Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-29
PERSONAL.
-. James Gordon Bennett il at Rome

go. james Gordon Bennett il at Rome.
| 80. Joe Cowell performed at Louisville or
the 10Th
| -. Murdoch, Scotch engineer, first made
| coal-gas, in 1892.
| -. Edgar Snowden, Esq, has lately lee.
| tured at Alexandria, on History.
80. Ex-President Fillmore is travelling IL
Italy, accompanied by his friend Dr. Foote, Of
Buffalo, formerly Minister at Austria.
80. Gignoux, New York artist has lust
| finished Landscape ordered by the Earl Of
| Ellesmere.
-. Hon. VIM. H. Stiles, ex-M. c. and Min.
| lister to Austria, is now Speaker of the Georgia
| House of Representatives.
80. DR. Owen. State geologist, is expected
to present report of his geological survey Of
Kentucky to the present Legislature.
80. w. D. Gallagher is to edit an agricul-
| tural paper, to be published under auspices OF
the Kentucky State society.
80. Mr.. Gill, who resided near Ettrick' !
Virginia, was frozen to death, while on a
| hunting party, last week.
80. Fanny Ferns publishers, Mason Bros.,
say that she will soon have a new work a" in
Sheets for which /" small caps' have been
ordered i'm abundance.
80. DR.. Richman recently attempted to
lecture in st. Louis in favor Of free-loveism
He was compelled to escape through a back
door to save himself from being msltreated.
80. Goph. s. Badger and three of his young
children were frozen to death on the 9Th inst
while attempting to walk from their home on
the prairie, to Cambridge, Illinois, to procure
food.
-. Bishop Fitzpatrick, of Boston, was re-
Gently upset from a sleigh while riding on the
Neck, and while lying on the snow was run
over by another horse and sleigh and Sc
riously injured.
go. Hon g. P. Kennedy cannot lecture in
st. Louis, as he is literally confined to the bed
side of his father-in law, Mr.. Gray, who has
fingered for some months, and still fingers
hopelessly in the struggle of a cruel disease.
-. Brother CADET, the head Of the Icarian
colony of French socialists in Illinois, IS got
into great row with his colonists, and is In
danger of the doom of Icarus Of classic memory,
who, in endeavoring to approximate the sun
lost his wings and fell into the sea.
80. Rev. DR.. Cummins, a famous divine of
London, and a voluminous writer on prophecy
is being severely handled by some Of the Eng
lish reviewers. DIR. thinks tb at in 1865, the
millennium will begin, by Christ's personal ad
vent.
| 80. The Duke of Sotomayor, who recently
blew out his brains at Madrid, was born in
Philadelphia. His mother was a daughter Of
old Governor Mexican, of Pennsylvania, who
| married the former Marquis of Casa Grujo
when in diplomatic position in the United
States.
80. Brown is making good progress with
his EQUESTRIAN statue of Washington, to be
| erected in New York city. 1t is now contem
plated to inaugurate it at its place in Union
in Avn ho
the day on which W Washington took the oath q,
President of the United States in this city.
go. Francois Jurien, baker of New Or
| leans, told his creditors that he would pa,
them all on New Years day, if he had to "coiI
| bis heart and drop his blood for drachms.
When the time came he was without money
and took large dose of laudanum, and thu
| by paying one great debt got rid of all tn,
| little ones.