The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-24
Personals.


the conversation was upon the feeling
Of the working classes His sMajesty
knows how toasuit himselfto his com
pany. gro fasoggo - u
The Emperor of the French is pat
ronizing researchs In the interior oil
Africa. His Majesty has placed a
small steam cunnonniere at the dispo-
sal of Captain Gerard for this pur-
pose. ~ sl.s.s Il sa,si .slfsAqoa :
Nearly fifteen hundred heads Of
families have been compelled to leave
Schleswig for refusing to take the
oath to the Kingof Prussia. 2 The la
dies Of Copenhagen have formed a
committee to collect diamonds and
Ijewels from all those who are willing
to make sacrifice of them, In order
to assist these Danes. asis9b
i The family ofIthe American Minis
ter at Paris, General Dix, has attain
ed marked social popularity. and the
Saturday receptions are largely at
tended. A correspondent, noticing
one of these names, among many 9th
ers, Mrs. Moulton, Mrs. ROnalds, Mrs.
Reed and Mrs CoddiHgton, as four
American beauties. 1t is a little re-
Variable that not one of those thus
individualized is unmarried.
1t is an invariable rule Of Harvard
College, 20 confer, some honorary de-
gree upon, the President of the United
States when he visits Boston. So. af-
ter his proposed New England excur-
sion this month, the, humble indiyld-
ual at the White, House will be able
to write LIZ D.. ord D.safter his
name. l9Is o8li % .sss-o,s .-.iI SIS Il, ...aa5.
The London papers state that def
ferson Davis is expected to arrive IN
England in June, OF early in July. 6 g
Queen Victoria has resolved to de-
vote two and half millions of dollars
of her savings for the last few years
for the endowment of a convalescent |
hospital near London. The Empress
Eugene recently gave up beautiful |
chateau near Lyons for a purpose
similar to that which Queen Victoria
is now promoting. asoY s,s2 asl5 |
General Lee has written letter in
favor Of the project of finishing the
Virginia Central Railroad to the |
point of steamboat navigation on the
Kanawha River. He thinks it will
have, a favorable, influence in divert
ing Western trade to Virginia. @a3 S
The Prince of Wales has given
thirty guineas to the fund raised by /
the Society of Arts for assisting
number of artisans to visit and report /
upon the Paris Exhibition. ab
An eldery lady of Wayne, Michi- |
gan, while walking in her garden last
was stung in the ball of her
eve by honey bee. She screamed
and fell back, and died in ten min
utes after receiving the injury
General Halpine, in his Citizen,
SAYS that when President Lincoln was
first informed of the arrest of JEFF |
Davis by General Wilson, he express
ed his regret for it, and illustrated |
his views by telling the famous story
of a man who Greg white elephant |
in lottery. The point of this state
ment is blunted by the fact that Da-
Wis was not arrested by Col. Pritchard
until nearly four weeks after the as
sassination of President Lincoln.
The Hon. Charles D. Drake, United |
States Senator from Missouri, is now |
sojourning in Philadelphia. Senator |
Drake is the guest of Commodore Oil |
yer s. ellison, with whom he served as |
> '";dsh;n'nsn mere than thirty years |
aso. ''' - ''''''
A Georgia paper announces that |
Gen, j oseph e. johnson has been APP
pointed President of the Charleston, |
Memphis and Topeka Railroad. gs9
James S. Page, a bankrupt specula-
tor in corn at Chicago, having been ex
PEELED from the Board of Trade, has
resorted to legal measures to compel |
the Board to admit him. asssA
A negro called "Old Rube T" was |
voted for in Cairo, on Tuesday last.
for Circuit Judge, in opposition to
Col. Olney, and he received nearly |
200 Democratic votes.
Mrs. N. p. Willis has been lying i'll |
for the past week at [dlewild. and has |
notyet disposed of her estate, which |
s still adyer tised for sale. q & fezAgI
A Mr.. Nicholson proposes to do
nate to the city Of Cleveland, for the
purpose ola public park, from 900 to |
$50 acres lying on both sides of Rocky
River, from the mouth up one and a
half miles; provided, and upon con-
dition that the city of. Cleveland ex-
pend in improvements on the. same,
Fifty thouss I'd dollars every year for
the next ten years. 4, sf.ss -
General John a. Suffer-. the Cali
tornia pioneer, is going on visit to
his native Switzerland. ~saara
Queen Victoria is about to devote
-, SCOT to the foundation OF con-
,,a la.oart hoac:knf ! sq,IxoE .a.,,<.,. -. ! |