Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-05-22
Miscellaneous Items.

Jerusalem is to have a weekly newspaper.
Salt Lake now contains 80, 900 Mormons and
5000 Genties.
Diamonds, of one and two carats weight, have
been discovered in Georgia.
The people Of northern Mexico talk of seeding
from the Juarez government.
| Four thousand sheep are boiled down daily by
an Australian tallow establishment.
The Boston Post calls Brigham Young's harem
"a sorosis on strict family basis"
The 'can-can" dance is prohibited in Rich
mond, by proclamation of the Mayor.
Consumption is much less fatal now in Massa-
chusetts than it was fifteen years ago.
The Queen of Holland recently attempted to
kill herself on account of domestic troubles.
The maple sap in New England, this season, is
said to be much sweeter to the taste than usual.
Naughty boys in Manchester, New Hampshire,
are fined one dollar for playing marbles on Sun
day.
The untmbered plains between the Mississippi
and the Pacific have area of l 400, 900 square
miles.
white man recently took out a license in
Wilmington, North Carolina, to marry colored
woman.
La Czoehe, funny paper, was recently confs-
Gated in Paris for speaking of /" our venerable
Empress"
| The Mount Vernon estate of General Washing
ton is advertised to be sold on the 10th of June
by auction.
London has " Temporary Home" for lost
and starving dogs, at which l2 ,465 CANNES were
last year cared for.
The wife of Marshall valiant, who died few
weeks ago, had heavy beard, and during her
lifetime shaved daily.
Rosina D. Richardson is the New Hampshire
giantess, and has married John A. Wood, who
weighs 130 pounds to her 400.
William Powers, who lost leg on the Kear-
sarge in her fight with the Alabama, gets So,
600, 600 by the death of an uncle.
Five hundred and eighty-seven executions by
Spanish drum-head courts-martal have been re-
ported by the American agents in Cuba.
Michigan City is in Indiana, Kansas City is in
Missouri, Nevada City is in California, and Ne
vada and Montana each have a Virginia City.
Mrs. Nichols, widow of General Nichols, Sher
mans late Adjutant- General, has just been ap
pointed Postmistress at Leavenworth, Kansas.
Kossuth makes precarous living as a copyis
of legal documents in Turin. He refuses all pc
cuniary assistance at the hands oe his friends.
A New York paper says: Doctor Hayes
wishes to go north again. No Arctic explorer i:
really happy until he has failed to come back
The cenetary of the birth of Napoleon l. will
be extensively celebrated in France the 18th OF
August next. 1t is the great fete day of the
year.
Moritz Hartmann, the Austrian poet and jour-
nalist, says that there are more busts of Lincoln
AMI Grant in North Germany than of all the Ger
man princes.
A young man at St. Louis lately died from the
rupture of blood vessel, in paroxysm of grief
over the death of the young lady whom he was
to have married.
Brigham Young's two sons, now frolicking
somewhere in Europe, are regarded as d" sus-
pcious characters" and the Danish police have
orders to arrest them.
America has "Grace Darling in the person
of Miss Ida Lewis, daughter of a lighthouse
keeper in Rhode Island harbor. She has al
ready saved nine lives.
The young ladies of New York are adopt
ing the role of s'sweet simplicity and appear
at balls and parties in short muslin dresses,
without ornaments of any kind
A rich citizen of Cincinnati is going to pre-
sent to that city a beautiful fountain, costing
$50, 900, thirty feet high, and surmounted by a
female figure in bronze. The work is to be done
in Euremburg.
A letter from Egypt thus describes the Prince
of Wales: The Prince was stout young man
with full beard, looked rather bloated, but on
the whole appeared quite jolly fellow. He Is
already quite bald.'
English papers are grumbing over the TACT
that Prince Arthur interferred with the Unlver-
sity boat-race, by ordering his boat where 1t had
no business, and one print suggests that ne
ought to have been ducked.
Boston is said to have young lady who is
worth $500, 900, who travels with thirteen
trunks, two band-boxes and o poodle. No one
has yet been found possessed of sufficient bravery
to take charge of the whole lot.
An eccentric man of fifty, in Brooklyn, Con-
necticut, recently dug his own grave, and sent
for his friends to see him kill himself, and. lean
ing over the brink, shot himself through the
head, falling dead into the grave.
The daughter whom Miss Howard bore to the
| Emperor Napoleon has recently married cap
tain of the imperial guard. The Emperor gave
her dover of so, 900 francs. She was married
as Mile de Beauregard. She is not admitted to
court circles.
Bradshaw, the eminent practitioner of physIe,
against whom Miss Furgeson has recovered, IN
Ohio, verdict of $lO, 900 for repeated breaches
of PROMISE converted his property into money
and left for undiscovered realms when the YER
diet was rendered.
| Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe gives up her pian-
tation in Florida, for the reason that her title,
acquired at military tax sale, does not hoio
good and the original owner rega'ns posses
sion, paying Mrs. Stowe the amount she ex-
pended for the estate.
! A shipwrecked Yankee was lately rescued
from one of the Marquesas islands, whose first
question on being discovered was, " How did
the Mexican war finally come outT' He bad
been soldier who had left General Sect S
army before the campaign closed.
One night, recently, a negro in Kentucky stole
a slaughtered hog, and while getting the carcass
over a fence it slipped, catching the gambrel-
stick over his neck and By its weight strangling
him to death. The next morning they were
found-hog one side the fence and negro on
the other.
| The name of Napoleon's present mistress is
Marguerite Bellanger. Marguerite is old
| fame of the imperial sphynx. 1t was at tender
tete-a-tete with her that the jealous Empress sur
prised her fai,lless liege lord one fine evening
in the year 1865, when nice little scene occur
red in which the frail Marguerite saucily re-
fused to comply with the demand of the En-
press that she should Immediately leave Paris.