Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-03-04

Will | venture my fortune to make
But in some secluded cave,
My pile in thousands I'll take.
When enough, | can lay by the pan
Drive away dull sorrow and care,
Bid goodbye to the mining man,
For now I'm millionaire.
JENNY LIND is fifty years old
KNITTING factory has lately been started at
Marysvle.
GREAT BRITAIN has l6O, 900 miles of Macad-
amized roads.
WATER sells at six cents per gallon in Phoebe
City, Nevada.
The Great Register of Sacramento contains
1920 names.
ARKANSAS pays less Internal Revenue tax than
any other State.
RIPE cherries were recently picked from tree
near Vacaville.
Ell DORADO county is moving to have an Agri-
cultural Society.
MANCHESTER, N. H., had but one alarm of fire
in the last seven years.
IT is estimated that one-fourth of the globe
is composed of granite.
Horace GREELEY is sixty years old and has
his life insured 70: $75 900.
ONLY one person in every halfmillon railway
travellers is injured by accidents.
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while California has about {, 800, 900.
NEW weekly illustrated paper is soon to
make its appearance in San Francisco.
RESOLUTION to abolish skating rinks has
been introduced in the Nevada Legislature,
IN the vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penn, 100 ,ooo,-
600 bushels of coal were mined during 1870
IT is said that timber cut in February will last
three times as long as that cut during the Sum
mer months.
Two thousand pounds of fine copper wire are
used annually to secure the corks of the Congress
water bottles.
TwENTY-FoUR newly elected United States
u.
Nine are Democrats.
ONLY three papers in Kentucky favored the
admission of negro testimony, one year ago.
Now only three oppose it.
The Legislature of Nevada talks of author
izing three lotteries, the State to receive por-
tOn of the proceeds to be used in the erection
of an Insane Asylum.
By the latest reports it appears that there are
826 convicts in San Quentin penitentiary. AL
lowing the term of sentence to average two
years, it indicates the existence of large pen
itentiary class in California.
A. E. REDsToNE, of Vallejo, has just returned
from Washington, where he was elected mem
ber of the National Executive Committee of the
Union League, and was also commissioned Ma
tional Deputy for the State of California.
SAM BRANNAN is making arrangements for the
erection of an Observatory to be built upon
Mount st. Helena, at an elevation of 4,34o feet
above the level of the sea, and which will be
devoted exclusively to astronomical observation.
THE Boston Transcript says that Massachusetts
was represented by John Adams at the treaty of
peace with Great Britain in 1888, by John Quincy
Adams at Client in 1914, by Daniel Webster in
the Ashburton treaty, and will be represented
by Judge Hoar ON the new commission to settle
the questions between Great Britain and the
United States.
GENERAL BLAIR, the newly elected United
States Senator from Missouri, and General Lo-
gan, just elected to the same body from Illinois,
each commanded corps of Grants army at
Vicksburg. Both had been members of Con-
gress. Logan went into the war Democrat,
and is now elected as a Republican Senator.
Blair went in Republican, and is now elected
as Democrat Such is the vivacity of the
American character.
THE Amador Ledger, in giving an account of
Governor Haight's official acts concludes as fol-
lows:
When we come to sum up few of the promin-
ent acts of his Excelency, one can see at glance
how the people ought to love him. And while
we do not belong to the party, still we would
like to see him receive the nomination for Gov
ernor; we would like to see him astride his no.
BILE steed, "Anti-Subsidy," packing the Plumas
Act behind him, and upon his shoulders the
Sunday Law, Library Act the School Book Act
with Patsy Fitzgerald as his henchman