Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-13

III The question OF a National Bank il be.
ginning 10 be discussed.
III Why is a chicken-pie like a gunsmith,s
store' Because itcontains fowl-in-pieces
II A man was arrested In BROOKLYN for NAV
Ing the fiddle on Sunday, thereby rioI-ating the
sabbath.
II There is a man In Greesbush who be isves
IN rotation OF crops One year ne raises nothing,
the next year weeds.
III The London Times thinks that the aboli-
ton OF slavery was the ruin of the British West
Indian colonies.
IL The dry goods stores of Wheeling, Va !,
have resolved to close doors at seven o'clock p m
hereafter.
u The German Baptsts are holding their
annual meeting in Roanoke and the southwestern
counties Of Virginia.
u L. F. Whittemore & Co., exchange and
bill brokers, of Toronto, Canada, closed dooss on
the eth inst. -
IL The Siamese twins now abou, IS wears Of
age, have fourteen children. They are about to
proceed TO Cuba 10 exhibit themselves
~ While endeavoring to arrest desperate
villain, named Harry Hall, on Tuesday night
City Marshal Hess. Of Utica, n. Y, was dang ger
Ously stabbed
IL For the first time in many years not a ves-
sci has been placed the stocks in the ship Yards
OF buHalo, " e, where usually 500 men are
employed.
IL The 81 hard timesI' are operating oppres-
siveiy upon the poorer classes al Elizabethport
y. J. \ large number of men have becn thrown
ID The Secretary of the Treasury of Nexico
says that II requires 5000 OC0 annually To meet
the current expenses of the government and that
the annual dehcit is not less than nine millions
L J IL is said the Are that DESTROYED Columbia.
California, and S:U0,O 600 worth Of property orip
mated from an opium smoker in Chinese l,rothel
The fire proof buildings were all saved.
II Several Of The manufacturing establish
ments IN Newark, y. J and vicinity design re-
commencing operations this week and will en-
Fioy large portion OF their old hands. Tnis is
encouraging
Father o. Reilly, pastor of st Paul. Church
al blackstone, Mass, died on Tuesday aged for-
y-hVe years Ii Is a little singular that he died
on his birthday, and at the very hour OF the day
Oh which he was born.
III Danyers correspondent Of the Salem
1aZete says that several shoemakers in that place
have bought land in Virginia at one dollar p.r
acre, so OF some of the manufacturing hands
about HaveThlI.
IL In London, fortnight ago, John Dean
and w m. Cushwdy were sentenced to one month
in the House OF Correction for torturing cat nv
setting dog upon her In aggravation of the of
renee, IL was proved that she was a cat of good
character.
Friday, and is Brought TO New York for renairs
III ]. said that Capt. Bennett will make by the
JOB SiO,VOO He lostby raising the Isaac Newton
III The Arm Of G & d. Cook 4 Co in Nsw
Haven, cyrria9e makers, are trying to make head
against the specie panic by issuing notice that
ineF Will discharge any of their hands who ap-
ply to the banks for specie
II The Springfield Mass y Argus states tia,
The LYNN Mill, at HOlyoke, has commenced
running again six days in the week and eipht
hours In the day. II there is such an improve
ment In financial matters as to warrant this move
ment, II will he likely to affect other mills in a
similar way.
IL The papers are publishing a strange ac-
count OK a woman at HoTican, Warren county
New ork. who has been sick since the 10Th OF
september last, during all which time she has
not eaten any. food. Indeed, since the 18th of
June, ls55, she has not eaten more than enough
Tor single meal.
W Cato the elder, when many of the Romans
had statues erected in honor OF them was asked
By some one
why do ycu not have one, -
- hao much rather men should ask and won
der why bod no statue than to ask WHY had A
statue he replied.
IL western editor thus sums I'D the peculi
aritieS Of Il Contemporary:
''Ie Is too law to earn meal and too moan IN
eat one He never was generous hut once and
That was when he gave the itch to an appreufic.
boy and the only time he ever worked was when
lie took castor oil for honey''
IL The Boston Post occasionlv furnishes
some stT1klng incidents of the PREVAILING fnan-
sial crisis From the police reports in last
"Wednesday issue, we clip the following:
lanes fleininS assault on his wife Ellen
Originating IN the heinous offence of taking bill
on the Providence Bank. which she failed TO pet
IIu OF, was sentenced 10 two months in the house
Of coHecton.''
IL Df the rival routes between Concord
81, and chicago, Illinois, a distance of ten hun
dred and nfty-twO miles, one boasts over the other
OF being ten inmates shortest This il , f,ir
specimen Of American Character IL is !, t,ue g.,
Oh the umes- W hat amount of money has been
sunk IN constructing these rival routes; and what
!0r 10 80 thousand miles ten minutes sooner
Than your neighbOr.