The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-11
Miscellaneous Items.

OF less than thousand people In
New York live by fortune telling, and
other such methods of gaining a live
lihood.
A man of ffty-eight, in Napoleon.
Ark, said he would drink gallon of
liquor in day or die. He did both.
A married man, of Albany, N. Y,
compromised a bastardy suit the 9th
er day by paying $250-and his wife
gave him the money to get out OF the
scrape.
Frank Teabout, saloon keeper, OF
Frankville, Alamakee County, Iowa,
having been converted to religion,
burned all his liquors, valued at
$500.
DR.. Reilly J. Clark, who organized
the first temperance society in the
United States, at Moreau, n Y, died
at Glen Falls, Wednesday, aged 80.
Maturin NJ. Ballou is the owner and
builder of the new ST. James Hotel
at Boston, at the South End, which is
to have nearly 400 rooms, and be open
ed to the public by January, 1868.
MILD at
The New York Tribune thinks the
fact that Reverdy johnson voted for
the Reconstruction Bill, with univer-
sal suffrage, the Constitutional
Amendment, and military rule, all in
cluded, = a sign of the speedy ap-
proach of the millennium.
A new newspaper is mentioned
among the enterprises of the coming
spring, in the interest of woman's
rights. All the work, editorial and
typographical, is to be done by women,
and its advocacy of the enlarged
freedom Of the sex is to be of the most
ardent and ultra character.
The New York Erpress gives the
following definite advice to the South
ern people as to the proper method
to proceed under present circum-
stances: Act in the fear of God,
and with a wise regard to the future
welfare of your children, your State,
and the country at large"
The funeral of the late Hon. Col.
Caesar Kaluaikau Kahanupauokalani
Kamakaehukai Keolaokalani Ka-
paakea, member of the House of No
bles, Privy Council of State, and
Knight Companion of the Order of
Kamehameha, took place at Homo
lulu with appropriate ceremonies.
The Eldora (Iowa) Ledger speaks
of the good appetite, of one Jarman,
who ate twenty-seven buckwheat
cakes at one meal, other, things in
proportion, and washed the whole
down. with twenty cups of coffee. We
recon he must be the man who thinks
the turkey very announcement fowl
"a little too much for one and not
enough for two persons? -
DIR. Dryer, of Victor, N. Y, says
he can kill Canada thistles in one sea-
son by summer following. Turn the
sward in Autumn, and pillow again the
next summer four or five times. And
what is better than all, while you are
killing the thistles you are putting the
land in the best possible condition
for crop of grain or grass.
When Fenelon was almoner to
Louis XIV, his Majesty was aston
ished to find, one Sunday, instead of
the usually crowded congregation,
only himself and the priest. What
is the meaning of this?" said the
King. L caused it to be given out, y
said the prelate, that your Majesty
did not attend chapel to-day, that you
might see who it was that came here
to worship God, and who to fatter
the King"
-.
Cora Pearl is no longer the attrac-
ton at the Boufes Parisiennes. A
party of young men dubbed together
to hiss down this Queen of Anony-
mas. The lady's nerves could not
stand so severe test, and Mdlle. Ma
RE Petit is to take her place as Cupi-
don. Cora PEARLS real name is said
to be Crouch. She is said to be de-
scendant of the esteemed English mu-
stefan of that name, and, judging from
her present notoriety, pretty far de-
scended.
| The Mobile Times says. "a lady,
lett in destitute circumstances by her
husband, yesterday morning disposed
of the last of her earthly possessio ms.
by raftle-a baby, large enough to be
two or three years old. The amount
realized was some twenty-five dollars.
The sur-sweet little thing was won
by gentleman connected with the
typographical department of this
Office" We are glad the Times calls
this creature lady" She certainly
could not have been woman.
A philosopher in one Of the cotton
growing counties of Georgia was ap-
preached by a troubled neighbor.
perhaps more of a politician than
planter, who was discussing the state
of the country, especially the bill that
looked to converting Georgia into a
military district. Our go-ahead plant