Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-14

II The boats of the Mirh!gan southern Rail
into winter quarters.
IL The black blight IS reported in variors
chaTds P''' "i-
=, II A youns lady, fond Of dancing, traversesi In
me course OF single season. about four huBd~-d
miles, and yet no lady would think of WALKING
that distance ia six months -
MrIiLATED Co.N.-Our California E,ehanoes
STATE That deprecated ten dollar pieces are i'm CIR
utf'Icn- lhese coins have been trimmed Of gold
10 the amount OF about 81 so and re-miIled
IL The Bank Of british North Americ,
thIou2h its agency in New York has ordered
goid rom London on the present low exchange
10 the amount of 800, 900
IL George Hudson, the English railway
KING mas gone TO Spain. in which kingdom a
vast railway project IS tout TO be carried INTO #
feet under his mana cement
AOooD ExANPLE--A number OF Young lad ies
IN Saieih having considered the state OF tile
money MAJ ket and determined not 10 nav 3 10 a,
~ iOr winter bonnet, have set about making
Dohhets Tor theInselves-BoStoET rorsIer
II The Trenton Gazette advocates an amend
Inent OF the banking laws OF New Jersey SO as o
require every hank in the State of New Jersey 4,
make weekly statements of its affairs inst al of
quarterly. " VI
Il suit has been commenced against r 7
Huilng, OF the Saratoga Press, for IibeIliny :
tam female relatives Of the gin White VINO re-
Gently left the village on a tour OF DIc,Sur. Vim
Travis, the pistol champion
u Inc ifIsh depOsitOrs % the Savings Bank
at Lawrence, Mass, becoming alarmed. with
grew thelf depOsltes. To the amount of : Is isD
and placed them ia the hands of the priest for
safe keeping, who took the whole sum directly
back and TedepOsited it,
II The screw factory at Utica has SUSPENDED
operations In consequence OF the pressure. i'm III.
money mar ket and will NOT resume IaLo, 80
uhuI the Times become easier. By this susDeD-
SION OF labor, some thiTty-lye to forty EMPLOYEES
VIII be thrown out OF employment
-
says: u 'ne 0'h ihs'ah''
one OF our best dry goods jobbinp houses gave
an order TODAY, by telegraph, for the shipment
OF Vo Gus htls OF wheat To this mar ket received
money. "a '
RAT SroRY.-On Wednesday tie b,rk Flee,
EasIe, recently arrived from the Cape of Good
Hope, was smoked out, after which no les. than
500 dead rats were found in various parts of the
vessel. When gathered toge: her they compIxtrIv
Filled pork barrel. Sausag ed dealefswiU pleas
take nOtice.-BOSfoH Ledge,
ITOne gentleman in New York city, who Is
not n Speculation nor operator In stocks. but who
had purchase merely for the purpose of investment
may be said, in one sense, to have lost quite 4
handsome little fortune within a few DAYS past
The depreciation on the market value Of his owr
stocks, ifom Friday Of last week TO Monday o
lars
" a German doctor at Urbana. III the man.
nidetuIrf OF snake bite medicine caught a rattle
pidiIlr ana look IL bone anu on T
ed To let the snake hit him eyery time anv nprsor
bought bottle OF his medicine, for one dollar
". sunday OF last week, while fooling with hi,
PEI, u OIL hlIn n Tie hand. He applied his med
icine without effect. On Monday lie sent for the
doctor, OUT 100 Iale-he died the same day
AGERickNs IN Calcutta There were I'm An.
gust iaSt sOout ei2ht hundred Americans resid
ing in Calcutta, and in this number We inci,.
ded many women and ehilIten. There was !
COED deal OF anxiety among all classes of the In
haDitdnts, and the Americans Were thinking q,
sending their women and children home Inv IN.
chip Daniel Webster, which was in port, load nc
for Boston :.
UrIn Laclede county, Mo-, Mr.. Edw'd Bars
me, having moved into cabin that had been va
GATED about three months, one morning, while a
breakfast, saw black snake and a rattle snak,
make their entrance into the room through tia,
moor, and commence fighting near him and hi
wife The reptiles were sOOn dispatched witt
fire poker; and upon taking up the floor forty
two snakes were discovered and killed-copper
heads, black, rattle and one or two other sPeci
mems;