Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-12-29
PERSONAL.

80. The Springfield Republican contradict,
the report Of the death of Miss Catherine M
Sedgewick, the authoress.
80. Philip R Fendall, ESD. Of this citv has
consented to deliver one of the series of lee.
nres provided by the Alexandria Library As.
ISOLATION
49, The Lafayette Journal says that George
Prentice, the world-renowned editor of the
Louisville Journal, is about to establish a
paper in st Louis,
.... Mayor WOOD, Marshall 0. Roberts, and
Horatio Engle. are out in cards, stating that
the use of their "names at the Tabernacle
Nicaraguan Filibuster Relief Meeting" was
wholly unauthorized by them.
-. Fuller, of the New York Mirror, gets of
the following atrocity Why are fashiouab
ladies' in hoops, like the Earth we inhabit -
Because they have protuberance around
me equator" and are (sometimes) fattensd
at the polls ,"
go. Cyrus W Field, Esq, was among the
passengers by the Baltic. Mr.. F. has spent
the last six months in Europe, and has been
entirely successful in his mission, in connec.
ton with the great enterprise for connecting
New ork and London by telegraph.
-. Capt Charles o Rogers, proprietor Of
the Boston Journal, yesterday afternoon, pre-
Sented every person, young and old. married
and single, in his employ with jolly sized
turkey of which to make their Christina,
Dinners The number of pounds represented
by this dispensation of gobbledom exceeded
3O0 The Captain is one of them.
80. By the FIRE in New York on Wednesday
night, two thousand copies of the splendid
holiday book, The Court of Napoleon -
which were awaiting the arrival of the Dor
traits from Paris were destroyed. Tho entire
edition of new work entitled " Across the
Atlantic" by John R. Thompson, ESQ, editor
OF the Southern Literary Messenger, was also
destroyed. Messrs, Derby & jackson are the
losers.
80. Mr.. John Doyen, a man of intemper-
ance habits, but OF more than ordinary natural
abilities, was lately frozen to death at Phillips,
NAME During the WnShingtonian reform
ne was an active and conspicuous laborer in
the cause Of temperance aud was chosen pres.
ldent OF the Franklin County Washingtonian
Society. But he afterwards relapsed. He
was the father of the noted % Helen Jewett, -
who was murdered in New York many years
ago.
80. George Peabody, Esq was on Tuesday
evening the guest Of James NJ Beebee, ESQ i,
President Of the Boston Board of Trade, who
entertained also large company of merchants,
bankers, aud leading men of Massachusetts,
Among the notabilities present were Edward
Everett, Gov. Gardner, Mckay, the Dutch
historian; Capt. Gibson, Judge Merrick, Bish-
ops Eastburn and Fitzpatrick, Rev Doctors
Blagdcn, Neale, Robbins, Waterbury, Ander-
son, and others of the clergy.
80. A laughablo war of yituperation has
recently been waged between two newspapers
at YazoO city, Miss, one the Banner" edited
by Mrs. Ii. n. Prewett, and tho other, the
SUM- by Mr.. W. d. Roy. This war reached
such point Of personal bitterness that the
respectable citizens of the place signed Let
ter addressed to the parties, requesting them
to desist from the further publication Of arti
cles of personal character, they were not
exactly Of a nature 70 interest their readers.
Mrs Prewett is Fillmore man
go. The New York correspondent Of tho
Charleston News says: "Laura keene is
Loura Keene no longer, except on the play
bills. She has been perfprming the part of
the wife for the past two weeks, having taken
certain Mr. Lutz-a we'll known gentleman
In this city-for better for worse. Her spouse
is the same gentleman with whom she dissp.
Feared go suddenly from WalIack's theatre
some two years ago, and who has, since that
time, acted as her business agent and adviser
1t was quite an 'ofair du cour'-there hav.
ing been great deal Of mutual affection on
both sides for some time. The fair Laura
looks more rosy than ever, and as she has been
quite successful 20 far with her new theatre
there is every reason for supposing her to be
the manifest of women .