Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-15


we learn that the erysi pelas in an epidemic form
Is prevailing among the Wyandott Indians.
u white man received thirty lashes, on
the bare back, at Winchester, Va, on Friday
last, for stealing stove.
III The Alexandria (va) Corn Exchange has
been compelled 10 abandon tne purchase Of corn
by weight, and to close in with the old fashion
Of buying by measure.
Id The Boot, Mass, Mills, which partially
resumed opeI ations Monday, give employment
usually TO lOO persons About two-thirds that
number are now employed.
III The Virginia Senate has rejected the bill
toaid in erecting monument in Philadelphia,
In eommemoration Of the adoption Of the Decla-
ration Of Independence.
" The oldest married couple alive are sun.
posed to be Mr.. Snyder and his wife who re-
side at Burnside, Pa. He is ILL., and she is IO7
years oid, and they have been married about
ninety-three years.
IL On the occasion of the ordination Of Mr.
Nlckerson, at North Woburn, Mass last week
the hars aho stripes were flying from the ton of
ahoerty pole, In honor Of the event and at the
oiose OF the service cannon was fired
ID The Abingdon yiryiniap learns that tbsre
Will be 500 hands at work on the Cumberland
Gap Railroad in the course of a few DAYS In q
years, the iron horse will be careering between
Abingdon and Cumberland Gap.
ID Mr. Orr, who has farm near Florence
Neorasfa being annoyed by the depredations of
wolves, recently set some poisoned meat one
nisn.I ana on the following morning found two
the bait. They were quite fat
III j. NJ Legare, of South Carolina, IL said 10
Dc engaged in perfectiny invention by which
cotton Is to be adapted To 4 variety of novel u,es
rhstic, at drst, so as to be readily moulded or
worked by hand into any req uir-d shape the ar
neie becomes, on drying, hard and tenacious
with somewhat metallic lustre
III The Massachusetts House of Representa-
ives Eas, Dy large majority PASSED a bill by
which persons usually STYLED Atheists are al
lowed to testify in courts of Justice Upon the
Question OF reconsideration, Hon. Caleb Gushing
Ing the final result, for the bill has gone IN the
Senate. $50, NUS s''e " '"e
AN Ex-GovERNoR ON TRIAL-Ex-Goyernor
bsoo, Oh ONO, now living at Rockford mn
who, some months since shot a vonny ma, %,
gagged with others in chariyari abont the sy
governors house, on the occasion of his son =
wedding, Is on trial for manslauyhter. Hon
are his counsel. - A'0'
WISCONSIN, PRorKsr committee Of ,h.
Wisconsin Senate has reported to thai BODY :
protest addressed to the Senate and House al
,as Pa.Isss OF the United states This pro.
sst presented in the maine Of the Sovereign
etate OF w lsconsin against the admission OF X an
sas into the u Mon under the Lecompton ConSri
,uu0n. Inc Milwaukee News recommends the
LsRlsatuIe TO mind its own business and LET the
affairs OF Kansas alone ~ "
foLlricAL CONSPIRACY IN RoME-A letter in
The London Advertiser, d ,ted Rome I,nnsry "a
eys no ponce nave been exceedingly SHARP
since TIE news or the attempt of the 18th i'm Par.
Ihey have Tor pretend to haye) seized |, numhsr
OF Letters indicating that a political movenent
was projecting, To take place on the 18th of lam
airy, aud that the cons irators only awaited m.
signal OF Instruction. A number OF ner.ons
nave been arrested at Ascoli; they confess 10 bav
Ing committed hfty political assassinations since
the year 1850. ~
"A ViRo'SIAN MCRDERKD IN INDIA Rev Mr.
"eoo, OF Campbell G.. IA 81, late of Richmond
says the Dispatch, has received the sad intelIi
Sshce OF the murder OF his brother, by the rebels
IN India, on the 18th of last June The iuform,
ton was contained in d letter from the wtdou ot
the unfortunate gentleman. Put, In some meas
ufe, upon his guard by the troubl-. around D..
hao managed 10 provide for the safety of his
family bis place-being some miles flom The r.,
idener Of any other European, almost immedi
ately after which, party Of rebels and some Of
the worst OF his tenants, got together and attack
ed him. He made determined resistance. hut
murdered
III Thomas w ilson, aged l(r2 passed through
wheeling, Va, on the 6th inst Oh his way
nome He is d native of Ireland, having emf
grated to this country in 1871 being then IS Years
OF age He resided in Washington city until the
year before the death Of Washington when he
moved TO NetZel county, Va in those DAVIS
Few years since TO w God county, Va He left
home at the last Presidential election and his
grandson was just acconp snyiHe him baek home
amer the long absence. In reply to an interiors;.
tory he stated that he had taken "A little whisl v
every morning during his lifetime but had OF her.
wise lived very temporarily. His Temperance
his