Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-29

H The Lapwing has returned to New Bed
ford, from her first whaling cruise of thirty
months, with cargo worth $4,000.
H young man named j. j. Rossmassen,
formerly of Oswego, committed suicide at Chi
cago last week.
Eg The Indiana state fair premium list for
1896, amounts to $4,000, and is open to all the
world
u Nine murders have been committed in
Memphis, Tenn, within a year, and not one
of the murderers have been brought to jus
tice
STEEL PENs.-There are in the whole world
but fourteen manufactures Of steel pens, nine
Of them are at Birmingham, four at Boulogne-
sur-mer, and one at Paris.
A New IrEN-The New York Daily Times
has sent in bill to the Board of Councilman
of $40, for repeating editOrially the funeral of
the late Councilman Dixon
ST. LoUIs.-The taking of the census of st.
Louis has just been completed, and gives as
the total population of the city, l22,252 The
| increase since 1850 is about thirty thousand
| B@The number Of farms in New Hamp-
| shire Is AZ ,408; in Vermont, 4S, 3l2; in Mas
sachusetts, 55,O32; in Connecticut, 3l,756;
| in Rhode Island, S,398.
~ Women and three-cent statesmen are
| given to talk If not born to it, they acquire
| the vice shortly after emerging from the cradle
| and small clothes, and only lay it down at the
| coffin.
GS The citizens of Portland have confirmed
the recent appropriation by the city govern
ment OF 100000 for wharf accommodation for
the mammoth English steamer, by q vote of
| 145 to H.
CHICAGo.-The Chicago Democrat gives a
statement of the grain in store in the different
| warehouses of that city which fOets up as fol-
lows: Wheat ll6, 200 bu.; Corn 81 loo bu ::
Oats 14'800 bu.-making a total of 49,, 100
bushels of grain.
~ The Spring Ride Infrmary, in Mis-
sissippi, was entirely destroyed by fire on the
| 18th inst. Loss ST, 900; insurance about one
half that sum.
r. The Supreme Court Of Wisconsin has
decided that it has full jurisdiction in the dis
puted Gevernorship, and the investigation in
| the case of BashfOrd vs. Barstow will at once
proceed.
t. The Chicago Democrat says that some
| idea Of a religiOus-week day meeting in that
| city may be obtained from the fact that on a
| recent occasion Of unusual interest the assem-
blage consisted Of sixty-eight women, one man
and boy.
TWINS AND TRIPLRrs. "A few days since
the wife of the Rev. Horace James, of this
| city, gave birth to two children at one time,
| and since then the wife of the Rev. Geo Bush
nell, also of this city, has given birth to three
children, all at one time.-Wo,eeste Mass
Spy.
WEST POINT harbor on York river, cold as
the winter has been in Virginia, has continued
open, and navigation has, in consequence,
been unobstructed West Point is the selected
terminus Of the Richmond and York River
Railroad, and is situated at the junction of the
Mattiponi and Pamunkey Rivers.
EF" One firm in New York has sent seven
| cargoes of ship-timber to the port OF kenne-
bunk, Me within short time, and is supply
ing timber fer the construction OF about
dozen ship.. Up to within a comparatively
| recent period, very little timber was furnished
to Eastern ship builders, except keel pieces,
| or a few other choice sticks. Next we shall
| hear of shipping whale oil to New Bedford,
and long CLAIMS to Long Island.
| UPSET As the wagon, conveying the u
S. Mail from Washington to Alexandria on its
way down on Monday night, when about two
| miles from that city, it was upset, and pre-
cipitated down an embankment on the track
| of the railroad. Several persons were on
the wagon at the time, but fortunately no
one was seriously hurt, though all were more
| or less bruised.
| CODA gentleman who was born in De
troit, and is now "a years of age, informs the
| Monroe Commercial that the winter of 1872
| was colder than the present. The ice in the
| lake was three feet thick, and closed up some
of the harbors till May. Ten years previous
| 10 that time the winter was still colder; and
one winter he recollects, the snow was three
/ f.ur feat deep ON a laval