Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-01-06
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
The Santa Clara Mder is dead.

Vallejo is to have new paper, the IN
dependent.
Hay brings SlOO per ton in Virginia
City just now.
Rats are said to be more plentiful in
Oregon than flies.
When it rains, Petaluma fremen go tc
fires with their umbrellas.
There are sixteen miles Of gaspipe in
the State Capitol at Sacramento.
There are 1,249 boys and l ,209 girls OIL
the school rolls of Sacramento city.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company
is building round-house at Red Bluff
A Patent for the town site Of Grass
Valley has been received from Washing
ton.
The Sacramento Union has tasted ol
manzanita brandy, and pronounces ii
good.
Two new silver ledges have been discov-
cred in the mountains back Of San Bernar-
dino.
Date Palms growing in Santa Clara
have not been seriously injured by the
frosts of two Winters.
Occasionally walTus is seen in Puget
Sound. The lightkeeper at Dungeness re-
ports having seen one lately.
An Oregon editor has bought a mule,
and cotemporary chronicles it as re-
markable case of sclf-possession.
Mayor w. w. Swadley has been APP
pointed organizing officer for the Calitor-
MIA State Branch National Labor Union.
Judge Lake was fined $500 for assault
ing DeYoung of the San Francisco
Chronicle. The fine was paid Immediate
ly.
Brigham Young was yesterday ordered
by Judge Mexican Of L tah to be held as
aprisoner 10 answer to charge of MUIR
der.
Prompt and decisive action on the part
og Son Francisco officials is having good
effect in closing the gambling houses OF
that city.
The Solano Democrat hears a rumor
that Sam. Brannan has projected IA plan
to make Vallejo the great wine depot Of
the State.
II. NJ. Whitney, Of Los Angeles, ha:
been commissioned as Judge of the Seven
tecnth Judicial District, Utce Murray Nor
rison, deceased.
The contribution and jubilee boxes al
the st. Joseph's Catholic church, Sar
Francisco, were carried off by burglar:
on Christmas night.
The National Union Labor League, OF
San Francisco, at recent meeting, en-
dorsed the Hon. Geo. w. Julian as theil
first choice for President Of the United
States.
John Mccullough, of the California
Theater, has paid Col. w. II. l.. Barnes
$500 for the authors share of the pro-
cceds of the first run of his new drama OF
"Solid Silver"
On Christmas night the Cloverdal,
stage was stopped between Geyservillc
and Healdsburg-the highwaymen re
ceiving an empty treasure box for thci
trouble.
The Bank Of California will go into
the business OF manufacturing sulphatC
Of copper or bluestone, in Alpine county
1t is proposed, says the Miner, to cree
works for that purpose, of a capacity o
one thousand tons per month.
In answer to the question, "Will the
Mormons give up polygamy ?" the Sal
Lake Tribune says: We answer mos
emphatically, no! They cannot give il
up; they ,0tU not give it up, and henc,
the necessity Of legislation against it,"
Samples of the cotton crop raised by
Strong in Merced county, this season
is rated by experts as full mdding up
lands and on to No. l article. Strong
says he will put in from 1000 to 3 3,00(
acres this season if suitable land can be
obtained in season.
Controller Green has drawn warrant
for pay OF the January interest on
State bonds as follows: On State bond,
Of 1857, $G94, ,050 on State bonds of 1863
$3.50 Soldiers Relief bonds, 81, ,232
Central Pacific Railroad bonds, So, 500
Soldiers bounty, $2l ,l75 State Capitol
s., ,7GO.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue. in communication to the Secretary
of the Treasury says he is of the opinion
that the amount of taxes payable upor
dividends, interest and undivided profits
of corporations for the last five months o
the calendar year 1870, is not far from
$25,000,000