Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-29
Varieties.

So"IinS iiuus pfeNaient IN New Enr-
land. Here is a fourth case within The
last three weeks. We copy from the Ban
gor Mercury:
On Saturday evening, about five o'clock.
Miss Laura A. Sealand, a girl of ire
proachable character, about 70 years old,
LOOK an ounce of arsenic, which caused
her death In about five hours. The de-
ceased left letter, in which she stated
her determination to rid herself of life
ana that she had procured and mixed the
poison. She gave no reason for the fatal
sct.
ENGLISH STRlKEs.-In the numerous
strikes for higher wages, which have rc-
Gently taken place in England, part have
succeeded and part have failed. Prob
ably all those have failed where there was
an ample supply of labor, and the profits
oil the occupation were fair. The cabmen
found it prudent to give way, after they
had been out Of work three DAYS, their
trade being essentially profitable one,
and the certainty having dawned upon
them that if they left the field open, it
would be Immediately filled upvss new
AID more efficient supplies. Both the
public and the railroad companies were
determined to resist, and to take instant
measures for organizing fresh system.
which, within week, would have been
sufficiently in progress to render it i'm
possible for the old drivers and proprie-
tors to regain their places.
A FREE FIGHr.-The following is
description of a free fight in Western
Virginia, as related by one of the eye-wit-
neses thereof. Promising that there was
one man struck, in answer to aninterroga-
tory as to who be was, the narrator re-
plies:
l reckon be was from low down on
Guyo'', somewhar. Jes as they war iawin,
chap rode up on q clay bank hoss-I
reckln he was Messenger stock, a scrow-
gin anenit tectLe blind O. both eyes-a
peert lookin chap enough, an when he cot
iernent the place, ses he, "Is this free
fight g an they tole him it wor. "Well,"
says he, Citing off an hitching his ole
clay-bank to a swinging limb, count me
IN !" He hadn't mcre'n got it out, afore
some one fetched him lick, and he drapt.
He riz dreckly with some defckulty, an
scs he, Z" Is this a free fight 2" an they
tole it arr. WELL" ses he, unhitchea
his hoss, and putin his left leg over the
back leather /" cunt me out '' and then
he marvelled.
HEAVY TRADE IN PEAcHEs.-One of the
principal peach dealers estimates the daily
arrival of peaches in this market at
6o,Co0 baskets, or even more. Tie trade
has been maintained to this extent for
the last five days, but must soon decline.
Nine steamers a day come in, loaded
down with from 5000 TO 10000 baskets.
y few dealers charter boats exclusively
for their business. Two run to AmboT,
five to Washington, \. J., and two TO
Brunswick. Thev arrive between l. and
o clock in the morning, and at the dead
OF night, when the city is wrapt n slum-
Der, the wharves of the peach steamers
present scenes of the Creat.st activity,
confusion and excl -.nent.
Probably twice IS many teaches will
be brought to market this season as were
last, though not as much rs during the
famous season three years ago, when the
fruit was generally not worth more than
the baskets it filled. Prices take wide
range. From two to six shiliings is
common price, though baskets of rerr
choice fruit were sold yesterday for five
dollars.-N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
FINANCES OF AUsTRIA.-Austria has in
creased her Indebtedness since 1915,
something like Sl70,OC0000. At this
rate, she will soon so to destruction.-
The deficit in each year since the date
above mentioned, is thus stated, viz: In
1916, E106,033; in 1S47. s4,5ll,OG4;
in 1913, sl2,l90,5S0: in IS49, t5,iS6,-
1856; in 1850, .f6,222,363; in 1851,
f5,344 ,7333 making a total, in six years,
of f34, ,46l ,26O, or an average of G5,743,-
6l0 per annum. There seems, also,
every probability that the difference be-
tween revenue and expenditure, will be
equally disastrous in 1853. One of the
worst features Of this expenditure is, that
a great part of it has been incurred in
repressing liberty, particularly in Hun
gary and Italy. Surely deSpotism must
be sweet to tyrants, when they are will
ing to purchase its extension at so dear a
rate.
ia gentleman in New Haven has
been engaged in an interesting enterprise.
He has caught in his garden since the 10th
day ofJune, with twenty-four wide mouth
ed bottles, partly filled with molasses and
vinegar, three bushels of flies, bugs, ,n,I-
feTs, &c. The bottles were hung upon his
garden fence. During the first seven DAYS,
the amount of flies, &C., caught, was
forty-two solid quarts.-Eastern Argus.
U Rome, as it appears from a recent
census, contains population of $4,000,
divided into fifty fourrarishes, and among
them twenty-nine bishops, one thousand
two hrndred and eiphfy uriastS two thou