The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-15
DAILY JOURNAL
...sEPrEMBER Is. 1868
PERSONAL.

is the Oldest Tennessee editor.
DR.. s. G.. Home, of Boston, had
LII. D. tackled to his name quite re-
Gently.
Horace Greeley knew Lincoln fol
sixteen years.
Mr.. James III. Wilson, editor of the
New Lisbon Buckeye State, is dead.
A fund is being raised to purchase
a homestead for Ex-Governor Wise
of Virginia, who is impecunious.
Henri Rochefort talks Of coming
to this country until the storm he has
raised in France blows over.
A. j. II. Duganne has commenced
the publication of new paper called
Tbs Week.
Frank J. Mead, editor of the Tele.
graph has been appointed postmaster
at Pennington, Minnesota.
Mark Smith, the facetious King
Ding Dong, of : White Fawn fame,
IS playing at De Bars opera house,
st. Louis.
Devlin, the Montreal Irishman.
who opposed the Fenian picnic, has
written anOtEe r letter in defense OF
his acton.
Fred. Watson, formerly on the edi-
torial staff of the Pittsburg CONNER
CAL, is now assistant editor of the
New York Democrat.
James X. Murdoch will play a
farewell engagement next Winter,
and then retire from the stage.
Robert Laird CoIlyer, one of Chi
cago's clerical great guns, is preach
ing on " Woman's Rights" in New
England.
Gottschalk will return to New
York next Winter. He will not visit
San Francisco-probably.
The wife of Victor Hugo is dead.
She had been his COMPANION from
boyhood-his first and only love.
Victor Emanuel has decorated Sig.
nor Biletta, who wrote the ode for
Prince Humbert's marriage, with the
order OF the Crown of Italy.
Henry ID. Cooke, the Washington
branch of the Jay Cooke family of
bankers, has gone to Europe for a
couple Of months.
The Princess of Teck, Queen Vic
torias cousin, has been in trouble
because her baby was sick. 1t is get
ting well.
The American traveller, Bayard
Clarke, who was reported killed at
the railway accident at Wales. was on
the train but escaped unhurt.
Samuel Sloan. author of the Model
Architect, and like works, has issued
n new magazine, in Philadelphia. call
ed Sloan S architectural Regieao.
Annette Ince is delighting the Nor
mons with her acting. Brigham
wants TO marry her as soon as he gets
rid of fifty or sixty of his present
wives.
Captain Wilson, one of the most
daring and successful of the blockade
runners during the war, has lately
died in India.
The Prince of Wales has been pro-
NOTED to be colonel in chief of the
rifle brigade for gallant and meritori-
Gus conduct IN being the son of the
queen.
A German publisher naively adyer-
tIses a translation of Oliver Wendell
Holiness last novel with the notice
that the English author of the work
has given him exclusive authority to
issue German version of the book.
Hon. Ralph /. Ingersoll and the
Rev. Noah COe were the only two
members Of the class Of 1903, present
at Yale College commencement. They
dlned together at Mr.. Ingersoll's,. in
pursuance of vote passed by the
eight OF the class who met ten years
ago, and they were the only survivors
Of that eight. fefgr
A mechanician of SPRINGFIELD, Mass,
has produced yelocipede which he
claims to be far superior to the
French. In ordinary hands it will
average twelve miles an hour. and on
u smooth way like Boston Common
can be propelled at the rate of TWEEN
~ miles an hour. 1t can be manu-
iactured at much less price than the
French velocipedes.
Miss Mary Il. Alderman obtained
verdict OF $4,000 at the recent ses-
sion OF the Union County IN. j y Cir
cult Count, against her father, whom
she charged with slandering her char.
acter. ~
The next advertised sensation il
New York is Out of the Streets" al
original drama by Charles GaylOr."
An engineer named Kelly has in
vented an attachment to locomotiv,
which catches the sparks as they
emerge from the smoke stack, anC
conducts them to the ground beneath
the locomotive. II is in use on the
Hudson River Railroad.
A wealthy Boston merchant re
Gently discovered his daughter, {
beautiful and accomplished girl, in {
brothel in New York. The assist
ance of the police was necessary tC
force her from the den. She refused
to go home with her father, so he haC
to request the poll ce justice to senC
her to the House of Refuge.
In suit brought against miuo
to recover the price of certain illus
trated editions of the English poets
the Chief Justice of England charged
the jury that the cost of printing anC
paper were the only necessary expen
tes, the vellum, red edges, morocco
etc, being superhuities for which
credit should be refused.
The letter carriers for the suburbs
OF Paris are to be supplied with We
loelpedes, which will enable them t
finish their distribution four hour,
earlier daily.
A New York lady rushes indig
nantly into print because the me-
who attend the confectionery shon
appear IN their shirt sleeves. S6,
thinks they ought to turn their atten