Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-01-22
Eastern News Passages.

Col Albert Pike, the soldier-poct, has been
hunting prairie hens with a six-pounder charged
with quarter bag of shot; he killed 3S, at 200
yards aud crippled multitude.
A sour-krout barrel exploded in a cellar at
Cincinnati, and knocked blazes out of a Dutch
man.
A lottery establishment was broken up in
Philadelphia, and ST 500 was seized, coniscated
and given to the poor.
brigham Young, Junior, has settled in Ocean
county, New Jersey; he calls his place Little
Salt Lake." and has domesticated three fool wo-
men, to begin with.
Beavers are said to be quite numerous ten miles
from Toronto in Canada
The aristocratic young son of New York
soap-boiler has consented to marry Pccolomini
The school directors of Marshall county, Iowa.
have issued bull forbidding the girls to wear
hoops-the young ladies of ten and under are
going to leave the school.
The Pittsburg gazette has completed its seven
ty-second year; it is one of the oldest papers in
the West.
A furious old lady of Indiana county Pennsyl-
vania "pitched nto'' surveying party who
trespassed on her land, clubhod two of them
and tearing up and stamping the Others hats in
the mud, drove off the whole party.
A boy fell down stone quarry in York county.
Pennsylvania, one hundred and fifteen feet and
was not killed.
Clergymen of New York have adopted the
plan of preaching in theatres and other public
halls; service is conducted in the National, Chat
ham street Theatcr every Sunday
A returned Californian at Albany, almost
Immediately on his arrival made the acquaintance
of a young lady with blue eyes aud fur cape.
Young lady invited him to see her home, and
take tea with her. He took tea with the young
lady, and started for hotel. Arriving at hotel
he found that wallet containing $500 was mis-
sing.
A thrifty German, who used TO keep a beer hole
on broadway, New York, now owns a whole viii
lage near Catskill
A girl dressed in mems clothes was arrested at
Cincinnati, with her half brother: the two had
determined to soc the world and had been work
hands on steamboats, for long time.
4 German woman, Of Cleveland, ran away from
her husband, but got tired of her paramour aud
came back the good -naturcd man forgave her,
but she was astonished a few mornings thereafter
to find that Hans had elopcd with the cook woman.
Two men of Cincinnati are to cat mush ana
milk for SO, and the " Championship of Ameri
ca" the one that bursts first loscs--the mush
A negro slave was recently whipped to death
in Virginia, by a party Of scouudrels who had
been buying stolen goods of the negroes and
against whom he had Informed.
A negro boy at Rockingham, Virginia, put
arsenic in the coffee pot aud poisoned the whole
family, Int NOT fatally.
A prisoner in Massachusetts jail tanned a
mouse, which went with him to trial, occasionally
pecping out from his pocket at the court and
jury.
1t is stated, ly CouncA Bluff. paper that the
gold mines on Cherry Creek, Nebraska, yield two
dollars and half day. to the worker.
A Detroit workman had the back Of his head
cut Off hy a revolving knife in factory; be
walked to carriage and lived half day.
4 guessing match, for big hog, took place
in New JERSEY, ON Christmas day; the guess
nearest his weight took the swine.
On the % Of last month the Regent of the
Mount Vernon Association paid $4,000 TO the
lesser Washington first nstalment Of the pur-
chase.