Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — Page 6

A YEAR’S HISTORY.

A Chronology of the Important Events, Political and Otherwise, of 1885. The Calendar Tear One of Comparative Peace Throughout the Circuit of the Globe. The year 1885 has added few political events of a startling nature to the annals of the world’s history. It has been a year of peace, though there have been constant rumors of wars in Europe—wars which, had they broken out, would evidently have assumed gigantic proportions and resulted In vast destruction of life and property. This very fact has no doubt caused the crowned heads of the old world to pursue a cautious policy and hesitate long before letting slip the dogs of war. The only serious disturbance of the peace of the world is on the extreme eastern confines of Europe, and that promises to be settled without involving any of the great powers in a conflict of arms. France and China have been fighting each other at long range, inflicting very slight damage. England had a brush with Burmah, which was “short, sharp, and decisive,” the Burmese King throwing up the sponge and ingloriously surrendering to the red coats without firing a gun. Canada’s war with the halfbreeds and Indians in the Northwest, and the change of administration at Washington by the retiring of a Republican and the inauguration of a Democratic President, constitute the chief events near home. Below will be found the record:

JANUARY. The Slattery family formed a syndicate at Shenandoah, Pa., to prosecute claims for property worth 4500,000,000 in England, Scotland, and India. St. Louis, Mo., was reported swarming with beggars ; 20,000 people out of employment. Twenty-three of the younger priests and students of the Moscow Theological Seminary were flogged by the Archbishop of the diocese for exhibiting symptoms of. rebellion. Gov. Cleveland sent his resignation to the New York Assembly on the Oth, being succeeded by Lieut. Gov. Hill. Immense coal deposits, said to be the richest in the world, discovered in the vicinity of Pekin, China. Gen. Grant, in a letter to Cyrus W. Field, declined to accept the money raised to extricate him from his financial embarrassment. President-elect Cleveland was notified by nearly 100 parents that as many babies were named after him, and he sent a photograph to each one. Discovery of an emerald weighing over a pound at Boyoca, Colombia. Failure of the banking house of John J. Cisco’s Bons, New York; liabilities, 82,5J0,000. Funeral of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, at South Bend, Ind. The mercury at Mount Washington, N. H., sank to 50 degrees below zero on Jan. 22, and a hurricane for half a day was at the rate of 100 miles an hour. A detachment of British troops, 1,500 strong, fought the hosts of El Mehdi at the Wells of Abu Klea, in the deserts of the Soudan, and after a fierce battle the rebels were driven from the field with heavy loss. London startled by three explosions of dynamite in the Parliament House and at the Tower; the lobby ■of the British House of Commons blown to pieces, and the Speaker's chair destroyed; senator Bayard introduced a resolution in the United States Senate expressing the indignation and sorrow of this country at the event. The Liberty Bell taken from Independence Hull, Philadelphia, under escort of 3uo policemen, and started for the New Orleans Exposition. Texas stockmen estimate their loss on account of the cold weather will exceed f1,000,..00. Russia and Germany conclude a treaty providing for extradition of assassins or abductors of royal personages, and persons guilty of illegal manufacture of explosives. Continued excitement in London over the dynamite explosions ; numerous arrests made, vigilance committees proposed, and a system of espionage over persons of Irish extraction suggested. The Liberty Bell accorded a hearty reception at New Orleans, salutes being fired and shipping decorated; at Beauvoir, Miss., Jefferson Davis met the train bearing the famous relic, and made a short speech to those in attendance. Solomon Batt and Elias Grossfeldt, educated Hebrews, renounce Judaism, and unite with the M. E. Church at Cincinnati. Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, released from prison at Detroit, and rearrested on the charge of swindling Col. T. W. Higginson and other Bostonians. Amount of gold obtained from United States mines in 1884 ascertained to have been 831,000,000. Kansas and Missouri Legislatures adopt resolutions petitioning Congress to open Oklahoma to settlement. Nows received of a hardfought battle between Gen. Stewart’s command and the Arab rebels, in which five of El Mehdi’s emirs were kil-led; Stewart was badly wounded and disabled for the remainder of the campaign. Mrs. Thankful Tanner, of Cleveland, brings suit against Mrs. James A. Garfield for 825,000 for injuries sustained by being run over by the latter’s carriage. Thaddeus Louis Poniatowski, a .grandson of King Stanislaus of Poland, found working as a cattle tender near Baltimore. The Minnesota Senate passes a bill making it a felony to attempt to increase or diminish the market price of cereals. After a dead-lock lasting twenty-two days, the lower house of the Illinois Legislature organized by the election of Elijah M. Haines as Speaker. A party of Oklahoma boomers numbering 156 persons dispersed •by United States troops; four of the leaders ibound over in 81,000 each; they threaten to make another raid on the coveted territory March 4. FEBRUARY. Mrs. Laura De F. Gordon, of California, admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court at Washington—the second woman accorded that privilege. O'Donovan Bossa shot in New York by an English woman calling herself Yseult Dudley ; great rejoicing in England over the news. Queen Victoria offered to contribute from her private purse to any reward the Government decided to offer for arrest of persons guilty of dynamite outrages. During a severe windstorm the Colorado Central train from Denver to Georgetown was blown from the track; eighteen passengers more or less injured. Intense excitement in Englund caused by receipt of dispatches from General Wolsely announcing the capture of Khartoum by El Mehdi. The Union Pacific Road reports its gross earnings for 1884 at 825,791,000. Reported dissensions in the Mormon Church, causing its gradual disintegration—the young Mormons trying to break away from ecclesiastical rule. Authentic reports were received in London that at the time of the faU of Khartoum the city was on the verge of a famine, and on entering the enemy massacred about 18,000 people; General Gordon was among the latter, and his head was cut off and carried in triumph to the Mehdi, who received it with eager satisfaction. Michael Davitt compelled to leave a hotel at Rome because English guests refused to sit at table with him. Ex-Congressman D. J. Morrell, Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown, Pa., sent to a lunatic asylum. The Texas House passed a bill forbidding tye currying of.deadly weapons. The labor crisis in l r nice causes the utmost alarm ; 300,0u0 un•emp oj ed men in Paris and 1,C00,000 more in toe provinces. National Independent Association organized in London, one of its objects being an alliance between England and the United Scat.s. The worst blizzard known in manyyears prevailed on the Bth and 9th throm hout the region between the ht. Lawren e and tue Missouri. The charge of high treason and felony was brought against J. G. Cunningham and Hurry Burton, alleged dynamitards. in the Low Street .Police Court, London. Definite information received of the drain cf Gen. Gordon and the indiscriminate slaughter of the non-com-batants and Christians at Khartoum. The Vatican refused to recognize" Michael Davitt, who ■desired to pr . sent an address justifying the raise of the Irish NaioiTßlists. A cotton mill ■established at Fall River, Mass., transferred its m-’Chiuery to Mexico, to manufacture print g< ods with native labor. Never befcre in maritime history were so many steamships and sailing vessels so long overdue at New York ; over 100 bound for.that port not spoken or heaidfrom that should have arrived weeks previous. Fears were expressed that Long Island Sound would be sealed up by ice. Miss Eva Mackey, daughter of the bonanza king, married in Paris to the Italian Prince of Galatro, Ferdinand Julien •Colonna. Secretary Chandler issued an order prohibiting naval officers from memorializing Congress. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 158 to 103 (the necessary two-thirds not

