The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-16
PERSONALS.

contribute to magazines both In Eng
land and America, preferring that her
poetical works should appear collect
lively.
We hear that Mrs. Mary Clemmer
Ames is about to re-publish her gos-
sippy Washington letter to the hide
pendent and. Springfield Republican.
They will make a delightful volume,
and will find numerous readers, .Isd
Miss Rose Terry, the gifted poetess,
is getting new edition of her poems
"a fact that all admirers of sentiment
will be glad to learn. gnaL zs194
The French Academy have very
wisely selected as subject for. "a prize
poem the presentyear The Death of
President Lincoln. ni9da&tis. ea-s2s@
Another record of personal expert
ence during the war is given the pub
lie in little volume by Mrs Elvira
j. Powers, who was matron and visit
or in different United States hospitals.
Its title is" Hospital Pencilings, and
a, Boston, publisher brings it out.floH
Mr.. o. A.. Morse, has written a
pamphlet in vindication, of the claims
of A, M, w Bah. to the authorship
Of the popular poem Rock Ne TO Sleep,
Mother. 1 ,d.,fiH aspeel g 5IngI
W. Hepworth Dixor,'s New Ameri-
ca has reached its fifth edition in
have been sold inIthis country It is
the first instance where an approach
to justice has been done the United
States by English writer's. 1 ~ - i t 45.i
Hon, Edward Mcpherson, Clerk of
the United States House of Repre-
sentatives, is writing a life of Thad-
deus Stevens. Mr. Mcpherson is a
prolific writers and if the printers can
succeed in deciphering his chirography
the work will be issued sometime du-
ring the present year. ~ z'ts8
Clam Rock; or the Story of Year,
is the title Of a prize story oficonsid-
cradle merit written by Grace Gay
lord. and Just published by Henry
Hoyt, of Boston. 1t was selected
from nearly fifty MSS. sent to the pub
Usher. ns9IA l9aaHI saGiat aeq7e9
There are now sixteen Cardinal
points in the compass of the Pope s in
fuences the last having been added by
the death of Cardinal Puente, il9in.i9
Several cases of death ofadancers
engaged in the Black Crook " have
occurredin New aYork-their posesY
and pirouettes'n were so fatally ex-
haustings3 si4gsa~ III ianpsaI
A story.is told of a man. Ia at Her
nellsyille, N. Y.,,lately eating at a sim
gle meal one large square pie-tin heap
ing full of cold beef and potatoes,
twenty -four raised biscuits, cut with
tea-cup, twoipounds of cheese, two
pounds honey, two pounds crackers.
one pound Of, butter, two dozen risrr
ings, six cookies,e one mince pie, one
glass brandy. Asa matter of choice;
we had rather board that chap week
than aSfortnight - aq"-oC ae s IL
Senator Sumner gave Mr.. Bigelow,
our ex- minister to Paris, one of those
dinners which have established such
a reputation for Boston housekeeping.
Senator Anthony, who was one of Mr..
Bigelows old editorial associates, was
one OF the party VA EgAa
Gen. Buffers only child, Miss
Blanche Butler, will be the Congress
sional belle at the next session. She
is decidedly pretty, very graceful, very
clever, and is claimed by the good
Sisters of the Visitation at George
town as one of their most accom-
plished graduates yE q SGT
George Eliot, or Mrs. Lewis, the
author of Felix Holt. the Radical, is
recruiting health and genius in Gran
ada snd IS deEghting in the glories |
of the Alhambra.
Terrence Carol, of Andover, Mas
sachusetts, ono WednesdayA last beat
out the brains Of his wife with a hot |
at-iron.1i He had previously beaten |
his grandchild, and his wife's remon-
strange sra 1p at his cruelty rssulted in her
a woman, named Finn, who was far /
advanced in pregnancy, was gored to |
death By a mad eowat Highland Falls, |
week nesI 9ips asN las last
and male child was brought into the |
world Ut is gstiHE alive. and gives
every , yFnf 1pd4 ms Of growing up DC a.
Charles Anderson, living near Me- !
rldlan, 2MissIssippi.awas killed ins his /
own house on Wednesday eyenine /
last by an INK nown murderer ! n go =
An exchange says an 'a,c,au, aaiinta ,1es |
of. ours, a mother. too, not long since /
was iamenting the loss of a child. /
Zone of "a family ce eight, because
said she, there was Just enough fora |
cotillion, and they did dance So |
prestyT IGfnemsn7O bne ilur7
"Old Ben Wade now President |