Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-09
DDS AND ENDS.

- Speaking Of the immense emicra-
ton to Texas during the past few months,
the Dallas Herald says: :. The Immiera-
ton during the past autumn and present
winter has been unprecedented. Hun
dreds, we may say thousands, have
passed through this place great many
bound for the Colorado, and a number
for this and the adjoining counties. The
emigration this year is quite different
from that Of former years. Many of tire
immigrants who have come into tie
country thiss seas on are men of wealth.
lhe number of slaves greatly exceeds
that of any previous year. There is a
steady tide yet setting in; scarcely day
has passed in the last three months i'm
which from l5 to 80 wagons have not
passed through town, and 1.-The cry is
still they come"
- The success with which wine
growers have met in New Mexico, ia
favorably spoken Of The Gazette saws:
" The low price Of land, and the cheap
ness of labor, together with all the ad-
vantages OF soil and climate, combine to
make New Mexico the finest portion of
the Union so far as the advantageous
growth of the vine is concerned"
- The Boston Bee saws :-Vension-
Saturday evening in Faneuil Hall Market,
was almost as plenty as mutton and other
Injuries. 1t sold for III cents per pound.
We saw several Irish women Juggling Off
supplies for Sunday dinner.
- The Metropolitan Catholic Alma.
mac for 1854, states that there was an
increase of l67 Catholic churches in the
United States.
- 1t may may not be uninteresting
TO state that the ladies of Keokuk, Ill,
nave decided, IN solemn convention. 10
use no more brandy in their mince.
According to the State Register.
Just issued, there are six hundred and
ninety Justices Of the Peace in Boston.
On the LIST of January, the popu-
lation Of the State Of California was es-
tlmated at $4,000, and composed of
2l5,0O0 Americans, $4,000 Germans.
$4,000 French, 1900 Cinnamon. % 600
of Spanish blood. 5000 miscellaneous
foreigners, 10000 Indians, and > 500
negroes. OF these about 65.OOO are
women, and perhaps 10000 children.
Lent begins this year on the first Of
March. Good Friday will be the four.
teenth of April; Easter Sunday, the six
teenth.
"A restless genius who went TO a
Quaker meeting, and after hearing the
decorous gravity as patiently as he could
!or an hour or two, at last declared he
could not stand it any longer:
"Why," said he, ,''"'it's enough TO tire
the very d out.n
Yea, friend" responded an elderly
member of the congregation, ..does thee
not know thati exactly what we want
"A person should not be expected
to take off his gloves preparatory to shak-
ing hancs with another, any more than
to take oil his boot when about to kick
D man. - ls- ts...
The amount Of bank tax paid into
the Treasury of Massachusetts. dur;nr
the last year, was little short of half
a million of dollars. 1t is estimated that
during the current year, the tax will 90
up to S550,000. 2. > =
:, The beqnests of the late Judah
lou louro amount in the aggregate to SAIL
'oo' nl.-a 3 ID .-LmJsl- -...n
4, ankee Sullivan, who was 50 i'll
mat ne could not attend the Court at
forkshre, to take his trial, advertisss
great sparring exhibition in New York.
!, : There have already appeared in
france ALI almanacs for 1854. each one
averaging 10000 copies. : I'D
Iocv .-lt is asserted in French publica-
ton that the Empress Josephine S msntua-
bill for the first ten months Of
1906 mounted up To l75,837f, $4,000.