Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-05-21
NUMBER 30.
News Items.


S694 900, 600 per annum.
Colfax and Blacque Bey became fathers in
Washington on the same day.
Two Indian doctors recently decided their
claims to a young lady's hand by II prize-fght
Georgia fruit-growers are indignant that they
have been buying young poplars for peach trees.
Mantou Marble, of the New York World, is re-
ported seriously ill and threatened with blind
ness.
Mr.. Simmons, who pulled an oar in the Inter-
national University boat race, is studying med
icine in Vienna.
Edwin Perry, lately convicted of the murder
of Thomas Hayes, in New York city, is worth
$40, 600 in Brooklyn real estate.
mulatto succeeds Gen. Bragg in the New
Orleans water works and the Democratic papers
of that city are in great grief thereat.
Nice girls at Port Jervis get on regular
% tares, - the same as boys do, and 20 around
town ringing door-bells late at night.
The Chicago Post calls for a vigilance COM
mttce to see that the laws are executed in that
city and it asserts that it is public necessity
There is Il better demand abroad for works of
art. The receipts of the three days sale of the
Demidofr collection in Paris amounted to S249,-
600.
A couple near Bowling Green, Indiana, were
twice married and twice separated in one week.
A local paper calls this can unusual occur
renee"
1t is stated that in the villages of New Eng
land where the Maine law is enforced, the in
crease in the sale OF opium is 80 large as to
attract attention.
| Capt. John Jourdan, the new Superintendent
! of Police in New York city, is n jOnrneyman
printer, and served his apprenticeship in the
New York Tribune Office
In the city of ASCENSION, Paraguay, there are
three women for every man; in the country
places there are fifty women to the man. What
a field for Brigham Young
The Massachusetts, House of Representatives
voted two to one against woman suffrage. Tho
women themselves, we are told, took no interest
in the movement started in their behalf.
Marguerite Baangor, the last mistress of Ma
poleon H., and who, in spite of the threats and
supplcations Of the Empress Eugene, remained
in Paris, is now public prostitute in Lyons,
It is said of the man who was recently par
doned from the Massachusetts, State prison, after
twenty-five years confinement that he was moro
surprised mt the street cars than any thing else.
The ways of. fortune wonderful. Mollio
Scotton, Chicago woman of ll-fAme (of tho
lowest order) has become heir to an estate in
Scotland, left by her uncle, worth 81 800, 900.
A good, pious man in Maine plugged his ma
pie trees on Saturday to prevent the sap from
running Sunday, and lamented because he
could not prevent the trees from growing on
that day.
New Dominion papers are very much per-
turbed by the belief that the French Canadians
are inclined to look upon the Red river nsur-
rection with something very near approaching
qualification.
Miss Hattie Johnson, the lady who was
brought into distressing notorioty, through her
elopement with the Rev. Horace Cook, few
| months ago, has beer joined in wedlock to u
young man of New York.
The Empress Eugonie has dismissed five of
her ladies of honor. The cause Of this uneX-
pected measure has been the discovery of the
fact that the ladies in question were on too inti-
mate relations with certain gentlemen employed
at the Tuileries.
| The sphere Of woman Is enlarged in Groton,
Massachusetts, where we learn that young
lady is telegraph operator and freight clerk at
the Groton Junction depot. In addition to per-
forming the duties of those Offices with profit to
her employers and great credit to herself on
Sunday she is the church organist, and renders
church and classical music with taste and feel
ing.
Londoners arc astounded by the discovery
that much of their butter is made from the mud
of the Thames. A small proprietor on the bank
of that noble river recently thunderstruck
by the apparent extravaganza of an offer for his
wharf and on investigation learned that it was
wanted as Il site for II butter factory The
Tames mud yields, after some Chemical treat
ment, a pure white fat lacking both taste and
smell and after some manipulation, it is made
1 into very popular article Of food.
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