New-York tribune., 1875-10-13
GENERAL NOTES.

State Prison for IL years There Is no woman prisoner
Two hundred Mormons have established An
| Ebenezer in London ont, and are much "ouDoa ny
mObs Of dsOrderly. unDeuoyes'
| "A Magic Doctor named Hawkins has been
arrested at Atlanta Ca for swindling coJred people,
and he was put into the chain gang.
The irrepressible Thomas DOncr OF South
Bend Ind, having had his arms frozen OH whe on .
! spree, has written a book with bis toes.
A field Of 60,00O acres is the property OF
gentleman In Nueces County. Toxas, and hc recently
| filled an order by telegraph for 26,o0o beeves.
Mention il made in a far-Wcsten newspa-
Dar OF an Indian maiden who army pantnoOns,
uses tobacco, and goes by the name Of Falling Water
There are sandbast works at West Rut-
! land w. which tun out 800 headsoncs day. most
| OF which are for soldiers graves
Two children have been poisoned at Youngs-
town Ohio by eating fungus growth which they found
on stumps-Onc OF the poor things fatally
The water is so low in some of the Western
rivers that tho catfish have 10 stand tner heads TO
breathe
The oldest man in New-England is John
Bullock of Bristol r. L. aged CYL years Ne he'd Gen.
Nashngtons during Of his visits to the state
Three bears in one week were slaughtered
County, Wiz.
A gentleman named Fleece (not Golden
Fleece Is writing articles in favor OF soft money In a
Memphis newspaper.
Joseph Hay of Troy, for acting the part of
an intimidation by waving unlOadcd horsepisto at his
foe. has been fined -.
A very good two-story wooden house, with
the oubudmgs sold at Charleston, D. C., the other
day for Sli5.
The first child born in Steubcn County, N.
y is sti living but he 10 little too old to be whipped
and sent 10 bod by his mamma
For tho best bread to he made and baked
by bachelor Canadian agricultural society has offered
prize.
The most sensible fremen's parade we have
at nj cleared
$50 FOR the two cOmpanis
Margaret Clark Of SIT. Glare, Penn. age Il,
recently walked from Steamboat Station tcn niles to
her home.
II was n singular coincidence, that while Mr.
Mathis Of Missouri milking his she should fall
dead, and he equally dead few minutes aitgr,
They say that while the food was at its
hight Galveston Texas, the fare for trip across the
street on a mans shoulders g. Cab fare for four
Touching conclusion of an obituary notice in
an Indiana newspaper " He elder in the Metho-
dist Church aud the leader of the brass band in the vii
lago."
At Pckin ILL.,, Henry Becker, a young man,
was riding in a wagon with loaded gun between his
knees II was accidentally discharged, blowing of the
top of Bccfers head
An immense ledge of isnqass has been
found in the mountains near Snake RIVER Idaho II i.
feet widc an one OF the most valuable discoveries OK
the kind over made
The statement that p. G. Armijo Of New
Mexico owns 100000 sheep, ranging over region 800
miles square, IS pronounced by The Portland 0'egonian
to be I" ridiculous"
One hundred and thirty negroes from tho
Ia destined act walters in the new Palace Hotel
in san Francisco passed through Gold Hi Nevada, the
other day
The Managing Director of the London and
Kansas Land and Colonization Association has just
bought Al square miles OF land ON the west end OF me
Kansas Pacific Railroad.
The mammoth hotel 10 be built at st. Louis
By Boston capitalists will be II stories 800 feet square,
ITO feet high; and VIII contain 1000 rooms, accomno
dating $500 lodscrs.
Note received By San Francisco editor
"sir You reported heading a certain procession
on Monday evening Rctrct the malicious lie or prepare
yourself for hrstcass cOWlhdlng. "AsON'
A cIab-apple tree in Westlcld, VT, has BIOS
somed four times during the past season. and now Las
four sets of apples on or IN prospect the oc - nearly
ting aud tie fourth in blossom.
In New Haven, after the casket containing
the remains of little Child hid been taken from one lot
10 another and reinforced there blackandian terrier
lay down BY the grave, and would not be driven away
either by cOdXin9 or menaces
A missionary in Siam for 30 years, the Rev.
John H. Chandler, viii next Spring visit Canterbury,
Conn., where he formerly settled, and will also
attend the Centennial EyiDon a5 the ColnnisslOner on
the KING OF siam.
An extremely well educated bird, species
Of canary OF a dark motcd color, Is exhibited by san
Francisco Chinaman. Al the word OF command Il se
pcs out OF series OF envelopes those containing cards
which the day of tue month and The hour cf day.
rarely, IL ever making mistake
1t i, said that if YOU keep anything what
ever long enough you vii at las; find or and
there arc those who experience pleasure in preserving
odds and euds of no vaue pleasure which payment
In itself. Commonplace books sometimes mournfu
monuments Of misdicected industry and persistence
but sadder still is the Of the old woman in Brd
mort Penn For 10 years she has been collecting medical
pifkesn n
1000 OF them prescriptions for every complaint which
flesh bone inheits. Possibly the handling OF so many
formulas may have exercised occult but beneficial
influence upon the health OF this ancient dame but ~
any rtc sine has sick day in her life She il
naturally growing Little discouraged but does she lind
no relief IN d0ctorng her fclUw-c cauIys II sAe
doesn't she must be n rema: kijle old woman.
Extraordinary story in Omaha of n "spir-
tuallstc shoemaker" this Is He petcnds to bo a
dum cirvoyant, whatever the proper name s OF
the wonderful sort Recently while engaged in tho
convyiates of lager beer saloon be went into trance
and observed that some stealing new pair of
boots from his shop" Just at this moment messenger
came and told him that man had gone into his place,
stolen boots and fallen down in fit on the side
walk "All right" slid the necrOmancer; "he
can't come out OF that hl thl ! get thore.'
his hand and then went 10 about matters.
Oyor the pOstrate aud cOnNused petty larcen.st no
made certain passes and uttered slndry mystical formu
las, VIXEN the thf stood erect gave up the boots, re-
ceived kick and departed
Garrard County, Ky, must be the most
octogenarian locaAy the Onion. Rachel Garnett lives
there aged l0i yearsa woman who remembers 10 have
seen Gen. Washington in full regiment:is. There
two others-J0hn CToucher and Aunt Polly Ponteg-Sho
have reached 100 years each. Then there is the Rev.
KCmpcr, 50. who has been minister OF the
tat Church for 90 But we haven't for aI
thc seuc instances We must content ourselves with
stating that IN this remarkable county there are 80
soLS whose united ages amount 10 3OGl Ycarsan aver
age OF - years and fraction over. Hube Holman.
aged 81 cars deserves to be particularly mentioned 80
being still capable OF cutting his cord OF wood day.
More remarkable still IL John T. AvcsOn, whose young
child ia about six weeks old; and inay. there s