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Eve. Star (N.Y.) 3 Oct. 2/2: The meaning of the word Hoosier, the name of Gov. Ray’s newspaper, in Indiana, is a corruption of Hussar; derived from the pronunciation of a person appointed to command a company of Hussars during the late war, enlisting them under the name of Hoosier – which is the common name applied to the people of Indiana. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 28 Nov. 2/3: A ‘swell cove,’ lately from London Town, was arrested on board the steamboat Ohio, on Tuesday evening. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 11 Nov. 2/3: A visit was made on Sunday night by the Alderman of the Ward and several Police officers, to a house in Front street, called Loafer’s Hall, where all the vagabonds and paupers of the neighborhood nightly lodged for one, two and three cents per night.. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 3 June 2/5: Soloman Armstrong [...] offered to share [the found money] with his companion, who being an old state prison rooster, very wisely [...] refused to accept. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 9 June 2/4: [headline] A scaly trick. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 31 July 2/4: You’re no man if you don’t wet us out of that money. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 6 May 2/5: None of the ‘corps editorial,’ alias ‘the bugs’ will be admitted, except on special occasions. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 28 Apr. 2/2: For, in beauty and perfection of model, our ‘New York crack built ships,’ as they are familiarly called on the ocean, and in all parts of the world, so far excel the efforts of other people, that they have become . . . models of naval architecture. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 1 May 2/2: We have just received Fanny Kemble’s Journal the real simon pure, and sure enough it is a ‘screamer’ to judge by a hasty glance. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 11 July 2/2: Hush Money. [headline] [...] the menace of certain pimps and low wretches who extort money [...] by threatening indictments or false accusations. Eve. Star (N.Y.) 8 Aug. 2/2: Three hopeful young rascals, who had been recently employed as Supes at Niblo’s Garden, robbed the Treasury box [etc.]. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 9 June 4/1: Dey get de brown critters in de froat, or cullinary consumshun ob de brownkill chubes ob de lungs. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 9 Oct. 1/5: So unlikly did it seem that the raw uncouth, blundering Yorkshire lad should ever rise to be vice-chancellor of his university. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 14 Dec. 1/5: ‘in’t you lost, Sawney?’ [...] ‘Yes massa Ben. Dis nigger is lost sure’. Eve. Star (Washington, DC) 16 Jan. 1/5: She said to him he’d better let Big jake, one of the house niggers, hold it for him. Eve. Star (Washington, DC) 18 May 2/1: Her yeyes, which shamed the lightening bugs, were bedoozled with diamond tears. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 2 Apr. 1/2: He says ‘Gen. McClennan don’t go strong nuff for bobolition!’. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 8 Apr. 1/2: First time of the Roaring irish Farce [...] The Peep o’ Day Boys Phelim O’Flannigan, a Peep o’ Day Boy. Biddy Muldoody, a Peep o’ Day Woamn. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 23 Sept. 1/5: They [...] blazed away at each other, Con getting his right peeper put in mourning. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 16 June 4/3: A colored man [...] joined them and introduced the ‘pigeon’ game by dropping a small bag with a three-cent piece in it. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 12 Aug. 1/5: The progressionists understand that ‘the whole country has an interest in the result’ [...] while the mossbacks insist on keeping their money for shaving purposes. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 19 July 3/7: ‘Stare-Cats’ — The ‘stare-cat’ squad is what they call the young dandies who stand together on the beach for the sole purpose of staring at and criticising ladies. Eve. Star (Waikato, NZ) 7 Feb. 2/2: We are sorry to hear that Mr P. Burke, an old identity, is very unwell, having been prostrated by the breaking of a blood vessel. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 6 Mar. 7/2: At the door were gathered not less than fifty or sixty village clodpoles. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 17 Mar. 6/3: Yum-yum — don’t let on to the old man if he comes in. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 17 Mar. 6/3: Yum-yum — don’t let on to the old man if he comes in. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 13 Mar. 4/2: Lost Yesterday, A Black Terrier Dog, named ‘Nig’. Eve. Star (DC) 15 Jan. 8/2: A squad of officers [...] raided a ‘drag’ given by a party of whites and blacks [...] Two of the male dancers were naked. (ref. to 1855) Eve. Star (Washington, DC) 12 Aug. 3/7: Away back in 1855 Driggs kept a country store [...] which was used as headquarters for a gang of ‘koniackers’. Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 2 Aug. 11/2: I s’pose he’s on the back platform enj’yin himself wid a seegar. G’long!