Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-04-10
NeNYG Items.

Florida is about to embark in the cork tree
culture.
There is school for teaching ladies the veloc-
ipede in New York, but it is kept very private
| The HwanghO, great river in China now en-
ters the five hundred miles north of its recent
mouth
! Two men in Dubois county, Indiana recently
snapped wives, one paying three bushels of corn
! to boot
The annual earnings of the washerwomen of
the Uuited States are said to amount to S40,-
100000.
West Virginia, during the past year, has built
three thousand school houses where there were
scarcely any before.
The heirs of Noah Webster get S25 900 yearly
from the sales of his dictionary, of which num-
Der of new editions are announced.
South Carolina negroes are wholly unable to
understand why sheriff who has been elected
by themselves should ask them to pay any taxes.
The Secretary of War has ordered that ten
hours work day be exacted of laborers in the
Washington arsenal. Men have acceded to the
demand.
a vertable black diamond has been found
near Atlanta, Georgia, by Federal soldier. 1t
weighs two ounces, and is worth several thou
sand dollars.
In Boston, women are taxed on SIS, 900, 900 of
real estate and $l3 900 900 of personal property.
Some of them would like chance to vote on the
disposal of this property.
Ex-Mayor James Harper, of New York, was
thrown from his carriage and SO much injured
that he died on Saturday last, aged seventy-four
years. He was the founder of the great printing
house of Harper Brothers, and has done much
for American literature.
Intemperance is the great national vice of
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Legislature is called upon to interfere. Even
the victims it is said, join in the cry. The King
of Sweden sympathizes with the temperance
men, but hesitates to act The agitators call
for statute rigidly prohibiting the manufacture
of liquor.
ApPLEs.-A fruit dealer in Nevada, is pur=
chasing all the good Winter apples he can find, ,
for shipment to San Francisco. The best quail
ity of mountain apples are said to be worth fifty
per cent. more in San Francisco than the same
variety of fruit raised in the lower ralleys Ap-
pies raised high up among the lower foot hills
have much better favor than those raised in
the lower counties. This fact is becoming
generally known, and is destined to give stim-
uus to orchardists in the mountain regions
CUBA.-A war of determination is going on in
Cuba, prisoners shot almost soon as cap
tured. The prospects that the Cubans will
eventually drive the Spaniards from the island
are improving daily. The Spanish authorities
are organizing battalion of blacks. This itself
proves to what extent it is pushed to maintain
its authority.
LONG TERN. = The District Court sitting at
Shasta has been in session about FIVE weeks, and
probably will not finish the business on hand
before the regular term for this county Weare
informed that one divorce suit occupied between
two and three weeks, and that several other
cases have been very pertinaciously contested.
THE Vallejo Chronicle advocates the Crawford
county system of nominations and it NAV with
truth be said that the Union press of California
are numerous in its favor
ANNEXATION MovEMENT.-Robert ]. Walker
represents the Nova Scotia annexation;sts at
Washington, and the move is regarded as a Sc
rious one ~
IHE ADJoURSMEST.-Congres has by resolu-
tion, which has passed both Houses, determined
to adjourn to-day, April 10th.
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