Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-06-04
Pacific Coast Items.

The South Pacific railroad will probably be
extended to Pierce City the 10th of June.
Colonel Won Schmidt cleared $40, 900 by his
Blossom rock blast, and he deserves every cent
OF it.
Mr. James Lick, of San Jose, has planted per-
simmon trees, and now has several in full bear
ing.
Mr., Allen, of Santa Rosa, Sonoma county,
has raised thirty-two pound caulihower in his
garden.
William Davies son of General W. A. Da-
vies, of Stockton, left for West Point, May 10th,
where he is to be admitted, as cadet.
The demand for laborers to harvest the hay
crop in the Sacramento valley is such we learn
that farmers are constantly sending into the
cities and towns for recruits.
A husband in Contra Costa county, recently
decided property to his wife, naming for consd-
Grafton 90 love and affection" The same day
the wife applied for divorce.
The Bulletin claims present population of
lS0, 900 for San Francisco, with steady in-
crease of ten per cent. per annum, and GER
tain prospect of 5000 in five years.
The Nevada Transcript of the 25th ult. says
" a private letter received in this city from
Austin states that snow, hail and rain had been
falling for three days, and was still continuing.
"A IellOW IN AntlOcu tleu MS uSnlnG line 10
his leg the other day, and big sturgeon taking
the hook, almost dragged him into the water
The parting OF the line was all that saved him.
A barkecper in Vallejo, American by birth,
speakes English, French, German, Swedish,
Spanish and Italian with perfect fluency and
correct pronuncialion-picke up in the course
of his business.
The Examiner says We have been told that
suit will be instituted in one of oar Courts in
few days, to enjoin and restrain the officers of
the Mercantile Library Association from further
evolving their grand lottery scheme.
The Tue Land Reclamation company have in
augurated the work of reclaimng Robert ISL
and, situated in the San joaquin river. The
Island contains 90, 900 acres, and it is supposed
that the reclamation will cost 81 80 per acre.
The Sacramento Bee learns that a family who
own a ranch near the foothills in Yolo county,
moved into Sacramento last week, being forced
thereto in consequence of the grasshoppers hav-
ing destroyed their entire crop-stripping the
orchard of every leaf.
The Sacramento Bee tells of sagacous COW
which was brought to that city in close box
car from Latrobe, forty miles distant, and left
securely locked up in barn at night, but
which managed to get out, and was found next
evening at her old home in Latrobe-
Barnum, the great Snowman, has found a
curiosity in this State, in the person of an intel
gent, beautfully-formed and well-developed
man in miniature, twelve years old, twenty-five
inches high, and weighing only fifteen pounds.
The young gentleman leaves on the next steamer
for Wood museum, New York.
The Marysville &andard says A telegraph
dispatch received a few days ago at the
Marysville Office for Chinese merchant, and the
messenger, on delivering the same, was asked
where it was from The messenger replied,
" From IL" John, naturally inquisitive,
again asked: When you build am tha: liue p
The messenger Weakened