The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-08
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

George Wilkes is in Italy,
General John c. Fremont is at the Clarendon
Hotel.
Achille di Gas, Of Paris, is stopping at the New
York Hotel.
Major r. v. Vredenburgh, of Tennessee, is at the
New York Hotel.
General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix's stat, is
at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Ex-Governor Wells. of Virginia, arrived at the
Filth Avenue Hotel last night.
Ex-Congressman James +. Wilson, OF Iowa, has
arrived at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde are re-
siding in the royal palace in Milan.
Ex-COngressman j. II. Ketcham, of Dover Plains,
Is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
E. Jacobs United States Consul to Montevideo,
Uruguay is stopping at the Astor House,
Captain Mayne Reid ("OnwardD is spoken of as
a reform candidate for Parliament in England.
Congressman william II. Barnum, OF Connecti-
cut, has again turned up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The Russian General Karkowskisson has been
killed in duel. The youth was student at
Client.
Mr.. Groesbeck declines to be candidate as dele.
gate to the approaching Constitutional Convention
in Ohio
Ex-Governor Saunders. OF Nebraska, and Mayor
J. Il. Willard, of Omaha, yesterday arrived at the
st. Nicholas Hotel.
Captain NOvOssilsky and Engineer AlexandrOv-
sky, OF the Russian army, have returned to the
Hoffman House from Washington
Ex-United States Senator j. B. Henderson, OF
Missouri, and General P. Z. Conner, of the United
States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Viscount Parker's English creditors have decided
to accept $4,000 in payment of his debts, and the
Court of Bankruptcy has confirmed their decision
General Philip Sheridan, with General George A.
~.
the Fifth Avenue Hotel for Chicago yesterday
morning
David A. Wells and other American free-traders
are to be entertained at banquet by the Golden
Club, OF London, some time during the Vienna
Exhibition.
Vice President Wilson has appointed as his pri-
vate secretary Samuel Hunt, formerly clerk to the
Committee on Military Affairs Of which Mr.. Wilson
was chairman.
Assemblyman James NJ. Oakley. of Jamaica, is at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, having come down from
Albany to attend the inquiry into the claim OF
Coggswell to his seat.
The reception OF the Duo d'Aumale as a member
of the French Academy will take place during the
first fortnight in April. His sponsors will be NJ
Theirs and NJ. GuzOt.
The new King Of Sweden is not likely to be
formally crowned, as the majority Of the Swedish
and theatrical show"
western papers publish speeches OF their great
men, ''divested Of figures" they say. in order,
probably, that their readers may know what
amount OF reliance may be placed upon them.
report was circulated in Chicago that lady
was running sewing machine by mule power
On investigation a local reporter ascertained that
the power was that of person who had been mar
ried to the lady.
The following paragraph evinces a complete
knowledge of colonial history :-"Admiral
Alden, the Commander.in-Chef OF the American
European squadrops Is the llpesl DESCENDANT OF
John Alden, who was the first to set foot on the
Plymouth Rock from the Maynower"
1t is rumored In Germany that the young Kingof
Bavaria is about to take for better or worse the
eldest daughter Of the Prince Of ADhat Dcssau. 1t
is affirmed that the hdacaiues have already taken
place in the presence OF the whole ducal family. 1t
will be remembered that the marriage ceremonies
were ruthlessly postponed between King Louis and
the Princess of Bavaria, sister-in-aw OF the En-
peror OF Austria, for some reasons never thor
oughly understood.
The Troy (Kansas) Chez In nominating ticket
for the next Presidency, has the humor to say =
"As New York and Missouri seem to have the
exclusive right to furnish Presidential candidates
for the democrats and mongrels, IL Is time TO be
looking around for the next one Seymour and
Blair failed, as did Greeley and Brown, and the
Blair family Is exhausted How would this do9--
For President, William M. Tweed, Of New York;
for Vice President, Louis " Bogy, of Missouri"