The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-06

Bret Harte Is at the Sturtevant House.
Mr. i Shiliinnfon N of Canada Ia akaYf

Bret Harte Is at the Sturtevant House.
Mr.. J. J. Shliington, N. p, OF Canada, Is staying
at the st. James Hotel
Governor Jewell OF Connecticut. Unregistered at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel -i'
Ex-Aayor r n Bishop OF Cincinnati has arrived
at the st. Nicholas Hotel
Lieutenant o. r. Aeeker, OF the United States
Navy, is at the Everett House.
Judge William r. Hart, OF New Orleans Is
stopping at the New York Hotel.
Sardar Abdul Rahman Khan, Of India, Is reported
to be about to visit ST. Petersburg.
The Shah Of Persia on the 18th OF January ar
rived at Meshed on his way to Seistan. tfff
Congressman E. d. Standeford. OF Kentucky,
yesterday arrived at the Grand Central Hotel
Colonel F. Van yliet OF the United States Army.
has temporary quarters at the Sturtevant House.
The Danish Consul at Singapore, e. l., is Mr.. Pad
day. This is IL is said, In compliment to the vaor
OF Brian Boroihme.
Alexander II. Rice has been nominated BY Gov
ernor Washburn for Massachusetts, Commissioners
to the Vienna Exposition.
Seth GOkul Dass, the Jabapur Qndia) banKer.
has been acquitted of the charge OF cheating.
Lucky fellow Is Gokul Dass.
MI. Horace Saunders, OF Cambridge, Mass, has
given David Nichols. Of Lowell, $4,000 for the
privilege OF having called him forger.
Paul Morphy is poor. For man who has had SO
many "checks' pass through his handsit is q won
der he could not make some OF them stick.
Hon. John O'Conor has been sworn in as Minister
of the Canadian Land Revenue. 1t ls understood
that Mr.. 7. N Gibbs will be appointed Presidents Of
the Council.
'Put what you have where it viii DO the most
good" says Cakes Ames That is what house.
keepers are now doing with Congressional
Notwithstanding their morning fires with them.
Josh Ward Zone Of the Ward brothers, champion
sculers), has been h0nored with the democratic
nomination for Game Constable OF Cornwall, N. Y.
He ought to be able to pull" the iniractors Of the
Game laws.
JACK Ashore-vinnie Reams' equestrian statue Of
Admiral Farragut. Western paper says, as .
companion work OF art, some one ought to paint q
picture representing Phil Sheridan in canoe,
chasing Early.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says:-
edmund Yates thinks Sherman much more Of .
typical American than Sheridan 1t Is difficult to
conceive why Yates should think So inasmuch as
Phil always takes whlskey, while Tecumseh's taste
Is scattering"
Western paper states that Vice President viii.
son is about to be married. II the editor or that
paper had read the proceedings OF the Credit Mob-
lier Investigations as carefully as he does his Bible
he would have ascertained that the worthy Vice
President cannot well be in that position-unless
he proposes to emigrate to Utah.
The days Of superstition ore not yet over. In
the Pennsylvania House Of Representatives, the
other day, board Of thirteen were objected to be
cause 1t was an "unlucky number" 1t was
changed to eleven. The "old original thirteen
States" were pretty good startfor the Republic.
Notwithstanding the oddly Of the number.
revivalist approached q man in Burlington.
Iowa, the other day, and asked him II he was
Christian. "No.n replied the other; ri am q rail-
road man." "well," said the exhorter, II know
of several conductors in New England who are
Christians" That may do very well for Down
East" was the rejoinder; ''but man can't be
both in Iowa."
His Majesty Kamehameha the Fifth, King Of tho
Sandwich Islands, may pay visit OF state to the
United States OF America at an early day. Homo
lulu correspondent writing the 7th Of February,
says "Admiral Pennock, having said that his ship
was put in commission for the purpose Of convey
ing the late King to the shores OF America, 1t Ia
proposed that his mission should not be frutless,
but that he should tender his ship to the present
King for the same journey"