Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-09-03

further than that thc road will be built to accom-
modate and secure Trinity river trade. The
names Of the persons moving in the matter is
Sufficient guaranty that they mean what they
propose, and we do not for Il moment doubt that
before another year rolls round The work will be
well under way.
/ TERRIBLE DEATn.--On Saturday last, near
/ Monte Cristo, Sierra county, Charles Karsten and
/ Girsol Peterson, while at work in tunnel, dis
covered the blacksmith shop, and a pile Of wood
and coal, on fire, in the mouth of the tunnel.
Karstcn ran in about six hundred feet, and was
taken out, five hours afterwards, insen-ibIe, but
has recovered Peterson liicless body was found
about five hundred feet in tie tunnel, where he
had been smothcrcd to death by The heat.
FBoN ruE INDIAN FlGurERs-" Sandipky' ad-
yjse4 us, by letter. Of the doinss of the KJbe
Rangers. One day last week they surprised
camp and took fifty Indians prisoners, onc-thrd
Of whom were bucks" They were captured on
Butte Creek, aud viii he sent to Round Valley
reservation. 4 portion Of Gen. Kihbc company
is in Butte Valley, on the Lawson route. The
Trinity boys belonging TO the company were in
fine health and spirits.
A NICE Bit OF New YoRK scANDAL-The Bal
i,more Sbn's correspondent there tells the fol-
lowing:
A wealthy down town merchant lately called
one Of his clerks to an account for a deficit Of
$4,000 in his account. The clerk replied that
be had sufficient Offset, and should keep the
cash. What do you mean by offset" said the
merchant. - mean my wife, said the clerk.
Nps another word was said about the $l0,000.'
MELONS AND Tn!Nps- Charley Ritter, Of the
Grass Valley Ranch, has brought US several
melons dUing the week The winter Melon
new species here, is supplied by him. 10. Crane,
ofStrncr's Flat, brought large watermelon on
Thursday, and Geo. nouck, an old citizen here,
presented Us with some peaches Of fine flavor,
raised on bis ranch in the Willamette Valley
Oregon, four hundred miles away.
SAFEs.-F. Ti!Imao San Francisco adver!iscs
Tilton 4 McFarlauds fire and burglar proof
safes 4 secure safe is almost indispensable in
mountain business where mercantile and trading
houses are mostly wooden buildings, and in con
slant danger from fire. one OF Tilton ~ McFar.
lands safes may be seen at the store Of Pierce,
Church & Co.
Mixed CoNGEEGArIoN.- The stage from Pine
Grove brought to this place, on Thursday, nine
passengers two of whom were county candidates.
three ladies OF questionable virtue, and two dark
compleXoGed sopth,rncrs! Next TO the grave
or an old-faShioncd picnic, the California stage
coach Is the most democratic inGlitutou we know
Of -Ho"ntad' .Nessenger.
HAVE THE FusERs FUSED THE result of the
meeting in this city Of Anti-L Lcc0mpton and Re
publican nominees for State officers does not ap-
pear io be, or have been, an " enthusiastic demon
suation." Secrecy prevailed, and it can only be
asked Did The uScls fuse ? If they are not in
red heat yet, the fu.jug time will conflict too
much with election time Morning CqH.
DESERVED Ir.-A fast young man recently
hired horse and buggy at Rockford, ILL.,, to ride
a Short distance, but drove the animal seventy
miles, when it died from exhaustion. A party of
young men very nearly whipped the young bar
baIiau to death.
! CArrAN James I, Schcuck, t. S. n, ordered
to the command of the Saginaw has arrived at
San Francisco by the Golden Age. CAPTAIN
Schcnck is the officer who hoistcd the American
nag at San Pedro, Santa Barbara and Los Angles,
IN 1876
" The Wushated Ne,cs efMe Uorld," is a new
London illustrated paper brought us by MI
CiePg, Of the News Depot. 1t is the size of the
H1sf'atcd At'cs, and more carefully prepared.
]
referred to the Snug" advertisement, to-day
Grdits and Lowe are well known, and intend to
keep the best house OF the kind in towp-if
possible
THE Louisville J0Hrnai says the small boys of
that city being told that candy was injurious to
health, have, with a careful regard, substituted
tobacco.
E,REs-A great portion OF the town Of Campo
Scco was destroyed by fire on the 30th loss not
ascertaincd. The same day a fire destroyed
about $50, 900 worth OF property in Columbia.
/ 70 WE oN'T--A Democratic organ in Illinois
! thinks that we "wish Mr. Douglas dead" Oh, no
we don't, but we do heartily wish his father had
never seen bis m0ther.-L0HsUiHe JoutnaL
Murdoch the Republican nomi-
nee for State Printer, has Withdrawn in favor of
John OMrara, Anti Lccompton candidate.
BAYARD TAYLOR, we learn from a San Francis
co paper, intends to travel through the entire
State during bis stay on this coast
LAST week $4,000 was deposited in tbe