Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-24
PERSONAL.

| 49,. Apthomas, the harpist, is at Albany,
| 80. The Hutchinson Brothers are giving
concerts in Minnesota
| 80. Ex-Mayor Seaver of Boston is seriously
Ill at the residence of his son in law
-. Professors johnson and Frost, with
Misses Briggs and Whitehouse, give a concert
at Baltimore this evening.
| -. Gen. Persifer F. Smith, now in TEXAS.
is said to be in very feeble health.
| 80. Hon. Abner Pratt has been elected
| chief justice of Michigan.
80. M Labienski, of the Russian ForeiOn
Office, and writer of the Resselrode dispatches.
| is dead. .-. 80
49,. James De Lancey Walton, second son
| of thelate Rear Admiral Walton, r. N. died
or Monday last at Jersey City. ..'-
80. Admiral Seymour has completely lost
the sight Of one eye, but has otherwise recoy-
cred from the injuries he received from the
explosion of Russian torpedo. ..- 80
-. Major General Williams, tho gallant
defender of Kars, has no immediate relatives
in England. His family is now resident in
America. .,-.. .'.i:
go. Col. John P. Adams, late United States
Consul at Laguayra, died in New York, on
Tuesday, aged 43 years. His remains are to
be brought to Baltimore to-day for interment.
-. George Kerbe, joiner of Hartford,
Conn, disappeared on Monday night last,
with five or six thousand dollars Of borrowed
money.
80. Mr.. Simeon Doane. of New Bedford.
Mass, caught 1S5 pickerel Weighing 800
pounds, out Of the " Sampson ponds" in Mid
dleborOugh, day or two since.
80. Hon. John S. Wells is actively stump.
ing" New Hampshire. Some days he speaks
at one town in the afternoon, and another in
the evening.
80. Rev. DIR. 0ncken, who was so severely
injured by the railroad accident at Norwalk,
experienced great benefit by sojourn at the
Water Cure about forty miles from Gottengen,
in Germany.
....Fanny Ferns new husband is surnamed
as " the author Of the Life Of Horace GreeIy''
The papers are discussing whether his second
marriage Is likely to result in his being the
author OF the life of any other person as dis
tinguished as Horace.
80. Robert Buchanan, of Cincinnati, SAYS
that he sold last year, from his vineyard,
l3O, 900 cuttings, and thinks that the whole
I,00O, 0OO cuttings and 800, 900 stocks This
looks very like making the Ohio valley the
and of the vine.
80. Rev DR.. Stiles, general agent of the
southern Aid Society, who has just returned
from visit to Detroit and Chicago, received
IN those cities donations and subscriptions to
the amount of 81 500 or 81, 600, with the pros
pect Of further increase.
.... Gen. Shields recently visited the land
office at Winona, Minnesota, where he &C. pre-
empted' 100 acres with the land warrant
given him for his military services in behalf
of the United States. Faribault. famous old
nlOnpar and Indian tra1ar Al.
same day.
....James Harrison, Jr., ofMilwaukie, Wis,
has produced paddock, the moving parts of
which are few, and so imbedded in solid metal
that the lock cannot be smashed. Indeed. it
has no shell, nor is there any interior empty
cavity. Striking upon it is like pounding on
thick solid block Of cast steei-of which the
lock is made.
-. Roger Sherman became a signer Of the
Declaration of Independence for no other rea-
son than that he could not make a living at
shoemaking. He cut his bristles and staked
his " ALL on the rights of man. The con-
sequence was that the same individual who
found it boOtless to make shoes, in a few
years became d living power in our revolu-
ton.
80. William Wright, a notorious rowdy and
:" short boy" was arrested on Tuesday, in
New York, on bench warrant issued by the
court of sessions, in which he stands charged,
on indictment, with having assaulted and bit
ten on the ear of a man, who, it is said, gave
him no just provOcatien, but whose only of
fence was his inferiority of prowess.
80. Gen. Cary, of Ohio, has been featuring
on temperance with great success before the
students of the University Of Virginia, of
South Carolina College, and the University of
North Carolina, at Chapel Hill In a two
months tour he has made seventy-seven lengthy
Speeches, and everywhere he was greeted with
unbOunded enthusiasm.
-. George Sand, MADAME Dudeyant.O
will shortly publish grand work in two vol
umes, entitled, Les .fnaNtS Ceie5reS The
loves of Adam and Eve commence the book.
and then will follow those Of Minus and Semi
ramis, Pyramus and Thisbo, Joseph and Nine
PotIphar, &C., &c, up to the love Of modern
times. Such history Of sentiment, tracing
It's development In all ages, will undoubtedly
be piquant In perusal.
-. Ida Pfeiffer, (sprieht)-" Here, Minna.
child, listen and attend to me- You must run
directly, and get me fifteen reams of paper,
one qulIe OF blOtting ditto six quart bottles of
black INK, and five hundred Magnum Bonum
steel pens. Tomorrow is New Years Day.
and | intend starting on a trip round the
world for the third time You must call me
at i've o'clock. "-Puneh.
-: Dickens has at length outgrown his
preJudIces against this country, if one may
Judge from this passage in his latest Christ
mas story: Nevertheless, again drank my
eoDler JnieP, sling or cocktail in all good will
TO my friend the General and my friends the
Majors, Colonies, and civilians, all full well
knowing that whatever little notes my beamy
eyes may have deserted in theirs, they belong
to kind, generous, large-hearted, and great
people"
80. Lord Broughton, better known as Sir
John Cam Toulouse, has just appended to
new edition of his Journey through Albania"
an appendix OF remarks on the refusal of the
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, to admit
into Westminster Abbey the statue of Lord
Byron. His lordship, Chen only Mr.. Hob
house. was the leading mover in forming the
committee for the Byron statue, and very
merciessly does he deal with the late Dean
Ireland and with the present Bishop of Lon