The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-05
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


Mr.. oliver Ames, OF Boston, Is staying at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
1t Is not true that Susan B. has offered to darn
Sammy's silk stockings.
Tom Karl, the tenor, Is among the latest arrivals
at the WestmOreland Hotel.
The Charley Ross found In Wisconsin seems the
most likely one yet discovered.
Professor F. L. Ritter. or vassar College, II
sejourning at the Everett House.
Professor Mark Bailey, OF Yale College. is resid-
ing temporarily at the Irving House.
Congressman Thomas c. Plat, OF Oswego, N. Y,
is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel
Captain Hamilton Perry, of the steamship Adrl-
attic, is quartered at the st. Nicholas HOTEL
Congressman John q. Whitehouse, OF Pough-
keepsie is stopping at the Athena Hotel.
Commodore Francis B. Ellison United States
Navy, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
H. Alvord insists as reported, that members OF
Assembly shall take the new oath. Alvord u
right.
AdJuuant General Franklin Townsend, OF Gov
ernor Tlden's STAFF has arrived at the st. James
HOTEL
Mouton paid 5000 for publishing what Henry
told MIN; but nobody proposes to sue Henry
ab0utlt
King Kalakaua greatly enjoyed Aimee In opera
bo,tDe ct the Globe Theatre in Boston last
evening.
Nj. s. 8. Merrill, General Manager of the Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railway Company, Is at tho
Hoffman House.
Butler looks upon his defeat as blessing in dis
guise. Other people, also; but they regard the
disguise as thin.
General A. G. Lawrence, formerly United states
Minister Costa Rcs, arrived last evening at the
Alpemarle Hotel.
At the Cape Of Good Hope they have found
diamond Weighing 200 carats. 1t has been sent to
Amsterdam to be cut BY Herr Casta.
1t is considered in English politics that famine
in Bengal is failure unless the man who happens
TO be viceroy at the time Is made an earl.
Lieutenant Colonel Barton S. Alexander, OF the
Engineer corps, United States Army, has taken
up his residence at the New York HOTEL
Congressman E. r. Hoar George F. Hoar and
B. W. Harris OF Massachusetts, arrived In this
city last evening and are at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Every man killed in New Orleans will represent
an addition OF one hundred thousand votes in
favor OF the next democratic candidate for the
Presidency.
Dr. DEEMS OF the Church OF the Strangers, goes
to Florida for q months rest, after upward OF
eight years. continuous service. DR.. Moran has
charge Of hts church meantime.
The report going the rounds of the press that
JEFFERSON Davis Is III has no foundation in fact He
Is In as good health at any time for several
years, ana appears on the streets OF Memphis al
most daily.
There Is one poor wretch who may be benefited
By the accession OF Alfonso, and that is Prince
Perkins, who was lately incarcerated at Paris. As
his wne Is now the cousin OF king there may be
help for him.
Captain J. H. Donovan, Of the Seventeenth In.
fantry, went to Europe by the City OF Montreal on
Ave months leave OF absence. Although the Cap
tain was somewhat Knocked to pieces In the war
and notably at Malvern Hill and Fredericksburg,
there is enough left OF him to recuperate in q trip
TO Europe.
In England Mr.. Alfred Rubery has s1ed Albert
Grant and Mr.. Sampson formerly OF the London
Times, for libel In charging him with being q
party TO the great California diamond swinde."
In the course Of the trial IL was testified thatt
Grant said to plaintiff ''that he could do what he
liked with the money article in the Tknes-tnat he
had Sampson under his thumb"
Near to Colombo, IN India, snake, seeing par
rot in a cage, had made It's way to place where
II could make an attack upon the parrot A child
observing this, and not knowing the danger,
grasped the snake BY the tail, while the snake and
the parrot attacked each other. Just then an
elder sister, observing the little one In danger,
ssatched the child away, ana In so doing pulled
the snake out OF the cage. At this moment dog
came up ana among them all they despatched the
snake. The dog, the snake and the parrot all died
from the effects OF the encounter, but neither o.
the girls received any injury.
gentleman Ia Western city, sitting In pow
with q lady with whom he had formerly been on
terms Of intimate acquaintance, handed her q
Bible with pin stuck through the following
verse and now I beseech thee, lady, not as
though wrote q new commandment unto thee,
but that which we had from the beginning, that
We love one another" After reading 1t she stuck
the pin through the following verse and handed
the book back to him :"Havinp many things 70
write unto you I would not write with paper and
Ink, but trust to come unto you and speak face
To face that our iOv NAV ba fu.O