Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-01
Personal.

80. Hon. John Barney, z. c. Lee, Esq, l..
S. Norwood, with Messrs H. Garrett, Fisher,
Nyman, and families, of Baltimore were at
Cspon Springs at last accounts. There are
about four hundred visiters at these springs.
....M'lle Zerr, Julien's recently impoEtSd
prima donna, it is said, has been both good,
| singer and good looking lady, but is now>h4
peu passee both in voice and figure. -,~.e
....Madame Sontag publishes a card over
her own signature, entirely freeing the New
York press from the charges brought against
| it by the Musical World. She says she has
paid but $6,7Ol 80 for advertising her operas
| and concerts in all parts of the Union.
80. Hon. John NJ Berrien, late e S Sena-
tor, having been put in nomination for Gov
ernor Of Georgia, by some persons dissatisfied
with the nomination of Mr.. Jenkins, the
Union and Wing candidate, that gentleman
has published letter, withdrawing his name
from the contest, and appealing to all his
friends to support Mr.. Jenkins.
....Adeline Phelps of Mortified. Mass, has
been indicted by the grand jury of Franklin
county, for the murder of her father last win
ter, by poison. She has been in Jail for the
| last six months.
| ....Major Henry, the late Wing candidate
| for Governor of Tennessee, it is said, will be
elected U. s. Senator, in place of Hon John
Bell, who will probable decline a reelection.
....Gov. Clifford, of Massachusetts. declines
reelection. Tho Hon. Abbot Lawrence is
| spoken Of as his successor.
LIN tho late Congressional election in
kentucky, Col. Bramlette (Whig) was defeated
| in the fourth district by 81 votes. though the
district gave Gen. Scott 1912 majority. Col
B. lost his election because be was an active
| Son of Temperance, and an advocate Of the
Maine liquor law.
| 80. The Cincinnati Atlos understands that
Matt Peel, of Campbells Minstrels, has come
into possession Of a fortune Of about 500 900,
which has been bequcathed to him by a dis
tant relation Of his family, who has for many
years resided in Jamaica. Peel has Likewise
amassed handsome sum in his business.
80. Miss Kate Ludlow, tho actress, it is
said, was married to Mr.. ]. Cittel, in Provi-
dence, Oh Tuesday last.
go. Potomac, Of the Baltimore Patriot
asks, why is it that the appointment of Mr.
Carroll Spence, as Minister resident to Con
stantinople, has not, until to-day, been off,
cially announced in tho Union, and never
mentioned in the Baltimore organ.
80. The terms of the following Judges in
the State of New York, expire with the pres
ent year, viz: Supreme Court-Judge Ed
mon1s. Superior Court-Judges Duer and
Emmett. Common Pleas-Judge DAILY. In
the Superior Court Judge Emmett was elected
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Judge Sanford
.... The Lewistown Gazette says that at a
Democratic meeting recently held in that
place, which was addressed by the Hon.
Ephraim Banks, the present Auditor General.
and candidate for reelection, he took ga de-
cided stand agans. the present temperance
movements now on foot thro Oh Pennsylvania
and intimated pretty stongly that he had no
faith in those who advocate prohibitory Law. -
....Gensral Edward Alexander Theller, of
Detroit, who was taken prisoner in the Z. Pa
'Ai0S ""i, " 1000, Iieh Aor HIS llIs at 1oron
to, and sent to Quebec citadel on his way to
Van Diemsn's Land, whence he effected a
marvellous escape, wrote history of the from
tier disturbances, became editor of Spirit OF
Seventy-siz," at Detroit, a repeater, &c, is
nov in San Francisco: where he is publishing
daily journal, in French and Englzh called
The Present and the Fnture''