New-York tribune., 1874-06-01
GENERAL NOTES.

100000 gallons
The experiment of planting cotton is to be
tried at Couss. Cal.
The Blockley Alms-hOuse, in Philadelphia,
| ia said to contain population OF sss.
"Crusade Cordial is the name Of Sum
mer drink Just introduced at the West.
Richland County, Illinois, has no courthouse,
having sold the old Temple Of Justice for Co.,
Fifty thousand pounds Of sugar from 900
trees have been made by Mr.. SsytOn OF Stowe, VI.
Reading, Penn, is divided into Cotton
town." "Irishtown," Frog Hollow" and "Heitown."
housewife in Providence. X. l., mourns tho
theft a washub which had been In her possession for
l6 years.
An advertisement in Nashville newspaper
calls for Christian who understands how 10
"A boiler"
The number of geese on Lake Champlain
this Spring is said to be uncommonly large. Bridal
partiesi
An Iowa clergyman, after a recent donation
party found that he had beans enough to last him for 81
years.
Miss Maria Lovejoy (suggestive name y is-
now prosecuting fourth breach Of promise s1t in
Wisconsin.
A copper mine has been discovered in Ran
doph County. Ala tho Of which said TO be worth
500 per ton.
A Kentucky lady has compromised breach
OF promise suit damages laid at 10000 by accepting V
and chignon.
A dentist in Kentucky adyertises TO extract
teeth without pain to the OPERATOR aud with very little
to the bystanders."
Seventy-six children have experienced re-
liqion in Quincy, ILL.,, under the ministrations OF tho
Rev. Mr.. Hammond.
The Female Sexton in Chicago, already men,
toned, Is now charged with "reseryng all the best
graves for the young men,
The dusty condition of the Portland streets
ia spoken Of as one OF for the noneuforce
ment OF the Pr0hbitory law.
The taller in Chicago the other day treated
all his prisoners TO drive. He took them In wagons
from the Old jail to the new one
Louisville, Ga, had weather sensation tho
other day I'm three-inch snowfall, with thunder and
lightning, the sun ali the tine SHINING
The Grangers of Clark Co.. Ind, nave char
tered bank and viii have II opened for business,
lending money to farmers at per cent.
Brooks and Baxter belong to the same Metho-
dist church in Little Rock Their united experiences
would make cass-neeting interesting
1t is rather odd that Waterproof, Tansas
Parish should OF the localities Suffering
most severely from the louisiana overflow.
A Wisconsin woman who recently buried her
eighth husband has received an offer Of 500 to move into
some other State She stands out FOR $1,000.
There is q patient in the Maine Insane Asy-
lum who refuses TO drink any liquid, aud W
an odd coincidence her name 10 Drnkwater
Four children recently playing with matches
in NOW at Freetown Mass. set fire TO tue hay,
and two of the little ones were burned To Death
They announce hotel arrivals in this sort Of
way In the St. Louis newspapers The Hon. j. A. Bry-
ant Of Chicago, at BarnumS-to get square meal "
A gentleman who bought piece of land on
the outskirts of Providence, r. l., about 80 years ago,
for $780, has lately $4,000 tor the same property
A little black girl near Auburn, Ala, whie
lately sleeping in doorway was covered by myrlads OF
ants The bites produced fever, OF which sue died N
as hours.
| A teacher in Audubon County Iowa, while
focging pupil 50 severely bitten BY the LAD has
| necessary
A hairless horse and hairy one will walk d
match at Francisco. Both animals are lively step
pers and the difficulty will be to keep them down to
| walk.
A large lot of whalebone and 81 barrels OF
otl passed through Newbern n c., recently, the pro-
duct Of o whale captured the coast few days pre-
vous.
man in Cambria, Penn, has invented n
mill to be run 10y which he expects TO do as
much work as a mill moved by a forty horsepower
steam engine.
| Whitehall, H., is troubled by wolves, and
three pubcs prited citizens have offered go for each
wolf caught or killed within six miles Of the town during
| the next thirty days.
The latest mentioned smart old lady is
Mrs spcer of Upton, Iowa Having empoyeda a mason
repair her chimney she carried up the hod Tor hn'
| although 7S years old
Blind DAM a beggar well known in Lous-
ville Ky for the last ls years. died lately and left an
estate valued 5000 He owned two cottages, which
rented for $40 per month.
A Mrs. Rogers of Greensboro, VI, has set
of chairs which purchased in Scotland l5 years
ago. and have down the family to the sixth gen.
| Grafton, which Is now sitting on them.
The Dutch inhabitants of Chicago, on the
10Th ns celebrated the 25h anniversary Of the reign
Of the King the Netherlands The festival j. called;
"P.entwIntigarg Kroninseest"
A set of jovial young men having dined
bndfold the waiter the first he caught TO the bill.
Queery enough, he has Mt caught any OF them YET.
The oldest organ in the country still in use
| is In Portland Me. IL imported for Kings Chapel
in Boston in 1918. In 1874 il went a church in New
bury port Mass and thence 10 ST. Johns Cu che Port
and where at the Of l6l years. IL still does good
| service.
1t is very sad when the pastor Of
Christian church ft TO indul-c In burglary Tho
Rev. Madison Lewis (cooreD is or was tn shepherd oi
q sable flock in Bayou Barrataria, Alglers Ia.
Somebody night went through th" grocery Of Mrs
Patterson as well as her dwelling house. tn very next
Sunday the Rev. Madison Lewis. after preaching most
powerful DISCOURSE 10 the congregation thaa
he had bought lot OF goods very cheap New
Orleans which he would sell at low figure FOR the ben
eft OF the church. The brethren did not exhaust hs
stock aud the Rev. Madison started on trading oN
pedltion up through the swamps aud pr,illes AIasi
the police were o the track Of the preacher and
up with him Just he had disposed or three pieces oI
calico TO a coored sister He managed to get away at
that tmc but venturng hOme he consigned to the
caiaboose with several members OF Ills nooh, VINO arc
supposed to have known well enough wnere the soois
came from. A. a natural result OF this p 'neansnUn
Bayou is in ruins, and The preaching o tue Rev Mads"h
| Lewis suspended for au indefinite period.