Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-06-12
The News In Brief.

The News In Brief
Gravel mining in Calveras county is said to
be reviyiag.
From Japan comes a report that the French
are aiding the rebels at Hakodadi.
Mexican counterfeit dollars are being rery ex
tensively circulated in San Francisco.
Colonel Coey is reported as appointed Post
master at San Francisco, pies Smith, removed.
Some arrests have been made ia Paris ip coz
sequence of rumors of a new political conspi-
racy.
Several fresh flibuster expeditions are re-
ported as having recently landed on the island
oe Cuba.
Molly Sheppard was robbed of ss, 900 by one
Joe Byne, at Treasure City, few days ago. The
thief escaped.
The Belgium Parliament has abolished i'm
prisonment for debt. The law only requires the
Kings signature.
In Chicago on the Sd instant o Republican
mass meeting broke up in row, pistols and
stones being used.
are about TO strike on account of the employ
ment of two colored workmen.
The Spanish Cortes, on the night of June lst,
archal proviso, by vote Of 2l4 to S..
In the Mcconnell murder trial in Illinois, wit
nesses for the defense are being examined. 1t is
almost certain that Robinson will be acquitted.
Much of the growing wheat on the Salinas
plains, Monterey county, is totally ruined by the
rust. Many fields have been abandoned as not
worth harvesting.
The French and other envoys in China have
LIZ tha mt Ia In
apologize for the recent insult to the French en-
bassador at Pekin.
A Georgia paper processes to disclose negro
conspiracy for the burning of Lexington, county
seat of Oglehorpe county, and the murder of all
the white inhabitants.
The Spanish Minister at Washington is uneasy
in regard to the stay of the Peruvian monitors in
the West Indies especially since Perus recog-
milton of Cuban belligerency.
Information has been received at the War de-
partment that the Indians are again on the war
path General Sherman and other officers doubt
the success of the Quaker policy.
The Indians have been destroying the Kansas
division of the Union Pacific railroad near
Ashen creek They were driven off by con-
struction party and are pursued by Clusters cav
airy.
The British House of Lords, in caucus, have
determined to defeat the Gladstone bill to discs
tablish the Irish church, on second reading. 1t
is believed that majority of so peers will 60
against the bill.
Captain General Dulce left Havana for Spain
on the lst instant. Don Espinas will act as
Captain General till the arrival of De Roda.
Havana is in state OF ferment, and a fierce out
break is not improbable.
One hundred tons of strawberries were re-
Gently received in one day in San Francisco
one and a-half pounds to every man woman and
child in that city. Strawberries have been SELL
ing in San Francisco as low as five cents per
pound.
Attorney-General HoAr decides that there is
nothing in the law to arrest the execution of a
citizen of Texas taken from the civil authorities
and tried, convicted and sentenced by court
martial to be hanged. The fact that Texas Is
not restored 10 the Union renders her people
thus subject under the reconstruction laws, to
military authority.
The news from Cuba is d" "mixed." We gather
that Dulce has been forced to resign by the vol
unteers and will leave for Spain Immediately
The Mantanzas volunteers leave also demanded
the resignation of the Governor Of that city
which has been acceeded to. The landing oil
the fibusters at Nipe bay causes much depres-
sion among the Spana-ds.
The new Spanish constitution was formally
proclaimed on Sunday, the 9th instant. A riot
among the people of Madrid, 100 900 of whom
were collected in front of the platform from
which the Secretary of the Cortes read the con
stiution, occurred soon after the Cortes retired
1t was checked by the boldness of the Governor
Of the city, and resulted in the death of two
and the wounding of several.