The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-29
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A large party of Yale students will
| spend the coming vacation in Europe.
n Henry Ward Beecher has consented
to the publication of a volume of an
ecdotes relating to himself.
Mr.. Apthomas has undertaken the
somewhat arduous task of producing
a musical version of the Pilgrims
Progress" of John Bunyan.
General Grant and family will go to
Newport, in a few days, to be the
| guests of Senator Morgan.
Judah P. Benjamin. ex-Confed-
crate, writes editorials for the London
Telegraph. s7 49, II aee
Mr.. Peter Cooper contracts for the
legs between the knee aud hoof of all
oxen killed to supply New York with
meat, and the bones are made up into
parasol handles. Iesta .3a
Lorenzo B. Shepard, son of the for
mer United States District Attorney,
at New York, was arrested at Brook
Ign, Monday, charged with forgeries
to the amount of $13,500. Gambling
had brought him to the act.
One of the wivesof Brigham Young,
Jr.. was at Chatham, ColumbiaC County,
N. Y, last week on a visit to some Of
| her relatives in that town. The ex-
citement was intense, and men, women
and children left their usual occupa-
| tons to get a sight of a real, live Nor
moness. r II =,
w. J. Smithson, of Philadelphia,
and Maggie Fornshell were married
in a balloon several hundred feet
above the ground at Allegheny City,
Pa, on Saturday week. Emphatically
a wedding in the upper circles.
John Clarke, of Baltimore. has left
S75, 900, to St. Johns Methodist
! Church in that city.
| The Washburn family are going to
rebuild their old homestead at Liver
more, Maine, which was burned the
other day.
.Recollections ola Busy Life" is said
to be the heading under which Horace
Greeley will soon write his autobiog-
raphy. It is to be published In the
Ledger. 0H waeED&
Thackeray' daughter, Harriet Ma
rion, was married in London, last
month, to a young lawyer named Les
lie. a951H s'AajHefh} 80
Mary Brown, who claimed $4,000,
has recovered e, 800, rom a DR.. Win
stone, in Nashville, for killing her
husband by an overdose of morphine.
Miss Margaret Fox, the lady whose
name is so intimately associated with
that of DIR. Kane, is about to resume
her spiritual manifestations.
A fresh Massachusetts, committee is
worrying over General Banks alleged
attack of intoxicatIon at Portland,
wei a year ago. If the General has
been sober ever since would it not be
graceful to drop the matter? rrs
The pianoist Rubenstein is pro-
nounced to be one of the very best
performers of the day, He is now in
London.
Mount Hosmer, in the Upper Mis-
sissippi, was named in honor of Har-
riet Hosmer, the sculptress. who dis
tanced a number of young men in a
race to reach the summit.
After finishing an exhortation in a
conference meeting at Norwalk, Conn,
ca Sunday, Deacon Thomas Clark, of
the Baptist Church, sat down and
died instantly.
The Irish Chief Secretary. being the
owner of a fine ostrich, which recently
was safely delivered of an egg. received
the following telegram from his stew
ard: My Lord. as your iordship IS
out of the country, [ have procured the
biggest goose | could find to sit on the
Ostrlch's egg. ~ 9ETEZTT AZ
Baron Ferdinand de -Rothschild,
whose young wife died in childbirth a
few months ago has determined to
found a lying In hospital to her mem
ory. The site will cost $4,000, and
the building as much more.
l. The London Star says that the
Prince of Wales is not treated with
proper respect when he enters the
smoking rooms of a club. Instead of
everybody rising and taking off their
hats to receive him, they only nod
their heads with a How are you,
Wales?' or something equally famil-
lar.
1t is stated that a kinsman of George
Washington, who was Impoverished
by the rebellion, has forwarded to
Thomas *. Wallace. of the Treasury
Department in the City of Washing
ton, for sale. a portrait of Washington.
It purports to have been painted by
Gilbert Stuart, and is said to be an adj
mirable likeness. aud the price fixed
upon it is four thousand dollars.
Susan B. Anthony confesses pri-
vately that there is no hope-not even
In the remote future-that woman
suffrage will ever be permitted in the
State Of New York. She persists In