The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-08
PERSONALS.

They say that Henry Russell, the
musical composer, is to be knlghted.
Shakesperian motto for a photogra-
pher: "Of with his head I"
Verdi's new opera, Don Carlos. was
brought out at Paris on the llth OF
March. Z - z ~ l640c
Ananias William james Andrew
Jackson Jones, is registered colored
voter in Washington. He ought to
vote. 7afar-l ss7Ht 4la aaggf SIT .'.f
Garibaldi is reported as having
said that a certain article published
in the London Times cost some sixty
thousand dollars. This, however, is
denied. .f.. - ..e5.gs ~ ss
e. P. Wbipple has written. at the
request of Mr.. Fields, an essay on
Dickens, which will probably appear
in the next number of the Atlantic.
1t is said to be one of his finest.
I The celebrated tenor, Tamberlik, is
in Paris, on his way from st. Peters
burg to Madrid, where he has accept
ed an engagement for fifteen nights.
/ Mr.. George Vandenhoff, finding
himself too late for the train on Tues
day evening, hired locomotive and
car to carry him to Lowell. He ar
rived in ample season to give one of
his interesting lectures.
Somebody having mixed up names
in a newspaper paragraph all the
Ohio journals are insisting that Hon.
e. D. Mansfield, the State statistician,
is dead, although he never was more
alive and hearty than at present.
David A. WATSON, in his late arti-
Gle In the GALAXY on modern poetry,
describes Millions $ Samson Agonis-
ties " as poem resembling . forest
pine, a straight pole running mast
high, without branches, and with only
a tuft of perennial green at the top
Rev. G.. N. Weber was dismissed
from the passionate of the First Con-
gregational church in Lowell, March
25, to take the professorship of moral
philosophy in Middlebury college,
Vermont q ~ 4 .
Mr.. Bergh and Mr.. Barnum have
been quarreling because the boa at the
Museum is fed with live rabbits. Po-
likeness prevents people from saying
that both these gentlemen are in dan
ger of becoming Boas.
ID. Mrs. Jane G.. Austin, author of
Dora Darling" !" Outpost" and nu-
merous sparkling sketches in the At
lantsc Monthly, Haper's. &C., has
been engaged to contribute a serial to
the Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The World having called Butler
the entant terrible Of the Republican
party, the Springfield Republican re-
torts: : Rather SO, it must be con-
fessed, but adopted. 1t does not be-
come the unnatural parent who
dropped him on our doorstep to
upbraid Us with his inherited faults"
The corporation of Brown Univer-
sity meets the 18th inst, to elect
President in place of DIR. Sears
! A gentleman met another in the
street who was i'll of consumption,
and accosted him thus: Ali my
friend, you walk slowly" Yes" re-
piled the man, "but I'm going fast"
Garibaldi and Barnum have shared
similar fate. As politicians they
have both failed. Connecticut rejects
Barnun, and the italian provinces
reject Garibaldi.
A facetious member of the New
Jersey Legislature has INTRODUCED
bill in the House of Assembly to
ratify and confirm the claim Of mem
Der Of this House to the authorship
of the popular song, Rock me to
Sleep. Mother Mr.. Ball with an
alphabetical name, the claimant, is a
member of the House. -
+ The Brooklyn Union says that
Madam Rosa, In a recent concert, sus-
tanned high note twenty-three Sec
onds,
The widow, of a son of the late Rev.
John Pierpont was recently buried at
Newton Corner, after a funeral serv-
ice conducted according to the pecu-
liar doctrines of Spiritualism. Miss
Cora Houghton, the trance medinm,
delivered an address of considerable
length, in which she described the
Condition Of Immediate and eternal
happiness in which she saw the spirit
of the departed, and transmitted to
the audience her promise to remain
with her friends, for, their guidance
and assistance through life. The
spirit of Rev. John Pierpont also ap-
peared and thanked all those who had
performed Offices of kindness and
sympathy to his daughter in her last
days. III ea gsn<
At the Purim ball in New York
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