Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-02-06

lion dollars have been recently uneartbed in tb,
New York custom-house. They have been goinf
on two years.
THE track on the Central Pacific railroad il
now laid five hundred miles from Sacramento
The gap between the eastern end of the Centra
and the western end of the Union Pacific is ,
little less than three hundred miles
CoNvIcrED.-John P. Thiel was convicted il
the United States Court of San Francisco OF
Tuesday last on the charge of issuing fraudulen
naturalization papers. The jury was out but y
minutes. His sentence has not yet been imposed
The journalists of Berlin have held meetint
and adopted an address to General Grant. askin.
him, as President elect, to propose to Congress
the passage OF bill establishing an interna
tonal copyright law between the United States
and Germany
A DESPATCH dated January 2sth says the girl
Nina Ransache, at Burlington Wisconsin, wa:
still lying in the state of trance which bega,
January 9th. Physicians have tapped a vein
from which blood flowed as if from a living per
son.
ON the 29th ult. the House of Representatives
passed Boutwells constitutional amendment
taking it out of the power any State to deprive
citizen of the United States on the ground o
race, color or previous condition, of the right o
suffrage.
YOUNG Detroit girl Tilted youth of twenty
one, to whom she was engaged, for the affections
of widower of the ripe age of ffty-six. The
youngster thereupon shot his rival the girl got
crazy, and the murderer will doubtless hang.
making pleasant and complete denouement.
PUBLIC DEBT OF CALIFoRNIA.-The total debt
of the State, December 4th, 1868, exclusive of
cash in the treasury, was $3,526, SOC; the ag-
gregate debt of cities and counties in the State,
exclusive of assets, is 1856, 40 The acgre
gate OF all public debts is therefore, Sl3ls3376
IHE young gentiles who are ponring into Salt
Lake of late are said to be filing the young wives
OF the Mormon pariarchs with disgust of their
fractions of husbands. The patriarchs are get
ting worried abont it, and think of taking up
their harems and retreating further into the
wilderness
EDITORS ARE CHEAP.-A short time ago J. B
Fitch formerly of Healdsburg Standard shot !
P. w. Davis, another editor, through the head
and the wound supposed to be mortal Da
Wis however recovered. Fitch was indicted for
assault to kill, but was allowed to plead guilty
to assault and was fined fire dollars
The Supreme Court has decided that certif
Gates of Indebtedness, and greenbacks, as we'll as
other forms of national Indebtedness can not be
taxed by a State. This we hope will satisfy the
Democratic press and party on the score of tax
ing bonds. They will have to look for an other
hobby for the next campaign. We presume it will
be the tariff on the next occasion.
ALTITUDE OF WHITE PISE.-The following fig
ures in regard to altitude are furnished the Ner.
by Major E. A. Sherman, and were taken by him
with an Aneroid barometer on the morning Of
January 18th The hight of Silver Springs above
the sea is 1910 feet; that of the Eberhardt mine
s,s25 feet, and of the News office in Treasure
Cily, s,26s, and of Telegraph Peak o,254
Francisco. 1t has prevailed ever since last June
and at one time the fatality reached l4O cases in
single week. The disappearance Of the
scourge began with the first rain fall, and some
of the papers think that the abatement results
from the washing away o. the filth from the city
A change in the condition of the air is the more
probable reason.
IHE WHALES TRIAL.-At Toronto, January 23d.
the case of Whalen, the alleged murderer of
McGee, was before a full court The Judges
refuse to grant trial. The counsel applied
Tor leave to appeal to the Privy Council of Eng
land. After consultation the Court decided
that it had DO right to grant appeal so far as
the Canada courts are concerned the law will
have to take its course.
ACCORDING to the Times, drugging Hauor. 70,
the purpose of robbing those who drink it, is
oe'ng practiced to an alarming extent in San
Francisco. Several persons have been brought
10 the station-house, who were perfectly nsensi-
Ole In some instances, and crazy in others, from
the enects, as they declared, of single drink oil
hquor which they drank in some of the ~ chain.
hgntning reservoirs which abound in that city
IMPORTANT TO GRAPE GRowERs-We under.
s'and' says the Folsom Telegraph, that on the
eo"pietion OF the Central Pacific railroad the
company intend to arrange to send grapes through
70 Ne" York for 800 per ton and furnish cars
iO' Tue purpose on their road The price of table
sApe' ''ne white varieties) has ranged from fifty
en'E-hEe cents per pound, and scarce at
'n"' IN California they are worth three to four
eH's' a"u II is said that California, with her
thousands of vineyards, will not be able to sup-
ply New York city alone.