The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-05

brigham Cung tltncS are Saiu u
amount to $500, 900. --..e.-., -.
The veterans of 1872, at Buffalo.
have nominated s. P. Chase for the
Presidency.
DIR. Mary Walker is walking
through the Paris hospitals in bloom :
er costume.
The mother of Hon. Cassius M.
Clay died in Madison County, KY,
recently, aged 80 years. - 1s.9s. s-s. +
John Morrisey is said to have made
upward of 100000 in stock opera
tions in Wall Street last week.
The Boston Transcript says: "Gen.
Sheridan has one of the finest minds
in the country. His brain works
with great celebrity, and seizes upon
the vital points of the situation with
unerring certainty" "a
The Prince of Wales is alluded to
by the London Star as the young
man who wears bob-taiI coats and
billy-cock hats, and smokes in a car
riage with ladies. !" 8aaa.zs soxr
Ezra Cornell, who is now building
100000 mansion at Ithica, few
years since was raising garden sass
for living on the shores of Cayuga
Lake. = 1-3I4 AF.1
1t is reported in Paris that NJ
Louis Blanc is preparing a collection
of the private papers of the Emperor
Macmillan for publication.
The fact that the Egyptian loan is
to be postponed indicates that the
Pasha of Egypt has been studying
economy in financial management
while in London.
A pulpit prodigy, named Mansey,
who is said to rival Sturgeon in elo-
quence and command of language, is
astonishing the people and making
many converts in Southwestern Vir-
ginia.
Juarez. the President of Mexico,
lived in New Orleans few years ago.
and carried on the business of manu-
featuring cigars. He was at that time
a political refugee.
Sir Morton Peto clings to his seat
in Parliament, although he cannot
vote. He does not want to give the
conservatives chance to send a man
in his place. Gg.TE II ~ |
Rev. Stephen III. Tying, Jr., (Epis-
copal, is to be tried for preaching in
a Methodist church. Commenting on
this fact, the New York Herald re-
marks: 8 1t is held in the Episcopal
Church, it seems. that there may be
too much preaching, too much pray
ing, and too much performance of the |
church service"
Queen Victoria is building a new
house in the Scottish Highlands,
seven miles from any other dwelling.
She intends it to be place of retire |
ment for herself and a few select
friends
The ex-rebel but non-fghting Gen.
John 5. Preston, of South Carolina,
is in Paris, and lives in great style on
the Champs Elysees. He carries An
drew Johnson's pardon in his pocket,
fully indorses his "a. J's) policy, and
is as bitter rebel as ever.
Mrs. Gwin, wife of the celebrated
+" Duke" Gwin, is in Paris, with her
unmarried daughter. Gwin himself
is said to be in America.
Brigham Young lately elected Mr..
Howard. an Irish gentleman from the
Tabernacle. Great excitement pre-
vailed for a short time. Young
apologized, and Howard was satisfied.
The cause was SANDER.
Rev. Henry w. Bellows, now So
Journlng IN Paris, writes that !. Napo-
leon has a poor walk. and an unin-
teresting presence. He looks care
worn and cold, anxious and reserved.
his ceuntenance is pallid and his
expression deprecatory. There is
nothing to excite enthusiasm in his
look and manner. In private he is
reported as mild-spoken, amiable,
and of quick intelligence; but his
face is both impressive and unpromis-
in-. All the portraits fatter him."
John Slidell is at present living
near Paris, as we'll as his son-in-law,
Erlanger, the Hebrew banker. It is
said, and on apparently good author
ity, that, although he is most anxious
to pass his last days in America, he
has latterly given up all hope of ever
again seeing his native land. There
is also well accredited story that he
fully accepts the situation, and would
assist. should he be allowed
to return, in completing the radical
plan of reconstruction r.-r1
Mr. Stetson, of the Aston House.
has related to few an anecdote of
Mr.. Webster, with whom he was for ,
a long time. very intimate. On. one
occasion-ten or twelve years before
his sdeath-Webster was IN his room,
a dozen gentiemen with him to due.
One OF them asked the great Daniel:
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