Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-24

r.i @ The Exeter Bank in New Hampshire has
ID The loss by the fire at Wheeling on Mon
day afternoon, IL is thought may reach $50, 600.
1t James w. Blount fell from a third story
window in New Orleans on the 18TH and broke
his neck.
II The Frederick (Nld. J Examiner states that
two feet OF snow fell on the Catoctin mountain On
Monday.
IL Hon. Samuel Rexford of Elmira. ".
died few days ago at the residence of his SON.
in-iaw, at Lock Haven, Pa.
~ The wheat crop in Washington CO Md A.,
Is said never 10 have looked poorer at this season
% the year than il now does.
~ On Morday. RoIert Archibald. a Scotch
man of liberal education and printer 10y profess
sion was found dead near the railroad track in
North Andover Rum was Ais foe.
II The Grand Trunk Railway, Canada, has
accepted the proposition Of the keag Conn
pany's Machine shop. Manchester, n. H., for
building twelve locomotives OF the first class.
II Among the exports from New York during
the past week were ten printing presses to AUS
tralia. Several had previously been shipped by
Mcssrs. Hoe Co. to England and France.
y The jury to try the alleged murdrrers of
Dr.. BuIdell, in New York, has been completed
They were drawn from panel Of five hundred
men. and the panel from one thousand names
II The sales of lands by the Illinois central
Company since January last amount to FL $50. ss5,
which il about $4,000 larger than for the entire
six months Of last year.
ID In Cincinnati. Young man named Hoo
yer, Of Vicksburg, Miss, has recovered 81 1910
from the keeper Of gaming house, that sum hav-
ing been lost at faro.
II The cedar woods in the vicinity of Austin
Florida, Were on FIRE last week, and a number of
valuable mills and large amount OF timber are
said to have been destroyed.
CO IL Is proposed 10 erect the Baltimore Pea
body Institute somewhere the centre of that
city A meeting of the trustees is to be held to-
day TO take the subject into consideration.
SALE OF EaND.-James. r. Jones. of Upper
Fauguier. sold to DIR. J d. Blackmore. his farm
called Cheviot, lying under the spur of the Cob
Ter mountain, for the sum of fifteen thousand dol
lars.
NEw YcRK SLAVE TRADERs.-The brig Put
NAM AID the bark Clara h. Williams both be-
longing to New York. at last dates from Havana
had been purchased by spanish houses for the
African slave trade.
II The conservation Of Rev VIM. Elder, D.
d; Professor Of Theology in Mount IT. Mays
College, near diminishing. as the Bishop of
hatcher, will take place in the Cathedral of Bal
timore on the first Saturday in May.
II The Jamestown pa Echo states that on
the morning of the 18th Instant the passengers on
the express train. going west, We're startled by
the premature discharge of a revolver. in the
pocket of a young man named David Shull of
Perry county, Pa: who was on his way to Iowa.
Three balls were discharged. one of which took
effect in the add omen of the young man, ma king,
probably, fatal wound.
EMBARRASSING HEREAFrERs-rSo does the
Home Journal head the following pair of para
tue OOscInOEo Oh SdntOn- Is 10 lace.
at the Judgment day. Serenteen thousand persons
whom he has beheaded within the very short time
that he has held office. And mother and four
daughters, of Northampton, Massachusetts. are to
be so blest as to meet, in Paradise, Iar-
JsI hHsb0Hds, whom they have married ia this
world
pTIn Buckstown, Pa, one day last week. a
lad named VIM. Small, aged six wears with his
sister. aged eight assembled the stairs of their pa
rents residence and made their way to a room i'm
which a loaded gun had been careIesslv left Tin.
boy took hold Of the weapon, pointed il at his
sister, and by some means managed to discharge
u. Inc ball passed through her heart, causing