Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-05

ID Very large quantities Of SAT- have been re-
Gently shipped from Kanawha.
u Two servant women were burned to death
at Salem, Fauquier county. Va, a few DAYS ago
IL The tobacco crop in the Kanawha valley,
Is unusually large this season.
IL The ladies of a single church in Brook
liEe Mass, have raised 500 fOT the relief of the
poor in that town.
IL Thtrty-two years ago, last Monday, the
FIRST eonal boat cleared from Buffalo, on the Erie
canal.
III In Paris boy three years old deliberately
staooed his nurse 10 the heart. with large knife
because she had dispieased him
u lady in Holmes county, Miss hung
herself snort time sinse, from notification on
account OF her husband having been caught play
ing cards with a negro.
u A few days ago a relative of tbs late Sol
omon MARSH Oh Litchheld, CT, was looki Jag over
some OF MS old garments, when a hundred dol
lar pill was carefully slowed away in one of his
pockets. - -'o
IL AT Ia rvest-homs dinner. given by MIR
Roper, in hsn', IS persons disposed of IS3 lbs of
beef "-ErSIIsh pGpsr-
This is nothing, We have heard of a SINGLE
man disPos'ng OF l.c0D bbls. Be fore dinner.
u Earl DummkoPt, an aged German, resid-
lag in Williamsburg. n during the panic
bank, and after carrying the gold about with him
for sversl days, hid it in d chimney at night hut
some THIEF saw him and stole il.
ID On Monday, the 18th ultimo, John Pow
a
gong, Mich. Same night Powers was arrested .
and on Tuesday lodged IN Jail, on Thursday was
indicted, and on Friday tried and convicted of
murder.
CsH--ln looking over the schedule of articles
10 De presented TO the different Indian tribes for
which the Secretary Of the Interior invites pro
Posals, we observe The item ''trco hundred dozen
sco'PiHs kHtre'-" Our hand went up involunta-
niy, 10 the pace where the hal: ought to be -
Butler County Telegraph.
IL gentleman from New York arrived at
New Haven in the express train, ola Friday and
on leaving the cars, left box containing 500 in
gOId, on seat On reaching the hotel he missed
the gold, and Immediately telegraphed 20 Mr.
Harris, the conductor, at Neridon and on the ar
IlVai OF the train al that point answer was re-
turned that all was safe.
SWORD BLADES -Itis stated that all the sword
blades made Tor the English army are the work of
four men, three Of W hom are brothers There Is
secret IN the mode Of manufacture known only
Dy these four, which they jealousIy guard Thry
select their own assistants and have the right ~
discharge them at pleasure, when they do not
Ike them: One Of the brothers. at Enfeld
makes eighteen blades per day and his ,ve,age
earnings weekly about $50
The cAsE BOTH CoUNrRIxs-Arep ort I'm
the London Times alleges that you NAV now
meeta girl coming out of school-ay and her
In'uuctess too-who may he able lo state the
weight Of every mountain IN EUROPE and tbe sn..
cine gravity of every mineTa al, and vet be una Die
10 poiI leg OF mutton or hem pocket handker-
chief; able to pass nrst-cIass Examination bu,
unable to perform the duties of a doInsxtic 90
want or domestic wife
hATREME SVPERsTIIION.-A hofribI. seen.
says the Wezcr Gazette, took plac. AT Uapover =
few days ago. on the occasion of an execution
Not only aid large crowd, many Of them carry
Ihs ootiies oil brandy, assemble and commit gross
eASesses, but numoer Of individuals subject 10
ePhepsy rushed 10 the sc1ffold at the moUrn, the
cuminai = head fell 10 drink the blood. the non
uiaf oeiief being that # is cure for epilepsv ard
the eaecutloner readily gave il to them -
,NCkpER OF A YOUNG GIRL.-Nearly two yyaek.
since Young and esPectable yirI, named ALL
"ao lad LETT her home near Sunfsh. q, 10 wish
nelghborin9 family, failed TO return, and her
Tb,,.1 couId not be ascertained until last
InuI.ddy evening, when her BODY was fou1d in
dIaVine Shot distance from where She wa, las,
49,, IN company with two young men well!
,n,,sn, 70 tne police OF Wheeling. Upon a post
Hortem examination IL was a,cefiained ,b.t ~.
unfortunate lady's skull was fractured in A line
Dackward from one raj TO the other-Wb,si;no