The New York herald., 1873-07-07
PERSONAL 1NTEIL1GENCE.

Ex-Governor Kent, Of Maine. is bent on trip to
Europe. rrrrr
Judge B. H. whitney, OF Indiana. is at the Grand
Judge L. B. Otis, of Chicago, is staying at the St.
Nicholas Hotel. ~. '.ss~
Bishop John Sharpe, of Salt Lake, is stopping at
the ST. Nicholas HOTEL
Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, Is again down
with paralytic shock.
Secretary Richardson left Long Branch for Wash
ington yesterday evening
General Benjamin r. Butler of Massachusetts,, Is
registered at the Fifth Avenue HOTEL
Congressman Lyman X. Bass, OF Buffalo, yester.
day arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
DR.. Charles T. Jackson the eminent chemist and
physician of Boston, Is alarmingly Ill.
George naws, the well-known musician and
pianof0rte manufacturer, OF Boston, Is dead.
Francis H. Jackson a wel-known citizen OF Bos-
ton, died while taking bath on the 5th instant.
A. M. Cakes. Of New Haven, on q visit to Boston,
died suddenly on the 4th OF hemorrhage of the
lungs.
DR.. N. Edison Sheldon, well-known physician Of
Northern New York, died at Glen's Falls on
the 4th.
Three members elect to the Forty third Congress
are dead-James Brooks william Whiting and J.
G. Wilson, OF oregon.
The Boston Transcript wants to know II the
Pi-Utes are secret Greek letter society and If any
one Is to deliver poem and an grafton before 1t at
this time Of the year.
Lieutenant Commander Henry @. White, OF the
United States Navy, is among the late arrivals at
the Union Square Hotel.
Secretary Robson and wife sailed on the United
States steamer Talapoosa from Newport yester-
day morning for the Eastward.
John n Easthurn An old and vvolI tnouun
printer Of Boston and of the earliest and most
steadlast friends Of Daniel Webster, died last
week.
The Chicago Times calls the Shah OF Persia the
''Boss Monarch" He may be monarch OF all he
surveys" but Baron Reuter- seems to be the "boss
Surveyor Of his kingdom.
A Baptist clergyman out West undertook to bap-
tize his wife at an unreasonable hour. He kept
her head under water too long, and now he has to
be hung up to dry in consequence.
A young lady just married in Chautauqua county
is chroniced as remarkable eocutionist An ex
change hopes she will not talk her husband to
death in her ambition TO justify the fact.
The Albany Journal aflrms that the Shah of
Persia is not the sovereign OF his country. The
"King of Kings" is only an advertising agent OF
Baron REUTER-, the great railroad monarch.
How old "Daddy Rice" would rejoice were he
alive in these days. They have just discovered q
veritable "virginia Mummy'-the title Of his IA
vorite extravaganza-n the Old Dominion.
"The Yankees have got the Modocs,n said q
Southern tradesman to an old lady Of ante. .bellum
tendencies when asked "What's the news q, sThey
have, have they9 Ihope 1t will kill every one OF
'em,n was the rejoinder.
The editor Of the Minneapolis Tribune says the
"St. Louis Democrat Is the best paper to steal from
in the whole country" and candidy confesses that
"that accounts for the excellence OF the miscella
neous matter in the Tribune"
The Fmcastle (va,) Herald Is responsible for this
bit of personal gossip:-"Lord Melbourne and
family, OF England, with retnue OF twenty-sx
persons, have located in the county Of Allegheny
having purchased some valuable property, con-
sisting Of the old Callaghan stand, 100 acres of
land and White Hail. paying therefor $s,25O In
CASH.
A horse thief named Howard lately hanged by q
vigilance committee in Missouri was ascertained
to have been q member Of that committee. The
regulations OF the committee demand In such cases
that the offender shall be dragged to the place OF
execution by the tail Of q horse-an act OF cruelty
that was literally carried out In the case Ql
Howard. f
Mr.. John Hussey sailed for Europe on Saturday
In the steamer France. lie has received several
medals for rescuing persons from droy<nAg--one,
a gold one, from the merchants OF South street;
another from the Society TOR the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals; also very complimentary set
Of resolutions from the Life Saving Benevolent AS