Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-02
miscellaneous Items.


Vast fields of ice are floating southwardly in
the Atlantic ocean.
A black girl in Chicago is suing white man
for breach of promise.
A Fenian Congress has been ordered to meet
in Chicago on the llth of April
Russia demands interest on the Alaska pur-
chase money to the amount of quarter of
million.
Owing to its splendid cotton crop last year,
the south is now the most prosperous section of
our country
A Kenosha (wisconsin) man has been horse
whipped by four women because he "t talked
about them"
The disagreement we have got with England
as to our water boundary with Canada, has been
referred TO arbitration.
There are thirty murderesses in the Michigan
Penitentiary, many of whom said to be
% positively beautiful"
The Merchants bank of st. Louis, which has
about $500, 600 OF papers in circulation, has re-
sumed specie payments
The largest owner Of personal property in the
United States is Commodore Vanderbilt, who is
said to hold twenty millions.
Miss jeff, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, ownsup
TO being an old maid. She has passed her one
hundred and fourth birthday.
The colored Senator, Revels, has already be-
gun to look after the appointments for his State,
and has been promised his share.
The West Virginia Legislature has played
tough joke on the ex-rebels by enfranchising
them and the negroes in one resolution.
The aligaors in swamp near Tallahassee,
Florida, dined on So 900 camel and a ) 900
pony from passing menagerie, recently.
A Wisconsin marble quarry yields stone
having the appearance, when polished, of being
nad with myrads of most beautiful shells.
1t is a curious coincidence that the next-door
neighbor TO the female brokers in New York is
Kssam, agent for the sale of Brooklyn city
bonds.
Tennessee horse-thief, tried on two indict-
ments, was fined, sentenced to death, and them ,-
in the other court, to twenty years imprison-
ment, following.
A frightened horse at Port Hope, Canada, re-
Gently successfully crossed a viaduot a quarter
of mile long and sixty feet high, on a single
plank, at full speed.
Several saloons and retail stores in New York
have out signs announcing resumption of spe-
Gle payment, and that they are giving silver
change at the counter
| The New York correspondent of the Buffalo
Courier states that Whitelaw Reid, the managing
editor of the New York Tribune, is engaged to
marry Miss Anna Dickinson.
Roberts, the great English blliardist, who
challenged the players of the world to Il game Of
billiards for twenty thousand dollars, was
Gently beaten in London by one Cook.
The Cubans manifest their admiration for
opera artists in an odd way. Instead of throw
ing bouquets on the stage, they throw young
negro covered with bracelets of gold and silver.
A member of the South Carolina House heard
the notes of the menagerie band outside, and
forthwith moved that GO dis honorable body
moved to de winder, to the show pass" 1t
moved
Carrying "A bouquet containing chloroform is
the fashion among rapid women. When a chap
with money concealed about him gets spoony,
they let him smell of it, and the result is lesson
spoony never forgets.
The survey for a ship canal across Florida is
in progress. The route proposed is from the
deep waters Of the st. Mary's to the mouth of
the Santaliee, on the Suwanee. The estimated
cost of work is 81 900, 900.
Paraguay is said to have been reduced to the
condition of a desert by the The country
is filled with starving women and children and
with robbers and marauding deserters. Lopez
is safe in the mountains of Bolivia.
The U. S. Supreme court, in a case involving
the validity of divorce granted in Indiana, held
that, being valid by law IN that State, under the
constitution of the United States, it mnst pre-
vail in every portion of the country.
The State of California has 500 900 peach
trees, or about five to every voter-enough to
produce more than one hundred pounds annually
for every person. The figures large, but
they are official, and are supposed to be correct.
The army bill introduced into Congress by
General Logan cuts down the pay of the General
of the Army from $4,000 to $l2 900, and fixes
that of the Lieutenant General at $40 900.
Major Generals are allowed 81, 800; Brigaders,
S5, 900; Colonels, $4,000 and Lieutenant-Colo-
nes, SO 900.