Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-26

III A Scotchman, Mr. Walter Simpson, has
published in EnglaBd "HistoTy of the Gipsie' ~
enc chapter of which is an attempt to prove john
Bunyan a Gypsy.
III A party of young men from Essex, Mass +,
lately paid visit to the town of Kingston, n III Il,
and returned with two hundred and fifty pounds
of very nice PickeTel, great treat for Essex
people.
IL An English journal states that religious
aHimosity RACES in some parts of Ireland with al
most un Unparalleled intensity. At Castlebar both
Catholic and Protestant soldiers 20 armed to their
respective places of worship.
III The Paris correspondent of the London
Advertiser saws II has been discovered that Prince
Luttpoid, of Bavaria, is the bastard who has
amused himself by cutting the tresses from the
heads Of young girls in Munich.
il A great cock ghting tournament come
oha few DAYS since, at Columbus, Ga, in which
the contest was between the game of Georgia and
twenty lone fights
u 1t is reported, on good authority, that
among the audience in the New York model r.
fist establishment, broken up on Thursday
night last, were three Metropolitan Police Cap
tains.
III A considerable portion of the upper part
OF the Chesapeake Bay and Pat,psco river have
been frozen over. The ice, however, is scarcely
three-quaTters OF an inch in thickness, by nc
means hard, and offers but siG hit resistance either
to sail vessels or steamers
ID singular incident connected with the
death OF Ashley, of Troy, is related by those who
About +O'cIock in the morning, to the consterna
ton Of the family, the clock in the room. which
had not been running for over three months, sud-
denly struck ten. No one appeared near il; mel.
ther had any one touched it. Ten hours after
Ashley was corpse.
horrible case of spontaneous combustion
Is reported as having recently occurred at Cairo,
Ill man named Fdxon, suffering under deli =
fum tremens, entered a saloon and called for a
glass of brandy. Immediately after drinking il,
his breath came in contact with lighted match
in he ham Of. lr-ee
ana burned for about two minutes, when death
ended his fortunes. The sGonizing shrieks of the
dying wretch are described as having been horri-
bic in the extreme.
JoINr-sToCK CIGAR CoNPANY.-Several Brit
ism noblemen and gentlemen, a short time since,
were concerned in starting a joint stock company
to provide the public with the necessaries of life
now we observe few persons of title are get
nng up an association of limited liability to sup
PLY all England with genuine cigars. On the
direction OF this curious enterprise are two
admiTals, one of whom is a baronet lord, who
is privy councillor; and a colonel,
RADkIsKY's WILL.-The Austrian papers give
some curious details of Rsdetsky's will. The
bulk OF his property goes to his only surviving
son He has left to his daughter, Countess
Wentleim, two of his Field Marshal's batons
all his orders, seven of which are set in dia,
monds; one Of his swords of honor, noble din
ner-service in silver, for sixty covers and great
portion of his funded property. His swords,
pistols, &C. are left to his several aides
and orderly officers. The head servants all re-
eeive egacies, and those of low degree one years.
wages each.
A PERTINAc1ous SNOxER.-Yesterday morn
Ing, says the New York Journal of Commerce a
gentleman with seq ar in his mouth, ATTEMPTED
to jump abOard the Peck-slip ferryboat from the
Brooklyn side, but fell into the water, or rather
into the bank Of pulverized ice which usually
accumulates in the Ferry slips at this season
where he foundered a lively rate until a boat
hook could be placed beneath his vest, and his
rescue accomplished; but throughout the trying
4mSrQenCE rot nj nod in
place and smoked above the eddying blocks of
Ice and seething waters.
Quick WoRk-There IL a lame duck in Wall
street, says the Albany Statesman, he has been
selling New York Central short, and cannot re-
spond. He loses some $3.50 600 and offers fifty
cents on the dollar TO compromise. He suspended
at ten o'clock, and at twelve he had settled all
his liabilities at fifty cents the dollar and was
in his seat at the Board again at the second ses-
sion. This is an instance of the rapidity aud
Hberality with which business is conducted
among the stock brokers A mercantile failure
like this, of SlOO,OOO S2OO,O 900 would have re-
quired year or two TO close up.