Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-05-28
miscellaneous Items.

baby recently born in Iowa weighing
but two pounds. 1t is alive and in fine health.
There are thousand persons in New York
who are worth at the lowest calculation $780,
600.
A single tree in Kentucky has been the ga,-
lows of four victims of lynch law during the last
twelve months.
In many counties of Maryland the public
schools are being closed for lack of funds TO pay
the salaries of teachers.
Ericsson, having shown the world how to
make ron-clads, now brings out a torpedo that
will blow them all to flinders.
The Navy department, it is announced, has
decided not to raise the wreck of the Oneida, but
to sell it to wrecking company
Ex-Surgeon- General Hammond testified in the
Mcfarland case that eight hours sleep are nee
essary to healthy brain in an active man.
The rinderpest is severe in Pennsylvania and
in several adjacent provinces. 1t has also
broken out in Galicia, and is extending into the
provinces adjoining.
The son of the Duke of Argyll, who is now in
this country, says that he is going into the to-
bacco business in New York. This proves that
the young man is up to snuff.
E. NJ. Stanton, son of the late Secretary has
been offered the position of Assistant District
Attorney, under the Attorney General of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and has declined it.
Hidebrand, the notorious Missouri carpet
bagger killer, has passed through Nebraska on
his way to the Red River country, to take hand
in the coming fight with the Brtishers.
A Polish Count Potoski has just died in Con-
necticut. He was handsome, spoke five Ian
guages and formerly run instructions, but of
late he has been running suspender factory.
According to the Registrar Generals returns
fha nItU Of dan
acres, or % square miles, and has "A population
of }, ,l70, 754. The number of houses is 40G, ,j07.
A clerk in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
navy yard, who lost both hands several years
ago, is very good penman He holds the pen
between his wrists, securing the paper by a
weight.
A spot on the sun has just been observed in
England, which, it is asserted, indicates break
in the solar photosphere to the extent of l6, ,OOO-
600 square miles, or eight times the surface Of
the terrestrial globe.
1t is stated that man recently died in Ale
gany county, New York, who left his wife one
cent, his brother few dollars, and the remain
der of his property, $4,000, to erect monu-
ment to his own stinginess and egotism.
German savans record that great changes are
apparently taking place on the surface of the
planet Jupiter. Recent observation seems to
confirm the theory that this planet has an indi-
Vidual brlllancy OF its own quite independent
of the sun.
Georgia railroad conductor was dismayed
the other day in finding on his train family of
eight, every one of whom was an idiot, and did
not know whittier they were going where
they came from. He relieved himself from en-
barassment by putting them off the train.
The American officers who have taken service
under the Vceroy Of Egypt are about twenty in
number-mosty Confederates. 1t is understood
that General Stone is to have the chief COM
mand. Among the others Silbey, Loring,
Colonel Jeffers, and Keanon, an ex-Lieutenant
in the United States navy.
The Prince and Princess of Wales attended
the Globe theatre, London, the other evening,
and the latter being first to enter the box, was
greeted with loud cheers-the whole audience
rising and uncoyering their heads but when
the Prince appeared, ominous Kisses were heard
lie smiled, and cody surveyed the people with
his opera glass.