The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-18
THE EVANSVILLE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY. JANUARY 49, 1857
Personals.

P. e. Rev. Mr.. Fisk, of Cincinnati,
has replied to Bishop McIlvaine's at
tack on Ritualism.
Professor s. F. B. Morse, now in
Paris, has purchased Allston's !" Jere-
miah" for 81 900, for presentation to
the Yale School of the Fine Arts.
+ Ex-Alderman I. w. Ingersoll, of
Detroit, is heir, with less than twenty
other persons, to $16,000,000, the ac-
emulation of sum deposited forty
years ago by his maternal grandmoth-
er, in the Orphans Court of Holland.
NJ. Victor Hugo is said to be build
ing theatre near his residence in
Currency, where two unperformed
plays by him, Iorquemddd and La
| Grand mere are to see the footlights.
The pamphlets written at various
periods by the late Mr.. Golden have
been reprinted, and will shortly APP
pear in two volumes. bo
Captain Samuels, formerly of the
Fulton, and now of the victorious
yacht Henrietta, has been appointed
by the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany, to command In their line, and
have assigned him one of their new
steamships, now in process of con-
struction for the China trade.
Z; John Cheney, a hunter of the Adj.
rondacks, possesses a pistol with
which be claims he has killed 1880
deers, IL offers, L panther, % bears.
| 10 wolves, a moose, and other game
without number He has carried the
pistol twenty two years. ~.
A fraternal dinner party: Governor
Fenton had the three chief candidates
for U. S. Senator, Conkling, Harris
and Davis, to dine with. him at Albany,
on Tuesday.
The death is recorded at Bergerac,
in the Dordogne, Of a widow named
Pillaud, at the age of los years. The
funeral service was performed by the
son of the deceased, priest, aged 80,
who is cure of Beaumont-lu-P erigord.
A few days ago tobacconist at
Berlin, on opening package from st.
Domingo, was astOnished to find near
the top of it the dried human hand of
negro, and a little further down a
bowie knife. lesion
Gen. A. Duryee, formerly Colonelof
the 7th Regiment National Guard and
9Th Regiment Zouaves, has recently
been brevetted Major General of Vol
unteers for gallantry at the battles of
Cedar Mountain, Thoroughfare Gap,
Groveton, South Meuntain,i and An
tietam. et l7tsso 7is .l.ie
Mr.. Bethemy, the new French Min
lister, now occupies the mansion lately
the residence of the Marquis Mon
tholon 2 t9s
Hon. Mr.. Thurlow, whose wife, a
daughter of the late Lord Elgin, has
heretofore formed a chief attraction
Of the British Embassy at Washing
ton, has been transferred to the
Hague. ms22e 5os ffz4t
Gen. Mcclellan is expected back
from Europe early in the Spring. i'll
A member Of the Wisconsin Legis-
lature, who took rooms at hotel,
blew out the gas light on Tuesday
night on retiring ttowbed. The next
morning he was found nearly dead,
but will probably recover. He is a
Representative from Green County
A farmer who lately died near
Montpelier left $4,000 in his will to
his wife, to be her property as long as
she remains unmarried, and, after her
death, to be used in erecting a monu-
mcnt. But if the widow gets mar
ried, she is to have only $4,000. and
the remaining 81 900 is to be expend-
ed on the monument. aJaHi
Mrs. Roxana Dwight was lately
fined one cent and costs, at Proyi-
dence, for striking Ellen Curtis in the
face, because she put her arms around
Mr.. Dwight's neck and asked him to
go to the theater with her.
In Paris a young man thinking it
wrong for his father to marry a second
time, at the age of sixty-nine, took
upon himself to condemn his parents
to death for the offense, and executed
the sentence with his own hand. -
John B. Cough, in his lecture on
Curiosity at Boston, Tuesday evening,
read letter from man who asked
for an autograph letter to keep as a
momentum, and hoped he wouldn't
be considered a boar for making