Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-10
Domestic and Foreign Perso nalities.

80. A letter to DR.. Durbin states that all
the missionaries connected with the Methodist
Episcopal Church in China would probably
withdraw from the empire by the clese Of the
present year
80. Three preachers, who were recently
connected with the press in Georgia, have en-
tered the Methodist itinerant ministry in that
State, and were assigned fields of labor at the
late Conference. They are the Revs. W. J.
Scott late of the Rome Courier, ]. w. Burke,
late of the Oassville Standard, and J. Chris.
tain, Of the Dalton Georgian. We wish them
much success in their new and responsible
calling.
80. It is stated that sixty ladies in the city
of New York have signed an obligation, by
which they agree not to purchase any article of
foreign manufacture for wear for q year to
come If all the women Of America were to
come to the same conclusion famine or revo.
luton would be the result in Europe, in few
months, beyond the shadow of doubt
80. The Rochester IN. W Union, in dss
cribing recent political jollifcation, says of
the toasts, "Four of these are laudatory Of M.
Il Clark, four are denunciatory Of Governor
Seymour, and the remaining four are compli-
mentary to the landlord, his wife, Greene c.
Bronson, and other tadtes who wore present
80. The Hon. Kenneth Rayner, of North
Carolina, delivered an address before the Know
Nothing order at Ashland Hall, in Norfolk, on
Thursday evening last. 1t was 10 doubt ins
tended as reply to the Hon. Henry A. Wise.
Mr. Rayner, it is said, aspires to the Presi-
dency.
.... The Roman Catholic Teachers (Morange,
Mcdonald and Others) charged with the out
rage at the Albany Aims house,-as hereto
fore narrated, are out in card, asking sus-
pension of public opinion, until such time as
the facts Of the case are all published. They
say
"The undersigned hope to prove that they
neither burned, nor in any other way destroyed
the books of the children a. tho Aims house,
still less did they "pocket tbem,'' or seek or
intend to retain them-that they did not eject
by force or otherwise any female from the
school or chapel-that the story Of the boy
who got injured in the "affray" is, as far as
their knowledge extends, purely fabulous
there was in reality no 'affray," and that,
after all there has been "much ado about
nothing"
-. The Albion, which We quoted lately as
denying the existence of British nobleman
named Lord Forth, nov admits that there is
such person, and, that the ccwardice attribu-
ted to him in the Crimea is true but dis.
graceful fact.
80. The New York Spirit of the Times
speak in exalted terms of Mr.. Buchanan q
acting in that city. His audience are very
large, and he invariably inspires them with
enthusiastic admiration. This is ne rs to US
Mr. Buchanan must have improved vastly
since he last performed in this country.
-. brutal prize fight took place at Ne
vada California, ON the 10th of December,
between "Col." Fitzgerald and a man named
Kelly. The notorious Yankee Sullivan acted
as second for Fitzgerald. During the third
round Kelly broke his arm above the wrist.
After the eighteenth round Kelly failed to
come to time, and his opponent was accord
arrested after the fight