The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-19
Personals.


York, for California, on Saturday.
A. G. Browne, Jr., is writing a
biography Of President johnson,
Mr.. Jesse, the British naturalist, is
dead 4a
] Louis Kossuth has taken his seat
as a member of the Diet Of Hungary.
Henry Ward Beecher's income last
year was S38. 248.
Mr. Belmont has bought the famous
horse Kentucky, and be wlil(run at
Saratoga this season. aa# af--
Fanny B. Price IS playing at the
Arch Theatre, Philadelphia.
Parepa and her husband have gone
to California to give a series Of con-
certs.
Dickens carried away $3.50, 900, or
! $4,000 for every ten hours he lee
tured. Not so bad.
Brigham Young, wishing to make
Mormondom as patriarchal as posi-
bic, prohibits pork
Miss Hosmer is at work at Florence
on new pieces of soul pture, for the
galleries of two English noblemen.
Rebel General Hood was married
in New Orleans, last week. Buekner
and other prominent rebels were IN
attendance at the ceremony.
The jury trying General Cole for
the murder of Hiscock, at Albany,
New York, failed TO agree and were
discharged. Six were for conviction,
and six for acquittal.
Sir Robert Napier, the victorious
British commander, is not related to
any Of the illustriOUs Napiers of Eng
fish history. He is simply a native of
Ceylon, who entered the British army
at is, and has fought his way up to
his present high position. . svl
Miss Belle Armstrong, Of Column
bus, Ohio, has made eighty words out.
of the letters in . OYSTER and won
five dollars thereby .3oI
Rev. E. Chesebrough, Baptist
clergyman, the eldest-eitizen of Ston-
ington, Conn !, died IN that place last
week, aged SO years. He was ordain-
ed there in the year 1870 a.sf
Bismark says that if he was a
Chinese, an Abyssinian, or an IDdian,
he should probably care a great deal
about England, but being a simple
European, he don't care. at all.
Eugene Dutills, the druggist, who
returns an income of S22. 600 In a New
York list, is a Turk, and is the only
Y one engaged In commerce In that city.
Leonee Andre sBurfhe, an old and
prominent citizen of New Orleans,
died in that city May 5, from disease
of the heart. He fell dead while Civ
ing testimony In a case pending before
the United States District Court.
An old Spanish soldier, Cimone
Avalos, who carried. a musket in
Spain more than a hundred years ago,
and was one Of the military guard of
the Padre Jahipero Sierra when ne
raised the cross in Alta California, at
San Diego, ninety eight years since,
still lives and enjoys good health and
memory, at Todos Santos, Lower Cali
fornia. Ea4
Tburlow Weed thinks that il is to
the honor of Senator Wilson that
while other Senators have made for
tunes and bought expensive mansions
IN Washington, he is the same poor
man that he was when, twenty years
ago, he left his workshop to serve his
country" s.-
The Florence (Italy) correspondent
of the New York Times, dated April
14th, says: To-day, the anniversary
of the assassination Of President Lin
coin, | notice in the Journals sketches
of his life and character with ex-
pressions of reverent admiration for
his pure example. On the book stalls
little volumes containing his biogra-
ply are found, andsalready his history
has become familiar to nearly all who
can lay claim to intelligence.
The Princess Louisa, of England,
the sixth child of Queen Victoria, is
reported engaged to be married to
Prince Christian Frederick. rheir. ap-
parent of the crown OF Denmark,
She was twenty years old on the 18Th
of March, and the Prince will be
twenty-five on the Sd of June, so
that-in- years atzleastzthsF@Will be@yVeii
mated. As he is brother Of the Prin-
cess of Wales the two royal families
VIII, be still more CLOSELY aAied, Four
of the Queens children remain to be 4
disposed of IN marriage, yizs the
Duke of Edinbprrh. aged twenty
four; Prince Arthur, aged eighteen:
Prince Leopold, aged fifteen and