New-York tribune., 1892-01-02
PERSONAL.

Senator Irawey Charles Dudley Warner and Charles
r. Clark have bought tho stock which their long
time associate, William IT, Goodrich, had in "The
Hartford Cournnt," and the last named gentleman
has retired from the position OF business manager OF
that paPr Mmeh Of a.ydo5 np m m ntses Tfs ne
vas OF tang this step year or moro ago. tut
remained until the company then organized TO conduct
tle paper had gJt into good working order.
As Richard vaux. OF Philadelphia. had not known
a day Of Sickness for tho last forty years. IT was
believed that lie would be proof against the grip
Nevertheless the rugged exMlnlster 10 Great Britain
has succumLcd 10 the epidemic, though he IS not
regarNlcd rs seriously Ill.
MIS- Mario steele, whose father Phirp Barton
kew wrote The Star Spangled Banner lies seriously
III In Annapolis.
John II Iittlceed lectured on Personal Recol
lectlons OF Abraham Lincoln IN Berwick, Penn. Tues
dav night and was heard ut Lock Haven on Thursday
night lie will take u lecture trip 10 the west III
January and another In February.
A few sunday evenings ago ex President Andrew D.
White was present al or Professor Briggs lectures
on the Bible listening 10 tho views OF the learned
professor with close attention After the service was
over lie happened 70 meet the Rev. Dr. Henry NJ
Field TO whom ho said with Grcat earnes;ne's; 81 tell
vou Dr. Field, II l had had such teaching as that
when | was a young man would have studied for tho
n,ristrv and would be IN Episcopal clergyman today
Professor Briggs Is doing noble worA IN Gearing
away the obstacles from the path Of the young men In
II IS recalled In indianapolis that James Whitcomb
Riley was I'm his younger days an enthusiastic and
clever amateur actor 1t IS believed that had he
gone on the stage permanently his career would
have bccn famous. one OF his friends says that at
ono time when Riley cast for the character OF an
old man he went about The streets Tor weeks studying
the gestures poses and uttcrnce of an aged acluaint
ance instead OF truetng TO mere imagination
There was buried in the little town Of Besenthal,
Germany few days ago, a man who played q part IN
,he life OF Prince Bismarck. 10 was Gustav BannewZ.
ON Nav = 1866, Rannewitz, who WAS then serving
his three years In the army, was stationed at the
Russian Embassy In Berlin, when Bhndt fired re-
volver at the ox-Chancellor. The bullet hit tho
Prince but failed to do him injury, on account OF the
mail coat which lie wore under his uniform. one Of
the comic papers in Berlin asked, senentousy, at the
time Herr Won Bismarck, who Is the blacksmith
who sews your shirts?' BannewitZ succeeded in cap
turing the criminal and Bismarck never forget the
service The Prince became Sood customer Of the
little book bindery which Bannewz owned, and by his
patronage mnde It popular. During the Franco Prus
sian war he lad him attached TO the Royal headquar
tcrs where he was almost always at his side. After
the Bismarck did not lose sight OF the man,
who Therefore died o rich man, owning several
paatial mansions in Berlin, and large country es-
tate. lie also received through the lnterccssion OF
the Prince, fourteen decorations