The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

self off the lecture platform for one
year.
JohniO. Breckenridge has left Lon
don, with his family, and gone to
Geneva.
Mr.. Dickens will shortly commence
his readings in st. James Hall, Lon
don. b .AafH9 go ld1IaQ3AI
Grau pays Ristori $1,000 for each
performance. ~
DIR. Geo. @. Gray, prominent phys
ioian of Memphis, died in that city,
last week, Of Qholeras sa8sg ?
Commodore WinslOw (of Kearsarge
renown) and family will spend the
winter at Pensacola.
Yankee Robinson received baby
African elephant by the steamship
Borussia last week. The infant IS
only thirty eight inches high. a.'sa.
General Forrest has sold his Mis-
sissippi plantation, moved to Mem
phls, and engaged in the commission
business. I7t1 t-4Otg III VI
The Princess Mary of Cambridge
was weighed few days before mar
rlage, when it was found thatIshe repr
resented eighteen stone-250 pounds.
ames Birney Marshall, formerly of
the Cincinnati press, has been en-
gagged as chief editor of the Memphis
appeal. sala. a.il Is 81 aauir 40
Prentice says sick man is in a bad
way when his disease is acute and his
doet9r8ishlti VOL Ylam94tx1
Mr.. Southern receives from ego to
200 a week for his acting. from the
receipts of the Haymarket Theatre, in
London, without running any risk of
ioss'gi ara Loa 20 taaUiJ absd~
Private letters say that Mr.. Charles
Dickens has been very anxious to visit
the Omitted States this winter. but that
his numerous home engagements will
prevent it. ..YAo4o1M
l.. Il. Barnum has gone on a lee
turing tour tOg the West iWhereg he
will stay till the first week in Deem
hefBaa bias aaiboi s'yIg9isA4 III
Biokham got out the Dayton Jour
mat the night the aeod was highest,
and then fno gpndolo being at handl
waded home ia four feet of water.
John Penniman, we'll known Bosl
ton PRINTER, died on Monday, at the
age of sixty years. The Traveller says
that he cast the first composition roll
er ever made in this country .aaidd
The only living descendant of
Christopher Columbus lives at Rome,
and is to visit America next year, He
is described as genial man of sixty.
The husband of Mary Carutbers,
one of the victims Of Martha Grinder,
the Pittsburg Borgia, is now a hope.
less lunatic. Mrs, Grinder gave each
an equal share Of poison !, one died,
and the other is in mad house. T
3 BY express orders from the Presi-
dent, the private secretaries and clerks
at the White House are forbidden TO
furnish any representative of the press
with lists of appointments. The same
rule has been adopted in the Treasury
Department s1a-,ia7
Prentice says: Cotton isn't king,
and corn isn't king. Brains are king,
and industry Is prime minister" r
Gottschalk has given fourteen con-
oerts in Santiago, Chill. He had an
orchestra of $50 musicians, and called
his entertainments monster CON
certs." aHW hsa.u4 ae laI4
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote
some verses for Fox, to present to the
lished in the st, Petersburgh Pede-
moste, duly credited to oliver Wendell
Coins. p" 9juod $50
Mrs Martha Carson died recently
in Bibb County, Georgia, aged lob
years, six months and three days. She
had cut three sets of teeth, the last
being small like a squirrels
The Bangor Postmaster was On the
witness stand, a few days since, and
upon being asked by the attorney Sare
you the, Postmaster of this cityY' re
piled: w amor was when started
from the post Office. " % f0NN. .e""'
Raphael Buggips, artist, invited a
gentleman to, ,cTltise portrait he
had painted of Mr.. Smith. Putting
his hand toward it., the artist exclaim-
ed: Don't touch it; it is not dry. :"
sThen,P said he, lit can not be like
my friend Smith 9' '1a ..'i., "o 90. .,
During the food at McPersonville,
opposite Dayton, Ohio, sixteen per-
sons were blockaded for forty-eight
hours in the second story of a house,
without morsel to eat, except few
grapes that grew on neighborihg ar
John II. Surratt, the principal con.
federate of j Wilkes Booth in the
sssassslnatlon plot, is now living in a