The Evansville journal., 1867-12-23
Personals.

Davis's recent passage through Baltl-
more, is explicit enough to tell US that
he was dressed in male attire"
Bishop Potter has quasbed the in
dictment against Rev Stephen Tying,
on the ground that the crime ofpreach-
ing the gospel was out of his jurls-
diction.
Rstori, her husband and both her
children, take AT English lesson every
day The children speak it pretty
well already.
The Paris correspondents state that
the Austrian Emperor, at the grand
dinner given him by Napoleon, picked
chicken bones with his fingers. I'M
rortant, if true.
A partner in an eminent Boston
commercial firm, on looking into a
newspaper, suddenly inquired. " Who
is this Dickens they are making such
a fuss about?'
Susan B. Anthony calls George
Francis Train : a splendid specimen
of man, with magnificent physique,
who, with many eccentricities, has a
most lovely disposition"
Santa Fe had a public scandal on
| the 2ith inst. Chief Justice John p.
| Slough, formerly Of Cincinnati, on ac-
count of an official quarrel, made
street assault on Governor w. f. NJ.
| Army. The latter Is an old man and
non-com blatant.
You would not take me for twen-
typ said young lady to her partner,
while dancing, a few evenings ago.
Then what would you take mo for?"
For better or for worse, replied he.
The sales of the German transla-
tions of Bayard Taylor's works have
been so small that the publishers
have refused to issue any of his late
publications.
Louis Napoleon wrote, in 1848, for
the Paris Constitutional, articles In
which he tried to prove that any at
tempts made by foreign powers to up
hold the temporal power of the Papacy
by main force, would inevitably end
i in its utter overthrow.
We perceive by Mr.. Dickens ans
wer to the Toronto Mechanics Asso-
citation, which offered him ST., 900 in
gold for single reading. that he de-
clines to be made the object of spec
ulation, and will read, wherever he
goes, on his own responsibility.
Mrs. Cady Stanton complains that,
by the careless making up of the type,
Buffalo paper put part of Trains
| speech into her mouth, and she was,
among many other exploits, made to
boast that she did neither smoke, nor
chew, nor drink, nor lie, nor steal, nor
swear, as if such accomplishments
were usual among American women.
Mrs. Rachel Heath, the oldest in
habitant of Brownsville, Maine, died
| on the 23rd ult., at the age of 102
years and 3 months. She leaves nine
living children, the oldest of whom is
upward of 81 years old, and the young
est ) :. Mrs. Heath always had good
health to within about four weeks of
her death.
The Paris Pays says that the young
poet, whose ode on the death of Pres
ident Lincoln was recently crowned
| by unanimous resolution of the
French Academy. is going to give
three thousand francs of the proceeds
of his work to Mrs. Lincoln. Tie
editor of the Pays adds pathetically
to this item: " This will be the nob.est
stanza which the poet can add to his
| ode"
The newspapers are announcing that
Mrs Stowe is about to edit journal
in Boston devoted to the advocacy of
woman S rights. The Boston D0ilV
AdUertiser has the best authority for
saying that the story is wholly untrue
Mrs. Stowe does not propose to edit
any paper, and has not even been
asked to edit any. We should sup
| pose that she would be obliged to
those journals which have published
the false statement if they will now
publish the true one.
Hon. J T. Shugart, one of the Sen
ators elect from the twenty-frst dis
trict (Rlair, Huntingdon, Miff1in,
Centre, Juniata and Perry Counties),
| is spoken Of at Washington as the
prospective Commissioner of Patents
| Mr.. Shugart was for many years Chief
Clerk in the Patent Office, and if the
present Commissioner resigns, as it is
alleged he has, or will, no man in the
country IS more able or more worthy
to fill the place.
At a recent Plymouth Church
prayer meeting, one of Mr. Beecher's
| church members asked him whether
he gave his consent to the dramati :
| ing of " Norwood" After some dry
remarks by Mr. Beecher to the effect
that there was distinction between
a pastor toward church and as
man and literary worker, he ex-
! nlainad that har;nr disnnsed Of the