Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-27
PERSONAL.

.... Hon. 7. B. King is in New York.
-. Mrs. Elizabeth Demumbrance, of Nash
vile, Tenn, died on the 9th, aged 1l6 years.
wv: V. Wallace, the American compc-
ser, is in Paris.
80. Hon. Roger A. Pryor of Richmond, has
returned from his mission to Greece.
-. Mr.. Thackeray is announced to Lecture
in Columbus on Monday night next.
80. Sol Brown, the negro convicted of
murder, is to be hung at Cumberland, Md, on
Friday next.
80. w. Hubbard has succeeded, at Rich
mond, in casting perfect statue of Washing
ton, in Bronze.
80. Russell, the Lodon Times Crimean cor
respondent, has been created Doctor Of Laws
by Trinity College, Dublin.
80. Joseph M. Fields remains have ar
rived in Boston, and been inferred at Mount
Auburn cemetry.
80. M. A. M. Chandler, in Williamsburg
District, South Carolina, recently killed forty
seven cartridges on the wing, out of fifty
single shots.
-. Mr.. Martin, chief engineer of the
Merrimac," was delighted with the working
of her machinery as she went of, making
nine knots per hour.
80. Queen Victoria, (who ought to know
advised the Emperor Eugene to use chloroform
as an alleviatOr of pain in her hour of trial.
but the Partisan doctors protested, saying that
she must retain her faculties.
80. Mr.. Carter, collector of Portland. has
seized sixty-fve thousand cigars on board
brig Zone, for alleged violation of the rsye.
nue.. This is the largest seizure of cigars ever
made in that district.
go. John Quincy Adams Fellows has been
elected grand high priest of the royal arch
chapter OF Freemasons in Louisiana The
spirit Of the departed ex-president is likely to
be rapping round his paraphernalia.
-. Mr.. Francis, of New York, has exhibit
ted his iron military wagon to Louis Napoleon,
at Paris. The Emperor was delighted, and
presented Mr.. Francis with a gold snuff box,
richly adorned with diamonds
80. Linneus, the great botanist, had in his
house an ingenious and singular continuance
"A floral clock" In half circle, round
the table of the great botanist a number Of
plants were arranged, which, opening their
flowers at certain moment, told the hour
with unerring exactitude.
80. Barnum was brave, for he sold his
60 life" as dearly as possible, yet it appears
that in aiding Clock Company, the Napoleon
of Showmen has been going at somewhat ex.
tensively on tick. Notes on tame have been
fatal to him in more senses than one. But it
is really somewhat extraordinary that in at
tempting to make Jerome clocks 90, Barnum
should have around up himself.
80. Rogers the poet once said One day 1
was taking drive with lady Jersey in her
carriage, when expressed with great sinceri-
ty) my regret at being unmarried, saying that
off had wife, should have somebody TO
care about me-" "Pray, Mr.. Rogers" said
lady j., how could you be sure that your
wife would not care more about somsSody else
than about yom."
go. Caleb B. Atkins, the teller of the w ash
ington Bank, Boston, was arrested on Satur.
day on the charge of embezzling from that
Bank $1,000 in January last and an equal
amount on Saturday Atkins had loaned
$1,000 to his brother with the expectation of
getting it back and returning it to the bank
before the April examination of accounts
The accused is about "a years of age and un-
married.
go. W. s. Lindsay, Esq, M. p, for Tyne.
mouth, England, was in very early youth a
printers devil" in an Office i'm Glasgow
Some time ago, when in that city, he called
upon his old master, kindly inquired how he
| was, and how times went with him. "Oh, ~
said the old mar, every hard, and I can
scarcely make ends meet.i' The worthy M
P. looked at his old governor feelingly, sat
down and wrote check for $500, remarkinR
that in aiding him in his distress he really felt
| pleasure.
80. Signor Florelli, of Naples, is engaged
| on grand work, in which he proposes to give
facsimile full-sized copies of the inscriptions
at Pompeii They will be arranged and pub
iished according to the language In which
they are written. The first part consists of
ten gigantic plates in Autograph, which con.
tain all the Oslan inscriptions, marked by all
| their natural peculiarities and defects The