Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-25
PERSONAL.

MADAME LaGrangeis popular at Boston
80. Robert Burns was born January IS
1859. =.
| Kansas to visit his family at st. Clairsville.
/ -. Mr.. Banks was born at Waltham, Mass
| on the 30th OfJanuary, 1916.
-. Santa Anna and bis wife have sepa.
rated
! 80. Alboni has been engaged at the Paris
| Opera.
| 80. Gen. Mcdowell, of Ky, is at Balti-
more.
....Gov Pratt gave grand Bah at An
| napolis, last evening.
80. Hon. w. G. Dawson, Of Georgia, was
on visit at Memphis, Tennessee, last week.
.,..Rev. DR.. Gilman, of Charleston, s. c.,
preached at the Unitarian Church, Louisville,
Ky, last Sunday. -
-. William d. O'Connor. of Boston. wrote
the "Ghost Story in the January number of
-. John Mitchell, will deliver lecture at
Troy, ON the 18th inst. Subject, tho "Ripen-
ing OF the Revolution in ireland"
-. Franklin's birth day was observed so
strictly by the printers Of Chicago, that no
papers were issued there the next day
80. Miles Greenwood, inventor of the
CRATE steme squirt" has received service
OF plate from ninety prominent citizens of
Cincinnati.
-. Hon. H. W. HiIliard, of Alabama, has
made the Bostonians wrathy by not lecturing
mere that week, as he had promised to, or
sending any excuse.
-. Lieut.. Bent, U. S. NJ, read paper on
the Japanese Gulf stream Yesterday. before
the New York Geographical Society
Blackburn, who was killed on the Gov
lngton and Lexington railroad near Paris. a
few days since, was the sixth brakeman killed
on that road in the past year
80. Lord Panmure has directed that the
title of Secretary of War be no longer used
and that In all future communications and
correspondence his lordship is to be addressed
only as Secretary of State for War.
-. Julia Dean Haynes husband has rot
into an alteration with Mr. King, of the Gin
clnnat Columbian, for q criticism on the fair
Julia's acting. He will find this decidedly un-
profitable.
-. Capt. Nye, Of the steamship Pacific.
has been presented with gold medal, as a
testimonial Of his humane conduct in saving
nineteen OF the crew Of the wrecked ship Jessie
Stevens.
-. Mr.. Buchanan entertained large party
OF the corps dtplomatiqHe at dinner on Wed
nesday evening, the 9th, at his residence in
upper Harley street, London. So says the
Court Circular.
80. M. Thalberg has left Rio for Buenos
Ayres, where his performances have been
attended with brilliant success and the atten-
tons lavished upon the great pianist are equal
to any that could be paid to the highest envoy
from any foreign state.
80. The Earl of Erne has invested some
thing like fl05, 900 in the construction of the
Dundalk and Enniskillen line of railway. Of
this amount $4,000 was cash down He is
an industrious man if he can Erue this by his
own exertions.
....McCormick is said to havc accumulated
an immense fortune already by his patents,
and Nanny has been almost equally success
ful during the time that he has been in the
business. Mccormick resides at Chicago, and
Nanny at Rockford, Ill.
....Harvey Moore, of Lawrence county,
Ohio, claims to have discovered principle by
which direction can be given to an air car,
and It's speed accelerated or retarded at the
Will OF the engineer or pilot who may take
charge of it, and without the use Of ballast or
waste OF gas in the ascent or descent.
go. Michael Smith, of Dublin, has entered
into contract with the Government OF Napo.
leon, for the supply of several hundred tierces-
about thOusand-of Irish beef, TO be deliv-
cred at Brest or Cherbourg, within definite
period. This event is novel ono in the COM
mercial history of hat city.
.... Rowecroft, the English Consul at Gin
cinnati, is said to look ut least ten years older
than he did month ago. His fine, Norman
English physiognomy has grown thin and care
worn, and his eyes dull and sunken. His
strut is no longer pompous, nor his manner
snobbishly digni6ed.
go. Napoleon has presented to Queen Eic-
torla, AS new years gift, an album contain
ing water color paintings, by the most eminent
artists, each picture representing some Incl
dent in the Queens visit to Paris. To the
Empress he has presented costly and inge-
niously devised service of plate.
-. Park Goodwin, Esq, of New York, is
to deliver the address at the Second Annual
Meeting of the Cosmopolitan Art Association,
on Thursday evening, January 81, in San
dusky, at which time the magnificent Works
of Art, collected during the past year, will be
distributed gratuitously among the subscri-
bers.
80. Gov. Winston has vetoed the bill passed
by the Legislature of Alabama to loan to the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company
100000. The bill was passed by q moderate
majority, and will most likely pass over the
veto OF the Governor, inasmuch as the consti-
tusio" VI maj Otaeo ohiy requires majority
Of the Legislature to enact a law in despite of
the executive veto.
-. Gen. Scott has failed to find ANYTHING
in the late Court Martial on Lieut. Haldeman
to impcach the integrity Of that officer, and
has accordingly ordered him to report himself
to his regiment for duty. This result will be
hailed with satisfaction, not only by his per.
sonai friends, but by all who feel just pride
In the dignity and fair fame of our military
department