Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-06-27

1-The following toast was given AZ a recent
celebration: The rights of woman-lf she can
not be captain OF ship may she always COM
mand a smack"
cars.
TPunch's new ma ne for the petroleum ar
is tocracy-The OIligarchy.
S-Aarons and Collyer are TO fight again for
$3.50.
nSA Scotchman's definition of reel music
the bagpipes.
aFA Quebec journal asks s.What will thew
say in Englandr' OF the Fenian fiurryl
~Four young ladies entered a Brooklyn
convent for life last Friday.
SGeorge b. Jones, a prominent citizen OF
Pittsburg, on "Wednesday morning, folded his
arms and drowned himself in the Mononga-
hela.
~You can have a man neatly murdered in
Chicago for sl2.
e~Philadel phia is excited at the horsevhip-
ping OF a merchant in his counting room by a
lady whose matrimonial Intentions he had
frustrated.
~The hopes of those who thought that when
war was over the cost ofliving would approx
pointed TO large degree.
@Stewart, the merchant Prince in New
York, reports an income last year OF Si,1SS,OOO
upon which he is to pay tax of over $4,000.
NThe excise law Of New York has been
pronounced TO be unconstitutional by Judge
Cardozo, but arrests for its violation continue
to be made, Notwithstanding.
sS-In Greenville, Pa, a young man, named
Cunningham fell from the tower OF the new
Lutheran church, 65 feet. without sustaining
any material injury. He thinks, however, that
he will not 60 on another slower" this sum-
mer.
sIMr. yanacter OF Michigan rs a very bad
actor: he murdered his wife and step daughter
last week.
sIlt is estimated that every lady who sets
up for a fashionable" costs somebody $4,000
per annum.
n6Another Indiana shepherd has fallen
from grace. He is the fourth within as many
months.
ga man in Indiana applied for divorce
because his wife went skating against his
wishes, and he wanteo TO let her slIde.-BOstoa
Post.
ga man fell out of a third story window
in Pittsburg, Penn, one night recently, and
his body was found in the morning, partially
consumed by rats.
~Nicholas Foresinger, a Pennsylvania
Dutchman, drank ten glasses of lager beer in
ten minutes, to win piiful wager, and in
few hours he was reposing on his bier.
ga little girl in Michigan tried 10 poison
her papa for preventing her elopement with
her lover. ~ -HH'
NAfter the close of the present quarter. all
lottery swindlers, gift jewelry houses, obscene
picture dealers, &C, &c, will not be permitted
to hire boxes at the post once In New York.
IFrancis A. Boyd, negro, applied 10 the
u. S. Court at Louisville tor copyright on a
lumbians," and dedicated TO Lincoln. Grant
and Butler. t-
06The present pension list of the United
States is about si6,0o0,0 600 per snnum. and it ls
estimated that the proposed changes will swell
II 10 S22.co0,0O0. Should the widows and or
phans Of The soldiers of the war Of l5l2 be in
cluded, It will be al least s35,0oo0oo.
0The mosquitoes are commencing 70 pre-
sent their annual bills. .f. -r.
&The Mississippi River rs a tide in the af-
fairs of men, which. taken AZ ITS flood, leads
on 70 misfortune.
0ln New Orleans a car driver Killed
man hv strikng him on the head with loaded
whip 6ecause he got on street car with an
unIirhted cigar in his hand .-...s
aVA maiden lady. Miss Eliza Bean, Of Hat
boro,, Pa, committed suicide on Tuesday last.