Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-05-14
Pacific Coast Items.

The largest drove of sheep ever seen in Stock
tonic, ,000-passed through Hunter street April
29th.
One hundred miles of the California and Or
egon railroad are to be completed by January
lst, 1870
The Columbia and Willamette rivers are ris-
ing rapidly. All the lower wharves at Portland
are under water.
People of Wyoming don't know whether to
call their female Judge Justicessof-the-Peac
or Justice e-of-the-Peacess.
1t is understood that Smith, ex-editor of the
Marysvile appeal, will start an opposition daily
journal in about ten days.
The Sutro tunnel is in ,O22 feet. The ground
is improving, and better heaGway is being made,
and there is no water to interfere.
The Oregon end of the California and Oregon
railroad is being pushed forward with great en-
ergy. There is bid for additional laborers.
The State treasury of California contained,
May lst, $66S $40 80, Of which 1896, ,806 Y was
gold coin, and $72, 743 20 legal tender notes.
The buildings and enclosures comprising the
government property known as Fort Crook, in
Shasta county, were recently sold at auction
The Placer Herald says their section of coun-
try is infested by a band of stock thieves, and
that much stock is being stolen and driven off.
In the negro test case in Los Angeles the
until special legislation on the amendment was
had.
A large deposit of dolamite has been dis
covered near Jacksonville, Oregon, thought to
be sufficient to supply the world with EPSON
salts.
The scarlet fever is raging fearfully at Reno,
and in all the towns along the railroad. Even
at the little town of Reno sixty-two children
have died
The late elections in this State show Republi-
can gains. In Nevada the Democracy ran col
ored man for Mayor of Virginia. lie got about
one-third of the votes cast.
| The teachers of the State are making up a
party of one hundred to go East on a visit. BY
making up their number they secure passage
to Chicago and return for one hundred dollars.
! f. G. Waite, formerly of Grass Valley and
once editor of the San Francisco Times, has en-
tered on the discharge of his duties as Assistant
| Collector of Internal Revenue, Vice Curtis re-
sined
Governor Haight has issued commissions to
Greed Raymond John G. .Burch and Charles
Lindey, as commissioners for the revision of the
laws, under the act of the Legislature, approved
! April 4th, 1870.
The California and Oregon stage company
have secured the contract for carrying the mail
between Portland and Sacramento, owing to the
failure of those who put in lower bids to give
the required bonds.
Marshall Bnn has been put in nomination,
by au executive committee of disafected Repub-
licans in Washington Territory, for delegate to
Congress, to defeat Garielde, the regular Re-
publican candidate.
Miss Willette Smith, colored, has applied for
| admission in the grammar department of the
San Jose public school. Great excitement pre-
walls in the community, the citizens being di-
vided on the matter.
In Colusa county a Chinese marriage took
place lately at which an Interpreter was used
There were present disputants as TO the owner
ship of the bride. The bonds of matrmony
established a valid title.
The Healdsburg Flag is informed that Mr..
White of that vicinity has among his band of
cows one that is giving sixty pounds, six and
wo-third gallons milk per day. also n heifer not
two years old which gives four gallons per day.
Advices from Helena (Montana) state that
three hundred Cinnamon only recently arrived
from San Francisco, under contract to work in
the mines at Bannock, were driven out of camp
by the miners, and arrived at Helena May 7th
A Chinaman came into an insurance Office at
Vallejo the other day, and wanted the concern
to insure him against his wife running away
from him. lie said in San Francisco the insur-
ance people took the risk for about five cents on
the dollar but the Vallejo company had no
tables on the subject, and declined to insure.
San Diego has fire company. The Il" ma
sheen " consists of large hogshead filled with
water and mounted a wheelharrow. Each
member of the company wears n tin dipper in
his belt, and, on an alarm of fire being given,
the hogshead is rapidly wheeled to the scene of
of the conflagraton the members then surround
the wheelbarrow, and detaching their dppers,
proceed promptly to extinguish the flames.
Recent explorations Of the spot where Bios
som rock once stood, shows that the great
posion did the destrutive work elIectvally.
The the outer edges were shattered into thou
sands of pieces and they are fast being carried
into deep water by The tides. Col. Won Schmidt,
the engineer, proposes to rake the spot and drag
these loose stones off into deep water at once
and turn the work over to the Government next
week.
A dispatch dated at Marysville, May 7th, says
the prevailing hot weather is having terrible
effect on crops in Sutter, Yuba and Colusa coun-
ties. Parties coming into town say that wheat
is shrivelling up under the hot sun and parching
winds and two or three days more of such hot
weather will utterly destroy it. Mllers in
Marysvie have raised the price OF -four one dol
lar barrel, in anticipation of the destruction of
the crop.
" Fat Mems Ball" was held at Virginia
City, Nevada, recently, the invitation prescrb-
ing the following regulations "You will be
required to dress in such manner to person
ate a fat man, and give your weight Mt any fig
ure from two hundred and fifty pounds to four
hundred and eighty pounds-to be recorded at
the door as you enter the hall the record of
which will be sent to the New York papers un-
less you wish your name withheld"
The Marysyille Appeal of May 9th, says:
Capt. H. A. Good, an old and esteemed citizen
of Tehama county, brutaly murdered by
| Indians on Wednesday, a: near his residence
on Deer creek. The body was found to-day,
pierced with ten or twelve bullets and his head
mashed with rocks His brother was killed
some years ago by Indians, aud ever since Capt
Good has devoted his :ime TO hunting and kill
ing Indians, known as the Mill creek Indians
to whom he has been a source of great terror
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