The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-10
PERSONAL.

e ''-a' PERSONAL.
Rossini, who has long been silent,
is composing comic opera.
"A boy, sixteen years old, forged
$4,000 check in New York last
week.
Judah Benjamin is writing articles
on. America for the London 1ete-
graph.
Artemus Ward is called by a Lon
don paper " the clown of literature.
The rebel Sims is writing a his
tory of South Carolina for use IN
schools.
Colonel John Hay, Secretary of Lee
CATION at Paris, has sent in his reslg- !
nation.
Mrs. Paran Stevens and Mrs. John
Jacob Aston, recently gave soirees IN
honor Of Ristori.
Archdeacon Dennison, of England,
wants the peasantry to play football
after sermons on Sunday.
Hon. Herschel V. Johnson has re-
signed the office of United States
Senator to which the Georgia Legis-
lature elected him.
1t is said that Hon. John B. Alley
introduced Speaker Colfax to his au
dience in Lynn, the other evening, as
the future President of the United
States"
Marshall Wood, sculptor, former
ly residing at Montreal, but now. IN
England, has received q commission
to execute statue of Queen Victoria
for the city of Montreal.
III Professor Agassiz says that for forty
years he was teacher, and never pun
, Eished pupil. He does not believe in
the virtues of birch, A wise man
believes in the law of kindness, not
. of force. Surely our progenitors
must have been queer folks to need
so much of the law of birch to keep
them In orderi II 81 81
Ell. Riyes Pollard and J. M. Han
ma, of the Richmond Examiner, ap-
piled for admission to see JEFF. Davis
but were denied access in the fortress
A sprightly New York critic says
Of Ristori's acting: : Her lips cur
Is back from her teeth, in white hor
ID ror, and she seems to lap Creusa'I
blood with delirious JOY" 5esP
John Bennehoff, an old coil man
81 in the Pennsylvania oil regions, en-
to joys an income estimated at $500,00
per annum. He still lives in his oil,
Dutch homestead.
Senator Doolittle of Wisconsin wa
dined and wined by the rebels a
Mobile, the other day. The occasion
is described as session of the mutua
admiration society. II
Gen. E. b. Tyler, of Baltimore, fol-
merly of Rayenna, Ohio, has given
favorite horse, valued at So, 900, to
81 sold, and one-half the proceeds, th
Cincinnati Commercial says, are fc
the Soldiers Monument in Clevelan
and the other half to the Union So
!, diers' Orphan Asylum at Baltimor
Mr.. Orridge, member of the Lor
don Common Council, has addresse
his fellow members, in a letter, ury
,r ing them to sanction the publicatic
~ Of civic biography, which shall il
clude the names and tell the deeds
a4 all noble Londoners who have rel
dered great services to their countr
For some time past Mr.. Was
burne, United States Minister
IN. Paraguay, has been attempting to q
. I'M, to his objective point which is A
-4- suncion, the capital of that Republi
The Allies operating against Il
s.1 Paraguayan army have objected to h
going on, and he has laid idly
waiting the slow. progress of even
- before Huamaita. 1t is now ga
W. that he has found means of gettir
forward, and that the United Stat
gunboat Shamokin will take hi
But as the river is filled with tort
does. this will be a very dangero
vrork experiment, and it may end the m
sion of Minister Washburne We
tH nn summarily,, II is to be hoped tt
he will succeed, and 60 tl4rou
g ge.r safely.