The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-15

Dor among the ElOIlud UldcAS.
A Texan Sam Patch is amusing
Houston, by jumping into the bayou
from a height of eighty feet. II
A girl fourteen years of age, carries
the mail between Stone House and
Manassas Station, Va, a distance OF
81 mlles.riH baa aiGN lsasao ~ aAf
The fees of the Auditor of Hamil-
ton County, Ohio, (C%incinnati,)
amount to $35 900 per annum, and the
Deputy Auditor realizes $4,000 in
addition. f&4 Z hah tsss
The London Str gives currency to
a rumor hat Mr.. james Gordon
Bennett, jr, of the New York Her.
aid, intends to bring out a daily pa
per in London, ere long sos
Smith is quite numerous in New
York, this year, there being 1880 OF
him. a4 zsIbaaa2
Henry Ward Beecher has seen the
Japanese and has preached a sermon
illustrated from their performances.
General Tom Thumb has acquired
a slight moustache since he went
abroad. .sss4ss nf3FeT .H l. IA - ssna
Governor Worth, of North Carroll
ma, wore Confederate gray at the
reception Of President johnson, in
Raleigh. .iss4le bsEtf daYih aessao|
A Richmond paper says that a son
of General Grant attended court in
that city, the other day. and was hon
ored with a seat beside the justice.
The largest income returned in
Pittsburgh, Pa, is that of VIM. Thaw,
$156, 708; ID. Hostetter Stomach Bit
ters), returned $72.232; Congressman
J.@K. Morehead, $25. 1927. 49, ..5sf
Henry J.adRaymond, of the New
York Times, will sail for Paris in
July. His wife resides there most of
the time, for the education of their
children. 7aFa AnA tfaiAAi8
The Democratic Convention for
Carroll and Trimble Counties, KY,
recently, nominated Jesse D. Bright,
of Indiana notoriety, for Represents
tive in the State Legislature.
> Judge Thurman, Democratic can
didate for Governor of Ohio, refused
In 1865, to take, in the United States
District Court, the oath of allegiance
required from lawyers by the act of
Congress. 8i 81
We learn from the New York Ga
zete that Mr.. Bancroft head is COW
cred with close, thick, short white
hair, and that he wears side whiskers
in the English style, but neatly trim
med.
Mr.. Seldom. the ex-Confederate
Secretary of War, is working his fine
farm in Goochland county, Va. He
does not meddle with public affairs,
and says he is out of the political
ring.
AT the silver wedding of Joseph Ell.
Pardee and wife, of East Haven, re-
Gently, one of the gifts was a beauti-
full loaf of cake, in the frosting of
which were neatly embedded twenty
five silver half dollars.
The Prince of Wales has called
upon the editor of the Punch request
ing him to resist from caricaturing
his mother, saying he considered
some things which had appeared in
Punch as highly respectful to her
Majesty.
Queen Victoria is the subject of
much foolish scandal in England just
now. 1t is said hat she drinks more
wine than she ought to; that she is
exceedingly touchy In temper, and so
parslmlnous that she scrimps the SER
wants In their bread and butter.
Peterson & Brothers, the American
publishers of Mrs. Woods works,
have in press, and will publish in a
few days an entirely new novel from
her pen, entitled "Orville College,"
which isssaid to be equal in interest
and denouement to East Lynne"
Fl. Ell. Helper and A. B. Chaplin
propose to publish,~in Raleigh, N. G..
a semi weekly and weekly newspaper,
to be entitled the Raleigh Register.
The object is declared to be to ad-
vance the cause of Republican pr.
ciples.
At one of Mr.. Beecher's recent
Friday evening meetings, a woman
arose and made most ridiculous re-
marks. When she had finished, Mr..
Beecher quietly exclaimed: NOT
withstanding this, / still am in favor
of woman's speaking in meeting"
The Lynchburg, Virginia, Repubh-
can speaks of the rarest specimen
of humanity that we have beheld for
many years " as a colored gentleman
named Daniel johnson, who present.
ed himself to us yesterday. Daniel is
exactly six feet eight inches high,
and lost a leg at the first battle of
Manassas while waiting on A. P. Hill.