Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-10-30
Miscellaneous Items.

lady became asphy xiated in Mobile recently
becanse her corsets impeded the mobility of her
ribs.
The cholera has made its appearance in Mos
cow. Russia. and the deaths average thirty per
day.
A deaf man in Indiana is said to have re-
covered his hearing by falling twenty feet from
hay NOW.
The Queen of Prussia offers $500 to every wo-
man 10 the kingdom that has given birth to
twelve children.
Prince Charles of Prussia, paid $780, 900 to
hush that affair with the wife Of his valet, and
didn't hush it either.
memorial TO the Prime Minister of England
for the disestablishment of the church in Wales
is circulating in the princpalty.
Tom King, formerly FOUNDER of adversaries
in the prize-ring, and vanquisher of Heenan, has
become an expounder OF the gospel
A railroad newsboy in Kentucky is the latest
favorite of fortune. He has fallen heir to $685.
900 by the death of an uncle in Europe.
The Free MasoDs of Spain, since the revolu-
tion there, have, tor the first time been able 10
conduct Masonic ceremonies at funerals.
In some parts of Wisconsin the whole popula-
tion a-e at work gathering cranberries. The
yield is larger than for several years past
white velvet dress, $780, 900 worth of jewels,
and a tour of Europe are the circumstances OF
interest
Kentucky Judge addressed John c. Breckin-
ridge General, last week. wbereupon he sug-
gested that all military titles be disregaded in
the court room.
belonging to the Jail, intending the plat
form in the construction of hog pen. The
Sheriff claimed the property.
About thirty young men and girls at Nash
vile, Tennessee, have been induced to abandon u
life OF vice and enter =. home which the good
people of that city had provided.
Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, is Cincn-
NATHAN, and until be made his first voyage to the
polar regions had never been 10 Sea. dis recent
explorations have been made almost entirely on
land.
! The p"ntaloons of Lucy Stone and husband
were stolen from sleeping car between Pitts
burgh and Cincinnati in which the happy pair
were sereneIy sleeping, the other night. They
contained considerable treasure.
! MADEIRA wine is to be abundant and good this
year. The blight has disappeared, and the
| islanders are diminishing the which they
grow the sugar-cane, and bending all their
efforts to the cultivation of the vine.
In Boston, the other day, girl dashed vitriol
in young mans face, and completely destroyed
his eyes, (he is now an inmate of asylum for
the blind) because he refused to acknowl edge
himself the father OF her llegitimate child.
New Orleans attorney had for client a
young woman whose leg had been bitten by n
dog, and had referred to the circumstance as an
injury 10 that elongated member which assists
in sustaining the body in its efforts at locomo-
tion.'
The oldest clerk in the departments at Wash
ugtoE, is John Barclay, chief clerk in the Office
Of the Commissioner of Customs, who has been Il
clerk for sixty-fve years. Charles Vincent. Of
the Third Auditors office, has been there fifty
eight years.
john W. Moore, who attempted an atrocious
outrage on Mrs. McAdams, the wife of his cousin
at Greenvlle, Illinois, last July, and afterwards
murdered her for fear of her revealing his con-
duct, has just been sentenced to death. He
pleaded guilty.
In Wheeling, West Virginia, the other day. an
| artist brought his camera to bear on a we'll
known topper lying on the sidewalk, and soon had
him on exhibition in all the show windows
The old reprobate, returning to conscious
ness, signed the pledge.
| Two Americans dining at Paris restaurant
lconiracted bill of 6.ty-seven francs which lbey
thought rather steep, but rendered one hundred
franc bill in payment, when to their asrouish-
| uShb nuolHCi HduC was duueQ LOT tue trOuOle OF
changing SO large bill.
1t is claimed that the results of experiments
made with the troops in Madura, India, show
only FIVE deaths among $50 total abstainers, or
about IL in 900, while the number among the
temperate consumers was about % in 1000, and
among the hard drinkers, A in 900.
| The Tehuantepec railroad will be l73 miles
long. II will cost So, 1923 900. The difference in
going from New York to San Francisco, by the
Tehuantepec route over the Panama route, will
be AT miles, and from New Orleans to San
Francisco, 1884 miles, saving six days in one
case and nine in the other.
A poor couple in London, taking counsel with
each other how to retrench their expenses, de-
cded to drown their dog, great pet, but costing
seven pence week. The wife herself threw the
animal from the bridge, but his loss preyed upon
her mind until she went crazy, and drowned her
self iu the Thames a week later.
A resident of Montreal, a few months ago. re-
turned to England after an absence of nearly
half century, and visited his birthplace in Dew
onshire. There, in the seventy y-nintb year of his
age, he met and married lady whom he had
known in his early youth, and who was still a
spinister, hale, hearty and eghty-si1.
A man named Daniel Sumner, at Boston. made
wager o: seventy-6ve dollars that be would
leap from three-story window and receive no
hc appchTcu NJ Tue WINDOW ana spread
ing large umbrella, he leaped out into the air,
and gradually hoated downwards until he
reached terra J6rma, winning his bet handsomely.
Schamyl, the famous Imaum of the Caucasus.
VINO ten years and more ago so long and bravey
"itnstood the heavy columns of the Russians
ana at last yielded as prisoner of war to Prince
harai'insky, and who has since been very kindly
treated by the Gar, has just been recognized as
one OF The berditary mobiles of the Russian EN-
pure Schamyl is now seventy-two years old.
In excavating for the Fulton street sewer. in
On'cago, recently, the workmen struck a cedar
swamp at depth of eleven feet beneath the spr.
face, near Lincoln street. Fragments of ced.,
trees, rotted, were found in abundance. sIso
layers of sand and rotten leaves, showing The
annual fill of leaves and their COVERING hv
layers of drift sand. These alternate LAYERS are
| about ten to the inch.
A letter from Rome says: The whole clerical
party is ic great alarm, and circulates the most
incredible stories of dangers menacine the holv
see One moment we are told of seizures OF
arms and bombs by the Roman police the next
brings to light Gnribadian plot against the
Council, and to-day we are startled by the At
tempted suicide in the Via del rOrso of a French
gentleman who was sent here by the Free Ma
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