Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-06

liza crowd was on the s.Green New Britain,
Conn, on the first Of April, to witness balloon
ascension. They all found themselves ''sold."
III The Mayor of Chicago always revokes the
licenses of those hackmen who overcharRe pas.
sengers. very proper punishment. -.
Tr The epidemic fever which has created so
much alarm mo. n 0swsgs county, n; has reach
Il II. The wheat crop in northern Georgia and
East Tennessee presents very promising appear
ance. -
IL The aggregate loss by fires in the Cnlted
states during the first quarter Of the present year
Is 81, SG}, 600.
The newspapers Of Mississippi have univcr.
sally refused to submit to law reducing the
rates for legal notices. ,-.
THK Common Council Of Brooklyn have adopt
ed resolution requiring the city railroad compa-
MES to run their cars on Sundays. -
An Albany editor thinks his property In that
CITY would have been carried away by the late
flood had it not been for the hsacg mortgages
upon it.
DIsAGREEMENr-The jury at Boston in the
case of Magee, for killing Mr.. Walker, of the
Massachusetts State prison, having failed to agree
upon a verdict, have been discharged
III The bass fishermen at Newburyport are
making extra wages, the haul of fishes being i'm
mense. About fifty thousand have already bee N
taken this season
IL Residents of Chattanooga, Tenn, are de-
voting considerable attention to the culture of the
Catawba grape One gentleman has planted about
thirty acres.
THE Santa Fee Gazette of February 18th, contra
| diets the report which come by telegraph from
| st. COuis, that Judge Hopper and Mr.. Jas. Lucas
had been killed by Indians.
MIXING WHEAr.-Sowing several varieties of
| wheat together is highly recommended in France
where it has been proved that the product is very
| greatly increased
IL The Albany (Ga.) PARROT of a late date
says: owe are now enjoying mild summer
| weather, and vegetation is putting forth rapidly.
Corn planting is nearly finished, and many are
| planting cotton
IL The Marlboro Advocate states that the
first '.clothh was manufactured in the new facto-
| Ty at Lowell, Md, last week, and in less than
fortnight il is anticipated the half complement of
machinery will be in full operation.
IL The Rev. C. C. Jones, who ran away with
another mans wife from Paris, Lamar county
| Mississippi, the other day, was pursued overta-
ken, carried to Red River county, acquitted, and
afterwards killed by the injured husband.
| A STEAM VAGINA stock company has been
| formed of persons residing in Cincinnati and
| Dayton, Ohio, who have constructed steam
wagon TO he run on common roads. 1t was tested
short time SINCE and travelled to the entire salts
faction of those who got it up.
III fast man was grumbling the other day
because the cars didn't run sixty miles an hour
| Exchange.
Sixty miles an hour with small obstruc
tion on the track, will be apt to stop his grumb-
| ling.-Boston Post.
The CROPS SourH.-A letter to the Savannah
Republican, dated Middlebury, Fla, March D.
| says:
| AT present, the weather here is warm and
mild and everybody is pladting. Some farmers
have corn up three or four inches high"
AZ One little ''garden PATCH of ours has been
very profitable, very this season. The snails ate
up the cucumbers, the chickens ate up snails. the
| nelghbor's cats ate up the chickens, and we
! now In search of something that will eat up the
cats Can amy one of our agricultural trends aid
| us!
IL The manufacture of hoop skirts is shortly
10 DE entered upon on large scale at Sing Sing
| prison, New York under State contract The re.
| quisite machinery for the purpose is being made
In New York, and soon as completed will be
transferred to the prison. Hoop skirts are becom-
| Ing as much a staple as hats and shoes.
| FURs.-We saw, yesterday. six dozen mink
SKINS, taken by two trappers, in Bear Swamp.
| about twelee miles northwest of this cty The
entire lot was sold at from sinten to seventeen
| Tor coarse furs. Only few years ago they were
comparatively valusIess.-Bmfalo Advertiser.
| N.At Utica, an action for seduction has been
brought by Mary Abrams against Richard r
| personal beauty, but poor parentage. The de-
| PENDANT has wealthy connections who opposed
the promised marriage. The jury found YER
! dict OF 81 800 damages for plaintiff.
| ArRocIOus MURDER IN LoUIsvILLE-On Tues
| day afternoon young man named Casper Fern
who was walking in the streets of Louisville
| Ky, with lady at the time. was shot through
| the heart by pilot named Sweeny. The assassin
|
close to his person as to burn his clothes. No
| reason is given for the act, though Sweeny Is in
| custody, and will be examined.
Another DoDaK TO INvEIGLE SILLY woNES.
Inc following advertisement appears In New
| York morning paper:
stu, OO0.-l being old, will give my son. a
hne young man, aged "a, 500 900, provided some
tssPectable man will give his daughter, a sensi-
bic lady, to him in wedlock with S25 600 Mu-
| tual affection Of course. This is sincere propo-
sal His property can be made worth s7OO, DO.
Address Junius, Herald office, for explanation.
Good reasOn.n
A RICH CAsE.-Memphis is decidedly great
place IN It's way. The Nashville Union saws that
Anew days since a case was pending in the Com
mon Law Court OF that city in which Mr. and
MIS- HELPING had sued Phillip r. Bohlen for a
| oeach OF marriage contract, in failin, to marry
| MfS Helblng when she was Miss Agnel Hand
weIker, and the jury has given the injured parties
a ani5s. damages The idea of Helbing suing
! bohien because he did not marry his wife is Ger.
| family the richest thing Of this fast age
NEGRO SAILoRs.-The New York Courier and
enquirer calls attention to singular and proba-
ply unforeseen effect of the decision of the Su-
Preme Court in the bred Scott case. Unless two
thirds OF crew are American citizens. the vessel
| becomes subject to foreign tonnage dues. 1t has
6eeh quite common for our shipping masters to
| hire whole crew Of negros, who are now decid-
ed not to be American citizens: consequent the
vessels will be lioble to foreign ,onnage dues.
| III In one of the wards of Richmond Va,
we observe the polls were kept open, at the mu-
IN, POI oAoo'ioL VI tue present week, during the
second day. The additional vote however. was
small, and did not alter the result. The vote of
Mr. Mayo for Mayor was 2,Oi4. and that of his
highest opponent $40. All the Wing and Amer-
can candidate for the principal offices were elected
except the one for Grain Measurer The polls i'm
| day.
ID meeting has been held in London to
take into consideration the policy of the China
and Persian wars. At this meeting, lover which
| MI ROebuck presided, the intention was to test
the popularity of Lord Palmerston, and the princi.
pal speakers were MeSsrs Golden and I.ayard
| Both these gentlemen were heard and applauded
and denunciations of Lord Palmerston's previous
| career were highly relished. resolution was
| then moved to the effect that these wars were
wholly unwarranted, which was carried by a
large majority
| CAUSE OF ExPLosION.-ProfeSsor Gladstone
recently read an able and eloquent scientific pa
various kinds Of explosions and their causes
Any great and sudden increase of volume, says
| Prof: e., may give rise to the phenomena desig.
mated explosion, but such great and sudden in =
crease never takes place by the mere dilaton of a
solid or liquid body-ft is always necessary
that gas should be formed The simplest form