New-York tribune., 1876-08-05
GENERAL NOTES.

Sixty-three infants reported for duty at
Battle Creek, ud., baby parry.
In the 2G recorded divisions of the National
Grange OF the Patrons OF HusbGdry tho married women
voted their husbands eleven times ont o' twelve
A San Francisco paper is pleasant reading
while Is enjoying postprandial cigar Here IS a
paragraph: a Chinaman died Of smallpox while
lying heap of 0baccO that was aites"ard used ia
making cigars
The hull of the old steamer Philo Parsons,
which was captured by Confederate officers Ou Laso
Erie during the war with view to tho release Of tho
the bottom of OglcBs canal Chicago.
The new shell in which the Yale four in
tended TO row in tie Philadelphia regatta is too small
for the heavy crew and Will have be abandoned Yalo
will part, atc IN AL the contests on the Schuy
Kill except tie p,ir-0nre race. Julian Kennedy wl pun
in the s.c-scUll races at saratoga and Philadelphia.
The Virginia City saloon-keepers have dis
cussed the silver question sober earnest aad after an
exceedingly dry debate mot of them ringing tie
bell" during the evening" have decided TO take trade
dollars their counters AT s1la eonta Experience
has taught them that it cheaper 10 give man dTik
than to had BACK tho rhtnga for tHe Toar, o%I % VI
discounted the nnrlcr trdcs OF western character ana
yut a heavy pre- upon mcanncss. Ihc liberal cas-.
ioncr would tnrow down five dollar g1d piece fog ns
whisky and .ct the worst Oi the exchange IN tfade
Gc!ia.s ana s,nail change. Tie mean customer would
cell gold for trade dUars le.ore coins to tho place OF
spirits.
The tide of immigration toward the United
States has flowed continuously during the last haf
century that eIcans slow TO realize that has
suddenly ebbed. The SG, Francisco Post for instance
urges that State agencies should DC organized. aud
scheme brolchcd FOR the promotion OF Immigration and
the location OF srtlcrS upon the waste lands lmnisra
words California Not II Is idle 90 whistle FOR im
migrants inst NOW. Tie state has urs,ut wogl; IN
hand II saOud teach is farmers nor TO bleed the SOL 20
dcath by raising gain year aIier year. anG should en-
courage manufacturing and Industrial pursuits III CITY
and town.
A new railroad pool ha. been formed in Gin
cnnau. President Iusais oi the Indianapolis, Cincin-
natl and Iafay Railroad; President Short of the
Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railroad; General
superintendent Waldroa Of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad, and rcprScniatiye oi tie Vardd'a route.
held secret consultation On Wednesday 10 agree upon
basis for equitable division ol The passenger ana
freight earnings of the roads vlrCSrntc and trlg ecu
ncctlos The schtmr coutcu latcs the avoldihfc o!
cutting rates FOR freight aud passengers, The DIVISION oi
| expenses to the minimum figure.
The Pitsbwgh Commercial has the latest
news about the big railroad depot in Chicago: "Cheaso
is presently to have a gigantic union depot The grand
central building OF The Centennial Exposition, when
composed son and neayy glass put together IN sec
tons so that can be Tcad! taken down without break
ing or IN any way ipiarns the strength and beauty ot
the structure. has just been purchased by Col Thomas
| Scott ", wll, immediately IN the brahins np 81 .i9
Exposiiion transfer II m srmcnts 20 ChiragD and IW
together again III that city. The accomiiSlEI I Ol lts
p0j ct viii be tac greatest advance in railroad interests
tnat las aScn place III Chicago Tor year, no shSc w
/ pr0Vcment beginning to compare With Il"
The IntlatonSt of the future has been
/ discovered. lie is the editor Of Ihe Canon CHy
| Araionche lcquacious agent with Grcoan nose
long hair and diamond PIN called at the oGce wifh
patent fastener by which clotheslinc would be sci III
order IN two minutes instead of twelve. This saves
YOU" said the agent, :" ten minutes every week. u'e
hurdred and twenty minutes every year. and just
eighteen days in fifty years At three dollars day you
have hfty-iour dollars that this fastener Is 3ctnay
worth 10 any who expects t0 live his time out anu
only charge you four dollars leaving you nlti Goass
| clear gain" This mathematical demonstration tdtheu
the scale The editor decided TO purchase the cotheS
line fastener just consider that one ias,onc nc Ia M
marked 10 the agent "Its rth iltyfour dollars, 10
continued blandy "but seeing iEs yoil take lt aos
| for forty. We owe You four dollars and that leaves
thirty-six coming us. II you haven't go. the money
with you you send IL by draft or postohce orge,,
or nav Ia circs tic eswc are not going 10 DC bu v
| yon3 The peldlcr somewhat dazcd. it was mo
germ of new financial policy Let the Goysnesy r
Gure the bondhoders To ray at once INTO INC ic.sa
What it will itself owe them fty years hence eIsw
| tickets being legal tender.