The New York herald., 1872-10-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Jefferson Davis has lost his youngest son. Willie.
Bishop Lee. OF Delaware, is at the Grand Central
Hotel.
The Autumn crop Of windfalIs has just appeared
In the West.
Ex-Congressman James M. Thayer la at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
Genera Joshua T. owen, OF Philadelphia, is at
the Gilsey House.
General Franklin, or Hartford is In quarters at
the New York Hotel
Colonel I. s. Paddock OF Cleveland, has arrived
at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
captain II. T. Connors, OF the steamship Rising
Star. is at the Sturtevant House.
Ex-Congrcssman John B. Alley, of Boston, is stop
ping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Colonel Cooke, OF Bermuda, is among the late ar
rivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
New England papers encourage Mr.. Froude to
continue his lectures In that section
Colonel A. r. Lamar has assumed the editorial
management OF the Savannah Advertiser.
General Sherman was taken quite sick on Satur-
day IN washington, but s now convalescent.
koopmanschap, the importer OF other chaps
rom China, has arrived at the Hoffman House.
wendell Phillips has pronounced for General
Banks In the Massachusetts, Fifth Congressional
district.
1t has been decided that man becomes OF age on
the day preceding the twenty-frst anniversary OF
his birth.
General BENJAMIN r. Butler was at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel for short time yesterday, while on
his way to Poughkeepsie.
Des Mones Qowa) clergyman advocates theat-
rical and other amusements, aud his congregation
Is not shocked thereat either.
Secretary Delano left Washington yesterday for
Missouri, and will speak during the week at st.
Louis, Sedalia and Kansas City.
John B. Cough subscribed $500 for q suitable
testimonial to George Cruikshank. the artist for
his services in behalf OF the temperance cause.
Byron wrote s'The Bride Of Abydos" in four days
and 'The Oorsair" in ten. This is hardly up to the
standard OF Walt Whitman for the speed OF his
Pegasus.
Fred Busch, lately woodchopper in La Crosse,
Wis, has fallen heir to 100000, and Robert
Roberville, Of Wyandotte, Kansas, to similar
amount.
The Cincinnati Enquirer Greeley having an
nounced that ''the tidal wave is coming again." the
Chicago inter- ocean admonishes those ':who cannot
swim to mount the top benches"
The Boston Globe favors the election OF Secretary
Boutwell, to the United States Senate, to succeed
Senator Wilson, and urges republicans to think OF
that matter when voting for members Of the Leg
isature.
The Louisville COurfer-J0urnal terms Winnie
Ream tone OF the best-paid stonecutters in the
country" The lady in question has certainly been
subjected to many hard knocks from the mallets Of
ungalant members Of the American press.
Miss Marian Emers, OF Hamtramck, Mich, aged
eighty-six, was the other day united in the holy
bonds OF wedlOck to John G. Hinster, of Van Buren,
county, aged eighty-seven. Neither one had ever
been married before, and had known each other
for more than forty years.
An old citizen of Kansas eloped last Thursday
with his niece. he has been married fourteen years,
and leaves wife who, instead Of mourning his alb
sence has sold out her household furniture and
proposes to follow him as long as the proceeds OF
the cooking stove and bedstead last.
John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet, declines the
nomination OF the Woman's Homestead League for
Vice President with Fremont FOR President) on
the Independence party" ticket made up in Bos-
ton on the 18th inst. He advises the Homestead
Lea0uers To stick to the old rebublican marty.