Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-16

ID 1t is said that Mr.. Paulsen the renowned
chess-player has the largest head Of any man liv-
Ing.
III A careful estimate of all the persons of In
dian blood indicates that they now number about
5,UOO,O0O in all North America.
ID The ship fever has visited the town of
Brooklyn, Me, and four persons have died A
seaman came home sick, and spread the conta-
gion-
III About eleven hundred persons have pro-
known as the Trenton, n. J :, NJ. E. district, du-
ing the late fall and winter.
ID Mrs. Mary Booth, the divorced wife of
JuniuS BrutuS Booth, died in Baltimore on Tues
day night last of disease OF the heart. She was
SIS years old.
IL A petition fourteen feet long, signed by
great number of the property-holders of Hudson
City, for itSannexaton to Jersey CITY as the fifth
Ward, was sent to Trenton on Tuesday
III The ice at Green Bay . very thick The
editor OF the Advocate had a good fifteen miles
drive on II, and met four horses dragging huge
pine tree for mHst-l proof of the great strength
of the ice.
EsALoUs.-The Rev. Elisha d. Owens mem
Der OF the Baltimore Conference preferred con-
tlnuing at his cEarIs a. Leesburg, Va, where
months, to attend Conference.
IL a boy in Vernon, VT, named Doolittle
recently drove a team to Bratteboro' and on his
return home froze both feet Arriving home, his
folks most imprudently put his feet into hot wa
ter, in conseq uence of which, in a few DAYS both
feet had To be amputdted at the ankle The name
OF that family should be changed to Knowittle
~ Over seven hundred dogs have persisted
under the rigors of the law, during a few weeks
past, In the city of Buffalo. The principal means
OF death was strychnine, inserted a sufficient
dose in small pieces Of liver, distributed by the
agent OF the . powers that be - in places where
dogs :" most do congregate -
III Says the Philadelphia Ledger: oThe
New York papers state that several remarkable
conversions to religion have taken place in that
he S.hn dor
cases, but In Philadelphia still greater CONVEX
sion Is reported, for an old note shaver Is said
10 have turned phiianthropist 30
IL The famous E. II. C. Judson alias "Ned
Buntline," has been in Syracuse for several DAYS
past making himself quite conspicuous On
Saturday afternoon last he painted his face and
hands with red ochre, borrowed an Indian cos
tune from Chippewa Indian named Elliot and
trained through the streets, followed by crowd
of boys 1t is wonder they don't have him
turn up at Sing Sing, with stripes on his breech-
es and bracelets on his ANGLES.
ID On the evening of the Odd ult, mulatto
woman, while intoxicated, went into a church at
NandalIa. Illinois, where protracted meeting
was going on and becoming noisy was elected
from the house. She went home but in a few
minutes returned with a revolver, which she
nred at the congregation through the window
The ball struck and dangerously wounded a
man named James Mitchell. The woman at
tempted TO escape, but was captured and was in
danger Of being lynched at the latest accounts.
II boy named O'Brien. who obtains live
n r by Peddiing apples on the Cleveland and
Toledo railroad, found few DAYS since a pack
age of s. 500 in bank notes, which had been lost
in the cars by a Mr.. Bishop, who had brought
the money from Cleveland for Mr.. H E Mus
sey, Of Elyria. The lad was elated at his good
fortune that ne took the money to bed with him
and sat up all night watching il. Next day it
was given to Mr.. Mussey, when the boy was re-
waTded with d new suit of clothes and deed of
one hundred and sixty acres Of land. Mr. Mus
sey also offered to give the boy thorough bust
ness education, but the father declined for the
present, as he did not wish to part with the boy