Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-09
PERSONAL.


....JohnM itchellis at the Montrale Springs,
Tennessee.
-. Mariana Torrente, who proposed the in
oouctiou OF 40 1000 African |" free colenists"
into Cuba, is dead
-. Strickland the actor, has abandoned
tne stage for the pulpit. and preached at DR..
Baldwin's church in East Troy on Sunday
last
-. At the late commencement of Dart
mouth College, the degree of Ii. D. was
conferred on Mr.. Joseph Worcester, of diction-
airy renown, Boston.
.... John b. Breckinridge, who wounded
young Leavenworth in Q duel at Niagara
Falls, is now one Of the editors Of the New
Orleans Delta.
-. Max Maretzek has taken the New York
Academy Of Music from Mr.. Paine, and will
open the opera season in September, to close
on the lst of October, when Paine's lease ex-
pires
go. Rev. Geo. Aiken, of the HoIston Con-
ference ,familiarly known as Father Aiken"
died suddenly few days since in Abingdon,
Va Mr.. Aiken was about the oldest minister
connected with the Conference.
....P johnson on Sunday last, performed
the perilous feat of swimming across the Nj.
agara river between the falls and suspension
bridge. This was the first time the feat has
ever been attempted
80. Hon. Edward Everett has given $500
to his native town of Dorchester for the pur.
chase of library for its high school. A Bos-
ton publishing house agree to furnish the
books at cost.
-. The New Orleans papers announce the
death of Andrew Hodge, Esq formerly of
Philadelphia, but for many years highly re-
spectacle and prominent citizen of the 70 rmer
place. he was brother of our fellow towns
man, William L. Hodge, Esq.
.... 1t is stated tn at in st Francis county,
Arkansas, recently ca one-eyed man stole
one-eyed mule, was arrested by one eyed
Sheriff, and tried before a One-eyed judge
and transported to One ida county, N Y.
80. Rev. DR.. bushnell, of Hartford, writes
from California, to the New York Independ-
ent, graphic account of the immense cedars
OF California, the greatest trees in the world.
One of them, which had been felled, be asser.
tanned by counting the grains of the stump, to
be twelve hundred and eighty wears old
When Mahomet was at the nurse this tree was
sprouting.
....A few weeks ago, several individuals
arrived at New Bedford as sailors on board of
one of our whaleships They belonged to
some of the isla ads in the South Pacific where
human flesh is considered the best eating that
can be procured. On being Intercepted as to
which they preferred for dinner, an English
man or Frenchman, they spoke strongly in
was ''mOre juicy"
49,. Mr. Charles Hallock, who has been
connected with the New Haven Register, will
hereafter be associated with the n Y Jour
nal of Commerce. He is an accomplished
gentleman and an experienced and able wri-
ter. The Register says He will be an &C.
QUESTION to the Journal of Commerce, both
from the capacity and industry which he will
carry to it, as we'll as in his sound views of
national politics."
go. The editor Of the Savannah Republic
an apologies for a typogra, hical error, in
speaking Of Col. Benton " Thirty Years in
Bears" The Republican dryly Observes
The correction was made in the proof, but
the composition insisted on having it Bears
no doubt forgetting the important fact that the
Senate, in Mr. Benton's day, was very diff
ferent body Of animals from what it is at pres
ent.
80. During th under storm in the town of
Berne recently, says the Albany knicker-
booker, the electric fud struck an apple
tree against which young man by the name
OF Lawrence was leaning 1t split the tree
from top to bottom, making gap sufficiently
large to let Mr.. L slip n about foot, imme-
diately after which it sprung to, and hold him
as tight as if he had been in steel trap.
Before he could be extrcated a resort to axes
and crowbars became necessary. This is prob
ably one of the highest places that Nj L. |
ever got into.
correspondent of the Petersburg
Democrat, writing from Spangler's White Sui |
phur Hotel, Greenbrier, Va, says:
learn this property, SO long held by the
Caldwell family is now about passing into the
hands of a we'll known banking party of
Washington city, for the sum of 500 600, and
it will be improved at an expense of $500, 600, |
thus making 1t the most desirable spot for art
and nature combined this change will in
crease the capital stock to 1300O-and ulti- |
mately it will be garden of springs and the |
resort Of the Union.