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

Alfred Townsend, Emerson, Miss
Anna Dickinson, Cough, Murdoch
Rev. A. A. Willets, Henry Vincent
and E. P. Whipple.
The following are the men and
women of Providence worth a mill
lion and over: John Carter Brown,
S1,757, 100; Alexander Duncan and
family, 81, 165. 200; George Hall, ST.
$4,000; Robert H. Ives, 81, 414, 900.
Worth half a million and over
Chalotte Goddard, $654,000; Thos.
I.Hill, $577, 400; Earl P. Mason, 1857,
600; George NJ. Richmond's heirs.
$685., 900; Jonah Moore, $5O2 900;
Marshal Woods and wife, $4,000.
Governor Page, of Vermont, is
forty-one years old. His education
has been in bank. which he entered
very young, and in which he has re-
manned ever since, working his way
from the lowest position to the high
est. He has been State Treasurer
six years.
The Worlds Washington special
says: :" Lawyers arrived here to-day
from New York to institute suit
against Washington daily for fifty
thousand dollars damages for alleged
libel on Mrs. John Dean, of New
York, formerly Miss Boxer, whose
marriage to her fathers coachman
viii be remembered by many"
Owen Meredith has in press
two volumes ofpoems, work 9 which
may be either rhyme or prose" en-
titled "Orval or the Fool of Time, )"
and a new illustrated edition of his
romance Lucille"
The late Prof. Faraday belonged to
a small sect called Sandamanians, or
Classics, founded by Sandman and
Glass, both Scotchmen. Sandman
ans profess very high Calvinism.
Faraday was an elder, and frequently
preached in the chapel, Goswell road,
London. o
DR.. Francis, distinguished New
7 ork physician, says: 1t has gener-
ally been my experience, that those
who do not use tobacco are obliged to
walk while thinking, for it is neces-
sary in personal economy that the
body must IN some measure be en-
ployed, in order that theintellect may
move at viii. u.o e-ae
The st. Louis Republican has re-
ceived an ear of corn, raised by DR..
f. Bell, on his farm near Caruthers-
Vile Pemiscotr County, in Southern
Missouri. The ear is of a whitish
yellow color, is sixteen rowed, meas
ures nearly twelve inches In length,
weighs two pounds. and has about
one thousand kernels on it.
= Among the names of persons in
Providence, r. l., taxed for $50, 900
or more are Crawford Allen, for S455.-
500; John Carter Brown, 81, 757, 100:
Mary r. Burnside, 100000; Alexan-
der Duncan, wife and children. 81
Earl P. Mason, 1857, 900; Byron
Sprague, heirs and wife, SIT, 900;
Jonah Steere, 1902, 900; and Marshall
Woods and wife, $4,000.
John B. Cough was fifty years old
in August. He signed the pledge
October 80, 1872, in Worcester. Mass.
January B, 1852, he delivered his first
temperance lecture. His original
terms for a lecture were So; now he
charges 5000 He has already accept
ed 1853 calls for the season of 1868.
which will produce $33. 800. He was
Kissed at the Cooper Institute the
other night, when he said he prefer
red prize fighting to horse-racing.
Accounts by the latest steamer
represent that the health of Princess
Charlotte appears to have undergone
little or no improvement. 1t was at
one time contemplated to try the eff
Maderia was talked of, but it seems
that her medical advisers are appre-
hensive that this measure would be
attended with some risk, and it will
not be adopted unless the winter
should set in with unusual rigor.
Bishops Potter, Bedell and Will
mer, of the Episcopal. and Arch
bishop, Spalding, of the Roman Cath
Ollie Church, are also passengers by
the Persia. The, former are return
ing from the Pan-Anglican Council.
Bishop Potter will probably give
report of their reception in England
on Sunday morning next, at Trinity
Church. - 81 f-1e ~
The Chicago Times publishes a
statement to the effect that Mrs. Lin
coin has been in the habit, for more
than a year past, of frequently visit
ing and dealing largely with pawn
broker, named Doyle, located at No.
SO South Wells Street During the
time named, she has received over
thirteen hundred dollars from the
pawnbroker, on articles pledged worth
four or five times that amount. The