The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-07
DAILY JHURN Al
Personal Items.

the ecu try, ia an uuostentatl US
m,nner the large sum of 81, 100 OdO,
eoulva lent to over 81 geo day during
tie whole time.
la his address at the semi eenten-
NAL anniversary of the Wesleyan
Academy at Wilbraham. Mass. Rev.
nr. Cook. said that in 1926, Rev. VIM.
Fisk. who was at that time elected
pr,neipal. was the only Methodist 10
New England who had received a full
collegiate education
Two Trvingham men lately split
the difference on a horse trade, an
gave their respective halves to the min
lister. A temptation for ministers TO
encourage jockeying.
The young girl who was reported to
have committed suicide from love, in
Newark. N. IT,, LAST week died from
self love rather than from the love of
ayouag Inau She was In the habit of
taking arsenic to improve her com
plexi0n, aud her last dose brought
death.
Mark Grayson will leave New York.
July z on $50 600 wager for reach
ing San Francisco IN 20 walking days.
The New York Dramatic Fund So
cieiy presented Ristori. as a parting
gift, an elegant and costly photograph
album. holding two hundred portraits,
richly embossed with solid gold, and
appropriately inscribed.
The steamers Crescent City and
George Cromwell had a race from
New Orleans TO New York last week,
and the former beat by eight and
half hours. "A large amount OF
money is reported to have been staked
on the result at New Orleans.
Jefferson Davis fell, while carrying
one of his children down stairs at
LenOxvile, Canada, q few days ago,
and received considerable injury.
The late Gen. Abiiah Thompson,
Of Woburn, Mass, gave to the Amer
lean Bible Society $1,000; the Home
Missionary Society 81 600; Warien
Academy $4,000; town of Woburn,
for cemetery, $4,000; First Congrega-
tional Church OF Woburn 81 900, to
be expended for the poor and for
Sabbath School books.
Eleven years ago, DIR. John E.
Kurtz and wife, of Boston, celebra-
ted their golden wedding, and last
week the venerable couple celebrated
the sixty 6rst anniversary of their
maria e, at their residence.
The first japanese child born out
side OF Japan ; r he last ten cen ur-
ie-. was born late = London. Mr.
and Mrs tam knli : ,dakichi. mem
bers o an acr bate troupe, are the
parents.
Sir J. W McGll, Of Glasgow,
Sc .tlaud has published q plan which
he ha- devised tor the promO'IUn OF
whas is allied Home EvaugeI'za-
tinn, by making the pr sent Saba b
Sch OF system the nursery for Evan
G. 81 H proposes 10 u-e especially
the NJ .siun Sabbath Schools for this
purp,iss., by training selected scholars,
male and female, tor city mission
work.
There are more Scotch Highlanders
now in Canada than in Scotland
They have been dispos es$ed of q
lauas on which their ancestors hau
lived from time immemOrial. by the
eEasping aviditr. a 4h heir. titled Land
1t is said that Heber q. Kimball,
the dead Mormon prophet, leaves
sixty-seven widows. Oh, ye tears. /"
Chief Justice Chase il no Method
ist, as has been reported. He has
long neen connected with the Epis
copal Church. the celebrated Bishop
Chase, of Ohio, having been his
uncle, aud Bishop Chase, Of New
Hampshire, being cousin.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Clerk OF
the House Of Representatives has
been honored with the appointment
of American editor, for the present
year, of the Aiaaanach de Gotha.
Green Victoria is said to have been
SO shocked at a very decoliete dress
at one of her recent drawing rooms
that she commissioned the Lore
Chamberlain TO reproye the lady.
Mr.. Barlingame says the Chimes,
have moro books, encyclopedias
pamphlets, magazines, &c than any
other people. Their principal encyc
lopedia embraces FIVE thousand vol
ames. Have they a Congressiona
Printing Bureau?
Sothern has received a damon,
ring from the Prince of Wales.
Miss Braddon, the " sensation
novelist, Is coming to America.
Ole Bull is said t. be going t
China.
The most valuable wedding presen
TO the bride of Senator Henderson
was a massive silver service, weighin
over forty pounds, the gift of o. n
Cutler, Perry Fuller's rival for tn
Internal Revenue CommissiOnershil
The German poet, Freiligrath
whose songs drove him out of Prus
sia aome years ago, has gone back t
q, rmaDy
The Hampshire GGzette, of North
ampt0n, Mass, now In the eighty
second yeiT Of its publication, record
the death OF Ell phalet Packard, for
mCry OF umm ngfon, who has bee
a regular sub-cF Der to that D.
If N i's frsr issue, and observes M
" IL doubtful # 10 the day of hi
dea h.a single c py has escaped b
notice
a rich 'armer Of Calais, Main
aged sIxty-tive, recently MARRIED
secUnd wife who Is only y. neteen year
of age. A dau hter by his first WI
Is iOriy years old, ana her daughts
aged " 'nty is about to be married
Tnus there is child who is twenty
one vars older han her mother. an
grand 2Other who is a year youugt
than her g,and daughter.
A curious present has been sent
King Victor Emmanuel, the hea