Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-04
ID Four hundred German emigrants arrived
at Quincy. Ill on Tuesday week

ID Four hundred German emigrants arrived
at Quincy, Ill, on Tuesday week.
But the destruction Of the grapes will not by
any means prevent the manufacture of the wine
IL Clones. what in the world put matrimony
into your head, Well, the fact Is, l was get
ting short Of shirts -
III The highest speed over made on the ocean
was by the clipper ship Flying Scud, 400 mile $
In twenty -four hours.
III swindler went through the cars Of the
Great Western Railway recently, collecting fare
In advance Of the conductor.
III The Republicans and Americans Of Con-
necticut have called a Union Convention at Hart
ford, January 13, to nominate State officers.
III The revenue derived from the tobacco
monopoly in France during the frst nine months
Of 1857 reaches the enormous sum Of 127 ,223 900
francs.
III The grape crop in Here's, Spain, has been
grapes from which sherry wine is manufactured
Exchange
ID The corpse Of a man, shockingly bruised,
was found near a ravine three miles from ST.
Joseph, Mo, some days ago. 1t is supposed he
had been murdered.
part OF Georgia, have called a meeting for the
purpose Of organizing into association to send
their cotton, by means Of an agent Of their own,
direct to Liverpool
III John C. Colt, while in the Tombs under
sentence Of death, married his mistress II said
that Cancemi, the murderer Of Eugene Anderson,
the policeman Is about to follow his example,
and marry, in the course Of a week or two, the
woman with whom he had long lived.
III The Calaveras Zeal } Chronicle states that
two "colored gemmen" in that place, who had
quarreled about ga lady," met i'm mortal COM
bat After an exchange Of shots, the Sheriff ar
rested the partes and carried them to Jail, when
pistol bullet was found fattened ont and lodged
in the toool of one of the sonbatants who was
quite unaware Of having been touched.
Id On the night when Hon. Mr.. Blackmar
men whom he owed had taken up their quarters
In his house, and threatened to remain until he
settled with them. For several years before he
failed, he had been buying western lands with
his surplus money, trusting to the profits Of his
mercantile business to pay demands against him.
A TERRIBLE FAMILy.-James Nichols who 10
said to have wantonly killed Frank Grier in
Pittsvana county, Va, is reported to have killed
by the name Of Arnold is supposed to have shot
his father and killed him; and Burwell. a still
Older brother, killed Daniel Ashwell Strange
to say. not one of them has been punished Bed
ford Va, Democrat
IVA man named Edgar Fluker has a new re-
cipe for the cure Of those painful excrescences,
cancers. The remedy Is cheap and easy Of OBJ
tanning and applying. and cannot possibly do
either dead alive, to the affected part for the
space Of one hour, repeating the application as
occasion requires. With six frogs Mr.. Fluker
says he cured very painful cancer upon his
nose, Of six years standing, and now considers
himself sound and we'll.
III The Norwich (Ct.) Courier says that the
worst fears in regard to the poisonous nature of
the water supplied to portion Of that town
through lead pipe aqueduct conf rmed by a
chemical examination by James X. Chiffon, OF
New York, which shows the presence of four
grains Of lead to gallon OF water. The aque-
duct has been in operation more than twenty i've
wears and persons most familiar with the history
OF families supplied by 1t now remember many
deaths in which the symptoms were the same as
In those which have lately been caused by this
poison. DR.. Chiffon pronOunces the water to be
remarkably pure, but its very purity was the
cause Of the poison, as impure water forms q
tralize the chemical action betwesn the water and
the lead, while the pure water has none of the
properties to counteract this deadly influence.