Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-09
pig RSONAL.


Of the venerable wife Of the Hon. Elisha Whit.
tlesey, First Comptroller Of the Treasury,
which took place on Monday last ut her resi-
dsnce in Ohio Her partner through q long
NE has the sincere sympathy Of q very large
circle of attached friends, who knew the de-
ceased ba, to venerate her for her many exc
cellent qualities as christian, wife, parent,
and member Of society.
80. Hon. j. L. Orr, Of South Carolina, 10
at the Kirkwood Heuss.. and Hon. J R. Lack.
land and Hon Preston King, Of New York, At
Willards' Hotel.
....J James shsr dan Knowles has written q
pamphlet with tho object of proving that {" the
Gospel attributed to Matthew was composed
BY all the apostles together, who employed
80. DR. Morgan, of Vanderburg, indiana,
got drunk short time SINCE went homo and
found his family absent, when by me act Of
his, the house took fre, and he was burned to
death in the ruins
go. Capt G Z. Mier, one of the celebrated
Mier prisoners, who saved his life by draw
ing . white bean, was lately killed in Texas
by q man named Warrington
80. Matthew Gilfry, who fought bravely
in tho Mexican war, carrying the flag of the
6rst Pennsylvania regiment at Vera Crus
Cerra Gordo, and Puebls, died yesterday
morning At his residence in Philadelphia
This flag, which was perforated wi b bullets
he planted upon the height Of Cerro Gordo
in the midst Of the smoke of battle, and be
was the hrst man Of the regiment who got
within the enemy's works.
80. When the Rev. Rowland Hill had
reached his eighty third year, and had been
in the ministry sixty -four years, as q general
thing he preached seven times a week, besides
having much Of his time occupied by public
engagements.
1.-THE New York Evening Post has been
requested to say there is no truth in the report
that Tom Thumb" was recently married TO q
Miss Vinton of Bridgeport, Connecticut The
lady referred to is merely hired to take charge
OF Tom Thumb, attend to his wardrobe, DO
Tom is now on protest. onal tour in that State,
with Mr. Seth Howe's menageris and circus
....In the Commune of st. Hilaire dc la
Noaile, France, q man, named Jean Lapierre,
107 years Of age was recently married TO Q
woman named Petron Neuvllle, of tho tender
age of SO.
....A New York paper states that "sport
ing gentleman" who "has paid great atteu.
ton to rats" makes bet to har less q hun
drsd rats and drive them in light wagon up
tho Broadway. The gentleman is, in fact,
retired whipper-in Of the British House of
Commons.
....R Rev. John Sawyer, of Garland, Ne.
who Is now within a few months of one hum
dred years OF age, is Ct tho Marlboro Hotel,
in Boston. He is on his way 20 revisit the
scenes Of his childhood, in Hebron, Connect
cut from whence no removed some eighty.
40 Roth K :.
called, is graduate of Dartmouth College, of
the class of 1888, and has been in the minis.
try, as pastor and missionary, nearly seventy
years.
80. The New York Evening Post, Of yeG' Or
day, says:
"Col Kinney has not yet turned up The
United States Marshal and his men care
around" but they say the Colonel is not. The
district attorney declines to try FabsRs with
ou' Kinney, and there the matter hangs. The
report that the Colonel is gone to tho Crimes
our reporter says, is not generally credited. -
go. MI. Georgs II. Randall, formerly Of
this city, has become the editor and publishs.
of the Carroll County (Mdl Democrat
go. One Of the oldest conductors In the
the Philadelphia and Germantown Railroad
Company. Major Krickbaum comm.nced his
career in August, 1889, and since then has
been constantly in service-tr8veling on an
average about 73 miles per diem This would
make the entire distance passed in the sixteen
years over 426 QUO miles, or equal to about
seventeen times around the globe
80. James Means, Esq of Steubenville,
Ohio, late President of tho Steubenville and
Indiana Railroad Company, died suddenly at
Philadelphia on Saturday last