Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-05-02

IL The gillers at Havre de Grace are said BY
the Hartford Times to be doing fine business
" Tom Sayers, the British champion, is re-
ported dead
IL The editor of the Macon (Ga) Telegraph
thinks the rotten wood of dilapidated buildings
In Savannah prolific cause Of sickness.
II puzzled etymolOgist cOmplain MS that w or
ceSter IS pronounced Wooster, and wants TO know
how Rooster ought to be spelled,
II There is phrenologist in London who
can tell the contents uf barrel bv eyamining its
head.
IL Punch says, ':Kinder is the lookinp-glass
than the wine-glass, for the former reveals our
defects to ourselves only the latter to our friends
IL The diocese OF Oxford is much distracted
by the Puseyite tendencies (real supposedly of
the Bishop.
IL The Bishop of London is preaching to the
omnibus drivers and cOnd ductOrs of that metropolis
who attend the special services in large numbers
u Somebody says that physicians are the nut
craG KRIS used by angels to get souls out of the
shells that surround them.
IL A revival of religion closed i'm Fsyett.
Mo- oh the 10th, with sixty seven additions TO the
Methodist church.
IL Adam Orebaugh, postmaster at Dodson-
vile, Ohio. has been arrested the charge of RI
ning the mails.
IL The crew of the ship FLYING Dragon, i'm
PrsoIrd at Norfolk, ON a charge OF mitiny, rs
capped from Jail Saturday morning
IL The Philadelphia Evening Journal saws
extensive Preparations are being made for the ail-
hlVersary c-lebraiiOn of the birth of Stephen Gil
rard on the 2lst of May, at the College
IL \ gentleman Just arrived in ST Louis from
plkes Peak, met L party at the crossing OF the
Platte with printing press. They Were Ia estaII-
iish L paper AT Denvers city.
H. The annual herring war is raging viror.
ously between Taunton, Mass, and IS-rkIry The
crop of lawsuits will probably be larger than that
of herrings.
IL The Rev. J. c. NJ. Bellows of St Mark
Church, London, Is reported TO be one Of the most
eloquent and popular metropolitan preachers of
the English Church.
H. Louis I.arue was convicted at Kamarouska
Canada, Oh Saturday. OF committing all outrage
upon Slrl less than Ten years old. and sentenced
To he hanged on the 27th OF May.
H An Indian has been discovered in Califor-
MIA nve feet and half high, and weighing only
seventeen pounds, being i mere skeleton but
ia good health and lively.
III Smike suggests that the reason why Seerei-
ter was beaten in the late great billiard match was
because there was such a strong PheEan against
him.
IL vessel is being fitted up at Antwerp to
take passengers on a scientific and industrial
voyage round the world at i of l60 for eac h
cabin passenger. The expedition will occuDy
SOME fourteen months.
IL The amount OF guano shipped from the
CLinchas in February 10, ,3I2 tons-of which
3, s2e tons went to England; IO,IU5 tons to the
United States 553 tons to France; and ,337 tons
to Barbados.
IL Mrs. Julia Branch who won some noto-
riety by Frce-Love speech at the Rutland Con-
yention last summer, was married in Connecticut
last week to New York reporter said TO be some
years her Junior. The bride has buried two hus-
bands.
u Prentice acknowledges the receipt of a Do
lltIcal letter follows: "A gentleman who cal s
himself Methodist prcac her has sent us a strange
ia his madness, and good deal Of madness in his
MethOdisn."
II Some writer says: "Tbe shad lives but a
single year. IL is hatched In the early suInmer
descends the streams as large enough; feeds
and fatens IN the winter at the mouth OF the
ascends in the spring TO deposit its spawn; descends
to die at the bottom Of the ocean, Is this SO
IL A clerk in the Rothchild's house Of Paris
has been arrested on the charge Of having embez-
Zled the sum OF 100 0OO francs. While being ex-
amined in the office OF the Commissary Of Police
he cOntrived To stab himself with a knife In two
places, and now lies in hopeless condition.
NJ 1t is remarkable coincidence says the
New Orleans Delta, that both OF the last two lin
listers from Mexico To the United States should
have made their first acQ ntance with people
as prisoners Of war to our army. Robles was in
The list VI eaptives at Vera Cruz, and Mata was
made prisoner at CeTro Gordo.
W Every day s experience, says the Louisville
Guardian, proves more and more the wisdom of
The Church, In her law prohibiting the marriage
OF near relations. Our asylums for the deaf and
DUMP, ana Tor idiots are literally filled with the
children Of such marriages
| BoNNERIsN IN EN6LAsD.-Mr Maekay, during
his recent visit 10 this country, has dropped the
scales from his eyes. and ses tie advant1ue OF adj
vertising. He occupies entire page of the Lon
| don Star Of April IS with advertisement A la
| Ledger, OF the illustrated London News =
| CoRREcTIoN.-A Washington correspondsnt
Of the Boston Journal intmates that Mrs SickIes'
confession given to the illustrated papers, for
the purpose Of having tde-siniiis made Of It, by
the Rev. Mr.. Haley, the Unitarian Clergyman Of
/ Washington. This, we believe, Is mistake
| The orig inal manuscript of that confession was
| given to the editor u iiarper's Weekly 10y Mr..
1 Siekles, although he and his counsel have since
pretended that il was made public against his
| wishes.-ksg York Post .--