Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-25

:. CoNFIRMATIoN On Sunday last, Archbishop
kenrick administered the sacrament of conHrma-
ton to 1873 persons at st Johns church, Bait.
IL Eugene Grelet. one Of the persons impli
Gated in the French railroad fraud case. died At
the Eldridge street Jail yesterday.
III The property known the Severn Ferry
Farm, in Anne Arundel county, Md, has beer,
sold for gas per acre, to VIM. Tucker, of Wash
ington, ID. c.
III g How many deaths - asked the hosp,tal
physician. "Nine.'' "Why, I ordered medi-
cine for ten" GO Yes, but one would not take Il -
ID kidnapping children for circus training
has been detected at st. Louis, and performer
has been arrested for kidnapping four children,
one boy and three girls.
II An agent of New England mandatory
was recently tried in Cincinnati for selling goods
by sample, il being charged as breach Of the
license laws; he was acquitted.
iGF The cotton merchants of Savannah, Ga.
have unanimously entered into regulation here
after to charge 2h per cent commission on their
sales, instead Of 50 cents per bale as formerly.
W From the altar to the grave Is hut a step
The Newburyport Herald says that on Tuesday
person was buried in that city arrayed In the iden-
tical clothes he wore at his marriage few months
ago.
III The Baltimore Clipper says there are three
real estate agents in that city, who hold IS 600
acres Of land, some of which may be bought bv
the section at two drinks an acre-l2x cents-and
on time at that.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.-We learn by the
last arrival that fourteen hundred miles of the
Atlantic telegraph cable have been spun, and that
there is everything to encourage the friends Of the
great enterprise.
III Feed is so scarce in Catta raugus county
that the Randolph Wing expresses apprehensions
that much of the land will go untitled this season
on account Of the want Of strength in the teams
10 do the work. Oats are selling at 3 per bushel
for seed.
dCF The U. s. frigate Minnesota will sail from
Philadelphia on the 18th instant. On Thursday
she was hauled into the stream, preparatory to a
transfer of her crew from the receiving shin to
her decks. The complement of men, about 500
has been made up by drafts from New York and
Boston.
u There ia place in Pennsylvania known as
Treverton Manor, which has been described as
being "covered with stones, and under each
stone there were fifteen ratteSnakes; and nothing
but hemlock knots and huckleberries were pro-
duced In addition to stones and rattlesnakes."
OTTo OF RosEs.-As a preparation, the otto of
roses cannot be properly made from English rose
leaves, or in an English climate. In Persia II is
obtained by maceration in water, the oleaginous
principle floating the surface, from which it is
gathered by means Of clean cotton.
IsIr so The Advocate, Methodist paper
published at Charlestown, says that. notwith-
Standing the prohibition of the Methodist princi-
deplored, that there is more jewelry and SUPER
huous dress worn by the Methodists Of this day,
than there is by any other class of religious pro-
fessors in our land"
III A single dead rat beneath floor will rem
der a room uninhabitable. A fnancier of Euro
pean celebrity found his drawing room intolera-
BILE. He supposed that the drains Were out of
order. and went to great expense to remedy the
evil. The annoyance continued, and a rat catcher
guessed the cause Of the mischief On pulling
up the boards a dead rat was found near the bell
wire. The bell had been rung he was passing,
and the crank had caught and strangled him