The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-27

An erudlCeec critic IN vienna q dis
covered that Camoens did not write
the Lusiad.
The scandals about John Brown
and Victoria are being revived in
England.
A suit has been commenced to OBJ
tain a divorce between Prince Wall
liam, of Hansu, and the Princess
Elizabeth, of Schauenburg-Lippe.
The Louisville Journal says Frank
lin Pierce drew up the Democratic
platform
The New York Tribune hopes the
Senate will confirm General Rosen-
c%rans's appointment as Minister to
Spain.
Mrs. Pendleton is a cousin to Bar
ton Key, who fell a victim to General
Siekles some years ago.
Vanderbilt is growing e~xtravagant.
He has built a $25. 900 special car for
the Hudson River Road.
Mr.. f. r. Abbott, of Sinclair's
Hotel, Bethlehem, New Hampshire,
the hero of the wheelbarrow bet,
made a pedestrian trial Friday night.
He walked FIVE and a quarter miles,
over a bad road, in So minutes.
Mr.. j. G. Lash, the missing North
Carolina Congressman, has turned
up. He has been sick at n of the
Washington hotels, and his friends
had no knowledge of the fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, General
Hancock, r. III. Stoddard, the poet,
and rebel General Joe Johnston .are
all at Newport.
p. E. Bishop Quintard, of Tonnes
see, collected $4,000 in England for
the Southern Episcopal University.
John Bell is in fair health, and
hopes to live forever-in his own
words. until Seymour is elected
Presideat." M
Swinburne is such a prey TO morbid
melancholy, says a London cores
pondent, hat he has been ordered by
his physician to travel.
The Emperor Napoleon has pre-
scented his Life Of Caesar" to the
New Orleans City Council, which has
duly thanked him for the "precieur
cddedu."
Rev. DR.. Eddy, late of Chicago, is
to supply the CHARLES Street MethO-
dist Episcopal Church, Baltimore,
for the present.
"Ouida," the writer of those nu-
merous cheap sensation stories, Is an
English woman of thirty-eight, plain,
fluent, industrious and fast.
Mr.. Moses, the Speaker Of the
South Carolina House, is an Israelite,
a South Carolinian by birth, and be-
longs to a prominent family. He is
a young man Of decided ability.
We used to hear of the hard
listed Democracy" but the World
recommends Seymour to the support
of the unterriied, on the ground that
his hands are as white as a wo-
mans"
The boys in n of the Fall River
grammar schools have presented the
girls of the same school with a hand.
some eroquet set. Good boysl
Earl Derby, 10 his speech in honor
of Sir Robert Napier. told this story
"A soldier had been informed thai
he was marching upon the tablelano
OF Abyssinia w~hereupOn he rejoined
The table must have been turned
INSIDE down, and we're a marching
owe the legs"
When Seymour, whispering he
would ne'er consent" consented, h'
fell back and let Price take the Chair
So true it is that every mar has hi
Price"
A. j. compares the New York nom
nations to the small-pox-liable t
kill, hard to cure, and harder to en-
dure. E
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle of tn
18th inst, says that Hon. Alexande
ii. Stephens declares that he neithe
wrote nor had any resolutions pre-
scented to the National Democrat
Convention. @
William Tinkham of Rochester
Vt, was recently struck by lightnin
in the hay field, and fatally injured.
On Sunday last John Swan, twenty
seven years of age, was drowned Will
bathing In Hyannis.
Garibaldi is suffering so severed
from a rheumatic attack that he
compelled to go on crutches.
In the Bowery, New York, a sig
is displayed with the following: Pc,
) sons standing here will consider then
selves loafers.P
Semmes says he fought the w
on the principles of Democracy" 4
the only way in which he fought Il
war" was by burning unoffendir
merehant-ships after robbing them
their chronometers and other Zig.
articles, the principles of Demo
racy' must be theft and arson. /
promises allegiance to the old fla
Pr0Uided that it can be made Il
representative of these principles
John II. Daniels, Esq, of w
mington, Illinois, has been appointi
President of the Alumni of Ham
ton College, Clinton. New York, {
the current year. Hon. John
Blackstone, of Galena. Illinois. h
been appointed Annalist of t
Alumni for the same wear: Dan
Goodwin, Esq, Of Chicago, Oratt
and Rev. r.. p. Powell, of Adra
Michigan. Poet.
A man BY the name Of Timot
Crowley has brought a suit IN the
Louis Circuit Court against Will
Kirkseick. asking five thousand .
lars for damages for injuries sust'
ed by his son. which were o.
ai0ppd nv the falling of a beam on