Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-09
PERSONAL.

80. p. III. Lutts has been elected President
of the Philadelphia Typographical Society.
REV. John A. Broadus, chaplain at the
University of Virginia, has been lecturing,
with great success, at Richmond.
-. Wien Forney, Esq, has taken the edi-
torial chair Of the BellefOnte Pa Democratic
Waterman.
-. Miss Kimberly appeared last evening
at Philadelphia, performing Parthenia to the
IngOmar Of Mr.. Conrad Clark.
Mrs Darlington says that gentleman
laughed so heartily that she feared he would
burst his 50cnIar vein.
....JOseph Hufty, who has been elected
sheriff of New Orleans, Sl0O, 900 berth, is a
northern man, and by trade a brushmaker
....Douglas Jerrold has a son in New York,
who has immigrated with the int ntion of con-
Meeting himself with the American newspaper
press.
80. Samuel Coffin died near Calais, Me. ON
the Seth ult., from a paralytic fit, brought ON
by drinking and exposure to the night air and
rain.
go. Rev. VIM. Berrian, in a recent pam-
phlet, states that the net annual income of the
property belonging To that New York cOrpo-
ration, amounts to S54,7
80. Gen. Sir Colin Campbell is about to re-
turn TO the Crimea. He is an officer in whom
both the army and the people have great con-
fdence
Captain Carpenter, late forty e rst regi-
ment, who was severely wounded at the bat.
tie Of the Alma, has, by the decision of the
court Of chaacery, come into possession of
600, 900.
....Patrick DOherty, the other day, shot an
eel In the Connecticut river, that measured
four feet in length, eleven and one-half inches
m HlrCn r0f n arA IL
pounds.
-. C. a. Bristed, Astcr's grandson, is the
author Of the late article in Fraser's London
Magazine, entitled The American Press, J"
which contains many severe structures upon
the New York dailies.
-. Thackery, early in life, manifested pe
eullar talent as draughtSman, and such was
his original proclivity for art, that, like our
own Irving, be at one time seriously drought
OF adopting 1t as pursuit.
-. Prince Alberts encouragement of a
petition from the regiments of the Guards to
the Queen for the preservation Of their priyi-
leges and against army reform, makes a very
painiul Impression upon the public.
Mrs. Morrison, widow Of tho late DIR.
william Morrison, of Hong Kong, has received
large gold medal from the Emperor Of tho
french, in testimony Of her late husband :
kindness to the French inhabitants Of Hong
Kong.
,-.' Miss Msgaret Mitchell, On the last nigh,
., nsl Iate egagement at the People, Theatre
% LOUIS, Mo, was presented by the citizen:
OF that place with handsome set of sabl,
fuTs, at the cost Of three hundred dollars and
also magnificent set of jewelry.
Miss Josephine Bunkley, whose s.c,rs
from the school at Emmittsburg, Md s"rns
months since, created so much newspan.rc go
ment, was married in Weldon, n. C ON th,
5th instant, to Mr.. Solomon Andrews. of peril
Amboy, n. J.
.... Mr.. Singeltary, the young gentlema,
who was injured by pistOl-shOt at the Uni
versity Of North Carolina, at the beginning O
the vacation, is rapidly recovering. Iii
wound, though a severe one, seems not +
have been as dangerous as was at first ap
pretended.
80. Mrs. Sophia Ann S. Ladd, reIict Of tn
late William Ladd, of Portsmouth, n. III
president Of the American Peace Society, die
OF lung fever on the morning Of the 10Th uIt
N the residence of Rev s. III WinkIev !,
Boston. Her age was % years She cam
from Portsmouth to Boston ten weeks since
and was taken sick soon after her arrival. He
long illness she bore with christian fcrtitude
and her last moments were cheered by tn
kindest attentions of the friends by whom .b
was surrounded. Friends in Washington an,
elsewhere. Says the Post will learn of he
deesass with deep regret.