The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-28
Personals.

chosen President of the Boston Board
OF Trade for the ensuing year
DIR. o. W. Holmes, it is reported, is
about to resign the Parkman Profess
sorship In Harvard College.
Senator Cornell is said to have sub
scrlbed 500, 900 toward a new radical
paper in New York city.
DR.. Laban M. Sanders, of Barn
stead, lately died from disease con-
tracted five years ago while perform
dissection. h 9o@ 500
Charles O'Connor, Esq, has been
invited to deliver the address before
the literary societies of Gen. Lees
College next Commencement.
Messrs. Moxon, publishers, in Lon
don, are receiving subscriptions to-
ward erecting handsome monument
over the grave of Charles Lamb, in
EdmonstOne churchyard.
Madame Ristori has performed fifty
times in New York. She will return
to that city in April. %.
Helen Western was the first to in
troduce the fashion now so universal
anon the ladies', of wearing a solita-
ry long curl swung over the left
shoulder
There are only two surviving off
GERS who served under Commodore
Perry at the battle of Lake Erie
Captain Stephen Champln, of Buffalo,
who commanded the gulboit Scor-
pion, and DIR. Usher Parsons, of
Rhode Island, Fleet Surgeon.
The family of Governor Isham
Harris has returned from Mexico to
West Tennessee. The Governor has
gone to Liverpool, where ne expects
to engage in commercial pursuits.
A son of Madame Ida Pfeiffer, the
celebrated traveller, has come to this
country, with his wife, on a musical
venture; he is a pianist and she a
singer, and the New York critics, af.
ter private hearing, speak well of
both.
The Duke Litta Arese was SC much
beloved at Milan, that when the pub
lie were informed of the extremity at
which he lay, thirty two of the most
eminent physicians of the city volun-
teered their services. They organ
lied into Society, with President
and Secretary, and. after debate, the
vote was taken, UiUG voce, upon the
treatment to be pursued-shall he be
cupped? bled? leeched? poulticed?
OF course, the Duke died.
Charles G. Williams, of Norwich
Connecticut, the brutal father who
recently nearly murdered his daughter
by starvation, receives in prison pres
ents from her Of oranges and other
dainties, and she has written him
very affectionate letter since escaping
from his severity Since his arrest
he has confessed the whole affair, and
among other things that he kept a gag
on the child for most of the time, and
without relief from Monday till
Thursday morning, and also deprived
her of all food during the time.
A young barber, named Freeman.
who married widow of forty. is su-
ing Zadock Street, a wealthy sexage-
marian, at New York. for $4,000 dam
ages, for seducing his FREEMAN 81 wife
The old man denies the soft impeach-
ment, and claims that the whole story
was made up to extort money.
A sister in-law of the member Of
Congress from St. Joseph (Missouri) |
District, during the war went to see I!
four rebels hung. The woman was
at the time. and soon after |
son was born to her whose tongue Tolls |
continuously from his mouth, and |
whose neck bears the appearance and |
goes through the convulsive motion
II one In the final agonies of suffoca-
ion.
The last survivor of the Montauk
tribe OF Indians, named Mary Walk
is, died at Shlnnecock, Long Island.
IN the 9th instant, aged 100 years
On the same day, Mrs. Nanoy TAYLOR
ICED 100 years, died at Eastnort
There is now but one centenarian I;v~
ng on the island-a Mrs. Arnett who
s llO years of age and resides in
brooklyn, and at present is in the en-.
oyment of good health.
David Russell Lee, for nearly thirty
ears connected with the press of New
York, as a reporter, died last week
lis entrance upon newspaper life was
lnder the following somewhat m
sual circumstances: He was a waiter
t the Astor House, and one dav
relating to the police at.
ractlng his attention, he wrote a com
to the Herald on the sub-
sct, which led to his connection with
hat journal as reporter.
Eli W. Gynne, the grea cattle king
{ Madison County, Ohio, died recent
:, leaving his great estate to his two
ons, residing in Columbus, giving to
ne farm of $500 acres. worth $50
n acre, and to the other 9. 300 acres .