The New York herald., 1872-12-03
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


Astor House.
Judge J. q. Abbott, Of Boston, is staying at the
Breev0rt House.
Judge r. G. Hurd, OF Ohio, can be heard OF at the
et. Nicholas Hotel.
Judge G. w. De Camp of Pittsburg, is at the
Grand Central Hotel.
State Senator John W. Swords, OF New Orleans, is
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Ex-C0ngressmaa @. r. Griggs, OF Illinois, is in
town at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
"Damond cut diamond"-The diamond swindlers
Of San Francisco and their dupes.
considerable number of Japanese are now
studying at Berlin, Lepsic and Heidelberg.
J. M. 8. Williams, Congressman elect from Cam
bridge. Mass, yesterday reached the Fifth Avenue
Hotel
volume OF John Brlght's speeches was the first
BOOK placed on the shelves OF the new Chicago
Library.
Edward 8. Pollard OF the "lost cause" is now so
seriously III that no hopes of his recovery are en-
Itertaned.
At Hoboken, Mass. ladies are employed as hotel
clerks, and the newspapers thereabouts call the
change glorious consolation"
John I. Major has returned to Washington and
B1bmitted his report to the Secretary of the Inte
rtor on the boundary between Colorado and Kan
lsas.
Judge Richard Busteed, OF Alabama, yesterday
arrived on the steamship Algeria from Europe,
where he was for some months. He is at the
Everett House.
A man, named Cornelius Dewitt recently de-
ceased in Holland City, Mich, is said to have been
the survivor OF 100 OF Napoleon's battles, to say
nothing about skirmishes.
Twenty five thousand dollars have been raised in
st. Louis by the Knights OF st. Patrick for monu
ment to Daniel O'COnnell. Up with the shaft and
crown 1t with the shamrock
George Goldthwaite, Of Alabama, is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. Mr. Goldthwaite is on his way to
Washington to continue his fight for admission to
the United States Senate.
A Western paper bags an item briefly thus
'Mrs. John Baggs, Of Omaha, has left Mr.. John
Baggs taking the money bags, and leaving John to
hold the little empty Baggs"
Minister e. B. Washburne, who is now at the
Fifth Avenue HOTEL is to be received by the Union
League Club on Wednesday evening. He will after
wards return to Washington.
II is authoritatively stated that Prince Arthur,
Of England, has now abandoned all ambition to
become newspaper man, and that the promised
magazine articles will never appear.
General Sheridan was not gr00msman at Gen.
eral Lantz's nuptials In Cincinnati the other day.
because Little Phil expects to have matrimonial
Appomattox surrender OF his own shortly.
The Dubuque Times and another paper are &C
on problem In mathematics, and are imparting Q
great amount OF knowledge to their readers.
party OF deft young ladies, clerks OF the Treas
ury Department at Washington, are at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. The purpose Of their visit is to
sist In counting the moneys at the sub-treasury.
Among the passengers by the last American mall
homeward from China was the Austr0- Hungarian
Minister at the Court Of the Emperor, Chevalier
Calico, who will be absent from China for twelve
months.
Mr.. I. Fitzroy Rice will proceed from China to
Japan, having accepted an appointment with q
view to organizing police force in the empire Of
the Mkado. They Will have the knave of clubs
there. too.
A man at Ke0kuk has started an ONCE furnished
with pair Of blacksmth's bellows for the innating
OF rubber bustes, and the Davenport Democrat
says that fashionable ladies 60 there once day
to get blown up"
i Chicago paper says that Mr.. Trollope, on his
recent visit here. was accompanied by Mrs. Troll
lope, who wrote work on this country. The lady
referred to was here about forty years ago and Is
not now In the land OF the living
[ DR.. Hgendorf, native of Hamburg, formerly
director of the Hamburg Geological Gardens, and
now professor at the Royal Polytechnicum at Dres-
den, has received call to go to Japan to prepare
young natives for their subsequent studies OF medi-
cine at German universities.
On of the west side avenues In this city there
Is an establishment where Beau Brummes
hire clean shirt, white tie and gloves and dress
suit at moderate price per night At least says
one OF those well informed qudnuncs, the New
York correspondent Of a country newspaper.
, At Bangkok, Siam, quite recently, the Minister OF
Foreign Affairs gave an evening party at his resi-
dence in honor OF the Kings birthday, to which
most OF the European residents were invited. The
attendance was large, and dancing kept up till
early In the morning. A dinner was given In the
palace to some OF the Princes, and dinner was
also given to prominent Siamcse oflcias and to
some of the Europeans in Siamese employ. This
dinner was served in a new and beautiful hall IN
the palace. His Majesty honored his guests with
his presence and dined in the same hall at sepa.
rate table. These demonstrations indicate the
good will OF the young King to foreigners and the
opening of the era OF knife and fork diplomacy in
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