Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-08-29

LARGE PURcHAsH.-Charles W. Booth, Of
delaware county. Penna., has purchased GIL
acres OF land on he Choptank river. Md. anu
Is now engaged in erecting steam saw mill
and intends cutting a large amount OF ship
timber.
~Ihe potato crop Of the farmers OF Eastern
Pennsylvania is being rapidly and severely
injured by The rot. Thousands of bushels are
being daily destroyed by its rapid rayages
@A singular fact connected with the
New Jersey press In the year lS0t, news
plimentary address 10 the female voters Of Nav
Jersey for nanimously supporting John
Adams tor President, in opposition 10 MIR JET
Ierson.
Bishop Johns. OF Va. will be panied 20 near
that his grandson. Henry Peyton, q youth of
fifteen years. died last week from lockiaw-
-NOCt"!k Journal.
RELIGIOUS USES ~ THE CABLY-Tbe cali
of the Firth avenue Presbyterian Church
New YORK, 20 the Rev. DIR. Hall. OF Dublin,
irslant. was sent by the AtlantIc cable and
has been accepted The salary is 10 he sly
thousand dollars in gold.
TIE SOCIAL EVIL MOVING WESTWARD
An Omaha despatch says that large numbers
o: the .sociai evil order OF females are con.
stanty arriving there from the Eastern cities
The Herald calls loudly tor the adoption Of &C.
tive measures TO sop their alarming increase
FRtlT.-The value Of truit as a PRINCIPAL
Arucie OF 1000 IS neither appreciated nor
understood lis 100 often eaten only bet ween
meals, or after much other food as the
stomach can dispose Of Too often the yaine
a fruit tor food is destroyed by the addition
"fsweetening and spices.
~In the village OF Roslyn. L. / on Mon.
CAV. = man named Edward Conklng, without
cause. deliberately plunged KNIFE INFO the
breast OF an inofieD sive man named BRYAN
and killed him instantly. He then dangerousN
cnt another man before he was arrested.
The Piedmont (Fa.l Land Agency, at
chaTlotessllie, sold last week four farms ia the
county OF Albemarle-cne 70 Colonel Gregg of
Pennsy lvania; another 10 Colonel Curtin of
ne same State: one 70 Mr. Richardson of
BTookIyn, N and another TO Dir. Calkins,
81 Saratoga county, n. y.
CERTAIN CURE FOB CoRNs -Scrana, n,soa
of common chalk, pnt sm AZ portion of IL ON
the corn, and bind II with q linen rag Reneat
The application Tor few DAYS and Won yyiU
md The corn TO come off like n shell, and per
feetly cured.
- The Press, OF Philadelphia per,in.nrtv
says 80 Hancock rs sent from the cholera in n
he yellow fever, and Sheridan from ne vi :
low fever INTO the cholera, in the m ddie Of me
epidemic season. There IS nothing like IN !.
Gieious manipulation"
town. n. j., on Thursday night, co,ored
preacher, who was the principal orator OF the
occasion. proposed Chase and Sheridan for
President and Vice President. and wound m
his speech by aprayer tor President john
sons CONVERSION!
STne Widow MeChptocx or Steele Farm.
once famous In The oil reg ions, remains wholly
idle. Not single well Is being opera ed II
10 not The property Of Mrs. Steele. A local
paper fears that "Iohnny," her wayward
10 60 10 work again.
- The project OF pslice in Paris has for.
hidden the meeting OF the congress OF CO opera
tive societies. which was 20 have taken place
en- the Itth, l7tn and 18th OF his montn.
~EmIgTants ~ New York last week: I,2}i.