Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-05-01
THE EVENING STAR.
NEWS ITEMS.

rrM,nv hogs in different localities where the
seventeen years lOcTsts are coming gu. o. 'ne
IT. Miss strickland, the versatile authoreSs,
has found new title for historical book, TO witt
THE Baehelor Kings Of England"
UMiss Lander, the famous sculptor, is the
sister Of Col. Lander, who figured so extensively
in the matter between Messrs. Pryor and Potter
u Sir VIM. Don, the long-legged baronet,
who once performed in the theaters and jails OF
this country, is now performing in Liverpool
III Mr. Davis, Of the Lyman Mill Of Holyoke,
Mass. has just returned from Canada win IOO
French Canadian girls, whom he has obtained Tor
factory labor.
NJ Preparations are being made at Aspinwall
for the introduction Of pure fresh water into that
city. The source of supply Is at Monkey Hill,
two miles from the city
ITThe Yarmouth Nova Scotia) Herald de-
scribes five bodies, all men, with one exception
which have been picked up at Cape Sable
doubtless those Of passengers lost with the Hun
garian.
UMrs. BurdelI Cunning ham and family were
passenger by the last steamer from New FORK to
Aspnwsll, en- route for California. She was tav-
cling iHeog but was recognized by parties who
knew her well.
IDThe commissi oners of charity in New York
have made contract with George Godfrey, by
which the latter binds himsen to clear the Belle
vue Hospital Of rats within one year, without
poisoning them, for $500.
IL The ''sh0ulder-httersn who attempted to
control the last fail Democratic State Convention
Of New York by knocking the Chairman, Hon.
John Stryker, off the platform, are to be tried in
Syracuse during term Of the court now sitting.
u The Savannah Republican notices the COM
peiion on the 2lst instant, Of the line Of railway
connecting that city with Charleston, and remark
that 'this great achievement is desi gned to work
important changes both in the commerce and
travel OF the Atlantic and Gulf states y
II Twenty thousand percussion rife muskets
have been received at Charleston, 5 c., during
the last week. from the QuarterInaster at Fort
Moultrie This is part of the general distribution
by the Federal Government Of good arms to the
different States ef the Union.
IL A party of Cubans have been in Aspin-
wall negotiating with negroes and Indians to ap-
prentice them for term Of service ranging from
two six 70 SIX years, on plantations I'm Cuba. Tbs
project had met with more or less success, and n
number Of apprentices had started for their desti-
nation.
IL Senator wigfall, Of Texas, has an admirer
The Montgomery (Alabamal Advertiser says he is
zone Of the most original, racy and fearless men
Of the times" IL has been hbnted that the racy
influences; bU. the authority Just quoted gives a
much more charitable and satisfactory solution of
their eccentricities, saying that they were made
under the impulse Of the moment"
II The London correspondent of the Liver
pool Albion says that "Mrs Barrett Browning is
q medium, and that her incomprehensible glib
berish called Poems before Congress is really
what she believes TO be the direct effusion of
embodied beings; specially communicated to her
for the generation Of Italy, This is fact, and
one about painful as well could be; but there
IS no indelicacy in making 1t known, inasmuch
as II is her particular wish It should be known