Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-10
Miscellaneous Items.

A Catholic priest has married in Circleville,
Ohio. He was promptly excommunicated.
Petroleum v. Nasty is said to have gained
$50, 900 during the past year by his lectures.
A colored preacher in Georgia can be heard
two miles when he gets warmed up to his work.
The production OF petroleum in West Virginia
is on the decrease, several important wells hav-
ing nearly dried up.
| General Jubal A. Early is making speeches in
Virginia for Walker, the Conservative Republi-
can candidate for Governor.
Letters from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
| say the feeling for annexation to the United
States is steadily increasing.
T. D. Lemon of Laporte, Indiana, has in his
possession a couple of Easter eggs boiled and
| colored thirty-three years ago.
| Mr.. Longfellow is to return home about the
| end of July. 1t is proposed that farewell bad
| quet shall be given him in Paris.
New York organ firm is filling an order for
an instruments TO go to Yokohama. 1t will be
the first organ ever heard in Japan.
| Chicago now claims to be an Eastern city, as
it is only 900 miles to the Atlantic coast, while
it is 1850 miles to the Pacific coast.
| case of The ownership of poor old horse
worth SIS has been on trial in Buffalo nine years
and is as far from settlement as ever.
The Chinese empire has 500, 900 temples, con-
tanning 5000, 900 idols. These half millions
houses Of the gods are valued at 81 900 ,00O,-
600.
New York professors of dancing have introdu-
ced the " kiss cotillian," the peculiar feature of
which is that the partners osculate as they swing
corners.
An Ohio County Clerk went to Indiana, was
divorced, and had married young lady who
wrote in his office, before his wife knew any
thing about it.
A religious paper in Kentucky contends that
Christians should not only not make and sell
whiskey but they should not even raise corn for
that purpose.
The feelings in Canada respecting independ-
ence or annexation, if not in all respects revo-
luton, is still enough, it is said, " to star,le The
mother country"
A singular mirage was seen recently on Lake
Ontario. The shore of Canada was visible,
buildings loomed up, and vessels appeared sail
ing keel uppermost.
A st. Joseph paper says little girl in that
city, only three years of age, has had two hun
dred and fifty feet of tape worm taken from her
in the course of q week.
Mrs. Ellen Dill, of Marion county, Indiana, has
just eutered her sixtyffth year, and has also just
entered matrimony with youth of nineteen.
He is her fifth husband.
Jean Dollfus, the great manufacturer of Mui-
hausen, France has given three million francs
as fund for sick and infirm workingmen, and
to educate poor children
II. J. Barnes, popular horse-thief of Shelby
county, Tennessee, neglected to take himself in
one night lately, and found hanging to a
tree, dead, the next morning.
1t is stated upon pretty good authority, that
Belle Boyd, the Confederate heroine, has come to
California with her husband, with the in
tention of making her home in the State.
A Florida paper says that man from the
depths of the everglades lately made his appear
ance in town, bringing a couple of negroes to
sell. He didn't know there had been any war.
All male children born in France this year or
August 18th, the birth of Napoleon l., whose
parents will consent to their bearing the name of
Napoleon, are to be taken under the especial
protection of the government.
1t is reported that gold fields, one hundred
and twenty miles long, exceeding the California
mines in richness, have been discovered near
Colima, Northwestern Mexico, and that diggers
are gathering there in large numbers.
A THEFT of five dollars is a penitentiary Of
fence in Indiana. A man in Union county re-
Gently stole bag of wheat which was proved to
be worth S4 80 7-l2. This being only petit lar
ceny, he was sentenced to Jail for sixty days.
tive-tweltth of a cent more would have sent him
to the penitentiary.
Recently, widow lady of Springfield, Ohio,
went to Dayton and was married to bachelor
OF that city, to whom she had been engaged two
years or more. In an hour after the wedding
ceremony the bridegroom was taken suddenly
Ill, and in few minutes the 4" bride of an hour
was widow again. Heart disease was the hus-
bands malady.
The New York SUNDAY Mercurv saws that false
calves are in extensive demand. They are COM
posed of lambs and other wool woven into the
material OF merino leggings, just like a pair of
masculine drawers. Some times bran is used
A good article can be procured for from 81 TO
80, warranted in all respects to look like natu-
raj limb, and ottentimes much better At one
theatre IN New York twenty-three pairs of false
calves are used; in another, about twenty-seyen
and In another, some eighteen
The smallest lot on record, and the most ex
travagant one. was sold in New York city lately.
The Improvements on Portland street were to
cut through corner lot, perhaps half its debth,
ana the man who owned the next lot thought it
would De a fair chance to widen his ow n by buy-
ing the remainder. He asked the owner what
ne would sell the margin for, whatever it might
pe "hen the street vas carried through. One
nundred dollars was asked and paid, and the
purchasers vas delighted with the thought of
MS bargain When the Improvements were fin
lshed, the lot was exactly three inches wide and
thirty long.
| Inc caspian sea is dotted with island from
winch enormous quantities of naphtha are yearly
taken. Early last month, owing to subterranean
| disturbances, the naphtba wells on these islands
oVernowed' and the inaammable substance
| spread over the entire surface of the lake 1t
accidently took fire, and for forty-eight hours
a oasaea turloasly over surface ofmany thou
sanos OF square miles. The inhabitants of the
surrounding country imagined the end Of tho
world was at hand. The fish in the lake were
entirely destroyed, and for miles around, yeeeta-
tlon was parched and the country made ike n
desert. The same phenomenon is recorded by
| Herodotus. ~
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