The New York herald., 1875-10-17
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Ex-Governor Z. NJ McCook Is at Denver.
Mark Twain is a guest of p T. Barnum at Bridgeport
H. Guillemin calls comets the vagabonds OF the
heavens"
Nine thousand persons annually commit in the
United States
Chinese Horace Greeley lives in San Francisco. HI
says "Hop Yeast"
Thirteen hundred letters mailed from Vassn
College in one day
Arsenic in Styria say that their habit induce
strength and great age.
Ex-Speaker Blaine went to "0ur Boys' at tn,
Globe Theatre, Boston, Thursday night
The Iowa Legislature is said to be in favor Of Secre
tary Belknap for United States Senator.
Senator Aaron II. Cragn, OF New Hampshire, arrives
last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Southern journals everywhere congratulatint
themselves that the cotton crop is gold crop.
A Savannah judge has decided that an umbrella "a
private property. theoretically the Judge is correct
Judge Jere Black calls the Of the government ID
making money out of paper act OF transubstantia
tion.
Private Dalze has been elected to the Ohio Legsla
ture but the supply Of legislative stationery is usually
small
Prussian in Dusseldorf killed his wife and daughter
because they INDUCED In sarcasm his flaming red
hair.
If Charles Francis Adams could only be nominated
for something Mr. Bowes might be induced to keep
quiet
Miss Bismarck is plump brunette. She is an expert
in needework and has all the homely and honest Ger.
man virtues.
Tho Duke OF Edinburgh took up the fiddle and the
bo at the great Russian fair and led the orchestra In
his own waltz, "rhe Gaatea-"
Victor Hugo is a fine watercoor painter and whit
he was in exile he used to send sketches to his Pari
friends as New Years presents
Admiral Porter and Vice President Wilson left thin
city yesterday, tho former for Washington and the
latter for his home in Massachusetts,.
Chicago Times =
TITS better TO have bet and lost
Than never to have bet at all
James T. Fields opened Sunday course of lectures
Milwaukee on the Sd inst He will be followed by Car
schurz Bayard Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bret
Harte
Jefferson Davis, in his De Soto speech, said that
there was bat one way restore specie payments and
that was 20 bring balance Of trade in favor Of
the United States
Since the Germans arc credited with having carried
Ohio for honest money the Cleveland Herald reports
the democrats as cursing 'he damned Dutch and
paper amuses itself by saying that Bismarcks daughter
has big feet.
The Buffalo Express says:'Ifall the gold the world
were welded into solid cubic block side Of the
cube would measure only twenty three feet 1t isn't
much of lump, to be sure but should like to play
with it a day or two"
The Hon Thomas F. Bayard, Of Delaware, was sere-
naded Raleigh, n G., last night and compimented
with military turnout His reply was merely pleas.
ant no reference national politics further than sug
costing preparation for the campaign of year He
did indicate any policy likely to be pursued by
tho democracy.
Hcsing the great German politician of Chicago IL In
said goes around about four hours every day promising
his support set Of candidates. and strs tnem up
to work for him and then he goes around the next
day another and promises his utmost support TO
them, and gets them to work for him; and then ho
trusts in God that the two three or four sets won't
find each other out
Ex-senator Gwin, OF California prefers Tldon as the
democratic candidate for President though no says the
people Of the Pacific coast generally prefer Thurman
Hendricks He thinks that the South, in trying to be
foremost in the democratic party, without possessing
qualifications for being foremost s load TO the party
He SAYS that Grant will be the republican candidatOi
that his declining is only letting Of the rope TO spit
on his hands for a pull.
The Chicago Tribune believes in regard to the Ohio
election that Notwithstanding the fact that the easy
arguments were all on tho side OF tho diutonsts and
that tho republicans had TO ght ignorance, credulity
and prejudice with hard reason; and Notwithstanding
the fact that this imitation issue was marshaed and led
by more OF vgor and brains than any other democratic
issue over commanded in Ohio the republicans have
smashed il by decisive majority"
the Mobile Register Hon. John Forsyth's paper,
says-The South not originally responsible for the
bonded debt This is true also 70 the abolition
OF slavery. Both consequences Of the They
are among the results Of the that the South has
ceptod The South does not admit itself 10 be in tho
position OF conquered territory II claims that or CO.
equal in the Union To attempt therefore, to destroy
tho value Of the bonds would be clearly act Of bad
| faith as 10 try to reenslavo the negro"