New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-16
GENERAL NOTES.

A mandatory of silk thread is to be estab-
lished at Springfield, Mass.
Wvandotte is said to be such a busy place
that people date their letters ~
The United States imported 2O,OOO,OOO clay
pipes mostly from Glasgow, last year.
Chicago at the end of the year VIII nave
10 900 more houses than at the beginning
Copper mines said to be valuable nave peeh
discovered in Randolph County. Alabama
There is dilatory couple in Tennessee that
has been engaged" for twenty-five years.
II is stated that NJ. HoyOke Seminary has
furnished 1 Is wives FOR foreign missionaries.
A California butcher has found an Indian
arrow head well mledded in the liver OF an OK.
They have Rev. Mr.. Hammer in Georgia,
and when he breaches ne hits the nail ON the head every
time.
Several Atlantic cities are trying to put down
the adding harpng. and begging nuisance Ihey can't
The Dalmatians in San Francisco are raising
money 10 send to the relief of the IIerzegovnian sur
ferers.
Some plants, according to a recent writer,
have awkward and suIlen ways. Dead BEATS for IN
stance.
The Ames Plow Company, EastOn, Mass,
which in good times employs $50 mon. has only at
work.
1t is said that in each of the 40 tobacco
factories of Richmond are organized bands of colored
Voc9iss.
A man in Dubuque, upon opening pack
age Of smoking tobacco found therein, snugly nested,
six young mice.
A sweet potato plantation OF 700 acres near
Atlanta Ga. is expected yield lhs year 10000 bushels
of that vegetable
In Swanton, Garnet County. Va, Charles Fai-
zall II years &c. while flooding sheep, was hit in the
stomach 10y .,n old ram, and Killed
An indianapolis dog has the fever and ague
the chiils promptly at 10 a. m-and syera! d. DIS are
watching the with good deal OF interest.
That must have been funny as well as
bibulous Old man WHO said " he couldn't drink water
| because it tastes 50 OF sinners since thc HoOd
A goose in Dalton, Ca, has laid petriiied
egg Let il sent to the man IN Orleans who has
lust opened large factory for ari!1cial h;!'chihS'
Eusebius Slaton of Fayctte Co., Ga, de
scrbed rs AMI vigorous old man. has 30 children
by Mn slaOn the st and II by the present Ineum-
| bent
4 rusty needle has been extracted from the
!yea of girl years Old in Reading. Penn. II was The
oniSon OF trc surgeon that must have been swallowed
| several years ago.
| In Mower County, Mimi, an imprTdent dog
went to sleep under tu'nhn srod OF tlraslng ma
chine end was caught by the tail and wound mp ~ the
! tail gave way and came out
A number OF coon hunters in StoctbIidge,
Mass recently watched tree through The long and
wgaI hour Of te nG a Of 91 n If If n pa IN '
II is asserted by The Alton telegraph that in
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"Tbc DELAY in issunc our rape~ this week owing TO all
| hands heinz down with the chills ana fever"
caldron of boiling soap exploded at
Macob st. Lawrence County. the other day the grease,
I've and fragments OF the calOn being thrown in every
direction. while a boy who was making the soap vas
badly scalded
| In Minnesota Mrs. Frank Perry, who had
taken by mistake teaspoonfu of solution OF arsenic,
was saved by the presence Of mind Of her neghllr Mrs
Newton. who promptly administered large dose oi
ground mustard.
During the war Of the Rebellion the Provi-
dence Light Infantry Company furnished to the Union
general colonies. 7 observation-disclosures. - majors
| quartermasters, % captains. aud 80 lieutenant
| A woman applied lately at the Milwaukee
Police sation for permission to keep do for short
time without license the object being to iaien The
animal preparatory 10 eating him Her husband vas
! cnnslmptvo and dOEmeat had been recommended 10
! him = medicinal article or di't
Dickens. in his " American Notes. published
| thirty years ago. Described prisoner in the Eastern
Pcntcutiay at Philadelphia, " hose solitary confinement
hc great novelist lamcntcd. This pcrson, Charles Land
hcnrr s lives, at the agt Of 70. lie has just been
sent back his old quarters for he sixth time, Tor me
orrsr Of ste lng-a passion which has kept hm III jail
/ for more than half OF his HE.
An apothecary i'll Burlington, Iowa, killed
child the other day-for ~ drams of cblora hydra'e
! put.ing up 81 grains OF morphine into ll2 drains of
potassa bromdr and a little srup and cinnamon water
The directions were teaspOlnful every two bous."
/ one dose administered, and OF course AZ proved
I
,norpne lar mad by mistake got into the place Of tle
vessel containing the ohiora-"bioh Il worse ihah ny
! excuse at all
case in Lincoln, Ont, illustrates the la
bl:ty of courts and iures 70 cruel mistake. fow
months since Matthias KOnkie was found guilty OF fclo
nous assault upon female child ten years of He
was convicted and sentenced To be hanged but the SEN
fence was afterwarG committed 10 mp sonment for life
II now appears there conspiracy to get rid OF
! Koullc in which his steplgothcr was the principal
] Ia ,ltf of
she took into her confidence the grandmother Of the little
grI and a srryant-naid. These together arranged the
pot against kOnkie the chd being rutay naltIcatcn
| Ia furnish evidence AGAINST innocent man. Al the
trial Mrs konklc posted all the witnesses for the
! G@vornunnf she with her fellow con -pirttors. have
been arrested, aud the convict Will he brought from
prison to testify against them The little girl has turned
queens evidence and her statements. which are very
doubt OF malls idnt pot 10 pun trouDlt
some heir out Of the way.
There Is nothing more difficult in this world
of difficulty than TO pcrseycre against adverse fortune
We suppose that the gold mines have thousand stories
Of the lottery OF lodchere is which we find in
the correspondence OF The Kansas Cy Hes About two
wears AGO two young men had between them about $iOO
- the savings of long spell OF work" They were
offered half interest in gold mine at Central City,
COLI If they would sins II 80 feet deeper. Upon each
side re the Veto" and other paying odcs blt these
had good roads the mills and furnaces OF wealthy
COMPANIES Moreover, the mine was dNhcuit OF access
| for q considrtalle distance: then 10 pack IL
upon mules and thus by The time II reached The mills
the gold in 1t would not pay expenses IN" young work
er- when they had all their ready money became
discouraged and abandoned the contract This year two
new Spectators came aud undertook t. 20 on wth the
work upon The same terms They adnpt SUNK more tha
two fe ~ this abandoned claim when they struck ore
worth ~ 900 prr ton The feelings NJ their unfortunate
! predecessors can De Imagined.
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