The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-15
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n General Halleck is quoted as having
recently declared that the action Of
the California Legislature III refusing
to- scountenance the adoption of the.
national currencysha cost that State
fifty millions in money and 100000 in q =
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Beard says he is tired of painting
bears and other queer animals, and
wants to give more of his time to pure
landscape. 99Lo 9n1 r. sils q
Mary Arnold, Of Brooklyn, is one
hundred and ninei years of age, and
still in full possessionoof her health
and faculties. Her maiden name was
Mary Ives, and it remained upchang
ed until she was thirty five years Of
age, at which time she married, and
bore her husband eight children.
Five of them, all daughters, are. still
living, the youngest being sixty years
of age.
The Rev. Mr.. Lumsden, who was
tried for, completely in the Fenian
raid and acquitted has lecture on,
his 'sFive Months Imprisonment 4,
which he read in Buffalo the other
night. ,5 = 5.-ess ! r.5
One of the New York editors, Bon
ner, is most noted for his horses, and
Greeley for his hobbies. Prentice
says SO. '',1- s4'li ]
Walter Brown, of Portland, is De-
termined to have another rowing
match with somebody, and James
| Hammill has declined his challenge,
and Kelley, the English champion,
has retired from the list of contest
ants, Brown is going to Glasgow,
Scotland, to try and defeat Chambers,
the champion of the Clyde. He will
be the guest of Kelley while he re-
mains abroad. 80 la
Mr.. George Peabody has made an
additional gift of $4,000 to the town
of Danvers, Mass, for additional pur-
poses. 1t is also reported that he
presented to three of his nepheWs the
sum of $75, 900 each, in gold 10
Miss Charlotte p. Halves, well
known as pleasant writer, died of
consumption in Worcester, Mass, on
Thursday, after lingering illness.
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend and
Mr.. jerome B. Stillson, who have
been acting as special Correspondents
of the New York World in Europe,
have just come back--the one by the
Arago, the other by the Europe. "a =
Winnie Ream, thatnsprightly, black
tressed maiden whom Congress EN-
powered at the close. of last session to
execute a statuette in marble Of Lin
coin. is preparing to sail for Naples
in the spring, in fulfillment of her
commission. Meantime she is CHS
cling industriously, al, heads and busts
of living and departed statesmen, and
already has quite an array Of plaster,
castles of Congressman on exhibition
in the old Hall of Representatives. :
R. Emmett Fisk, formerly editor of
the Lafayette (Ind.) Courier, is edit
ing the Helena (Montana) Herald.
"A. Ward has, managed his show
business in England In a mastery way.
Never did general win campaign
by more scientific and skillful plan
ming. 1t was very shrewd of A. Ward
to come to London months before his
first public appearance, and conciliate
the literary and reportorial brother
hood by meeting them at their clubs,
by standing unlimited drinks and in
nummerable dinners and indescriba-
BILE suppers, and convincing them by
such irrefragable arguments, that he
was a trump, and jolly, good fellow.
Had he come out Immediately upon
his arrival here, hundred quilts, now
feathered by fraternal kindness, would
have been dipped in jealousy, and
would have written with cold or hos
tile criticism. He is eminently what
DIR. Johnson called a ''clubable man,
and he is at this moment the greatest
club fayorite in London. 8s,.