Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-24

IL The Territory of Kansas has public debt
to the amount of S1i ,266.
IL The fishermen have commenced opera.
tons in Lake Michigan.
HI Three new counties will be asked for al
the present n. j Legislature.
III 1t is announced that Prince AdalbeIt. OF
the House of Bavaria, has made up his mind to
leave the Latin for the Greek Church.
III The Boston Transcript, says a music house
In that city has paid one thousand two hundred
dollars to Mr.. Geo. +. Root for the copyright OF
the little song Of "Rosa Lee"
III IL is reported at Pittsburg that the Cover
nor will pardon Monroe Stewart. who was con-
victed Of murder with Henry Fife and Charlotte
Jones.
III clergyman in Southfield. Mass, had a
model donation visit last week His people put
on his table an evergreen tree, and hung all its
branches with gold eagles
IL The New York Mirror says that anthra-
cite coal has fallen in that city as low as al so
per ton This is much cheaper than 1t can be
bought In the coal yards up this way.
IL We find the following marriage in the
"Sealed in Gilsum, by Solomon Mack elder of
the Latter day Saints, Mr. Josiah Grimes, of G.
to Mrs. Maria Madison, of Keene-n :
IL In removing some bodies from an old
graveyard in Allentown, Pa, recently, two bod
les were found to be petrifed-one perfectly and
the other partly so. The one was found to be al
most as perfect as it appeared in life, but turned
into solid stone 1t had been buried fourteen
years.
IL In the Barberini palace at Rome travel
ers are shown an excellent painting, said 10 be by
Guido REM, as the portrait of the beautiful par
ricide, "Beatrce Cenci, ;" aud this charming pic
ture has been the means OF spreading over all of
Europe the tale of horror that is connected with
1t The story is now going the rounds in this
country.
III James P. Slade, while passing up Con-
Eress street, Portland, Me, Saturday night, was
met by three men with faces masked one of
whom stabbed him in the chest, while the 9TH
ers threw small strap OF cord around his neck,
drawing 1t tight, until he was choked. In this
condition, his poe ets rihed of $50 and then
the rogues decamped.
IL Ga Monday of last week, a young man.
named William Ca -kson, about 10 years OF age,
committed suicide by taking arsenic at Phenix,
". Y. He purchased the arsenic at a drug store,
stating that he designed using il TO poison rats
His mother finding the article in his trunk, sus-
Pected It's Character. but was assured by the boy
that 1t was magnesia. On the night stated. be
retired to his bed and swallowed the poison and
was found dead the following morning.
KIsslNs on The Ice "A lad in Boston, wri-
ting to one OF the editors of the Mirror, states
that while out skating one day last week at ia
maica Pond, a. young lady promised any man who
could beat her in skating across the pond a kiss
As the young lady was rather pretty all present
started of, and at the end of the Journey IL was
lad, who is not slow skates himself, writes
US, that the lady gave the 'sbuss' as though she
was used to the business.
ID A correspondent Of the Boston Traveller,
writing from Dover. y. H, states that a stage
driver between Wolfboro' and Sandwich, " DO
was entrusted with 80 200 belonging to the Car
roll county Bank, month or two since, pretend
ed that he lost the package, but his subsequent
movements exciting suspicion, the stage driver
and another man were charged with having
stolen IL. They confessed, and restored most OF
the money, and as the rest will be forthcoming
no legal proceedings will be had.