being obtained), defeated a biH placing General Grant on the retired list. Intense cold weather, with snow drifts, almost suspended railroad traffic throughout the West; in the Dubuque section the embargo was the wprst reported in eighteen years. The Susquehanna River was frozen to the bottom at Lancaster, Pa. The Nebraska Legislature passed a bill prohibing the sale of tobacco to minors. Final decision rendered at Washington granting money-order fees to postmasters as yerquisites; the decision adds millions to cost of maintaining the mail service. Feb. 18 the first formal ballot for Senator from Illinois was reached by the joint assembly of the Legislature; John A. Logan received 101 votes, W. R. Morrison 94, with 7 scattering—lo 2 being necessary to a choice—two absentees. Lake Michigan, opposite Milwaukee, was frozen from shore to shore, the ice ranging from nine inches to three feet in thickness. The British Parliament assembled on the 19th. The Niagara River was covered by an ice bridge nine miles long and extending two miles into Lake Ontario. The lower house of the Michigan Legislature killed a bill requiring the securing of licenses to marry. New York and Chicago merchants drilled their employes in street-fighting tactics, anticipating socialist outbreaks. The Washington Monument was dedicated on the 21st. A tramp secured a place on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Road by saving the special train of Vice President Waite from being wrecked on a broken rail. Wood-choppers at iGalion, Ohio, beheaded a corpse while at work on a hollow tree ; 8800, a pair of revolvers, and some burglars’ tools were discovered. A huge meteor, throwing off smoke and flames, and hissing loudly, passed over Victoria, B. C., and was seen to plunge into the Sea of Haro, throwing up a cloud of spray. Judge Advocate General Swaim was court-martialed at Washington for conduct prejudicial to military discipline, and suspended from rank for twelve years, with the forfeiture of half his pay. A New York telegram of Feb. 28, based on reliable authority, stated that Gen. Grant was a very sick man, and that the fact should no longer be concealed from the country that he would not be long among the living. MARCH. President Cleveland took the oath of office on March 4, in the presence of an assembly estimated at 150,600; about 25,000 pteople in organized bodies escorted him from the Capitol to the White House, to the music of 100 bands, and 10,000 devotees of Terpsichore danced at the inauguration ball; sixteen regiments of Pennsylvania militia, headed by ex-Gov. Hartranft, bore off the honors of the parade. Almost the last act of Congress was the passage of a bill putting the name of U. S. Grant on the retired list, with the rank of General; President Cleveland’s first official net was the commissioning of his Cabinet; his second was the signing of the commission of U. 8. Grant as a General on the retired list. The Chinese Government ordered home all its subjects studying in French schools. Andrew Carnegie, the Scotch millionaire of Pittsburgh, was blackballed when nominated for membership in the Reform Club of London. President Cleveland issued a proclamation forbidding the invasion of trespassers upon Oklahoma, and ordering all unauthorized possessors of land to withdraw. The Supreme Court of lowa decided unanimously that the prohibitory law is constitutional in every particular. The Delaware River was frozen over - at Easton, Pa. On March 22 the signal-service observer on Mount Washington, N. H., reported a gale of 100 to 140 miles an hour and a temperature of 48 degrees below zero. On the 26th, Queen Victoria called out 53,000 reserves of the regular army and 140,000 militia for permanent service. Maj. Crozier, of the Dominion frontier mounted police, with a force of 100, encountered several hundred rebels commanded by Louis Riel at Duck Lake, Manitoba, and after a hard fight Crozier was defeated, with 12 killed and 11 wounded. The anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s landing at St. Augustine, Fla., in 1512, was celebrated with elaborate ceremonies at that place March 28.

