Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-01-31

SCalifornia winds thread on Pawcatuck,
Conn, spoOls.
suicide wrote to a friend that lit nearly Killed
her 20 leave her poor children"
~Brignoh threatens 10 sue the editor OF
Figaro for calling him conceited, broken-dows
beau.
IA pair Of devoted lovers, broken out with
small pox. walked fifteen miles 20 a pest hosss
in Trenton, Wis, the other day.
0-A hundred and sixty odd married people
applied to he made two in Allegheny county,
Pa, last year.
n7-.Iohn Stark, ofOshkosh has sued a citizen
of that town for rising in public meeting ana
called out, "Mhere is demi-John Stark"
sS"An the boys are going to get a bounce"
was what Murderer Shaukey. in the New York
Tombs, said when Posters doom was announced.
eIA oolored gentleman in Georgia has rss
away from his wife because she threatened him
with thirty-fourth baby.
~An Omaha bride was married barefoot be-
cause her lovers kinfolks dressed that way, ana
she did not wish TO seem proud.
VA French countess, eighty-two wears %
age, is engaged in the restoration Of the tomb of
Heloise and Abelard in Pere la Chsise.
sIA beautiful young widow Of Memphis,
Tenn. has Joined the Oneida community ana
recorded vow TO remain forever true 20 the
members thereof.
6-The Maine people don't stop for trifies in
estimating the cold weather, but say that the
mercury fell one or two ''clapboards," as he
case may be.
maNOr OF Tallahassee announced thai
he would take no salary for his duties, but has
disappeared with seven thousand dollars Of Ne
city money.
sIFather Flint, an old man Of 20 years. Hv-
ing in Hillsdale, Mich, and a prominent men
Der of the Congregational church, has been ar
rested for having two wives extra.
~A curious move has taken place in Old
Puritan church in Enfield, Conn, the members
having seeded and started a Catholic Apostolis
church.
Sone of the Oneida community who en-
beZZled two dollars Was put under the pump
for half m hour, his head shaved, and he was
then dismissed from the neighborhood.
ga small pox patient pursued the doctor
and nurse through the streets of Baltimore the
other day, with nothing but his infected shirt
on.
Madison, o., threatened 20 stone a man 20 death
for caring for the remains Of a man who had
died of small pox.
s1A roguish pupil in Bangor. Me-, cut tho
scalp of the schoolmaster with his slate for cor
rocting him. Another teacher in the same towa
had his thumb bitten on for punishiug one OF
his scholars.
ga new bank was in contemplation sc
Poughkeepsie, ~. Y, and the stock was all sub
scribed for. but one Of the stock holders the
proposed cashier enter q billiard room. one dAy.
and that broke up the whole arrangement.
oOA conference Of Swiss physicians recently
expressed themselves in favor of an abolition OF
diplomas. IL they mean no more there than
they frequently do here, they certainly an
unnecessary expense.
1The lady sophomores of Ann Arbor,
Mich, haze the freshmen terribly. one Young
fellow was badly injured recently by being
tripped up nv one OF the playful damsels ~ he
was passing through q dark hall.
nVThe Cincinnati Gazette inveighs against
the bill TO abolish capital punishment. lately
introduced into the legislature of Ohio, a lin
to propagate murder and provide way in which
| crimes, and thus increase their chances TO es-
cape punishment altogether.