The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-31
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE,

"Jubilee" Gilmore is at the Grand Central Hotel.
Clinton B. Fisk. OF st. Louis, is stopping at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mr. Francis Herman yesterday arrived from
utica at the Hoffman House.
Commodore Strong, of the United States Navy,
is staying at the New York Hotel.
Baron Wrangell Of St. Petersburg, is in peace
ffn mood,at the Grand Central Hotel.
Professor Benjamin Pierce Chief Oilcer OF the
Coast Survey, is at the Brevoort House.
Major General J. L. Donaldson. of the United
States Army, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Ex-Congressman Eli Thayer, formerly Of Massa-
cchusetts Of New Jersey, is at the Astor House.
Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, yesterday came
con Washington and is now at the st. Nicholas
Hotel.
7. B. Blackstone, President Of the Chicago, Al
ton and st. Louis Railroad, is at the ST. Nicholas
Hotel
Clifford Smith Sims, our Consul at Prescott,
Canada, is in town, stopping at the St. Nicholas
Hotel.
They call him Fogg, colored, in California Poor
Bogyl The Vallejo Chronicle calls it "pretty
.name.n
General G. W. Mead, of st. Paul. MIMI, the Gen.
'eral Manager of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Is
lat the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Aprivate despatch from Topeka, Kansas, received
I'm st. Louis yesterday states that Senator PomerOy
-as sick with brain fever
Hon. j. Milton Turner, Minister to LIBERIA has re-
turned to Washington after an extended tour
through the Southern States.
''S0rcerer" is another name for murderer in Bonn
bay. With knowledge OF this fact came the dis
covery that the Parsees had revived the society
Thugs.
1t Is only honest farmers in Iowa who fill ducks
with water and then let them freeze before taking
them to market. In Minnesota the ducks freeze
lying
Sir John Strachey, who is now in England, will
probably succeed Sir William Muir, whose term as
Governor Of the Northwestern Provinces OF India
will soon expire.
Homer-not the blind poet, but James Homer,
Late secretary of an English gas company-is to
suffer twelve months Imprisonment, at hard labor,
for embezzng $4,000
The Rev. j. Marshall Lang formerly of Morning
side church, has been indicted as pastor OF the
Barony church and parish, Glasgow, vacant by the
vdeath of DR.. Norman Macleod.
II the Russians Mus '-co-vte it would be more ap-
>proprate for the French than the English to stop
their advance, because the sons OF France would
halt them saying, "Khi-raa2"
Rev. william Morley Punshon, who has lately
lived in Canada, Is to return to England next April,
where 1t Is said an important ONCE OF the Wes-
ieyan church awaits his acceptance.
Minister Cardwel Is. considered ''the good boy
OF modern politics" by the London Datlv Neaos.
lie may be a ''trump;" but II he were tory un
der Disraeli he would be jews harp.
The daughters of the late Chief Justice fancy
are in straitened circumstances, being compelled
to earn their subsistence by working as copyists
for lawyers in Baltimore. Members of the legal
profession throughout the country are abou start
ing q fund to relieve the necessities of these
iladies-the children Of man who for thirty years
held the highest judicial position in the country
land died poor.
Senator Brownlow expresses himself like the old
<Parson" when he writes to the Athens TENN
Post from Washington. January 16, about reports Of
his resignation, as follows:-T consider that am
capable Of doing my State as much service here as
anybody whom the present Legislature would elect
as my successor, and more than one OF the several
small politicians and county court lawyers who as
pire to be Senator from Tennessee"
General Hancock yesterday received pleasant
call from the Irish Brigade Club who visited him
IN a body. Among this number were General I. w.
Sweeny, Major Horgan, Colonel MCGEE, Major
O'Meagher, &c. Several neat speeches, expressive
OF high regard for him. we're pithily and feelingly
replied to by General Hancock. During the call
many anecdotes Of the war time were revived to
the qualification Of the visitors and their former
commander in the days of the war.