The New York herald., 1873-10-03
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

John Fl. Williams, well-known merchant in Al
bany, is dead.
couple of enterprising young men have started
weekly paper in East Orange, N. j., called the
Gazette.
Professor Child, OF Harvard, and Richard II.
Dana, Jr., have returned to Boston after Euro
pean tour.
Another colored boy, Alonzo McClernan, of South
Carolina, has successfully passed this years exan
nation at the Naval Academy.
They have got it at last down South. His name
Is George +. Beach; office, Deputy Collector Of
West Alabama, at Standardization, $4,000.
1t is stated that General Longstreet is about to 90
into the iron business He has been the subject OF
good deal Of irony lately from his former Confed-
crates.
Miss Glen, OF Terre Haute, Ind, has sued l. M.
Pierce for breach OF promise Of marriage, damages
$s5,oO0. Why not show little clemency and make
1T round 100000.
In the Maryland Inebriate Asylum they have a
literary society named after Oliver Wendell
Holmes. The "Autocrat of the Breakfast Taben
might write some spirited lines on the subject.
General X. Mackenzie, OF the Fourth United
States cavalry who astonshed the Kckapoos and
the Mexcans recently by the adoption OF vigor-
Gus. though, at the same time, q strictly ''peacen
policy. Is in st. Louis
Benjamin c. Piper, who has been twenty years a
clerk in the Office Of the Secretary of State Of
Massachusetts, has been appointed Deputy Secre-
tary in place Of Mr. Lovett, who has just retired,
after fifty years. service This is the right kind OF
rotation In Office.
Scene in q Cincinnati court charge, assault
upon q housekeeper)- she ever ask you to
marry herW "Yes.n "What did you saySn ssI
told her to wait until her teeth were grown.n
"what did she say thenr ''Nothing." "what
did she dor" event down town and bought
new set OF teeth" Case dismissed.
The Philadelphia Press states that member OF the
Society OF Friends thus complmented one ofhis sect
who had joined regular church upon the new
organ in the latter. "Why thought thee objected
TO such things as music In worshlpp "And so
do" was the reply; "but II thee must worship God
by machinery want thee to have the best.n
The same journal, referring to the fading out
Of the funny department in the Galary asks
"How Is II we grow no funny folks who can stand
the wear and tear OF regular writingf" Because
the funny writer cannot, like the poor actor,
"Smile TO please you with an aching heart" The
smiles of your average funny man might have a
different cause.
The Boston Transcript states that merchant
OF that city relates the following conversation
between two bell boys at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New \ iork:-Pat asks Mike. whats this suspension
OF the banks Z" "Hist ye ~ Mike replies, ON tell
ye suppose 20 have five cents" "Yis." leave
1t wild me-" "Yis" "Next day ye want 1t, and ye
AK me for It," "Yis.n II tell ye, No. sir, I've used
IL mesolf.'r
report having obtained currency that resi-
dent OF city In Kansas had offered $4,000 to any
man who would marry his crosseyed daughter,
the hotels In the place we're overrun with visitors
that the landlords had to .roost some OF them out
on poles projecting from the windows The ex-
citement was somewhat allayed when It was dis
covered that tho daughter IN question was
"coIored. not plaln.r