Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-08-15

H. a divorce sult OF considerable interest rs
about 10 be tried in Chicago The defendant,
Rev. Hart l.. Stewart, Jr.. is n young Meiho-
dist clergyman. who, however, has no: OF late
been actively engaged in his profession. Mrs
Stewart Is the daughter OF FIR. Washington
Smith, q merchant OF Chicago.
rFThe Hamburg people draw champagne
from tap now az beer is drawn in England
ga Mrs. Jackson recently attempted 20
shoot man in Nashville who had badly beat
Ell her husband.
Gs- GoJtschalk is said 20 be very successfu
in giving concerts at Santiago, Chill.
hSThere are complaints all over the coun-
try oftrauds perpetrated by bogus gifi con-
cert al Detroit, Michigan.
sS-Cornelus Johnson and ISAIAH Jones
both colored. fought duel in true chiyalric
style, near Savannah, on Thursday. Result
johnson shot in the thigh and Jones IN the
arm.
ss-The editor OF the Buffalo Courier reads
Parson Brownlow a lecture On decency-cast-
ing pearls before swine.
~A store keeper was recently charged -
by the Mayor Of Charleston, y G.. for rent OF
the sidewalk. He kept his whole STOCK on the
pavement.
RF-T The banville VA Times says "In pret-
" girls and fine tobacco WE can beat -he world.
"The Amoskeag IN. H manufacturing
company al Manchester. has declared a diyI-
dend OF slou per share. They want "protee-
ton, poor fellows
R-A schoolmistress in Lenox Mass was
bound over 10 the Superior Court, last week
for an aggravated assault upon a child -
years OF age, because he did not spell "Eox."
e. A French SdcdRf has discovered the means
OF rendering the hardest and toughest fiesh
soft. namely, by adding while boiling two
tea-spoonfuls of alcohol TO each kilogramme
and a-half Of flesh.
k-A freedman was arrested AT Richmond
for throwing bricks At his wife's windows.
He had been denied admission by the inmates
OF the house. and took that method OF ..Ietfing
her know he was dar.
SIt Is reported that General John G. Pre-
mont Will be a candidate for the g. : Senate
from Missouri. before the next Legislature
"The negroes OF San Francisco have heeu
testing their right 10 SIT among white folks AT
the tseatre. The Judge held that proprietor
has right TO enforce such regulations as
would be most conducive 10 the prosperity of
hIs business.
AN actor lately died at Cincinnati Of chol-
era, and brother actor became so much
alarmed al the sudden loss Of his friend, that he
got drunk, fell accidentally from a fourth
story window and was killed.
rLieut. Gen. Sherman is reported 10 have
said that he viii not attend any political meet
ings Of soldiers.
UThe Old School Presbyterians have fif-
ty-seyen missionaries laboripg among the freed
meH.
RA ease OF cholera. said 10 be genuine.
has occurred an Trenton. A teamster was The
victim.
81 A merchant OF Padua shot himself from
despair al seeing the AUstrIans gone and the
ltalIans come.
EThe CITY Judge of ST Paul was attacked
in The street by a man whom he had fined $40,
and who demanded the return OF the money
The fellow got more justice than greenbacks
R-Gibson, the celebrated pedestrian is exc
cuting wager AZ uebec 10 walk seventy.two
miles day for six Gays. The first day he
completed the distance in nineteen hours and
half
8S-It is rumored in Norfolk that the pronsy-
" Of Henry A. Wise has been restored 10 him
1t is sItualed near Drummondtogn on the
Eastern shore OF Virginia.
az A boy. near Clyde. got mad AT cofree-pot
spout against which be stubbed his toe when
''In swimming. He dove and brought up his
ugly enemy, and found therein $50 IN silver
and pulpy mass Of greenbacks.
RFrances Hunt, Of New Milford, CT. was
committed 20 Jail on the 29th, on charge OF
theit She Is aDout seventeen years old, and
has Of late been dressed IN male attire.
81 house occupied by VIM. T.. Robinson
al New bedford. Mass, took hre q few nlghts
age, al Mir. X, IN the excitement OF the mo-
me NJ bsok large sum Of money, which he
had placed IN The bed, and threw it out Of the
window. At last accounts he had not been
able 10 find IL.
GgTwenty years since Mr.. Charles Bieder,
OF Philadelphia failed and compr1 missed with
his creditors. receiving a legal discharge. A
few days since be invited his old creditors to
dine with him AT the Continental. ana paid
each one the full amount OF the indebtedness.
sra young lady writes, Indignantly, 20 Us
10 know when We are going 10 let hoops
alone! We assure our fair correspondent
thar we never trouble ourself about hoops un-
less there Is a womGn in them.
STne execution Of Albert Stark weather
the murderer, whose case has elected so much
interest in Connection; aud many strenuous
appeals for his pardon, Is set down %, Friday
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