Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-12-23
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.
Storms have of late prevailed throughout the

Murphy, the travelling blk, T." has been ar
rested in Red Bluff for arson.
Alexis gave S., 900 to the poor of New York,
and 1900 to the poor of Boston,
band of Chicago burglars doing fine
business in their line in San Francisco.
Successful observations taken of the suns
total eclipse near the Red Sea on Tuesday,
Criminal prosecutions are to be entered against
all members of the New York thief ring"
English stockholders are preparing an effort to
secure the management of the Erie Railway Com
pany.
1t has been agreed by both houses of Congress
to adjourn over from the 2lst instant to the sth
of January.
Thirty-seven guns fred at Nevada City on
the night of Sargent's nomination for United
States Senator.
Three million two hundred and eighty-seven
thousand six hundred dollars is the total cost of
the census of 1870.
The new City Council Of Chicago is said to be
controlled by corrupt " ring" that sells all the
subordinate city offices.
! Five hundred and twenty-five bills and two
joint resolutions were introduced into Congress
on Monday of last week.
Alexis sent to his father five hundred copies of
each of the leading New York papers containing
an account of his reception.
The French Assembly, 2s9 to 277, have adopt
ed resolution for the alienation of the crown
jewels of France to the State.
Seven thousand kangaroo skins have been re-
ceived at San Francisco from Australia. They
are being tanned into leather.
One hundred and one million two hundred and
eighty-four thousand pounds the aggregate
wool crop for the year of 1870
Reports say the Fisk-Mansield libel suit has
been compromised, Fisk paying the woman $l5,
600 to withdraw the complaint,
Connolly, late Controller of New York, now
under arrest on charge of felony, is lying ill of
kidney disease at LudlOw-street Jail.
blast of 800 kegs of powder fired in the
Blue Point mine, Smartsville, December llth,
which caved an immense lot of gravel.
Chicago is visited with another calamity-the
smallpox. 1t is increasing to an alarming ex-
tent and has taken the form of an epidemic.
Peter B. Sweeney administration of the New
York Department of Public Works managed, in
eighteen months, to spend So, 900 900 on the
parks of the city.
The largest mail received overland in
San Francisco came through December 18TH
there being nearly l3 900 letters, besides vast
quantity of printed matter.
Paris kilograms say the Orleans Princes have
resolved to take their seats in the French Assem-
bly,, and to cooperate with the party of the
right center" who are conservatives.
The Atlantic and Great Western railroad COM
panies have consolidated all their interests in
New York and Pennsylvania, under the name of
the Atlantic and Great Western, Geo. B. McClel-
Ian, President
Wheeler, of New York, Chairman of the House
Pacific Railway Committee, has introduced the
bill of last session granting the Central Pacific
Railway Company part of Goat Island in the
Bay of San Francisco.
There is feeling in England that the case of
the Prince of Wales has been reported worse
than it in fact is for the purpose of creating
sympathy for him and to make him more popu-
lar than he has ever been.
Japan is to send a commission of the highest
officers in the Government to the United States
for the purpose of studying our system of laws
politics and general industry, with the duty of
reporting. Minister De Long is to accompany
them on the tour.
Attorney General Akerman handed in his res
! ignation, to take effect January 10th, 1872, and
the President sent to the Senate the name of
Geo. H. Williams, of Oregon, as Akermans sue
cessor. The nomination was Immediately con-
frmed by the Senate.
Garvy, the absconding pasterer-one of the
New York " ring" tbeves-offers to return and
tell all he knows of the frauds practiced by the
ring" if he shall be exempt from prosecutions
1t is believed that his testimony would implicate
Mayor Hall among others.
Three thousand two hundred Cuban insur-
gents in the district of Puerto Principe give in
formal written adhesion to the Spanish Govern
ment, declaring that the insurrection was not
supported by the people of Cuba nor by foreign
ers-meaning the Americans.
D. K Tenney, of the Law firm of Tenney,
Mcclellan Tenney, Chicago, arrived in San
Francisco last week lie represents numerous
policy-holders in the Pacific, Occidental and
Peoples insurance companies of San Francisco
who have suffered losses by the great fire. He
will take such action as in his judgment is pru-
dent for the policy-holders.
In the United States House of Representatives
the apportonment bill has been passed. 1t pro-
vides that the House shall be composed of 2s3
members, and that no new State shall be adj