The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-29

It is announced that Mr.. Frederick
Hudson, who last year retired from
the management of the New York
Herald, owing to extreme i'll health,
has entirely recovered, and will re-
sumo his old position on the first of
May.
Grau has returned to New York to
make, arrangements for the Ristori
farewell performances, to commence
| on the 22d inst, atthe French Thea
tire. She viii leave for Europe on the
E1sth of May, and will carry baek-with
her ma200,,oo0zin gotdIg
& Kate Bateman Crow, the actress, is
| slowly recovering from the alarming
effects of a poison introduced into
her systemthrough a preparation used
to. destroy the nerve of a painful
tooth. Since Christmas this lady,
who was so great a favorite during
her theatrical career, has been a sad
but patient sufferer.
The Superior Court judges of.
| Massachusetts, are in luck. The sala-
| ry of the Chief Justice is $1,000, and
| Of the Associate Judges, $4,000; but
a bill is now going through the Legis-
Iature raising these salaries to : 1890
and $4,000 respectively
Mr.. Horace Greeley is well known,
to have been from his early years a
strictly temperate Ia in everything
but the use of language, although it
is said that he has lately begun to
drink tea. But the extent of his alb
stemiousness has never been ade-
ouately known, for the New York
correspondent of the Rochester Dem
ocrat mentions the Temperance House.
60 Barclay Street, where in his early
days ofjournalism Mr.. Greeley took
in wood and water"
The Michigan City (Indiana) En-
terprise says there are three German
girls living eight miles from town,
who walk into the German school
every day and return at night. They
have missed but one week during this
cold, hard Winter, and we're only de-
tanned then because of their mothers
sickness.
Gains Hamilton, of Union, Branch
County, Michigan, a native of Ire
land, came to this country when elev-
en- years old, and is now a hundred
and two years of age. His hearing is
very poor, eyesight somewhat impair
ed, walks as we'll as most men of six
ty-ive or seventy, and his general
health is good.
Rev. Mr.. rockingham, of New
York, continues to preach on woman
and the magnitude and importance
of the subject is such as to stimulate
him to the liveliest mental activity.
The other evening he boldly asserted
this novel and startling proposition:
" Every man is born of a mother; and
every mother is a woman"
The London Guardian is in a posi-
ton to state that the work which
Queen Victoria has been for some
time reported to be engaged in writing,
is not merely in a forward state, but
is actually printed, stitched, and
bound, and at least a fortnight ago
was distributed among her own per-
sonal friends and those of the late
Prince Consort. y
Among the subscribers for a statue
to Voltaire, the names are announced
of Geneche, King of BAHAMA, New
Calabar, Central Africa and George
Pepell, King of Benny, delta of the
Niger, Central Africa.) Those two
subscriptions, so cents each, were in
trusted to Captain Girard, of the
/ Joseph Leon. just returned from a
voyage of exploration in Africa.
A Paris letter to the Chicago Re-
publican says. Head Center Stephens
is living comfortably in that city with
his wife aud brother-in-law. He
complains of poverty, yet has money
to pay for long rides in hacks, and
makes secret visits to the English
embassy.
Nj, Charles, Dickens writes to ac-
knowledge the receipt of two hum
bred. pounds from a Boston publish
| ing house, from the profits of one of
his works reprinted by them. From
his language it might be supposed he
had never before received a penny
from an American publisher, while
/ the1fact IS that he has received thous-
ands of pounds from Harper and
Brothers, Of New York, aud T. 3.
Peterson Il Brothers, of Phila-
delphia. These two houses gave one
thousand pounds in gold fer A Tale
of Two Cities twelve hundred and
fifty pounds for. Our Mutual Friend.
and he has probably received from
them altegetheriwhat is equal to fifty
or sixty thousand dollars Id green
backs. This was all done without an
international copyright law.
Granville John Penn, the great
t4@grand-son of VIM. Penn,@Proprietary
of Pennsylvania, and the eldest son