Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-29
ERS0GAL.
, A gentleman who recently Maid a vi


to Ashland, thus writes to q Northern paper ::
g The workmen were busy tea,ing down the
old homestead, and had it nearly all town lev ell
with the ground whioh think is shame
1t should have stood as long as one post of ii
could be made to remain upright. However,
James Clay. who now own, it, seems to think
otherwise, as he intends to build a now house
in its place. l s.Iolied all over Ashland, drank
at the spring whore /" Harry" I've no doubt
Oft has drank also, to complete my feats
climbed an ash tree and cut ne q branch fol-
q cane.'
80. Matt. Ward has again left Louisville
on account of the circulation of an incendiar,
handbiil calling town meeting
800. Nod Buntline" ia leeturing At Ban.
gor, Mem full uniform-his subject, o,
usual, bsing America for Americans"
.... The Albany Journal says, that of tn,
noble army Of the Revolution, the veterans o.
which received pensions in tho agency OF tina
city, there are less then fifty survivors.
80. DR.. Arnault, instructor of french a
Harvard College, re urned from his visit abroas
in the Arabia.
....Mr. Burt, Governor of Nebraska, was a
Ds 4<OuAot HAO.. Ou VIC AAO 1u1t
.... Raymond, the fusion candidate fo
Lieutenant Governor of Now York, gets al
independent support from Philosophe,
Greeley.
~. Signor Jose NJ. Lasa, Cuban million
ARE, recently died in New York.
1.-The New Workers. have not got over thei
excitement about Grisi and Mario's great tri
umph in Pmritani.
go. The Rev Dr. Thomas M. Clark ha:
been elected Bishop (Episcopal of the diocese
Of Rhode Island.
go. The man who committed that forgery
on the New York Chemical Bank is now cool
ing his heels in the "Tombs" of that city.
-. The Venezuelan Congress have voted
upwards of $50, 600 to the heirs of Capt John
Clark, of Baltimore.
80. The late Samuel Nichols, of New Y ork
on the very day he was killed, was taking o.
writing strong article against the folly and
madness of attempting to mount the forward
platform of car while under way; and ye,
strange to say this very act of temerity wal
the cause of his death.
go. Mrs Mary E. W. Belts, q popular " es,
ern poetess, died at Cincinnati, last Sunday
90. Charles Dudley Head has been elected
President of the Boston Stock Exchange.
-. The Winchester Virginian says, in the
Court Of Appeals the jury awarded Reggie
$40, 900 damages who was injured by the us-
setting of one of Parish & Co. g stages
80. Under the head of matrimonial
breakdown" We find the following recorded
in the Albany Atlas:
"A couple presented themselves before
Squire Parsons this morning for marriage.
The squire put them in pOsiti n, lined tn ir
hands, and proceeded with the ceremony.
asking the groom if he was willing to become
the girls husband, to live with her throu h
lite and support her The COCOON responde ed
in the affirmative as far as becoming her hus.
band was concerned, hut he swore he would
neither live with her or support her Thi.
being the case, the squire stopped the cere
mony, and declined joining them as m n and
wife. On consulting the girl, she Urged the
squire to 90 on. saying that she did not wan
HIM 10 live wi b her or support her. All che
wanted was father to her offspring The
squire, however, was unwilling to join In holy
wedlock couple who were so willing to dis.
regard one o. the most prominent features of
the marital contract. The groom was found
10 be determined in his objections, and the
only alternative tho squire had was to commit
him to iailn