Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-16

lFThere is an old law which says that Con
tent is the true philosophers stone" Brown
says IL Is very likely-for nobody has ever found
either one or the other.
IL Ii is said that the Mormons are increasing
in Connecticut, and that services are held by the
sect every Sabbath, at Norwalk, South Morwalk,
Darien, WestPort and Stamford.
IL The hanging Of three men in ST. Louis on
the 18th ult. was well attended by the press, but
the awful scene proved too much for Kirk Ander-
son, the reporter for the Republican. When the
drop fell down he went too, and was borne of
in a fainting hit.
IL Lucinda Shenandoah o. Brien daughter
of Rochester widow, is lass of peculiar s.af-
tnities.n She has elOped with a cOlored barber
named Charles Allen, alias Wilson, and her
mother is in a great tribulatiOn concerning her
she is described as a thick set girl, wearing a
mouslin delaine dress, the prevailing color in il
being blue, with green and blue check sun bon
net.
THE BIBLE-Dr Hail. in his Journal of Health
for May, speaking of the importance of inhabit-
ing houses in their structure and situation favor
able to health, refers in the following manner to
the Bible:
There is more sound practical hygiene, on the
subject OF healthy houses in the fourteenth chap
ter OF LeviticuS, from verse thirty-four, than in
the skulls of all the health commissioners and
common councils of all the cities of Cnristen-
DOM
SUNDAY woRK.-In New York-Rioting in the
18th WaTd-GermanS. One man killed.
In Misunderstanding among the Orangemen
Several wounded.
In Misunderstanding, growing out of sspolit-
ical differences RevOlvers used freely.
At Seguine'S POint-RiOting, in opposition to
the hospital there OvStermen repulsed.
At Coney lsland-RiOting on board a steamer
General tsticutting.-N Y. Express.
IL Humphrey Marshall describes the Ameri-
can party as a broad and quiet river, that takes
its noiseless way through the plain, diffusing fer
tllty and beauty on all sides, and losing itself
only in the expanded ocean of the nations veal -"
An ex-know Nothing friend of the Louisville
Democrat inp tn hiS
II Is like a country road he once travelled which
al the start. was broad and plain, straight and
smooth, promising pleasant journey and speedy
arrival at the desired goal, but soon began to
twist around fences and wind hrOup h the woods
becoming less distinct at every step. until at last
II ended In rabbit track and ran into the ground
II At Buffalo, German intending to cele-
brate the morning of the Fourth in a Becoming
manner, placed a hOgshead in front of his house
the night before and at daylight lit half dozen
packs oil hrecrac kers and threw hem in the hogs
head, while half dozen young Dunderplaf
stood around to watch the effect A scattering
explosion was heard, yell, and the next moment
ragged loafer who had been sleeping in the
hogshead all night, sprang forth all in flames,
and before the little Dunderspaffs could even
raise yell, pitched into the old Dunders pIaf and
gave him tremendous beating. Dundersplaff
dept IN dark room the balance of the day with
apiece of raw beef,teak over both eyes and a
piece of brown paper, wet with whisky, over his
nose.
IL The Cr9sus Of Louisville and indeed of
heuauChb. IL cA-ScCIetd1y UuInrle, whose prop
erty, chiefly in lands, pays an annual tax Of over
SSoVO- Though the original settlers of Louis-
Vile were mainly emigrants from Virginia and
Pennsylvania, New England is .'well'' if not
hume fously represented. Geo. ID. Prentice whose
reputation an able editor is as wide as the con-
unent, and something over, came from 1.-THE land
OF steady habits and wooden nutmegs - Benz N
Rush Palmer, professor of anatomy in the Louis
vile University, and adjudged by the profession
10 nave IN his department no superior in the Uni
ted states: is Green Mountain Boy by birth
and education; and Griswold. the most extensi We
and successful Of book publishers in the south :
Rhode Island. 10y -