Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-03-03
THE EVENING STAR.
NEWS ITEMS.

woman died Of mania potu In Johns
town. Pa last week, leaving four children.
TThe Senate of Maryland on Monday passed
the house bin aPProPris'9g, =, $3.50 S. Tor the pur'
UThe Atlanta Confederacy understands that
new democratic paper IL TO be established In Au-
gusts, Georgia.
iO-Gardening in Frede-icksburg is we'll ad-
va0ced, says the Herald which adds that 1t hears
of rsd!shes well up.
II There is talk in California of removing the
capital to San Francisco. IL hiss already been In
five places, viz: at Monterey, San Jose, Vallejo
Benicia, and Sacramento.
III About twenty thousand tons OF ice are be-
Ing packed In Peru, Illinois, this season. Thirty
six hun1red tons Of IL are loaded on barges for
Baton Rouge and other places South.
ANOTHER SIRKE.-The stone-cutters, to the
number Of 100, employed on the new Catholic
cathedral in NSw York, have struck for higher
wages, which the contractor refuses TO pay.
PMr Edward w Lincoln has retired from
the editorship Of the Wor ester BAY State He is
u opinion that ''there is slight encouragement for
Il democratic journal in Massachusetts-still less
In Worcester county"
II The damming of ice in the st. Lawrence
river, below Cornwall, lately produced the great
rise or water above that point ever known. The
river rose some twenty-fv or thirty feet above its
summer mark.
iUln Augusta, Ga, last Saturday, a little boy
n1med Bartlett was standing in the door Of a
lolse looking at fire company which was pass
Ing, when dog ran against him, knocking i'm
under the engine, which passed over the childs
head, causing his death.
u The total eclipse OF the SUM- which will
occur on the 18th Of July next is regarded by
tonomers as the most important which will be
witnessed the present century. 1t will be visible
partial eclipse throug bout the United states
but will be total only in a small part Of Oregon
and Washington Territory.
REPRIsALs-Two English vessels of war I'M
der'ook lately to capture the Paraguayan war
steamer he lea vi he M
Buenos Ayres, but she escaped and returned to
anchor. The attempted capture of the vessel was
intended as reprisal on Paraguay to satisfy
tbs claims Of Engl land against her.
III An American, a son Of a gentleman I'm Bos-
ton, has recently been appointed organist of 81
PduPs, Covent Garden, London. There Were
10 the gentleman In question after trial of the
merits Of all the competitions. Ghis is probably
the first instance in which anAmerican has re-
ceived such an appointment.
IL There appears to have been collision be-
tween the late defaulting State treasurer of Maine
and Neal Dow, in regard to money of the State
lent by the former to Dow, as we have before
stated Dow got access to Pecks safe, and it Ia
alleged that be destroyed the vouchers of his in
debtedness, and then claimed that he had paid il
Peck has been obliged to come out and DENY some
OF BOWS statements.
LIBEL Subtitle Frederick papers state that
on the an1davit Of Messrs. Baughman and Norris
editors of the Citizen, who were sued by Hon
Henry w. Hoffman for Abel, their case was re-
moved TO washington county to be tried at its
March term Of Court, which will commence ON
Monday next Ii is reported that the plaintiff
mas retai ned as his counsel the Hon. Henry Win
z Davis, and that the defendants have employed
Ex-Gov: Lowe.
IL The Rev. DR. King, Missionary to Greece
writes TO the American board, under date al
Athens, December 18th, that believing the wears
OF MS pilgrimage on the earth to be nearly num-
oered, be has been laboring to finish the work
which has been given him to do. In addition to
DIS regular service in Greek, he has been occu-
pied In printing five volumes Of his own writings.
one In French and four in modern Greek He b2s
sold large numbers of the New Testament and
Zen commandments in Modern Greek and has
IN press a new edition Of Baxter's Saints, est i'm
-ns same language. His trial before the Greek
Sutaoftles, on several charges, was TO AXE place
during the present month