The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-17

Theatre, Havana, December LIST.
Governor Fenton, it is expected,
will sail for Europe on the 18th.
Norman P. Bortie, Of West Farm
ington, N. Y, accepts Robert Ways
! challenge to any man in the United
States to single jump tor 81 900 a
side. 1sss .-ias fs8g fs.srsIanr5ags 20 eise
General Fremont has purchased the
late residence, on the Hudson, of
General j. Watson Webb, our
Brazilian Minister. 80 - ga .5a.s
William Cullen Bryant and Hon.
| Henry L. Dawes, member of Congress,
were born in the same house ia Cum
mington, Mass. 80 - - 80. ma 'ze
/ Mrs Lincoln's household effects at
/ Spring6eld, Illinois, were to be sold
at public auction on Friday.
A report started that the President
is seriously i'll with Bright's disease
Eof the kidneys, is groundless.
John Ftrsyth, of Alabama, was one
liof the members of the Mobile City
| Council removed by Gen. Pope.
Governor Brownlew's health is bet
ter than it has been for some time.
His spirits are excellent.
Senator Wilson finds himself unable
from the illness of his wife to accept
Mr.. Pierce's invitation of visit to
Europe..s - as : Z 49, - 49, f 80, ~
|. Coy. Geary, of Pennsylvania, has
joined the Good Templars.e % Rsielaf =
Hiram Powers, the sculptor, will
visit the United States next Fall. %
+ Bonner publishes card in which
he withdraws all complaint against
Rev. Mr. McChesney, of Saratoga
Springs bna iae5-5 So = isaesssti 80
! The bridgeport Standard denies
the story that John Morrissey is the
purchaser of Mr.. Barnum's place In
! Bridgeport. The house was pur-
Broadway! New York, wealthy coal
dealer. Mr., Barnum has bought a
house on Fifth Avenue. near, For
tieth Street, New York, for 800, 900.
+ Wendell Phillips says that the rea-
son why, in 1865, he secuted the idea
of Furnishing Davis, was . because 1
saw that, with johnson in the White
House, and Greeley in the Tribune
/ the first traitor from excess of back.
bone, and the second equally in our
way from entire: want of one-justice
was an impossibility. a s.e -. !, I.
/ lis said that Col, Franck WICKER,
assistant engineer Of the late Russian
American expeditions, has been over
the whole coast of Walrussia, and is
now on his way to Washington to re-
| port.
| The church in New Haven, which
was built and owned by Gerald Hal
| lock, Esq, and which cost him $119,-
| 900, has been conveyed by the heirs
to body of trustees for the sum of
$25 600 1t is now under the pastoral
care of Rev. J. H., Carroll. The. es-
| .pecial object of this church is ITO
preach religion and not politics. "
Queen Victoria has conferred on
Sir Benjamin Guinness, the famous
| porter brewer, of Dublin, the heredi-
tary right to bear supporters to the
family arms, a distinction limited, ex-
cept in special cases, to the peers of
/ the realm. This favor is granted In
recognition of his munifcence in re-
storing st. Patrick's Cathedral
Henry Ward Beecher says that any
| number of people have come to him
and declared that he ought not to
write a novel, that it was not ministe-
rial, &c.; but that when these good
/ people begin to tie him down, he is
disposed to fight nevertheless. aa g
l-sH : 4 b
/ Mr.. Rangabie, the first minister
from Greece accredited to the United
States Government is now in Boston
on his way to Washington He will
visit the Boston institutions, under
the charge of the members of the city
government, before his departure.
1t is understood to be the intention
/ of the Sultan of Turkey TO visit Queen
of July, after he has completed his
visit to the Emperor Napoleon and
the Paris Exposition.
1 DIR. Manton, Puritan minister.
| preached 100 sermons on the 18th
psalm. b That was nothing to what
some other preachers have done, to-
wit: preach more than 100 sermons
without either psalm or sense. 9
bflGeneral Neal Dow was recently
asked by a venerable Englishman
when the United States Government
was going to pay off the rebel bonds.
His answer was, !" When you pay off
the Fenian bonds"
In reply TO the question regarding
the age of his grandparents, a recent
applicant for life insurance at a Pitts
field, Mass, Office, replied: : All my
grandparents were over ninety when