The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-02
PERSONAL ITEMS.

Michael Phetan returns eY,Zf0 IN
come.
The Rev. DR.. Chaplin, of New York,
is about to make@a tour In Europe.
Philip Phillips, the popular singer.
will sail for Europe in June next.
Rev. Alexander Varian. we'll
known Episcopal clergyman of Cleve-
land, is dead.
Carlos Pierce has presented SO
600 organ to the Metropolitan Metho-
dist Church in Washington.
Mile Don is the favorite dauseuse
In London just now. Her success is
golden.
Bonner says that one of the best
things about the new Ledger building
is the fact that it is all paid for.
Mark Twain is lecturing to crowded
houses In California and Nevada.
Mrs. Partington will write an ode
for the Masonic celebration in Spring
field, June I'd.
The father of Robert Bonner. of
the Ledger ywas an innkeeper at Ray
melton, ireland.
The actual sum that Mr.. Peabody
gave the Pope was $4,000.
Lucy Lareom is a graduate of Mon
ticello Seminary, Illinois. \
Hon. Marcus J Parrott, of Kansas,
has returned home from his visit to
Europe.
The mother of ARENAS Ward"
desires that the proposed monument
be placed over his grave at Water
ford, Me, and not at Central Park,
New York.
The London Spectator. speaks of
Disraeli's conduct after his great de-
feat on the Irish Church, as his airy
obtuseness to a supreme humiliation"
Clara Louisa kellogg is at sNice.
France, and lately refused an offer of
$4OO night to sing in Madrid.
Gen. Wade Hampton will deliver
the address to the literary societies
of General Lees college this coming
commencement.
1t is reported that Gen. SickIes will
soon resign his commission as Colonel
in the regular army, aud return to
civil life.
General Thomas L. Kane, brother
of Dr. Kane, the Arctic explorer, is |
lecturing at New York on Alaska.
Carlyle compares Walt. Whitman
to buffalo, useful in fertilizing the
soil, but mistaken that his contri-
buttons of this are matters which |
the world desire to contemplate
closely.
BrignOli is said to have re-rented |
his villa at Long Branch where he |
spent last Summer, and gave such |
charming dejeuuers and matinees to
his lady friends. W
The famous surgeon, DIR. Nelaton. |
has lately left Paris for Stockholm, to
operate for tumor on Baron Hoep-
ner. His fee is to be $40, 900, and |
travelling expenses. p
Miss Williams, an actress in the
Maggie Mitchell troupe, and the wife
of an editor of the Detroit Post, was
seriously injured by a falling drop
curtain, in Milwaukee, on Tuesday.
Commander John Pollard. of the
British navy, is dead. He was known
as the Avenger of Nelson" because
he was supposed to have killed the
slayer of the great Admiral.
Two American bellies were married
abroad last month. In Paris, Miss
Fanny Grigg, of New York, was
united to Gilman S. Moulton. In
Berlin, Miss Fanny Kneeland became
Mrs. Baron William Won Restof,
Captain of the 18th Prussian hussars.
Iowa has three. lady editors, and t
every one of them, BY singular CO.
incidence, wears the loveliest of given
names-Mary. Their names are Mrs.
Mary L. Money, of the Jefferson Era;
Mrs. Mary Hartshorn, of the Cory
don Monitor, and Mrs. Mary Read, of
the Wright County Register.
In personal appearance Lord |
Brougham was tall and stalwart, with
exceedin ly large bones, highly de-
veloped forehead, and a nose remark +
ably long, but what the French term
retrousse, or turned up. When he
was excited, it positively QuIvered
with emotion. He was capable of en-
during almost Incredible fatigue, and
in the early halt of his career, like
all leading public men in England at
that period, was OF highly conviviaI
habits; but for the last thirty years
he was strictly temperate, and ulti-i
mately practiced almost total absti-
hence.
Mr. Thomas BAILEY Atdricb i ed