Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31
Miscellaneous Items.

A forty years engagement In South Carolina
has eliminated in matrimony.
Nearly one-balf the type-settng on the Paris
literary papers is done by women.
The Gear is afraid of the women. He has in
terdicted Sorosis at st. Petersburg.
The Scottish clergymen are Drawing the censure
of their parshioners by cultivating moustaches.
large meteoric stone fell on the farm of B.
F. Harris, near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, few nights
ago.
an English physician of good standing has
been fined for refusing to have his children vac
cnated.
Kentucky towns refuse to license negro beer
sellers, but reserve the employment for the supe-
rior race,
In a new town in Iowa all the deeds stipulate
that intoxicating liquor shall never be sold on
| the premises.
The bodies of the soldiers killed in the memo
rable Fort Kearney massacre, have been found
to be petri6ed.
The Houston Telegraph says that thirty cents a
day will supply family with meat and vegeta-
bles in that city.
The Memphis Appeal advocates the introduce
tion of 10 900 Chinese lnborers into the South as
soon as possible.
The Berlin Tribune says that Count Bismark
will shortly send his two sons for several months
! to the United States.s
Several New York churches have the contr-
button boxes passed around by handsome young
ladies: and it pays handsomely.
A lady in st. Louis has promised gentleman
| that if she does not marry some one else within
nine months she will accept him.
Sugar plums, rich food wine and beer are
among the things which the royal children in
Prussia are never allowed to taste.
The New York Tribune thinks 'sbegging Office
is the poorest business on the face of the earth" ="
Some people hereabouts don't think so.
The chief of the Cherokees is a Presbyterian
preacher; he of the Choctaws Baptist preacher,
and of the Creeks Methodist preacher.
In Russellville, Kentucky, the colored popula-
tion have had " tournament" with "queen
of love and beauty" to distribute the prizes.
school in which girls are to be learned
trades is the late demand of philanthropsts, and
one of the most sensible. Give the girls trade,
it won't hurt them.
Scientific men say that the time of the diurnal
revolution of the earth is gradually being short
ened on account of shrinkage of the earth by
cooling in the interior.
The British ship Blue Jacket was burned at sea
in March last, while on the passage from New
Zealand to England. Out of sxty-nine souls on
board, only eight were saved.
Viscount Adair son of the Esrl of Dunraven,
who has an immense income of his own, and has
just married an heiress, is coming to America to
study our politics and society.
| In Vienna, for the six years from 1862 to 1868,
there were GA, 500 legitimate and CO ,05l illegit-
mate births. startling commentary on the
morals of the Austrian capital.
Mauna Loa, dome shaped, volcanic mountain
on the island of Hawaii contain two lakes, side
by side, one of fresh water and the other salt
Both are far above the level of the sea.
The Paris Pays says that the family of Jeff.
Davis is very poor, and that the French admirers
of the exPresident of the Southern Confederacy
should take steps to relieve their wants
fearful and unknown malady is now raging
among the inhabitants of the interior of the State
of Vera Cruz. People are dying by hundreds,
and the towns and villages are deserted.
A Richmond county jury, who were obliged to
find verdict for rent against a worthy colored
man, also brought into Court thirty-one dollars,
their own contribution, to help pay the amount.
| lady and her daughter from Dubuque, Iowa,
were lately received into the Jewish church of
Chicago, the ceremony being followed by the
marriage, next day, of the daughter with Jew
ish gentleman.
| Miss Sally r. Banks, of Amercus, Georgia,
has received the appointment of Deputy Collector
Of Internal Revenue for that collection district,
comprising the counties of Maron, Schley, Sum-
ter and Webster.
stringent prohibition against the cultivation
of the poppy iu China has been published in the
Pekin Gazette. /: is said that the culture of the
poppy interferes seriously with the production
of food for the masses.
| gang of English pickpockets made clean
| Al e.
One of them was attired in rig that attracted
the attention of every one, and meantime the
rest went through the careless gazers.
There is nothing like sticking to one branch
of business, however small. A man has ped
died popcorn on the Fitchburg Massachusetts }
road till he is worth upward of one hundred
thousand dollars. And he still keeps at it.
Sir Henry Rawlinson, the distinguished arch
ielogist, maintains that Babylon is the site of
the Garden OF Eden, and that the Babylonian
documents uow extant give an exact geographic
cal description of the scene of q man first DISC
bedience.'
1t is said that the ladies who carelessly SUBJ
mitted to the golden hair dyeing process, now
heartily regret that they ever attempted to be
I" beautiful blondes Badness begins to
threated them. Also, in few instances, para
lysis of the facial muscle has resulted.
A communication from Cracow states that
the remains of Casimir the Great, the last of the
; Piast dynasty, which reigned in Poland in the
fourteenth century, have just been discovered in
: vault in that city. crown and sceptre in ex.
cellent preservation were found in the tomb.
The fashionable circles of Brooklyn are dis.
turbed just now by well-founded report tina,
the daughter of wealthy merchant, living on
the Heights, eloped last week with her fathers
coachman while those of South Boston are
hardly less agitated over the fact that youne
= lady of social position and culture, and one o.
the bellies of that aristocratc locality, has adopted
the stage as profession, and will appear at ON,
of the New York theatres next autumn.
r At Newport, Kentucky, Thomas Downes wa,
:, arraigned in court to answer the charge CT com
mitt:ng rape on Annie McShane BOVINE,
d took a seat at the side of his attorney and tb,
: first witness for the prosecution had Just bee,
g called, when Hugh 'McShane, brother of tn,
s young woman, who had accompanied her to th
l. courtroom, drew pistol from his pocket, an,
g before any one could interfere, placed it within
s few feet Of Downey's head and fred. The bal
e passed entirely through the prisoners throat
y anterior to the wind-pipe, and lodged in th
wall of the courtroom. The wound produce,