The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-25
Personals.

ed the Presidency OF the northern
Indiana College, and Rev. D. Holmes,
D. D., has been elected to succeed
him.
George Alfred Townsend goes
abroad in March, as a special CORES
pendent of the Cincinnati Gazette and
other papers.
Miss Olive Logan is writing a con-
tinuous story, the publication of which
will shortly be commenced in Har-
per's Magazine. 49,
Frederick Douglass was on Friday
last admitted within the bar of the
House of the Michigan Legislature,
introduced by the Speaker, and re-
ceived with applause.
Mrs. Cobb, the pardon broker, still
lives and fiourishes, and she secured
pardon for a rebel on President
Johnson's own order, on the 7th of
this month.
x-Governor-ex rebel Joe. Brown
and Judge Lawson A. Walker, of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, have been
admitted to the bar of the United
States Supreme Court te3 I E e :
Hon. John A. Mcdonald, the Ca
madam Attorney General, is to be
married in March, to Miss Bernard,
sister to Mr.. Bernard, chief clerk in
the Attorney Generals office at Otto
wa. Miss Bernard is clever, accom-
plished and handsome.
Ex-Governor Aiken, of South Car
DINA, is a dethroned STAKEHOLDER,
who, in the very hottest times of Sc
cessien, preserved, if not neutral at
titude, at least an admirable equanim-
ity, and is to-day confided in by Union
officers in that State.
The medical authorities of the Au-
burn State prison, being tender of
heart, have declared the child muir
derer, Lindsey, to be OF unsound
mind, In consequence of spinal dis
ease of many years standing. The
effect of this decision was to cause the
prisoner to be placed at an avocatiOn
that will not be laborious.
Beyeridge, the bully who commit
ted an assault upon the correspondent
of the, Philadelphia Inquirer, in the
Capitol, last session, plead guilty of
an assault with intent to kill, and was
fined by Judge Fisher one hundred
and fifty dollars. Rather cheap
price to put upon u III. Painters
right to live and breathe
The Washington Republican says
that the tender of the Boston COL
lectorship to George Bancroft was
merely complimentary, because it was
understood that his literary engage
ments made it impossible for him to
undertake the duties of the Office
! Among English writers who have
new novels In press, are the Hon. Mrs.
Norton. Amelia B. Edwards, Jean
Ingelow, Sarah Tyler, Georgiana M.
Craik, Mrs. Marsh, Rev. j., NJ. Bel
lew, Walter Thornbury, w. g. Wills,
Edmund Yates, Mrs. j. Riddell, R.
d. Buchanan. faea3IBq9q gEo8 9dF
The solid men of New York who
are taxed upon one hundred thousand
dollars or more of personal property,
hexclusive of bank stocks and real es-
tate, are VIM. B. Aston, who returns
| 50. $50, 900: a. T. Stewart $1,000. 900;
James Lennox, 81 100000; James
Brown 100000; and about one
hundred and fifty others, ranging be-.
tween 100000 and 100000.
ssUncle Toms Cabin" Mrs. Stoves
extraordinary novel, is now in, its
three hundred and twelfth edition
| (three hundred and twelve thou
sandy and is still selling at the
rate of two thousand year. With
the various editions and TRANSACTIONS
of the work, it is supposed that at
least million copies have been dis
posed of. Uncle Tom" has had,
beyond all question, the widest sale,
considering the time that has elapsed
since its issue, of any book ever is
sued from the press. a5fiha
A nephew Of Stonewall jackson is
in Connecticut to raise money for edu-
eational purposes in the South. He
says that in the Northern States the
/ radical Republicans have contributed
generally, while the Democrats, whom
he regarded as his special friends,
have done almost nothing.
d. G. Bloomer, of Council Bluffs,
Whose wife is the originator of the
Bloomer costume, is lecturing in
Western Iowa on " Mahomet and his
Religion. !" Mr.. Bloomer is a cultiva-
ted and thinking man. $50. $500
It is whispered, says the Court
I Journal, that young boy called to
| high destinies stubbornly refuses to
study the maps. When pressed to
explain the reason, the pupil ex-
4 claimed: iiiOh, the map has so often
changed of late years, and papa (Na-
poleon uI.?) says it will soon be
changed again. Cmabono to learn as
it stands now2" ~ So 7fos
A Connecticut farmers wife, who
was noted for a keen eye to the fnan-
cials. on being fold nv her husband