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

.Kimbsli, author Of the St Leger Pa
pers, sailed for Europe in the Persia.
REV. DR.. Henderson has resigned the
rectorship of Trinity Church, Newark, N j.,
in consequence of continued ill-health.
duncan C.. Pell is nominated by the
Democracy Of Rhode Island for the office Of
Lieutenant-GOver
....Capt James Nunroe, late Of the army,
lectured in New York on Tuesday evening, on
the Creative Genius Of Catholicism.
.... Peter Ritchings and his accomplished
daughter Caroline, singer Of great repute,
are coming South on professional tour.
80. Punch asks whether, properly and
literally speaking, Longfetlo,o's publisher
ought not to be Longmam
80. Mr.. Williams, of the Toledo Blade, who
was elected binder Of the House documents
las disposed Of his interest to Robert Farnham
Of this city.
MIR. Fillmore, on the test vote for the
nomination, only received eight of the thirty
FIVE votes cast by delegates from his own
State.
,...Dr. Griswold's divorce case is now being
tried ut Philadelphia, and the evidence is not
very complimentary to the critic. Mrs. Ann
s. Stephens is one Of the witnesses.
go. DR.. Clairborn who died Of yellow fever
at Norfolk. His remains are to be taken to
Richmond Tomorrow, by the Masonic Fra
ternity, and inferred with appropriate ceIe-
monies on Sunday by that order.
.... Count de Morny, a half brother of Louis
Napoleon, is soon to be married to daughter
Of b. IL. Hutton, wealthy importing mer-
chant of New York, but who has often resided
in Paris. The Count is also said to be very
wealthy.
go. Rev. J. L. Sibley has received the ap-
pointment of College Librarian at Harvard
University, in conjunction with Mr.. Ezra Alb
bot, now Of the Atheneum. The meagre SAL
airy ct 81 200 contrasts curiously with libra.
rians salaries hereabouts.
....COl. VIM. C. Preston, by his eloquent
persuasion, Quoted an armed mob of the
students Of the South Carolina College mt
Columbia, last week. The Governor has since
taken the State arms away from the college
Cadets
....Hon. Auguste Belmont, our Minister at
the Hague, and his handsome wife, have Just
completed the decoration Of their mansion,
formerly that belonging to the late Russian
Minister. Mr.. Belmont is about to commence
giving some good dinners and entertainments.
....Judge Emott, of Poughkeepsie, who has
cultivated the willow for the last ten years,
from ten acres, last year had a crop which
produced him Sill. The value Of ton Of
bssket-willow trees, is from SIS to Sl25-or
about el00 on the average.
....Gov. Gardner, of Massachusetts,, has
has had the good sense to abstain from send
Ing to the Legislature of that State the incen-
diary call for armed ''help'' from certain
persons In Kansas pretending to be officers of
that Territory, but known to possess no legal
claim to such a distinction.
80. Miss Teresa Esmonde has been Obliged
to return from her proposed tour through the
South, owing to the indispositiOn of her mo-
Their. Miss 4. proceeded as far as Baltimore.
where she read to a numerous audience, and
was advertised in this city when forced TO 90
home.
80. King kamehamaha Nv. il said to have
no higher pleasure than in boxing and keep
ing company with Yankee Sullivan. On on0l
occasion Suliivan's wife was in the royal box,
ut the circus, and the ambassadors Of France
and England sought adpittance, and we're re
fused.
John Brougham, widely known as an |
actor and an author, has commenced in that |
EXCELLENT Boston paper, the Gazette, q " Lith- |
Grey and DescripchiOus Serious of Letthers''
from Terence O'Donahoo to his friends in the |
ould country, which, from the well-known |
ability Of the writer, cannot fail to be highly |
amusing.
Mr.. Hewitt, Peter Cooper's son-in-law,
and an extensive iron merchantin New York, |
has read an excellent paper on Iron and its |
deposits and Manufacture in the United |
states, before the Geographical Society; it was
4 most complete and authentic statistical and
'c.e 'lfr' ~ position Of his great branch Of in
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