Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-04-03
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Go. are opening claims below town which pros
pect well Scott, Benoit q Co. took out $3.50 in
two days washing Harney & Co. make from
u to Is ounces day TO the sluice Pierce & Co.
are making 81 day TO the hand Holbrook d
Co. have struck good diggings below town Stof
fer x Co, above town, are doing well Nelson
Il Co. get $50 day to the hand White & Co.
are making good wages. Miners out of employ
ment would do well to come here and see for
themselves. Scanlan q Co., traders, have every
article necessary for miners use, and are doing
a good business. Mr.. and Mrs. Gwin keep an ex-
cellent public house, and Mr.. Daninbrnk has a
very orderly Saloon, where lager is dispensed.
The business of the place is in every way -four
shing. OREGON.
A PEcULIARITY.-In an old number of the
TRINITY JOURNAL the editor remarks that there
are street-loungers or groups of idle persons
seen in the streets of Weaverville. We have OBJ
served the same fortunate popularity, and have
never seen mountain town so uncursed by bum
mers' and vagabondage. We believe the reason
is that the nature Of the diggins' enables persons
of small means to work on their own account :;
added TO this the hotel keepers will not permit
ders to remain or board on the promssory sys-
TEN. In every other mountain town where we
have stopped. even over night, more idlers were
to be seen about single public house than we
have seen in Weaverylle altogether.
ILL HEALTH-An unusual number of persons
are i'll at the present time. Mr.. Joseph Sturde.
want was at the point of death in the early part
of the week. but under the assiduous care of Dr.
Trask, is recovering. We hear of a number of
our neighbors who are i'll, but not SO seriously.
STAGEs.-It must not be forgotten that stages
are to come and go, daily, after the 18th of this
month Then, we hope, some arrangements will
be made by which we may have daily mail, or,
at least, tri-weekly.
AT Rdgeville, and in the neighborhood, they
have abundance of water and the miners are do
ing first rate business A number of prospect
ors are now on Stroup Creek, East Fork, and
their tributaries, opening new claims.
BODY FouND.-The body of Thomas Opie,
found last Wednesday at Evans Bar-three miles
from where the accident befel him.
VEGETATION on the hill sides, and in enclo-
sures about town, begins to respond to the spring
showers and occasional sunshine. Spring is here
although winter grows sulleny at his departure.
PEACH CRoP.-Lowden's ranch, at Grass Val
ley, will yield fine peach crop this year, If not
killed by spring fYosts X. G. Dungey, of Wea-
veryille, has about 100 trees, now in full bloom.
AT Eastmans Diggings all is activity at
Lewiston and mouth Of Rush Creek, new claims
are being opened. NunneIIys ditch supplies
abundance of water.
The weather, in the first part of the week, was
bleak and stormy quite a gale blew on Thurs
day, about noon.
STORE GooDs.-Large quantities Of store goods
are arriving now, by pack-mules-a mode of
transportation soon to become obsolete.
rEs'.--The hill claims, opposite Bates Ranch
are paying largely,
AT Bolts Diggings, claims pay from $40 to s25
to the hand, each day.
THREE or four feet OF snow fell on Rush Creek
mountain during the late storm.
A HYENA LoosE.--On Wednesday morning last,
between three and four O'clock, striped hyena
broke loose from his cage in tie barn of Mr. Eli
Watson, a few miles west Of Pauding. The
beast is the property Of Mr. Gaming, (formerly
of the firm Of Maybe, Gaming * Co, well known
circus and menagcrie proprietors;) who quarters
his collection of animals during the winter sea
son at the farm Of the above named The mons
ter was not missed until daylight. Raising q
numerous crowd of farmers, Mr.. Watson went in
search of him. Knowing the terrible instincts of
the animal, the party proceeded to graveyard
about mile distant, and there found him. lie
had disinterred TWO newly buried bodies, and
mostly devoured them He had also partly dug
up other graves. To capture the monster alive
in his then infuriated state was, of Use, an
impossibility. Mr. Watson, therefore, fired rifle
at him, but did not hit him. The monster sprang
in amongst the men, pounced upon German,
named Pafenburg, killing him almost instantly
boy and two men in the crowd were also
knocked over, and considerably though not fatal
y injured The German was the only person
killed. The byena made for the woods 1t was
reported that he killed man on his way thither,
but the report is not authenticated. A large
force was Immediately raised, and the animal
was pursued, but at last accounts had not been
tc md. The byena formerly belonged to Van
Amburgh Co., and it is sasd to be the largest
one of his species in America He had, we are
informed, been reared in cage, and had always
been considered as tame and peaceabe as animals
OF this kind can be rendered. His escape, fearful
work, and his pursuit have, we need hardly add,
created great excitement in the vicinity of Paud-
ing.-C2eUeland (Ohio) Herald
WE regret exceedingly the nOn-arrivaI of late
Sacramento ana San Francisco papers. We de
sign the Journal for newspaper, and intelligence
shut out and ourselves shut in--by the storm, is,
to us, a serious calamity.
MEXGCO.-Tbree individuals, Comonfort Ju-
arez and Zuloaga, contend for the Presidency of
MpXico An plevpn davsj 6Oht took n1acn at thn
capital, in which only fifty men were killed.
THE Rear Admiral of the Turkish Navy is ex-
pected in Washington, and is to be received with
great ceremony-as the first Osmanli of high
rank who has ever visited the American capital.
FILLIBUsTERs IN PERU.-Lomar citizen of the
United States, has been arrested in Peru, on
charge of conspiring against the government by
fitting out an armed expedition at home.