Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-29

ID The Norfolk Day Book complains of at.
tempts by rowdies to burn the city.
IL new telegraph line has been established
north and south OfMemPhis. Itconnects at Ora
NADIA and Cairo.
II Mrs. Eliza Clayton, Of LynchburV, Va,
has given thousand dollars to aid in the com
Pletion Of college buildings in that city.
III The Boston papers publish letter from
Mr. Banks approving of the Hoosick Tunnel en-
II The Philadelphia Ledger publishes a list
OF hfy-eight blshments in that city which
have discharged four thousand operators.
II The New York Herald publishes list of
firms in the clothing trade, with the number of
hands discharged, amounting to over n, 900.
IL company of Swiss have recently bought
trast Of 10 900 acres Of land Cannelton, In
diana, and intend to settle on it.
IL There is no place like home" says the
poet. Right! unless il is the home Of the woman
you're after.
III Pleasant NJ. Mask has been again convict
ed, at Holly Springs, Miss, Of the wilful and
malicious murder of Miss Susan E. Smith.
ID One Of the victims of the Chicago fire had
life insurance Of 5000 in the Massachusetts
Mutual which expired only two days before he
killed.
IL The Milwaukee Sentinel estimates the
wheat crop OF Wisconsin at eighteen million Of
bushels for 1857, an increase Of near six millions
over 1856.
II The decrease of grain shipment. from Chi
cago from Jan. to Oct Il, 1887 IA compared with
1886, is about 500 900 of bushels and this is
likely to be the deficit of the year.
ID II dared, ;" writes a correspondent, al
would hint to some of the ladies who engage in
whirling dances that il might be we'll To load the
bottom of their dresses, least in the back part
II The Superior Court OF Connecticut have
decided that the will of Miss Lucy Kelsey of
New Britain, shall not be broken. She bequeathed
her property TO her neighDors, not leaving cent
10 her sisters or other relatives
IT A red frog has been shown to the North
Brldgewater Gazette, found twenty-five feet be-
low the surface Of the ground by a man digging
well in that town. He jumped as scoH as set
free. -
ID convention Of railroad ticket agents r.
noW IN session a. Chicago, to revise prices Of
freight and travel. The general tendency is
towards an increase of the rates Of freight and
travel, and such will likely be the result
III A brother and sister, children of Capt
Maitland, an old sailor OF Colborne, Canada set
.ario, and We're drowned by the capsizing Of their
boat.
IL One hundred Alpaca sheep, from Guaya-
9ans arrived at Panama short time since des-
they will thrive well in Vermont and other
mountainous districts Of our country
III The Board Of Managers Of the Society for
the Employment and Relief Of the Poor Of New
OF nearly onehalf Of their fund, by the failure of
the Ohio Life and Trust Company and by the de-
probation Of their bank stock
ID In a At Of anger, one John Fee, living on
u, -. Ia
days since, shot his mare, some cattle and hogs
and on Sunday, the 18th instant, he set nre to Bis
dwelling, which was locked, and the kew after
ward found on his person, in which his three
motheTless children, aged from five to foUr cen
years, are supposed to have persisted.
IL German confectioner, of commanding
presence, has been arrested in Philadelphia for
stealing barrels Of sugar from grocer, his neigh
Dor, by means OF dangerous board bridge be-
tween the two windows in the fourth stories of
two buildings. The German had also stolen
human skull to scoop his sugar with.
IL man named Edward Walsh has CON-
fessed to be the murderer Of Dennis Drew in
Washington comfy, Wisconsin, in Nav last by
striking him owe. the head with a pistol and az
forwards cutting his throat with q razor The
murderer says that severe contest took place
between them, and during the whole struggle
not word was said by either.
IL The Bangor Wing gives a new mode of
raising the wind:
As two Of our Bank President. were abou, 70
START on gunning excursion the other day they
Were accosted by well known politician for a
dlscount-bsing, as he said, in a stipht place
On being refused, and : a last resort and a
stronger indncement, he offered TO withdraw one
hundred yards, and put himself IN for one hun
died dollars a shot
u The Taunton Gazette of the oath instant
gives tne following as one Of the results OF the
novel sight might have been seen on the
Green yesterday afternoon, account of the duI-
hess OF tue times and the extreme paucity of the
uade-onr merchants and shopkeepers with their
clerks, assembled for game. of football Ths
match was very exciting, and was played by the
1oitn SIDE OF Main street against the south side
Inc result OF the game the defeat of the south
aoefs IN IN ee out OF the four matches played
ne match was exceedingly spirited and was
tors. 'P0e'"-
THE CALoRIc ENGINE There il fne steam
ydcn., winch has been plying in our harbor dur
my the past Ten weeks, with one Of these engines
IN Der, and although she has been pIyin1 aimos,
oaIy, she has consumed only one cord of oak
moOo 10 ali That time The engine being suited
10 either wood or coal, another remarkable fea-
tuie ABOUT II Is, that after the fires have been
wholly eIiinguished, sufficient heat 4, retained
IN the metal OF she engine providing il has been
tn0IoushIy warmed, TO propel the boat about two
mics The yacht is about fifty feet LONG and has
ah lght feet paddle wheel, which works abont
tiy tuIns per minute, giving a rate of speed
.uiuaI 10 about nine knots an hour. So CAPTAIN
th'tns!ve and practical use yet.-N. Y Express.