Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-06-26
miscellaneous Items.

a lady IN Putman, New 1ork, mas Oleu OF
having too many teeth extracted at once.
| A young woman has just carried off the prize
as the best rife shot at Lucerne, Switzerland.
| Garibaldi is so sick that his physicians have
declared he will hardly be able to leave his bed
again.
The wool growers of Germany are complaining
of the competition of the wool growers of Cali
fornia.
| teachers meeting will be held at Berlin this
summer, at which about 3 900 teachers will be
present.
At the Conservatory of Music, in Eeipsc, two
young colored men from the Island Of Cuba are
studying music.
startling number of private residences are
being destroyed throughout the South by the
work of incendiaries.
man tried to shoot his wife IN Paris, short
time ago, but the ball entered her chingeon and
did not reach her head.
In the Swiss village of Gurbrue, numbering
| about 800 inhabitants, no one died from Febru-
ary, 1858, to February, 1869.
At Stettin, Prussia, in eight establishments,
800 horses, yielding about 100000 pounds of
meat, were butchered last year.
At Schiers, Switzerland, a singing festival was
held lately, when 80 singing societies, with from
700 to 500 singers, participated.
widower went to Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, May 10th, buried his wife and left town
with new made bride on the 18th.
Brazilian savant claims to have "m made dis
coveries which indicate that men were on the
banks of the Amazon 10000, years ago."
| All mail matter is now forwarded from the
Sacramento post-ofce to the East overland
papers as well as letters; none by steamer.
fhe island of Symi, one of the Sporades, has
been recently destroyed by earthquake
Many people were injured and few killed.
The jury in the Craig-Sprague breach of
promise case at Chicago, found verdict of
500, 600 for the plaintiff, who school
marm.
In Berlin about 1000 journeymen house-car-
penters have been striking recently for an
increase of their daily wages from 52I to 70
cents, gold.
clergyman in Norway, Maine, was recently
detected E an improper intimacy with woman.
She was banished, and he was tarred, feathered
and ridden on a rail.
wealthy London merchant is bearing all the
expenses of the Marriage Reform Association, -
in order to legitimize his children by marriage
with deceased wife's sister.
The Union Pacific railroad bridge over the
Missouri river will cost $2,OOO00O. 1t will be
elevated on eleven piers two hundred and fifty
feet apart and seven feet above high water mark.
A family by the name of Turnbull have filled
the position of Clerk of Brunswick county, Vir-
ginia for one hundred and thirty-three years.
General Stoneman removed the last of them
from office.
A negro jury down South, having convicted a
man of numbering another who is still alive, are
in quandary whether to rescind the verdict or
let the prisoner kill his man. The majority
favor the latter plan.
The Boise Democrat says that no oak grows in
Idaho On the south of the Snake river there
are fir and mountain mahogany. On the plains
and table lands sage brush and grass alone af-
ford relief to the eye.
Twelve students were recently suspended and
two expelled from Fairfax (Vermont) institute,
for violating the bylaw which prohibits the
students from walking talking with young
ladies in public places.
There are uow living in Chattanooga county,
(Tenn.,) one p. 7. Carroll, aged 80 years, and
his wife, So years Of age, who have had "A
children-2O sons and daughters-in "a years,
all single births. They continue married.
Senor Marfori, the "intendant" of the ex
Queen of SPAIN, was robbed of Sc, 900 the other
day by his valet, who adrotly picked his mas
ters pocket of his keys while the latter was
asleep on the sofa, and took the money out of a
private drawer.
youth of Is, in New Bedford, who deter
mined to marry against his fathers will, was
complained of as a disobedent child and the
case continued for sentence so that he could be
shut up for want of bail till his father gets ready
to take him on whaling voyage.
| The Ukiah (Mendocino county, Democrat saws
that William H. Kelly, a merchant at Big river
has COW that gave birth to an elk calf. He
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Several persons have seen the funny stranger,
and report it elkish in manner but catfish in taste
An excellent quality of sugar is being made
from the common field pumpkin. In Hungary
several large factories have been in operation
since 1887. The yield is about eight per cent
of saccharine syrup, and four per cent of sugar.
1t is made by the same process as that of beet
sugar.
In New York, Miss Carrie Roberts, beautiful
blonde of twenty years, ran away with her
fathers coachman, Patrick O'Connor, and they
were married but the next morning the lady
returned home, and said that her action was
only for fun. Proceedings for a divorce are to
| instituted.
! The Emperor of Russia has issued decree or
derng that all reduced Polish noblemen shall be
conducted to the fertile plains of the Eastern
provinces, for the purpose of founding colonies
on grounds gratutously ceded to them for that
purpose. Many families have already availed
themselves of this decree.
Vast ruins have been discovered in the Zulu
country in South Africa-obeisks with colossal
carvings, terraces and halls of hewn stone or cut
out of the solid rock. The natives regard them
with mysterious awe, and keep strangers from
them for fear that if they are approached no
rain will fall for three years.
Mayor Knight of Dubuque, of Iowa, who has
recently returned from tour in the Northwest
says the rush of emigrants to the West this
spring is beyond all precedent. In every direc-
ton far as the eye reach the prairie is lit
orally dotted with canvas-covered wagons, and
many families living in tents.
At the present day there are only 10, 900 per.
sons in Ireland who can speak the Irish Ian
guage. The entire population of the island is
7,oOo,0 900. Thus, only one man in thirty, in
% Erin's Isle" can speak the original language
OF the country. Another generation and the
Irish language will nearly be extinct.
Reindel, the Prussian executioner, had, the
other day, to behead an old woman who had
murdered her husband and step-child. She was
dreadfully terrified, and, at her request, the ex.
ecutioner was brought, on the day previous to
her execution, into her cell, where she put