Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-19
PERSON Al.

80. B. 2. Roper, proprietor Of the Roper
House, at Mobile, died last week.
80. J. mes Moorhead Esq senior editor of
the-In1isra pa Independent, died on the
9th ms.
49,. Hon. z. Kidvell, Of Virginia, declines
being candidate for Is election to the House
OF Representatives.
So. Two of DR.. 0sgood's parishinners, at
New York, have bought him snug country
seat at Fairfield, Conn.
-. VIM. Maxwell, for many years a dis
tipguished citizen of Norfolk, Va died on
Saturday last, at Williamsburg.
-. Mr. Murdoch has played eighty nights
at the Hsymarket Theatre, London, and is
now engaged fox twenty nights more.
-. The London papers received by the
ASA announce the death Of DR. Paris. the
president If the College of Physicians
80 Msjor jack Downing is preparing a
history called &" Thirty Years Out of the Sen 4.
ate" 1t goes ahead Of Col. Benton's
80. The Hon. Robt McLane of MARYLAND,
and Hon sam'l Curtis, United States Ser
a,or elect from Iowa, are at Willard's Hotel
-. We learn that Gov. Ford is lying sick
with inHammatory rheumatism, in Winons,
Minnesota Territory, and will probably have
to remain there till spring.
80. Mrs Fanny Kemble has given the net
proceeds of her reading Of Hamlet in ST Lsuis
for the benef: Of the Girls Industrial School
II that city. The sun amounted to $50 55.
-. The Hon. Jas Ii Thomas. formerly a
distinguished member Of tho United States
House Of Representatives. Is now in this CITY,
Court.
.... Over Laura Keene's Theatre, on Broad.
way, Is q hotel Ills is an Enforcement on
boast OF bar room, out Miss Keene's has
ether and more decided advantages being
both al eatiCg, drinking and sleeping estab.
iishnsnt, to say nothing Of tie acting
80. The good people of Fulton, N B., have
been badly "sOld'' lately. Large hand bill.
amounting that 81. III Diamonds world re.
nOwned troupe" would give " one of their in
imitable concerts, drew a large audience
When about $40 had been collected a man
drove up in haste, and declared that Mr. Dis
mond, who had collected the entrance fee,
would have 70 look after that box himself ,;
Mr. ID didn't know how to leave but the box
must be had, 30 be and his man, with the
change IN their pockets, left, but forgo, to re-
turn again to tseir patient audience, " no soon
got impatient, ard Investigated the matter, to
learn mat the parties had been seen going
south at a2:4Ogait, leaving the hotel keepers,
Printers: and all hands convinced that the
Diamond is sharp
-. rEackeray is delivering lis lectures on
" the GEORGE" in his native country TLey
are reported IN the English papers suhstan-
TALLY the sane Is delivered here. They elicit
but httle comment, although some Of the
truths sPf Ken must sound strangely in English
ears-such, for Instance, as are contained in
tie f1iloxing paragraph, taken from sketch
In Liverpool paper:
IL lIo4 when the first ball was given IN
neIor q The prince who was entering upon his
ne loDg courte OF vanity another scene was
Wnacufg IN the opposite side Of the Atlantic.
Wsshir gtOn, the patriot, was sbeatbino n.
sword after a public lie Of spo;lsss purity
IeSSniHg the power which be had used so no
Oily and 50 efeetually. With a powerful con.
trast between the msgnanimous acts and sin
PIE language Of George Washington anu III.
emptiness, rear lessness and f>Iiy that. from
the Est, characterized PRICE George Of Eng
i.Tf NJ Thackeray concluded auids, tbs sS
Plause Of the audience"