The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-02
Personals.


Darwin has failed to prove the ascent
of man from the monkey.
Joseph Worthingtony succeeded in
escaping from the Franklin County
Jail, Pennsylvania, a few evenings
since. by deceiving the jailor with a
stuffed Paddy"
A Texas editor, on being asked
how he got along with his paper, said
he had written one editorial and shot
three men in the previous twelve
months.
Ristori was once a gypsy, having be-
gun life In the rural districts as a
wanderer, with band of Italian for
tune-tellers. =
The Christman number of All the
Year Round will be written this year
entirely by-Charles Dickens and Viii
kie Collins.
John N. G. Schenck, one Of the
pioneers of Southern Ohio died at
Franklin, Warren County, last Satur-
day, aged ninety.
Dickens once wrote an opera, and
once he wrote a farce. The opera
was played and damned, and the farce
didn't even-get as far assthat.s
Walter Brown, the celebrated oars
man, has laid a heavy wager with a
we'll sporting man Of Port
land, that he will run five miles in
33 minutes, or less, some time within
the next twelve days.
Mr.. Leonard Harlow, of Cornish,
n. H, while returning home from
his days work, on Tuesday, the 9Th
inst-it being his seventy first birth
day-was thrown from his cart, near
his house, producing fatal injury of
the spinal cord, resulting in complete
paralysis of the body. He died on
the third day.
Greeley says that smoking is the
vilest, most detestable abuse of his
corrupted sensual appetites whereof
depraved man is capable" And yet
Greeley tells us in his autobiography
that his mother smoked pipe.
Louisa Mulhbach has twenty-three
historical novels still in press in this
country. She has received from the
King of Prussia the great gold medal
for art and literature" which was
never before given to German fe-
male author.
The editor of the Nashville Dis
patch tells what he would do if he
= had the ear of Gov. Brownlow" IF
we had it, we would throw it to some
hungry dog-a bit of mean souse
without pepper or salt.
We are panied to learn of the death
of Mr.. Barton Potter, of Manchester,
ClayCounty, Kentucky. He was an
honorable and upright man, and re-
spected by@all who knew him. The
community has lest.a valuable citizen,
and society bright and shining light.
The President has issued a warrant
Of pardon to Henry Golfer, who was
convicted at Albany for counterfeit
ing, and sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment in the Albany Peniten-
tiary.
The designations of General Pleas
anton and General Fitzpatrick have
been accepted-the former to take
place from-the LIST of January, 1863,
and the latter from October Is.
The Bishop of Cuba has been VIC
lently attacked in a pamphlet which
was being extensively circulated in
Havana. His Reverence is charged
with having offered $4,000. donated
by different persons on the island to
defray the expenses eff repairing the
local seminary, to the Pope, as a
gift from the faithful Cubans.
The Indianapolis Herald has an
odd way of putting things. Here is
specimen: "A Fort Wayne citizen
returned to his home one day last
week, and @found-a pair of pants Tin
closing one hundred and fifty pounds
of fast young man) in his wife's bed
room. He kicked the doeskins into
the street, knocked his wife down
with a Ratchet, and broke five of her
ribs"
TIE Peoria Transcript says that
Hon. Sidney Breese, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Illinois, is
spoken of as the Copperhead candi-
date for President. Judge Breese
was on the carpet when Buchanan
was nominated, but the venerable
Old Pub. .Func. pushed him off the
track, and 1then, as if to insult the
Judge, sent him a commission as
United States Marshal, which he re-
fused with great wrath.
A Dresden correspondent writes:
Il do not notice that the New York
or Boston bellies are so much horri-
fed at the gods and goddesses, most
of whom are considerable nude, as
English accounts of American female
prudery would lead one to believe
they would be- Indeed, one would
hardly wonder if theywere, here in