The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-30
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


is staying at the Gilsey House.
Congressman George c. Mckee, OF Vicksburg,
Miss, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
Congressman Alexander Mitchell, Of Wisconsin,
has arrived at the Holman House.
Ex-Congressman Townsend d. Cock, OF Queens
county, is at the Sturtevant House.
United States Senator Alexander II. Ramsey of
Minnesota, is staying at the st. Nicholas Hotel
An English butcher was lately kicked by sheep
which he was killing. The man 1t was that died.
General George H. Sheridan, Congressman at
large from Louisiana, is registered at the Fifth Az
enue Hotel.
Joseph Brown is the democratic candidate for
Mayor of st. Louis. The republicans say the office
Is mot for Joe."
George w. Miller Of Albany, former Superinten-
dent OF the State Insurance Department, Is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel
M. Edward Laboulaye has just been chosen Am
mnstrator of the College of France, in succession
to NJ. Stanislas Julien, deceased.
Neal Dow and J. B. Cough are conducting tenn
perance revival in Nashua, n. II. There had been
up to Sunday $50 converts to federalism.
The Prince of Wales favors the bill authorizing
man to marry his deceased wifes sister. Would
he like TO annex another Of the kings daugh-
tiers
Mrs. O'Leary, owner Of the mythic COW that
kicked the candle that fired the barn that
burned Chicago has opened a millinery store in
Michigan.
Sir John Duke Coleridge. the British Attorney
General has been fined by the Marylebone Police
Court for having a chimney fire at his residence
In Hyde Park.
General Slaughter, late c. S. A., is engaged,
under federal direction, in removing distractions
In Mobile Bay, the State OF Alabama having abal-
doned the work.
rkar hvpf bor- iv-l of Con arn1
Butler, has entered upon his duties as Surveyor OF
the port of New Orleans. The papers speak well of
the appointment.
There Ia considerable conversation in the Con-
nectcut Fourth Congressional district repre-
sented by Mr.. Barnum, democrat, for a number Of
years, on minor" topics.
General julius White, our Minister to the Argen-
tine Republic, intends to remain in Europe for
some time to escape the yellow fever reported to
be raging in Buenos Ayres.
Professor Meyer, OF the Stevens Technical Col
1ege, Hoboken, Is shortly about to leave for the
Vienna Exhibition, and while in England will visit
his friend Professor Tyndall.
Ex-President Johnson has been in Nashville for
q fortnight, and as some correspondents aver, he
never does nothing for nothing" he is supposed
to be there for purpose"
The very last OF the Mohicans" (Coopers was
fraud) has been heard from as having died in Con-
necttcut. He was a fisherman and great hunter.
When shall we hear the last Of the Modocss
The Jackson (Miss) Clarion wants a new name
for Cofxx county in that State suppose 1t be
called "Apello," whose name is associated with the
most renowned Tyres OF classic antiquity
Mary Elizabeth Davidson has been convicted at
Manchester, England, Of murder in killing her ie-
climate child one year old. She strangled the
baby and threw its body into pond. She was SEN
fenced to be hanged.
British soldier named Bingham accuses him.
self of numbering Maria Jane Cousen, at Etham
two years ago, striking her on the head with
hammer while walking with her in secluded spot,
and people doubt him.
Arinori MORT the Japanese Ambassador, and
suite, sailed from R0ston for Liverpool yesterday
on the steamship Malta. Minister Mort, who has
nine months ieave of absence, is going to the
Vienna Exhibition, and afterwards to Japan.
The Providence Journal Is anxious to know
whether A. Biron Bidwer, arrested at Havana for
alleged completely with iorgeries on the Bank of
England is any connection of @. Coles Bidwell or
W. Austin Bidwe, names associated with certain
swindling operations in Providence and Cincinnati.
The following epitaph circuates just now in
Paris:-
Here lies
President SSn tff he F iq% p Republic
Giorined the FRS. Empire,
Justified the Second
Prepared the Third.
Taylor county, Kentucky is on an clipping race
with some OF our own interior counties In the
former there we're two elopments within the same
week. viz. Il. Nancy Mitchell elsped with Numa
Ramsey; 2. Sister Warren eloped with Joseph
Hail. In each case the unfortunate victims OF the
arts and wiles OF these bold women left wives and
children TO rejoice at their loss.
The Memphis Avalanche in referring to Com
modore vanderhllt's donation Of a half million to
establish the Methodist University in Tennessee,
remarks that it Is the first donation Of any kind
bestowed on the South by citizen Of a Northern
State. The princey donation made by the late
George Peabody, who was native of Massachu-
sets, to establish a Southern educational fund.
Is probably Internationally overlooked by our
Memohis contemporary.