The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-08
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

j. Condtt Smith, OF BUFFALO, ID staying az tho FlItn
Avenue Hotel.
Jen Davis Is being inundated with visitors at tho
New York Hotel
Colonel Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, is as
the New York HoteL
Clement @. Clay has arrived at che Coleman
House from Macon, Georgia.
Tom Hood, son Of Thomas Hood, is coming to thh
country. ''One more 'fortunatep
Ex-Governor o. A. Hadley, OF Arkansas, yester-
day arrived at the ST. Nicholas Hotel.
Charles Bowles. OF Bowies Brothers Co., ID
visiting Mayor Joseph Brown, in st. Louis.
The Spanish Minister. Admiral Polo de Bernabe.
has returned TO the Clarendon Hotel from New
port.
surgeon James McMaster United States Navy,
died at the Naval Hospital. Chelsea Mass, on the
Attn instant.
feminine lawyer has Just won her first case N
Chicago. The strong points in her plea before the
jury were youth and beauty.
Women and Chinese are said to figure among tho
clerks in the Bank of California. The former fire.
q1enty figure In every bank.
M. Clement DuvernOis' new halfpenny paper IN
Paris La Democratic, designs to prove that only
the Empire can succor the working people.
James NJ Foster, the first white man born in
Kokomo, Ind, died on the I'd instant His father,
literally "the Oldest nhabitant," survives him.
The venerable ex-Justi Nelson has been III
lately. but is now again going about his home at
COOperstOwn, N Y, showing wonderful vigOr for
an octogenarian.
A wild man, in natures suit, has made his arr
pearance in the woods between Sank Rapids anu
Little Falls, Minnesota. A Sank Rapidite 'hopes"
it is his brother-in-law.
Senator Bayard, DIR. N. X. Davis. Colonel Edgar
Montague and Moses Walton, have been elected
honorary members of the Society Of the Alumni
OF the University Of Virginia.
Colonel william H. HESS, General superintendent
of the International Ocean Telegraph Company.
headquarters a: Havana and Key West, has arrived
at his home in Brooklyn after an absence OF two
years.
Congressional Delegate r. G. Mccormick, Of
Arizona, ls at the Holman House. Mr.. Mccormick
has been compelled to give up his purpose of going
TO Europe on the steamship Pennsylvania, which
starts on her first trip on Thursday, from Phila-
delphia.
A Winona (Minnesota) paper puts little local
incident in this way:-"Mrs. Len Brown and Mr.
George Potts eloped together-the one being
husband and the other wife. Brown Is after
them with pistols for two, and Wlnona Is not
happy"
The Philadelphia Age aptly remarks that q
"maiden speech" was once mere figure Of speech
for the first effort OF young lawyer or new Con.
the fair sex perpex Courts and startle audiences
with their "maiden Efforts"
China woman was sold at auction on Granite
Creek, Idaho, lately, to Q Chinaman named Six,
who has already SIX wives Of this kind and half
dozen of another The latest Mrs. Six brought $57S
1t would not be strange, when she enters Jonn
SKIS family II things went to ''sixes and sevens"
Here Is little note for the scientists. In
Oswego, at six O'Clock on the morning of the 1st
instant, there was noticed on the stone sidewalks
very peculiar jelly-like formation, which, when
put under magnifying glass, appeared like cells
containing animal life. No one seemed able to OK
plain it. Perhaps 1t was ''sell" altogether.
An old man, crippled with rheumatism and 90
companied by his family of four, arrived in Kansas
City, NO., on his way from Indiana to q town in
Kansas State, and was Immediately robbed.
whereupon the st. Joseph (Mo.) Herald remarks
'Tf people going West will continue to go through
such wicked place they deserve to be robbed"
Poor consolation that.
| Nevada paper relates how a couple Of homo
made savants were discussing the cause of the
saline character OF the water in the Great Salt
Lake. Said one, "Well, it's my opinion that
there's an underground connection with the Pacific
Ocean, ana it's filed with water from the Pacific"
sBut," said the other, "Sat Lake is 1000 feet
higher than the ocean what do you think Of that ?"
"Think OF it why think 1t bursts my theory all
to thunder"
Mr.. s. L. Clemens Mark Twain) was recently
entertained at a most recherche banquet given
at the Langham Hotel, London. The opportunity
OF his visit to London was embraced by Mr. J. M.
Bellew in order to offer to distinguished Ameri-
can literary man some small recognition Of the
hospitality which was everywhere shown to Mr..
Bellew himself in America during his late visit.
Some fourteen gentlemen, distinguished in litera.
ond fha orr inuffA Al
meet Mr.. Clemens on this festive occasion. Alter
dinner his health was proposed by the most, assur.
ing him OF the hearty welcome he would every
where receive in England, emulating the reception
which the literary world of New York anu Boston
extends to all English men OF mark who visit the
United States. Mr.. Clemens, in speech repleta
with the dryest humor. which drew forth laugh
ter and applause from all around him, briefly
thanked the company for the honor done him, ana
hoped to be able to reciprocate the hospitality OF
the evening at some future day in his own house