Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-11-13
Miscellaneous Items,

the rivers in the White mountains.
Washington special says 100, 900, 900 letters
passed through the mails last year.
The third London life insurance company that
has failed within six months is the Imperial
Guardian.
SLAYER having two hundred and fifty negroes
on board was captured on the Arabian coast by
British cruiser.
woman in Concord, New Hampshire, crazed
by religious excitement, insists upon preaching
in the garb of Eden.
A keg of powder recently exploded in the
hands of Pennsylvania miner, and injured but
did not kill the holder,
Methodist minister in Tennessee is under
arrest on charge of trying to organize band
of thieves and murderers.
Within the past year $500 people, mostly
from foreign countries, passed through Pittsburg,
on the way to join the Mormons at Salt Lake.
The London Telegraph states that NJ. de Les
seps is soon to mary very pretty young lady of
sixteen-forty-four years younger than himself
Mr.. Love- the English Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, is an accomplished velocipedist, al
though he began practice at the age of fifty
eight.
Juarez in Mexico said to be former Liberals
who failed 10 get Office after Macmillan was
executed.
In Many towns in France, women possess the
right to vote in municipal affairs and In one of
them it is said that the Council was recently
composed wholly of women.
The whole of Eastern Kentucky is reported to
be overrun with horse thieves, whose operations
are on such bold and extended scale that
hardly any citizen dares attempt to own or keep
horse.
Sir John A. Macdonald, the Canadian Prime
Minister, said, in a recent cOnye yersaton that the
man was fool who talked of Canadian independ-
ence and that there was much more sense in
Canadian annexation.
writer in nacmillan's Magazine states it as
fact that the master of certain Sunday ragged
school in London has to let the children out in
time to pick the pockets of the people leaving
church, OF else loose his pupils.
Minnesota boy, under age, applied for
farm under the homestead law but was denied
on the ground that he was not married. In just
thirty-two minutes he returned with remedy to
the difficulty hanging to his arm.
Judge J. W. Johnson, one of the new Virginia
Senators, is Roman Catholic. The Bristol
News, published near his home, says that by his
election Virginia sends to the Senate chamber
the purest man that has graced its walls for half
century.
laborers, but declares its wish to be for ntelli-
gent, independent farmers and mechanics, who
will "promote the Christian arts of science, sup
port and maintain schools, churches and become
landlords, householders and taxpayers"
At the Metropolitan hall, London, at a recent
benefit, three hundred musical and other per-
formers appeared in one night and on the tight
rope Mr.. Forrest and sons performed some won
drous feats, each making series of somersaults
while n1avinU yo1u withOuf
Hitherto no Jews have been admitted to any
Austrian university as professors. This prohi-
btion has now been removed, and the first Jew
ish professor has been appointed in the person of
DR.. Mauthner, who has obtained the chair of
ophthalmic surgery in the university of Inns
bruck.
Pedestrians on the streets appear to have some
rights. An injured one in Boston has Just re-
covered 81 800 damages for three ribs broken by
wagon as be was attempting to cross
thoroughfare. When drivers understand that
every rib is worth $500, they will be apt to have
more care.
The recent freshet in the Kennebec has de-
stroyed and driven away the saltwater fish along
the shore. The beach, from Fort Popham to
Small Point, is largely covered with dead lob
ste-s. Fishman from Kettle Bottom report that
the fresh water extends twenty miles seaward
from Seguin.
There is only one steam fire engine in France
This one is of the American pattern, and is
owned by the city of Havre. The other French
towns, including the capital ITSELF depend for
the extinguishment of fires upon hand engines
about the size OF a garden hose, and worked by
soldiers called pOmpiers.
When the corporation of Montreal assembled
to deliberate upon the reception to be given to
the Prince, majority of the members plainly
ihtlmatec that they considered 81 800 too much
to expend in decorating the streets, and that
they agreed to vote for such an amount because
they considered that, in all probability, it was
the last occasion of the kind that would occur in
the Dominion.
A female somnambulist, in New Haven. left
her bed the other night, went to the closet.
selected the laudanum bottle from a number of
others, and took hearty draught The cold
air or something else finally awakened her. and
when she found out what she had done there
was lively stirring for doctor. She was kent
walking for seven hours, and narrowly escaped
fatal consequences.
Statistics prove that an actors life is conduc
tive to longevity. Charles Matthews. for in
stance is 65, but plays like man of 80. Benia
min Webster is on the stage at 10. WI. Payne.
popular English pantomimist, plays actively
every night, though he is near 80. Madame
Celeste has been playing since 1880. Deiazet At
IL
Foy and Lefevre, are other old French actors
who still retain the freshness of juvenilitv. In
this country George Holland is fair specimen
of welcome longevity.
There is at livery stable in Marshall, Missouri;
horse which is subject to fits of INSANITY. a
week ago it left the stables, and in its insane
wandering broke into the yard of the residence
of Mrs. Walker, broke through the hall door of
the house, also door leading into private
sleeping apartment, and there concluded its
freaks by falling upon and smashing bed in the
room. The mad animal remained in the room
until it was day, when with the help of some of
the neighbors the boys put it out on the com
mons.
The emigration from the river Mersey durino
the month of September consisted of L GIT per-
sons, of whom the great majority are English.
The emigration from the Mersey for the quarter
Just ended was under the act, Al, 1892 persons,
and in short ships 2,6l0, total, 47,942. OF
these emigrants 3s.957 were for the United
States, and 7,443 to Canada, leaving only l,542
for the rest of the world. Compared with the
same quarter of 1868, the emigration of the past
Quarter shows an increase of IL, 224.
1t is stated in one of the French papers that