The New York herald., 1874-08-21
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Brooklyn has no mercy tor Jersey City.
The Spanish government wants 75,0oo,000 carvs
ridges.
Judge e. E. Williams, of Australia is at the Bre-
WORT House.
Commander B. P. Smith, United States Navy. ID
at the Irving HOuse.
Major Cocks OF the British Army, Is quartered
at the Clarendon Hotel
MIR. Edwin l.. stanton, OF Washington, Is stop.
ping at the Gllsey House.
Admiral J. Il. Tucker, Of the Peruvian Navy, u
registered at the New FORK Hotel.
Captain Z. r. Noodle, OF the steamship BOthnta.
has quarters at the Brevoort House.
Ex-senator Alexander G. Cattel, OF New Jersey.
is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Ex-Governor Zebulon b. Vance, of North Caro-
lima, Is residing at the BrevOort House.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, the actor, arrived from
Boston yesterday at the New York HOTEL
Congressman George W. Hendee, or Vermont, II
among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Mr. Frederick w. Seward, formerly Assistant
Secretary OF State, is sojourning at the Brevoort
House.
Mr. J. H. Devereux, President Of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway Company, Is at the
st. Nicholas Hotel.
General B. II. Cowen, Assistant Secretary Of the
Interior, arrived from Washington yesterday az
the Hoffman HOuze.
The clergyman OF the Church OF England who so
brutally assaulted his sister has been found guilty
of "irrltaton OF The BRAIN"
II those dispatches prove co be genuine II fol-
lows that Mr.. Fish will have called Admiral Polo
"a Id fool" This Is dreadful.
Secretary Robson who has been spending his
vacation with his family at Rye Beach. arrived In
this city yesterday, and is at the Filth Avenue
Hotel.
General Cowan. Assistant Secretary Of the lnte-
cior, is absent from Washington trip to North
ern New York, and will not return until three or
four days.
Temple Bar, in London, now has to be prOpped
up: SO 1t will be formally taken away from its
present position, wnere 1t Is an obstruction TO
trafllc, and re-erected as an entrance to the new
law courts near by.
The Pension OF the Benchers OF Gray's Inn, ap-
pointed TO investigate the case Of DR.. Kenealy,
called upon him for his defence; but he declined
to appear, and LETT the Benchers to ''act as their
own sense Of honor, right and ju stlce may dc
tate"
Grant is charged with saying in one OF his mes
sages that the United states have no disposition
to interfere with Spain In 'her colonial possess
sions on this Continent" wh!cn Is kindly, consd-
ering that 'on this Continent" Spain DOS not own
a square inch o, territory.
Sixty thousand dollars reward Is offered by tho
French Minister OF Agriculture "ior the discovery
Of an efilcaclous and economical means of destroy
ing the phylloXera or OF preventing its ravages"
This. 1t will oe remembered, Is the insect that is
devastating the French vineyards.
1t is reported by the funny correspondent OF the
Pau MGu Gazette that at the Brussels conference
General Won Vogts Rhetz the German representa-
tive, proposed the abolition OF navtes; and Sir
Alexander Horsford, in response to an inquiry ss
to how England woold view such q proposition,
said that she would probably propose In turn the
abolit on OF standing armies. Baron Jomini
thought Sir Alexander could not be serious, and
Sir Alexander said he could il he tried