Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-09-18
miscellaneous Items.


1t takes only eighty days to 60 round the
globe.
A Minnesota girl was blinded for four days by
fash of lightning.
raft of lumber, worth $50 900, ,recenily
passed Winona, Minnesota
Miss Bessie >Cheever, of New York, is the re-
ported yfanees of Phil Sheridan. sr- 80
A Kentucky lady has a pair of twins with
heads shaped like those Of snakes ar
A son of Charles Dickens is visiting Portland,
Oregon. He is q British naval officer.
The housekeeper of George Sand is said to be
her ilIegi,imate daughter by Eugene Sue.
The Arkansas negroes have a fne plan-to
pre,empt lands and hire Chinese laborers 10
work them.
Leonide Leblanc, one of the leading Partisan
deni mondaines, is said to be worth over q
million francs.
There was a set of jewelry valued at six hun
dred dollars in a bouquet recently thrown to a
New York danseuse.
A Utica minister repreheuds the Good Tenn
plar meetings as being more for the purpose of
flirtatious than to serve God or temperance.
Jenny Lind has become quite poor. Her hus-
band has squandered most of her money. 1t is
thought that she will open school for opera
singers in Paris.
There is said to be young lady in Jefferson
Vile who can easily swim across the Ohio river
and back again, without stopping to rest The
dear little 4" duck ~
| At Frankfort-on- the Main journeyman tailor
lately married, who had been betrothe1 to his
bride for SO years. The bridegroom was 6s and
the bride Ga years old.
| The other day lady in the Dark Corner OF
Carroll county, Georgia, gave birth to twins.
On the same day and in the some house two OF
her daughters brought forth twins-all boys.
The tunnel of the Marietta (Oho) railroad is
cut under we'll of excellent water. The well is
as good as ever, and not drop of water leaks
through, although crowded trains pass directly
under it.
| Musical instruments being scarce in Georgia,
a party of young men in one of the cities have
put their money together and bought a hand Or
gan with which they treat their fair friends to
nightly serenades.
Emma Britton, who was born in the Alamo, at
San Antonio, Texas, while Santa Anna was bat
tering down the walls, died at Galveston, last
week. She was an erring woman, but " daugh-
ter OF the Alamo " nevertheless.
A number of citizens of East Hartford, Con-
nectcut, have banded together for the purpose
of arresting and prosecuting persons guilty OF
shooting, fishing, firing guns, and roaming about
the fields and woods on Sundays.
About eight years ago a prominent merchant
in New York accepted deed for plot of ground
in the vicinity Of Chicago for an old debt. The
plot then valued at about $500: He has
recently sold oue-half of the plot for 100000
The diamond region, in Brazil, from whence
the larger portion Of the diamonds in the world
have been derived, is large valley, surrounded
by deep and lofty mountains, and called the VAL
ley of Fire. 1t is forty-four miles long by
twenty-five in width, and is the property of the
government
The Dublin Express contains account of the
forcible removal of young girl into nunnery
in Beturbet, county Cavan, by her mother, aided
by crowd, who dragged her violently through
the streets, Notwithstanding her screams and
struggles. Her father, who is Protestant, is
about to take legal proceedings to recover her.