The New York herald., 1872-12-15
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

E. N. Zaika, OF Russia, has arrived at the st.
Nicholas Hotel.
General L. P. Walker, Of Alabama, is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
Mayor Silas N. Martin yesterday arrived at the
st. Nicholas Hotel
Rev. william A. Young OF London, is staying at
the Sturtevant House.
General Albert Meyer of the United States Army,
is at the Hoffman House.
General r. +. Stockton OF New Jersey, is in quar-
ters at the ST. James Hotel.
Professor John H. Pepper, OF London, wears his
castor at the Grand Central Hotel.
Colonel J. K. Miner, OF the United States Army,
is stopping at the st. George Hotel.
Colonel E. r. Platt, OF the United States Army,
is registered at the Clarendon Hotel.
.Major Jones,n author Of Georgia Scenes" &C.,
still nourishes on his plantation In that State.
Govern0r-elect Hartranft paid his respects to
Secretary Boutwell, yesterday at Washington. He
also called on General Spinner, G. B. McCartee and
other prominent bureau officers of the Treasury
st. Domingo is so peaceable and President Baez
finds himself secure In his oficia authority that
he proposes making trip to the United States,
leaving his brother to act for him during his abb
sence.
Judge Ward Hunt will not take his seat on the
bench OF the United States Supreme Court until
Commission Of the Court OF Appeals of this State,
are rendered.
An Eastern paper having boasted OF young lady
who framed and raised barn, Western contem-
porary offsets the enterprise by giving an account
OF Western maid who raised - and all because
she could not find her back hair.
Southern paper opposes the proposed centen-
NAL celebration OF American independence. But
Western paper asks, "Why so ~ and suggests
that If 1--WE havnt done IS well as we might in a
hundred years, let us rejoice that have done no
worse"
Mrs. Stanton is both sorry and glad that Greeley
Is dead. Sorry because he had q great many vir-
tues-glad because ne was not an abolitionist OF
.the most insidious type OF slavery that has ever
cursed the earth-that OF woman to man." Too
bad, Elizabeth.
Mrs. Stapleton Brotherton, OF Ditton Hall, Ian
cashire, has placed her house at the disposal OF
| such members OF the jesuit BODY as may seek an
| asylum In England Her action has caused her to
receive many threatening letters which illustrates
| religious toeration In England.
marriage was recently celebrated between M.
Alexandra dc Girardin, son OF the journalist, and
Mile. wmercau The witnesses for the bride.
| groom were Admiral Fleuriot de rAngle and Count
| O'Donnen, and for the bride, Marshal Canrobert
and the Chevalier Nigra, Minister Of Italy V,ue Ia
Ltoertei
Thomas Alexander Mitchell, N. p, and member
| or an eminent London shipping house, OF great
wealth and sixty years. has shocked the aristocratc
| circle OF which he was an ornament by leading to
| the hymeuial altar pretty barmaid from a metro
poutan gin-palace named the 'Trish Harp.n He
| has $4,000 per year. She has youth and beauty
and only tainted twice during the ceremony.
| The tomb ofJohn Philip Kemble, the renowned
actor, is In dlapidated state. Its inscription is
| nlegible from dirt and its iron adornments and
| pangs are decayed by rust. The monument is In
| an old cemetery near Lausanne. Switzerland. II
Is projected to repair the tomb and also place in
| the grand old Cathedral OF Lausanne, which il
about to be restored, window, as a memorial o
! the genius and other great attributes OF Kemble.
| The Saratoga Sentinel says:-"1he daughters
| of the late Edward U. Graves hearing o
their fathers death through the NEW YoRr
| HERALD, came here last week and made ap
| plicaton to Surrogate waldrcn for letters OF ad
ministration. one OF the daughters resides in New
! Jersey and the other in Boston. Their father hat
not communicated with them for years past
Another instance Of the advantages OF advertlslag