MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 719, 27 August 1870, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Indian near Fort Scott, Kansas, recently traded two mules fdi* a set of false teeth, and proudly wore them, necklace fashion. • New York claims to do about one-eighth of the entire soda water busiuess of the United States; The negroes of Florida propose to suppore one of their own race for Congress at the next election. George Francis Train's cottage at Kewport is near " Spouting Rock." Adjutant-General Head, of New Hampshire, has resigned. In Warren county (Pa.), there are three candidates for Sheriff, all named Brown. Henry Clay Dean ia running the free trade hobby in Missouri. The debt of Nevada county amounts to $71,699 50. „= . . The yield of wheat in Sonoma county will be two-thirds of an average. A young grizzly, weighing 500 pounds, was recently killed near Lake Tahoe. The mines of Holcomb Valley, San Bernardino 1 county,- are developing favorably. Property in the little town of Auburn, Placer county, has trebled in value within the past .18 months. A telegrato from Bakersville, Kern county, on the 14th ins.t, announced. that the thermometer stood 110 degrees in the shade. Bakersville is rightly na-'ned. Gen. Sherman will make a trip t6 California after Congress, adjourns, and Mrs Sherman will spend ihe summer at Oakland, in that state. Commodore Gleason is ordered to command the ' Pacific fleet,' and Rear Admiral Lee to command the North Atlantic fleet, and Commodore Hancock is assigned to the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Some years" ago, it is said, a man in lowa planted several maple trees for shade, designating one as a memorial tree for President Lincoln. All the others

grew the natural way, but the branches of the memorial tree grew drooping. Two Boston papers are accusing each other of stealing parts of one another's obituaries of Charles Dicken3. It appears that they both copied from the same book. New York is always a little ahead. They celebrated the centennial of the birth of Beethoven in June, though the great composer was born December 16 or 17, 17701 The Tribune's Washington special says the pending Chinese Labor bill in Congress is generally misunderstood. It does not interfere witli voluntary immigration, or with their making contracts themselves to labor anywhere, but simply alms to break up the custom of importing Chinese on three or four years' contract, and letting them out to the highest bidder by importers. G. F. Seitz, the defaulting tobacconist, has been traced to Toronto. He is supposed to have gone to Europe. His creditors expect to realise 40,000d0l from the sale (of his effects). The World's Havana correspondent writes that another American citizen, Joseph. Duaney, was seized by the Spanish authorities on the -sth instant and thrown into prison, and refused permission to communicate with anyone outside. He was on his way from Vera Cruz to New York and had touched at Havana by the merest" accident. This new outrage has reached the ears of the Consul, Gen. Biddle,.and possibly something will be done about it. Executions of Cubans convicted of disloyalty continue throughout the island. Two insurgent officers in Sogua were hunted down with bloodhounds and captured. One of them was badly bitten and mangled by the dogs, so that when he was executed he was unable to stand to receive the fatal bullet. It was rumored at Havana that Valmazeda had been taken and killed near Bayamb. Squire JNewbury to-day recovered from the city, 2,500d0l for jewelry destroyed hi his store by a mob during the July riots in 1863. " The great pressure of business has prevented the bill granting a subsidy to an Australian' line from being .reached by Congress before the departure of this month's mail. Parliamentary forms here are riot quite the same as in the colonies. Every bill introduced is placed on file, and all measures are called on in the order in which they are introduced. Last Saturday there were no less than 580 bills which had precedence of the Australian Steam Subsidy Bill. .The friends of the measure, seeing that there was danger of its going over as unfinished business to the next session, moved that the bill be called out of its order on Monday next. This was carried by 31 votes to 9. The bill is now safe, and will be law before the 15th of this month, on which day Congress adjourns. Fromthe Prescott (Arizona) Miner of June 4th, we summarise the following : — Sam T. Cullumber, of Kirkland Valley, in this county, has immortalised' himself by dispatching three devilish Apaches, one day recently. On the day in question, Sam, who is a young man, took down his new and reliable six-shooter, and started into the hills to prospect for game. He had not gone a great distance before he espied, hanging on. the limb of a tree, what appeared to be a quiver filled with arrows, such as our Indian friends are in the habit of letting fly at us. That quiver and those arrows hanging there led Sam to thinking, and he thought there must be Indians close by. He was correct, for, pretty soon, up popped a savage head from behind a tree. Sam let fly at, and spoiled its looks by making a small bullet-hole in it. . Three or four savage heads' were seen by him, and lest their "owners should accuse him of being impartial, he honored each one with a shot. The Indians had guns, too, but did not get time to use them, so quick was Sam with his sixteen-shooter. He returned to the valley, told his story, when a party accompanied him to the "hunting-ground," where, after a pretty dilligent search, one Indian was found, "dead as a nail." He was pretty confident of having killed or wounded two more savages who were, no doubt, packed off by their comrades.

A letter received from England within a few days, by a resident in San Francisco states that a company, to be known as the Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company, has been formed in London ; and that organisation proposes to run a line of firstclass steamers from Australia to San Francisco, thence connecting by railroad with Portland, Maine, a,nd by another line of steamers with Europe, making the entire trip in less than 40 days. The Company propose to put on their Atlantic line between Milford-Haven, W*les, and Portland, thence connecting with the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada, via Boston ard Albany and the New York Central Railroad. The Grand Trunk Railroad runs between the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls and Detroit. From Detroit, the passengers will reach Chicago by the Michigan Central, and. pass from there to Omaha by either of the three roads ; and from thence to San Francisco over the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads. The Great Western Railroad Company, of England, and the Grand Trunk Railroad Company, of Canada, are said to have contributed L 500,000 towards the capital stock of the Company, to further the interests of their lines of travel, and will, if such is the case, control its operations. The officers of the Company are as follows :— President, Lord Lowther ; Vice-President, Sir C. Clifford ; Directors, Sir C. Grey, Hon. J. G.Talbot, M.P. ; C. Reed, M.P. ; Hon. M. Meyrich, M.P. ; General Directors, Mr Basset, President of the Great Western Railroad, and V. Hall ; Agents, Holden Brothers, the wealthy shipping agents of London. The Company now awaits the action of Congress relative to the United States subsidy asked by Mr Webb. Should he obtain the subsidy, arrangements will be made whereby lie will Kave control of the Pacific traffic. At present, it is almost impossible to obtain reliable news of this enterprise, as the Company feels capable" to "hoe its own row," and does not care for notoriety. The telegraph gives a brief account of an occurrence on the railroad near Plate River* which may ho taken as typical of the rude, but necessary manner in, which civilisation is disposing of savage obstructions. A large party of mounted Indians were descried by the engineer on the track ahead. As the train neared, the Indians set up a yell ; and the engineer, fearing an attack, put his engine to its speed, and the consequence was a miscellaneous hustling of Indians and horses

into the ail*, thirteen of the former and a number of the latter being killed. The engineer apparently could not have ventured to do otherwise than he did, for the consequences might have beßn worse, if the IncTftos entertained hostile intentions. The loss of life is pitiful, especially if it resulted from Indian ignorance or indifference to railroad regulations. But the opinion maybe ventured that the same party, at least, will not again attempt to stop a railroad train with horseflesh. And Indian objections to railroads generally will have to take some other form than making war upon them. Later accounts would go to show that the Indians meant to capture the train. They were armed and mounted, surrounded it in large force, fired several shots into the cara, and made other hostile^ demonstrations, But thty hadn't sufficient head of steam to buck against the locomotive, and speedily came to grief.