Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-19
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miscellaneous sources. ........ 1000 90
PERSONAL.
80. The Toronto Globe speaks of the new
Governor General of Canada as follows :-"Sir
Edmund Walker Head, Bart, was born in the
year 1905, and is now consequently 40 years
of age. In 1888, he married Anne Maria,
third daughter of the Rev Philip York His
baronetage was created in 1875, and his family
seat is Wharton Place, in the County of Kent
He Is chiefly distinguished for hi, literary and
artistic taste, but has been popular as Governor
OF New Brunswick He is said to be cousin Of
Sir Francis Bond Head
80. Nathaniel G. Greene, son of Colonel
Greene, Of the Boston Post, has arrived at
Boston, having made tour of the world, by
the way Of California, China, Hindostan
Egypt, Italy, France and England, after an
absence Of about twenty months.
The Rev. Mr.. Stevenson, a minister of
the Primitive Methodist Church. was drowned
at Walpole, county of Haldimand (Canada)
on the 4th inst, while bathing.
....Mrs. DR.. Clarke, q gra luate of the Fe-
male Medical College in Boston, has gone to
Europe for the more perfect acquisition of
medical and surgical science
1.-THE Boston Journal denies tho correct
ness Of the report that the Hon. Marcus Nor
ton is dangerously ill.
1.-The Abingdon Virginian notices the
death of Rev. Samuel Patton, of Knoxville,
Tenn, formerly of Southwestern Virginia, a
very popular minister of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. He was editor of the Holston
Christian Advocate.
80. Dir. benjamin F. Tyler, of Richmond.
was accidentally killed on the Virginia Cen
trail Railroad on Thursday.
-. Mr.. Van Buren,, e1-President of the
United States, has, it is said, recently left
Naples, after residence there of three months,
tor Florence and the baths of Lucca.
o.. Washington Irving is cultivating his
grounds and gardens at Sunnyside He says
his potatoes cost him about sixpence piece
go. The Courier des Etats Unis learns from
Paris that young Bonaparte, of Baltimore,
grandson Of Prince Jerome has decided to &C.
cept letters of naturalization, and the grade of
lieutenant in the French army.
80. Col. Benton and Col. Fremont will
leave Washington in q day OF two. The FIRST
for Missouri and the last for California
90. There is trouble among the Anti. Ne.
braska politicians Of the Third Congres sional
District in Maine-at present represented BY
the Hon. E. w. Farley, Wing. The Fusionists,
at late mass meeting nominated Mr.. Knowl.
ton. Mr.. Farley refused to submit his Of al ms
to any but IA out and-out Wing Convention
Slch one will be called and nominate him
without doubt, for reelection. There will
oe two anti.Nebraska candidates in the field,
besides the regular administration candidate
-. The Rev. Joshua Leavitt, the scissors
editor Of the Independent, Henry Ward
Beecher's paper) has had L. L. D. fastened to
the tail of his name by Wabash College.
1.-The Albany Looming Journal says: "a
German woman, as the emigrant train on the
Central road was about leaving at noon, wa.
delivered of twins at the depot "Drs. Armsby
and Dickinson were called in by the officers
She persisted in keeping on the train, but was
forcibly prevented. The mother and children
are doing we'll.
80. Among tho arrivals by the steamer
Union, at New York from Havre, was William
Walcott, we'll known American artist, who
has been spending some two years at Paris
Mr.. W. is in fine health, and has brought with
him some sixty pictures, which the public will
have chance to see by and by.
80. +. A. Beelen, Esq, Secretary of the
American Legation at Chilli, arrived in this
city last evening, and took lodgings at Viii.
lards'
80. Tho Harrisburg (Ps.) Item says that
gentleman Of that borough, fully qualified to
the task, is making the necessary arrangements
towards collecting the poetioal illusions of tho
late W. c. Tobey, and publishing II EN-, With
history of his life
-. Messrs. Carothers, Oliver, and Miller
wings, 70 elected tn Congress in Missouri, voted
for the Nebraska bill. Benton, who voted
against the bill, was defeated. Our anti.Ne.
sraska contemporaries will please make note
OF t th:s fact. -. '.
-. When man gets caught in any diff
Guilty, he becomes famous. The Albany En-
press finds that Stephen T. Beals, the dentist
in Philadelphia, learned the trade of a plane
maker in Albany, with John Gibson, then
went to New York in another business, be.
came proprietor Of panorama Of California,
and finally settled down in Quaksrdslphia a.
a dentist. Many Of his old friends in ALBANY
DEAN him incapable of the commission Of the