The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-27

a SOn OF Theodore, OF ADyssInla,
Is travelling with a managerie in Eng
land.
On Wednesday last General and
Mrs. Grant called upon Mrs. General
Butler.
Gen. Stoneman made $50 removals
from and appointments to office in
Virginia, in one day recently.
A noted japanese author, Kioyte
Bakin, has just completed his LOG
volume novel, commenced 80 years
ago.
Levy, of the marvellous c%ornet, has
left the Parepa-Rosa troupe, and will
hereafter be managed by Mr.. L. f.
Harrison.
Mr.. Burlingame's credentials to the
French court were five feet long and
covered all over with ive-clawed
dragons.
The report that the Marquis of
Butte was about to be admitted to the
Roman Catholic priesthood is author
itatively denied.
An Ohioan in Washington offered
to bet $500 that Ben. Wade will go
into Grants Cabinet. A New Yorker
took the offer.
A mae named Ratchford has been
sentenced at Omaha. Nebraska, to
sixty days hard labor in the streets
for whipping his wife when she did
not need correction.
Mrs. Mary A. Qnantrell, of Fred
erick City, Maryland, aspiTes to noto-
riety by an attempt to prove hat she,
aud not Barbara Frietchie, waved the
Stars and Stripes when the rebels
marched into Frederick, Maryland.
1t is understood that the members
of President JohnsOn's Cabinet, ex
cept, probably, General Sohofield and
tions on OF before the 4th of March,
to take effect on that day.
Prince Ferdinand, the ex-Regent of
Portugal, is a member Of the house of
Saxe-Uoburg Gotha, a cousin of the
late Prince Consort of England, and
was married to the Queen Maria of
Portugal in 1886. He is now In his
fifty-third year.
Daniel Wilkison, convicted of steal
lux SO@7OOO llOm GnO 4NULNn 4iONt-
dence Bank at PaWtucket, r. l., of
which he was cashier, last Winter,
and awaiting sentence under bonds,
died at his home on Tuesday night,
it is thought by his own act.
A New York critic thinks Miss
McVieker, at Edwin Booths Theatre,
drinks the poison, as Juliet" with
less dramatic effect than many a young
woman takes a seidlitz powder. In
spite, however, of this and a good
deal more adverse criticism, the The
atre is crowded by brilliant audiences
every night.
Deacon Braley jenkins and wife, of
West Barnstable, Mass, are respect
lively aged ~Dinety-four and ninety
seven years. They have been married
seVenty-One years. They enjoy good
health, and their memory of events,
both recent and remote, is unimpair-
ed. The Deacon did his garden work
last Summer.
The famous Mullins, of Tennessee,
is described in action as a man OF
medium size, thin, angular, grizzly as
John Brown, some sixty years of age,
swinging his arms like wind-mills,
with face a1ame, veins on his fore
head swelled to whipcords, and a voice
pouring out a torrent Of contradic-
tory and impossible things.
John Bright is opposed to capital
punishment. He thinks it's abolition
would not tend to increase those
crimes which it is now supposed by
many to prevent. He adds: Zone
by one we 'Americanize' our institu-
tons" Mr.. Bright is one of the few
English statesmen who have a lively
faith in American institutions.
The Hon. John Wentworth has
written a history of the Wentworth
family, which, it is said, will be printed
in elegant style, in two volumes, at a
cost of about $4,000. 1t commences
with Reginald Wentworth, infant son
Portsmouth, N. III.
1t is authoritatively announced that
at the termination of the present briei
tour of the Tom Thumb troupe, the
renowned Commodore Mutt (of TWEEN
ty-ive pounds) will lead to the altar
the sweet little Minnie Warren Col
twenty pounds.) Their united for.
tunes, accumulated by their public
exhibitions within six years, are said
to amount to a quarter of a million Of
dollars.
An Ohio paper holds up a terrible
warning to faithless iurymen, in the
fate of the jury which, a few year
since, acquitted a man named Brown
of the murder of Bolmeyer, an editor
at Dayton, Ohio. Every juryman OF
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reason, met an unnatural death, OIL
committed suicide, and Judge Par
ions, who presided over the mock
trial, died a few days since, a horrihl,
death ia a lunatie asylum at Dayton
ColooeI Jesse L. Alexander, O.
Terre Haute, Ind, received by ex
press. Wednesday, from his frienC
General Schuyler Hamilton, of New
York. the sword of the great Alexan
der Hamilton, grandfather of thu
doner. as a present to his namesake
SCHUYLER Hamilton Alexander, tn
son of the Colonel. Genera
Hamilton sent, also, to his it'll
namesake, some weeks since, a cop
Of the original painting of Alexarde
Hamilton, now In the possession O
the family in New York.
A small party of English sporting
gentlemen, headed by Captain Ash
land. passed through Washington
last Fail, with dogs, guns, and othe
sporting requisites, intending to spent
some time in the pursuit of gam
among the mountains of the Blu
Ridge. They were so we'll please,
with the country that q large tract O
land has been purchased near Gaines
Vile, on the Manassas Railroad, an,
twn of the marty have sailed 70