Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-07-07

~Ex-S Speaker Grow is among the candi-
dates for Uniled States Senator from PennsyI-
wanna.
HThe citizens of Chicago have presented
each member Of their Fire Department with a
life and accident insurance policy.
~An old woman starved to death in the in
terror OF Georgia on the 30th, and more will die
shortly, II relief does not reacn them.
THIRTEENTH OHIO DIsTRICr-General a.
w. Morgan is the democratic candidate for
Congress. The district is now represented by
Columbus Delano.
the celebration on Wednesday az Phil
adelphia, Major General Meade was present.
ed, by the Union League Of that city, with a
gold medal.
CHICAGO CONGRESSIONAL DIsTRicr-It in
said that Long John Wentworth want. 70 20
TO Congress one more term and has offered for
the nomination this year 10 support Joseph
Medill's claim in 1865.
~There in considerable excitement in Mica
ragua, in consequence Of discoveries of gold
there. The mines are reported 70 be turning
out very rich.
THE VERMONT SESAToRsHIP.-It il an
nouDced that the friends Of George p. Marsh
will withdraw his name from the list Of candi-
dates for Senator from Vermont and slpport
Mr.. Edmunds-
SThe Prussians, as a distinctive mark in
the present campaign, wear on the left arm q
band OF white stuff marked with red cross
0Six children are dangerously IN in Wal
lace. Canada West, having been bitten by a
mad cat.
ga bill has been introduced in Congress
making IL an offence punishable hy fine and
Improvement, 10 have Confederate bonds or
notes in ones possession.
- ~John A. Heyl, a German. Of Boston, has
invented new method OF lighting tho street
lamps by electricity. by means OF which every
lamp in the city can be lighted simultaneously
or singly, at the pleasure Of the operator.
FIRST Iowa DIsTRIcr.-General Fitz Hugh
Warren announces himself an independent
candidate for Congress in the First Iowa dis
trict, on the Baltimore platform OF 1864 and
against unqualified negro suffrage.
ga young lady al Little Rock. in a SOM
nambulic state fell from the roof of a house on
which she was walking. The fam was about
Nifty feet. Both her legs were broken, and che
was internally bruised and is not expected TO
recover.
BosToN CoHGREssToNAL DIsrRIcr.-Mr.
10 contend with in The struggle for contin uance
IN his Congressional seat among the rest J. M.
3. Williams.
SAn order has been issued from Vienna 20
proceed to new eonscrIption in Bohemia.
southern Tyrol, Dalmatia- Yenetis, and Is
tria. For the moment Austria Proper Styria
and Hungary are exempted.
sS-S. J. Crawford, the present Governor OF
Kansas, will probably be re- nominated. Ex-
Gov Thomas Carney, Gen. Blunt and Marcus
j. Parrot are competing with senator Pome-
roy for the United States Senatorship for elk
years from next March.
W Mr.. James Shea, q rich old bachelor Of
ST Louis, died recently, leaving his oequesf Of
s1oo,too 10 the Hospital Of the Sistsrs Of Chari.
~, In that city. in which Institution. when
POOR and fnendless, he bad received medical
care and nurrsng.
the neck Of d young lady, let her hold the ends
in her mouth; then N the moose will slip over
her head 10 the hack OF her neck, it is q certaln
indication that she 10 married or wants 70 Be.