Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-02-25

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AN OHIO WoNAN's SrIT.-A TELEGRAM firm,
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, 18th instant, TO The tInrinnaii
Commercial says" An interesting breach of
promise case is on trial in the common Meas
court here, the plaintiff being widow on the
shady SIDE OF ~. named Samantha Pear-on and
the defendant Thomas BLIZZARD until recently
a bachelor approXimating 80. The pIaintiif
says BLIZZARD courted her about Is years visit
ing her from two 10 three times every week
she says she resisted his attentions at first
because she did not Ike him, but BLIZZARD hay
Ing confidence in his power TO win the widows
anectonS II she would permit him to talk TO her
occasionally, she yielded and BLIZZARD Stormed
the citadel, and she consented to become his
wife. She has been ready and willing. she saws
10 enter into marital relations with him for
long tlme out he has been putting 1t on by
telllng her that as soon as he got Gaze he'd
take the bird Finally he got cage but
instead or putting the old bird in il, he set his
trap and got young bird of IS and made her
n lStreSs or the cage. Mrs. Pearson claims that
for this protracted billing and cooling, and tam
perng with her affections, nothing short OF
$4,000 will compensate her, and for that she
sues. Blizzard denies that he made promo
sition OF marriage to her, and also will try to
show that she is unworthy OF his love- The
parties live at FraZeysburg, and are respectfully
connected. About 10 witnesses are Subpuanaed
and the case promises to be one or interest.
PEsTILENCE AND FAMINE IN BRAZIL-Mr w
H. Jackson, a gentleman who has just returned
10 tnlS city from Brazil. informs us that the ac
counts or the rayageS OF famine and peStilence
in that country are greatly exaggerated lie
states that in the province OF Ceara 1t has not
rained during the last three and half years.
and that the consequence is that all vegetation
and everything else dried up in the interior and
the natives had TO resort TO the capital for food
during the months OF May and June last When
they arrived at Ceara to the number OF 100000.
they lived in the streets for many days and
died OF starvation at the rate OF 5000 persons
per month. A month elapsed before the Brazil
10 and cI1rA
piled them with food. which consisted or ierked
beef and faTina. This stopped TO a great extent
the number OF deaths; Ia regard to those
aiitcted with tue smallpox, the disease first
came TO the notice OF the public on the LIST OF
November, when they were dying at the rate OF
% persons per day. The deaths gradual in
creased until the LIST OF December. when they
numbered 1900 per day. During the mOath
November e,s44 died. They were buried at Iagoa
Funda, IL corpses being placed in the grave
without using any collins. From the Isl of No
yember TO the 9th OF December Is S65 people
died. 1t is believed that from the famine and
drought l5o0Uo persons died in the year ISIS.
Is iepOrted that many OF the people coming from
the interior ate their own children. Ceara had
250.ooG Inhabitants, and almost every person
there contracted the small poN.-[Ne,r Orleans
PicGguTe, FEB. 20.
SILVER MINE RoMASCES.-About ten O'Clock
yesterday morning crowbar was dropped
down the main vertical shaft OF the Savage
from the surface, and went directly through
cage at the bottom, piercing the bonnet and
floor. NO one was on the cage at the time and
no one was hurt, yet il is unpleasant TO one
making trip into mine to reflect that such
things sometimes occur. As the bar fell some
thing over i've hundred yards il was travelling
with the rapidity and vim OF a cannon ball
when 1t struck tie cage. bit OF gravel no
larger than Hilbert sings like bullet toward
the latter part OF such journey. A dog once
Iell into shaft at Gold Hill. and though the
SMART was but 800 feet in depth, two men upon
whom the animal landed were killed as also
was the clumsy cur that had failed to hop across
me Top OF the shaft. "A rat once fell down the
Consolidated Virginia shaft in attempting 10
spring across compartment, from wall plate
TO wall plate, and l. 100 feet below landed on the
Dalo mead OF miner and exploded like bomb.
causing Tie miner to think @ rock had cut omen
the top or his skull and let out his brains. A
grain OF birdshot dropped into the top of a shaft
i,Soo Ieet In depth would probably bury itself
In plank or any piece OF wood 1t might happen
to strike at the bottom. This being the ca
we repeat that it is not pleasant TO think of
such things as crowbarS going down shafts.
Virginia City (Ner.l Enterprise, Feb. ls.
TIE srBIEcT OF CHURCH LOTTERIES has ar
rested the attention OF the Massachusetts
Leg LegisiaI9te, which has been petitioned for a
lotteries shall hold its property EXEMPT from
taXatlon. AT hearing the other day. the Rev
Home Missionary Society, said he understood
.'railies to be sort of kid-glove term fer lot
teres and churches which aullifed the law
slapped. he said, the Legislature i'm the face
and cuffed the Revised Statutes. The Rey I
Z. Foster, Methodist, took the same ground
The Rev. Mr.. Whitaker. Methodist, said that
In his Churches the fairs h al been held without
lotteries. and the receipts had been about the
same. The s2DIect seems to be attracting the
attention OF. churches ia other paris of the
country, ana the result Slll probably be a dis
contlnuancs OF the rlactice in many cases
tnouSn II nay not bring about its entire al an
donment.
IHRESSHoCKING ACCIDENTS TO GIRLS occurred
recently, on the San1e day, in factories CT Dun
uee. girl aged Il, employed in Dora street
works, was looking at a valentine, yfhen an
olhef girl playfulg gave her push. She fell
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