APRIL. Mahlon Van Hom, of Newport, R. 1., who was chosen as a member of the General Assembly of that State at the election on April 1, was the first colored man ever elected to that body. On the Bth, the Prince end Princess of Wales and their eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, arrived in Dublin, being the first members of the royal family to visit Ireland for many years; they received a cordial welcome, particularly the Princess, who was arrayed in green velvet. Information was received at the Russian War Office that Penjdeh, in the disputed Afghan territory, was occupied by Russian troops on the 2d inst. The New York Presbytery decided to retire Rev. Dr. Burchard, of “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" fame, on a pension of 8500. A snow-storm was general throughout Illinois and Wisconsin on the 14th, the snow drifting badly in many places ; snow fell also in Michigan and Northern Indiana. Orson P. Arnold; a leading Mormon of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty to unlawful cohabitation and was fined 8300; he promised to obey the laws and abandon polygamy. The twentieth anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln (April 15) was marked by memorial services at the Capitol at Springfield, 111. Veterans of the Texan army of 1836 met at Sherman April 21, and celebrated the forty-ninth anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto, by which Texas established her independence. The Ohio Legislature passed an act requiring all executions in that State to take place witbin the walls of the penitentiary. Margaret Coleman died at Bonus, 111., having fasted forty-five days, for five days preceding her death refraining from partaking of water. The 321st anniversary of the birthday of Shakspeare (April 23) was celebrated with much ceremony at Stratford-on-Avon. MAY. The resignation of U. S. Treasurer A. U. Wyman made it necessary to count all cash and securities in the public vaults at Washington, a task of great magnitude; on tjie Ist inst., 100 clerks began the work, and consumed about throe weeks in accomplishing it. James R. Osgood & Co., well-known Boston publishers, failed: liabilities, between 8150,000 and 8200,000. Capt. Lord, of the steamer Critic, which arrived at New York on the 14th, reported encountering miles of solid ice, with numerous bergs 200 to 800 feet high. Prof Odium leaped from the Brooklyn bridge, 135 feet to the river beneath, and was killed. In the Illinois Legislature, on the 19th inst., Gen. John A. Logan was elected United States Senator on the 120th ballot, thus ending a memorable contest of four months’ duration. The British evacuation of the Soudan commenced on the 21st day of May. The bill to restore the death penalty failed in the Michigan Senate. Propeller lines running from Chicago to Buffalo offered to carry wheat at one cent a bushel, the lowest price ever known. On the 24th inst., Queen Victoria’s sixty-sixth birthday was celebrated in an elaborate manner; but nine of the fifty-five sovereigns who have preceded her on the British throne have attained on equal age. By direction of Gen. Terry, Gabriel Dumont, Reil’s lieutenant, was released at Fort Assinaboine, Montana. Tho Brazilian Government adopted a programme for the abolition of slavery. A dispatch from New Nexico stated that “no Indian raid for the last ten years equaled the present outbreak for cruelty;’’ 75 whites were known to have been murdered ; women were outraged and their bodies pinned to the earth by wedges driven through them into the ground : men were terribly mutilated, and one little girl was hung up alive by a moat hook stuck in the back of her head. Louis Reaume, a French-Canadian, became a raving maniac on a Wabash train from the West for Chicago, and on reaching that city killed Officer Barrett and badly wounded Lieut. Laughlin, who were vaulting at the depot to reI ceive him; the maniac received three shots in the back.

JUNE. Janies McCann, of the Herald, defeated Ira Somers, of the World. in a type-si tt ng contest at New Yorkgthe 1 ormer piled up 6,3-12 ems of solid ininii n in three hours, the latter 6,032. Snow fe’l at several places in Maine June 10, An Ei g i h insurance company sent ins ruct ons to n, it. Louis agent to investigate t.ie Maxwell-Preller murder nt the Southern Hotel in March, the company stating tbe:r belief tiint the boly found in the trunk was a medical “sul ject;” that Preller, before leaving England, had his life heavily insured ; that his relutit es were anxious to get the money ; and that frailer was still alive. JULY. The anniversary of the fall of the Bastile (July 14) was celebrate ! at Paris as a general holiday. The Niagara calls I'ark was formally dedicated to the public on the 15th July, with appropriate ceremonies. John Roach, the shipbuilder, n.ado an assignment, with preferred claims i mo int ng to $122,600. Princess Beatrice, youugi st daughter of Queen Victoria, was married July 23, to Irince Henry of Battenburg. Appalling news from Spain; mortality from the dreadful scourge of cholera averaged 1,000 daily in the kingdom. Sixty Russian criminals, while en route to Siberia, made a break for liberty; twenty-three were killed by the soldiers, and thirty of the survivor%mado good their escape. In the Bnt-

