The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-06

book, "The Last Woe the woe .
that stops the world.
Lady Emily Peel has presented Sir
Robert with. frst-born, son, after
eleven years Of marriage. ~ f.sa'
The death is announced of John
Prideaux Selby, the ornithologist, and
a voluminous writer on his speciality
+ Victor Hugo insists upon having
his plays spoken just as they are writ
ten Onoao other condition will he
consent to have them acted upon the
French stage.
Wendell Phillips says he was
Nodded to truth and philosophy, when
a boy. whereupon the Boston Post re-
marks that Wendell must have be-
come widower when quite young.
1ssa Edwin Booth has ordered of one Of
1.-The Boston jewellers crown of solid
gold, in which he will play Richard
4IILl99 81 saA saoaD .s9e st1 e
The new prima donna, Peralta, now
| singing at New York, is described as
young, stout, far from pretty, with "a
very high soprano voice, skillfully
trained, and capable of unusual vocal
gymnastics. sH<sS y sss2tt
At the marriage of Bishop Cox's
daughter in Buffalo, the bride wore a
dress Of white lace and fine bridal
veil. The bridesmaids, fo6r in num-
Der, wore white lace trimmed with
pink, and lace hats. fE
Mr.. James Waters, a man of family
living in Bonnie Femme Bottom, be-
low Burlington Boone County, Mis-
souri,, was lately presented by his wife
with, four six pound boys at birth,
all living and hungry. Mr.. Waters
family has accumulated six boys In
less than a year. The previous rate
of increase had been two boys a year
for three years. The facts are well
authenticated by physicians and
neighbors. .e ~. sse ~ ~. s Isl
A person lately died at st. Pc.
tersburg, aged eighty-ive called
Count Louis Carlowitch. who is be-
lieved to be the lost Dauphin of
France. The story of his removal to
Russia is Enthusiastically told on.
A Vermont lady who has beensool.
lecting beads for twenty-five years, in
fulfillment of the dying request of a
relative, now has "a string thirty feet
long, containing more than one thourr
sand, some of which are worth from
IS to 50 apiece.
Brigham Young has rival in the
person of the King of Siam, who has
taken one hundred and one savage
women to rear his dusky. race of
eighty-three, and is seventy-three
years old himself.
Miss Madeline Henriques, a popu-
lar New York actress, took leave of
the stage, at Wailack's, on Thursday
evening, and will be married In May
to Jennings, the correspondent of the
London Times IIAA THsII0I
! / A few days ago, two boys in the St.
Austell Union Workhouse, London,
swallowed eighteen marblesa One of
the boys said he swallowed the mar
bles because he was hungry. The boys
looked pale, but were not much the
worse for the experiment. =
Mrs. Nancy Rotch has died in New
Bedford, at the age of ninety-one.
She was the widow of one of the own.
ers of the ship that brought over the
tea which our ancestors, or Summers
ancestors, stepped in the water Of Bos-
ton Bay.
A young lady in Fishkill. New
York, who had been engaged to- be
married to young man, was placed
in a lunatic asylum to break up the /
match but she was soon afterwards
released, and, on hearing of the mar
riage of the gentleman to whom she
had been engaged, committed suicide
by shooting herself.
George Gilfllin IS Advertised to
publish soon poem, in nine books,
entitled Night" We had supposed
the iwakeful Edward Young had got |
out OF night all that is to be had ex-
cept sleep Perhaps Gilflhn can tell i
Hitwith less direfuf forebodings.
William Jordon, for thi thirty a years year
editor of the London ELitero,.u Ga.
zette, says Hoods famous poem. the
IS Song of the Shirt" originally had
the title Tale of the Shirt" Be-
fore the poem was, published its
author saw something ludicrous in his
title, and so changed it to its present
FORM, .BWE.aa4TfF TTssss,sr
Z =, 2 Bayard Taylor has written, two or
three long letters from London to-
friends in New York, giving very in
,teresting accounts of, his sfeastings
and acommunings with Swinburhe Il he
poet, who appears to take very kindly
to his American admirers.
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