The New York herald., 1874-11-18
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Marshal Bazatne has arrived In Madrid.
Judge Z. Fl. Durell, OF Louisiana, yesterday az.
rived at the Astor House.
Mayor Samuel c. Cobb, of Boston, Is sojournins
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
surgeon L. s. Matthews, United States Navy, ID
quartered at the ST. Denis Hotel.
Signor A. Gianelli, Italian Consul at Montreal, II
registered at the st. Denis Hotel.
Mr.. John Knapp, OF the St. Louis Republican, ID
stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. Luclus Robinson, OF Elmira, is among the
latest arrivals at the st. James Hotel.
Ex-Governor Theodore r. Randolph, Of New
Jersey, Is staying at the New York Hotel
In Russia also they have opened weather once,
and the probabilities are daily announced.
Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. w. R. Trefusls, Of
England, is residing at the Brevoort House.
Rear Admiral James II. Strong, United Statea
Navy. has apartments at the New York Hotel.
Ex-Governor William Dennlson OF Ohio arrived
at the Windsor Hotel yesterday from Washington.
MIR. T. b. Blackstone, President OF the Chicago
ami Alton Railroad Company is at the windso,
Hotel.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe arrived at the
Grand National Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla, on thu
18th inst.
congressman elect J. NJ Davy. OF Rochester, ana
c. c. Is. Walker, OF Corning, N. Y, are at the
Metropolitan Hotel
Not a drop OF rain in the Crmea for four months;
oil the surface OF the earth o movable mass oi
dust. and no winter wheat yet sown.
The French Journal ODciel says that Colonel
S; ;ofrel Is not punished for his misconduct toward
the authorities. 1t is mot because he Is innocent
OF improper acts, but because there Is no law
against them!"
Prussia At the Austrian Embassy in Paris there
VA n n mn nd thav
suspect somebody at the Prusslan Embassy. The
correspondence is active ana sharp.
Paris possesses new culinary wonder. 1t ID
'paient butter" 1t Is not made from cream, but
apparently from the ordinary fat OF slaughtered
animals. 1t is sold at half the price or the real
butter, and will keep sweet a year.
Messrs. David Chadwick and John Crossley,
members OF the British Parliament; Rev. DR..
Melor OF England, and Mr.. Richard Potter. Presi-
dent OF the Grand Trunk Railway OF Canada, are to
sail for Europe to-day In the steamship Russia.
In Russia they troubled very much with the
dinlculty OF numbering their Israelt:sh people
su oject to the conscription, and it has been pro-
posed to leave 1t to the notabities OF the Jewish
faith; but the Minister OF War declines the propo.
sition.
Has Won Arnim beaten Blsmarckf In Europe
the diplomatic gossps say he has. It was .
struggle to suppress letters which Bismarck ap-
pretended the Emperor might see. ana the story
is that Won Arntm has managed 10 deliver the
letters to the Emperor.
One OF the Russian papers has q correspondence
descriptive off queer element OF our Western
population. They are Russians VINO were sent to
Siberia as convlcts, but who, having made their
way 10 the eastern coast OF Asia, have got over
Bchring Straits on American whaIers and ara
now employed as herdsmcn on the plains.
M, Ciermont Ganncau mas discovered in PaIes
tine near the village OF Abu Shushcn In the plain
between Jaffa ana Jerusalem, two inscriptions cut
into the rock. The inscriptions are alike. and
each is formed OF the words ''Tahum (czero or
"fronttcr OF Gczer." This Is accepted as es,ab-
fishing the whereabouts Of the ancient city OF that
name
One hundred and ten years after her death Nine.
the Marqulse de Pompadour has helped to build a
church on Montmartre In Paris, ana this il how it
happens s-Abbe dc Menneval, now a priest, was
formerly In the diplomatic service. one day At
Vienne, he bought in curiosity shop a beautiful
miniature of no one knew who for fifteen francs.
He put 1t IN his baggage and forgot IT, and In hls
travels. the frame got broken. 80 wncn he took it
out he read on the back, "Portrait OF Nine. de
Pompadour, given to NJ. Kaunifzv Nine. de-
Rothschd gave him i,oook for It, and this he gives
to the church