Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-21
MULTUN IN PARVO.

MULTUM IN PARvO.
! The New York Herald wants all the Presi-
dents foreign appointments, except Mr.. Bu-
chanan's rejected by the Senate, and insists
! that the President ought to dismiss all his
| Cabinet officers! This is modest; hut very
comprehensive.
Gov. johnson, of Virginia. has refused to
commute the sentence of Thomas Beard, of
Barbour county, convicted Of the murder of
his nephew, young Chrislip. He will, there
fore, he hung on Friday, the 18th inst.
the Cambridge Md Chronicle, says an
unusually large number of wild geese and
ducks are daily passing over that town and
| vicinity, which. it says, betokens q severe
winter.
| The election of judse in Georgia resulted
in the choice of democrats in four circuits.
| and of Wings in Eve circuits The Macon
Telegraph says, This result is gratifying
in the extreme. 1t vindicates the capacity Of
the people for regulating their own judi
t ciary, and shows that party cannotblind them
in The selection of these important Offices. IN
the strongest dem ,cratic circuits, wings have
been chosen. and tfce rerSa In every in
stance the choice has aliyhtcd on upright and
| capable men. So may it ever be
During the delivery of lecture recently by
Abbey Kelly Foster, at Detroit, an Indignant.
ex-Mayor got up and endeavored to oppose
by argument the summary manner in which
Abbey proposed to bring about dissolution
OF the Union, but the fair lecturer carried too
many guns for her opponent, and he was
fairly beat down.
A war has broken out between the St Louis
| Democrat, Col Benton's Free Soil organ, and
the Ar-eiger. a German Democratic Commu-
mist paper Of the same cit
| The Virginia Law, providing that lawyers
shall pressure license and pay taxes, has been
pronounced unconstitutional.
The New Jersey State Temperance Conyen-
ton assembled at Trenton on Tuesday. AT.
ter organization. series of resolutions were
reported and adopted, repudiating the idea of
forming third party, and warmly endorsing
the Hon. Joel Haywood: OF Ocean county, as
| the candidate of the Temperance for Govern
, or.
Madam Sontss gives her first concert for
the present season at PhiIadelp hia ON Monday
evening next. The price Of seats to all parts
; Of the house is to be one dollar.
Near Ridgeway. Ohio last week man wish
ing to get Oh the train, kindled fire on the
track to arrest the attention of the engineer
laid down ON the truck. went to SLEEP. and
| WAS killed by the engine passing over his
head: completely cutting it from his body.
The potato disease has proved very extern
sive in many parts of England In some
grounds usually productive Of large quanti-
ties for consumption, there is scarcely enough
| of sound potatoes for seed
Rogues generally die poor Every time they
make dollar by cheating, they have to spend
ten shillings in law.
Spirits Of turpehtine Is prescribed a. ali
| efcctual ci:cumventer of cockroaches Only
touch the shelves aud sides Of book cases
| bureaus, DC. with it, and the enemy quits not
only the furniture but the room
| 1t is said the Paris correspondent Of the
London Iimts receives $4,000 year, and is
furnished with handsome suit of rooms
Mr.. Cough is making great sensation in
England. In one place he had an audience
of from $4,000 to $4,000 persons
! A man in Cincinn iii last week cut his throat
because he lived next door to an amateur
trombone player. The coroner hold an in
| quest. and returned verdict of ';Justifiabe
| homicide Sensible jury that
Bear hunts are regularly advertised in Cali
fornia papers.
| In whatever shape evil comes. we are act to
exclaim, with Hamlet, ''Take any shape but
that
! Coal is HOW selling at twenty-eight and
thirty cents per bnshel. ut Cincinnati
The hest cure for dyspepsia, is to solicit adj
rertisements and collect bills for a newspaper.
If that don't give you an appetite, you may
as well sell your stomach for tripe, and have
done with it,
1t is said that the receipts of the Italian
Opera in New York average about 50, 500 per
| night; the Broadway Theatre, IS 900; Ma
tional, $4,000 the Bowery 81, 900 Wallsck's,
$4,000 Burton's, $4,000; the Hippodrome.
$4,000; Barnum's Museum, 81 500; Jullan's.
81 800. Add 50, 900 more for the various other
places of public amusement, and there is a
nightly expenditure of $4,000
Personal and Political
$3.50 James Nelson, Esq, for many years
delegate to the MARYLAND Legislature and oIso