The New York herald., 1874-12-24


grow as bitter in England as it has been in
Prussia
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Mark Twain is at the HOFFMAN House.
Mr. Jefferson Davis is reported dangerously Ill
at his residence In Tennessee.
Professor T. r. Lounsbury, OF Yale College, Il
staying at the Sturtevant House.
The continuance OF Andrew H. Green In once
would be death blow to emigration.
Alfred Macy, member OF the Governors Council
Of Massachusetts, died In Boston yesterday.
Senator Roscoe Conkling, Of Utica, Is residing
temporarily at the Stevens Apartment House.
Ex-Governor Theodore F. Randolph, OF. New
jersey. has apartments at the New York Hotel.
william H. Wlckham can only Degin his career
BY ending that OF Green in the Comptrolership.
samuel ]. Tden's support OF Green would sim.
pliiy the democratic canvass for the Presidency.
Ex-Governor Thaddeus G. Pound, OF Wisconsin,
has taken up his residence at the Windsor Hotel
Vice President Henry Wilson, arrived at tho
Grand Central hotel last evening, from Washing
Mr.. Jerome B. Chanee. delegate to Congress-
from Colorado, Is registered at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
The proprietors Of the St. Petersburg hotels pro-
pose to organize q regular service OF Ualets d
place IN their city.
General BENJAMIN F. Butler arrived In this city
yesterday mofning from Washington and Is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel
MIR. DAVID L. Follets OF Norwich, n. Y, Judge
elect OF the Supreme Court has arrived at the
Metropolitan Hotel.
John Kelly Is considered an honest man. II
Andrew H. Green Is In of1ce on the LIST OF February
will he still deserve that appellatonf
A
called 1.-THE Romance OF the English Stage" 1t Is
little di0use, but contains much interesting
reading. !.
AS the republicans recently successful in France
are OF the extreme rather than the moderate type.
the Paris Unsuers says that violence Is better
than chloroform."
Acommssion appointed by the Austrian govern
ment to examine into the condition Of she vine.
reports thst It has not found the 'phylloxera"
within the kingdom.
Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, VINO went to
Washington at the opening OF the session in greatly
improved health, has been obliged by sudden and
serious illness to return home.
Two thousand dollars in gold were lately paid In
London for cup OF coffee 'Tne Cup or Conee"
was made by Madrago-on bis easel 1t was q
wonderful specimen OF the painters art.
The dangerous classes" are too poor to get
whisKey. There is notably less crime IN conse-
quence, and state Prison expenses are not re-
duced by the usual quantity OF State Prison labor.
There is o proposition before the Danish Con-
gress for the abolition OF all titles OF nobility.
decorations, &c. On the motion to take the subject
into consideration the vote was-annrmative 4s,
negative la =
Even in Islam there is no honesty. Seven
Tartars, Aussulmans and Russian subjects hired
Turk on the Black Sea to aid their night from
Russia to CoDstantinople. Tney paid him 400
roubles and he landed them at SebastopOl.
The triumphant success In New YORK of THE
Hero OF the Hour" was announced from the stage
In Paris three weeks before Its production here,
on the occasion Of the representation OF Paul
Fevals other new play, "CocOque.n This beats
creased lightning.
NJ Venionkow. Of the Imperial Russian Geo.
graphical Society, proposes to have made for
presentation at the Geographical Congress OF 1875
a map Of all the journeys through Asia ever made
by Russian travellers, and calls on the public Tor
notes other assistance.
General Alvord, Paymaster General who mes
with an accident recently while leaving q street
car slipping on the tee and breaking the small
bone OF his right leg just above the ANKLE is doing
well under the care OF Surgeon BasM Morris. It
Is believed he will entirely recover.
Art education Ia making rapid progress in Great
Britain. In 1871 there were 2,l0O ars schools; in
1873 tnere were I8ll IN 1871 there were goa, ass
students; in 1879. 81, 400. In 1871 rhere were
102, ACT works OF art sent Tor competition, and in
1879, H7,e3S. These ngures deserving OF atten-
tion. New York does not possess any public ART
school worthy Of the name
Russia spends her money as follows LIN every
100 roubles OF the revenue there are paid for In
terest on the public debt, II r0ubes; financial
administration, 16 roubes; Department OF War,
80 roubles; navy, roubles; public instruction.. 2
roubles, Department OF the Interior roubes:
roads, &c., roubles, and from one to two roubles
each on q number OF other minor departments
Here 10 pretty notice In a Russian news
paper 1.-THE Mayor OF Cronstadt being informed
that since the recent connagration many proprle.
tors have increased the rent OF premises winch
they let, takes occasion to mention that previous
returns OF their taxes due must, In these circum-
stances, necessarily be Incorrect and invites all
these proprletors to let him know Immediately
the extent OF the ncrease.u How II we applied
this principle heref
N. DesDrezey, hairdresser at odessa was
prosecuted under the Russian law for having In
his possession the bones OF woman. he proved
that the woman had died at smyrna ana was
buried there ana that he, then residing Ia thas
CITY, had exhumed the remains at the instigation
OF her friends In France, with the intention OF
calcintnu the bones and sending tue asnes 10 tne
family but as the family had moved rom Bor-
deaux-he did not know whither-he carried the
bones with MIN In hls travels. expecting ins'ruo'
tions,