The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-12
PERSONALS.

musical as ever. ~
s. DIR. VIM. E. bearing is proposed for
next mayor of Atlanta.
!, Ristori is TO play at Cleveland on
the 18th and 18th of April.
Gen. FinneI, of Kentucky. is a
farmer at Old Town Ridge, Arkansas.
John Blindburg, an old and widely
known resident of Detroit, died there
Saturday evening. a uoI
Bismark is said to be badly in need
of all the money he has amassed by
the last peace treaties. aa
A New York widowed Ducklow"
put two thousand dollars in coupon
bonds" under her carpet for safety,
and had them stolen.
General John G. Fremont is about
30 open banking house in New York
city.
Mrs. Alice Pouteny Todd, an esti-
mable Quakeress, died in Philadel
phia last week, in her one hundredth
year. s5n
DR.. Levitt demonstration of anato
my at the University of Michigan, has
accepted the same position in the
Rush Medical College, of Chicago.
Prof. John Ell. Alexander, an emf
nent engineer and mathematician,
died in Baltimore, Monday IS 49,.
Il Prof. D. F. Wells, of Iowa City,
| has been appointed Superintendent of
Public Instruction, in Iowa, in place
of Oran Fayille, resigned.
| The King of Bavaria was to be
married, on. the 18th of February, to
the Princess Sophie, of Bavaria, his
second cousin, and the sister of the
Empress of Austria. aaot
Bayard Taylor intends @ to bring
home from abroad the greater part Of
a manuscript of, a fourth novel, the
scene to be laid ON the Continent,
though the characters are American.
The oldest of the superior officers
/ of the French army, and probably Of
any army in Europe, Colonel Andre
Marchal, has just died at Chalons-
surrSaone, in his one hundred and
third year, He was born in Lyons in
1764. ''i sa iisig5a sodT 9sa +.
Rev. Joseph Higgins, of Thorndike,
Me-, aged 81 years, and his wife, Mrs.
Betsey Higgins, aged 80 years, both
died on the 9TH of February, and
within ten hours OF each other, by
no especial sickness except the gradu-
al breaking down of old age.
Alphonso Karr, the French poet,
was lately President at medical BAN
qnet, at which toasts were given to
the health tof7every celebrity, when
the President remarked: " Monsieur
Harr, you have not. proposed the
health of anyone" The poet rose
and modestly replied: !" | propose the
| health of the sick.nnl a
! An old colored man, known to eve
2 rybody in Rochester, N. Y, as s'Crow-
4 ing Jack" for his habit of growing
for any person who would give him a
4 few coppers, died on the 21st ult. He
Il was at one time slave in Richmond,
4 Va, his master having been burned
! in the theatre of that city in 1911.
4 Mr.. Solomon Monk, the former lin
s guist, died recently at Paris, at the
age of sixty. When he was admitted
to the French Academy he was totally
blind from excessive study; but still,
by an extraordinary exercise of mem
DRY and intelligence, prepared several
valuable works on the subject Of his
favorite study.
It is told of Charles Lamb, that one
afternoon, having taken his seat in q
, crowded omnibus, stout gentleman
looked in, and politely asked, AL
full inside" - / don't know how
it may be with the other passen.
gers" answered Lamb, F." but that last
piece of oyster pie did the business
for mel"
Mr. Morgan Smith, a colored TRACE.
dian, is drawing large houses at Dun
dee, Scotland. A new drama, entitled
!" The Black Doctor has been
brought out by him with success.
Mr.. P. T. Barnum having been so.
licited by some of his friends to fur.
nish money tosecure votes for himselt
for Congress, has declined, in letter
+ in which he says: now wish to say
once for all, that under no conceiva-
: BILE circumstances will / permit dol
lar of mine to be used to purchase 9
!, vote, or to- induce voter to act con.
trary to his honest convictions
The fftieth birthday Of Mr.. A. w
Fairbanks, senior publisher of the
= Cleveland Herald. was celebrated or
: Monday night by the employees ano
a attaches of the establishment, who
: were feasted at his residence and pre-.
sented him with +" a beautiful service
of silver and silver wine set, Mr.
i i L.