Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-11-04
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

The Cuban war has cost Spain $62 200, 900
during the past year.
Immense contributions are being received daily
by Chicago for the relief of her people.
The wife of Joaquin Miller is engaged on
volume of poems, to be published shortly
1t seems probable that most of the Communist
prisoners of Paris will soon be set at liberty.
The subscriptions of Americans in Paris for
the Chicago sufferers amount to zoo, 900 francs.
The Bank of California has received nugget
of gold weighing l67 ounces and valued at $3,-
600.
Paris expects that the capital of France will
be removed from Versailles to that place this
Winter
Twenty-six thousand deaths occurred during
the last six months in Buenos Ayres from yell
low fever
Brigham Young has applied to Hon. Wm. NJ.
Everts for his services counsel to defend him
on nine indictments.
Eighty-fve persons died of smallpox last
week in Philadelphia. The disease is confined
to the Twentieth Ward.
A girl in ST. Charles county. Mo, four years
old, is as fully developed as full grown wo-
man. She is attracting the attention of medical
scientists.
The President has appointed William NJ Ev-
arts and Benjamin X. Curtis counsel to act with
the Commissioners of Arbitration at the Geneva
Conference.
Charles O'Conor, Wm. NJ. Evarts and Judge
Emott have been associated with the Attorney
General of New York to prosecute the Tammany
ring thieves
Somebody telegraphed from San Francisco to
the New York Tribune, of the 10th ultimo that
O fires prevail in the mountains the whole length
of California"
One day last week a teamster left Reno with
Al 900 pounds of freight for Hot Springs, Mono
county, in Nevada. This huge load was hauled
by sixteen mules.
The Marin Journal says that the State Prison
is filled to repleton, and that the question
of enlargement must soon be taken into practi-
cal consideration.
The President has ordered the issue of land
patents to the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, on the report of the Commissioner that
second section of thirty miles is completed.
! The San Francisco Executive Committee for
the relief of the Chicago sufferers has decided to
send 100000 to Chicago and has sent $l5, 900
already to Wisconsin and Sc 900 to Michigan.
The Humboldt Register states that ]. w. Nye
Gncumbent), G. L. De Long, William Sharon,
Ex-Governor Blaisdell, General Batterman and
John P. Jones, are all candidates for U. S. Sen
ator in Nevada
Queen Victoria refuses her consent to the pro-
posed marriage of the Duke of Ednburg, her
son, with Prussian Princess. She also refuses
her consent to a regency with the Prince of
Wales as regent
The Examiner has swung into line on the COM
pusory education proposition, and those Demo-
cratic papers that were loud in its denuncaton
have been remarkably silent since the repudi-
tion of Fitzgerald.
Charles A. Ackerson has sued the Alta for IL
bel and $50, 600 damages, for attacking his char
acter and ability and thereby depriving him of
his position as Chief Engineer of the San Fran
cisco Fire Department.
The Reform Democrats at the instance of
Charles Connor, have nominated Horatio Sey-
mour, of Utica, as candidate for the Assembly
of New York city, against the Tammany cand-
date, Thos. Fields. Seymour accepted.
The Los Angeles Express learns that the Ana
helm Wine Company had immense stock of
wines and liquors. stored on Washington street,
Chicago, which was entirely consumed in the
big fire. Their loss is yaroasly estimated at
500, 900 to $500, 900.
Governor Haight has issued proclamation
calling special election the counties of Santa
Barbara and San Luis Obspo for the choice of
Senator to fill tht vacancy caused by the
gnation of Romualdo Pacheco. The election is
to take place Saturday, November 25th.
The Woman snfragists will move in force on
Congress when it meets They have already
petition signed by upwards of thousand Wash
ington ladies, praying Congress to pass de-
claratory law to the effect that women now have
the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amend
ment.
Coal oil is being manufactured near San Bu-
enaventura, Santa Barbara county, from crude
oil collected near that place. Upwards of one
thousand gallons have been distilled. The best
of oil can be made, according to the Ventura
Sentinel, for less money than it can be laid down
there from New York.
A Sacramento dispatch says that the case of
Laura D. Fair came up on appeal before the Su-
preme Court last week. L. Quint appeared for
the defendant, and the Attorney General for the
people. 1t was thought best to delay the
on the calendar for this term, and it was post