Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-30

IL \ Berdan Automatic Oven is about to be
established in Boston.
IL why did Job always sleep cold, Be
cause he had miserable eomforters
IL Charles Hart, Esq, Attorney General of
Rhode Island has sent in his resignation to the
Legislature.
HI The Calcutta trade il very much depressed
insBoston, the market being heavily stoc kcd with
India goods
IL The penny daily newspaper which has
been published in Rochester since the rst January
inst, has been discontinued.
III Although the coal of Western Virginia is
almost inexhaustible, and can be mined for two
cents bushsl, large quantities are imported ON
Pennsylvania.
IL A bill has been reported in the Virginia
Legislature uthorizing the consolidation Of the
Baltimore and Ohio and Northwestern Virginia
Railroad.
III The Buffalo Savings Bank has taken thirty-
1--WE thousand dollars of the United States TreaSu-
w notes, which draw an interest of per cent per
eanum.
ID Parodi, the prima DONNA now in Havana,
receives no less than $50 OtD per annum a Iary.r
salary than that paid to the President of the United
Stairs
HI Sixty-four farmers in the vicinity of Mid
dl.town, Ct, have given notice that at IL O'Clock
on Monday. they would appear with their OK
carts laden with wood and provisions for gratuit-
Gus distribution among the poor.
II The Alton, I'll Democrat of the 10Th in
slant says that from the adjacent country. and in
tHc VICINITY, The wheat crop looks
splendidly. Never there : better prospect
for an immense crop, and prices-ffty cents per
bushel. -
III \ recent walking match in Boston, where
James Lambert and a man named The Lynn
Buck, " were to walk as long as they could stand
up, was terminated by the police on the approach
OF Sunday morning last. They propose TO try 1t
again.
u The Savannah Georgian says that a seri-
Gus accident has happened to Engineer d ccls-
orated racer His owner. Col. Hester, has lost
Lucy Phillips and Humninp Bird within the
month, and now Engineer is ruined, and Shockoe
sick
Co The Cincinnati Gazette narrates at length
the circumstances attending the inveiglino OF a
respectable girl from steamboat into a room in a
mousse fronting the river, where she was kept a
close prisoner four months and subjected to nj
Iy outrages.
EXCITEMENT AT CINcINxArI-The citizens of
the seventh Ward, Cincinnati to the number of
ABOUT one thousand, had mass meeting on Fri
udy evening, when committee of seventeen was
appointed TO notify the keepers of houses of ILL
fame in the Ward to leave in thirty DAYS, and in
case OF their noncompliance the committee has
power TO call another public meeting This ar
tlon was taken in consequence of the outrageous
ana indecent character of these houses
III On Tuesday evening, MareelIus S!auph-
Ter and Wn. Garnett, of Fredericksburg, Va .
while on a drive out of town, Were met 6y 4 yo
ked bull, DIT which the horse became frightened
and started of at a dashing late upsetiinp the
buggy, and throwing Mr.. Garrett out, Slaug hter
SHOPPING
the horse. He then returned for his companion
whom he found with the bull in the act Of Vorin1
MIN, his right arm broken near the shoulder and
very much dishgnred.
HI IL Is asc-rtained that the taiIest men en-
listed IN the nlted STATES are from the State Of
Georgia, where, out Of one hundred enlisted
thlrty were six feet and over; while the shortest
men are from New York, where only four CrIt of
one hundred were six feet. The ,aIlest recruit
from Georgia was six feet six inches and the
mean height Of the recruits thence was five feet
eight inches. The tallest enlisted Nan from New
FORK was six feet one and a half inches and the
mean height of New York recruits was five feet
six inches.
COMING TO MARKET THEIR OwN REsPoy-
sIBILIIY--A farmer living about eight miles
from the city, drove into town before DAYLIGHT
yesterday morning with load of poultry and
produce, aud took his accustomed place in Fifth
street Market TO supply his customers AS day
hght appeared, he was surprised to hear the
Growing OF d Juvenile rooster underneath hi,
wagon, and upon examination found perched up-
on the coupling pole of his wagon three or four
OF MS own chickens, who had rode in that posi-
tlon elg ht miles.-Cinetrnati Erchony,