New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-20
GENERAL NOTES.


year nine named Johnson.
An Atlanta firm has named its most pop
uar brand Of whisky after female crusader
He handled his gun careessly, and put on
his angel plumage" is the latest Western obituary notice.
Bernvie, Penn, boasts of four landlords
weighing total of pounds; the heaviest 327 pounds.
One hundred and forty-six persons of color
to be baptized in Danve. Va, on the coming sun
day.
William Bush of Valparaiso, Ind, has tried
to hang himself II Bush. you see is easily
cut down.
Thomasvile, Ca, rather than not have
hotel has exempted the gentlemanly landlord from
In Middlebury, VT, q little boy, while play
ing with father put that fathers By scratch
Ing 1t with hnger-nall
Singularly enough the legislator in Illinois
refused receive for "a days during which
lie absent is named Green
A crowd witnessing row in Detroit was
dispersed by the that collection would
now be taken up for a poor widow"
A Boston hotel uses hydraulic power, which
is furnished from the simple highservee pressure OK
the Chestnut Hill Reservoir 10 move lts elevators
Contents of rats nest lately discovered in
Augusta Me-: silver spoons. silver fork 10 cotton
stockings, peck Of butternuts rat OF the upper
Teni
The best thing the ever green Mrs. Malaprop
has lately that she doesn't want 70 vote be-
couldn't bear the shock of the electrical fran
| chse."
Oakland Cal, complains of SO wet days
| during the present rainy season. man there may
have chance of wearing out bis umbrella before IL
| 10 stolen.
The Republicans of Rockland, Me-, mourn
the sudden departure Of agent who had received 400
to buy WITH He not only carried. of the money
An uncommonly smart boy in New-Sweden,
Me- though only years old, has this Winter cut down
trees and sawed and split the rift for 1900 Shingles
| and then punched them.
Suicide was committed in an extraordinary
way by n young at Paris Bear Lake Valley. Utah,
lately. He deliberately drove nail into his head, and
! died in a few hours after.
Married, in Columbia Falls, Me-, on the Goth
ult Jonathan Dow esq, 50 years TO Mrs Mary Tab
| butts. age 70. The ceremony performed by the
| brldegroOms son, age 81 years
For playing on jewsharp in church during
divine service IN ew-Britain Conn, william Ratbburn
has been fncd $40, notwithstanding he defended bis
solos by quotations IRON the Bible.
In The Oregon Museum there is scalp on
exhibition for the purpose of enabling the friends of
deceased soldier who was killed during the late conflict
with the MOdocs, to identify hun.
A Mr.. White of Chicago claims to have in
vented a steam-engine which dspenses With steam
chest cover studs, stungboxes, glaudyalyes, valve
yoke steamcock, and bolts; and Is To cost less
by One-third than an ordinary engine.
The Jail in Alfred, Me-, is said to be kept
upon the most liberal principles The prisoners m
GLIDING one mansayer, are allowed 10 roam about the
village the great terror OF the citizens
A regularly arranged dog fight was broken
up recently Sioux City by Newfoundander. He
rushed into the ring and separated his combatiye
brothers by persuasiyely chewing their ears
Those small farmers in Iowa whose houses
were destroyed last by prairie fire and whose
crops ravaged by grasshoppers are said TO be IN
urgent want Of garden seeds, oats, aud seed wheat
The inhationists of Cleveland are manufac-
turing five cent nckels from pewter and increasing
cha NJ the horse which
the boxes to the amount OF So aud s. day
John Spinks barber, of Council Bluff, whose
shirt, saturated with blood, found concealed in
shed near his residence has heard from by his
creditors lie Is In Nevada, aud not IN the other place.
The Rev. William Hoppe of Lancaster,
Penu has sued Joseph Dyer for SANDER. As the words
were spoken under oath in court of Justice. we are
inclined TO think that Mr.. Hoppe has mistaken his
remedy.
A new dodge of dead beats at the West is
to quarter themselves on farm for week under
pretense buying il. Then they leave for the purpose
of getting the purchase money ana never come Daek
any more.
The most thoroughly burned-out- of house.
and.home man In the United States is Charles Williams
OF Portland Ne. Seven times during the past year has
his residence been consumed He now proposes 10 build
a raft and live on a pond
The lady who has been married eight times,
has eight living husbands, and resides with more Of
Them and whose daughter aged % has had three
husbands-his lady the ornament and glory OF Doug
las County, Oregon.
At Glasgow, KY, is Edward Chambers, aged
80 months and Weighing lls pounds The very calf OF
his leg s Is inches IN circumference He has most
pensye appetite aud his parents being poor, are much
bothered 10 keep up ms r@tons.
A squad of young men thought it excellent
fun, in Money Greek, H., to "ehariyar" newly mar
ried couple the views OF the performers changed
the next morning when the judge requested each Of
them 10 pass over $40 or 90 to jail.
An itinerant minstrel was arrested in
Missouri and fined, for small theft q and He
had money, and the charitable Judge adjourned the
for half an hour, the minstrel a show, and
the Court thus took the fine out In music.
A country lad, IL years old, lately visited
Dubuque, bringing with him the scaps Of nine timber
woves-a mother aud eight young ones-a slain b. his
juvenile but potent hand He received $i5 bounty from
the county, and went home rich and happy.
There is a negro in Detroit who pretends to
know where the British buried large Of gold In
sss He gets treated TO whisky and boarded by enter
prsng persons the strength Of his secret
he has failed TO designate the much desired spot.
The Board of Education of st. Paul has
engaged certain .Pref. flaming to teach etiquette
in the public school whereupon School Boy" sug-
gests In The Pioneer that somebody should he employed
TO teach the same mystery 10 the Board OF Education.
Here is one OF those things we read about
but very seldom sau Francisco newspaper tells
board and successfully battle shark nearly
hour, aud then rescued BY boats from the
ship
number of nervous invalid ladies in CO.
lumbus Ohio recently published card complaining Of
the excessive toling OF church bells on sundays ana
during the week This had the effect OF stopping the
tolhng Of bells altogether, except " cali ineeung
twice on the Sabbath.
There is one theatrical company at least
which ia ,yery economical OF It's literary material The
RoLefoh Sentinel says: Buffalo Bill played ka Carson
ast night being precisely the same thing as the Buato
was where BIZ raIo BM occurred" MLv Gays We