Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-03
Missss,aaeous Itsns.
Texas has fifty-fiye female Postmasters.


Four United States Senators are passing the
summer in Europe.
Henry Ward Beecher's income is returned at
$4,000, and DR.. Chapin's at $4,000.
Since October, fourteen vessels have set out to
cross the Atlantic and never been heard of since.
Miss Lucy T. Bradshaw, of Montpelier, is the
official head of the Order of Good Templars in
the State of New York.
boy, aged thirteen, has been sent to prison
for week, in France, for seditious hurrah in
the presence of the Empress.
A Washington scapegrace beat most unmerci-
fully lady who had made her will in his favor,
because she didn't die fast enough.
Surgeons nose has become matter Of Lon
don newspaper comment. An irreverent scrib-
bier says it is as much red as his sermons.
Bishop Ames, in the Methodist Conference,
Alexandria, Virginia, denounces tobacco as DO
ing more injury TO the church than whisky.
Austria has three million acres of virgin for
ests produced by planting, which estimated
to be worth several hundred millions of forms.
1t is rumored that an uptown fashionable cler-
gyman of New York has thoughts of abandoning
the pulpit and taking the stage in Shakespearian
characters.
A Kentucky paper thinks that the word cro-
quet is too Frenchy, and proposes that the game
which it designates be hereafter called "Presby-
terian billiards"
In Willamsburgh, Long Island, there is man
one hundred and twenty-seven years old. He is
weaver by trade, and though too feeble to
work, is still lively.
The library in Philadelphia which received the
benefit of the estate of the late DR.. Rush, was
founded by Benjamin Franklin, ard is said to be
the richest in valuable old books in America.
The husband of the original Mrs. Bloomer has
been elected and inaugurated Mayor of Council
Bluffs, Iowa. Mrs. B. has long since quit her
peculiar dress for the more comey habit worn
by other women.
The South Bend Register tells of woman who
struck her husband on the head with a rolling
pin, after family prayers, the other day, because
he prayed for his children, and omitted to do
the same for her.
IT is said that two printers named Goldsmith
-one working on the Grass Valley (Cal) No
tiondI and the other on the Nevada GazeHe-have
fallen heirs to 900, 10y the death of their un-
Gle, Samuel Goldsmith, in Valparaiso.
Nearly / 200 men are now employed on the St.
Paul and Pacific railroad, some of whom have
been at work on the Union Pacific road. Cars
are already running 60 miles west of St. Paul,
and the ties are out for 80 miles further.
A burglar in St. Joseph, Missouri, made a
serious mistake few nights ago. He carefully
secreted himself under bed, and he would have
been entirely successful, had he not fallen to
sleep and awakened the people by his snoring.
The Cope District (6O miles northwest Of Elko)
gold fever prevails at White Pine. The new
mines are on the head of the South Fork of the
Owyhee river, and consist of argentilerous and
auriferous quartz ledges and place. gold dig
gings.
The New York Express has heard of an Amer
ican woman in Europe, s'who turned up her
aristocratic nose at a pocket handkerchief cost
ing 1000 francs, demanding one which had to
be fabricated, and which was not to cost less
than 10 ,0oOf.''
In Duncan county, Georgia, May Esd, Jack
Thompson shot and instantly killed his twin
brother William. The latter was attempting to
prevent Jack from shooting a negro, when he
turned and fired, with the result stated. The
tratrcidc made his escape.
A few days ago, Mr.. Strickland, of Granville,
Ceorgin, was married. While returning from
his bridal tour, he met a. man, between whom
and himself there was an old feud, and, in alter
cation which followed, Strickland was killed.
The bride came home with the corpse of her new
made husband.
Miss Jones, Postmistress at Winterset, Iowa,
recently married Mr.. Alfred Smith. Mrs Smith
is not known to the department as Postmis,ress,
Miss Jones has no longer c legal existence, and
Smith is anxious to know whether be has mar
red into the post-ofice, or has married the post
Office out Of the family.
The history of The bluefsh is remarkable. In
1894 they disappeared from New England waters,
and were not seen for sixty years. When they
returned-at irst to the waters south of Cape
Cod, afterward, in lS47, to Massachusetts bay
they were few in number, and disappeared with
the first cold now they are quite accima,ed
and comparatively hardy.
Carlottas fixed idea is that she is still in Mex
leo. She never tires of saying to her attend
ant: "Au OF you are poisoners but l am
watching you too closely for you to do me any
harm" For & while she absolutely refused to
take food but such as her sister-n-lay7 the Queen
Of Belgium, had already had in her mouth. The
kind-hearted Queen fed her in that way for fve
weeks.
The Independence Beige states that owing to
the impoverished state OF the finances the Turk
ish government has abandoned the intention i,
lately had of increasing its military forces. 1t
purposes, however, instead, to throw open the
ranks of the army to all the subjects of the Sui
tan, without any distinction, and a law with
this object is being prepared by the council OF
ministers.
The following was the population, at the last
! census, of the principal cities of North Ger
many: Berlin, 703 900; Hamburg, 2ls, 600 :
Breslau, l67 900; Dresden, l56, 900; Cologne.
10000; Konigsoerg. 100000; Madgeburg,
100000; Lepsic, $1,000; Dantzic, SIS, 900
Frankfort-on-the-Main, $4,000; Hanover "a.
900; Ste,tin, $4,000; AK Ia ChapeNe, GS, 900
Cremen, G.,0oo; Aiona, e7,ooO; Dusseldorf,
GO 900; Chemnitz, $4,000; Crefeld $4,000. The
rest of the cities of North Germany contained
! less than so, coo inhabitants each
| II young woman wishes to have herself pub.
| lished as g Fascinating, beautiful, and accom-
plished, /" lie. her pack up her best clothes in a