The Evansville journal., 1868-10-20


settle in Austria, but Premier Won
Buest informed him that no more
agitators were needed.
McCoole, the pugilist, was the
lessee of the costliest booths at the
late fair In st. Louis.
Madame Varian has applied for a
divorce from her husband, Edward
Hoffman, the pianist.
The Hanlons are vending their way
Westward, with their velocipedes and
trapezes.
Tennyson will have his new poem
out by New Years. 1t will be his
longest on record.
Hans Christian Anderson is to be
a regular contributor to the RiUerside
Magazine
The report of the death of w. +.
Ritchie, husband of Anna Cora Now
att Ritchie, is contradicted.
Two of the Lawrences of Boston
have given an Episcopal church, worth
$4,000, to Longwood.
Mr.. John Toney, of New Jersey,
has cranberry patch of seven acres.
Il MS ID q AOhOy pdStuN
Pauline Cushmau is playing dra-
matiz8tiOn of her military career in
Providence, Rhode Island.
Professor Peck, formerly of New
Orleans, receives a salary of $1,000
from Mr.. Bonner to write exclusively
for the New York Ledger.
Mark Twain was severely injured
on the Both ult., by being thrown
FROM wagon In Elmira, New York
through the eccentricities of horse.
In Springfield General Grant went
to the skating rink, the water-works,
the tomb of Lincoln, and the tea
table Of Mrs. ). M. Cullom.
Miss Orpha Atkinson, of Madison
County, Iowa, had on exhibition at
the Fair at Des Moines, a quilt con-
tanning 3, $50 pieces, which beats the
California quilt $50 pieces.
The heirs of Weber, the great COM
poser, have lately received a sum OF
four thousand francs from the sale of
his works This is q result of the
prolOngation of literary ownership
for the period of twenty years.
The Cars private coachman, a
Count, and also Councillor of State,
is dead.
A Santee Sioux Indian addressed a
New York audience on Sunday night
Only one man knew what he said
the translator.
Gounod, having abandoned opera,
is composing requiem.
Wagaer's music has brought him
100000.
NapoIeon wants the French poets
and composers to get up a new ma
tionA hymn.
Carlyle's latest hero is George Ill.
and it is feared that he intends writing
the life of the mad monarch.
Victoria is to make an effort Il
onen the new Parliament in person
and also to hold one or two courts il
Buckingham Palace.
Not one literary man in fifty enjoy
good health in this country; but it il
quite the reverse in Great Britain.
New York journals advise rustic
youths to remain at home, If they cal
possibly live there, and not migrat,
to the metropolis to starve.
A Frenchman has invented o kind
of safe, which, when fraudulently
opened, will kindle brilliant Benga
light and assemble a crowd.
A respectable lady was sent I
prison last Tuesday, in New York, or
complaint of her daughters, for being
a confirmed drunkard.
A couple of silly men in San Fran
cisco have made. a political bet, th'
loser to ride backwards on q jackas
through the streets. We pity th'
jackass. @
Bismarck, when q young lieutenant
offered himself to the daughter of |
Swiss inkeeDer. The father consented
upon condition that the lover should
become a Catholic, but the younl
lieutenant refused, and the mattel
was broken off.
It Is ehar<ed that a member of Al
Influential Florentine family, who i
some way obtained possession of tn
plans of the Italian Generals for th
battle OF Custozza, sold them toHgth
Austrians for the sum of 5000 i
gold.
The titled ladies of England hay
1uODbCQ LuC AdSnlOu OI angling II
silmon. Angling for coronets, dis
monds, and guineas, however, has nc
been abandoned.
Alta late meeting of Paris worl
men, NJ. Gagne, an advocate, declare
that only one remedy existed for Il
famine which prevailed in Algeria
namely, cannibalism, nothing els
This gentleman proposed that pc
sons Of a philanthropical spirit shou
give themselves up for the good of a.
The report that the Emperor N
poleon held an interview recently wi
the Queen of Spain has been official
denied.
Henry Hobart, while passi
through Peacham (Vermont) WOO
was a}tacked by three highwaym
and robbed of s135. after being bad
beaten.