Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-31
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CONSUMPTION IN BosTos the year
1856, 760 persons died in Boston of consuup-
ton, Of which 405, or over half were fe-
males This is a little over one-sixth Of the
VII ole number Of deaths
CF One CT the carrier BOYS Of ths Bangor
Wing was badly frozen about the face and in
both hands, while on his route Monday morn
ing. The little fellow showed pluck in bra7-
ing the storm
Wos'r PAY Joseph f. Stewart of Gordon
county, GA says the Savannah Journal, re-
Gently drew a lottery prize Of SIS, 900, went
on spree, got drunk, lost the money and died
in fit.
CAN Ill WIND" 6c.-The Boston Herald
mentions as one of the incidents Of the late
snow storm, that milkman got blinded with
| the blowing snOw and falling to find the viii
| lage pump. drove into town with several cans
of pure milk
- A young man Of good standing recently
proposed an honorable marriage to young
| Lady Of the West, when he received for an an
s5er-" Get out YOU fsller Do you think
/ would sleep with a man III tell your
mother -
PIss.-The New England Pin Company, of
| WlDsted, Connecticut, have just started a new
machine for SeiCG7tg pins upon papers 1t Sc
lects the little irdispensables from pile and
| stretches them in C continuous row upon mar
row stlipS Of paper, at the rate Of SEQ per
| minute.
~ The Austrians profess to be much as.
| tonIshed thai Great Britain-a party to the
protocol Of 1S52-sho permit her Minister
at Berne to cOuntenance the interference Of
| the representatives of the United States in a
| purely European question.
BEAT THIS Mr. Baker showed us an egg
yesterday which was seven inches in circum
| ference Can anybody beat this ?-SyracMse
| ReCeiHs
Certainly. Break the egg into bowl, and
beat it with spoon.-Lynn Ne1cS.
ROYAL Presents Under this head one of
our Mobile exchanges mentions that Mr.. John
| IicknOr has boxed up pair of horned owls,
and sent them TO Her Majesty Queen Victoria
| They were taken in the woods of Baldwin
county, Alabama, and from their size aud
| breeding, the doubt is expressed whether such
pair can lie found in all the Geological gar.
dens of Europe
| EXPUNGED On Thursday, by vote of 80 to
| 10, after an animated discussion, the North
Carolina House OF Commons expunged what
| had been called the " Mexican Preamble -
! 1t is the preamble to the bill, apprOpriatins
| SO, 900 to the North Carolina volunteers in
| 1867, which ai1rms the war to have been
| brought on " by the action of the Executive,
and the subsequent sanction Of Congress"
| A RENARKABLE STATEMENT We find the
| following singular paragraph in the Canada
correspondence Of the London Ieisgrayk, in
q letter dated Toronto, Dec. 7tb:
| Col Fremont, the defeated Presidential
candidate, has been scjourning for ten days in
| the city OF Ottawa, completely tncOg. He had
| fled thlther, it is said, to save himself from
the opportunities Ofhis friends, who were dun
ming him most unmercifully.
| TTnSs oP ATrrvcp.pu A HIprv TLo Lii
Vile (ky) Journal, says:-We have already
mentioned in our river news that the telegraph
| cable, which was TO be laid from Cairo to the
Kentucky shore, was lost from the steamboat
Golden Gate. 1t was worth 81 400, weighed
5000 pounds, and was mile long. The acci-
dent is attributed to the carelessness Of the
master of the boat.
| A COLD BATH.-The New Bedford Standard
| says, five women, candidates for admission TO
the Baptist Church in Bristol, were baptized
in that place en- Sunday, at alf- past g clock
in the afternoon, The thermometer stood at
the time at seven degrees below zero, and the
snow was twelve inches in depth A boy stood
| by the cut that had been made in the ice for
a baptismal font, clearing il Of the floating
| masses Of snow and ice.
| A CoNrRAsr.-The New Orleans papers
show disposition 20 boast over their cOmfor
table condition as compared with our frigid
| state. Inc bulleIln OF the ltlu inst says.
In this city our winter has been unusually
pleasant In fact, we have had but few really
unpleasant days. During the entire fall, and
most OF the winter thus far, roses have been in
constant bloom in the open air, and TODAY
violets may be picked in many gardens in
| New Orleans
| SENECA LAKE. FREEzIsG-Seneca Lake
which has never been known to freeze ur.
seems to be coming to it at last. The last Ge.
neva Gazette says: "I Ice has formed to the
thickness of two or moro inches in Seneca
Lake, and with the cold state of the atmos
phere now prevailing, must constantly gather
thickness, unless soon broken up by a south
wind. The steamer could not reach the wharf
on Wednesday, but was obliged to land at
Mile Pint"
INSECURITY OF LIPE IN NEW YoRK.-The
alarming increase OF murders, mysterious
dlsappearances," and highway robberies in
New York city, has caused the citizens, espe-
cially those who travel throu yh the streets at
night, to arm themselves with dirk knives and
revOlvers The Evening Post objects to the
law of the revolver, and mildly suggests the
divine law of Christian brotherhood. Where
upon the Evening Mirror says that +" he who
undertakes to practice in such - OF
place as this the non-resistance doctrine OF the