New-York tribune., 1883-03-16
PERSONAL.


ried to the Princess Isabella, of Bavaria
The Rev. Thomas K Beecher is in California on
visit and has been preaching to large congregations
at various places
The health of Mrs. Harrison, wife Of the Senator
from Indiana, which has been poor for seVerai
months is now such as to excite the most serious
apprehensions Of her family and friends.
II is hoped that Kaiser Wilhelm will be able to
celebrate next Thursday, his eighty-sixih birthday
nv LAYING the foundation stone OF the new Palace
of the Imperial Parliament III Berlin.
Charles d'Have Steenhuyse, one of the leading
politicians of Belgium is on board the Red Star
steamer Switzerland. due here on Saturday. 1t is
bls intention TO stay few months IN lhis couu'iJ
and acquaint himself with its institutions
The Rev. DIR. w. C. Roberts, corresponding secre-
tary of the Home Missions Board of the Presbyterian
Church of the United States, has been selected to
deliver the annual address before the literary socie
ties of ew-XindsOr College, Maryland. on Jnhe 10
next
Gilbert Stuarts celebrated painting OF General
Washington has been replaced in the Connecticut
State Senate chamber at Hartford after being thor
oughly cleaned. Ii has been hung lower than be,
fore so that much better view OF III can DC h3u
by visitors.
By the recent deaths Of Count Tassilo Festetics
and his brother Count George Festetics the latters
rian house. and lord of the richest estates in tie
Empire. The young Count is well known IN Eng
lish society and on the English turf and the sensa-
tion caused in Roman Catholic circles by MS mar
riage with the Duke of HaIntons sister. aiter her
divorce from the Prince Of Monaco, Is stll Heshy
remembered.
Tho late widow Of Heine lived in Paris during the
Prussian war, and was in mortal terror lest
the Germans on entering tha, city, should give her
4 70 bo nil which
posed woud prevail So she wrote TO her brother
in-law. Macmillan Hene. begging HIM to prepare
n placard which she might post on her door,
and which would afford her proteeton. lie WIOte
on a large sheet OF paper the words IN uerlhan' @ :
Here dwells the widow of GermanyS great poet
Ueinen and sent II to her, and she kept u sa'oly
aud in readiness for shoud her place 0e threat
encd by the lnvaders-an emergency WHICH, now
ever, never arose.
General c. p. Stone-Stone Pacha, of Egyptian
fame-has been kept busy in renewing acquaintance
with old friends and former comrades ever since his
arrival IN mis- city iast week. Most of his visitors
remark that they would not have recognized him
without an introduction much has his appear
ance changed. When he went 10 Egypt his hair
was black, but now il Is white. He las severed
wholly his connection with the Khedives Govern
ment AMI processes TO have been glad to do So hay
ing ayailed himself of the earliest opportunity of
honorable resignation His family did not come
home with hun, prcirrflng 10 walt ubtt Calih'i
season before crossing the ocean. General stone
will leave the city IN d1v or twO T. Nlslt MS SIS
ters whom he has not seen Tor years. Then he VIII
return 10 New York and make ishOme here though
lust where he will live and what business he VIII
engage in he has not yet determined.
In revenge for the hostility to the royasts shown
by General Thibaudin, the French Minister of War
the Oreanist papers are telling the following story;
"Iu January. 1871 General Thlbaudin was break
fasting at a roadside inn, the road to Pontarlier
when an orderly. riding up in hot haste, declared
that the Prusslans were on them. The General
iunped up from the table. forgetting in the hurry
and excitement of his flight bundle OF papers,
among which was the cipher used by him In send
ng telegraphic dispatches to the Minister OF War at
Bordeaux The papers, ETC.. were taken by the
Prussians and the officers commanding the detach-
ment presented them to the innkeeper, who handed
them to the Mayor. They were treasured up in the
marie placed under glass case, and labelled as a
curiosity. Every visitor who passed through
Iabergemant Saint Marie was shown them, and
told that they had been abandoned by the General.
who had made off with more haste than dignity.
The Due Aumale, when commanding at Besaneon,
sent one of his officers TO the village and compelled
the Mayor to surrender the papers which we're such
uncompromising witnesses of the weakness OF q
French officer.
WASHINGTON, March l5.-Secretary Folger Is re-
norted to be better to-day. His improvement Is
slight. however and Ii is feared that his recovery
will be slow He took cold on Monday and Is now
suffering with an liberated sore throat