Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-08

IL Stoves made of slate, and beautifully ena-
melted, now made In England for parlor use
FIsHY NAMK.-There is a letter advertised i'm
the Norfolk, Va, post office, for Mackerel Bass
IL The holders of the largest quantity of JEFF
ferson county, Va, lands is of African descent
IL The rumored mail robbery, near Suffolk
Va Is incorrect-the bag was lost, but recovered
III young woman in York, Pennsylvania,
died In consequence Of eating too much ice
cream.
II On Saturday night last. another attack was
made upon disreputable houses by a mob at De-
troit and two dens broken up.
IL The arrivals of wheat in Norfolk, on Mon
day, reac he'd $500 bushels, of which 900 red
was sold At 1.55
IL Justice Duval, of Quebec, reversing his
decision, has admitted the pilot of the burnt
steamer Montreal to bail.
II man has been arrested in Bradley coun-
ty, Tenn, having in his possession $1,000 in
counterfeit bills on the Bank of Hamburg
II French paragraphists described the heat
reigning recently in Paris as "the ante-chamber
OF hell :"
IL The Lieutenant Governor of Indiana re-
ceives the extravagant pay of fraction over
f,osnty- frs cents day for his very valuable ser
vices.
IL 0n Monday last, an Institution devoted to
the reform OF inebriates was dedicated at Bos-
ton, with the appropriate name of ''Home for the
Fallen"
IL A large contract has been made for -four,
deliverable at Louisville, next March, at four
there now at five dollars. This is the best news
of the day
IL In consequence of the-repeated failures in
spirit-rapping, il is stated that the members of
the Massachusetts W hig Central Committee have
voted not to call separate State Convention of
the party this year
II A lad I'm Owego swallowed one of the new
nickel cents, accidentally, few days since, and
after considerable trouble the coin saw daylight
again, having been in the stomach forty-eiIht
hours 1t had changed its color TO an inky
blackness.
UAccurate experiments have been made in
Illinois to the test the comparative value of timo-
thy and clover hay. The experiments were car
ried on for two years; and the results were that
that the clover hay uniformly yielded ten per cent
more milk than the timothy
HoMicIDE.-On the 10th ult there was a fatal
rencontTe, says the Albany ga. J Patriot between
DR.. Heard and Mr.. Johns, in Lee county, in
which the latter was killed by pistol used by
the former. The difficulty Is said to have origf.
mated about using water from the well of Doctor
Heard.
ID An infant son of DR.. F. C. Bailey, of Rock
Vile, Conn, during the doctors absence from
home, crept into a room where morphine had been
split and carelessly left upon the carpet and ate
enough Of the powder to produce death. in spite
OF the emetic which the mother gave him
IL When the Western guests reached Baiti-
more at the recent railroad jubilee. one of the
city missionaries stationed himself in the street
and showered tracts into the carriages the cor
tege passed by. The guests snilingly received
the religious missiyes, and coolly placed them in
their pockets, under the impression that they
were bills Of fare.
IL On Tuesday afternoon three girls were ber-
ryfng upon Deerfeld mountains, when Wells
Fiske, OF Greenfield, who has but recently fin
ished a term at the State Prison, rushed upon
them and seized the oldest Of the three girl of
fifteen. Her two younger companions imInedi-
afely fed and gave the alarm, when the scoundrel
was caught at CIRCUITS Corners, Montague upon
the Vermont and Massachusetts railroad track
ID The Louisville papers are amusing them
selves with caricaturing the late street fight in
Louisville. '.The local editor Of this paper de-
mands the name Of the author Of the article in the
Courier newspaper, Yesterday morning. which
contains a personal reflection upon him This
note will be delivered 10y the local editors friend
the newsboy, who is authorized to treat Louis
riHe Democrat.
Dry GOODS CREDITs.-The Times has a sensi-
BILE article advising the shortening of the dry
goods credits. This has been often attempted
since l-37, but never successfully. A great bar
rler 10 importers and domestic commission houses
reducing the terms of credit from eight nine and
ten to six months, is that the very best lobbing
houses are those who insist upon extra long time;
ana they are the only ones who can lead in such
reform.-N. Y. Post
IL A Madrid journal states that an old man of
Pontevedra having for some time past been i'm
ana the latter gravely proposed to a neiphbor to
sen the old man, who was extremely fat TO he
melted down into grease! The neighbor having
consented, a bargain was struck at eight hundred
reals, and the neighbor procured a large cauldrop
IN which 10 boil the old man; but the authorities
having heard OF the atrocious affair had both the
buyer and seller arrested, and they now remain
In custody.
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