The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-23
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Congressman Eugene Hale, OF Maine, Is staying
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Captain W. II. Hams, OF the steamship Ably ssinia>
Is quartered at the New York HOTEL
Mr.. William CASTLE the tenor, Is among the
latest arrivals at the Everett House.
Senator Joseph E. Mcdonald of Indiana, is re.
siding temporarily at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Congressman John o. Whrehouse, OF POUCH.
keepse, Is registered at the Albemarle Hotel
Mr.. d. W. Gooch, United States Pension Agent
for Massachusetts, is sojourning at the Brevoors
House.
One Of the papers very honestly heads its very
tardy report OF the transit OF Venus. "full partc.
ulars at last.'
MI. Ralph Waldo Emerson arrived in this city
yesterday from his home in Concord. Mass, and Is
at the ST. Denis HOTEL
Postmaster General Marshall Jewell arrived a.
the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday morning and
left last evening for Washington.
The Voce della Veritd states that Count dc
Chambord has sent to the Pope, through the
Princess Francesca Massini, sum Of IL, 900 francs
in gold, with letter
savoy paper says that the watershed at the
tunnel having been adopted as the Franco-ltallan
boundary Mont Cents Italy will have to cede to
France about 45C metres OF ground.
Two young gentlemen AT the Jena University
were killed in duels just before Christmas, and
now the Jaw is no more duelS; out the fellows
VINO do not fear the sword Will scarcely fear the
law.
Mr.. whitelaw Reid, editor OF the Tribune was
indicted by the Grand Jury OF the District OF
Columbia, Yesterday, for the alleged libeling OF
Ex-Governor Shepherd, who also bears the grace
iul sOu6rfQuet OF 1.-THE Boss.u
.'Le Ioi s'ennuie." Alfonso Is shockingly bored
with the part he IS compelled 70 play as a mere
political puppet In the metropolitan village Of
Madrid and has neither the capacity nor the spirit
to cut the wires and dance to q tune OF his own
choosing.
English lawyers are dsputing finely over the
puzzle in the legal aspects OF the case OF John
Mitchell The general judgment has been that by
his escape he made himself feon Tor life. His
sentence gave him tue status OF felon. and the
law knows OF no way to change that status save
by endurance OF the sentence or pardon.
Lord ST. Leonards taught that It was the sacred
duty OF every man TO make his wtll ana he wrote
a book to show how it should be done. He made
his own Will with the sound OF trumpes. as it
were, ana now that Will cannot be iound-lost,
apparently, IN the wilderness OF his papers, or,
as conjectured. perhaps buried with hm-ior he
kept It sometimes In the pocket of his dressing
gown.
The Augsburg Allgerneine Zett,tng gives an ex.
tract from the Leipsc booksellers Report"
from which 1t appears that the number OF
printed In Germany was the largest on record
since 1S49. and amounted to IL, 0OO including re-
prints and maps OF all KINDS. Theology, which
had hitherto stood AZ the head OF the list. fell In
1874 10 the third place, jurisprudence and educa-
ton taking precedence
Mr.. Francis Pierce Conney. an American
painter in Florence has institute ! proceedings
against some OF the local journals for having
stated that he and some other American artists
have been in the habit OF emp oyiug native artists
in needy circumstances 10 produce works when
they have forwarded TO the United states as their
own vertable productions, ana thus have found
name and market for themselves.
Here Is o foreigner who applies in the grocery
line one OF the great Ideas employed In politics
by HIS Exceilepcy the President. He sends around
circulars with descriptions OF his prime teas, and
ADDS III DO not near from you 10 the contrary
shall consider II an order and will send you a
pounds of the best by the Goth lnst ana draw on
YOU Tor the money" Grant says the same to Con-
gress. al propose to put my foot on such a
Southern state; n you don't make law to the
! contrary shall consider that you consent.n
Isabelle the mower girl OF the Paris Jockey
Club, has Just been sued by her mother to obtain
an alimentary allowance. Tue plaintiff, poor
peasant woman ana widow, named Briant, Is
ou,te destitute and infrm, while Isabelle Is in
af,1uent circumstances ner income being esti-
mated at 10000 francs year. she lives In a
| handsome apartment in Paris. and has two houses
at saunois The Tribunal gave Judgment against
! her aud fixed the allowance at 600 francs year.
! They sold at the public auction in Paris tho
! other day a revolver That has tad many owners,
| and with which i've OF its owners had committee;
! suicide