The New York herald., 1874-10-29
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mrs. General Sherman ID as the Astor House.
Mayor J. II. Sprague, Of Hartford, is registered at
the Grand Central Hotel.
Ex-Governor Sidney Perham, OF Maine, Is stay
ing az the Grand Hotel
Mr. Jerome B. Parmenter. OF the Troy Press, has
arrived at the Westminster Hotel.
Ex-Congressman o. B. Matteson, OF Utica, u
stopping az the Fifth Avenue HOTEL
Mr. David A. Wells OF Connecticut, has taken up
his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Governor Charles R. Ingersoll, OF Connecticut.
has apartments at the Albemarle Hotel.
Mr.. John B. Cough, OF Worcester, Mass, is among
the latest arrivals at the St. Denis Hotel
Professor Theodore D. Woolsey. Of New Haven,
arrived last evening at the Everett House.
Professor G. 8. Perce, OF the United States
Coast survey, is residing at the Brevoort House.
The return OF the Governor General to the Do
minlon capital has been deferred until the 7th
prox.
Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith ana ex-Con0ress-
man W. @. Smith, Of Vermont, are at the Windsor
Hotel
MI. Robert M. McLane, OF Baltimore, formerly
United states Minister to Mexico. s s0journing at
the Holman House.
Senators Pease, OF Mississippi, and Sargent, Of
California. were among those who visited the
President at the White House yesterday.
AA1aSSS0t
M. Blair, Bishop Hancock and Mr.. O. K. Garrison.
occupied box at the PARK Theatre last evening.
several French artists sent checks to Dejazet's
beneHt In this form :-"Good for picture,n ana
stpned with their names. These sold for good
prices.
Mr.. A. B. Meacham, who narrowly escaped death
while holding peace conferences with the Modocs
In the Lava Beds last year, 10 alive at the Metro
politan Hotel
Richard Grant White will contribute to the pub.
Icat,ons OF the New Shakespeare Society an essay
ION the Advantage to Snakespeare's Poetry OF the
Obsolescence OF Language"
At the Paris Morgue there was exposed this
month the body OF young woman, aged about
twenty, so wondrously beautiful that the authori-
ties caused mould to be taken OF her. She was
seen TO throw herself into the river
Major General wright. Generals Alexander and
Comstock and others we're az Bucharest ut the
end OF September, en- route 10 the mouth OF the
Danube to study the works in progress there sOr
possible use at the mouth Of the Mississippi.
The Grand Duke Constantine brother OF the
Czar was at Paris on his return from BIarrlts And
was recalled TO st. Petersburg so urgently that he
was compelled to apologize for failure to keep an
engagement at dinner lor the next day WITH Mar
shall MacMahon.
The sixth volume OF the "History OF the Franco.
German War;" written oy the members OF the
general stafY, has Just been published. The new
volume describes In detail the battles OF Grav-
elotte ana st. Privat, TWO OF the most sangulnary
encounters OF the war.
On the Amoor River they have queer plan OF
performing capital executions. They give the
cuiprit Chinese brandy until he becomes uncon-
scious. and then they bury him alive. Before ne
RECEIVERS consciousness ne Is Of course, smo.hered
by the earth, and so it Is a merclful plan.
Rev. John King, vicar in the diocese OF Lin.
coin, In England, believes that horse racing I'm.
proves the breed Of horses, and has an animal Of
his own IN almost every important race but the
Bishop OF Lincoln is OF different opinion on the
subject OF racing and there IL livelv correspond,
| ence.