Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-10-04

~Colonel A. II. Markland, so long identified
with the military postal service OF the govern
ment, leaves for California early next week on
business connected with the Post Once De-
partment
aSThe Springfield Republican says: A sad
casualty was reported in this city yesterday
the drowning of a young and fashionable lady
by the bursting of the fiume Of her waterfall
The body was recovered
nFThe rebel General Hardee is in Mobile
~ Three brigades Of Y. 5. troops are re-
tanned in Kentucky.
ST The Chester IlID Picket Guard saws the
small -pox is prevailing in the point below Kas
kaskia. Several deaths have occurred The
disease was introduced by a returned soldier,
who came home wearing the clothes worn by
him while in the hospital with the disease.
y ~Two of the Indian chiefs concerned in
the Minnesota massacre-Little Six and Medi-
cine Bottle, have been sentenced 10 be hung.
They received the sentence with becoming dig
nifty, and one, striking on his breast, said the
Great Spirit had made him a man and not
a squaw, and he was not afraid 10 die.
sS,S. M. Way, of Rochester, Mass, who was
called upon by a crowd OF men during the er-
element occasiOned by the assassination OF
President Lincoln to avow his loyalty by dis
playing flag, has brought a suit against the
leaders Of the party, laying his damages at
H9-In the course of six months the Italian
government has suppressed eleven con vents OF
monks and six nunneries in Naples alone.
- Railroad companies In Georgia all an
TO New York
S-The negroes in Richmond are getting up a
finn, 10 be called the ssRichmond Tobacco As
sociation." capital $1,000. for the purpose of
manufacturing tobacco. They have 5000 of
ii already subscribed.
eS~The Siberian plague is making terrific
progress In the government OF Peru, and in the
districts OF Ekatsrinburg, Irbit Nerchotowish,
kamuschlov and ShadTinsk.
aS-During the month of September there
have been in the city of New York and its su-
burban cities five deaths by suicide, nine by
car and railroad accidents, sixteen by drown
ing four by fires and ten by murder.
IDA New York firm have purchased 500
feet front OF land OF p. t. Barnum, on Wash
ingtoD avenue, Bridgeport, and will erect q
building for the manufacture OF military goods.
~Twenty five planters are said 70 be under
arrest at Nicksburg, all charged with maltreat-
ing or killing their former slaves.
Hours OF LABoR.-The hours oflabor in the
mills at Woonsocket, .R l., have been reduced
at the change. Heretofore they have labored
fifteen hours per day.
|A petition for the pardon of Jefferson Davis
is in circulation in several counties in Indiana.
meeting for the same purpose WAS 10 have
been held in Lynchburg, but was forbidden
''by order Of Maj. Gen. Terry"
HThe belle of the British Court is admitted
to be Lady Constance Grosvenor born in 1894,
married in 1852 TO Earl Grosvenor, prospec-
lively the richest man in England.
R-"Spare the rod and spoil the child" is un-
doubtedly n good maxim; nevertheless IL is a
well-established fact that forty rods make one
Rood.
SA MIR. Bradwater, OF Worcester county,
MARYLAND, announces himself as candidate
for Register of Wills "presuming that the re-
fusing to register citizen as voter does not
disQualify him from being candldate
urJudpe Long, Democratic candidate for
lieutenant Governor in Ohio, thinks that s'if
the Government bonds are not 70 be taxed, the
Democracy will never support men for Con-
xurI n