Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-22

FINANCES OF MASSACHUSETTS Public
property and resources ofthe State Sll 963, ,305;
liabilities and debts 81, ,597 $50; receipts last
year S2,49j, ,676; expenses 81 500 1895.
May leave few tracts ?'' asked q
missionary of an elderly lady who responded
to his knock Leave some tracks certainly
you may" said She looking at him most be-
nignly over her specks, leave them with the
heels towards the house, if you please"
SMALL Pox IN VERMONT The small pOx is
prevailing to an alarming extent in Stowe, VT,
! and all public gatherings are forbidden, and
schools are stopped pest hoases have been
provided, and the Congregational clergyman
has gone TO one Of them TO devote his services
| 10 the sick.
A MISTAKE lot of Free State men from
Lawrence, Kansas, went TO Leavenworth 70
| spend New Years By mistake they stopped
a. a pro-slavery instead Of the Free State
| hotel, and did not discover their mistake until
| the ball was nearly over. They had a good
time among the Border Rufians, ladies and
4 all.
r. John Thurber, OF Montpelier, while re
-, ling home one dark evening, recently, saw
-. &c supposed to be a ghost drop from
un 4 hit before his face and eyes. and in
t:o = hled into the snow; the spirit
.L .sI. tun nels in flesh and blood fash
ion, and prosed TO b. -5ov dressed in
jumped FROM q chambe.
her night clothes.
~ Timothy McDohnel, of Ne. pOas, NnlIe
laboring under it Of delirium treL- vi
dertook TO stab his wife with the tsilors sL Ars.
Prevented, he jumped from the second stof
Of his house, and ran away, but was after
wards discovered lying with the shears in his
hand. in the open common south If Newport,
frozen 10 death
E A largo meeting of tie Dentists of
Great Britain took place in Lon don, lately;
they voted the establishment Of a college for
the dental profession, and adopted a constitu-
ton. If they had framed a tariff Of charges
more moderate than those usual with the pro.
fessiOn in large cities, they might boast of ad-
ditIonel good work.
~ An invalid in Newburyport kept record
of the movements Of a woman 58 years Of ace.
who did all the work for i've In family; pre-
pairing ami clearing away breakfast, baking
and hToiiDg, went four times down cellar.
seven times out of dOo:, thirty one times 10
her cup board, and fOrty-iye times out of the
r0Om.
lzf7 One of the southern railroads has late.
ly set the subject Of morality in a new light.
1t has attempted TO set a mercantile value
upon il. The value Of temperance in an en-
gineer is S31 so quarter; in q Conductor S25;
in a wOodman, brakeman, 6c. SIS Seventy
one have been induced 10 iorego spirituous
Ia aors, and the railroad has found itself a
gamer by the arrangement.
B The men of North Carolina are gallant,
very. On the Wilmington and Weldon rail.
road, about forty-!our miles from the former
place, the locomotive gave out, whereupon
the gentlemen passengers jumped 70 the
ground, and pushed the car contaiuing tie
ladies the distance Of three miles There was
heroism and gallantry ior You Beat il who
can!
ES- Two Boston Amazous, known as d" Bal.
tlmore Kate" and Jane Made" Of 6isre.
putaa character, promenadei the principal
street, sssaulting, with q COW hide, which one
Of them had, every iodividual-man, woman,
or child-whO came In their way. This pleas
ant pastime continued until put stop 70 by
the police, who, after short battle. succeed
ei in capturing the eccentric danes, and con-
yeying them 10 the station house