Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-09-24

III The American Minister and family have
left London for Tunbridge Wells.
III The man who plants a birch tree little
knows what he is comforting on posterity
III Ripe 6gs have been gathered this wear
from Az trees grown in the open air at Bath, Me
III frost severe enough h to DESTROY vegeta BILE $
was observable In some portions Of Ohio on Pri-
day
IUThe Winnebago Indians settled in Min
nesota, raised over 5,OOO bushels of wheat last
year.
IDA striped snake. containing s. vouno
ones was killed in West Hartford Conn b, a short
time since.
III Four men from NewroTt, r. caught on
Friday, with hooks and lines, over 1000 weight
of bass.
III Miss Fessenden, Injured by the accident
on the Cincinnati and Dayton Railroad, has since
IrR. O'Kane, a prominent business man of
Nashville, TedB was crushed TO death by the
cars there on the l4th inst.
IL When man has no design but to speak
plain truth, he may say great deal in very
narrow COMPASS.
discovered in a burying ground about a mile
norIhwett Of Winchester, Ind.
ID G f. Webber, merchant, Of Troy N Y
has been fined SIS and imprisoned six months
for attempting to abduct white girl for vile
purposes
IL The government of the New York Aims.
house, have resolved to paw 81 800 to DIR. w. r.
Morton for discovering the anasthetic proper
ties Of suiphuric ether.
ID Hard times are reported in Iowa Cur
rency scarce this year; little besides land to sell
AID less to buv II with demand for IL light, and
pay for 1t lighter.
W John Manyan, in a at of mania a potu,
ieaped from the window Of his boa riding house,
died on sunday afternoon, from the effects Of his
injuries.
III Missouri editor apologies for fbe neo .
lect OF editorial duty, account of the advent Of
new member OF the family; and claims indul-
gence on the ground that the thing ''only hap-
pens once year,
III The young ladies Of Petersburg, Va. arm
themselves with bows and quivers, and spend
their leisure moments In the pastlme of archery;
aad adds a crusty old bachelor) leave their
stockings undarned.
III II is announced in the English papers that
Queen Victoria has granted a free pardon to q
young man named William Craft, who was SEN
fenced to six years imprisonment at hard labor
fM an assault in kissinga young lady ,ainst hei
will.
iE- Domestic difficulties Of a delicate nature
led Mr. Charles Scott, freight master and hotel
keeper, to commit suicide at Odin, at the juno
| razor.
| III The cowhiding Of a tailor by his wife in
BROOKLYN, N. Y, the other day, attracted a large
Sio~u S % IN tne public street. The wicked tailoI
nao oesn more tender upon a young lady In hi,
| employ than was agreeable to his Spouse, and
sue felievsd her feelings by inhicting a castiga
tion which was abbreviated by the interferenc.
| of policeman.
| VI most unnatural crime was perpetrated
by a Freedman recently, In the town Of Gro
| CHAN, Lewis county, Pa. In the absence of th,
| other members Of his family he turned hot wats
| from Kettle into the mouth Of sleeping bal
five months old, scalding IL dreadfully He An,
| his present wife had been married hut a few
months, and he charges that the child is ilieeiti
mite.