The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-07
Personals
Madam LIE Vert IS still at the Cliff.
ton House, N iagara Falls

appointed justice Of the peace by Gen.
Ord. Stg
Murdoch will, after retiring from
the stage, open a school of elOcution
near Cincinnati 10
The Empress Eugene is reported as
being afflicted with rheumatism, the
| resultof severescold. III
The wife of Mr.. Lee, who drew the
Chicago Opera House. died on the
Goth at Prairie du Rocher, Illinois,
EOliva Logan is engaged.to write the
| operate and dramatic critiques of the
| Turf, Field and Farm.
The wife of the notorious Count
Johannes has sued for a divorce on
account of the cruelty of her Hege
lord. art
Arthur Sketchley, the distinguished
English comic writer, has lately ar
rived in this country.
The Providence Herald has col
ored correspondent in Paris; his name
is Henry Quinn.
Nitro-glycerine was discovered in
1847 by an italian chemist named
Sombrero.
One Mary Pyle has been fined
$43 774,7a at Philadelphia for being a
common scold.
George Augustus Sala will probably
become the next correspondent OF the
London Times in America.
Rev. George L. Williams, the Vir-
ginia clergyman accused of pocket
picking In New York. has abandoned
the ministry.
London Times John Oxenford has
returned to England. His American
Experience was confined to New
York.
Kirby Smith is teaching high school
in Tennessee, under the auspices of
the Southern Episcopal Theological
University.
The Emperor Of the French paid
the funeral expenses-5,097 francs
of the late M.cPonsard, the dramatic
actor. = =
Sterling Price was fifty-seven years
old. He died of Chronic diarrhea,
which he contracted during his expe-,
rience as1a refugee in Mexico.
Rev. NJ. L. P. Thompson, formerly
of the Second Presbyterian Church,
of Cincinnati, has accepted a call to
the Presbyterian Church of James
town, New York. :
Joseph, M. Dawson, the low come
dian at the louisville Theater, died
| iu that city night before last, Of rheu-
matism Mr.. Dawson was born in
Yorkshire, England, in 1922.
J. p. Parker, proprietor of the
Phoenix Foundry, at Ripley, Ohio,
was runaway slave. who came to
town with five dollars in his pocket.
He is now worth over $4,000.
George Francis Trains celebrated
dinner speeches in London, which
used to be reproduced at such length
in this country, were delivered, we are
told, to adozen boon companions in
chop-house down the Strand.
James Gordon Bennett, ST., and
| Max Maretzekz have kissed and be-
come friends again. 1t is also report
ed that the opera lible suit against the
Sunday lnercaay is about to be set
tied. All is well that ends we'll.
General David Hunter has just
purchased $25, 900 house on E street,
ia Washington. The house is very
elegant one, and sold for much less
than its original cost 1t was built by
Senator Gwinn, of Louisiana.
A fashionable lady of Reading,
Pennsylvania, a woman of culture and
refinement, was found in the streets of
that city on Monday. in a state of
brutal intoxication, and uttering most
shocking language. A gentleman ac-
quaintance happened to meet her, and
conducted her away to her home.
Thomas Darcy McGee has Joined
the Total A bstinance Society, not only
for the next Canadian legislative SEES
sion, but, as he-says, with the help Of
God, for all time" He confesses to
have been a hard drinker, and that
the habit told on his best resolutions
The latest account from the great
tailors' strike in London show that on
the 9Th inst, out of the $500 men who
had struck, about half had obtained
work in other shops Some had de-
serted the1U Union, others had gone into
the country, and about two hundred
] had emigrated to America.
r A WestYirginia correspondent say.
, that he asked one of the natives wha
he remembered of Stonewall Jackson
The man said: He was pinted out
to me aprayin', and | went out AMI
axt him tor geuard when he go