ish House of Commons a petition a mile and a half long, and containing 500,000 signatures, was presented, urging the passage of a law for the protection of young girls. A monument to the memory of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged at Salem for witchcraft, July 19, 1682, was dedicated at Danvers, Mass. The famous mare, Maud I S., wiped out all previous records by trotting a mile at Cleveland, Ohio, in 2 AUGUST. Miss Adrianna Physick, a gray-haired woman of 60, who was once a reigning belle of Philadelphia, was released from an insane asylum in I that city, where she had been incarcerated for I twenty-seven years as “extravagant” and “ecI centric;’’ she was in full possession of her facul--1 ties, and, it is claimed, had never been other--1 wise. Within twelve hours three brothers ! named Truby met violent deaths at or near Martin’s Valley, Pa; one fell into a cattle guard and broke his neck, another was drowned in a quar-ry-pit, and the third was suffocated in a grainbin. The Oklahoma “boomers" broke up camp and dispersed. The steamship Etruria made the run from Queenstown to New York in six days five hours and thirty-one minutes; this is the fastest time on record. SEPTEMBER. A colored woman named Ellen Johnson, 142 years old, who was sold as a slave to New Orleans parties fifty years ago, arrived at her daughter’s home in Louisville; the daughter was 60 years of age, and her roof sheltered representatives of five generations. The first race between the yachts Puritan and Genesta, for the cup won in 1851 by the America, which was sailed on the 14th inst., over what is known as the inside course of the New York Yacht Club, a length of thirty-eight miles, was won by the former in 6:01:30; the English cutter was beaten a little more than a mile ; in the second race of the series, over a silty-mile course, the Puritan won by 1 minute 38 seconds; the Genesta led for three-fourths of the distance, and ai one time was 2 minutes 6 ahead. Jumbo, the enormous elephant, was run down and killed by a train of cars at St. Thomas, Ont., while boarding a car. The seventeenth annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland was held at Grand Rapids, Mich., Gen. Sheridan presiding. A hailstorm, some of tho stones being ten inches in circumference, devastated the country south of Granite Falls, Minn., on tho 16th; drifts of hail three feet in depth were found. Thirty thousand Poles were expelled from Posen, Prussia, and in retaliation the Russian Government began the expulsion of Germans from Poland. The Governor General of Eastern Rournalia was deposed by the populace of the capital city, Philippopolis, who proclaimed a union with Bulgaria and established a provisional government. At Pittsburgh, the Coroner held an inquest on a piece of bone one inch long, all that was left of the body of John Ostermeir, a lad of 14; the unfortunate boy was engaged feeding rock to a crusher, fell in, and was ground to atoms. The famous trotter, Goldsmith Maid, ended her career on a stock farm near Trenton, N. J., at the age of 29 years; she had trotted in 132 races, winning 92, her earnings being nearly £240,000. On the 23d inst., three inches of snow fell in the Derby Line (Vt.) section. OCTOBER.

The work of demolishing Flood Rock, in New York harbor, was successfully accomplished on the 20th inst.; nine acres of solid rock were tunneled ; nearly 300,000 pounds of dynamite were consumed in the explosion, and the shock was felt over the entire area of Manhattan Island. Everett J. Waring, an intelligent mulatto, was admitted to the bur in Baltimore, the first colored man ever authorized to practice law in Maryland. Te deums were sung in Madrid, Spain, on the 15th inst., as a token of thanksgiving for the disappearance of the cholera; the dread scourge caused over 100,000 deaths during its prevalence. Nearly a foot of snow fell in the Ishpeming (Mich.) district on the 20th; trains were blockaded. Lannie McAffee made a run of 6,004 points in a three-ball game of billiards at Yankton, Dakota. Jacob Kauffman, a musician of Denver, became demented, divested himself of his clothing on a prairie, and crawled buck and forth through a barbed-wire fence until death came to his release; his flesh was found hanging in shreds. Mrs. General Grant wrote a letter to Mayor Grace of New York, saying that Riverside Park hud been selected as the General’s burying place by his family, because of the agreement that she should ultimately be interred beside him, and that no change was contemplated. A crazy Corsican named Mattei attempted to assassinate M. De Freycinet. French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the streets of Paris, but failed.

