The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-18

Sunday. aiti- -ll9
George w. Ellery, the last man
living whose father signed the De-
claration of Independence, died at
Newport last week. o09
The Round the World Joe" pa
pers, in}the February number of Orr
Young Folks, are attributed to DR.. j.
W. Palmer. Eng is9ili sLil r - ~
Hon. John N. IngersollA has fallen
heir to German estate worth $780,
600. .aA5A $50
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., was mar
ried in New York last week to Miss
Alice Gwynne.
Nashville is without theatricals,
but Laura Keene and company will
be there next week.
Bayard Taylor, while in Europe,
will write for the AAaatic Monthly
and New York Fribnne. IL
Jennie June is special fashion cor,
respondent for a score of papers, and
one letter answers for all. 1i
Helen Western appeared at Nc
nVicker's, in Chicago, on Monday
evening, after an absence from that
city of ten years. Each found the
other considerably heftier. -
A third head of the great Cardinal
Richelieu has been found, and it is
thought more will be forthcoming.
This shows how much easier it is to
get ahead of him when dead than
while he was living
Rev. Joel Lindsey, who whipped
his own little son to death because he
wouldn't say his prayers, has been
convicted of manslaughter, and sem
fenced to five years Imprisonment in
the State Prison at Auburn. This is
a most righteous verdict
Ross, private soldier during the
war, has become u S. Senator from
Kansas.
We see it stated that George d.
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal,
is about to collect and issue in sub
stantial form his numerous fugitive
poems, which from time to time, for
years past, have been adorning the
pages of various periodicals, floating
as SO many diamonds in jeweled cask-
cts, upon the great sea of our litera-
ture, abandoned apparently to their
fate. a
A letter from Florence says Ball
has nearly completed his statute (he-i
roic size) of Edwin Forrest in the.
character of .Coriolanus. The figure
is destined for some public room in
Philadelphia. e
The Home Journal announces that
in the future Sthe paper will be
owned and edited by George Perry, j.
H. Elliott and Morris Phillips-the,
business name and style of the firm
to be Morris Phfllips& Co. $50
The Richmond Times names Gen.
Lee for Governor, and says: Until
he speaks, we trust that no inferior
man will dare to outrage public opin
ion in Virginia by venturing to solicit
an Office which Lee may not feel au-
thorized to decline"
A gambler at Salt Lake City, recent
ly, being unlucky at cards, took off
his coat, hat, pants, and vest, and
stood in his drawers while he bet the
rest of his clothes away. Fortune
came to his rescue, and he quit the
game several hundred dollars ahead.
Jules Favre is candidate for mem
bership in the French Institute, made
vacant by the death of Cousin.
Bennett, Jr., will visit his fathers
birthplace before his return. The
spot is In the village of Newmill, OPP
posite Keith, Scotland.
Mrs. Wilby Kicked a conductor in
the mouth, at Erie, Pa, because that
unhappy man would not let herself
and husband get on the train without
showing their tickets.
The Petersburg Eva. Leader crea-
ted an excitement the other day, by
announcing its intention of publishing
the names of all ladies of fifty years
and upwards !" hVo
William Prosser, aged, ninety-four
years, lives in Iowa. His fathers
mother lived to the age of one hun
dred and fourteen years, raising TWEEN
ty children. The last two Twins
were born after she was sixty years
"a man at Lansing, Michigan AM in
sane from religious excitement on
the goth ultimo, swallowed a silver
Watch-chain about foot long and
threerelghths of an inch across the
links; He had to be tied up to keen
him from ON swallowing the watch also.
The New York Gazette. of Tburs
day. says: Half of the mant,scr;nt &c
Henry Ward Beecher's- story is to be
IN the. hands of his publishers This
week. HIS title is reported to be
The Call of Clergyman, and will con-
tain much Of his life and many IF his