Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-09-01

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lecturing on slavery in Vermont.
IL Twenty thousand dollars a week are paid
out for labor at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
~ A'party Of gentlemen casght sixty sharks
In Providence River, Thursday last.
III Husband, why were the Cyclops like our
Abolitionits! Because they had but eye,
Dear.
NJ Thomas Cartwright, a native Of Fairfax
county, Va, died in New Orleans, on the 2lst
instant, of yellow fever.
wouldn't shy before the FIRE Of an enemy" "No
more ne won't it is after the ere that ne SHES :"
III cat In North Fairhaven, Mass, has
essght and adopted Young rabbit, eating 1t as
So would her offspring.
IL The pisa.-rs Of Georgia have commenced
harvesting their rics. FAe prospect is fattsring
for an abundant yield
III A monument is to be tTeSted in Misss-
sippi to the memory Of the iht-tfious General
Quitman.
IL Two negro boys fought a. duel fse other
day, in Mississippi. One was badly woundec ssd
the other killed.
IL We see the question discussed in several
Eastern papers whether a schoolmaster can kiss
his female pupils" We only know that we
could when we were a schoOlmdster.
IL Porter's Spirit says a professional pugilist
can make from $500 to 81 in the spring and fall
political campaigns in New York.
III ''I don't believe It's any use, this vacci-
nation" said a Yankee, - had child vacci-
and got kilt"
III The Salisbury IN. C.) Waterman says
that gold mine has been discovered in that vi
entity, which, worked by four hands, yielded
twenty pounds Of pure gold in ten days.
III IN the Nacional, Of Leon, the Nicaraguan
Government has officially announced the resgna-
tion Of Senator frsarri, In consequence of the
ton OF the Government In regard to the Cass-lri-
sarri treaty. The decree of the government ac-
eepts the resignation, and appoints General Jerez
as sr lrisarri's successor and not his Coedjutor
as had been reported.
o. woman appeared before a magistrate at
Cincinnati lately, and desired to make affidavit
that she was faithful to her husband. The mag
istrate at first refused to take such strange dec
laration, but the woman having assured him that
IL was necessary to her happiness, he consented
TO her evident qualification.
III The difference In time between Trinity
Bay and Valencia Bay is about hours and A.
minutes A telegram was sent from Dublin to
Newfoundland simply saying, "It is twelve
o'clock noon in Dublin; what hour in Newfound-
land? ' Answer-"Eight O'Clock in the morn
Ing" The answer was received within an hour
and half.n
IL The Rockville Republican tells of a man
living near Stafford who actually never heard OF
the Atlantic Telegraph. Hearing the bells all
ringing In Stafford, he saddled up and rode to
town post haste to see what was the matter and
when informed that the cable was laid he wanted
to know what cable, and said he never heard OF
the thing and didn't understand it.
ID The Ledger reports that in Exeter, N. III.
vi Sunudf ldst, JUST as Kew MI Lamphear (Or-
tnodoxl was entering his church, two females In
the choir got into a most desperate fight much
TO the damage Of faces, bonnets and clothing OF
the belligeTents. After the fight had proceeded
some time, few gentlemen, mastering up cour-
age, interfeIed and put a stop to the disgracefuI
scene. Jealousy: it is said, was at the bottom OF
IL London letter says that the construction
OF line OF telegraph to India by the Red Sea
route has at length been agreed upon The Gov
eminent are to guarantee four and half per cent
on the requisite capital for fifty years and the
snares OF the Company by whom the work is 10
pe carried out have, accordingly, already been
dealt in at a premium equal to about Ave DEL
cent Ihe cable from Suck to Alden Is first to bt
iad This will be about half the entire istance
ana tse cost Is estimated at fjO0.OOO Messrs
NewaH. the manufacturers Of the Atlantic cable
nave onered to construct it and lay IL down a
their own risk for that sum-