Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-07-24
Brief Reference.


jectured, are going to the head of Feather river,
exploring for big pieces of gold, specimens OF
which have been exhibited there. THE steamer
Commodore, for Puget Sound, encountered tre
mendous gale up coast, and had TO put back last
Sunday; eleven horses and other freight were
thrown overheard. CONGRESSMAN MeKibben
returned on the last steamer; Broderick did not
arrive; Gwin was to sail on the 5tb. -. THE Yaba
and Suffer District Judgeshp is reduced to
scrub-race; the convention having failed to nom
inate-Reardon, Bliss and Sherrard contestants
-. SOME Mormon preachers have been ducking
converts in Yolo county; young man hearing
that bis sister was to be immersed threatened to
clean out the establishment which resulted in
jawing spell with the reverend saint, and the
thrashng of his reverence. . JUDGE Cook, of
San Francisco, threatens TO sentence loafers to
Frazer river, hereafter, instead of to prison .
Mr.. STYLES, of Red Bluffs, was not killed by In
dans in Oregon, as reported. GOLD discoveries
of great richness, are reported at Ovens Lake,
five days travel from Kern river. THE Shasta
Courier is informed that with the exception of
twenty or thirty miles, between this place and
Yreka, which has to be made on mule back, the
the traveller can now make the trip in Concord
coaches from Stockton, California, to Portland,
in Oregon, distance of approaching six hundred
miles. THE small pox is in Chinatown, Shasta
county. The Shasta Republican is endeavoring
to get an insane man out of Jail; the poor, God
stricken creature is nearly grilled to death. What
right have authorities to imprson one so aflct
n., n
Bluffs to Sacramento. :. OK the 10th there was
trouble between the MERGED company and Ere
monts men in Marposa; the former had the latter
besieged in tunnel; both parties armed and
waiting for attack. THE State Telegraph has
sued the Alta line for dollar and quarter over
charge. e. D. F. HAMILTON was killed at Santa
Cruz by falling tree. GABE SMITH, as we
understand from the Beacon, does little else than
kick drunken men out Of his house. E. A 'TuMuL
TUous' person at Tehama refused to obey Judge
Maxey's edict, on the 4th, at which the Judge
got mad, threw the resistant down, tied and
dragged him off to his ofiice.-Beacon. E. AN In
dian horse thief committed suicide in San Denar-
dino Jail, for fear of lynching. Two Greek
fishermen had fight at the Bay, and one stabbed
the other to death. .. THE only son of W b.
Ever, editor Of the Grass Valley Tacgraph, died
on Thursday week, at the age OF II. A NUMBER
Of Philadelphia democrats gavea public dinner
to Hon. j. c. McKibben before his epariurc for
California. CHARD d FINCH, at Tchama, ran
their ferry free day and night of the Fourth
that was practical patriotism. D. c. IluATooN,
of Red Bluffs, has been awarded contract for
furnishing $4,000 pounds of barley and 10000
pounds of -four to Fort Crook these soier men
cost something. THE San Andreas Lndependent
saw Digger Indian, sober, leading and taking
care of drunken white man, and thought it
most humiliating spectacle. E. A SAN FRANCISCO
shop window displays two human skulls, labeled
Heads Of Families, returned from Bellingham
Bayn. CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN, the great actress,
is coming to this State next year. She is to be
supported by J. E. McDonough Macs only
qualification to support anybody is stout pair
of legs. r. II. TAYLOR, of DownieviIle is can
didate for Clerk of Supreme Court lie IT, beyond
all odds, the most deserving of any aspirant yet
named. THE Placervlle democratic primary
election resulted in the triumph of the Douglas
faction; the complexion Of the county represen-
n
LARGE train of refuge Mormons are on the way
to Carson Valley-th the parties sentenced to ban
ishnent from tn" valley have left. =. SEVERAL
horses belonging TO the California Stage company
died of excessive heat on Sunday and Monday
week; also, one of Lees circus horses B. F.
Fox, county Judge of San Mateo has been i'm
peached by Grand Jury for seeking to procure |
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gngs are reported 100 miles east of Honey Lake
Silver mines are talked of 70 miles further east
THE Whatcom LigM says that the Indian
tribes there are dwarfed Fiat Heads some of
them have sandy hair indicating that the Bos-
tons have been about. A SAN FRANCTsCo Jury
have granted Augusta Rooney divorce from S.
B. Rooney, an independent Methodist clergyman
.... THE person shot by Kerrson, on Frazer rv-
or, is supposed to be James Conroy a hack driver,
OF San Francisco; an indignation meeting was
maturing at Victoria; the steamer Surprise had
stopped running on Frazer river, and was sailing
round the Sound, full of spectators. FOURTEEN
anti-Lecompton delegates have been elected in
Butte; in III Dorado the factions are pretty evenly
divided; in the town of Placervile the Mud sils
were successful-so the Union says. D0wNIE-
VILE elected Lecompton delegates, by strong
majority; Marysville will send ii Douglas delega
ton .FREMoNT'S trouble with Mariposa mines
has been settled, so far as the prospect of fight
goes. Ir was l0S degrees hot in Mariposa last
week; the Gazette says that between the weather,
Fremont and the Merced Mining Company, we
have rather hot times
How THEY FIX 'EM.-The steamers Orizaba