The New York herald., 1879-11-06
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

The widow of ex-president Tyler stir lives.
Bancroft Davis arrived from Europe in the Frisis
yesterday
Hon. Fernando Wood of this city, arrived from
Europe yesterday.
The number OF Russian and German travellers to
Switzerland increases.
England buys California's canned aprcots. and
wants more than there
Major General John NJ. Schofeld of West Point
is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. Thomas Bayley Potter M. p. arrived at tho
Windsor HOTEL yesterday. from Boston.
Molasses has gone up i've cents. and now we hope
that Secretary Sherman will give us less taffy
The Providence Journal thinks that the sturdy
Adams family of Massachusetts, is to be respected.
though not loved.
Five O'Clock tea tables shaped like clover leaf,
covered with crash and draped with lambrequins.
are the Cincinnati style.
Mr.. D. g. Watts. president of the Cotton Exchange
arrived from Europe yesterday the steamship
Bothnia after an absence Of eight months.
Crude rubber Ia and the mills active
that you may have to pay one hundred per cent
more for your srctics than you would last spring.
Twenty pounds was the result Of an amateur per-
tormance given by officers and ladies Of the Alder
shot garrison two weeks ago in aid Of Blackstone,
the tragedan.
disgust from all active direction Of affairs in India
Lord Lytton wanted, it is said. to Cashmere,
but Lord Cranbrook would not hear Of it.
Liverpool commission merchants charge ship
pers enormous rates. "Rattage." for destruction
by rats. forms large item and the other day
Liverpool agent charged ''rattage'' on o cargo Of
lead
The French tricolor is Objectionable to the
Strasburg authorities that q tobacconist has been
fined for selling cigarette paper bearing the words
souvenir National" in the obnoxious red. white
and blue.
General Fitz Hugh Leo quoting the Duke of W sl-
lington's dictum that man Of refined Christian
sensibilies totally unit for the profession of
soldier. says that the lives Of Lee and Stonewal
Jackson refute the idea.
The dignity of the offices Of President and Cabinet
Minister is great that when the incumbent leaves
his portfolio at Washington in order to make po-
ltica speech in State for party the other he
ought to be hissed from the platform.
The government would wage with European
Power that would tie piece o. red tape in single
knot but when the red savages Of the alkai plains
try to run IN Indian AGENCY We get down our
knees and ask that we be not exterminated.
Many a merchant, lawyer or manufacturer who
would stand aghast il he asked Q question
about his private business WILL within two minutes
after he has been introduced to journalist begin
to crossexamine him about the private affairs OF his
Office and his associates.
A London journal thinks that fiction with such
titles as 'Nightshade Hollow. or the Secret of the
Gloomy Glen" "The Murderess of May FAIR "The
Skeleton in the Coal Cellar" "The Cory Goblet Of
the Haunted Grange. hardly be deemed At intel
lectual pabulum for the British housemaid.
Mile. Sarah Bernhard is devoting herself with
great ardor to painting in the studio Of M. Alfred
Stevens, having for the moment abandoned scup-
ture for the sister art She is working hard at pic
ture intended for the coming Salon. 1t represents
young girl breaking the leaves from roses. while
Death is leaning forward to seize her in his grasp.
London Worid--I have been told that the Attorney
General had no less than 200 guineas marked on his
brief for attending at the Gudhal Police Court on
behalf of Mr.. Levy Lawson the other day. This.
with 'refreshers' for each subsequent attendance.
and merely for preliminary inquiry, strikes me as
being pretty well. 1t seems that barristers fees
keep up. notwithstanding the depression in trade
President Gr6vy has resumed his official duties at
the Elysee says the London World. after exceed.
ingly brisk shooting season. He slaughtered in his
ve weeks holiday 63 hares. 215 brace Of partrdges
and close upon 500 quails; pretty good total,
siderng that he shot IN preserves, but always
in the open fields and in tho guse and CATERS
as any modest adepte de st. Hubert in the Jura.