Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-24

A GREAT RAIsE.-A young man, evil
IDENTIFY bachelor, as he had in the mean
time to do his own cooking, &C., recently
produced with his own hands, in Georgia,
IL bales Of cotton, average weight, $50.
pounds; IS barrels Of corn; 25 bushels of
potatoes: 500 bundles of oats: and
quantity of wheat, fodder and vegetables.
He can evidently support wife, and de.
serves one.
The last Liberia Herald received in
this country contains proclamation from
President Roberts implieafiag the British
government in the sldre trade, by buying
emigrants for her West India apprentice
system! Lovely Britain
The Charleston Standard thinks that
Mrs. Singleton, now living in the Will
liamsburg district, in that State, is the
oldest woman Id the world. She is now
in the one hundred and thirty-frst year
of her age. Her mental faculties are still
unimpaired.
The sale of canal lands in Illinois COM
menced on the 10th. Prairie land brought
from S4 to SIS per acre, and timbered S8
to SIG, being an average Of 20 per cent.
above the appraisement.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, the New York papers
say, recently sold out his Staten Island
possessions, including ferry boats, with
all appertaining thereunto, for the good
round sum of 100000.
Wages in Ireland, owing to the stcon-
tinued exodus, have reached a higher
point than even during the war;" A
large railroad contractor, reports ten
shillings per week, as the lowest rate at
which he can now procure laborers of an
ordinary class. ....
The Baltimore Argus wishes to know
whether they have Steinberger among
them, whose speculations some years
back not only affected that market, but
had its influence upon this.
A young woman about twenty wears Of
age, was imprisoned in the Movamensing
prison, at Philadelphia, last Thursday, at
her own request for thirty days. She
gave as a reason the want of food, friends,
and home.
The Maine papers give the names of
ninety eight citizens cf that State, prin-
clpally from Somerset county, who have
recently sailed for Australia. Among
them were three women with their hus-
| bands.
The Earl of Ellesmore, Sir John Lvcll,
and party, have engaged apartments st
the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, during
their stay at the Worlds Fair.
Samuel White, who was convicted, in
Boston, for robbmg Mr.. J. S. Ellis. a
broker, of about $1,000, has been SEN
fenced to three years hard labor in the
State Prison.
The Board of Public Works of Vir-
ginia, on Saturday last. made the State
subscription of 100000 to organize the
Alexandria, Loudon, and Hampshire Rail
road Company.
Hon. H. w. Hillard, of Alabama. has
been recently elected corresponding
member of the Imperial Academical So.
ciety Of Cherburg, in France.
An English company are about to con.
struct ship canal across the Isthmus of
Darien, between North and South Amer.
ca, to connect the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans.
The Governor of Massachusetts,, sill the
Senator's, and one-half of the Representa-
tives, have subscribed one days pay each
towards the Washington Monument.
Lawns or grass plats should be niown
as often as once fortnight, if it is de.
sired to secure fine, smooth turf.
The Georgia Baptist State Convention
was in session last month at Atlanta.
A California Academy of Natural Sci
ence is talked of.
The journeymen bricklayers of Boston
now work ten hours per day.
The Ravei Family are performing in
Louisville.
A Convention Of the Printers of Io,,;s;.
sSa Is ts &c hsld st Deten Rouge. Julv4 4.