Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-01-20
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but that the Gar would pepper them.
At the close of the year 1853, the
number Of omnibus lines in Philadelphia,
was Is, and the number of coaches 373
Of this number 90 are drawn by four or
more horses.
- The Austrian Budget for 1854
shows a deficit of $4,000, 900 of forms.
- The New Orleans Picayune states
that the obligations Of various kinds that
were due in that city on the 4th of Janu-
ary, amounted to 81, 349, $3.50, and adds:
:" These large payments were effected
without a single default, and without any
undue pressure"
- The only successful argument in
s:lencing the Mayor of Eric, was brick
bat.
Scarlet fever Of a malignant type
is prevailing in Buffalo, N. Y. This
disease is one of the most fatal to which
children are liable, as it runs its course
with alarming celebrity and terminating
in death before danger is apprehended.
The trial of the policemen, in the
Bedini affair, at Cincinnati, is progressing,
and the testimony, so far, is said to be
decidedly against them.
- The Ten Hour Labor Law has
passed the Kentucky House of Represen-
tatives.
- At meeting of the Methodist
clergy and laity of Pittsburg it has been
determined to raise $4,000 by subscrip-
ton, for the endowment OF Biblical
Chair in Allegheny College, and $500
was subscribed on the spot, $4,000 of
the amount being pledged by one prom
inent citizen of Pittsburg.
- Anne of Austria, Queen of Louis
XIII, was extremely delicate in all that
concerned the care of her person it was
scarcely possible to find lawn or cambria
sufficiently fine for her use. Cardinal
Mazarin used to say that her punishment
in purgatory would be her being obliged
to sleep in Holland sheets.
- The organization of the govern
ment of the province of Buenos Ayres
has been perfected. The brother of Rosas
has fled, troubles being in prospect for
him. A great reduction of the tariff on
ready made furniture, clothing, &C., is
contemplated.
- Thirty-six breweries in st. Louis
manufacture PIG, 600 barrels of beer per
annum. The average price is SIS per
barrel, making an aggregate of 81 $780,
900.
- Gov. Medill, of Ohio has declared
that where party is found guilty of a
crime by a jury, and sentenced by a
Court, he will not, in their behalf exercise
his official clemency, unless he is salts
fed, from the testimony, of such convict s
innocence.
- 1t is said that many of the private
soldiers on board the San Francisco,
talked of the matter with professional
recklessness, saying they might as we'll
be drowned as shot, and catching pigs by
the legs as sea swept them overheard,
exclaiming, at the last, there was no use
in going to sea without provisions.
-Cholera and Yellow Fever, it is
stated, have broken out at Cairo, ILL.,,
among the 1000 deck passengers who
were detained there in consequence of the
suspension of navigation, and are en-
campcd in the woods.
- The official census just completed,
shows Washington territory to contain a
civilized population numbering 1865 per-
sons. 1t has several excellent harbors,
and seems likely to become, in a short
time, populous and thriving colony.
- Mr.. Paideaux, author of a work
on the Economy of Fuel, has been permit.
ted to try an experiment at Portsmouth
dock-yard, in England, with his inven-
ton for the consumption of smoke. The
experiment seems to have been quite sue
| cessful. 1t consists of valve in the fur
mace door, of a simple character, "insur-
ing intense heating and minute subdivi-
sion of the air in its passage through it. -
The door of the furnace remains cool,
instead of becoming red-hot; merely a
thin steam-colorcd vapor arose from the
chimney.
- The cities of San Francisco and
Sacramento, and State of California, are
all deeply in debt, or as one of the papers
expresses it, ''Knee deep in gold, and
over head and ears in debt
- In Florence, Ala, the town coun-
Gil have raised the license for retailing
spurious liquors to one thousand dollars,
and on billiard tables and ten-pin alleys
to five hundred dollars.
- The number of poets in the United
States is now estimated at 5,025. Greece
had only " one.". If she had had 5000
lean poets, she would have been Greece
no more"
-A lunatic in Chicago Jail, who
calls himself Lord Frazer, sent out for a
bottle of wine the other day, to treat his
fellow prisoners. On being furnished
with bottle of pop, he declared it the
best wine he had drank, and in a grand
eloquent manner, exclaimed" Now,
gentlemen, for toast. May we ever
steal, swear, and cheat-steal away from
bad company, swear to the truth, and
cheat the devil of his prey" Verify,
there was method in that mans madacss.
Three shocks of an earthquake
have been felt in Hilsborough, Highland
county. Ohio.
A passenger on board a ship
bound for California, states that they had
on board thin and feeble member of the
company, who had been sea sick all the
Wav ont to the line. One dav This man