Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-08-07
Miscellaneous Items.


as q lunatic.
Governor-eiect Walker, of Virginia, is said to
be the handsom=st man in the State. GO Hand
some is that handsome does"
An emigrant train, consisting Of man, his
wife, and four children, all barefoot, is walking
through Ohio on the way West.
| The Paris bellies seem untitled for matrimony.
The Countess de Schoney is the seventh who
has died in .chldbed within year.
| Henri Rochefort's illegitmste daughter, who
is pupil at Madame Bucsson's seminary in
Paris, is a beautiful girl of sixteen.
The national flag was unfurled at White Sui
phur Springs, Virginia, on the Fourth, for the
first time since the beginning of the late war.
Memphis must be a delightful place for the
home of peace-loying citizen. There has been
forty-three murders and homicdes in that city
during the past year
\ The woman immigrants from Northern Europe
who have settled in the West, continue their old
habits of working in the fields, and they can do
| as much work as the men.
| Mohammedan merchant recently arrived at
Marseilles accompanied by his hareD, the inmates
of which preambulated the streets of that city
in the dress of European ladies.
young man of Memphis has appeared in St.
Louis to claim the reward of $lOO advertised for
news of missing girl. He married her, the
other day, after a successful elopement.
The Detroit Post thinks that our naval vessels,
If we would have them inspire terror, should re-
ceive such names Cholera and Tellow Fever,
Nitro -Gtycerine, Susan B. anthony, Anna Diekin-
son, etc.
A Leavenworth editor is in quest Of special at
fractions for his paper. He says: I" What we
want for this column is personalities, MS mean MS
of l.fr aI
by the writer-funeral expenses by u.s."
The St. Paul Press says that half the business
of the courts in Illinois seems to be to satisfy
the vengeance of women because they cannot
get the men to marry them, and the other half
to enable women to get rid of the men who have
married them.
About thirty or thirty feet of rock has givn
way on the Horse Shoe Fall, on the side nearest
Goat Island. 1t is computed that some seventy
10 one hundred tons of rock must have fallen in
The fall of these rocks does not in the least spoil
the beauty of the fall.
The towns Of Wallingford and Shrewsbury
Vermont, much excited over the discovery
of a valuable lead mountain F" within their ter
ritory. Some of the rock has been blasted out
and specimens sent to New York, Boston and
Washington for examination.
About $500 in Portuguese money, which has
been lying unclaimed in the Merchants bank at
Boston for 40 years-ever since two seamen in
dicted for murder, but afterwards discharged,
were ordered TO deposit il there-was turned
over to the State treasury July 9Th.
curious instance of New Hampshire justice
is reported. A was convicted of assault
and battery. The Justice placed the man under
$50 bonds to keep the peace and ordered COM
plainant to pay half the costs, on the ground
that this will keep peace in the family.
A young man of New Orleans agreed to become
prize in lottery at Il ladies' fair upon the
derstanding that it should DE arranged for a
very nice young woman 10 I" draw " him. There
was some mistake, by which an elderly spinster
claims the price, and talks of breach of
promise.
An English chemist claims to have discovered
method by which he can convert a human body
into solid stone. This will do away with the
necessity OF sculptors. When we want to have
the statue of great man, we have only to wait
until he dies, and then turn him into stone and
" set him up"
young German merchant in Boston lately
asked young lady in Austria a very interesting
question, and received the happy yes " by the
Atlantic cable. Vienna paper, in chronicling
the fact, says: Perhaps the bride and bride
groom may exchange in the same way their first
kisses, which would be electrifying indeed
The gambing-hell at Wiesbaden lost, during
the month of May, 1,oO0,O 900 francs-a gang Of
counterfeiters having staked large amounts of
spurious French currency, and won nearly every
day. Most of the counterfeit money remained
in the hands of the proprietors of the gambling
hell, while the counterieits carried off the gold
and genuine bank notes.
An American student at the Freiburg Mining
Academy created, on the 18th of MAY, a great
sensation in Saxony, by starting on n velocpede
Journey from Dresden to Paris. The peasants
on the route had never seen a velocipede before,
and some of the women and children were very
much frightened at its appearance. In one small
city OF Saxony he was arrested for travelling
without license as mountebank and juggler.
The Italian journal La Voce states that during
recent visit made by Mr.. John Jay. the Ameri-
can Minister at the court of Vienna, to a relative
at Baveno on the Laga Maggiore, sernade was
given him by the band of the Isola Luperfore,
succeeded in the evening by illumination.
The population, it adds, assembled in honor of
the representative of the great republic, and the
flags of America and Italy were blended together
in token of the friendship of the two countries.