Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-13
MULTUM IN PARVO.

William T. Sterling. post master of Mount
Sterling, Crawford county, Wisconsin,
arrested on the Sd inst, for robbing the United
States mail He was ordered to give bail in
the sum of $4,000 for his appearance at the
January term Of the United States Court, and
in default thereof was committed to the
Crawford county Jail.
The most striking case of moral turpitude is
related by the Lantern. One of the prisoners
being conveyed to Sing Sing, said his brother
was New York Alderman, and he wasmt
ashamed to It,
During the past season 1900 persons have
crossed the bridge at Niagara, leading to Goat
Island, and paid their % cents toll This
number is about 10000 larger than last year
The people of Worcester, Mass, have raised
5000 towards new hotel The capital is
to be 100000
A large and rich deposit of iron ore has
been found on the farm of Dr. Lawrence. in
Baltimore county, Md.
The application of one James Thomas, for
an inn keepers license, at Liverpool, was
| urged on the ground that he had thirty-four
children, five of which were born in two
years.
A majority of yarnishes are composed of
they are easily changed by water The fol-
lowing does not posses this inconvenience It
is composed of water, potash, and gum lac, in
the following proportions Water quarts,
gum lac lbs, potash mixed with lime
ounces. If desired, other resinous bodies less
expensive may be substituted for the gum lac
The Legislature of Tennessee met at Nash
Vile on Sd instant. Edwin Polk was elected
President of the Senate over j. D. Carriger,
ESQ.,. (whig.) The Senate stands IL wings and
Ii democrats The House of Representatives
elected Mr. II. H. Wisener Speaker. The vote
stood, Wisener (whig) As, VIM. Wallace dem
ocrat) 30.
In - counties in Ohio, about one half of the
State, the hog crop of 1853 is Ibis, 49,
Same counties in 1852, G96, OBJ; in 1851, 763,-
569 in 1850. S59412
The Chinese destroy the mosquitoes by
! burning the savings of the resinous juniper
tree.
To cure palpitation of the heart procure q
young woman alive and having ascertained
the region of her heart. press the organ close
ly against your own, until the pain ceases For
regimen, use cooling drinks and moonlight
about half and half
The British Admiral, after the late row.
told the Commander at Chincha he might
thank his stars that he was not hanging to the
yard of one Of the American ships whose
Captains deserved the utmost credit forsheir
forbearance, having the means at hand to sink
the whole Peruvian force there in few mo-
ments.
Disease is self-limited. It's tendency, in
nineteen out of twenty cases is toward recov-
cry. judicious physician will rarely say
that he has cured patient. The patient re-
gained his health truly, but that medical OBJ
server who has true insg ht into the laws of
disease, knows that in all probability he
would have recovered unaided
Ex-Gov. Boutwell,, in IA speech at a large
democratic mass meeting in Faneul Hall,
BOSTON, on Tuesday evening, denounced the
Maine Liquor Law as radically wrong in
principle, and productive of no good in nrac-
tice
The new constitution proposed for Delaware
has doubtless been rejected The returns of
the election, as far as received show MAORI
ty of six hundred against it.
The Mar,insburg. (Va..) Gasette, of We'd
ncsday, says that there have been eight or
nine sudden deaths in that town, which are
attributed to cholera The disease however,
is not vrulent: nor as yet epdemcal.
The constitutionality of the general railroad
law of New York has been affirmed by the
Court of Appeals Of that State.
If you wish to know whether a clergyman
be really good or not, don't consult his con-
gregation. but his servant girl. If man has
the devil in him, there is nothing that will so
promptly bring it out as a badly cooked piece
of beef. 1t is not the pulpit that will try
man S picty, but his kitchen range.
Partisan has bought span Of horses at
Cincinnati for $500 and shipped them thence
to Paris via New Orleans
An Irish carriage driver made very hap
Ply and characteristic reply the other day A
gentleman had replied to Pats Want Il car
ria; sir" by saying No, am able to
walk :" when Pat replied, May your honor
long be able, but seldom VIKINGS
Table turning has become quite rage in
India All classes of society engage in it, and
the strangest part of the performance is that
under the hands Of the native Sepoys who are
requested by the English to sit around the ia
bles with their hands on them without being
informed of the result desired the tables be-
gin TO move to the utter CONSERVATION of the
Hindoos