The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-26
PERSONALS,

<Mllllgal, the Don OF LlDerty cO1Spl-
rator who cheated the gallows, is on
the Democratic stump in Ohio.
Leonard Case, a young man not
much over twenty years of age, is the
wealthiest man In Cleveland. 3 f
Kinglake's conclusion of his
Crimean war is announced to be nearly
ready. .atetse.s ,,l -aauI
Pierce Butler, the husband of Fanny
Kemble B., died lately on his estate In
Georgia. ono st7s4tl s'"e'1se
BIG. Harris is mentioned as one of
the candidates for Governorship of
Maryland. seeo flsd7 10 aHs1ly a
General Early is in Canada, and
contemplates American politics with
extreme disgust, ssma ~
Mr.. Pope Hennessey will leave Eng
land to assume the governorship of
Labuan in September. hi
Bright's friend, Henry Vincent, de-
livered a. lecture on America after he
got back to liverpool IS se5
Robert Kerr Of Marion Co., Ohio.
has lately given $50. 900 to the Hiram
College in that State. 9n
Little Lolita is playingin New York,
in a new dramatization' of the "Old
Curiosity Shop" She presents both
Little Nell and the Warehouses =
two of the most unlike characters con-
ceivable. zig .s..a lie'st s. 2Foni aiso"
Horace Greeley has printed two in
stallments of his autobiography, and
has not yet got his ancestors out of
Ireland Does Bonner pay by the
column?
Sylvanus Thayer, Esq, of Brain,
tree. Mass, has paid to the authorities
of Dartmouth College $40, 900 of his
recent bequest to that institution. ~
The Tennessee Central College has
called the Rev. w. f. Mallalieu of
Bos ton to its presidency, and he will
probably accept. o,,s., .,.. nes,a.oy''i
The Rev. Alvah Sabin, Member of
Congress from Vermont from 1853 to
1857, has left the State and removed
to the West. sfia1f aA-1Iod oH
Mr.. Greenwood. a member of the
late insolvent firm in San Francisco,
has died from the effects of mental
anxiety. - FISH .s. III, .s sIr r
Madame Ristori has, through the
society for the encouragement Of dra-
matte art at Florence, offered a prize
for the best comedy. l,,., ,,,s,..r,' .,nf
The latest story is, that Carlotta was
poisoned during her voyage to Rome,
and that she was all right when she
reached Europe from Mexico. ~ asdi
The largest income returned at San
Francisco last year, was that of Floinza
Hayward, the owner of a coal mine.
1t was $685. 1893. 'A 'N t,'AA.''l
The statement that Gov. Fenton has
pardoned Capt Orville Root, SEN
fenced to fifteen years in the State
Prison for burglary, is untrue. Gov.
Fenton has declined to pardon Root
Ristori will positively sail from
Brest, September LIST. and make her
appearance on the New York stage,
September 18th.
Laura Keene has given to the buyer
of the lamentated Lincoln's house, in
Springfield, pleasant little souvenir
in the shape of piece of the dress she
wore on the night of the assassination,
stiff with the dried gore of the martyr.
The donee has had it framed and hung
up. Ia bstH1 ut
Mr. Beecher and Mr.. Bonner have
kindly consented to allow the dra-
matization of Norwood, to be IN
dertaken by two promising young
Pensioners of Plymouth Church. % 1t
is understood that the quiid pro quo is ]
the permission to Mr.. Beecher to work
up Under the Gaslighto into moral
tale for the Ledger. .[IL "a ~ .na
1t is announced that the Hon. Will
liam B. Kinney, for long time editor
of The Ne,oork advertiser. and subse-
quently Minister to Sardinia, is en-
gagged upon history of Tuscany, to
which he has devoted more or less of
his time for ten years past.
b. FL. Hill has been elected to the
Law Professorship or the University
of Georgia, succeeding the late Judge
Lumpkin. At the recent commence
ment the students were entertained at /
the residence of MIR. Hill, the occasion
calling together many of the wits, 4
jurists, statesmen, orators and beau
ties of Georgia., according to The
Savannah Ne,cs and Herald.
Mr.. Dolby, the agent of Mr.. Dickens,
arrived in the Java last week, and is l
now in New York. He comes to pre-
pare the way for a course of readings.
by Mr.. Charles Dickens in our princi-
pal cities. Mr. Dolby will look over
the ground carefully, and if it appears
that, the enterprise will be attended |