Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-04-27

~ NsdE Ieet OF lumber
celved at Chicago last year.
H. In the list of insolvents in Massachusetts,
Is the name of one female belonging to Chelsea J
H. Red checks are only oxygen in another
shape Gnis anxious TO wear a pair will find
them where the roses dC--out of doors
III new GrenadieI military company is to be
formed in Perth, Z. w =, to be composed of the
tailest and best looking men in that town.
Id Who was the greatest chicken butcher,
according TO Shakespeare? King Claudius in
q Hamlet" who did . murder most foul"
G- The horse and carriage of the Mayor of
Boston was seized, few days sine. :. by the po-
lice, for standing in Court Square longer than the
law allows.
IL The telegraph operator at Owego has been
counting the freight cars passing that station east
to be , 39S
IL The Central Railroad Company take paw
for tickets at old rates again. two cents per mile
instead Of taking the excess of half a dime, from
way passengers.
IL 1t may not be generally known that editors
get one very important item of subsistence at a
very low price they get bored (board) for
nothing.
IL The Rev. Theodore Parker said in re-.
cent sermon that you couldn't transport lady or
barrel OF Hour from New York to Boston with
out sprnging hoop.
IL "Burleigh,r - the New York correspondent
OF the Boston Journal. predicts that dissolution
VIII soon take place in the Bible, Tract, and
C The American Baptist SAYS: ssThe apore-
gale OF conversions reported in connection WI b
| Baptist churches alone, during the month OF
| March, Is over seventeen thousand
| PROMISING Boy" Lewis, what did you do
with Your new trowsers!n said an anxious papa
. swopped them Off" sFor wha, ~, "A
slung shot, HOyie's Games, and the Pirate Own
| Book"
| W The committee of five, appointed by the
| Senate in the Penn.Y lvania Legislature 10 in
quire into the proprirty oil Transferring the seat OF
| government t" Philadelphia, have reported ia
| vOrably on the bill.
| IVA swndler has been doing a large bust.
ness In Tennessee and Mississippi, by obtaining
subscriptions for bogus NEWSPAPER, To he estab-
llsled IN Central America. IIe got $50 in Mar.
| shall county, Miss.
IL Sickness is prevailing to an alarming ex-
tent In beckett Mass. II IL said to resemble the
spotted lever now raging in western New York
| and prevalent in New England some forty wears
| since.
| IL Frederick Cammac her, Of Indiana county
| Pa was shot few days ago by a tenant Of his
| named Baker, from whom he demanded his ar.
rears OF rent. Baker settled the case by killing
| the landlord.
| Coon SKINS TO ENGLAND.-On Friday last,
Chicago firm shipped direct to London, Eng land
| by way of New York, eighteen thousand coor
skins, valued at $1,000. The skins were mad,
up In sixty compactly pressed bales
| IL NJ. Chevalier declares that in France a
| the present time, phosphorus is the most DANCE.
4 ioIll OI known, having replaced
| arsenic which is now SO diIiicuIt to obtain. II,
| mentions forty cases of criminal poisoning by IL
| III Prof. u. e. Swallow, State Geoloyist O
| Missouri, suggests that the extensive areas il
Kentucky aud Tennessee, known the "bar
| reEs, ~ may be rendered very valuable for vine
| yards.
H. "Whiskerettes' Is the name given TO th
"Oeau-catchers" worn by girls this spring, fC
lack OF whiskers, rDoustaches or goatees. The
| are made by drawing down tile tufts Of hal
| from the temDCs and forming them m NJ
| lOps.
GA clergyman In Ellington, Conn smoked
out living Lizard from the stomach Of a youn!
man in thai place. the patient having been sicl
for two years. He detected the animal while il
the trance state, and then put the screws on an.
| brought the lizard up to time
o. At a fashionable city party at which low
necked dresses Were prominent feature, Mis-
B addressed her country cousin, "CousiI
sam, did YOU ever see such glorious sight be
fore" = Never, since | Was weaned -; sal,
sam, blushing.
| III Much amusement was created at the Liy
erpool annual Nestry, by Mr.. Churchwarde
Woodruff announcing, In a grave and solem
tone THAT the Walton Cemetery was In such a
condition that nobody who could hep it woul,
20 To be buried In II.
| IL The Albany Statesman saws that the re
manning members of the Jennings family In Co
hoes-three In number-who have been 80 lon
labOTing under the effects Of the poisonous fish
| still continue to linger. without hone of recoy
4
ulants.
| EIy- Bucks county, over the river from Trenton
| y. J o., is alive with excitement at the discover
OF a hermit. who, il Ia said, has occupied a cav
| at w OFF Roc ks for the last eighteen wears Ii
has beard yard long, and his apartments ar
wonderful coy. About one thousand person
visited the cave on Sunday.
| IDA baker who resides in Philadel lphia wen
TO his residence, a few days ago, and found hi
journeyman engaged in a business for which h
was not employed. The affair attracted the at
tenton Of officer Lester Smith, who saved tia
''jOur" from being killed at the hands Of the In
furiated husband-the WIFE leaving by the sid
door.
| IL The Buffalo Republic records the follow
ing as demonstratve Of the utility of advertisin
In that paper: The other day, man lost poe Ike,
Dook, containing valuables in all amounting
SOW; he immed ately put an adveI tisemeT
IA the Republic, and on the day of its pea ran
his wife discovered the poe book In his "Oths
pants, which he had left home for repairs
&C. Last Monday, the New York papers WEI
la sensation ab0 1t the q mystrrious d a ,pea,
ance" or young man from BrookIyn H.. 'sws
q steady, sober and Intelligent Young man. an
, must have been foully dealt with tSn ~ edne
, day, search for his body was discontinued OWN
to the fact that the 'strady young man. had bee
arrested for drunkenness, and " sent up,',
I'll III The church papers in England are wagiu
fierce controversy relative To the sort Of GLOW,
|, Il is lawful and expedient for a Bishop to wea
. AT religions meeting lately, the Bishop OF 10
: don stood on platform wearing pair Of brig