Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-08-06

6How sea-sick passengers on board the Az
rlca Will envy the electric current flashing
along the Atlautic cable, whilst their voyage
under the Circumstances Will seem intermIna-
BILE,
- Mr.. Alex. Street. a colored bean OF Rich
mond, has been arrested for thrashing his in-
tended father in law, because the old GENTLE
man got inquisitiye about the marriage ar
rangements.
r-The wife OF Henry Hale of Springfield,
VI. destroyed her own life by "a KING arsenic
on Saturday last. While in the agonies OF
death she told her husband that she had ruined
him and herself
Mr.. Henry w. Veazey, of Norfolk, took
spoonful of medicine from a wal prepared for
his business partner. just TO convince the lat
ter that ii was not bad to the TASTE and died IN
a short time afterwards from the effects
S-Old Romeo, one OF Dan Rice's elephants.
broke loose in Buffalo lately, and getting into
well stocked garden, proceeded leisurely 70
pack his trunk and chest with all manner OF
vegetable goodies. He had a roaring feast and
dIdn [ leave much garden.
RA Western editor asserts. apparently in
good faith, that a cotemporary has gone to
Heaven. ard he exclaims, enthuslastically,
''bully for our cotemp!'
SMoll Conners, OF Troy, was fined ten dol
lars for "warming the ears" Of one OF her
neighbors. She thought il was quite cheap,
and means 10 do il again al the same price
~Two notorious women have been arrested
AT Madison, Wisconsin, for placing obstruc-
lions on the railroad near that city, in revenge
Tor being put on the cars.
a Richmond brakeman who jumped nm
der, instead OF on moving train, lost his situ-
alton for his carelessness, being considered no
longer able 10 NIL MS position. As only ten
cars passed over him there's grave doubt on
the subject
ga disconsolate person named Van Duyne.
who was recently committed TO Lenox jail
fIom Pittsfield, for bigamy, writes TO a former
acquaintance as foilows-''I hay Civ up awl
hoaps Of gitnn out, and must dy sioan In my
q a
EThe latest fashion intelligence from
abroad informs us that short skirts are coming
into fashion-not merely looped-up skirts, bat
actual short skirts.
the hatch-way from the third story Of q house
in Richmond, Va, and considerably astonished
party OF ofgentlemen amidst whom he alighted
Without any apology for instrusion he scraur-
bled to his feet and walked away.
ga prominent merchant of Chicago has
left his home tor parts unknown. owing 20 the
causeless and unreasonable jealousy OF his
wife, which has rendered has home uncomfort-
stainless character, and her jealousy amounts
almost TO insanity.
ga man in Harrisburg wishing 10 get rio
OF 5,s car and four kittens, placed them ia a
sack and took them five miles into the country
They returned the next day with their num-
ber increased TO nine by the addition of four
kittens picked up on the road.
sSA money hunter being about TO marry
honeymoon would last. s.Don't tell me Of the
honeymoon" he replied; s'it is the harvest moon
with me-"
nTln London kid gloves are sold for thir-
ty-nye 70 forty cents. good broadclo;h coat
for ten or twelve dollars, and full sait
of travelling clothes for eight dollars.
sNThe Adams Express Company has re-
duced its rate Of frpight ON all the railroad
lines on which the National Express is IN
competition with il.
ga eolored xronan was recently delixered
Of four fine boys, not far from Columbus,
Miss. An ardent aJmirer OF freedom and her
white brethren OF the North, she has named
them res pec'iyely Abraham Lincoln, william
H Seward, Henry Ward Beecher and Horace
Greeley.
~ The New Orleans Picayune, OF the 2sth,
says that at the conclusion OF Or. Dosties
speecb IN New ORLEANS, on Friday evening,
the asth, he advised the negroes ssto 20 home,
and IL moiested cy " bite men, xiii them"
- Al Macon, Georgia. china tree. three
feet in dsnSoeter. on the corner OF fifsa AND
Ptue streefs. wa< struck by lightning. and four
men Huos keo senpp less - q oaI room Tn feet
distant Only one Of them. Nj. Oook, the owH-
er q the lar, wac seriously Injured.