The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-01
PERSONALS.


Edwin Forrest, the actor, has given
$500 towards the relief of the South
ern destitute.
Edwin Booth has bought house
in Thirty fifth Street, New York, for
SIS ,0OO
Bsyard Taylor, now in England,
has visited Tennyson.
Mrs. John Wood is in London.
charming everybody
Parepa Rosa can sing in English,
Italian, French, Spanish, German
and Portuguese.
A New York paper says George ,.
Hilliard, of Boston, is the best after
dinner speech maker in the country. !.
The Empress CarIotta has resumed
family, and her letters show no trace
of the recent insanity of the writer.
George Herbert Thompson. son of
George Thompson, the English Abo-
litionist, died recently in London.
He was writer and speaker of some
note.
A man in Seneca Falls, N. Y, has
piece of linen three thousand years
old. 1t has never been washed. He
hash t worn it all this time, however.
Senator Summers demand that
more oaths be extracted from South
ern voters called forth the criticism
from Senator McDougall that g Sum-
nerzgotswearinonth BRAIN q -
IF reports are true, the author of
st. Elmo, Miss Evans, is about to
marry two gentlemen, one Mr.. Will
liams and the other Mr.. Taylor.
The Philadelphians are pomised
couple of, nights of opera, with Ma
dame Rosa as prima donna and Brig
noli as tenor, under the direction of
Max Strakosch. 's..a.s.
j. Russell Young, the managing
editor of the New York Tribune, has
returned from Florida in improved
health. Mr.. Scion Robinson, the
agricultural editor, is no longer on
the Tribune staff. 1900
Mr.. Pullup, coming home at a9late
hour pretty well 8 carburetted," finds
the walking slippery, and exclaims:
freezes it alluz freezes with the slip.
perry side up; singular saI -
On st. Patrick's day there were four
hundred and fifty two persons arrested
for intoxication and disorderly con-
duct throughout the city of New York.
In Brooklyn,a there were ninety-six
arrests fN the same ofenses. ar'e
Gen. David Viekers, brother-in-
law of Gen. Fitzpatrick, is arranging
to build new railroads In Chilli. He
has an exclusive right granted by the
Chiiian Government. - -.
Gen. Schofield intends to make the
Chesapeake Female College, near
Hampton, Va, his headquarters. in
stead of Richmond. The young la
dies, however, have left it.
Brigham Young, thirty years ago,
boarded at hotel in Port Pryor, and
left it owing 800. This sum he has
just paid, which is strong proof either
of honesty or repentance.
Gen. Grant, when urged to become
President of the National Temperance
Society, said he fully sympathized
with the cause, but " did not think he
was the right man for it. !"
e A monument to Col. Aaron Burr
has been secretly erected in the GENE
terry at Princeton, New Jersey. 1t
was brought thither. at midnight, and
set up by unknown persons.
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Chas. A. Dana's new journal, to be
issued from old Tammany Hall, will,
it is said, be published by joint
stock company Among those inter
ested in it are said to be Frederick A.
Conkling, Timothy G. Churchill, E
ID. Morgan, Marshall o.. Roberts, w. i
[. Blodgett, and VIM. nj. Eyarts.
G. Henry Whitcomb, of Worcester,
Massachusetts, is the 9 father of the
first boy that is, the first boy of
the class of 1864 Amherst College,
and will be honored by the gift of the
silver class cup atthe nextscommence-~
ment.
! 1t is emphatically denied that Chas.
Sumner intends to Withdraw from DO
litics at the close of the present Con-
gress. III fAJ DaG .o'l@Vtt sA1O 10
j Mustapha Pasha is a great favorite
In Paris, where he spends about
so, 200 francs a week. He is. said to
be polished gentleman and accom-
plished man of the world.
i A. s. and j. A. Allen, of Proyi-
dence, r. l., the first balloonists en-
ployed in our army, have received
in the Brazilian army as
and have sailed for Brazil.