Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-08-14
Miscellaneous It.ms.

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wan-faced skeleton.
A butting match is one Of the features of ne
gro tournament in Tennessee.
Bonner, it is said, has offered $40, 900 for the
| famous trotting mare American Girl.
Brigham Young has recently married again.
| His new bride is Miss Follansbee, of Boston.
An Indiana court has decided in favor of the
majority ballot-that man with more white tha n
negro blood can vote.
Queen Olga, of Greece, was delivered at Corfu
| of her second baby-an additional candidate for
| the Byzantine throne.
/ The town of Helena, Montana, almost conn.,
pletey destroyed by fire, has been in the last w
months entirely rebuilt.
systematic persecution of the Jews, accom-
panied by horrible outrages, is reported in the
Danubian pnncipalities.
A bed OF green mottled granite, the first ever
found in this country, has been discovered on the
line of the Adirondack railroad.
A Frenchman has purchased FIVE Thousand d
acres of swamp in Tennessee, and proposes rails
ing frogs for the Memphis market
Since the publication of the New York revenue
returns, it has become matter of comment how
many men without incomes keep carriages.
The Duke of Newcastle needn't want. His
wifes income is $4,000: and the revenues OF
his estates alone will pay million OF his debts.
| The politicians concocting the Boutwell, Presi-
| dency scheme, did it for the express purpose of
creating difficulty between Grant and his Sec
retary.
Tom Allen was received - at Louisville by
the ladies of the Galt House, for whom he
played the piano." which the pugilist is pro-
ticient.
All the principle mines at White Pine, except
the Eberhardt started up work on Monday, I'd
| instant, at four dollars wages. The men are not
molested.
Chicago is now the great distributing post
Office for all the American mails from China,
Japan, the Sandwich Islands, and the States of
the Pacific slope.
Prince Arthur has been recommended for a
commission after three days course of study in
engineering. What disgusting toadyism -
worse, crocodilism.
The London sewers to be turned into a
great drain. running forty miles into the country,
and the Thames is to be reclaimed, tree-b bored
and made genteel river.
The principle gamblers of Moscow are Russians
and Americans. Among the latter are several
females, who may be seen morning and evening
at the rogue ct nor tables.
1t is calculated that the quantity of beer an
nually produced in Europe exceeds 800 900, 900
gallons. Bavaria produces most in proportion
to her population, and Russia least.
Engineers are now surveying the route of the
New York underground railroad. Their report
will be submitted in October. 1t is estimated
the road will cost ten million dollars.
A citizen of Belfast, Maine, who had not seen
his son tor eight years, and supposed him dead
recognized him as one of the acrobats in a circus
which recently exhibited in that city.
Secretary Robson unofficially announces that
he won't annul the anomalous naval nomenca-
ture of his friend Bore, which Congress, how
ever, Will DO when 1t comes together.
The removal of mound in Rome brought to
light superb block of rose-colored aabaster
containing two thousand four hundred and
thirty-seven cubic inches-the largest, probably,
IL the world
1t is said that South Abingdon Massachusetts,
produces more boots and shoes, its proportion
to its population, than any other town in the
United States or the world. The shoemakers
number 400 in that town alone.
Henderson, the English forger, who made
ninety.fve thousand dollars out of New York
bank altered check, and was released on
two thousand dollars bail, of course ran away
Now even his paftry bail is found worthless.
| The darkeys at the South assist the revenue
officers in making seizures of illicit distilleres
and tobacco factories. The negroes hunt the
game and the officers bag it. 1t is not stated
whether they divide the proceeds.
| An East Indian correspondent of New York
paper notes the intense hostile feeling of the ma
tives Of that country to the English rule, and
says that sixty days without protection of British
troops would not leave single European surv-
vor on the peninsula.
| A French chemist named Fretreau has at last,
according to lie Gaulois, discovered the philoso-
| l,,ba and dad tla f, -
of nitric acid and electricity, in converting silver
into gold Unfortunately, however, the cost of
the process is many times greater than the value
of the metal produced.
A Chicago paper says Sprauge does not yield
gracefully 10 the court award of $4,000 of his
estate to Miss Craig for failing to marry her.
He has taken the question TO the Supreme court
of Illinois for final adj ustment. If he has ccun-
sci who know how to avail themselves skillfully
of the many technicalities and procrastinations
of the law, Miss Craig will stand good chance
of being gray y-headed before she touches dol
lar of that money-if she ever touches it. Law
as know, is a great thing. A Turkish Cad
would soon settle the dispute-and no doubt
justly.
Several weeks ago William Marcy of Montgom-
cry Centre, Vermont, married "a young girl
there, Notwithstanding he was engaged to
girl in Putney. Hearing that this account
some OF the people were going to give him a
tin pan serenade, he ran away to Putney and
married his first love. Ignorant of his second
marriage, his Montgomery wife sent neighbor,
who went to Putney on business, to tell him it
was all safe and bring him back. Supposing
the man was an officer come to arrest him for
bigamy, he made for Pennsylvania leaving both
wives behind.
| THE Use OF WALKING.-Walking for Young
and active people, is by far the best exercise
riding is good for the elderly, middle-aged, and
invalids. The abuse of these exercises consists
n taking them when the system is exhausted
more or less by previous fasting or BY mental
.abors. Some persons injudiciously attempt