Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-07-20
THE EVENING STAR.

- Yung Wing, q young Chinese, who grad.
sNo al tale ten years ago, and was subse
9sentiy made q mandarin In the Celestial
Empire, has been sent to this country for the
purpose OF inspecting the arts and sciences o.
China.
~ The Troy Wing says: A colored woman
arrived at the Union depot in this city yester.
day morning at z oclock-gave birth 70 chnd
in one Of the lady's rooms-wrapped it heI
shawl-and took the cars at N O'Clock for Sa.
ratoga
~ Four children OF farmer, named
Schoger, living near Cleveland, Ohio, were
smothereo to death q few days ago by the &C.
cidental fastening down Of the lid OF an Old
German chest, into which they had got In their
play.
nounces that Joe Scoville. the New York cor.
respondent OF the London Herald, a rebel ad-
vocate, mas been arrested and punished for
lying. considering that Joe is dead, 1t is not
improbable that the Natchez paper is correct.
Farmers along the line OF the New York
central Railroad are suffering much loss by
reason of the burning of fences and grain,
which take fire from sparks from locomotives;
me want OF rain having made all such ex.
tIemely combustible.
nSA New York merchant has discovered
that his income for 1863 was $4,000 more than
he expected and reported, and has written to
the revenue collector TO have the correction
MADE. An honest man in New YORK!
SThe latest fashions state that all the Golf.
fure of the current season are notable by reason
of their floral decorations. Poppies in Grape
and silk are made so perfectly, that people fall
asleep from looking at them.
HThe Boston Journal saws: lady in this
City has just had extracted from the end of her
right thumb the fragment Of a needle which
was accidentally broken off in her hip about
twenty eight years ago.
~ Extensive fires have ragged in the woods
few miles from Rome, Oneida county, N. Y,
ior week or two past. Large tracts Of wood
land have been burned over, and the standing
timber is propably destroyed.
~Our soldiers and Union citizens of Vicks.
burg celebrated July 4th on JEFF. Davis plan
tation, in Mississippi, and made the traitors
nome resound with patriotic melodies, and
glitter with the stars and stripes Of the Union.
~An armed mass meeting of the loyal PEG.
pie OF twenty counties Of Missouri is proposed,
in order to devise means for protection against
guerrillas.
~ The English Royal Academy pictures
have been SO much injured by being rubbed
against by crinoline that special measures have
been taken for their protection.
~ Cigars that on the 30th Of June were
sold for S45 per Thousand, cannot be furnished
since the LIST OF July for less than Ss5 or $50
thousand
~ The Western Australians threaten the
British Government with their anger if any
more conyicts are sent to their country.
~ Silver has been detected IN the saline
residue Of the water OF the Dead Sea after evap-
Grafton.
The difficulties between Spain and Peru
are assuming serious character, and there are
indications Of war.
%Captain Winslow. Of the Kearsarge, was
appointed to the navy through Daniel Web
sters influence.
SThe Davenport Brothers are on their way
to England, to humbug the beef eaters there
with spiritual manifestations.
~ The produce spectators of New York
are failing. Certainly nobody is sorry.
An academy of music Of immense capa-
city, is TO be built in st. Louis.
~ The capital Of AriZona is to be called
Prescott, in honor of the great his torian.
- 1t is said that recruiting is secretly car
ried on in New York for the Mexican service.
~The total debt Of Connecticut is s., 400 900,