Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-04-12
Personal.

.,..P. b. Britain, Esq one of the editors
and proprietors Of the Alabama Advertiser i:
now in this CITY. The Typographical profes.
sion Of this city, with whom he was some years
ago associated, will be pleased to learn Of his
good health and worldly prosperity.
Archbishop Hughes lie out in another
manifesto, challenging Mr.. Brooks Of the n
7. Senate to prove that he the Archbishop
has FIVE millions of real estate, (church proper
ty) conveyed him by decd, in tho Register
Office. II the Senator can substantiate his
statement, the Archbishop says he will give
two millions Of dollars for public library.
That's fair!
....The oldest person in Concord, N. H., Is
Mrs Elliot, who is I02 The Oldest man Ia
Mr.. A Hutchins, who is 90. A Mr. Herbert
who died recently, was Of the same age
Years ago We heard 1t mentioned that Mr..
Hutchins made 1t rule to eat moderately.
and never to pass his plate to be helped to
meat aftsf he had been once served. This was
mentioned to account for his age and activity
But on this subject the doctors do no. quite
agree
80. The church property tenure bill has
been signed by Governor Clark, and filed In
the office of the Secretary of State.
go. Rev. John S,udder, missionary of the
American Board in India, died near Capetown,
Africa, January Is, of apoplexy.
80. Hiram Powers, tho sculptor, in answer
to the question, why is it that a wife is a
poor judge Of her husbands portrait 20 seems
TO think that it is like that which Charles
put to the Royal Society, Why, if you put a
shrimp into pail full of water, the water
does not run over?" But Powers, wiser than
the Royal Society, questions the fact upon
which the inquiry is based, and finds it is not
true. He thinks that, other thiogs being
equal. there is no one so good a Judge of a
mans likeness as his wife.
80. Mons, Darius, formerly first bass singer
at the theatre at Rouen, who is not less tn an
l02 years old, and who is the oldest profes
sional singer in France, is to sing in conce ri
which is soon to be given for the benefit of un-
employed workmen.
....Rev. Dr.. Carmichael, pastor Of Chris,
Church at Richmond, Va has resigned.
....Father Walworth, Of New York, has
been preaching sermon en- the location and
temperature of hell
....Mr. Antonio Leoni, an old and we'll
known citizen of Mobile, accidently shot him.
self last week, at Chronicle, Ala. He was in
the act of Withdrawing the ramrod after load
20 49, S1u, WEiS ACSt0u UpOu INC ground
front OF him, when the charge exploded, enter.
| ing bus throat, passing through his head, an d
tearing OF the top Of his skull.
....Among the bills passed by the New
York legislature, is one granting privileges to
William Tell Poussin, formerly an engineer
| In the U: S. service, under General Barnard
| and Minister from France to Washington, under
! the French Republic,) to hold real estate in
the city Of New York.
....Rev. Dr.. Emerson, Of the South Congre.
gational Church. in Salon, Mass, will have
been settled over bis present charge so years
on the 24th inst. An instance of a pastoral
OF this length is now of rare occurrence. 1t il
said that DR.. Emerson never made a mistake
in bis life. If so, he is truly a remarkable
man.
80. A year or two ago there was some CON
troversy in tho newspapers concerning the an
cestry OF the late Daniel Webster. The cues.
ton is now settled. Recent researches in Eng
land-the results of which appear in the April
number Of the Now England Historical and
Genealogical Register-prove that he was de
scended from Thomas Webster, of Ormsby. in
Norfolk, England, who died at that place in
1854 OrDsby is small town of less than
1000 Inhabitants situated not far from Nor
wich, and about l25 miles north east of Lon
don, and near the coast of tho North Sea.
.... Gov. Gardner, of Massachusetts,, ha:
| signed the legislative act making Jurors nudge,
OF the law as vol as the facts.