Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-16
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added to the new telegraph line in Canada
(called the Grand Trunk the past week.
1t is portion of the line, with their
branches, from Quebec to Detroit. The
new company have now in actual opera
ton over 800 miles of wire, and will add
600 miles by August.
"a scoundrel in Cincinnati was SUBJ
jected to the following penalty for cutting
lady's dress in the street: "A fine of
$25 and costs, and to be confined in the
dungeon of the county Jail for ten days,
to be fed with bread and water only, and,
at the expiration of his term of confne-
mcnt, to stand committed until the fine
and costs arc paid.
GA brute in human shape, living in
Wethersfield, Ct, has fled from his home
to avoid an arrest for the crime of incest
with his only daughter, only IA years of
age. The victim of his depraved lusts
has become mother.
Nine ounces Of pure, fresh lime,
dissolved in forty gallons of water, will
purify $50 gallons of hard water; the
prccipitate is chalk. 1t takes sixteen
hours for the water to settle, and all the
impurities to settle to the bottom of the
vessel which contains the water.
T"Doctor," said young miss, of
the high-heeled modesty school, q ma sent
me to tell you that sister Maria Euphemia
Dulcy Louisa Minerva Rhody Jane has
got sore above the waist of her left foot,
between the wrist and shoulder"
GCT1n the vicinity of Boston the canker
worm is committing great ravages on the
apple tree. Trees which few weeks
since were covered with blossoms, are
now blasted, and have the appearance of
having been partially burnt.
1.-THE Pittsburgh Dispatch states that
several Rolling Mills and Glass Alanufac-
tories in that city and neighborhood, have
dropped off work, owing to the extreme
heat of the weather.
Washington Territory is rapidly
filling up with emigrants. There are fif-
teen saw-mills in operation in the terrific
ry, besides several others in contempla-
ton. A large number of persons are en-
gagged in the lumber business, which has
increased very greatly.
10 Woman's rights are recognized in
Kentucky. Near Bowling Green, Mrs.
Marion Bunch and Miss Brown had ter
rible fight, in which Miss Brown was
killed, and her sister who interfered. was
fatally wounded.
10 In Gordon county, Geo., the cot
ton and oat crops have been generally de-
stroyed by drought, and many fields have
been plowed up to make room for corn.
U Competition has become great be-
tween Benecia and San Jose, California,
that steamers are carrying passengers
for the sum Of twenty-five cents each
way.
q a slave woman in jail at New Or
leans, for poisoning her masters child,
has confessed to poisoning nine white and
colored persons in Missouri.
70 About eight hundred Mormons
have left their camp ground at Keokuk,
on their way to Salt Lake City. Nearly
three thousand have arrived there, and
about eight hundred more are expected.
Il General Mansfield, Inspector Gen
eral of the Army, it is said, has been Or
dcred to visit of reconnaissance of the
Mesilla, or disputed territory between
Mexico and the United States.
EJ In the Massachusetts Constitu-
tlonal Convention, on Friday, the secret
ballot provision was adopted by large
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