Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-14
II The first railroad in the United States wa.
the granite railway at Quincy

II The first railroad in the United States was
the granite railway at Quincy.
IL The cold weather has done injury to the
crops In the vicinity of New Orleans
IL piece of coal weighing three tons was
Ill.
II In the capitalization of the Sound dues the
Proportion proposed TO be paid by the United
states Is stated to be ScSfo, coo.
ID The Legislature Of Massachusetts have
rassed q law making the testimony Of an atheist
legal tender in the Courts OF the Stale
~ 4 dispatch from jackson, Mississippi,
states that six inches OF snow fell there on sun
day.
IL The real estate Of Mr.. Zimmerman, lately
killed In the Canada railroad accident, Is estf-
mated to be worth s7,VO,OO
III The term air line, when applied to rail.
roads Or roads of any kind, means straight line
drawn without any deviation, from one point to
another.
IL Mrs. Levi Boyden, of Guilford, VT. cut
her throat with razor few days ago, while in
a a. Of insanity, killing herself almost immedi-
ately.
II meeting was held in Princeton on Mon
day, and three hundred dollars was raised TO he
July -
IL An exchange broker Of New Orlean,
named John OxnaTd, has been operating 10
Huntington, and absconded from the Crescent
CITY with a hundred thousand dollars.
ID The widow Of the late professor Of necro-
Of the North, whom many Of our readers have
seen on the stage, is now giving exhibitions I'm
the same line al :; Louis
~ The bridge over Cedar River at Cedar VAL
Of The Ice, on the 18th of March, and two younr
ladies, daughters of Mr.. Black of Kingston who
were upon 1t at the time, lost their lives.
- In "a, Sresav n T., jury la: awarded 10
that place for SANDER. After paving LAWYERS
fees the plaintiff devoted the remainder to benev.
olent purposes.
TrA piece Of rock larger than an ordinary
sized house, fell from the high cliff oyerhancing
the Nolcottvile road, in Connecticut, on Fridav
week. and crashed on distance Of three hundred
feet, destroying all before IT.
ID The Toronto Globe states that the sentences
OF McOarTls, the boy who murdered William
Gull, and which was directed to be carried into
effect on the 1lth Of April, has been commuted to
Imprisonment in the Provincial Penitentiary for
IL Tn. Bangor Journal SAYS tina, MIR. r n
Bartlett OF that city. has purchased the iron
steamship PhiladeIphia, which was wrecked and
sunk near Cape Race, Newfoundland, two or
three years since, and intends TO make an attempt
TO raise her.
VIM. Wallace, young man living in Lon
doHderry, y. H, had his arm broken sfnyularly
last Monday. He was standing in the doorway
of the barn, and the wind blew the door to- break.
ing both bones Of his right arm, between the
wrist and elbow.
ID A proposed amendment to the constitution
OF Ohio; under which adopted citizens hereafter
would have to be residents of the State for one
year aner getting their papers before they would
be entitled to vote, was lost in the House for the
want OF the required three ffths vote.
" A double murder was recently committed
at kosciusko, Miss. Garland Golf aged S. and
possessed Of considerable property. was poisoned
as also his wife, young lady to whom he had
been married only a few months. A brother Of
Mrs. Con Is suspected of the murders as he had
been heard to threaten the life of Golf
II IL is announced that the Mormons contem
plate the establishment of settlement of Il route
to the Great Salt Lake. Elder Erastus Snow,
who seems to have charge of the enterprise an
peals TO the saints throughout the States to iotn
IN the scheme and furnish men and means towards
its accomplishment.
Bic VgRDIcr.-The glorious uncertainty of
Court OF New York. Thomas Asten sued VIM
Bridgam for $4,000 damages to efface a terrible
beating which be received at the house of a Third
avenus lady: where both happened to be visitants
The jury gave Asten a verdict Of six cents
LIoUoR EXCITEMENT 7 PORTSMOUTH. III
quite an excitement prevailed at Portsmouth last
week, growing out Of an attempt to execute the
liquor law. Three stores were searched and two
arrests made, but the excitement became SO great
that, to prevent 1 mob, the search was abandoned
for the present.
HI Two Germans, Intelligent mechanics, ar
rived in New York in January last, and not nn-
Outstanding our language and unable to obtain
employment they Were reduced TO utter destitu-
ton. On the Sth inst one OF them was taken to
having been two days without food he had i'm
despair, taken arsenic.
SUsQCEHANNA FIsHERIRs-yVel learn from the
HavTe-de-Grace Times that the OILERS are now
engaged IN catching shsd, having commenced
SiIllng last Monday. The prospects for a good
shad fishing seem 20 be veIy good They are sell
ing at from $40 to sl2 per hundred. Mr. g. w.
barnes. at Carpenters Point caught at one haul
on the 9Th instant, with his seine eight hundred
per hundred.
" There is more open undis.uised rascality
IN the following advertisement, cut from the
View York Herald, than is often found in the same
space:
:. Merchants embarrassed in want OF means n,
Wiling Tn suspend with means. by fnancieriny
can hear Of party who has just carried parties
dice. f'NJ1
Address los, Herald Once. Reference given"
ARRIYALS " TQR Io,cRIG