Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-01

II Alpaca sheep have been introduced into
Australia.
IL A screw locomotive for ascending steep
grades has been invented in Europe
IL st. Petersburg is to be lighted with gas
and furnished with water in every house
HI Boston Is about to widen some of its most
frequented and business streets. The common
councils have voted half million of dollars for
that purpose.
IL The Savannah Republican learns that rain
has fallen lately in nearly every part of Ceorgi,
and that the hopes of the planters had greatly re-
u Gilbert A. Clark caught a rattleshake in his
front door yard, at Easthanlpton last SUNDAY. he
rattles. - i'"u 'iA
u Six hundred cords Of wood, worth alODo
belonging 10 the LenOx Furnace Company, was de-
stioyeo oy nre on Washington Mountain, Berk-
shire, on Sunday.
ID The Collins Axe Company. of Connect
cut, have got judgment against two manufactnr
eIs IN birmingham, England, for counterfeitng
Tor pin cushion, made use OF an onion. On the
Following morning she found that all the needles
had tears in their eyes.
=, II PiekPockets are SO thick on the railroads
tnat the Hudson River Company have engapeJ
the services Of two expert thiefcatchers to travel
up and down the road and catch the thieves
" IL IS stated that large orders are now on
hand al the Mint for the new cent, but that the
nickel. 1'' "a
III young lady in Greenfield was bitten on
.He up oy black spider, few nights since,
while asleep. The lip immed lately swelled bad
Iy, and for few days the lady was quite sick:
put through the application of proper remedies,
the bite. >0o'' "a
IL As proof Of the fact that girls are useful
articles, and that the world could not very well
get along without them, late writer states il as
TACT that II all the girls driven out of the
world In one generation the boys would 90 out
after them.
II Margaret Terrence, who recently made
bei second escape from the New Hampshire State
Prison was arrested at Westfotd on "Wednesday
She had walked from Concord to Lowell where
she succeeded in finding situation to do house
WORK for family in Westford
good for female health. Going down there re-
Gently, on the passage he was introduced to LADY,
neat, notable and nineteen-plunp as a partridge:
lew DAYS after this he saw her bathing, and the
natant naiad was nauseatinyly narrow
u collection OF jewelry which was recent
" attempted to be sInuggle into New York ON
board the City Of Washington, was sold AT auc
ton on Wednesday. its va ue was 81 $50 The
soyeInmen. ge's half the proceeds of the sale
ana the custom house officers the balance
GES. CoxcHA's WEaLTH-Gen. Concha. II is
stated, RENTED last wear surplus from the rev
ehucs OF Cuba OF four millions OF dollars and the
present one promises to Weld a much larger r.
tuIh- ~ Is also stated that he sent home mil
ZION OF dollars on his own private account real
lied IN successful stock REGULATIONS
III Mushroom catsup was by mistake adj
HlIhls'eIed az The Sacrament. instead of the cus-
tohdIy rent WINE, at a village near Sherburne
oahada' lew days since. The substitution of il
Caused considerable CONSERVATION. as the nature
Of the draft was not immediately discovered and
II began TO be whispered that the wine was moi
soned. ' Poi-