Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-06-25
Pacific Coast items


Los Angeles county will this year make from
800, 900 to 900, 900 gallons of wine.
The Grass Valleyans have got up a lottery for
the benefit Of the public school library.
The net proceeds of the fair for the benefit of
the San Rafael Orphan Asylum were over 3d.
600.
The mining season around Downeville is very
good. The Ries mine has been sold for $780,
000
Vallejo cherry tree is bearing ripe fruit and
also blooming again for the second time this
year.
The election for the county seat of Washoe
county, Nevada, resulted in favor of the town of
Reno.
At bridgeport, Soano county, on the line of
the Pacific railroad, "a rebel flag is flying over
saloon.
The Treasure Hill election went Democratic,
but on claim of illegality the Republicans will
contest it.
From May lst 1869, to May lst, 1870 only "a
deaths occurred in Petaluma, city of 1000 in-
habitants.
General Candy is now on his way to the Pa
ciic to take command of the Department of the
Columbia.
Not less than $4,000 squirrels have been
killed in Contra Costa county within the past
two mouths.
A petrifed truffle nineteen inches across the
top, has been found in Little York township,
in Nevada county.
Judge Morrison, of San Francisco, has refused
to grant the injunction against the Mercantile
Library lottery scheme.
The sea-lion captured by Italian fishermen
a few days since, for Mr.. Barnum, is IA remark
able intelligent creature.
Kern county boasts of having a single town
ship of l, 200 square miles, or nearly large as
the State of Rhode Island.
The cornerstone of the Nevada State capital
was laid at Carson with becoming Masonic cere-
monies, 5000 people being in attendance
Four car loads of colored people went pic
nicng near Woodland recently, drank too much
whisky and got into a row-like white folks.
Eight women of Meuia precinct and seven of
Grand Mound precinct, Thurston county, voted
at the last election in Washington Territory.
Another Salt lake has been discovered. 1t is
thirty miles long by ten or twelve wide, two
hundred miles from San Diego, and full of fish.
horse with two tails arrived on the steamer
Great Republic from China The extra tail is
abont "A foot from the real tail, and directly over
the spine.
An unstamped deed for White Pine mine
has been received at the Recorders office at
Hamilton the purchase money being half mil
lion dollars.
A cabbage which branches out every year and
bears number of small cabbages each about
as large as an orange, is one of the attractions
at Los Angeles.
GilrOy is to have a gift ball on the 2Sth inst,
at which the principal prize is to be "A house,
with three-quarters of an acre of land. Tickets,
five dollars each.
German has just made rich gravel strike
at Michigan Bluff, one pan of which returned
$4,000. He is now putting his claim into shape
for earnest work.
An old Mexican, near Peach Tree valley,
| latelO freed California lion, lassOOcd him and
then dragging him to the ground, punched out
his eyes with an oak stick.
At Portland, Oregon June 18th, in the breach
of promise and seduction of Bridget Barney
against l.. NJ. Starr, the jnry returned a verdict
in favor of Bridget for 81 400.
Mr. John Pattison, of Nevada, has sent to the
Mercantile Library Association the model of
wheel which he think is bound to take the $500
premium offered by that association.
The Assessors place the value of all the prop
erty in the State at $24O, 600 900, but the Bulie
tin contends that San Francisco alone has prom
erty within her borders worth $500, ,OOO, 900,
A Company is said to have been formed
mostly of foreign capitalists, for new line of
steamers between San Francisco and Australia.
The first vessel of the line is to be dispatched
about the 10th Of July.
The vote for Wilson (Republicanl for Con-
gress,. in Oregon, is about nine hundred ahead
| of the Republican vote last election, while the
vote for Slater (Democratl, is about one hun
dred behind the vote at that time.
w. Barry, the comedian, is about to start
q terrapin ranch' in Alameda county. He says
that it is easier to raise terrapins than chickens
because they don't require so much grain and
besides they rOost where the Cinnamon can't get
them.
A gentleman of San Francisco has a female
black-and-tan terrier that has been engaged for
several weeks in nursing young kitten. She
is assduOus in her attentions TO her adopted
child, and is very unhappy when it is taken
away from her.
1t is stated that at the recent election in San
Francisco on the railroad subsidy, the cOored
voters, on approaching the ballot box for the
first time to exercise their newly acquired right
of suffrage, almost nvarbly did so with heads
uncovered. Here we have an evidence of the
appreciation of its value that no other class of
voters has ever manifested under similar circum-
stances. 1t is touching manifestation of the
sacredness in their estimation of the ballot,
which has been conferred upon them as one of
the results OF war which cost so mach blood
and treasure. If other classes possessing the
ballot in our country esteemed it as highly it
would be well for its prosperity. We hardly
thlnk our women wOuld consent To remove their
little hats at the ballot box, even to acquire the
franchise by so doing
The San Francisco Chronicle of the 10th inst
says There is an Indian woman living at Mon
terey who is one hundred aud thirty years old,
and who has actually dried up as TO be
mere mummy of skin and bones. She was
found on the Salinas plains soon after Father
Jenipero Sierra established the mission at Monte
rey, one hundred years ago, and brought to the
Mission, where she has since remained. She
bears the beautiful Indian name Opimya," aud
has many descendants. One of her daughters,
who is one hundred years old, attended the Con-
tennial celebration last week. Opimya is now
living with a great-great-great granddaughter,
who is the wife of James Meadows, residing near