Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-22

u Captain Henry and several other flitusters
In the South
IL VIM. l.. Smith, eolored barber, has been
convicted of murder In the first degree at ST
Louis, for killing his wife.
III The English Society for the Propagation
oi the gospel propose to erect churches in India
,nat shall be M MORALS of the massacres at Del
nj and Cawnpore.
u Religious reyivals are being carried on
among the Methodist denomi nation at Louisville
ky.i farewell, Va; and other important points
In the South and West
IL The Providence Post notices the fact that
not single murder has been committed in hodp
Island during the past year, notwithstandinp
capital punishment is abolished
The PESALrY.-The comptroller general of
south Carolina has demanded of the suspended
banks OF Charleston payment of the second
ments. P"'
VOLUNTEERS FROM MAISE.-The Belfast, Me,
rec Press states that company of volunteers Is
oelng formed in Camden and will, ere long Of
Ier their services to the government for the Utah
expedition.
III They are having a rema ka bly, mild win
yer In the West. No snow, railway block
AIDES no terrible tales Of travellers frozen or starved
70 death, but weather warm as October. and no.
tnlng to complain of but too much grain, and n
considerable amount Of mud.
u The Academy of Science i'm New Orleans
mas received paper purporting to demonstrate
The fact that the waters Of the Gulf on the border
OF southwestern Louisiana and thence TO Texas
afe the safest which have been submitted 10 sci,
,, unc tests, and that by the process of evapora-
ZION In tanks, salt of superior quality, equal 10
urks Island, may be obtained.
W The Cleveland Herald says an association
Oh oplfltuallsts are engaged in putting up build
w 1S . handolPn' Chautauque county, n. Y.
form, minus the legs. The eyes are the skv
lights, and the house has its front door and al
se Ts OF Inc body MI their parts in this edi
assoc iation.
IL young lady, twenty five years Of age of
elegant accomplishments and fascinating quail
aes OF many kinds, arrived in this city says the
-. Louis Republican, few weeks ago from
Snlllcothe, Ohio, on visit. She had for some
t,me: been In the habit Of taking small uan,ities
ioI Dd the RqtPose Of Seautiyng her
dose fell sick, and day before yesterday she died
IL Mr.. John Upton, a well -known Expre,s
agent on the Albany route, and Sergeant-at- rms
70 T tns congressional Investigating Comlcitee in
MS health was shattered by severe rxposure
while protecting his trunks in the Expre,s-car of
tne Hudson River Railroad at the time of the
intensely cold.
W Sabbath school teacher In England.
named Samuel lndore, Is under indictment for
nanslaughter in causing the death of a small
boy oy SINKING him with his fiat hand thrice
under the left ear, because he could not pro-
nounce or e. The child cried, and soon after
reaching home, became deliriuus and, aithouo
attended to by two surgeons. died the following
sabbath The blows had ruptured the carotid
artery, causing etfusion of blood on the brain.
" cool case Of elopement occurred i'm An.
rors, ILL.,, few days ago DR.. Loveiov. on,
nne morning, called his wife to him. placed
notes and accounts in her hands to the amount of
Si,Oo, made over to her a deed of the lot ON
winch his homestead was situated and concIu.
oed by cooily avOwing his determn nation TO lea We
her, In company with another mans wife be-
tween whom and himself criminal intimacy
Iuded 10 was the wife of respectable mechanic.
named Robert Neale, and the mother of two chill,
dIen. - " eHiA-