Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-01-06
LATE EASTERN NEWS.
South Carolina has a debt of s3O,OOO,.

South Carolina has a debt of S30,000,-
600.
Jesse Grant is much improved, and his
recovery is now probable.
Two hundred and twenty-three deaths
by smallpox in Philadelphia last week.
The people of France sent $500 as a
Christmas Gift to the Chicago sufferers.
General Schenck has withdrawn from
the Directorship of the Emma Mining
Company.
A cigar maker of Canton, Illinois, has
just received the news that he is a Ger
man Baron.
A box containing $4,000 in coin was
exhumed in Chicago on Sunday last. No
clew to its ownership.
United States mail service has been or
dered by the Postmaster General to be
extended from Chico to Tehama.
A man at Fontanele, Iowa, has hired
a fiddler for six months, at S25 per month,
to play for his amusement daily.
The Cherokee Legislative Council re-
fuse to adopt the Constitution formed for
the proposed Territory Of Oklahoma.
The committee appointed by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to examine the
Printing Bureau, find everything correct.
An uncle of George Francis Train has
made oath that George Francis is a luna
tic, and has asked to be appointed over
him.
The Baltimore Americdn fayors gener-
al amnesty with four exceptions. These
are Davis, Breckenridge, Stephens and
Forrest.
The Chicago Board of Commissioners
voted to reduce their own salaries from
three thousand to five hundred dollars
per annum.
Secretary Fish will again resign in a
few days, because of the late misunder-
standing between United States and Spain
regarding Cuba.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is the Ameri-
can pool OF Sloan. On laving in its wa
ters, rheumatism, gout, and all that sort
Of thing is cured,
George w. Julian denies that he has
abandoned the cause of woman suffrage
on account of the prominence of Wood
hull among the reformers.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Decem-
Der 9th, commenced the payment, with
out rebate, of the interest due on the lst
Of January, on United States Bonds.
Alexis goes on n grand buffalo hunt,
and will come through to San Francisco.
General Sheridan will accompany the
hunting party 20 the buffalo grounds.
The City Council of Little Rock, which
is composed of eight members, recently
balloted 300 times before they elected
their Chairman. 1t took them all one
day and evening.
The smallpox is spreading rapidly in
Chicago. 1t is no longer confined to the
poorer classes and localities, but has in
vaded the Avenues and better portions of
the West Division.
Richard Tweed son of the Boss"
testies that he is worth 81 800, 900, hay
ing received very large amount of prop
erty from his father, the consideration
being love" and consanguinity.
-Four millions four hundred and twelve
thousand nine hundred and twenty six doi
lars of the public debt was paid off last
month. There is over $l27 300 900 coin
and currency balance in the Treasury
! A bill has been introduced in the South
Carolina Legislature, making it an in
dictable offense for any person to call an
other a " liar, thief, rogue, scoundrel,
poltroon, or other similar opprobious cpl
thct."
The Rochester Democrat says We
do not credit the story of the New York
Commercial AdUeItScr that Horace
Greeley has eloped with Mrs. Woodhull.
1t is doubtless an invention of the enemy
whether the enemy of Mr.. Greeley or
Of Mrs. Woodhull cannot yet be told.