New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-27
GENERAL NOTES.

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duced into California.
Something which they call a starch mine
has been discovered in Colorado.
A wildcat weighing 40 pounds has been cap
turcd in the vicinity OF Troy, Kan.
The State of Nevada, with population OF
$1,000 has 900 places licensed to retail strong drink.
Sioux City has man named Muchwrath;
but he IL said be very goodnatured sort OF person
The largest farmer in California has just
sold his wheat crop for 100000 His name Is Dr. Glenn
c.. l.. Ward of Towanda, Penn, has given
Iesel p'''''' "''"'' ''
A Providence, X. l., firm has completed
rifle for King Kaakaua, richly mounted, ana costing
A baby in Milwaukee has been chriStened
"z,ro" of the cold Sunday upon which no was
born.
A couple short of money, gave clergyman
In Cedar springs dog and accordion for marrying
Total number of hogs packed in the West
from Nov to March l. 5,O5OOo. against 5,4io2Oo last
season.
There IS a Secret Society of BARRIERS in
Cleveland and the password is conjectured to be
Since March 81, 1873, the County Treasurer
OF Lycomue Penn paid $500 for sheep destroyed
by dogs.
CovingtOn, Ca, has a negro man over 100
years old. but he Is gradually Killing hmseH Dy ehe"-
Ing tobacco
At Grand Rapids, Mich. man suddenly fell
dead burial service just as the coffin was lowered
into the grave.
1t is stated that Western editor drives off
beggars by Offering them so cents an hour to read orig
! nal p0etical contributions
A traveller, putting up his horse in New
Albany Ind. Disguised the stable keeper by ordering
| " one cents worth OF hay"
| Elgin, Ind has been sued by a citizen who
declares that his health has been injured by leakage OF
gas from the street m.ins
A pupil in public school in Kritztown,
PENN drew revolver of the teachers, and fired
Tue ball lodged In the wall
James Mair, of Lake Shctck. Mimi, drank
half vial Of corrosive subimae. supposlHg IL to DO
alcohol, and died a terrible death.
Luny Thayer has been a justice of the
peace Parish Futon County. for over 80 years, and
has never had decision reversed.
An Illinois Granger is about to lease $500
acres OF land in Monroe County, Miss. upon which 50
Illinois families are expected To settle.
A Mrs. Perry, who gave the tallest kind of
spirit manifestations in Chicago, has been found out in
her dark ways and tricks that are vain
William Badger, station agent at Bedford,
Mass, has common glass chimney for tue lamp which
has been IN daily use since Nov II, 1868.
DR.. Pratt of Elgin, Ill., has started the first
artificial ash-pond in the State His grounds so
acres, and there are 30 ponds well stocked
There is said to be a woman in Williams
bureh with an artificial jaw. 1t Isn't so bad as 1t might
be, for sometimes she takes 1t out and rests It.
Van Pelt, who was one of the guns of the
crusade movement In Ohio has lately been sent TO jail
for disturbing re- igous meeting while intoxicated.
The temperance folk are making a great
effort to prohbltory law IN Canada; and
petition from New Brunswick bore 1900 signatures.
At Sioux City, Iowa, and at the Depot
Hotel. certain focsome girls PLAYED rather cold joke
upon q young by tihug his pow-sp with snow.
Mrs. O'Brien of Lowell, Mass, falling out
with her neighbor built fence 90 feet high TO keep him
ont OF sight, and then added insult to I'M lry by paint
ing 1t black.
AZ the Atlas Works, Pittsburgh, Penn, they
are making the largest shears constructed ia this
country They viii weigh 40 toms and Will shear cold
iron five Inches thick.
Cambria City, Penn, has genuine Polish
count who when receives the s9o,O0O due him from
somebody in bis native land. will at once invest " 80 IN
the purchase OF "a clean shirt
1t was a careful housewife in Altoona, Penn,
who nut an s and greenhack into the drawer
the coiienll for safe Keeping 80 the next morning
the family enjoyed SIS cup OF coffee
A man in Wyoming, Ohio, upon opening his
chcken-house lately In the morning, missed two blrds
but then hand he found TWO fingers IN the
trap. They haven been called for.
A woman bearing the remarkable name of
Mrs Milton Short has been soliciting subscriptions for
the Kansas sufferers aud IL denounced Ia North.
East Missouri female fraud and bwooVOlced in-
pOstor.
it was q young lady of Peoria who, over
hearing her two lovers qiarreing about her, seized
each by the hair sud slDOto their heads together
that the reverberOn caused rum0r that the loo hsa
broken W W the river.