Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-11
PERSONAL

49, Judge Story's law library'is to be sold
at auction, IN Boston, next week.
80. Edward Everett will deliver an grafton
in Boston on Washington's birthday.
80. G. Norton, Esq collector at Edgartown,
Mass, is at Wizards.
80. Professor Gould, the Cambridge As
| tronomer, is lecturing at New Orleans.
.... Prince Paskiewitch is still alive, but
| beyond the possibility of recovery. His dis
ease is internal cancer.
Mrs. Bloomer is in Nebraska Territory.
| and has lectured to large audience in the
State House, on the right of women to vote
....Mr. Disraeli is a novelisrsf the third
rank-a poet the thirtieth: in the House Of
Commons, he is great power.
....Montague would have ranked below
Prior as poet: as a man of affairs, he beat
Godolphin.
80. Mrs. T. s. Hamblin formerly Mrs.
Shawl commences an engagement at the Rich
mond Theatre tonight.
80. Major General j. b. Harrie, who died
at Richmond, Va, on Friday last, was wounded
at the seige of Tripoli, and served his country
on other occasions.
80. L. b. Macaulay has retired from Par
Lament: The Wings intend to put forward
Adam Black, the publisher, to represent Edin.
burgh in his stead.
-. Lord Bury has resigned as private sec.
rotary to the Governor. General of Canada, and
Superintendent Of Indian Affairs-and the
Canadian newspapers are glad that the young
rowdy is going away.
80. Thackery says he once had an idea
of collecting all the lies the English told about
the French and the French about the English
In the NapoleOnic periOd-but he shrank from
the task.
80. Rev. Mr.. Clark, Presbyterian cler.
gyman, residing at Geneva, Illinois, has been
carrying on an improper intimacy with lady,
a member of a leading congregation in Chi,
cage, for some time.
80. John Miller, who was burned to death
in his store at Rome, New York, lost his life
by going In after some 81 200 in gold, which
he had hid under the carpet in his sleeping
room
....George w. Foster, Esq, of Florence,
Alabama, has endowed professorship in the
college of that place with 1900. His en-
dOwment fills the mathematical chair, and is
called the Foster Professorship.
....D DR.. Spalding, the eminent Catholic d.
vine, Bishop of Louisville, is delivering his
course Of lectures "ou the elements and his
tory OF modern civilization" before the Cath.
Ole Institute Of New Orleans.
-. Mrs. Sarah Wait recently obtained q
verdict OF s456 vs. against the city of Charles.
town, Mass, In consequence Of having her
leg broken by fall ON the icy streets-the
city being bound to keep the streets clear Of
such obstructions.
-. Lord Elgin, in his speech at Glasgow,
said that the people Of the United States are
really full Of sympathy for the Canadians.
and that If Canada is to join the British in
fghting their battles, she ought to be repre
sented in the Imperial Parliament
-. Bayard Taylor will clear $4,000 dur.
ing the fall and winter; John G. SAKE up
wards Of $1,000; and Rev. T. Star King
$1,000. Making due allowance for probab.e
exaggeration, these figures show concIusivelv
that the business of lecturing pays well.
80. Said Efendi, Jester to the Sultan. has
just died, in Constantinople, at the astonish-
ing age Of enc hundred and twenty wear. And
seven months He held the post OF buffoon
under four Sultans, and retained his comic
powers to the last.
-. David s. Hathaway, of Assonet, Mass,
undertook to whip child of Mrs Seth Clark's
whereupon she felled him to the ground by a
stunning blow with stick. Persons attracted
to.the house by the cutlery, found Hathaway
lying senseless, with the blood running pro
fuseiy. ...rs-. @ 80
-. M. Maedler, the author Of the recent
Investigation with reference to the central
sun, reaches the conclusion that Alcoyne, the
principal star in the group Pleiades, now oc-
cupies the centre Of gravity, and is at present
the sun about which all the universe Of stars
revolve.