Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-24
PERENNIAL

go. Vice President Breckenridge expects to
leave New York city to-day for Kentucky.
-. C. G. Zeearro, Perp.ian Minister; Edsxar-
do villena, Of Peru; and Pedro I. Ortez, cfchiii,
.. AZ wallsck's, In New York. on Monday.
John BfoughaIn had a bumper benefit, and Of
course made sPeech--his tongue is hung by the
middle. -. - - -,
80. Bsyard Taylor,it is said. has refused an
clusively for the columns of a New York Sunday
paper
IA correspondent of the New Haven Journal
SAYS that Walt Whitman. the poet drives No -
Of the Broadway and Forty-third street omni-
buses. +Ls ~ 3
90. Lord Lyons, who is now hourly expected
In this city the successor Of Lord Napier s said
TO be retiring in habits and character. and no,
given to social display, though possessed of large
fortune. II '.'--
80. Hon Eli 8 Shorter. of Alabama, who 4,
will be remembered was among the leading
Southern members of the recent Congress, has
written letter to his constituents declining re-
election.
.. A correspondent of the New Orleans Plea
yune says Miramon is the finest soldier in the Mex
iran army-possessed of true military genius. His
opponent Juarez, the President Of the Liberal par.
ty, Is a pure Indian, which lessons his influence
in country where caste is maintained by marked
lines.
POLICE INTELLIGENcE.-Acu curious case Of domes
tic infidelity crime and death has Just been brought
T. light in New York. Some little time ago a
servant girl, named Catharine Mckinney, was in
the employ of n wealthy brush dealer down town
and II is alleged that he became so intimate with
her that she yielded up to him her honor. In the
course OF time 1t became necessary TO adopt meas
ures TO hide her shame and her employer s dis
grace from the world. He proposed that the vic.
tim of his last should be sent 10 an abortonists i'm
brooklyn, and she consented II SO happened
that this merchant had daug liter living in the
ri -hn haaf for pRrS
been estranged from her father. account of her
choosing TO marry the man Of her choice rather
than Of his.
With this daughter Miss Mckinney was on the
most intimate terms. She visited at her house. and
confded 10 her all her secrets, informing her how
matters went on In her fathers family Among
other things, she told her that she was snr,ints
by her father, and that he had proposed that she
should have the evidence OF their guilt removed
Soon after this Miss Mckinney disappeared
w here she bad gone To no one could tell. and her
relatives were in great distress in regard to her
On the sth instant, the merchants daughter OBJ
served in city paper among the Brooklyn items.
paragraph to the effect that OH the Sunday night
previous, a carriage drove up to the gateOf tie
Long Island Hospital. The woman died about
half an hour after admission to the hospital
Coroner Horton was notified to hold am inquest
L pom inquiring at the house In Woodruff street
he found lady named King, who Informed him
that the deceased had resided with her. a ser
want for about three months that she had recently
been taken sick. and. by the advice of physicians
she had sent her to the hospital. This servant
whom she had employed for about three months
she thought was named Hannah, and believed that
her other maine was Mckinney, but was not GER
tain. The physicians AT the hospital made an ex-
animation. and discovered that deceased preg-
naat. and had been subjected TO an instrumental
operation for the purpose of procuring abortion.
The merchant $ daughter cut the paragraph from
the journal and sent it to Mrs. Mckinney the
mother of deceased, and also informed her of her
suspicious in regard to the fate of her daughter
The mother. who had advertised for her missing
child. followed mp the clue, and caused the arrest
of the merchant by the Sixth ward police. Capt
Bowling. upon the prisoner being brought to the
station house. allowed him to 90 upon his parole
on condition that he should produce the misS ng
girl. alive and well, within three DAYS. This he
of course. failed TO do The mother Of deceased
and police officers have since been endeavorny I,
discover where the body OF deceased was buried
in order Ia eNhume it for Identification and ma kt
thorough examination as 10 the cause of death
1t is alleged that these efforts have been fruit
less. the parties who had the body I'm charge af
tirming that it was SO mutilated by the previous
surgical examination TO be unrecogaizable
They have also been unable to obtain the clothes
by which they had hoped to identify her Ii il
understood that the friends OF the mother are
about to compel the merchant, by writ of habea.
corpus TO produce the missing girl, or account fol
her absence-N. T. Herald