Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-09-11
Misceli.neou. Items.

NJ. GMarfOfi, once IN such nIgn favor Win tne
Queen Of Spain, is, il is said, going to tufn
monk.
The fee of Caleb Cushing, as council for Me1ico
before the Mexican Claims Commission, is $780,
900 in gold.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, have
seventeen children-nine on one side and eight
on the other.
| More than half the criminals arrested in New
York last year were single men. Marriage is
bond for good behavior.
| A steamboat after the American model has
| been placed on the Rhine, and creates no end OF
astonshment among the natives.
| The talk is revived of bringing to France with
great pomp, the remains of the Duke of Reich
stadt, the son of the First Napoleon.
| A subordinate clerk in banking establish
ment drew the grand prize in the Russian lottery
a month ago. 1t amounted to $4,000.
1t is under consideration to establish con-
seryatory of music at Venice. The city will
grant an annual subsidy of 80, 600 francs.
William Leigh, once wealthy, and years ago
| Superintendent of the St. Louis workhouse, has
been admitted to the same Institution as a
pauper.
A foreign letter writer says: {; A little Ameri-
can girl, Helen Armstrong, is exciting consid-
cradle interest among the musical critics on the
Rhine"
sensational marriage in Aurora, Illinois,
united an salbino' boy to the g fat girl, !"
weighing 495 pounds, both attached to a travel
ling circus.
| P. T. Barnum's forthcoming book will, it is
said give some new views of Jenny Lind, rather
damaging to the popular estimate of that popu-
lar soDgstress.
William Gillis, of Kansas City, left half a
1all H. ooL
his two boys, and the balance to his niece.
We'd rather be a niece.
quarrelsome couple in Jersey threw their
children at each others head until that ammu-
milton exhausted when the wife foored the
husband with a coffee pot
| 1t is claimed for the Arkansas hot springs that
the water will not only destroy the taste for
| liquor, but will clear from ones system in a
very short time all effects of previous dissipation.
So rapid progress is making in the Mont Gems
tunnel that very little doubt is now entertained
that it may be completed next year. Turin is to
celebrate the event by universal exhibition in
1872.
Mrs. Harriet L. Hunter, Postmistress of Deer
field, Michigan, for forty years, has just been re-
moved. She has lost two husbands during her
term of Office, and the townspeople are indignant
at her losing the Office too.
In Gloucester, New jersey there is a pear
tree more than one hundred and fifty years old.
! In l7l6 it was brought to this country in a
Hower-pot by Captain Samuel Harrison. 1t has
fine crop of fruit this year.
"The German Princess plaintively temized
by the New Orleans Pacayune as plebianly sling
ing beer in saloon in that city, turns out to be
no princess, not even a queen of the demi-nonde,
but very common &C social evil.
convict in the Maryland penitentiary, who
has three years to cattle thief, has fall
len heir to $50, 900 by the death of relative in
Ohio, and some very disinterested persons are
endeavoring to procure his pardon.
There is park of two hundred and forty acres
in ST. Croix county, Wisconsin, where the
owner has one hundred does and many male
deer. He finds raising them more profitable
than sheep or other stock growing.
The American champion drinker is Mrs. Multi
gan, who recently testified in New York police
court that she " wud dhrink vishkey against Ia
ger wild any man, and carry him to the stashin-
bouse as sober as policeman-so she wud.
Minnesota people believe that there are valu
able gold mines just north of the State line in the
Hudson Bay territory. Half-breeds claim
that they can make eight dollars to ten
dollars a day by washing dirt in some Of the
small streams in that territory.
child has just been born in the town of
Pittston, Maine, which completes four genera
tions of family born within half a century
The mother is Is years of age, the grandmother
% years, and the great-grandmother 4o years.
The young mother is the daughter of her hus-
bands sister.
Miss Carrie A. 3enuing a young lady of Har-
ris county, Georgia, who was reduced by the
war from wealth to poverty, has in cultivation
hve-acre field of cotton, which is said to be the
best in the neighborhood. She planted and
worked it herself, with no assistance except in
one ploughing.
Mr.. Brdgman of Bellows Falls, Vermont, has
several small ponds containing more than forty
thousand trout, varying from six months to three
wears of age. The water is changed once In
twenty-four hours and the fish are fed on
ground beef liver twice day at an expense of
one dollar a week.
The preparatory observations with respect to
a canal through Schleswig- -Holstein, which is to
mite the North Sea with the Baltic, are now
completed. The proposal to leave the construc-
ton to private enterprise has been abandoned,
and it will be undertaken by the government.
Naval and military considerations have led to
this decision. The expenses are estimated at
80 600 900 thalers.
The news of the suicide of Comissarow, who
saved the life of the Emperor Alexander, is de-
| nounced by the Russian papers as a malignant
| falsehood. He is attending to his military duties
and employing his leisure time in improving his
education. The national subscription taken up
for him amounts so far to 10000 rouhles.
Though be is not known to have taken a tenn
perance pledge, he is noted for his sobriety and
excellent character.
| In Richmond, Virginia, the other day. two
young girls from the country, daughters of a
distinguished Virginian family, were brought be-
fore the Mayor, having been taken from house
of ill-repute by the police at the instance of a
relative, anxious to reclaim them from life of
shame. One is Is, the other ID, and both are
beautiful Alleged cruelty on the part of their
father, and poverty and destitution, forced them
to seek shelter in the haunts of vice.
A Charleston paper says that in the upper part
of South Carolina there is young ex-Confeder-
ate soldier whose leg was amputated during the
war near the thigh. After the amputation the
wound healed rapidly anc be was sent home.
About year afterward deshy protuberance
was seen TO grow out of the flesh, which in the
course of few months took the shape of foot
and since that time it has been growing finely,
l'until now the man has perfectly new foot and
leg growing from his thigh, which in year or
two promises to supply the loss of his leg in the
first instance.