The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-11


Immediately after the publication
Of the Lantern, edited by Henri de
Rochefort. the Paris papers announce
\ Formidable opponent called the E.c-
tiRgaisher, edited by Hardy de Rage
fort. EEisr4 ss saf "
The Paris CsdrSVa1i calls attention
10 the following remarkable example
of the religious tolerance exhibited
by the clergy of Lyons: Wishing
to permit the numerous members of
society of Lyons who assist at the
annual ceremony of the Fete Dieu to
go to the races, the clergy has deemed
It expedient to appoint an earlier hour
for the procession. fsa.t s..i b ~.
A small colony of French Sisters
of Mercy recently EN- barked atSouth-
ampton bound for Port Natal, for the
purpose of taking charge of an in
land hospital situated some six hum
dred miles inland. 49,. g
The property OF Chateau Latte,
recently put up for sale by public
auction. was bought in at the price of
100000.
The Berlin Corresponds states that
capitalists possessing upward OF Q
million Of thalers each, fifty-nine OF
whom reside in that city.
Mr.. Cameron. the late Abyssinian
prisoner. when On his way home, re-
NAMED some days IN Paris, and is re-
ported to have stated that the body
found il probably that of a substitute,
and that King Theodorus escaped
during the bombardment of Magdala-
Eight Arabs were lately conducted
through France, under sentence of
solitary Imprisonment on the Island
fist. Marguerite, to expiate the crime
of cannibalism committed during the
still raging famine in Algeria.
A Spanish Journal mentions the
curious suicide of man who built
upa stack of fagg0ts, then fastening
himself so as to render escape impOs-
sible, set fire to the heap and was
burned to death. w. Feas5 s7a5-s.
A rich farmer. sixty years old, liv-
ing near Calais, France, has lately
taken unto his bosom a wife aged
nineteen. From his first marriage he
has a granddaughter aged twenty,
a venerable grand dame one year
younger than herEelf. sai
Kinglake, in his new volume on the
Crimean Invasion, says that four oc-
casions Of taking Sebastopol before
the frightful Winter were lost through
the refusal of the French Generals to
act. Lord Raglan counseled an as
sault each time, but was overruled,
while General Todleben. who COM
manded Sebastopol, has declared
that had the attempt been made it
must in each instance have succeed
ed. The French were the authors of
all the delays, and were influenced by
niischievons kind of jealousy.
What benumbed the Allies" says
Mr. Kinglake, " was the alliance"
"a AT late meeting of committee
upon education in Glasgow, Scotland,
the following opinion was expressed
regarding the treatment of teachers:
1t Is by raising the qualifications,
the pay, and the social position of
teachers, that the interests of eduea-
ton are really and surely to be adj
Yanced. and not by screwing down the
teacher TO a hard mechanical system,
and jealousy withholding from him
portion Of his inadequate remunera-
tion on the slightest apparent symp-
tom of failure Of duty"
We commend this to our educa-
tional authorities fo- consideration.
The st. Joe Herald is responsible
for this: a .'a ~ ae ssa as@
ssa One day last week couple were
married in this city, with every hope
high, and every dream colored with
the rosy hues of love. This. week q
man presented himself before the
newly made husband and demanded
his wife. His heart was broken-so
thought the bystanders; but upon
yesterday, a young woman with curls
came to the wife and demanded her
husband, not her last one, but the
last marrying one The consequence
vas fight, and almost an arrest,
which was only defeated by the active
exeFtions of both husbands, each run
ming 10 different directions with each
others wives, and none Of them have
since been heard from. Aa
L" Carlton writes to the Boston
Journal that the strait between the
Red Sea and the Indian Ocean is Bah
el-man-deb and not Bab-el-man-CIel,
as the Biographies have, it.
Prince Arthursl Of England, has
been gazetted a Lieutenant in the
army. jsfBGEN Eli5IaHU
Hon. w. I'll hogan, brother of
General John A. Logan, died at MUIR
phrysboro, jackson County, ILL.,, on
Sunday last General Logan was
present at his death. Mr.. Logan was
a member of the House of Represen-
tatives of that State in the session OF
1865, and won an excellent reputation.
AT that time he'was a Democrat, but
after his return to his constituents,
declared his intention thereafter to
take his place In the ranks of the
Union party. hara eva af8BH
The chief trade in leeches is GEN.
tered IN Paris, to which various coun-
tries contribute their quota. Italy
was formerly the great source, but
now large Quantities are shipped from
the mouth of the Danube. Trieste
furnishes to the extent of 100000
2 per annum, and Australia sends con-
siderable quantities to London and
Paris, and this latter quality is pre-
ferred by the medical profession. The
Vlceroy Of Egypt has recently grant
ed a concession for the annual collec-
ton of three millions of leeches from
the stagnant pools caused by the pc
Tiodical inundations of the Nile.
Those not Immediately wanted are
kept in reservoirs covered with a
Shiny mud, in the vicinity of Paris.
Adyiees from Warsaw. Poland,