highly effective article. 1t not only ks
the caterpars but the who eat grass or cotton In
tho field where 1t applied 1t acts with the
same fatal efficacy upon mules Moreover " the chick
Of the after their decease there Is death
oyrdoes the matter and it we're possible for deceased
caerpilars TO smile sarcastoay, every Que OF then
would be upon the broad grim Tor verify they have
| their revenge.
The happiest old lady we ever heard OF re-
sides in Mansfield, Conn. She is nearly 100 years old
Some old ladies are remarkable for this and some for
that some for entirely sets Of teeth some for do
ing the family washing when past 30; some for walking
washing But the happy popularity OF the old lady
Connecticut is that she "never heard band OF music
In her life" Happy and venerable daniel III she had
been compelled to listen some OF our street brass
banders who about seeking whom they may driyetc
suicide. she misht nave ooon deau anu oueu ANU "N'
long ago.
Imagine four lions at large in our city or any
other cityl We do literary lions yet polt
ical lions the real quadrupeds with names, tails,
teeth and At place named Hal, near BRUSSELS,
the other day. such troublesome qusrtette was roam
ing having broken out OF menagerie. or course Il
was necessary to call out the militaryat any rate il
was soothing thing do though three Of the royal
beasts disracefuy permitted themselves TO be recap
tured without scratching scratch biting bite But
No WAS game and occasioned great deal OF trouble,
though he was finally persuaded 20 COME H. platoon
OF virgins should have been sent out against the.
| The last chicken of the series has been