Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-07
PERSONAL
PERSONAL
.... Hon. George M. Dallas is in the city.
80. Macaulay is in ill-health.
go. Rachel is at New York.


.... Hon. George M. Dallas is in the city.
80. Macaulay is in ill-health.
go. Rachel is at New York.
80. Shirley Brooks wrote the capital bur-
lesque in Punch of Longfellow's Hiawatha.
80. Thomas Cubitt, great London builder,
who began life as a bricklayer, has died worth
over million sterling.
80. John Mitchell will lecture at Richmond,
Va, this evening. Subject" Ripening of the
Irish Revolution"
-. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, has taken
the Marshall Theatre, Richmond, and J. JEFF
ferson, the comedian, is to be stage manager.
go. Gen. Lane with Messrs. Cobb and Orr,
Of the House, have gone to New Hampshire
to take part in the political campaign.
80. Barnum, some think, is playing "pos-
sum-" and after buying mp his own paper at
fifty per cent discount, will laugh at his fnan-
ciering dodge.
80. Jerry McClair, Of Scottsburg, N Y, of
hitherto unblemished character, has been ar
rested for several forgeries, amounting to
$500 as far as heard from.
80. Bishop Johns delivers the sixth lecture,
in course, before the Alexandria Library com
pany, on Friday evening, at the Lyceum Hall,
on " the motives which should incite to the
80. Rev. Thomas r. Lambert, Of the u S.
N, has received and accepted q call to the
Rectorate Of the St. Johns, Charlestown,
Mass, and has already entered upon the duties
of his Office.
go. Charles Mackay's last work" The
Lump Of Gold" is a grand production
mine of poetic ore-and has raised the repu-
tation Of the most promising poet of England
to the very highest point.
80. Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett, the former grand
nephew Of Robert Emmett, who suffered death
for an attempt to revolutionize Ireland, have
been presented to Louis Napoleon by Mr. Ma
son.
80. Philip j. Punch, Esq, has retired from
the Savannah Georgian, and that sound and
excellent paper will hereafter be under the
control Off. G. Wright and II. H Perry, Esqs.,
who have been all along connected with its
editorial management.
80. Mr.. Pfeiffer, of Indiana, raised prune
trees in large numbers, and sold them at ex.
rbitant prices, some as high as SIS and $40
He had some Of the fruit at the Pennsylvania
State Agricultural Fair, held at Pittsburg
which sold readily at fifty cents a quart.
80. Mr.. John III. Nancy, the patentee
who so recently gained the great reaper case
Of Mccormick vs. Nancy, before Mr.. Justice
Mclean, in the U. s. Circuit Court for the
Northern district of Illinois, died at Rock ford,
Ill on the afternoon of the day on which the
| decision was rendered in his favor. His dis
| ease was consumption.
80. Queen Victoria's Offering to Miss Flor.
ence Nightingale, for her services in the
Crimea, will just arrive as the necessity 70,
those services ceases 1t is composed of dia.
monds and enamel, and in style resembles ths
quaint, heavy designs of the Elizabethan age
| The inscription on the reverse side, recording
Miss Nightingale's pious and heroic conduct
and the Queens gratitude, is the composition
of her majesty. q
80. Eugene, the Empress of France, re.
| Gently attended ball given by the English
Minister at Paris. She looked yavissante, Il
| ever the word was admissible. Her robe wal
OF terry velvet, of cherry color, with deer
| white lace founces, probably worth q thousand
francs foot The diamond tiara, intermin.
gled with artificial grass, which formed her
| neadgear, and the lustrous ear pendants never
LOOKED locked 80 surprisingly brilliant She wore,
Iallng back from her shoulders, a white silk
! manteiet' trimmed with swans down. :.