Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-12-25
NO. 40.

NEWS PASSAGES FROM EASTERN JOURNALS
/ The yellow fever has disappeared from New
Orleans.
The President has offered the Governorship Of
Kansas to Sam, Medary, of Ohio
A fellow at the Petersburg. (va.) Fair lost his
pocket book with $4,000, which was found and
restored bya little girl, The greathearted man
instantly purchased the child bits worth OF
candy
Washington City is infested by gang of out
laws, and was so before the assembling of Con-
grcss.
Gen Denver is replaced in his former position
Of Commissioner of Indian Affairs
1t turns out that the especial reporter for the
New York HeraldN who came TO San Francisco
by the Overland Butterfeld route, was paid by
the company to "write the route up"
The Post Master General has ordered weekly
mail from New Orleans TO San Francisco, by way
of San Antonio and I'll Paso-- to commence with
the new year. The War Department is preparing
for better protecting overland malls
1t is believed in Washington that Judge Crane
will succeed in organization of a Territory in the
Carson Valley country; the Congressional com
mittees favor the measure.
will got of from Mobile another pratical ex-
petition TO Nicaragua, The Collector has been
instructed to give his vessels clearance if no
evidences of hostile invasion are discovered on
board course, none will be found.
The New York Times asserted that Yrisarrl
the Nicaraguan Minister at Washington, had
issued passports to numerous persons who inten-
dcd to meet Walker ON Gllibusterlng expedition,
for which assertion the Minister has sued the
Times The issuing Of the passports cannot DO
proven, II is believed
Alta celebration in Connecticut. mans fingers
were blown off by cannon and were found In q
bystander's pocket
Timothy Mcdonald, a Maine Yankee, has been
to Lima, and having gained admission TO the
vault, brought away a section of PZarro's great
toe The body Is embalmcd and is stl preserved
in the vault of the great Cathedral OF Lima.
Tho Fifth Ward Democracy of New York are
erecting Liberty Pole 205 feet high-the talest
in the Union
a young man of Castle Corner, Ireland, at
tempting to fly II very large kite, was dragged
half II mile and nearly killed; the string was
finally cut by the top Of a stone wall, but not
before it had cut to The bone Of the mans hand.
| Last summer Il caravan Of eighty thousand pill
! grims left Damascus to visit Mecca, the shrine of
| the Prophet; sixteen thousand Of them died of
/ cholera.
] ! w hH0oihu IfHlHCIbT tbulIhCltu WIN CtItNU
parties fora large number of cannon balls, which
were delivered and paid for. After n while the
Gar went to inspect his purchase aud discovered
that the balls were wooden, painted black. The
swindlcrs were caught and transported 10 Siberia.
The United States army now consists of thir-
teen thousand men, rank and llle--to garrison
two millions of square miles
A young man at Oquawk, Illinois was kicked
to death by an overcbarged shotgun, which rup-
turcd his abdomen.
man in England came within six inches OF
winning Sli0000 on horse-racc
There was prize fight between two colorcd
mon in New Haven, recently. The contest Is
said to have been terrific, and was brought to II
close by one getting the head of the other in
chancery,' The stakes were a pot of baked beans
and a red bandanna, Both left the ground with
black eyes.
A thief in Portland, Maine, stole the baptismal
font from a church supposing it to be silver.
The font had been used half Il century.
A Catholic Priest, at Portland, Me-. met ono OF
the parshloners bringing home u load of whisky.
His reverence was armed with hatchet with
which he broke in the heads of the barrels letting
the liquor run into the cutters.
The coroner and street commissioner of New
Orleans quarreled two days In relation TO whose
duty il was to bury dead mani the body lying
in the street in the mean time.
A workman at Batavia Mills, New York got
his clothes enlangled round shaft and made 2j0
revolutions, and was dead.