The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-11

Matt Carpenter one of the back salary grabbers,
is PRACTISING law in Milwaukee.
Governor H. ID. Cooke Of Washington, d. c., is
registered at the Metropolitan Hotel
Solicitor General Edmund Sharp, Of Hong Kong,
China, is stopping at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Count SchouvalOtf has been succeeded by Prince
Bariatinsky as CHER Marshal of the Russian Court.
United States Senator Simon Cameron, the old
political war.horse Of Pennsylvania, was III Provi-
dence, r. l., on Friday
Monsignor Mcrmilod's appeal to the Swiss
National Council against his excitement mas been
rejected by that body.
Lady Burdett -Coutts has been presented by q
number OF the working people OF the east Of Lon
don with fine Oil painting.
United States Senator Oliver p Norton OF In
diana, has so far recovered from paralysis to be
able to walk without assistance.
Ex-Governor Wayland, OF Connecticut, while on
his late voyage to England, had his arm severely
hurt by an accident on the steamer
The Kennebec Journal says that Senator George
M. Boutwell, and Hon. Benjamin F. Butler are eX-
pected to accompany the President on his visit to
Maine.
One OF the Siamese twins was recently sum-
moned to serve on jury in North Carolina.
Chang would not go, and Eng was fined $25 for
non-attendance.
will be sixty years old next April. He was born in
Dorchester, Mass, April 49, 1914 and graduated at
Harvard College in 1881.
Hon. James BufTnton, Of Fall River, member OF
Congress from the First district Of Massachusetts,,
who has been for some time confined to his house
by severe illness, is improving in health.
NJ. Theirs would not accept President MacMa-
hons special invitation to him attend the Shah's
reception at the Elysee. Instead, he held an OPP
position reception Of the Deputies Of the Lett
Mrs. Charles s. Tom Thumb Stratton met with a
serious accident on Thursday at her home in Mid
deburg by falling down stairs, causing injury to
the spine. Fears Of brain fever were entertained.
Mrs. General Gaines is residing In Memphis,
Tenn, the home Of her husband waiting for the
final settlement of her New Orleans claims, which
have been iorty years in litigation, and cover
property worth $2o,oOoOOo.
George V. Edes, editor OF the Piscataquir 90 -.
serUeY is the Oldest editor in the State OF Name
He was q compostor on the Bangor Register in
1885, and for thirty-six years has been in the posi-
ton he now occupies.
GAINESVILLE, Fla, is in q happy state. The Mayor
of the city is SICK the acting Mayor is out Of town.
the Marshal Is dead, the Clerk and Treasurer are
visiting their friends in the North and large ma
jor1ty OF the Board Of Aldermen are OIL in the
country.
the people Of Canada in connection with the Pacific
Railroad swindle, has commenced actions for libel
against some Of the newspapers. He thinks his
character for honesty and probity has been dam
aged to the amount OF $50, 600.
This is a mild expression OF disgust by the Cos
1nopolitan. an American journal of London:-
"GuilfOrd Onslow, NJ. p, has the cheek to ask us
to publish an appeal to the nation in behalf of q
scoundrel who has confessed himself guilty Of
forgery, theft, perjury and seductionw
former officer OF the French army, named
Mathusewicz, has been arrested in Paris for having
been Communist. lie will probably be shot like
RosseI. He Is a veteran Of the Crimean and Ital.
ian campaigns in which he is said to have distln-
guished himself by bravery.
Mr.. Smith, Of Deepng, ST. James, England, hav-
ing been "played upon" by Miss Jenkmson, has
sought redress in court. He had arranged for his
nuptials with the young woman, when she told
him she had changed her mind in regard to him.
But she added that she would marry Mr.. Smith il
he made her, but that If she did espouse him she
would "make him live like a toad under har
row." Either poor Smith wants to live in the way
his enchantress mentions, he thinks with
Baron Pollock that "no toad with proper spirit
would stay under the harrow"