The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-03
PERSONAL.


Merrill G.. Wheelock, architect and
water-color painter, died at Boston
last week.
j. p. Hodnett, the Fenian orator,
is dangerously i'll in Chicago with
lung affection. efo
Leutze is engaged upon portrait
of the late Miss Fanny Seward.
The richest man in st. Louis is
James IL. Lucas; income, $103,281.
The widow of the celebrated Henry
James Finn, who was lost on the
Lexington in 1910, died in Boston
last week.
M. E. Bishop Simpson on Saturday
dedicated the Florence Street Metho-
dist Church, just completed in Spring
field, Mass.
Colonel George Ward Nichols is
recommended by General Sherman
and others to be Secretary of Lega-
ton at Paris.
Blondin has arrived in London
from the Continent. He intends to
get himself on a string" at the
Great Exhibition.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton sent the
editor of the Albany Journal bottle
of Soothing Syrup. He few in the
face of Mrs. Winslow's promises and
ragged furiously.
DIR. Evans, the new Senator from
Colorado, used to live in Chicago,
and there edited the Northwestern
Medical and Surgical Journal, and
held a chair In the Rush Medical
College.
The young Princess Dagmar repre-
sents a good deal that is statute and
statesmanlike. Besides her own beau
ty and charming merits, she brings
the keys of the Baltic at her girdle
to St. Petersburg important bunch
for young Russian housewife to
carry. iea aH Es
The Journal de Quebec announces
that the Rev Messrs. Laverdiere and
Casgrain, after long and difficult
search, made jointly, have been sue
cessful in discovering the tomb of
Chanplain, which long bafied the eff
forts of psychologists. The details
are. not yet published.
Mr.. Scion Robinson, agricultural
editor of the New York Tribune, has
written novel, or narrative of per-
sonal recollections of Indian charac-
ter and frontier life, which he calls
Me-won-i-toc, meaning the man OF
mystery, or great medicine man. Mr.
Robinson has not written many books
The best known is Hot Corn
Mrs. Cobb, the pardon brokeress
shows herself eonspicuously at the
! Washington theatre, in rich and mag.
nifcent dress, with her long black
hair hanging loosely over her shout
ders. ~
It is rumored that Mr.. Ell. Rive:
Pollard, late editor and proprietor O
the Examiner, has issued a prospec
tus for new paper, to be published
in Richmond, under the title of III.
Southern Opinion In his prospectus
Mr.. Pollard offers three premiums, O
800 each, for the best poems, respec
lively, on The Confederate Dead,
The Valor of the Confederate Sol
diers,' and The Prisoner of FORTRESS
Monroe.
Governor Sanders and Chief Justic'
Kellogg, of Nebraska, were in Gales
burg, Illinois, on Sunday week ago
and IN the morning attended Rev. Mr.
Beecher's church. The Free Pres
Z says that, as the sermon was upon thu
late elections, and of Radical tone
the Judge being a conservative wa
not well pleased, while the Governol
was well delighted. The Judge after
wards turned the joke, however, b,
saying that while he was somewha
uneasy, Gov. Sanders left the churcl
in a perfect rage, for Mr.. Beechel
prayed feryently for the Governors O
all the States, and did not so much a,
notice the Governors of Territories.
< Julia Dean Hayne Cooper is in New
York and will soon appear at tn
q Broadway Theatre. Her present LEG
lord, Mr.. Cooper, is resident of Nev