The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-28
Personals

Commodore ,Xanderbilt's income is
reported at presentsto be $1,000 day.
Cough was Kissed at the Cooper
Institute He had expressed pre-
ference for prize fighting over horse
racing.
The latec reconciliation between
Maretzek and Bennett was brought
about by the mediation of Parcani,
the tenor.
Jno. Hickman is named forSpeaker
of the Pennsylvania House Of Repre-
sentatives. 4
Brevet Mai. Geo. w. 7Fetterman, of
the army, died at Pittsburg, October
IA, aged forty years.
Sunset Cox probably wishes he had
not left Ohio, as he might have gone
to the Senate.
John R.@Young has. resigned the
managing editorship of the New York
Tribune, and started at Philadelphia a
new penny paper called the Morning
Post.
Sir Morton Peto has been reelected
Vice President of Bible Union. He
was not candidate for treasurer.
John Tyler, Jr.. the son-of his
father" is seeking redress from For
ney for calling him a" a double dis
titled traitor"
The last German steamer brought
over Miss Aida Topp,. a brilliant
young pianist, and a pupil of List.
Julia Ward Howe received only $5
for her famous Battle Hymn Of the
Republic"
A Missouri paper says General FIRE.
mont's fortune is two millions worse
than nothing.
Newman Hall says that if John
Bright was-to come to America he
would be killed-by kindness.
Gov. Merrill, of Iowa. is native of
from Standish in the same State.
A cool reply was that of a Major
General who. on knocking at door
and being asked who was there, 1t
is I-Sickles.S 4
Grace Church, New York, invited
the Rev. Philip Brooks, of the
Church of tie Holy Trinity in-Phila-
delphia, to becomsits rector, offering
him q salary of $4,000 but he de-
clineS- i
Judge Gale, of Wisconsin, is about
to publish new work. entitled
"Upper Mississippi; or Historical
Sketches of-the Mound Builders, the
Indian Tribes and the Progress of
CivilIzationsin the Northwest from
1900 to 1861 . =
Some one exhunied the other day.
fromsthe New York Surrogatesss office,
Tom Paine's will, and shows by ex-
tract from git that the author of
"Common Sense - and the Age of
Reason" firmly believed in the ex-
istence and omnipotenee of God.
Constant Mayer is rendering on
canvas Whittier's Maud Muller, Sc
lectirg these lines for his text:
" And the young girl unused beside the
Till the ner Rain on the pnrakedclover fell" /
Mr.. Alexander Risa Rangabi, the
Greek Minister at Washington, has
published an interesting and instruct
i've pamphlet entitled Greece, her
progress and present peril"
The. authoress of Richmond Be-
fore the War" resides In New York,
and can frequently be seen at news
paper offices. She is tall, thin, pale.
with dark eyes, and dresses-in the
deepest of black.
/ A Republican wag, who has no es-
peciai love for Gen. Butler, says:
'Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest ale these: We might have
Ben"
Tonlins is dead. Tomlins's memoir
ability lies in the fact that having, as
dramatic critic of some paper, criti-
cized Charles Reade's Never Too
Late to Mend" that sweet tempered
man smashed him with a-1etter.
Mrs. Ella Merrick Thomas, of Am
herst, Mass.4S is the youngest mother
in America, being only thirteen years
of age, = = :
The Bishop of Oxford has created
a seasatiouvby permitting Sunday
School children toSplay-in the fields
II after service on Sunday.
/ Mr9T. Oliver, Of. New York, is in
St. Louis teaching young menvhow to
cut their own clothes. He has quite
class, andE bids flair to rival Prof.
Blot in popularity. 4
The, story that the Abyssinian mon
arch aspired to the hand of1Queen
Victoria turns out to be a hoax.
/ JEFF. Davis has left ST. Catharines
and gone to.Montreal, where he is