Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-10-30
Brief Reference.


THE San Juan Press admonishcs its neighbors
that the town is infested with Chinese, whose
carelessness with fire will yet destroy the place.
an admoniton required here where one can
scarcely move without jostling yellow pest. -.
TIE Butte Record wonders why so many editors
eloquently and and lcarnedly declared the pres
ence OF the comet, when every dolt, who had
eyes of his own, could see for hmself?. .., THE
poet Longrellow is about publishing another vol
ume, entitled 'Courtship of Miles Standish, and
other poems. -. PROPERTY worth S4,S50 was
recently burned in Hawkinsville, Siskiyou. On
Tuesday night week the Alleghanian vocalists
gave benefit to the Yreka Fire Department; on
the same evening NJ. p. Wooster presented
beautifully wrought banner to the Siskiyou Hook
and Ladder Company. Two Indians engaged in
unlawfuly tearing down the Amphitbeater at
tackled two citizens who tried to drive them away,
and one Of the red men got shot in the neck
Union . "A TELEGRAPH to the Sacramento Bee
states that before his departure for Washington,
Mr.. McKibbcn went to Marin county with hostile
intent, in search OF Penn Johnston, but
fused interview by the sheriff in whose custody
Johnston was. The difficulty existing rose from
something defamatory of McKibbcn, published
in the National newspaper. -. The Grand Jury
at Sonora indicted 27 gamblers at last session,
most of whom made tracks "A CHINAMAN muir
dered a white woman who kept store at Cooks
Bar, Sacramento county, and was Immediately
strung up by the ncighbors, who caught the vii
lain in the act. ARKANSAS is making effort
TO compel the whole free population to leave the
State. GEN. HARVEY, appointed to command
Of the Military Division of Oregon has gone
there, accompanied by Capt. Pleasanton Harvey
is reckoned the first cavalry officer in the United
States service. PoRTER's Spirit Of the Times
has its own ideas OF gentilty; it chronicles the
arrival Of an English bully named Aaron Jones,
TO train the Bencia Boy who intends to fight
Morrissey, and adds: The New York people
ought to fetc Aaron with a municipal dinner
A SANTA Rosa ranchman has killed sixteen Cali
fornia lions since last February "A CHINESE
newspaper is printed at Jackson, Amador county
about the size of fooscap sheet. :. The En-
glsh government has sent a company of volun-
teor engineers TO Frazer river to build block
house to bold the vast quantities Of gold dug
there, and to keep Mr. Buchanan and other Amer
Jeans from stealing it. SACRAMENTO appears in
need of a vigilance committee; nearly every
other newspaper relates some aggravated case Of
assault. The police are of very little account
even worse than useless THE body of Il man,
supposed to have been torn by bear, was found
recently on Cache Creek. A CITIZEN Of Rattle
snake Bar recently had an alteration with
gambler whom he shot dead .. MARYsyuIE is
retrograding- the chain gang has decreased to
one member "A CHINAMAN of San Francisco
married his sweet sweetheart last week, and next
day she was dragged from his arms by another
mahogany head, who claimed the woman as his
slave. THE Democrat says that spiritualist Of
Marysville has gone crazy, and goes cut to make
speeches to The trees. GOV. WELLER intends
to proclaim a commonwealth Fast on the 2jth of
November THE heaviest October rain ever
known in Sacramento fell on Wednesday and
Thursday week. THREE robbers dressed as
Cinnamon, attempted TO rob pack train, near
Downieville, but the conductor, after firing five
shots at them escaped with his valuables A
IA PORTE correspondent of the Marysville Dem
ocr0t says public gambling is carried on in every
town in the county. At Nelson Point, he saw in
one honsc, five long gambling tables, crowded
round with beters and dealers of the filthy and
detestable cards; women black and white, min
Cling in the crowd and drinking at the bar with
vulgar men in all stages Of ntoxcation' -
WHAT is remarkable, this dcplOrable state of
things did not exist three years ago ANOTHER
earthquake was felt at the Bay last week.
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