The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-10-15
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Typhoid fever is very severe in Rome.
General Changarnler Is seriously ndisposed.
An enormous yield in the Bordelais vineyards.
State Senator d. p Wood. OF Syracuse, is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Congressman Lyman Tremain. Of Albany, is stay
ing at the Gilsey House.
Mayor John II. Buch, of Lockport. N. r. is regis
tered at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Captain Kennedy, OF the steamship Baltic. has
arrived at the winchester House.
Major J. M Whlttemore, United States Army. II
quartered at the Albemarle Hotel
Secretary Robson arrived in this city last even
ing and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
DR.. John Eric Erickson, the eminent English sur
geon, is residing at the windsor Hotel.
Mr.. J. G. Beals 0f the Boston Post, Is among the
recent arrivals at the Westminster HOTEL
Butler thanks God that he had no hand in JhS
Alabama arbitration. So do the rest Of us.
Mr.. william Blacks new volume OF short stories
deals with the life or the Usher people Of the He
brides.
General ]. Meredith Read, Jr., United States
Minister to Greece is soournlng at the Filth
Avenue Hotel.
Stupid people are the most ?ostin9a.e. and Y Y
natural that man should stick to his ideas when
he has but few.
Captain Gore Jones. naval attache OF the British
the Clarendon hotel.
Major Joseph A. Potter. OF the Quartermaster'a
Department, United States Army, has quarters ar
the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin has arrived In
Philadelphia and Is giving his time to promoting,
the success OF the Centennial Exposition.
Is the OHIO election triumph OF General
Cussedness," and If so, would general cussedness
perhaps be good change from republican vtrtuer
Butler was sound on the fisheries. and that Is
the only topic his district is interested in. AS for
moieties and all that they are magnidcently In
different.
How much ia given in political circles for tho
heads painted on banners OF those distinguished
politicians who expected nominations but did not
get thems
The remarkable work OF Professor Quatrefages,
.'The Natural History Of Man." has been trans
lated by Miss Youmans, and will be published by
d. Appleton Co.
The daughter Of Baron Alphonse de RothschiId
has just passed at Paris the examination re-
CURED Tor persons who intend to adopt the
profession OF teacher.
From the Ohio returns 1t would appear that the
Northern people do not place all their confidence
in the Southern 'outrages" shat occur eeularly
just before election time.
II Russia should request Prussia to execute
which 1t was agreed to settle the Scnleswlg Hol-
stein dispute 1t might be done.
Hurst Blackett, OF London, have in prepare.
ton new work, entitled "Wid Life in Florida"
from the pen OF Captain Townshend, OF the Second
Life Guards, the author or "Ten Thousand Miles
OF Travel"
An excited railway man who shouts into the
cars the name OF the station, and who hears q
great deal of complaint because the names are
called indistncly wants to know II the public
expects tenors at $40 month";
An operator on the Paris Bourse died with q
broken heart because OF his failure to meet his
obligation. He died q few weeks since only but
he said, "Write on my coffin that died on
April s; that was the day on which did not pay
my differences"
Either great many thoughtful persons are very
wrong In their judgment OF the administration
its relation to Louisiana and the liberties Of the
people, or the elections to come between now ana
the next national canvass will sweep the republi-
can party away as II a whlrwind had caught 1t.
Patti will sing Valentine IN French at the French
Opera House, Paris. The management OF the
Italian opera seems not to like it.; and Patti says
that .when one has been go long away from
house they may easily mistake the entrance and
70 In next door"-which Is just little spiteful
The ''Civil Damage Actn is better than pro-
hib,rory law. Rum was sold to a lad, which led
to his death, and the father has recovered 1000
damages from the man who furnished the nuid.
IL Is possible, therefore, TO compel dealers to
else some discretion In their sales, and that Ia
what is really wanted.
Attorney General williams decides that It Is the
duty of the United States authorities to enforce
every act OF Congress, and Congress deems 1t It's
duty to enact any law 1t may deem appropriate"
to the condition OF the Southern States. Why not
recognize at once that there are no Southern
States, that all power over the Southern people
is in Congress- that the States are bIotted out by
the fourteenth amendment as interpretedf
Cardinal Cullen, Of Dublin, has come out against
the opera and the scenes 1t presents as scandal
Gus. lie seems to describe the opera OF 'Robert
che Devil and his objection Ii that 1t presents on
the stage q Catholic church. He says:-"The pro.
ceedings commenced with q procession OF pre-
tended nuns represented by the ballet girls OF the
theatre. After this scene tie disguised actresses
took their seats in the choir, ana chanted, In q
most discordant and disgusting way, the litanies
or psalms used In the sacred liturgy OF the Church.
and went through other theatrical pretences OF
prayern II they sang discordanty denunciatton
serves them right.
An envious Englishman. named W. D. Cooley,
has poured out his spleen against DR.. Livingstone
in pamphlet entitled "Dr. Livingstone ana the
Royal Geographical Society," Mr.. Cooley In .
scientific geograpner who without ever having
set foot Africa, has written several books about
that country His books are honestly and well
done, and deserve greater fame tnan they have
received; but Mr.. Cooley, In at OF blind jeaousy
at the popular acceptance OF the iabors OF African
travellers, now attacks In the most libeous terms
both Livingstone and the Geographical Society
and It's coaborers He abuses and defames the
men who have walked across Africa" aud en-
deavors to 'get even" with Livingstone. who once
described Mr.. Cooley as ian old armchair geog.
rapher VINO wrote Inner Africa Laid 0nen"