Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-17
Miscellaneous Items.

Cniteu OtateS Is sftuDg In.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Williams hare Just been
offered $50, 900 in gold to play for one season in
Australia.
JEFF. Davis, whose health is delicate, intends to
visit Canada this summer, and spend next winter
in Mississippi,
Bourbon county, Kentucky, has stallion that
takes his pint of whisky every morning with the
utmost delight.
couple of Cincinnati nymphs paid off a
drudge against a recreant admirer by soaking his
bed with sulphurc acid.
| Over one thousand Cinnamon are now EMPLOYED
as laborers, building railroad from Memphis
Tennessee, to Selma, Alabama.
Silver ore has been discovered in northwestern
Arkansas, thirteen miles from Fayetteville. The
ore is reported rich and abundant.
Miss Rye has arrived again at Toronto, Canada
with an invoice of eighty young English women
who want places as domestic servants
Emma Hines, ''social evil" of. Nashville,
has just inherited fortune of SIS ,ooO left to her
by an infatuated Frenchman, who has just died
in ST. Louis.
A nice old gentleman who recently died in
Germany, relieved his mind by confessng on his
death bed that be had poisoned sixteen members
of his family.
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leap from the stage into one of the private boxes
the other evening and scratched the face of a
swell who had winked at her.
The army wormis threatening Central Illinois,
destroying whole fields of corn in Coles county
and chinch bugs are thick north of Charleston,
and appearing in other places.
An Indian fisherman put his thumb into the
mouth of pike for the purpose of extracting
the hook, and didn't take it out again. The
pike bit it off and swallowed it.
Near Knoxville, Tennessee, have been found
the fossil remains of the head of turtle, so
large that it is estimated that the reptile when
alive must have weighed several tons.
Cambridge, VT, claims to be the s champion" "
maple sugar town of the United States. Last
spring 5,730 trees tapped, yielding 22l $50
pounds of sugar, which sold for about S2G,-
500.
gang of thieves in Memphis, noticing the
extreme care gentleman was taking of his Dag
gage in the cars, relieved him of it, and when ut
safe distance opened it to find only a sermon
apiece.
In divorce case in Indiana, the woman. who
was the plaintiff, being the owner of f,lrll and
the man possessed of nothing, the defendants
attorney asked for alimony for the husband. He
didn't get it,
Gerrit Smith, on learning that white and
colored children were received and treated alike
at the Oswego Orphan Asylum, presented to the
institution a check for two thousand FIVE hun
dred dollars
Governor McClurg, Of Missouri, has authorized
an armed force to arrest the notorious desperado
and murderer Samuel Hldebrand, of ST. Francis
county, Missouri. A reward of SlO,o is Of
fered for his arrest
An Austrian baron has been condemned at
Venice to two months Imprisonment and 600
francs hne for an article published in the Rogione,
IN which he attacked the sacrament of the eu-
charist and baptism.
oome American ladies behaved in such free
and easy manner at a court ball in Dresden. Sax
ony, that the official paper apologies for il and
says that steps have been taken to prevent a rem
etition of the offence.
The ex-Presdent of the Royal Astronomical
Society OF England is of the opinion that the
length OF orr day has been certainly increasing.
and that " the length of day may he expected
untmely to become year"
Hungary raises nearly all the wine made in
the austrian empire, about thirty million barrels
is worth on the spot about two dollars barrel,
but, Notwithstanding its cheapness, only about
one per cent. OF it is exported
letter just received from Chief Justice Chase
gives nattering accounts Of the improved con-
dition OF South Carolina. He says the people
are iast recuperatng from the effects of the wal,
ana VIII soon be thriving and prosperous.
A man living in Monroe county, Michigan,
VINO nao oeen saved from punishment for snug
Cling through the payment of several bundred
dollars by Il friendly farmer of the saue TOWN
recently ran of with the wife of his benesactor'
Baron Stoeckl, late Russian Minister to tho
United States, and whose wife is n Spr;ncf.Id
Mass lady, has been put upon the retired list
oy MS government, with 4 decoration and n men,
SION. lie and his family will live hepceforth in
Europe. 40
It is said that cords of wood have been cut IN
IN the vicinity of Promontory Point and distrb-
uted throughout the East as pieces of the :. last
tie" II the different fragments were nut to-
gether they would make an astonishing LARGE
railroad tie.
Accounts were received, April 10th, in Lon
don, going TO show the safety of DR.. Livingston,
the indomitable and undauntable African ex'
plorer. 1t is stated that he left Zanzibar, on the
east coas: of Africa, for England, intending to
so ria Egypt overland.
A tornado passed over the town of androv
jackson county, Iowa, recently. 1t struck the
house OF John Jones, just as the family were
about TO SIT to supper, carrying away the roof
and upper portion of the building, taking every
thing out Of the house, to the Garnet on the
foor The family gathered together in a corner
and were not hurt, excepting one boy, and be
not seriously. Mr. Jone had about 4 900 feet of
lumber piled up near his house, which was car
ried about three miles distant, and broken into
small pieces.
A PAxPHLET has been issued in Germany enti-
tied - The Earth to Receive Second Moon, at
Less Distance than the Present One" The
author asserts that the zodiaca light is ring of
gas surrounding the earth, and bu; few thou
sand miles from it that the gaseous ring is no
longer burning, but slowly cooling Of, unyisible
while the sun is below the horison, of different
destiny, interrupted by the shadow of the earth