New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-29
GENERAL NOTES.

A Miss Hanke of Allentown, Penn, has slx
grandmothcrs, all living
A man in Ohio hid for half day under
hog-pen rather than testify in n lawsuit.
A Minnesota woman slaughtered AZ bushels
of grasshoppers, and got III a busiiel for them.
Six children of one family lately died OF
diphtheria within three weeks in Poughkeepsie.
A child is reported killed IN Oswego ~ eating
lettuce upon which Paris green had been splinked
An Indiana infant lately coughed UP small
brass paddock but strangely failed to cough up the Key
During the second week of July 34,o2o leu
ters were mailed at the Saratoga PostObce,
The nurserymen of Ohio it is stated VIII
shin large quantities of fruit to the East this Fall
A Chinese young lady is an applicant for a
teachers place in Of tho public schools VI ean IRAN
cisco.
An English doctor has swindcd divers re7-
taurant keepers In Baltimore, married black Woh'h'
and bOltod.
A parrot in Dubuque recently set two dogs
70 fighting by his natural imitation OF the human " Sic
'em! sic emp
A rooster lately attacked a child IN Alabama
and so severely injured that 1t died after three days OF
great suffering.
II may be a comfort to somebody to know
that this said he very year for rateshaHoS
but good one for blackbeirles.
A Lodge of the Sons OF Malta has been
started Ivy All American in Japan and 1t is found to he
great fun TO .ntatc The natives
Solomon Wilson, aged CIV. years, is pauper
In the jackson County. Ind workhOuse, but not much
work do they get out of Solomon
There il a COW in CarrOlltOn, H., over ~
years old which gives six gallons Of milk per dlefn ana
which has not had calf for six years
In nest of robins found in Dartmouth,
Mass were three white birds and one OF cream color
The old birds "a the common TINT
Somebody has now discovered that marble
f.rs
absorbing tie heat and vitality OF the body.
In The Chicago Tribune there is curious
complaint of the great increase of smoke in the business
pat Of the city during tile last IL" years
Brigham Young receives Il blowing up from
The SAL Lake Tribune for sitting hroush the whole per-
fOinuncc It the OpeIa-hOuse with Ills nat on
Ira Hodges of Byron, n. Y, has lately
driven pair OF siSyearold ponies to light wagon all
the way from Kansas to this State in - days.
In Chicago those who buy old books to sell
Obliged by lay to pay or cerse, and to Keep
q record OF the names OF persons they buy nom.
We are asked to believe that cat in Pitts
burgl POM, has matched ont two chickens, and now
scratches Tor them like an old hen We decline.
1t was at Rome, n. n, that Mary Van
Delsen disciplined her husband by throwing red pepper
in his eyes for winch the justice ned her Slo ana cOsts
One negro shot another just after church, III
HUNTINGTON Tenn. The murderer escaped, but the
whole CATION started after him with the intention
OF lynchins him.
A branch of The Mormon Church, with a
newspaper called The Adreaf0er has been established
ut Cafksburg W. Va There are several members OF the
sect Ia ihr vicinity.
A gentleman in Kingston. n. Y, has cured
his len Of for matching Stones, clubs basins Of
water wcle IN vain but when tire-crachcrs exploded
under her, she concluded To come off.
When Rochester woman was caught with
her arms around the neck OF her landlord she told her
husband that she was trying 10 nersnado him to reduce
the rent. There's presence OF NINA!
Great improvements are going on in New
Zealand Maori chief deceased. to have placed over
his sepulcher an elegant marble obosk in tue most APP
proved cemetery ST. lc and costing slloO
At Atlanta, Ca, cOlOred NJ. ID. having
swudcd sick ncgrcss OF atty cents under prctense
OF buying medicine. tied up by the enraged freed
men ana received thirty nine Ia shes well laid on
Mrs Kemper. wife of Jasper Kemper, under
the hallucualOn that she had killed her enid by wrong
dose ot medicine, gave up eating for 4? days ard re-
fsing talk, dad at TIC expiration OF Tat period
Bishop Goss of Georgia wanting $4,000 TO
finish the Catholic Cathedral in savannah, the money
furnished by the members OF his oongrega,
ton, ana ne could have had as much more IL Ut la"
asked for 1t.
The boys of McDonouglfs school, in Balti-
more annually visit the grave OF that deceased million
alre and cover it with hOwers This IS in accordance
with Inc provisions OF John McDOnOughs WILL Inc GER
cmony was recently performed.
In Mount JOY, Ohio, young gentleman
payuy tire atoned cut OF the end of young ladys
nose wth pair OF scissors. Aud he did IL. too, by acct
dent The doctor put II on, and managed 10 make II
stiCk bat it viii ne1o. b. the same nose again.
They say that Chicago beats st. Louis at
least in one thing, for She delinquent taXis OF the
most formidable proportions. tweniyone times larger
than the like roll ia ST. Louis Tue newspapers OF the
former city proudly make daily mention OF the TACT.
There is IL youth in Pennsylya nia who ought
to have he prize champion wions spcller They gave
him irrecoucilabls' to wre-e with, and he wri.Ayd
foil. ne ttl
can sp. IL word correctly. but II requires genius ~ DC
thus lnlenl0usly ana ideally eIfoneo@s.
DIR. REM Of Cleveland, o., being Ill took an
oate and wle he sumbered bis hired man ran of with
the DOCTORS watc money, iowelJ ana cotning, leaving
him literally noihiHg Du aI lilts.l 80 Ia' ne %
forced 10 borrow suit OF clothes - enable iuI 10 90 10
inc police Office ami lodge an ii.iOihailon
4 newborn baby of ID. j. Shea, i'll Spring
field Mass weighed 20 pounds ounces; horizontal
circumference of the head inches perpendicular do,
IGat cAc, distance FROM shoulder to shoulder over me
chest 2Ula IN SNORT tn babe was 10 lafgc is all
ordinary child year old. Ii li'e aud nouiIshed
John I. Loop, Knox, I'D, challenges ali the
pciesiriaIs in county Tor walk from Cincinnati
New-York, indianapolis, for $1,000 SIDE each TO
carry Ills bed and bedding according to the Scrip
tlirAl Injunction SUPPOSED and neither 10 eat drink,
nor slrcp under a roof and carried any
water except tie Missouri River.
At "A mass meeting recently held in Dubuque,
10 make ARRANGEMENTS for celebrating the birthday al
Daniel ConneIl wax east OF his face exhibited II
was taken at Genoa two hours after his death, ana WAS
brought from Dublin to Dubuque by James Rowan IN,
head il large indicating great cerebral development, and
"A pleasing aud satisfied oppression rests GpOn the conn
tenance indicating remarkable bene' Olence and kind
Out West they have minister who has
actually just declined the degree OF Doctor Of Divinity
OF be from Chicago He refuses IT because
is useripinral being in conflict with the Divine com
Inaud not 10 be called Rabbi Masters :" because II
is unrepubcan, and tending to create an arisocracy
among the Clergy lie would be- willing even tD sec The
title Reverend abOlshe which la calls ne thn ehd OF
tie wedge, the thick end OF which is-POpe"
In Franklin, Ky, they brought John Somers
into the staon-house in lofty condition OF inebney