The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-19

Mr.. Webb makes about 500, DOC
profit on the Dunderberg.
DR.. George w. Shields. of Phila-
delphia, has been a victim of the
yellow fever at New Orleans.
Mr.. N. Marache, chess editor of
Wilkes Spirit of the Times, has been
obliged to resign his duties, on ac-
count of sickness. & K saH al 2 g
John Oxenford, the well known
dramatic critic of the London Times,
has arrived IN this country, and will
write book about u.s. aea q
Robert. Buchanan has a poem on
sCharmian in the opening number
of the Broadway.
Alexander Mitchell is talked of as
the Democrat C candidate for Gov
ernor of Wisconsin.
Dickens is certainly coming to this
country, his agent having LETT Eng
land to arrange the preliminaries.
In Preston, England, young man
was lately bought out of the army by
a maiden aunt, and in return he mar
red her.
Gen. Frank Blair is disguised with
politics, and il going into the in
surance business in ST. Louis.
General Mcclellan has been nomi-
mated as candidate for the next
Presidency by a Democratic ward
meeting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
George Ingrahafn. a day laborer at
Boston, has recently fallen heir, with
nineteen, Others of the family, to an
estate In England worth 81 900, 900.
His share will be $4,000
G. Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal
for Scotland, who has recently made
thorough examination of the great
pyramid of Egypt, thinks he has fixed
the date of its erection, by certain
astronomical calculations, at 2.170 B..
O.. His theory is at least open to
criticism.
Colonel Booker, promising young
officer of the French army, who be-
longsto1on of the first families in
France, has recently married Miss
Clara Louise Edgerton, of New York,
who il said TO be- young, beautiful.
highly educated, elegant and refined.
Parson Beecher is writing a five
act drama for Edwin Booth. 1t will
be ready for production as soon as
Mr.. Booths new theater In Twenty
third Street is finished - toward
Christmas. The plot turns upon some
incidents Of the recent civil war. and
one of the heroes is old John
Brown, whose soul is supposed to be
I" marching on"
Chaplain Ives stated at,the Auburn
(N. \ } Prison. the other day, that he
had been chaplain of the prison for
ten years, and that he firmly believed
that if the sale of intoxicating liquors
could be stopped, Auburn and Gin |
ton prisons could be used in FIVE
years from now for agricultural COL /
leges.
Mrs Mira Abby. a poetess, whose |
name was better known thirty years |
ago than it is to-day. died in England |
last month. Her mother was the sis
ter of Horace and James Smith Mrs.
a bdy's earliest verse appeared in the
Neao Monthly Magazine, under the
initials M. A, and she afterwards
contributed TO the Metropolitan, Nag
azine, while it was under the charge
of Campbell. M#
Jim. Emmit, of Waverly, Pike
County, OHIO, the Copperhead candi-
date for the State Senate In his dis
triet, is the whisky :. nabob =" of tie
Seiota Valley-makes more corn into
whisky than any man in Ohio. He
is, withal, says the Marietta Register.
a man of literary attainments and
spells the word Europe thus: U-r-i-pt
The Hon. George G. German. the
candidate for Governor of
California, was q newspaper carrier
IN New London, Conn, when a bov.
and so obtained means to pay his
schooling.
Alexander FL. Stephens does not
hold himself responsible for the
opinions attributed to him by CORES
,ondents of the papers, who have re-
gently visited him He is trying to
get well enough to express his views
IN the political situation in public
speech.
At Loyettsville,s Va, few DAYS
ince, afcolored man aged 108 wears
vas registered Twelve others beyond
o years of age were registered there.
nd at Hillsboro, Isaac Camp, aged |
% years, came forward and registered.
The Hon. Sidney Clark, member of
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