Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-08
PERSONAL

fEhSUNAL
....Sara Felix, (Rachel's sisterO will give
a concert in Charleston, S. c., this week.
Matthew Hale Smith is now a newsna-
per correspondent in New York.
....Old King Cole, was descendant of An.
thracite, and his jolly old soul was nothing
but snoe leather.
go. Mrs. Banks entertained the citizens of
Waltham, Mass, after public celebration in
honor of her husbands election.
e.. Hon. Willard Fillmore was in Rome.
Italy, by last accounts, sitting for his bust in
marble to Bartholomew, the celebrated Amer
lean sculptor.
80. Douglas Jerrold's son, who emiprated
to New York, has "yamosed' to California.
leaving his young wife penniless among stran-
gers.
80. Mr. McElrath, of the New York Trib.
une, has purchased the Waddell Mansion, on
Murray Hill and Fifth Avenue, for the pur-
pose of occupying it.
....Mrs. Cove Nichols, is a native of Colts
town, N. Ii. Her maiden name was Neal
She married Thomas L. Nichols, ESQ in
184S.
MIR. Hale, one of the proprietors of the
Journal of Commerce, has purchased the farm
at Aurora, on Cayuga Lake, recently owned
by Mr.. Lewis Avery.
go. Mr.. Manager Blackstone, of the London
Haymarket, has ventured on the peribus ex-
pertinent OF reviving in this prudish age the
sterling old comedy of the Beaux Strategem."
80. Sergeant Adams, the well known Lon.
don magistrate, is dead in the 10th year of his
age. During the twenty years of his tenure
OF office as magistrate he tried 81 900 pris-
Oners.
80. S. S. Stubbs ex-Mayor of Norfolk,
lost little daughter on Monday last by a
painful accident She was so severely burned
that she expired after two or three hours of
extreme suffering.
80. Samuel Rogers, the deceased English
poet, has left fortune of f25,OO0 Besides
thlsvery comfortable maintenance his pictures
and other art-treasures were worth f40 900
more.
....Gen. Suffer at his Sacramento valley
farm is trying the experiment of sinking an
Artesian well for pure water. Several at
tempts have been made in this valley and
failed.
have a colleague to aid him in his arduous
duties connected with Church of the Puritans,
in New York
Mrs Letitia Lincoln, who was arrested
in New York, for obtaining money to benefit
orphans, and kept the money for her own use,
and who was let out on bail, has been sur
rendered by her bail to the proper officers,
and been committed to Jail.
....Alexander, Emperor of Russia, is now
occupied with the organization of numerous
body of rifles, the campaign Of last summer
having shown that these special CORDS are
those most likely to render real service, and
now the best soldiers Of the entire army are
being recruited for this purpose.
49,. Lucius Manlius Sargent, Esq, the
author of the Dealings with the Dead" has
long been known to the public as the father
of some beautiful Temperance Tales" He
country-seat in Roxbury, Mass where many
choice paintings and large library evince
the ottuna cum dtGnitate of the philosopher.
1.-THE Countess of Blessington was born in
l70S. Her maiden name was Power. She
married when only fifteen, Captain Farmer
He died in 1917, and in the following year she
married Charles John Gardner, Earl of Bles-
sington, who died in Paris in 1929. Lady
Blessington died in Paris, in June, l849.
49,. DR. Oppert of France has spent two
years on the site Of old Babylon, examining
the cuneiform inscriptions on the bricks and
states. He states that this famous old city, in
the days of its grandeur and power, covered
rather more than area Of 200 square miles,
being about two and a half more than the site
of London. But all this space was not inhab-
tied, there being immense fields to supply the
city with corn and pasture in case of siege
Ida Vannard, a noted Sacramento cour-
texan was tried there in 1853 and acquitted,
on charge of murder. The charge of the
Judge and verdict called down shower of the
severest censure on all concerned, as she had
stabbed to the heart and killed in cold blood,
"a female of like character, and without the
least provocation. This woman had lived in
the city since, and few evenings ago, getting
angry at a company Of five men in her parlor,
she drew knife and stabbed one and then
drew pistol and shot another Of the party.
Both are recovering, however. She has been
arrested three times, and twice discharged on
bail; but each time her bonds were unsatisfac-
tory to the court, though parties Of consider
able property. She is again in custody and
likely to remain so till tried for the crime