Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-25

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the Normal school in Philadelphia ar a branch
OF the education of teachers
=, II The new Vanderbilt line OF steamer, "a
Europe, will take FIRST cabin pa,sepeers foy
sod' second cabin Passengers, $50.
u There is town in Pennsylvania called
4" foungwomanstown" What A deucs 90 =
place 1t must be for the 'fellers."
9 The French Emperor has now In his
stables six very fine American horses Tbs
TWO horses he drives in his pheton are Ameri-
can, and Id France are considered superior
trotters
Il The Bank of Newcastle, at Pittsburg.
SopPed payment on Saturday. There were
Just four dollars in specie in the bank to re-
doem notes amounting to SIO6, 600. The cssh.
Ter has absconded, it is said, with $50, 900.
b A third steamer is to be placed ON In.
line between Norfolk and Now York Booksof
subscription for Sl55, 900 have been opened
tor the purpose by the company, making
s40O, 900 in all for the line.
T A A. Weston wss shot and killed. in
his own house In Wabssha, Mimi, by some
unknown villain who fred through the win
dow. A man named Dresser is arrested on
suspicion. W.
,B W. B. McCright, ESQ local editor of
RarrOtoQ'
roooed OF bis watch and purse on Friday eve
ming last in that city. He was severely. but
not dangerously injured.
T Twelve boats loaded with emigrants To
Kansas had on the 9th instant already gone
up the Missouri river this spring corre-
spondent of the Springfield Republican says
nine -tenths Of the emigrants are Free State
men.
E series Of ladders, arranged like the
leaves of an extension table, 90 that rhey can
be run up to the top of the highest buildings
by ropes and pulleys, has been invented, and
Is gaining much favor in New York az q means
Of saving human life at fires.
H Leather is q great preventative OF
colds. If you doubt il watch the countensnce
of young physician as he passes q well shod
pedestrian. He may remain mute, bat he
looks d-n them boots, just as plainly az
though his lips had syllabled the imprecation.
7H Four weeks since, young woman,
daughter Of q clergyman, went to Boston IN
pursuit of her seducer, was decoyed into q
house Of ill-fsme, become q prostitute, then
WIS arrested for stealing, zpd on Tuesday,
having been discharged, returned homo with
her almost broken hearted father. A brief bat
sad career in city life.
EA little boy named Daniel Lawson came
near drowning on Monday in Albany, while
playing steamboat on q cake Of ice. He
was rescued by Newfoundland dog, who
seized Master Lawson by the cassimercs, and
dragged him ashore 1t is difaeult to say
which caused Master Lawson the most alarm
tho plunge into the water or the attack Of
the dog.
E The coroner's jury In the Burdell case
have published a card stating that they at
tached no Importance to the testimony Of DR..
d. G. Walter, he being under some strange
hallucination in regard to the matter that be
ebad e. 10 Al
for it from information given by enc of their
number, who had interview with some Of the
members Of his family beforehand.
H The Churchman newspaper, the organ
Of the High Church Episcopalians, is ouf q
an article about the Philapelphis opera .on.s
and the fact of its being open during mt r,
says that GaZzaniga, when requee rad to s;ns
on Ash Wednesday night, asker. whether this
could be Christian country that sncb . d.-
mand could be made. doveva, sbs 80
obliged by the terms of her engagement TO
overcome her rehgr>ds scruples.
BEING WOUND pP.-A lady scqusiptanc. in.
forms us tha.., as she was passing through 23i
street, she saw an elegantly dressed woman
creeping along the pavement and up the stems
OF mouse, where she rang the bell in great
haste. Guess what was the mattes?-s pair
OF new fashioned steel hoops had broken and
wound round her person with tenacity that
rendered it impossible for her to walk -Nev
L ORR Mirror.
-E The Oldest printed book known Ia the
Masarin Bible-so called after the celebrated
Cardinal in whose library q copy was found.
1t bears date in 1856. 1t is said that COPY
of this book is in the possession Of q gentle
man in New York city, who purchased il in
London, at public sale Of q private library,
for the moderate sum Of s., 500. He carried
of the prize from many noble and wealthy
The first book printed in Eng
land, was at London, by Caxton, and II was q
work on q Chess"
SPfRITUALIsfs BEAT BY TIE HKArHES
correspondent Of the Portsmouth IN. H
Journal calls attention to the fact that the
heather Of Western Africa are in advance of
our spiritualists in one particular, for they not
only have mediums between the living and
the dead, but they have mediums who com
with the spirits Of children who are
not old enough to talk; 50 that by these me.
d1ums parents are made to know what the