General Notes

- fit olí es will malee California his honifi. - lÜdward S. Stokes is living in San Francisco and owns a valuab'o mine in Novada, - Syracilsans will give President White a farewell banquet bofore he goes to Berlín. - Mrs, Senator Christiancy is lying Tery ill at the homo of her parents in Washington. - Soott Lord, not a great while ago a rural lawyer at Utica received $110,000 fees in the Vandeibilt will case. - Baron Roth cbild holds a mortgape of $10,000,000 on the Holy Land, for money loaned the Turkish government. - Tbe Inmber vessel-otrnor' association of Chicago propose to lay up their vessels rather than pay sailors $2 per day. - As the "Widow Oliver had but sixty hearers at her first lecture on Simón Cameron, she retires froia the lecture field. - Albany University has made Thurlow Weed a Doctor of Laws, but at his ago it is not likely that he will undertake to practico. - Simón Cumeron pretenda tbat he was once a printer aud used to work an oldfashionod hand-press ; but he must walk straight for all that. - A lunatic from Kookuk, Iowa, fired two shots at Boolh, the great tragedian, during a performance in Chicago, on Weducsday efetiíng. - Chicf Moses promises to become a formidable rival to Schuyler Colfax. - [Id has bugun attcnding Suuday schools aud ni ikinj; spseeb.es. - It cost Marshil MacMahon $100,000 a year more than his salary, to bo President, and he left tlie offico with his estufes heavily mortgaged. - Djwn in Oliio, when the newspapers can't start the Legislature for hotne, the poople at large seni iu petitions, and indulge in strong language. - Alexander 8tepli6ns, it is said, has tielped at least 50 persons to a liberal education, and paid from his own pocket the co'ilegiate expenses of 20 lads. - A leading dry goods merchant in Philadelphia says the dry goods trade there is moro proni'sing and in a more flourishing oondition than it has been For six years. - It is said that fi ve or six of the presidents of Boston fire insurance coinpanies are feoling uncommonlygloomy over their losses in the recent tiros at Philadelphia and St. Louis. - The New York Times says the friends in Washington of Messrs. Blaino and Conkling are disappointed at the small attention they receive in the forecast of the Presidency, - Joe Hiwley prefers not to be VicePresidout. He says he had rather serve Connecticut in Congress, than pass four years in the position of a man waiting for the first husband to die. - Thejewelsof Madame Bonaparte, including a necklace of 500 diamonds and a bracelet made from goldfound on the arm of a skeleton at Porapeii, have beun appraised at $70,000. - Mary, daughter of Win. A. Townsend, the New York publisher, has married her f&ther's hostler, .Timos Weeks, and left an elegant house for mush and calicó iu a tenement house. - B. P. Allen, the ex-banker of Iowa, who two yeara ago lived in the finest mansión in th it state, now occupies a log cabin at JjeadviÜB, 15x20 foet in size, containiug three buds, acook stove, and limited furnituro. - Mr. Groeley's daughter3 publish a card denying the intiination of Corneel Vauderbilt, that Ida's husband, Col. Smith, had squandered their property, and state that his management has increased its valuation, and the iucotuo therefrom. The Cincinnati Commercial would like to ses Gen. Hawley nominated for President, with an Ohio man for Vice.