Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-03
PERSONAL.

1t is said that Mr.. Borland has written
to his friends here that he has resigned his
position as mi mister to the Central American
States, to take effect in the month of MAY
Mr.. Borland will probably arrive in New Or
leans by the next California steamer.
1.-THE Hon. Daniel NJ Barringer, late
Minister to Spain, arrived at New York on the
steamer Pacific, from Liverpool
The wife of Alexander Powers. of Ohio
county, Kentucky, confesses that she poisoned
that gentleman, who died last week, after lin
gering several days in agony. Mrs. P. says
this was the second attempt she has made t.
sever the bonds of wedlock.
80. The Rev. George L. Adams, to whom
a poor widow of Hennicker, n H., had given
a power Of attorney to collect $4,000 due her
from the railroad as compensation for the
loss of her husband and child in the Norwalk
catastrophe, has absconded with the money.
-. Thomas o. Larkin, Esq, formerly OF
New York, has given to Bishop Kip $40 acr es
OF land in Sonora Valley, and about 30 miles
from San Francisco, for Protestant Episcopal
College.
80. Gov. Wood, of Ohio, has resigned the
Valparaiso consulate, and starts for home
ReasOn-it isn't half so lucrative as it wa.
cracked up to be-" The hills at distance
have looked green and beautiful to others be
side Gov. Weed.
1.-The Elizabethtown correspondent of the
Louisville Courier says that Elk Gov Helm
in his address to the jury in the Ward case
- ayowed his belief that Matt Ward was dis
charging solemn social duty when he shot
Prof. Butler" If SO, what duty would son
or brother of the murdered man be dischargipe
ifhe shot Matt Ward down the first time he m eft
him?
go. The editor of the Philadelphia Bak-
istin, who it is said was an unsuccessful con
testant for the Crystal Palace prize poem
ridicules the production of VIM. Ross Wallace
the successful candidate. Quite natural I" He
who wins may laugh
....Dr. Evans, of Philadelphia, who wa
lately decorated by the Emperor of France, in
recognition of his services, has been appointed
dentist to their Majesties, with a salary by the
year.
1.-THE editor of the Baltimore Patriot, il.
reply to our remark that it was % a. least III
gentlemanly" to copy our articles without
credit, says:
The editor of the Patriot referred to can
not take that epithet to himself, but would
say, in the most quiet and less captious spirit
that 1t is one which he does not allow to be
used towards him with impunity; even under
the most aggravated sense Of literary injury
What meat has our Caesar fed on of late,
that makes him speak thus boldly?
go. A Mr.. Smith has been giving concerts,
o la Julien, though on smaller scale, a
Drury Lane. Drury Dane was opened imme
mediateIy for Italian opera, and for German
opera early in May. English opera was also
promised. Henry Russell has been singing a
the Strand to crowded houses. Mr.. and Mrs
Wallack, as Master Walter and Julia, ar;
highly and generously praised in Londsa.-
Both performers seem to have made a grea
nit in England. The Atheneum does not like
Miss Cushman's Queen Cafherine-itc calls it
great performance as to execution, but as impro
perly real and prosaic in conception. Madam,
Novello is in London. Meyerbeer is stated t,
have declined the offers made him by the Music
Festival committee of Birmingham to prepar,
some original work for the festival of 1855.