Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-27

IL There are in the United States twenty-six
thousand post Offices.
III A duel was fought in Waterloo, 9. c., re-
Gently, between William and Charles Dewsen,
brsthsrs, in which the former was killed.
ID A lady at Mobile. having lost her teeth
found them in the craw Of a turkey, after killing
seven turkeys not guilty.
II About seventy conversions have been made
Church, in Newark, n. J.
III woman named Mary w God residing at
saugertes, n. Y, few DAYS since committed
suicide by throwing herself from ledge Of ks
in a mill race.
III The dminution in the population of Man.
chester, New Hampshire, since the commence
ment Of the financial pressure is found to have
been 1900
:, IL II is stated that the counties of Salem Bur-
nngton, and Cumberland, v. J. -, furnish for the
New York market nearly twenty tons Of poultry
per week.
ID James McDermott who was brakeman on
the Pacific Railroad at the time of the Gasconade
tragedy, and was severely Injured sued the com
Pany aud has received verdict against them for
O., 900 damages
III Two boys at CallicoOn, " V, got into
dispute some time since, when of them,
named Harry Stype drew pistol and shot the
the wound.
III An old German woman, named Water
man, was f=tally crushed by locomotive, while
picking up waste coal at the outer depot of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, at Pittsburg Pa Friday
afternoon. She died soon after
III The Corning Journal states that the re-
cent Hood in that village caused the loss of
large quantity of coal, which foated from the
coal Yards into the river or over the fats The
amount of the loss from this source Is estimated
at SIS, 900.
III There is a report abroad in London that
the Lyceum Theatre, Strand. at present under
the direction OF Miss Louisa Pyne as an English
Opera House, is to be taken down for the purpose
lean plan
III The celebrated Rev DR. Cox proposes to
celebrate the anniversary of Jonathan Edwards
death "by prayers, songs and add resses that we
may snPplicate from heaven the continuance and
ral theology"
III The following is a speech made by the
management Of an Irish Theatre There were
only three persons composing the audience:
Ladies and gentlemen, as there il nobody
mere, II dismiss you all the performance of
this night will not be performed, but the per
romance OF this night will be repeated to- NOR
Oil, In catching the Davenport bow medium at
playing on the musical instruments instead OF
me nS Splits, a, was pretended. The ink was rub
was produced in the dark but when the light
was produced, 10 the boys fingers were be-
smrared with the sticky black stuff.
ID Madam" said polite traveller to a te.-
ty old landlady, .'if see proper to help my,.Ifto
this milk, Is there any improprirty in Il ~
=
II don't know what you mean but if YOU
mean 10 insinuate that there is any thing nasty in
tnat milk, Ill give you 10 upder sta nd that you've
suuck the wrong house, There amt rrst hair
In tne mix, for as soon as Dorothy Ann told M
overp ~ I"
d, me norrihed young man declined partakins Of
RUSSIAN LEATHER None Of tn. European o.
American artisans In Leaf e- have vet been able
an article equal in quality that sent
from th- RUSSIAN workshops. Its power of re-
sshhs decay ln damp situation. and its freedom
from the attacks Of insects and fungi are reua k
aoie. lt Is prepared Dy tanning the skins Of
calves, shsep and goats with 4 warm detection of
willow bark the red dye Is communicated by a
oecoeton Of red sanders wood, and after apply
ing oy Kind Of eurrying process Oh eInp yr-urna-
VIC OH ootalSed by distllatiOn OF the barE OF the
olleh TREE which gives i; its agreeable odor Tue
3Ai1 - SAID 70 be lcosened b. 2 weak wOoda ID
I'VE, which the active principle is carbonate of
potash: ThS process of manipulation a. carried
on II Russia, Produces inferior quality when
precticed In other countries