Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-09-25
Miscellaneous Items.


! The reverend who tied the Gordian knot for
Commodore Vanderbilt got $500.
Anewiy married couple at Evansville, Indiana,
lately committed suicide together.
Manchester, England, is about to put statue
of Oliver Cromwell in its town hall.
wealthy German merchant in Indiana has
insured his life for the benefit of the poor of the
town.
Within nine months family in Indiana has
celebrated four weddings, three births and two
deaths.
The Consul-General of Switzerland is visiting
in East Tennessee and believes that many of his
countrymen will emigrate thither.
man ia Troy, Ohio, has deserted hiu wife
and eloped with his mother-in-law. There are
few men who will follow that example.
| DR.. Stronsberg, who was the ragged tenant Of
London garret seven years ago, is now the
railroad King of Prussia, worth $40, ,oOo, 900.
In graveyard at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, is a
row of ten graves of family of brothers and sis
tiers, all of hom died at the age of ten days.
Mrs. Belle Mansfield has been admitted an attor-
ney and counsellor, in Iowa and as her husband
is lawyer, too, we suppose the firm will do a
fine legal business.
The Prince Imperial of France is reported to
be taller than his mother, rather dull at learn
ing, except in mathematics, and quite amiable
and good natured to his playmates.
There is a lady living in Wisconsin who was
twice married before she was twenty-one years
| of age, mother before she was seventeen, and
a grandmother before she was thirty-fve.
The hull of buried vessel was found lately
eleven feet under ground in digging sewer in
the streets of StockholE. II is supposed to have
been there more than three hundred years.
| highly respectable " citizen of Richmond
recently died intestate, and now a negro woman,
with several light-colored children, produces a
marriage certificate, and claims his property.
The Jewish Record, of London, makes an appeal
to its wealthy coreligionists on behalf of the
Jews in Western Russia. Famine is rapidly de-
populating the district, and the distress is appal
ing.
| man whose wife hung herself in his pres
ence, on being asked why be did not prevent the
| tragedy, replied, @ | cut her down three times
last week, and can't be always cutting her
| down"
The Pope manifests great grief at his brothers
death: and the day after he received the news,
performed the devotion of ascending the holy
| stairs on his knees for the benefit of the soul Of
the deceased.
In Johrstown, Pennsylvania, there is must
cal prodigy named Eddie Hohmann. He is but
six and a-half years old. He plays skillfully by
note number of airs the violin. He has not
yet mastered the alphabet.
A woman died recently in Trenton, Michigan,
in giving birth to her thirty-frst child. Among
the thirty-one were three pairs of twins, and the
eldest of them all, if living, would be only
twenty-nine years old.
Miss Sarah T. Lowell, who died recently at
Bangor, Maine, at the age of sixty-three, had
been thirty-six years in bed with consumption,
and succeeded in surviving whole family, none
of whom, herself excepted, had the disease.
The whole number of persons in Charleston,
South Carolina, as appears from a census just
taken, is A, ,952. There are 1920 more blacks
than whites, and 4, 600 more females than males
The population of the city in $50 was 40, ,522.
Charles Ridge, married. ard aged sixty, who
eloped from the Portsmouth almshouse, two
months ago, with a vagabondess of nineteen
summers. has been reclaimed by the poormaster.
They passed jolly honeymoon begging in Bos-
ton.
At Buffalo Furnace, near Ironton, Ohio, re-
Gently, man very much afflicted with palsy,
sitting near fireplace, when lightning
struck the mantle-piece before him. He felt the
shock very sensbly, and started to leap up,
when he found the palsy had left him.
The mare Flora Temple, formerly queen of the
turf, is still hale and hearty, notwithstanding
she has reached the advanced age of thrty-three
years. She is now the mother of a couple of
promising foals, flly and colt respectively,
the latter having been ushered into existence last
spring.
Occasionally, when the train arrives at Middle
town, Connecticut, nice young man jumps off
and kisses the best looking girl at the depot sup
posing her TO be his sister. He apologies so
nicely that the girls are getting so they look for
him regularly. Some big brother will jam his
nose yet.
Mrs. John Henry Wills arrived at New York on
August 26th in search of her unfathful hus-
band. She bad followed him from England to
Australia, from there to Shanghai, thence to the
Cape of Good Hope, and from there to America.
Arriving at New York she learned that he had
just left for China. Heart-broken, she applied
to the city authorities for help.
Philip Garard, of Sank Rapids, Minnesota.
was bitten by rattlesnake. 1t fastened its
fangs In his forehnger, just below the first Joint
With great presence of mind he forced it to
loosen its hold, killed it, tied string tightly
around his finger above the bite and then. after
applying some tobacco to it, made his way to
town for whiskey, of which be drank pint and
a-half. he has felt serious effects from the
bite of the snake.
Two young ladies, of Dover, Wayne county,
Ohio, have formed a society for the redempti0n
of yonng men whose habits do not suit them.
pledging themselves not to receive attentions
from any young man who chews, smokes,
swears, loafs on street corners, or drinks. The
amount of sitting up with the girls'' done in
that region since the society went Into operation
is d" nothing worth speaking off, An agitation
in favor of " suspending the rules for two cve-
nings week is expected.
The breastworks in front of Petersburg thrown
up oy the Confederates during the late war, ex-
n hn lnff
twenty miles, and to the right about twenty-five
miles, for the defence of the city, have grown up
in continuous line of peach trees of every vari-
ety. yielding an abundant crop the present year.
This is the only legacy left BY the Coufederates
who were on the advance line within one hun
dred yards of the enemy. Having eaten the fruit
while on picket duty, they cast the seed aside,
and now they appear in one continuous line of
forty-hve miles in beautiful trees, yielding the
greatest variety of the finest fruit.
AN aged Philadelphia lady, whose failing