The New York herald., 1875-08-27
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


Senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida, at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel
Captain Brabagon OF the British Army, is registered
at the Windsor Hotel
Rev Dr. T. K Conrad Of Philadelphia, is residing at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Mr. J. II. Mcvicker OF Chicago is among the late
arrivals at the Windsor Hotel
Lieutenant s. NJ. Ackley, United States Navy Ia
quartered at the Albermarle Hotel
State Senator D. p. Wood of Syracuse arrived last
evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
The German historian, Herder, has beeu commemo-
rated in a French book by c. Joret
Lieutenant Governor H. G. Knight of Massachusetts,
is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Mr.. Schuyler Colfax arrived in this city last evening
from Newport and is at the Everett House.
new book on maritime law by Mrs T. C. Bowles
will contain attack on the ''Declaraton Of Paris"
Rev. W. H. Brantner, Of St. Louis and Rev. George
G. Hepburn, of Schenectady, at Barnums Hotel
State Senator Wells S. Dickinson of Bangor, N. Y,
has taken up his residence the Metropolitan Hotel
Lieutenant Commander silas W. Terry, of the United
States Naval Academy, has arrived the Fifth Avenue
Hotel
An important geological work is Mr. G. H Kinahan's
Vaeys and Their Relation TO FIssures Fractures and
Faults"
Mr. John Jay Knox, Comptroller OF the Currency,
Washington.
NIT b. Blackstone, President OF the Chicago and
Alton Railway Company, is stopping at the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel
The public executioner Barcelona having recently
resigned more than 500 candidates applied for tho
vacant post
NJ A. Gullemia has issued his now work on comets
Gees vagabonds du Cie /" the author expressive
French phrase
NJ Albert sorcl has thoroughly treated the document
airy history Of the last great European his 'Hls
toire Diplomatique de la Guerre Franco Allemande"
Dr. P. W. Joyce, jealous Irish antiquary has pub
lshed the second series OF The Origin and History Of
Irish Names of Places" which the Saturday Revie.O
pronounces an interesting and intelligent work.
Mr.. f. W. Palmer, OF Chicago who was appointed on
the Commission to treat with the Indians for the pur-
chase Of the Black Hills telegraphed yesterday to tho
Secretary of the Interior, declining to rye on that
Commission.
1t is understood that the marriage Of Mr.. W. II.
Gladstone, NJ p eldest Of the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, with the Hon. Gertrude Stuart youngest
daughter of Lord Blantyre will take place the last week
in September.
Senator Allison arrived Wednesday night at Coun
Gil Bluffs, Iowa He joined yesterday by the re-
naming members Of tho Commission to treat with the
Indians for the sale of the Black Hills, and left for
Nneyenue yeSteruay.
''Here and There Among the Alps" by Miss Plunkett
a lively English woman, avoids the hackneyed routes
and the squeezed oranges OF travelling literature for the
less known but equally lovely paths of the GenelthaI
the Engstlen Alp and Mount Ttlis The book contains
much humor and sound advice to lady pedestrians
Among the arrivals at the West End Hotel Long
Branch yesterday we're Governor Hartrann the Penn
sylvana nominee for the Presidency; Senator Frcng.
huysen and family, and william D. Bishop President of
the New York and New Haven Railroad with his family
The London Examiner pays this compliment to
William Dwight whitney of Yale College:-'As a com
parative phologist Professor Whitney has many peers
and some superiors; in the general application of the
results OF comparative phology the solution OF such
problems as have been just he as yet un-
equaed"
That dream OF scholars, universal index, is again
vigorously urged in a pamphlet by Mr.. J. A. Cross Of
London. He proposes that each great library learned
society and publishing firm shall take portion of the
work in hand and that central Office be established Ia
which their respective contributions shall converpe
He proposes not alphabet Of all literature but
separate subject index for each great division of huma.
knowledge, to be published an independent work
and bought BY those Interested that special study