Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-13

\ WY SefeIe urOugnt.
S Small pox, which has been prevailing
In Shenandoah county, Va, is dying out.
Es The Jails of Union, Centre and Potter
counties are now vacant.
.R There was good sleighing at Wythe-
| vile, Va, from the lst TO the sth inst.
V The number of students this wear at
the Medical School Of Paris is exactly one
| thousand.
B Girard College, at Philadelphia, now
supports and educates regularly three hun
dred and fifteen boys, all INDECENT orphans
Ia About two hundred new business firms
| were announced in New York on the lst of
January.
EF The President Of the New York Board
of Councilmen, James N. Phillips, is said to
| be jew
R There are now one hundred and fifteen
counties in the hourishing State of Texas, and
territory for as many more.
w' The first section of the Georgia and
| Florida Railroad was opened from Americus
to Sumpter city, on the lst inst
H The Savannah papers are having their
annual row about who caught the 6rst shad Of
| the season.
s A cOlOred man was found in o state Of
| IntOxicatiOn in Easton, on New Years day
and whitewashed by set Of rogues.
lg A proposition to build bridge from
New York to Brooklyn, is discussed in the
New York papers.
ty@ Not a single death has occurred in the
village of Paris, Me, during the past fifteen
months.
ST An ordinance Las been published at
WurtSburg, prohibiting dancing at the wed
ding Of widows and widowers
EFFive churches are now building in Chi
cago. Two OF them are Of stone, whose esti-
mated cost is 100000 and S4O, 900.
Es- Geo. Smith. a young man from W ash.
ington county, Nd died recently Ia Jail in
Kansas. He was confined for stabbing a man
B@ Horace Greeley says this is free coun-
try, and a man isn't obliged TO use common
sense unless be has it.
~ ID. q. Mitchell ok MARVEL was lee
turing successfully out West, but his lungs
gave out, and be had to stop.
EF The late sOurdings Of the river sboye
| Niagara Falls have developed a harbor there
| of something like two hundred and ffty acres.
giving from twelve TO fifteen feet Of water
B After all the going, going" Rachers
hotel in Paris was rot sold At auction; but
Girardin announced to the bidders assembled
that the tragedienne reclaimed the property.
H The rivers of Michigan have become
incapable OF sustaining the lives Of 6sh, and
multitudes are SAID TO be thrown dead upon
the banks. The cause is entirely unknown.
F The Governor of Pennsylvania has We
tOed bills to authorize the New York and Erie
railroad company TO build branches in Sus-
quehanna county.
tg= In New Orleans they make the theatres
assist in providing comforts TOR the sick poor
The Charity Hospital receives s, 900 annual
y from each of them.
II The Petersburg Democrat says that
seven or ten Know NOthings Of that city ap-
peared wearing Grape on the day after the an
nouncement Of the death Of the 4" Angel Ga
briel, " in grief for him.
H Pennsylvania claims the honor of orig
mating the first Agricultural Society in this
country after the Revolution. Ii was found
cd in l7o5, and Judge Richard Peters was its
president, and an active promoter and patron.
WAIT FOR TIE WAGOS-It is a singular
fact that the duel and suicide are unknown
among the Turks. Believing in predestina-
tiOn they are opposed to shutting of this NOR
tai coil" by poison or sanpowder.
Ee There is great contest for United
States Senator from Wisconsin. One of the
candidates delivered one of Silas Wrights
OTations twice as his own, and had it published
as such
I3 Two resurrectionists, Patrick Lillis and
Vim. Cunningham-the former an Irishman.
and the latter an American-hsve been arres-
ted and held to bail in Cincinnati for prOcur,
ing subjects for the doctors.
A man in Berlin, Prussia, who was Is-
boring under pecuniary difficulties, cut MP his
wife aud two children with hatchet, and then
cut his own throat The next day lottery
ticket which he held turned up & prize Of
forty thousand francs.
Er An aged woman, named Baker, disap-
n - \ .
about a week ago. Three days afterwards
her dead body was found in an adjacent
pond. She had attempted to cross upon the
ice and was lost.
E A Cincinnati paper states, as an illus
tratiOn Of the difference between talent and
humbug, that - Lola Monies under the man
sgement Of Mr.. Jones, realized, in this city,
six thousand dcllars in ten days Miss Stanly,
with the same manager, a lady Of decided
talent, has not paid expenses"
IL The annual renting of pews in the Ply
mouth Church, Rev. Ii W Beecber's, Brook
lyn, n. Y, took place on Tuesday evening.
The 202 pews rented brought a premium of
$4,000 over the appraised value Of $4,000.
The whole amount Of rent last year was
$40, 200.
Fr DR. Valentine Mott performed the Ope-
ration last month, for the forty. fourth time, OF
tying the carotid artery in the living subject.
The Napoleon of surgeons is now Il years old,
Yet is as straight as ever, and as young al
heart as when City years younger lie does
not even wear glasses when ne operates ana
the man is not extant who ever saw bis hand
tremble
T Land spectators appear to have got on
a full head of steam in Kansas, and We may
soon expect to hear an explosion. A letter
from Lesvenworth says that " a lot containing
30 acres lying half a mile from town, sold az
private sale a day or two since for Sll 600;
one of So acres for Sl2 600, one Of l6 acres for
So 600. Single lots - feet by ll0, are selling
from 5000 70 - 800 Small ofkce buildings
rent for $500 a year"
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE Last Tuesday
both wires of the House Telegraph Line to
New York were broken, at the same time be-
tween TINS city aud Providence, yet the line
worked well, and their business was transmit
ted without interruption.
The lower wire broke first, and one end
crossed the upper wire. Shortly after the up