The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-07
Personals.

Secretary Seward offered to Garibaldi
the highest rank then known In our
army, if he would accept a commits
sion under the United States Govern
ment, at an early period of the late
war. Garibaldi declined.
Rev. w. A. Russell, of Trinity Col
lege, Dublin, is to be Bishop of the
new Bishopric Of Nigpo, China, about
to be founded.
1t is reported that Thurlow Weed
has been offered 81, 900, 900 to secure a
patent for Howe's needle sewing ma
chine for another ten years, the old
one expiring next Autumn.
The Rev. Ralph r. Gurley, of the
| African Colonization Society, and his
son, Mcdonald, left Charleston, Mon
day, for Liberia. They will stay five
months
Hume, the medium. has married a
| French woman named Meet. 1t he
does not reap the fruit of happy
marriage, he can certainly NOW it.
Charles Dickens writes to friend
in Montreal that he expects to give a
few readings In Canada In the latter
part of the month of April.
DR.. Hepburn, missionary in Japan
from the Presbyterian Board, has
completed his Japanese dictionary,
and is soon to begin the work of
translating the Scriptures into the
same language.
In the Robert College, at Constan-
tinople, of which DIR. Hamlin Is
President, there are seventy-six stu
dents of fourteen different ma
| tionalities. There are p Armenians,
Is Greeks, Is Bulgarians and,
smaller numbers of Turks, English,
Italians, etc.
Rev. FL. A. Nelson, D. D., of St.
Louis, and Rev. +. D. Morris, d. D.,
of Columbus, Ohio, prominent minis
tiers of the New School Presbyterian
Church, have accepted calls to two
vacant Professorships in Lane Semi
nary, Ohio.
! The Tifin Tribune says, Lieutenant
Georgia in 1862, to cut rebel commu-
nications, who visited Tifin a few
weeks since, shot himself through
the breast last week, in a Connecticut
town, while under the influence of
drink. He will probably not recover.
John Emmerson, former member
of Company I, 101st o. V. l., died
suddenly in Tifin few days ago. He
had just been weighing himself, and,
as he stepped from the scales, he fell
to the floor and Immediately expired.
He seemed to be in good health up to
the moment of his death.
A swindler, calling himself r. 7.
Coleman, bearing a forged letter of
introduction from Fl. B. Clafin, of
New York. has obtained S. 900 in
currency from the First National
Bank of Charleston. South Carolina,
besides check for 81 900 on the Ma
tional Bank OF Augusta, by deposit
ing checks on the First National Bank
and Suffolk National Bank of Bos-
ton. He decamped recently, and
nothing has since been heard of him
Miss Mann, who assisted Charles
@. Williams, of Norwich, Conn in
starving and maltreating his little
daughter, several months since, will
not be tried at all, and will escape
punishment by the payment of her
bonds of four hundred dollars. VIII
/ have thoroughly controlled, received
| five years in the State Prison.
A workman was prevented from
passing through the Garden of Lux
embourg, because the regulations for
bid persons without cravats from en-
tering the grounds. " | suppose it
is all right" he said, but it is hard
to exclude me because [ don't wear
a cravat, when you let twenty stat
ues in who haven't a pair of pants
among them.
While President Lincoln's child
lay dead at the White House, West
ern ofice-seeker persistently sought
an interview with him in order to
procure place about to be vacated
by resignation. The President rep
rimanded the applicant of his domes-
tic calamity, saying that the time for
such business as his was unseason-
able. Well, . said the fellow. how
soon does the funeral come OFF,
1t was announced that, at Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher's church, last
Sunday, the rite of baptism would be
administered with water brought from
the river Jordan, and that the wine
to be used at communion came from
Jerusalem. The wine and the water
were presents from Captain Duncan.
of the Palestine expedition.
The stepmother of Abraham Lin
coin still lives near Pennington, Coles
County, Illinois. in one-story log
cabin containing two rooms. Aunt