Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-21
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III The liquor dealers Of Jersey City are NOV
Ing to aid the poor.
IL Rich veins of lead have recently been dis
covered III Hardin county. Ill.
IL The Providence Transcript Is to be pub
llshed hereafter d penny paper.
u The city Of Cleaveland, Ohio, begins the
year out of debt, every mdtured obligation hav-
ing been paid.
III a Western editor says that the proverb
'the longer man lives the more he'll see'' can't
allute to money now a-days.
IL new invention is announced for spin
ming cotton while in ''wet state" Ii Is lid 10
De stronger and finer than when spun dry.
u The birthday of Daniel " ebster, the 18th
instant, We learn, was observed more generally
Boston.
III You can spit in a mans face In Salem, n
\ ., Ter 600; that being the damages assessed by
the court on person who made this selection for
IL Twelve pictures, representing the Bibli-
cal history Of Joseph said 20 be original Titians
have been discovered in Paris, by young au-
thor named About.
IL The French medical men who have visit.
ed Lisbon to study the late epidemic have come
to the conclusion that it originated in the filthy
condition of the streets.
III The journeymen coopers of New Bedford
Mass, held meeting on Monday and voted
unanimously to sustain the prices for making
casks which they had been paid during the past
year
ID Mrs. Mary Crow, of Pottsville, Pa, As
wears Of age, was accidentally shot by pistol in
the hands ola young man named Writ, whom
she requested 10 load it Tor her.
III At the January meeting Of the Historical
Society OF Tennessee, the President presented a
letter from Henry Lord Broug ham, of England,
acknowledging his election as an honorary mem
Der.
III The girl in Cincinnati, who told such a
strange story OF imprisonment and outrage has
sonfsssed that the VIII ole tale il fal.ehood, told
he nnr of ipin adj
pital.
OIn South Reading, Mass a town Of about
o,UU inhabitants, there was not a single death of
aehild from June to January, covering that por-
ton OF the year when sickness and death are zen
orally prevalent among children.
IL A manager Of Pittsburgh theatre has had
the execrably bad taste TO pander to the lowest
appetite for excitement, by bringing out his
Stage play, the hero and heroine of which are a
man and woman now in the Jail under sentence
of death.
III cow broke into a house al Toledo, on
"Wednesday last in the absence OF the family and
upset the stove, setting the house on FIRE The
house was burned to the ground, and the cow
being unable to get out ofthe house, persisted in
the flames.
ID Two men recently broke from the Tuska-
gee Ala Jail, in the following manner: With
an old case knife cut into saw, they cut throug h
ten-incb square piece OF timber, then throuy h
brick WALL and let themselves down with a
blanket torn into strips.
IL A remarkable fog settled upon Benninp-
ton, Vt last week, Thursday evening and while
In some places IL was almsst impossible to see a
yard ahead, in others not more than rod or two
distant there was nothing to obstruct the clear
light Of the moon.
ID A. ROxbury, Mass, on Saturday last the
range boiler in the kitchen Of John Weber on
Gienvilie street, exploded in consequence Of the
water freezing the night previous, ard an Irish
servant girl was badly scalded, aad will proba-
bly, lose her sight.
1T The Boston Post estimates the average
cost of clothing to each ind viduaI in the United
States at fifty dollars With population of
thirty millions, this would take the enormous
sum OF one billion five hundred millions OF dol.
lars to be spent in dress.
ID Ventilation would be greatly promoted II.
In place Of one Of the upper lights of glass in
every bed room window, there was inserted a
sheet OF tin cut in strips, the lower edge set out
Ike the Stats OF Venetian blinds, so as TO break
the direct force Of wind and TO prevent rain from
blowing in.