New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-20
PERSONAL.

Ludwig Knaus, the great German genre painter,
has been elected an honorary member of the English
Royal Academy.
The Rev. Joel Burlingame the venerable father
of Arson Burlingame, the American Minister TO
China has Just died in Illinois at the age OF eighty
three
Ex-Mayor Grace has so far recovered from the
effects of his recent accident to be able to Visit
his place OF business. He suffered no permanent
disfigurement: the cuts on his head have healed,
and a slight soreness and stiffness OF the left MP
Joint alone remain to remind hlm Oh MS mario"
escape.
Pittsbnrg Penn. is much agitated over a sermon
preached last Sunday by the Rev. E. r. Donehoo,
prominent Presbyterian clergyman. 1t was directed
against ecclesiastical creeds which be said were
tyrannical and held in hgheresteem by theologians
than the Gospel itself lie also condemned existing
Sunday laws.
A curious present was made to Governor Bate. of
Tennessee on his Inauguration by an old friend in
Texas II was a huge chair. big enough to hold
three Or four uen-sOmo even say big enough To
hold the President of the United States Senate
and composed of twenty-four Ox-horns. The cara
of presentation read: Governor W. Is. Bate: You
take the horns"
Henry Van der Wyde court photographer OF the
royal household of Great Britain, is native OF
RondOut in this State He once the assistant
war he served with distinguished gallantry in the
G5:h Y.Volunteers. Afterward he went to England.
and was soon sent for by the Queen and appointed
royal photographer.
Miss Chamberlain. upon whom has lighted for the
present the somewhat burdensome title of " The
beautiful American" is spending the winter very
quietly at Cannes with her mother Her quiet and
gentle manners have made her great fav0Iite with
the elderly English ladies' who frequent that exclu
sive little town. She received great deal OF kind
attention from the ladies' of the Royal family before
leaving London, and attended several official cere-
monies IN the suite OF the Princess Of wales.
John +. Kenna, of West Virginia. who is candi-
date for the United States Senate in place Of the
present Senator, Henry G.. DAVIS is only thirty five
years of age He served IN the Confederate army
as private and loft it, eighteen years of age, poor,
obscure and uneducltad He settled in Wheeling.
and by great and sell-dcnyng efforts acquired an
education and became a lawyer When twenty
nine years OF age he elected to Congress, where
his career Que o usefulness and credit.
The Prince Of Wales proves hmselt possessed of
one most valuable quality in a British monarch
one too In which his predecessors Of the House Of
Brunswick, his mother included have been want
ing-polI,ical impartaty. Members Of all parties
are alike welcomed at Marlborough House and
sandrngham. There are no cabals, nor Int1gues
with this party or that, carried on by the present
Heir-apparent. II is not lo1g since a pleasant trio
breakfasted together in Paris: Sir Charles DIlke,
the English Radical. Leon Gambetta, the French
Radical aud VI. r. II. the Prince OF Wales, VINO
Likely enough dincd that evening with som Legltl-
mist NOBLE, and supped still later with Bonapart-
ISL
The Rev Or. land Generan William n. Pendleton,
who died on Monday night at Lexington, Va,
the Chef Of Artillery Of the Army OF Northern VIr-
gina aud as such was chosen to break to General
Lee. OF who he was close personal friend, the
opinion of the corps commanders that the time had
come. Mt Appomattox for negotiation with General
Grant Earlier in the war he had commanded
battery in Stonowail" Jackson's brigade. and at
Manassas is said to have cried out to his men
Steady men sight your pieces WE'LL" and then.
himself aiming tho heaviest gun: " May this shot
kill thousa ud. and may the Lord have mercy on
their souisw BOth before and after the war he was
a popular preacher, and president OF Washington
College. Lexington.
Mr.. Henry l.. Goodwin. of East Hartford, Conn.,
made good share of his large fortune by a curious
sort of monopoly. lie was n CnlfOrn'a Forty
miner" aud in those early days. WHOM san Francisco
aud its vicinity had a wretchedly poor supply of
drinking water, he was one evening charged III
dollar by man who owned we'll for a drink for
hi. oxen. That made him mad, and be resolved
that be too would become known a. Man-Who.
Owns.a-Well. With the aid OF his partner. an en-
gnccr. he bored eighty feot deep on his town lot,
aud there struck inexhaustlble supply OF the best
water vet found on the whole coast. Then he es
tabIi he'd tree drinking fountain for oil pas-ers-
by. but for all other purposes he sold the water,
six gallons for q cent. Cattle-Owners could have
their stock watered for 30 cents YOKE per week.
For long time everyone VINO wanted pure water
hal To 60 10 Good WINS well for 1t, ANA handsome
fortune was realized theretr0m.
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