Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-16

NJ The wheat crop in th- vicinity of Peters
burg, Va, is quite promising, and not troubled
with the Chinch bug.
IL The docket Of the Court of Common Pleas
for Norfolk county. Mass, had 127 liquor cases TO
be disposed of during the present term.
IVA female infant was picked up In pasture
In Stoneham. Saturday afternoon. II was two
weeks old, and the town authorities will take
care of IL.
H. In Northampton county, North Carolina
Mr.. Boon has obtained $50 damages from Mr.
scull, for persnadng him into marriage with
young lady against the wishes of his friends
H. 4 letter from Havana SAYS that coolies have
advanced To SlOO per head Very common Gre
oleS from the coast of Africa are worth thousand
dollars each, and the slave trade is fiourishing
beyond any previous knowledge of the oldest
pirate.
IL Mr.. Cyrus Putnam, of HallowelI. Me-, Is
announced TO have actually discovered "per-
petual motion" and to have perfected an appa-
Tatus upon the principle which is capable of
driving machinery. He is about to make an ex-
hibition OF his mechanical wonder In Washing
ton.
III One Cincinnati firm has shipped to the
western territories since the second day of March
last, one hundred and fifty ready made houses
These buildings are OF the cottage style, and
though transported in pieces, can be put up ready
for occupancy in forty minutes.
Rise OF REAL Estate IN NEW YoRK-We
are informed by gentleman in this city, who has
been In New York recently, that friend of his,
four years ags, purchased four house lots on
the Fourth avenue, for 81 400 each, and that on
Thursday last he was offered SlU,O 900 each for
them, but refused the offer Jn this CITY there has
been depreciation Of about the same per cent in
the same time.-WOrceSfsr Bay State.
IL When Delmonco undertook to comply
with the new License Law, by filing an applica1
ton TO sell liquor, signed by twenty freeholders
he purchased a couple of acres of Long Island
land for &c. cut il up into twenty lots presen ed
these lots to twenty of his walters, who, being
thus qualified, signed his petition, according TO
law" A Connecticut Yankee could not have
done the thing cutter.
GREAT SCARCITY OF PRovExDER-The Knox
Vile (Tennessee) papers say that provender has
become so scarce IN that region that people were
cutting their trees for the cattle to eat the buds
Ihe greatest want existed among the poorer
classes; The Circuit Court, sitting at Jackson
borough, was obliged TO adjourn, being unable TO
procure feed for the horses of the judges and law
yers.
II Prof. Emmons, in his recen, report to the
Legislature Of North Carolina, mentions the dis
covery, in the sedimentary rocks OF Montgomery
county in that State of fossils of an age anterior
20 any previous discoveries of traces Of animal
life Prof. Emmons contends, therefore that so
far as Investigations have resulted i'm discoveries
that part Of the country the scene of the first
manifestation Of that great principle
II DR. Rainey, of London, in communica-
ton to the Lancet, gives the effects of creosote
applied TO warts. Among other instances he AID.
Plled IL 10 an obstinate warty appearance on the
nnger, and then covered il over with a piece of
sticking plaster This treatment he pursued
every three days for two weeks when, on exami
nation, the wart was found to have disappeared.
leaving the part beneath IT entirely healthy
III Mr.. ROebuck, the distinguished member
Of the British House of Commons. remarked 70.
Gently, in speech at Liverpool that England
bad produced only two great soldiers from the
.l.lg o. Queen Anne to that OF Queen Victoria
Merlnorough and WellingtOn-while the navy
during the same century and half had produced
several great adrnrals, and he accounted for this
fashionable profession.
ID Two lrshm-n, one a Protestan, and the
Other Catholic, got into a dispste Yesterday. in
tne diley winch divides our Office from the next
DuilolnS, as TO which was the only and true re-
ligion- i'' "
The Protestant seemed to have the best Of the
argument Tor long time, but at last his adverse
Didn't 81 Paul address all his epi,tIes 70 The
ROMANS show me Il letter he ever wrote 10 fLe
fIotestants, and Ill give i'm
We cannot say which il WAS the ,o.,;o 81, A.
faln-that ended the discussion but in VA. ser,,
Ien, that The voices of tho dispn.aass were
hushed-COErier
foEaR PLAYTNG.-Fhe poker PLAYERS on the
MIssissIppl Hyer are, by all accounts bad cus
told about them ' 1''
party on board of one of the Mississippi bo,,s
WnIe earnestly engaged in this famous game
were much annoyed Gy tall gentleman who
Win sanctilnoniOUs visage and hollow tone
preached strongly against the wicketlnass OF
players. -" "eHiue 'he
Ever and anon, in the earnestness Of his dts-
course, ne stopped behind one of the players and.
as II TO render his words more emphatic bronobt
BIS hand down heavily on the table
A rough Lac kwoOdsman observed that this last
acton Was attended with pecuIiarity in,snucb
as the preacher sometimes placed cne sometimes
tnIes, and sometimes four fingers on the table
thout saying word, he quietly drew his bow
ie-knlie and placed it by his side watching his |
opportunity when his clerical friend next piac,d
Ms Iahd on the table, quick fash he choDned
on three fingers at a single blow ffN
panic and alright OH0A Win
said the backwOodsman coolly win. No.
-, ne you may consider yourself d. .,;,sug
have lost all your fingers >, VI "a would