Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-20
MULTUM IN PARvO.

at Augusta, says he has read his own obituary
with great pleasure. and adds; g 1 am feeble,
being still confined to my bed, (now nj neteen
days,) but if no relapse occurs, shall get
we'll. My heart is confident, and keep my
flag taut up to the peak"
The Herald says that the distllers of Bos-
ton, at their regular meeting on Saturday
morning. decided to raise their prices to SO
80 cts. for rum, and 6S 70 cts for alcbobol
The assessed valuation of the real and per-
sonal estate in Boston, the present year, is
S2O6, 5l4 200, being an increase of nearly
nineteen millions of dollars since last wear
In 1916, the total valuation was Slle 45O.-
800.
negro in Red river county, Texas, COM
mitted murder on Monday, Sept. 20, was in
dicted on Tuesday, tried on Wednesday, and
hung on Thursday.
Who has the best time of it, the Pope or the
Sultan-the man with no wife, or the one with
two hundred and fifty,
Miss Dix, the phianthropist, states that
among the hundreds of crazy people with
whom her sacred missions have brought her
into companionship, she has not found one
individual, however fierce and turbulent, that
could not be Gained by Scripture and prayer,
uttered in low and gentle tones. The power
of religious sentiments over those shattered
souls seems miraculous.
There is a capital of SsOo0o,OOO invested
in the culture of cane in the States of Florida
Louisiana and Texas.
To cure poverty-sit down and growl about
it. By so doing you'll be sure to get rich and
make yourself particularly agreeable to every
body.
1t is stated that by the treaty lately conclu-
ded by Governor German, of Minnesota, with
the Winnebago Indians, the Government OBJ
tanned nearly one million acres of prairie and
timber land, having a front on the Mississippi
of about sixty miles.
The book printers in Boston have struck for
higher wages. They demand that their wages
shall be raised from % to 30 cents per thou
sand ems, and for weekly hands from $40 to
SlI.
Motto for the Leader of the Chinese Revo-
luton :" Heads I win. Tails you lose
In Cincinnati the temperance ticket has
been defeted by 5000 majority.
large meeting of the jennings family was
held at Camden, n. ] on the 18th, for the
purpose of recovering their property in Eng
land.
A Socialist emigration is on the eve of leav-
ing Europe to join Messrs. Victor, Considirant
and Brisbane, in their phalanstry of Texas
Several artists and writers are among the en-
igrants.
meeting of editors, authors, publishers
and practical printers, of Philadelphia, was
held last evening to deliberate upon the ways
and means to erect Monument over the re-
mains of Benjamin Franklin.
According to an article in the n Y Herald,
England has AL Consuls in different ports of
the world and the United States only 13O-
England has 20 in the United States, 81 in
Spain, IL in Brazil 10 in China, 43 in France,
% in Portugal, Is in Russia. and II in Sweden.
The United States has 81 in the British dc.
minions, IL in France in Brazil, 3 in China,
6 in Portugal, 6 in Spain, and in Russia
The Chinese jugglers have got into trouble
again: at Newark. Some one who had en-
gagged their performances, not only decamped
with the profits of the first exhibition (Which,
however, amounted to only $751; but left them
minus S27 which he had borrowed. The I'm
fortunate Chinese left the New York aims
house but short time previously
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