The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-30
Personals.

cape with his life, but loose his prop
erty.E fH 49, ar TEF i9H
Charles HI. Sweetser has sold out
his interest in the New York Euening
I Gazette and retired. e4 .'ala' ~
An exchange thinks Carlyle's liter
airy peculiarities may be accounted for
by dyspepsia. roi'csi.s sis sasai1a
George P. Kane, of Rebel notoriety,
has declined the Democratic nomina-
ton for sheriff of Baltimore. 80.
Anna Dickinson and George Fran
els Train have been sent for by the
female suffragist on duty in Kansas.
M. Mittmayer. a noted Journalist
and professor at Heidelburg, died re-
Gently. He was born at Munich, in
1887. L"ot $500
E. 2. G. Judson (''Ned Buntline'')
is working in the temperance cause in
Westchester. and Putnam, counties,
New York. sass
Gen. Charles G. Halpin miles o.
Riley is stated to be in very poor
health, and his recent ramblings on
the sea shore have not improved it.
Mr.. Charles Kean has nearly recov-
cred his health, and will soon resume
his readings, but it is doubtful if he
will again appear on the stage. f.,
Miss Avonia Jones (Mrs. Broke is
said to be seriously i'll. She has been
compelled to surrender all her engage
ments, and has been ordered to Cuba
for her health. + M
The last story about Maggie Mitchell
is that she is soon to marry Boston
journalist, to whom she has been en-
gagged for fifteen years. A Detroit
paper mentions that Maggie has one
husband already. u ia
Senator Sumner wilIlecture at Dub
uque, October 10; at Bloomington,
Illinois, October 81; at Mount Pleas
ant, Iowa, October "a; Des Moines,
October %; Iowa City, October 26;
Davenport, October %. Neoss . -es
Carlotta recently had an interview
with the Duke d Aumalc, her uncle,
and the Prince de Joinyille. She
recognized them and conversed some
time, but took leave of them with
GOODNESS because they would not mem
ton Mexico. Y aa.au. 5..i .s.s.
In personal appearance the late Sir
Frederick Bruce was called hand
some man, though looking older than
be actually was. In conversation he
was, more than usually brilliant, and
was especially esteemed in Washing
ton circles snia7svos, 4.s..s - o.la Go
Two pretty'nieces of the late Cen
eral Phil. Kearney, are about to marry
the Hon. Messrs. Wellesley and Fame,
gentlemen of the English aristocracy.
Each ofthe young ladies. besides own
ing immense estates in New Jersey. is
worth $50,0 year in her own right.
Citizens of Indianapolis have taken
life insurance as follows: james NJ
Ray, $50. 900; Charles A. Ray. $75, 900;
Edward King. SAG, 900; Frank Wright,
$50, 900; III. w. Comstock, $35, 900;
Lucien Hills. $4,000; E. B. Martin
dale, $4,000; Thomas Cottrell,
A Trafalgar hero. Robert Christie,
has just died at Alloa, at the age of
ninety eight. He was engaged in
nearly forty battles and skirmishes,
and never received a wound; he re-
tired in 1920 on pension of twenty
pounds, which he received till his
death
The poet Barthelemy, who died late
ly in France, received some odd obitu-
airy notices. Here is one from the
Solnt Public, of Lyons:
He served all parties. and took
money from all dynasties and govern
ments of France. His poetical talen is
were very Inferior. The less there is
said about him the better"
The New York Commercial Adrer-
tiser says: I'VE trust it is not true
that the surviving relatives of Wilkes
Booth have requested leave of the
government to place the remains of
that wretch near the grave of his
| father, the eminent tragedian. A
pseudo regard for brother does not
| justify an outrage to the memory of a
| father"
Divine Adelina Patti" has brought
Paris to her feet again at the reopen
| ing of the Italian Opera She made
| her re-entre as Amina in Sonnambula,
and was received with the greatest en-
| thusiasm. The choicest contest of the
| Paris flower. shops and greenhouses,
forming no less than fifty monster bo-
quets, were thrown at her feet.
The finest woman in the world" is
| being exhibited in a booth on the
/ Champs de Mars. Those who visit
her are addressed by her in the follow
ling modest style: l ara TIE most
| beautiful woman in the world. No
empress, ne queen, can compare with