Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-04-10

80. The New York Sunday Atlas says that
Henry Ward Beecher has become pecuniarily
interested In the manufacture of Sharp's rifles
If he would only open shooting gallery now
and a school for inculcating "the noble art of
self defence" he might become a useful mem
Der Of society.
80. Another divorce case in New York is
that of Ann Jane Morris against Rev. w.
Morris, pastor of the African Episcopal church
in Centre street. She swsars that she left him
in consequence of ill treatment, and he that
| she was tipsy.
.... Rev. DIR. Armstrong, Of Norfolk, Va,
in his book entitled 1.-The Summer of the
Pestience," inclines to the opinion that the
fever OF last summer is travelling epidemic,
and that, when it once reaches place, there
is no security but in fight.
.... Prentice, of the Louisville Journal,
! once said that he would give any money to
have a cast of f. p. Blair's countenauce
transferred to his andirons, as the resemblance
would frishten his children so as to prevent
all danger of their going too near the fire.
place.
80. Monsieur Sibbern, the swedish Minis
ter, has sold his furniture and wines az auction
as he contemplates visit to Europe, where a
large fortune has recently been left TO bis lady
lie is among the oldest members Of the corps
DiplOmatique, and was particular friend Of
80. Madame de Bodisco intends leaving for
Europe. 1t is now sixteen years since, when
| school girl at Georgetown she attracted the
| notice of the late Baron, and was given him in
marriage by Henry Clay. Her two oldest
| children, sons, are now in Russia, receiving
| thorough education, and serving the Emperor
| as Pages of the Household"
80. The Boston Medical Journal opposes
the employment of female physicisns-says
kL,.- &C.
| sons in parturition-that the transfer Of the
| responsibilities OF the lying-in chamber from
| the midwife to the educated accoucher, re-
suited in the diminution of the mortality in
| cident to children, in the course of half GEN.
tury, TO haLf tile tormer-aud that ph ysicians
are more moral than clergymen.
| .... Autograph letters of the Washington
| Family are to be sold at auction in Baltimore.
Among the collection are letters from Mrs.
| Martha w Washington, the mother OF W ashlng-
ton, and from his sister, Miss Hannah wash
| ington Some of these letters were dated as
| far back as I757 when Washington was quite
4 a young man. One of his letters describes his
visit t1 the Virginia Springs, and Others relate
to public events long before the Revolution.
| Great competition was anticipated Tor the pos
| session of the relics
go. Hon. Edward Everett having gener-
| ously refused to accept any compensation for
the delivery of his oration on the character Of
Washington, in New York, under the aus
pices of the Mercantile Library Association,
which, at an entrance fee of only twenty-five
cents, yielded nearly twelve hundred dollars,
the association have determined to invest the
proceeds in the purchase Of some seven hun
dred volumes of standard works. and, in re-
cognition of the deep obligation they are un-
der to that gentleman, to inscribs on every
book 4" Presented BY the Hon. Edward Eve
rett.n