The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-06

the New York Commercial A advertiser,
writes that the police of Washington
are actively engaged in making" de-
scents upon the gambling houses of
that city, now that there is no danger
of capturing stray Congressman.
8 An amiable daughter of Grey
Cooper, at Portland, Connecticut, who
had been divorced from her husband,
called her father a liar, few at him
like wild cat, scratched his face,
and then locked him up in a cellar
during little unplsasantness, the
other day. Her husband must have
led jolly life.
s. In an article onithe clubs of New
York, the Post says: The Union is
a strictly social club, but is quiet and
very aristocratic. The members are
mostly wholesale merchants and gem,
tlemen Of much wealth and respecta-
sbility-no retail merchants being
members. unless it be Mr.. A. T..
Stewart ss8s9a4 lIa aJlN Aazl.sya
The New. York Tribune remarks:
Another novel by Miss Muloeh Chat
was) entitled Two Marriages., shows
that she9is as devoted to her john
Halifax. Gentleman, y as Reubens was
to his wife, who appears in his every
painting, figuring in every character
from fsh-wife to Madonna. What
ever figure Miss MULCH calls up,
John Halifax is sure to appear. The
new j ohm 81 is a Liverpool merchant
named Sir John, Bowerbank, who is
married by a lady vino has been sadly
disappointed and wishes to lead a
quiet life, with a good man whom she
can respect. However, she never gets
oyer her first love, which a purse
proud parent has disappointed, and
dies prematurely, murmuring dear
John, leaving Sir John perplexed to
know whether the thought was of him
or of the former lover, whose name
was also john ee..s nsses
A man at Boston who minds his
own business has sold Holsters in
front of Faneuil Hall for twenty
years, and has seen the whole to-
Biography, of the city where he was
born seventy years ago changed, was
inside the State. House for the first
time the other day. ai.. $50 legsiGI
Mr.. john Brougham sails for Lon
don this week He goes over to
manage the London Lyceum, which,
in connection with Mr.. Florence, he
has taken for the Summer. Two new
plays by Mr., Brougham are to be
brought OUT The Lottery of, Life,
and The Lily of Rome. 2 ol sya,l 6sfl
"A mot Of NJ. Theirs against the
Empire is being repeated in the Paris
saloons. s How is it, M. Theirs, that
you did not insist more strongly in the
Chamber, on having interpellations on
the Euxemburg business? You should
have stood firm, and gotten up agita-
ton, SO as to produce greater impress
sion on the public" Ahl you know,
we must not makes noise in the room
of sick mani oiiso a.o44 Fssf1fa cos.
A correspondent in New York
writes that Gen. Lewis Wallace has
come back. from Europe His pres
ence in that city is supposed to have
something to do with the departure of
troops for Mexico. .sg..s ..s.sas...sr ..,r1 =,
Mr.. Buchanan, whose fortune is
reckoned at $500, 900, is the richest of
our surviving ex Presidents. ht
His Majesty, the King of Sweden
and Norway, has conferred upon Capt |
John Ericsson, the well-known in
ventor of the Iron monitors, the
Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of |
the Polar Star. Iisr lsa ~ Iaaasvai ara