The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-14
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mr.. f. J. Lowber. of Brooklyn, Is In Rome with
his family.
Professor Louis Agassiz yesterday arrived at the
AstOr House.
Secretary Delano has left Cuba for Washington,
via New Orleans.
Genera. H. A. Whitney, of Boston, is at the
Grand Central Hotel.
State Senator william Johnson, of Seneca Falls
Is at the Gilsey House.
Two stereotyped personal" hnes-"S0mner -
better;" "Sumner is worse"
Francis G. Service has been nominated Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana.
General J. watson Webb is ill In Nice, from Q
complication Of govt with another malady.
Roscoe Conkling is said to be the best Specimens
OF q ''hOpeessly ruined man" in the country.
Colonel W. F. Shocking, of the United States
army, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel
.Are railways highwayss' asks Western paper.
Be that as it may, some railroad managers have
very low ways.
Edgar A. Poe's only sister lives at Hicks Land
Ing, Va, in pinching poverty ''Ony this and
nothing more"
Representative Sheldon, of Louisiana, denies
having aspirations for q seat in the United States
Senate just now. Prudent Sheldon!
The latest conundrum from Georgia is, "Why 10
South Carolina like piano 2" "Because the
darkies dark keys) are above the whites"
District Judge observation-disclosures Dick"-Bus-
teed, OF Alabama, and District Judge Humphries,
of the District Of Columbia are to exchange seats.
Mr.. william II. Appleton and his party have re-
turned from their attempted trip to the Upper
Nile, discouraged by flood, saying ZEE Mo M
it,"
JEFF Davis has survived six of his b0ndsmen.
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation enabled hmm
to survive more than that number Of hereditary
bondmen."
Frank W. Palmer, Member Of Congress rom
Iowa. has promoted himself to an editorial position
on the Chicago Inter- ocean, to take effect after the
4th of March.
No less than five hundred (9) counterfeiters were
executed at one time in Moscow lately They we're
well executed and had no difficulty in passing cur
rent in eternity.
Judge Lane, aged seventy, of Hagerstown, Nd,
committed suicide lately because he sued for
a breach Of promise Of marriage. He was Old
enough to know better.
The Duluth Herald says that there is no longer .
doubt that blast furnace will be put in operation
in Duluth next summer. Some Of its rivals are
already beginning to call Duluth "blarsted" city.
Professor william J. Macquorn Rankine, OF GIas-
gov University has just died, in his ffty-third
year. He held high rank as an author and teacher
of applied mechanics and civil engineering. be-
sides being an accomplished poet and musician
Captain U. o. Wickers, Of the Royal Navy OF the
Netherlands, has been presented by our govern
ment, through General Gorham, Minister at the
Hague, with an elegant gold watch and chain in
recognition Of his services to distressed American
seamen.
Mr. Froude's mission to this country, the London
Standard thinks has had the good effect OF causing
dssension among Irishmen here. 1t derives an
illustration of this idea from the difference be-
tween Father Burke and O'Donovan Rosa on his
tOrica questions Will that console FroudeS
The st. Louis Democrat Is authority for the state
ment that Senator Sumner never believed In the
legitimacy of the late French Emperor's descent.
Speaking on French topics in the Senate one dag
about four years ago. he referred to the First Ma
poleon as the "reputed uncle OF the Emperor" He
was then Chairman OF the Committee on Foreign
Relations, and fearing, Oh reflection, that the ex-
preston would appear improper coming from such
source, he sent an autograph note to the reporter
OF the Associated Press, after the debate had con-
cluded, requesting him to suppress the word "re-
puted." The reporter complied, but kept the note
as possible curiosity OF the future.