Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-13
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IN The war taxes now imposed directIx
upon the British people, and paid for in hard
cash, amount to fifty millions of dollars an
nualIy.
T The authorities Of jackson, Miss have
quarantined the railroad cars from the direc
ton of Vicksburg. The cara are stopped four
miles from Jackson sr 5.-... al
: BoRNEo Tho Dutch troops havei su bdued
tho Chinese insusrection, captured.the strong.
hold of the rebels, and forced them 20 paw the
expe nses OF the war, and the damages done by
them to traders seiH, ae'5;
w A woman said in police court, the
other day, that before marriage her husband
pretended TO be much struck by her --hu- nov
she was every day struck by him Queer
change. se-n - fFs6
FY The Indians Presbyteryg Of the Cum.
bsriand Presbyterian Church, recently held at
Washington, Davies county, resolved shat il is
mt expedient to discuss the qaes,iop Of Amer
ican slavery from the pulpit : The resolution
was passed by vote Of IL to 2, sen
tB"What is the chief usesofr bread t''
asked an examiner of recent schcsl exhibi.
ign: :: The chief use of bread "a answered
Tie urchin, apparently astenished ct the sim
piIclty OF the question; q the chief use If
bread Is to spread butter and melassss on il >
NICARAGUA The civil war sgntages a.
the capital, though all the rest of the country
Is In possession OF the revolutionists The CITY
is half ia ruins, and has been for four months
the scene of continual conflict, sach party
having haif the town fortified. Costa Riea
mas offered reinforcements Of troops 20 the be-
seiged President if he will confirm the Costa
hican claim to jurisdiction over che San Juan
territory.
FIENDISH MURDERs.-The Burlington mo
Telegraph says Thos B. Mccormack. an in
dustriOus and peaceable citizen, was beat TO
death with a bludgeon, by ). M. Trulock late
lE8t'ee OF the peace, for no other crime than
II at of passing over Trulock's premises
The St Louis Republican givss +he particu-
lars of q murder committed in niinoistswn.
opposite St. Louis. gang of Irishmen beat
naf the brains OF an engineer on the Ohio aud
Mississippi railroad, because he refused to let
them crowd the tender and locomotive
Mosr HEARr-RENDISG OccURREYcE.-
The Richmond Enquirer Says: On Sat turday
week, while Mr.. John G. Clemens one of the
most worthy and enterprising citizens of Sus-
sex county. was absent from home his little
son, j. Clarence, a sweet and Interesting bow
.boat seven and a half years old, was instantly
killed by the discharge of gun in the hands
Vi a lad of the name of Adams who. was en-
ployed by Mr. Clemens to work On his farm
Adams was not aware that the gun was loaded
when he pulled the fatal trigger.
EF Mr.. Ill W Farley, of East Boston. has
iuventsd a method Of setting, the valves OF To-
comotives so as to obtain a rotary motion for
tbs wheels Mr.. places a suitable shaft
just benea b the floor, on which shaft are two
wheels at distances CO responding 90 ths gauge
Of The track. The rail being cut away. at th at
point these rollers are placed with their up-
per surfaces flush with the top of-theSfail and
Oy 40 locating the locomotive that the driving
wheels rest on that point any desired motion
my be given by rotating the shaft.
2 A new steamer, placed upon the CLYDE,
has her machinery so constructed that she NAV
be made to go laternlly or diagonally, to 60
back, to go a head, to whirl reuHd in her own
length like pivot,-in word, to perform
every description of maneuyre or gyration
that possibly could be desired on the water
The advantages of such qualifications will at
once be seem for by their means the most tor
;uous navigation may be overcome. Mr. Geo.
Mills. of Glasgow, is the patentes of this most
useful invention.
l9F In Orange county, N Y, at a metho
dist meeting, one of the male sinners took his
seat among the women contrary to the estab-
lished rules, which bids a promiscuous ar
ran gment Of the audience Others of the
brethren tried to remove him, and thereupon
commenced free fight Two graspea a leg,
another two each seized an arm, and smother
carried the head; the men and women got
throug ghly mixed up. the lights were extin-
guisG ed, the stove pipe tumbled down, and be
wa carried out feet foremost; but Afterwards
recovered five dollars in court for assault and
battery. t-