Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-04
VARIETIES.

lished at st. Anthony, Mimi, requests its
Eastern and Southern exchanges to copy
the following:
Caution. pays money for
land on the Mississippi river, the title Of
which is derived from Jonathan Carver,
as the original owner of the Carver
Cialm, or whoever buys lots in the "City
OF the Falls of st. Anthony" is the vic
tim OF grand swindle, not getting a
show sufficient to hang law suit on, as
Carver's Claim" is worse than q nulli-
ty. and there is no such place as the
City of the Falls of st. Anthony" in the
"wide, wide world"
TEMPERANCE HOTELS. Generally speak
ing the travelling public avoid temperance
hotels as much as they do old maids and
bed-bugs. This is natural, and We don't
know but proper enough.
The Providence Tribune, which is a
sensible paper when off its hobbies, has
an article on this class of houses, from
which we clip line or two:
Temperance houses, in times past.
have, we know, been but poorly patron
lied. But the fault has been more in the
hotels than in the public. We have had,
| generally, but very miserable trash in
this line. The absence of liquor has been
frequently their sole recommendation.
Landlords are beginning to ascertain that
! temperance men want as good accommo-
datlons as anybody, and are as well able
as anybody to pay for them. Where
these facts have been recognized, the tenn
| perancc hotels have seldom lang1lished."
There is no more necessity, nor excuse
for temperance house being shabby.
than for sermon being in the same con-
| dltlon. Make both good enough, and
people will take to them like bees to a
June rose.-Boston Bee.
CURE PoR BONE FRLoN-A friend in
forms us that, while suffering with a bone
felon, twenty years ago, DIR. Francis LIE
Baron, late the Apothecary General of the
United States, advised him to fill thim-
BILE with soft soap and quicksilver mixed,
and bind it tightly over the felon. This
he did, and in the course of twelve hours
it was drawn to a head, when the core
was removed, and by appliances of the
usual poultlccS the sore was soon healed.
Our informant remarks that this is o Sc
we're eXpedlent, but one that is to be pre-
ferred to the customary treatment. We
have heard others who have availed them
selves of the remedy prescribed by our
friend, saying that it is effectual and ex-
peditlcus. As good many persons are
now afflicted with bone felons, we have
been requested to make this publication.
May 1t prove real blessing to the suffer-
ing.-ErchGnge.
A WHITE NEGRO.-We find the follow
ing in the Chattanooga Tenn Adrerti-
scr, Of a very singular phenomenon in
| nature;
g DIR. Hood, of Whiteville, Ga. describes
white negro woman living Lear him,
! thlrty-four years of age, the mother of ten
ebony children, whose skin, since she was
eleven years of age, has changed from a
pure black to white, as fair as any of Cir
cassian blood. Her eyes and hair retain
the African peculiarities. Nodiseased con-
dition Of the skin or system has been dis
| covered to show for this change of color,
which began upon her forehead, in small
spot, and gradually affected her whole
body, the black disappearingfr from herneck
| downwards in single week after her face
had become entirely whitcned."
MAINE-The Massachusetts, Lands
The House of Representatives on Tuesday
voted, 96 to sc, to purchase all the in
terest of Massachusetts, in lands lying in
Maine, and to pay therefor $780,, 500 and
on Wednesday the Senate concurred, by
vote of Is to 10.
The lands to be transferred are as fol-
| lows: 35, ,535 acres Of undivided lands,
and 424 500 acres of lands held in sever
alty-all contained in the first five ranges
and 295 ,40S acres west of these ranges.
held in severalty unincumbered, 4l4 ,245
acres undivided, and 26S, ,544 held in sew
crafty, which are permitted mostly for six
or seven years.-Augtrstd Age.
~ A tavern keeper out west adver-
tises young lawyer who left his house
without paying his bill, under the follow
ing expressive caption: Absquatulum
damnum ct SwartwoutandibuS in tram
stu non est inventus additum scape goat
| um, non comatIbuS IN swampo.
A Western paper says: Mrs. Iceland,
of Nora, H., has given birth to a son
which had in each hand, or rather attached
to the middle joint of each little finger,
by its stem, a perfect tomato. The moth
er had bestowed unusual care upon her
tomatoes in the garden, and hoped to have
them ripe before her confinement. The
specimen brought by her son were about
the size and stage Of maturity of those in
the garden and could not be distinguished
from them by the closest scrutiny.
| 1.-THE True National Democrat is in
| very great trouble because the President
retains in office, even for day, those who
decline to wear the party collar. We
quote:
1--WE call on President Pierce! We
call on Governor Marcy! We call on the