The New York herald., 1873-11-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

George NJ. Dallas, OF Philadelphia, is staying az
the Brevo0rt House.
Lieutenant Porter, United States Navy, Ia quar-
tered at the Brevoort House.
Major W. G. Bartlett, OF the United States Army.
is stopping at Barnum's Hotel.
Captain 4. B. Ames, United States Army, has ar
rived 9 the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
Commander 7. E. Chadwick, United States Navy.
Is quartered at the Holman House.
General Joseph 4. Johnston yesterday arrived as
the st. Nicholas Hotel from Savannah.
Paymaster Joseph Foster, United states Navy. IL
registered at the Grand Central Hotel.
Colonel Hiram Fuller, or the London C0sntop0yS
tan, has just been enriched by legacy Of $125oes.
Lord Carysfort. the owner OF large estates In
Ireland, has given $500 for the Improvement o.
Arklow Harbor.
Joaquin Miller is In italy. On the 10th ult. he
was entertained by Consul James Lorimer Graham,
Jr.. in Florence.
A "Royalist advertises in the Paris papers for
loan OF 1900 francs and offers the security Of his
''word OF honor.n
General NJ. H. Morgan and Captain George Q.
Webster, United States Army, have apartments at
the Sturtevant House.
Queen Victoria has appointed Mr.. John Kirk.
Vice Consul at Zanzibar to be Her Majesty's Con-
sui General at Zanzibar.
Secretary OF War Beknap arrived in the city
yesterday morning from Washington and started
on his return to the capital last evening.
Surgeon General Joseph X. Barnes, United States
Army, was at the Hoffman House yesterday. The
General left in the afternoon for West Point. but
will return to the city tomorrow
Martin Van Buren, used to say that he wo0ld
tunnel forty miles TO interview . man rather than
write him a letter. Who would have imagined
that the Usage Of Undertook" was the original
interviewer
An anti-w0men's rights man In Burlington,
Iowa, in scratching the name OF Mrs. Hagar, wrote
upon his ballot "D0n't want no wummun in Nine"
The lady was o candidate for School Superinten-
dent, and the 'inteigent bolter'' could NOS aP-
precate the necessity OF having such things ~
common schools at all.
The subject OF miracle in Posen, Prussia, has
got into trouble. At shrine OF tho Virgin Mary
he suddenly manifested his power OF speech, which
he had seemingly lost while In the army. He has
now been found to have been only shamming dumb ,
ness to draw pension, and the pnymaster OF pen.
sions in his district is prosecuting him for fraud.
Many OF the good people in Providence are no
little exercised at the prospect Of having several
OF their venerable elms In the Firsr Baptist church
yard cut down, in order that the new illuminated
clock can be seen from all points, Are there no
other means by which light can be Afforded tho
Providence people? ''woodman, spare that
tree ~
Mr.. Sackville Gwynne known in Liverpool.
England as the gentleman cab driver,r Is dead.
He was the son OF Colonel Gwynne OF Carmarthen-
shire where his family possessed valuable estates.
Some years ago, to end some harassing difncuity
with his family, Mr.. Gwynne becamea "whip." ana
continued in that capacity almost until the day OF
mis- death.
Mr.. Matthew darcy, member OF Parliament fer
county wexford, Ireland, has offered to put at the
service OF Cardinal Cullen the sum or f1OO 900 for
the PURPOSE OF building Catholic Cathedral In
Dublin. Mr.. darcy Is a brewer like Sir u. GUM
ness, who some years ago gave like sum for the
restoration Of st. Patriok's Protestant Cathedral
In the Irish capital.
The Rev. Edward Forbes, y. D., writing from
Paris to the London Times, contraaicts the state
ment made before the Evangelical Alliance in this
city that the late Archbishop OF Paris, while in
prison. sent for him to visit him. Mr.. Forbes says
that being in the prison on q charitable errsnd,
ne called upon Monsgnor Darboy to assure him Of
sympathy and prayers in his behalf When Mr..
Forbes was leaving him the Archbishop said -
"Your visit has been bright ray In my prisea
house. and II my head be LEFT on my shoulders I
hope 1t is not the last time we shall meet"