Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-12-10
BRIEF ITEMS.

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Gently.
Colorado has $4,000 in her treasury, and is
out of debt.
United States.
TO be policemen.
Another section of one of the big trees has
been shipped east.
Sacramento Reporter.
The delinquent tax roll of Sacramento county
this year will not exceed 50 900.
The progress of the Marysville gambling
scheme is satisfactory to its projectors.
A London telegram, Sd instant, says not one
of the Prussian siege guns set in position.
The Nevada City Theatre is undergoing pre-
parations for the grand Cosmopolitan Fair.
A bill to abolish the death penalty has passed
the lower house Of the Vermont Legislature.
At Walla Walla, Washington Territory they
tax each hurdy gurdy house 500 per quarter
Mr.. Davis, of San Gabriel, Los Angeles coun-
ty, is growing bananas with excellent success.
There are between 400 and 500 men employed
on the reclamation levee above Knights Land
! ing.
The President will not let newspaper report
ers into the White House on Cabinet days here
after.
Shea, one Of the convicts wounded in the late
State prison emeute at Carson City, died few
days after.
Fifty per cent. of the men employed at the
construction department at Mare island are to be
discharged.
The Germans have issued an official order re-
introducing the German geographical names
into Alsace.
The net proceeds of the Ladies' Fair at vir-
ginia City, for the benft of the Catholic church,
sums up So, lao So
Mr. Steadman, of Browns Valley, Napa coun-
ty, Egalhered this year 5l7 pounds Of choice
grapes from a single vine.
During the last six weeks 200 tons of granite
have been shipped from the Natoma quarries to
Oakland and San Francisco
The cleanup of the Eureka mine and mill NE
vada county, for the twelve days ending Noyem-
Der 10th amounted to 1000.
Mrs. Thomas NJ Avery, of Chicago, threw
herself into the falls Of Niagara November goth,
and her body has not since been seen.
The census of the Cherokee nation, just com
pleted, shows population Of Is 1888, of whom
! Z ,787 are males and ,G0l are females.
During the months of April, May and June,
there were 43 49l marriages in England-an ay-
/ c
man at Rosendale, n Y, who was robbed
of $l4 ,000 dozen years ago, had it returned
anonymously by express the other day.
Trains on the Union Pacific Railroad, west OF
Cheyenne, now carry snow-p plows, ready for the
heavy storms that may be looked for at any
! time.
! Ten or twelve full-blooded Indians desire to
| become students in Highland University, Kan
sas, with view to entering the ministry in the
Presbyterian Church.
An envelope without any address at all, was
recently dropped into the Gloucester Mass,
| Post Office. Upon being opened it was found to
contain a check for $3.50, signed by prominent
! business man.
| A San Francisco committee of ladies, last Sat
urday, presented a lengthy petition, signed by
abouta thousand persons, to Joseph II. WILDER,
Superintendent elect Of the Public Schools, ask
ing him to appoint woman as deputy.
General Lees coachmen have lately COM
menced to die off The crop promises to be
larger than General Washington's. 1t is be-
lieved that if they do die off faster than at
the rate of two week there will be few left
in 1870.
An eastern exchange says that Californians
! owing to the alkaline taste of most Of the water
in the State, the greatest coffee drinkers in
the country, the average yearly consumption
being 6 3-5 pounds, while in the Union at large,
the average is only seven pounds.
A colorcd child four years old, adopted by
Mrs. Srother, of Austin, found dead in the
cellar Of house by Mrs. Strother, who had con-
fined her there for trtng offence. The Cor
oner's jury returned a verdict Of % death by
| fright"
The new married mems property law In Eng
| land, has gone into effect. A woman S earnings
are her own, hereafter policy of insurance is
her own she may and be sued separately
a husband is not liable for his wife's antemar-
rage debts.