Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-06
PERSONAL.

-. Miss Maggie Mitchell is performing in
Richmond.
-. Hobbies once said to d notorious bookworm
elf had read as many volumes you have done
should have been as Ignorant as you are.'
49,. Charles : Spence, Esq of Baltimore goes
out IN the next steamer with the Persia treaty, to
make arrangements for the exchange of ratihca-
tiOlS.
family article of poor quality, Brown remarked
that as his family was not at all extra one
the description didn't suit.
-. Among the recent arrivals from Europe is
Mr. Dempster, the well known vocalist. Mr. ID.
has been for several months running over the
Highlands Of Scotland, visiting Tennyson the
poet, &c.
In Chicago johanna Schiebel committed
suicide because one of her daughters demonstrated
against her washing shirt in pail used for
washing the dishes. and because the father appa-
rently teck the daughters side of the argument.
IL is rumored that Mayor Wood Of New
York. in consequence Of the passage of the City
Charter and Police bills by the Legislature, viii
" resign immediately his position as Mayor, aban-
don politics. and travel in Europe and the East
for the next year or two"
-. Among the ''thiDgs that SURPRISE her,
"Fanny Fern" mentions .sthat two women can
ever by any possibility be persuaded to sleep to-
getheT.'' The idea looks }erny enough to Fanny,
but really 1.-TWO women may make a much less
prudent arrangement.
80. The Boston Transcript recalls the fact that
the year lot7, half century ago, remarkable
for the number OF extraordinary people who were
born in 1t: Ii gave birth to Long fellow, Willis,
Thee 3 Fay, EPhraim Peabody, Edward Sand
ford, and other American literary men.
.... Two ex-Presidents of the United States
were at the Philadelphia Opera House on Thurs
day night, viz Martin Van Buren, and Franklin
Pierce The distinguished visters occupied seats
in the box of Charles Henry Fisher ESQ Mr.
Van Buren, looked as bland and cheerful as ever
He was accompanied 10y Henry ID. Gilpin, Esq.
-. The Wilmington, y. c., Journal &C knowl-
edges that its story Of the defeat Of Walker pur-
porting TO be derived from three Of his men who
had escaped and arrived at the mouth of the Cane
Fear river, was d first of April hoax. The Balti-
more American reads the Journal a lecture for
such naughtinesSeS.
80. The well known Yankee Card Writer
was subjected to horse-whipping. at the 81
Charles Hotel. New Orleans, recently for having
sent couple of ladies boquet, with card at.
tached, stating that he wished to make their ac-
Gualntance An uncle of the young ladies took
unbFage at the supposed insult. and castigated
the amorous gentleman accordingly.
80. Professor Pierce, of Cambridge who lee
tuTed at the Smithsonian last winter on - Poten-
tal Physics, writes letter denying that there
Is any reason to suppose there will be any .scolli
SION between the expected comet of June and
our planet, the English astronomer Hind having
mistaken the true reading OF the comets time ta-
bic. Pierce knows,
.... Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe at last ac-
counts was in Rome, and would remain few
weeks previous To visiting Naples. On her vow
~ htilS the NcSSei Was run INTO. and
pied to be- hardly able to reach port and travel
ing from the port in a diligence, the vehicle
was twice oversee TO the fright and injury of some
Of the passengers.
-. The remains Of the late Hugh g Iepare
81 South Carolina, now IepOse at Mount Auburn
cemetery, near Boston, without a tablet to mark
the spot The editor of the Cbarlestoyyn Courier
AFTER interesting himself to discover their restin
place. (about which there seems 10 have been
some doubt,) has opened list at his office for
subscriptions from all who desire to contribute
W the erection Of suitable monument over the
grave IF the deceased.
-- Mac Kennels Message saws, that a short
time before Mr. Zimmerman lost his life he seems
To have had pIesentiInent of danger for he
went To the Bank Of Upper Canada where his
VIII was deposited. asked for IL. and had il ON
hi person when he was found dead IL also
says that Mr.. Zimmerman had an insurance on
his life for $1,000 and that he was Contractor
for the very swing bridge the fall of which cans.
ed his violent death
- Ms. Mcmahon, after having been abused
30 Buffalo, Iidlculed III New York laughed al in
Boston, and Pitied everywhere has turned nm
again at w heeling, Virginia where they nav for
thedtIlcals IN counterfeit money. She was TO
play PaftheDIa on Thursday evening The ladv
has certainly fortitude, TO say nothing abont
pluck. and has now probably learned To beyin
al the right end of the ladder Had She begun Al
Wheeling in the first place, she might i'm time
have ended at New York but beginning al Neyv
York il is to lie feared she will end at Bladens
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