Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-19
PERSONAL
%. Mrs. c. Howard is engaged

80. Mrs. c. Howard is engaged at Burton's g.
go. Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne has been very
successful at Columbus, Ohio.
80. Rev. T. S. King will lecture at Balti-
more on the 25th inst.
-. Martin Kozsta, the Hungarian, has
purchased a farm on the Medina river, Texas
for which he paid $4,000.
80. DIR. L. Horlbeck ha, been chosen Presi-
dent of tho South Carolina Medical Associa.
ton.
80. Barnum's project of a mammoth thea.
tire in Broadway, in the vicinity of Blocker
street, New York, is hopelessIy exploded.
-. Hon. George Briggs, of New York, for
merly Of the House of Representatives, is in
Washington, looking as young and handsome
as ever.
80. DR.. Sayer lectured at Alexandria on
Saturday evening, but the Gazette thinks tn at
few, if any, converts were made to the "strong
minded. !"
80. VIM. Birnie has been reelected Presi-
dent of the Bank of South Carolina and James
Rose of the South Western Railroad Bank,
both in Charleston.
80. Hon. Edward Everett will lecture at
Boston on George Washington" next Friday
evening. The lecture will be repeated at
New York, Baltimore and Richmond.
go. John McMurty, Of Lexington, Ky, q
carpenter, architect and foundry-man, has
failed for about 100000, his assets not
amounting to half that sum.
....Stewart, the New York dry goods man,
has bought out Burton's Theatre, in Chambers
street while the Broadway is threatened, after
the 1st of May, to be merged into four or FIVE
haberdashers' establishments.
.... DR.. l.. A. Frankel, of Virginia, is at
present on his way to Palestine, charged with
a mission from Madame Eliza Hertz, who has
deposited the sum of so, 900 forms for the
creation of an additional establishment in the
Holy Land.
REV. J. E. Edwards, Of Petersburg, Va,
has started for an European tour, accompa-
MED by three young gentlemen-Messrs
Amandus Walker, of Richmond J. P Branch,
of Petersburg; and Abram d. Warwick, OF
Lynchburg.
go. Miss Kate Saxon recently lectured at
Cincinnati, and the feature was introduced
promising gold watch to the gentleman who
should bring the largest number Of ladies to
native of the Emerald Isle, named O'Leary,
who brought forty. one ladies
.... E X. Collins has issued an order to the
commanders Of each of his line of steamships,
that they shall not Gross the Newfoundland
Banks between this time and the first of Au-
gust next, at a latitude north of 43 degrees.
This cOmmendable prudence will for the
future, insure the ships of the Collins line
from the dangers Of ice, and will give them
considerable advantage in the point of safety
over the Cunarders, which are necessiated, on
account OF stopping at Halifax, to 60 much
farther north.
-. The Lafayette lind, y Daily American
GDemocraD says: 1.-THE recently elected
Postmaster of the House of Ranrasant ot;yas %
Washington, though anti Democrat, is reason
ably conservative in his political notions, and
gentleman in the very es ence of the word.
1t gives US pleasure to note the success of such
individuals, though they may differ with US
in matters relating to government Mr.. M. is
grandson Of the great "fnsnciern of the
Revolution, and partakes in many respects of
the characteristics that distinguished his an
cestor. lie is one of the finest appe airing men
in the nation, and we are not surprised at the
emphatic vote which gave him his present
position"