Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-09-04
Miscellaneous Items.


A Chicago girl is making her fortune as
house painter.
1t will be twenty-eight years before the fourth
of July will again fall upon Sunday.
Bierstadt, the American artist, has received
from Napoleon the decoration Of the Legion of
Honor.
The Japanese colony at Placerville is doing
well. Their tea and mulberry plantations are
thriving.
negro in Atlanta, Georgia, has been fined
fifty dollars, or six months service in the chain
gang, for marrying white woman.
A young gentleman of Logansport has sued a
barber for spelling his moustache in trying to
| color it, and laid his damages at fifty dollars
| The Secretary of the Navy has changed the
| names of most of the vessels which had been re-
christened by Borie, back to their original
| names.
circus elephant could not be driven over the
Trusdell bridge at Elgin Illinois, and was finally
allowed to ford the river. A few days after the
bridge fell.
Macon, Georgia, is collecting monstrosities
1t now possesses double headed turtle, a four
winged and four-footed chicken, and a seven
footed kitten.
Three brothers of Tilted girl fred sixteen
shots at her seducer in Woodville, Virginia, the
other day. Their victim killed, they fed to the
mountains unpursued.
A Georgia boy, twelve years old, perfectly
well and healthy in other respects, is able to
breathe only about four times minute. His
case puzzles the doctors.
The Osceola Qowa) Sentinel tells of an OK be-
ing killed for beef that had darning- i'm
bedded in the lower part of the heart, reaching
from one side to the other.
On single building recently constructed at
Richmond, Virginia, were employed as mechanics
| a colonel major, two captains and several lieu
tenants, all of whom fought under General Lee.
| African colonization is on the decline. The
regular fall expedition of 1868 to Liberia was dis
pensed with entirely for want of passengers, and
this spring less than hundred emigrants
have applied for berths.
Fashionable women, after trying, as means
of easily concealed ana respectable intoxication,
whiskey, bitters, hasheesh and opium, are now
said to have settled down chloroform, as the
| safest and most convenient drug.
woman presented herself at the internal rev.
enue bureau, the other day, with a recommends
tion claimed to have been received from Abraham
Lincoln, in the spirit world, and demanded an
appointment on the strength of it.
1t is noted AS a singular fact that while New
England is relatively losing ground, as regards
the native population, a new emigration from
Canada is filling up the vacancies made by the
emigration of New Englanders westward.
A farmer at Fort Smith, Arkansas, recently
plowed up keg containing S., 900 in Spanish
silver dollars of the date of about 1906, and
American half dollars of old date. The keg was
probably buried twenty or thirty years ago.
lady living in Pennington, Maine, was pois-
oned short time since by the gases that arose
from chloride of lime she was pouring down q
sink-spout. The gold of her false teeth was
made nearly black. and she could hardly speak
for three days afterward.
coored GIRL about fifteen years old, living
with Bartlett Weaver, near BowersvIle, in Hart
county, Georgia, about two weeks ago, gave
birth to five children within the space of three
days. All the children stll-born, and it
thought that the girl would die.
London keeps growing. Its population has
not been counted for seven years, but it is esti-
mated now at 3,126 ,635. In it more than 49,
600 children yearly born, and rs, 900 persons
die. The metropolis, including the suburban
districts, stands upon Il, ,907 acres, l22 square
miles.
young girl in a village in Ardennes Forest,
recently killed her illegitmate child, cut it into
pieces and put the pieces into a barrel in which
her parents kept their salt pork. The family is
said to have eaten the remains of the child With
out noticing what they were. Not piece oil 1t
was left.
There is a man near Kansas City, Missouri,
named Jacob Ferance, who is over one hundred
and eighteen years old. He still shows consid-
erable activity, and cutivates little garden, in
which he takes great delight. His eyesght is
better than it was years ago. his voice is not
strong, yet he converses freely, and apparently
without labor.
tured in a seine at Cape Henry few days since.
1t is of most singular conformation and of beau
nfully variegated bues, measuring about six
inches in length, with perfectly fiat, bony back,
eyes wide apart and in the center of a circle,
capacious mouth and fms as large as wings
about the center of the body on each side.
In New York recently, the old Manhattan
we'll, whose whereabouts had been forgotten for
many years, was rediscovered. Into that we'll
it supposed that the body of murdered
girl was thrown by her lover about 10 years ago.
The man defended by Aaron Burr, Alexan-
der Hamilton and Edward P Livingston, and
was acquitted, though there was almost uni
yersal belief that he was guilty.
The West India Islands are suffering from
severe drought which causes the greatest distress
to the inhabitants and domestic animals. In
many of the populous islands the springs and
the deepest wells have almost dried out; and
only very scanty supplies of brackish and un-
wholesome water can be obtained. 1t would
and copious rains can save the people of some of
the islands from death, and the lands from dis
ISOLATION.
When the Prince of Wales laid the corner
stone of an orphan house in Herefordshire, Eng
land, the other day, a lunch was served after the
ceremony. When the young man had finished
feeding, there was grand rush of women who
had been looking on for the cherry-stoues he
had left from his dessert. They were actually
distributed one by relics, and one young
lady, when the stones were all gone, begged and
prayed for the crumbs the royal fingers had
touched.
A new and important tribunal has just been
established at Vienna, named the Rechsgericht.
This court, the members of which are selected
from the most eminent men in Austria, is au-
thorized to decide all cases of conflict between
the people and the authorities on questions of
constitutional right. The infallibility of gov
ernment officers, hitherto State maxim in Aus
tria, has been abolised by the establishment of
this court, and every Austrian citizen who con-
siders that his political rights are interfered
with by the administration can now appeal to
the Reichsgericht for redress.
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