Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-07-31
Latest State Events.


THEY are going to have grand ball in the
Marysvile Pavilion before the State Fair begins
THE Marysville Express is Informed by trav-
elers across the plains, that thirty miles this side
of Humboldt aud on the Mobiles Pass route, a
phantom city in the air is seen in the west, ri
sing above the plain. The editor invests the
mirage Illusion with great deal of interest,
suggesting that devout superstition might recog
nize it as the New Jerusalem let down from
Heaven "A WHITE man and his Indian squaw
were killed in the bushes, near Colus last week.
two Indians are in Jail for the murder. :. THE
overland mail now leaves Placervie every Sat
urday morning for ST. Josephs. Letters intended
for that route should be marked Overland mail,
via. independence Two men, Willard and
Wooster, fought about a claim at Inskip, and
chopped each other nearly to death with hatchet
and big knife....A BAKER, at the Bay, got his
/ fingers in dough mixing machine, and had all
but torn off. THE Sskiyou Democratic
convention elected delegates who will support
Daingcrfeld for District Judge. Yankee Addams
is at Yreka playing to thin houses because the
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THE Semi Weekly N1cs has been issued from
Murphy's Camp in Calaveras; the first number is
received =. LARGE quantities of plumbago exist
in Calavcras county, but the people do not know
whether to work the leads would pay Ne,rs
PEOPLE are coming back in crowds, from Frazer
river; one day last week an extra car was required
to take Frazer victims over the Sacramento Val
Iou Ia, ;c tod hat iho
cy of Placer county will send two sets of delegates
to the State convention. TIE Amador Ledger
refuses to sustain the Democratic nominations Of
that county, because they refused to sustain the
Ledger; the editor publishes a tomahawkish arti-
Gle about it, . ON the oath there was 1857 ,575 SO
in the State Treasury -. The Mariposa Democrat
has seen thrce-leggcd sheep, so born. THE
steamer Sierra Nevada is down from Victoria;
she left on the 2lst, and brought no important
news. C.. ". TOZER, Administration democrat
is nominated for Assembly in Siskiyou; Watkins
known as Sniktaw,' will, probably, be his oppo
nent JomN SMITH and John Nevins quarrelpd
and fought at Auburn, Ncvins receiving stab
which killed him. =. MOSQUITOES, and other in
sccts are very plentiful at Petaluma. Wheat
sells there for $3.50 hundred. A company has
arrived across the plains.-Jourual. AN Indian
was hung at Snclling's last week, for murder. -.
A MAN fifty years old was up before the San
Francisco Recorder for drunkenness; he said it
was his first offence, and was discharged. AN
: old stump was discovered on Table mountain, 200
feet under ground--who in thunder chopped down
that tree ?? THE Butte Record relates an affray
at Dogtown 49,. The La Porte Messenger says:
I'VE have been informed that there is set of
unprincipled scoundrcls floating around the
mountains dressed as miners, who are attempting
to pass off gold dust worth but SIG per ounce for
that which is found around this viciuity' e. THE
democracy of Los Angeles endorse the Admins
traton-no issue was made in San Diego. . TIE
mammoth cave, in Calaveras is for sale. A miner
of that county who works in tough clay, sprin-
klcs it with barley and turns on the hogs, who
puddle it beautifully; he calls it the swinedling
porcnc process -Iadependeht. HELEN IIIG-
GINS has dispensed with old Higgins at Sacramen-
E to, and according to law. L. D. WHEELER is
nominated for Senator in Yuba county; the Brod-
cFiek party were successful there. GREAT fires
are raging in the woods at the head of the Merced
river, and it is feared that Big Tree Grove will
be destroyed -. INDIANS have become hostile in
San BernaYdino, and Los Angeles; vagabond
Spaniard is urging them on. I'D. W. CoFFROTH,
Gen. Estell, and eX- Governor John McDougal'
are busy in San Francisco laying Mud-sils.
We are sorry to see so young ii man as Coffroth
classed with villains like Estell and McDougal,
t but his itch for dcmagogueing will yet impover-
: ish him. THE stages going up country are now
, loaded with returned Frazer river people, they
paid for that information THE Napa Reporter
says that Peg-Leg Smith is going to write a
book entitled How to make your way among In
iuns'. D.. NEVADA miners threaten to bury part of
the town under tailings An Independent ticket
is nominated there A poor woman. whose hus-
, band went to Frazer river is insane. The Meth
odist camp meeting, the Journal says has been
doing land Office business SMALL P0X has
disappeared from Red Bluffs The Beacon is of
opinion that 'squaw men are the lowest. mean
est, most contemptibie, abandoned trash that ever
numbered the earth Several wagons from B0-
dega valley, passed to Oregon.
SUPERVISOR NoMINArED-After adjournment
of Trinity Democratic Convention, the delegates
from District No. met, and by acclamation
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