NOVEMBER. The purchase of the steamer Dolphin from the assignee of John Roach, was consummated by Secretary Whitney. The Andre monument, which Cyrus W. Field had erected on the Hudson River at Tappan, N. Y., was blown up by dynamiters. Ferdinand Ward was put at work shoveling ashes from under the engine boilers at Sing Sing Prison. Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund in New York were received from Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg. Roach’s great ship-yard at Chester, Pa., resumed work on the 9th, under the management of the United States Naval Department. The “Three Americus’ ” Exposition of Art and Industry opened at New Orleans on the 10th, to continue through the winter. On his Palo Alto ranch, near Menlo Park, Cal., Senator Stanford proposed to establish u great university, which he is to endow to the extent of 820,030,000. The managers of a charity fair at Reading, Pa., created a sensation by refusing to let Hebrew women participate. Lewis Riel, the leader of the rebellion in the Northwest Territory, was hanged at Regina, the capital, on the 17th; in his last moments he displayed a decent had nothing of bravado about it. Earthquakes were reported in the Pacific Ocean along the California coast, similar to those which preceded the great upheaval in the island of Java several years ago. A jury at Sparta, Ga., sustained the will of David Dickson, leaving 8500,000 to his colored mistress and child, and disinheriting his heirs. L. B. Jones was fined one cent and imprisoned one hour at Richmond, Va., for sending a challenge to fight a duel. Thomas A. Doyle was for the seventeenth time elected Mayor of Providence, R. I.; the Republicans threw him overboard, but the Democrats made him their candidate, and carried him through. Gen. Javanovitch, commanding a division of the Servian army, was dismissed for disobedience, and suicided with a revolver. DECEMBER. Lima, Peru, was surrendered to Gen. Caceres, who appointed Eusebio Sanchez provisional Governor. In the far East, King Theebaw, of Burmah, surrendered to Gen. Prendergast, the British Empire thus gaining control of about 180,000 square miles of territory at very small cost. A physician who attended Vice President Hendricks for many years stated that death was caused by a clot of blood reaching the brain. Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund at New York, up to the 3d inst, amount to about 8105,000. A storm on Lake Michigan on the 4th caused the lake at Chicago to rise eight feet above the ordinary line. A. J. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania Road, purchased the English racer Tristan; Americans are said to be rapidly acquiring the best horses in Great Britain.' The ceremony of christening the steel cruiser Chicago (launched at Chester, Pa.) was performed by Miss Edith Cleburne, of Philadelphia, who broke a bottle of wine over the bow, and liberated a canary, an Irish linnet and an oriole. Reports were abroad in London that the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon had permanentlv broken down from heart disease. A shower of young smelts, each half an inch in length, fell at Cumberland, Maine, for a radius of a mile. Mr. Thomas P. O’Connor, Mr. Parnell’s political lieutenant, de-, dared in an interview that what is sought for) Ireland is a government similar in character to that of Canada. The funeral of Herr Strassman, President of the municipal council of Berlin, a leading Hebrew, was made the occasion to rebuke Jew-baiters; the Emperor sent handsome wreaths of flowers to the funeral, and the ear was followed by thirty thousand persons. Tho funeral of Louis Ri< 1 took place at St. Boniface, Manitoba, on the 12th, with sevenjhundred halfbreeds in attendance, eight of whom bore the remains on their shoulders for six miles. Benjamin Louth, Sr., of Btttsburgh, the inventor of | a process for turning old steel rails into nail plate, sold his right to a syndicate for 8300 per day for tho next sixteen years. For a purse of 81,000, at New York, Joseph McCann defeated W. C. Barnes in a type-setting contest; in four hours McCann set 8,062em5, Barnes’ string measuring 7,951; the type was solid minion. De Lesseps, the famous civil engineer and canal builder, over eighty years of age, was presented by his young wife with another daughter. I Rumors of political combinations in Great Britain pointing to tho concession of home rule to the Irish. Tho bill giving'Mrs. Gen. Grant a pension of 85,000 a year passed both houses of Congress.

“Well, this is a new wrinkle,” said the pork-packer when they raised his pew-rent. “Gospel going up and pc>”k coming down. ”

NECROLOGY OF 1885.

JANUARY. Abner Coburn, ex-Governor of Maine, died at Skowhegan, aged 82; his last illness was contracted at the session of the Electoral College. Other notable persons who left “this busy, breathing world” during January were : Russell Hancock, son of Maj. Gen. Hancock, at his plantation near Clarksviße, Miss. CoL John M. Frye, father of U. S. Senator Frye, of Maine. H. H. Chalmers, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Rev. Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, of Brooklyn. Ex-Lieut. Gov. James M. Bingham, of Wisconsin. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, the famous litigant, at New Orleans, aged 80. Capt. Isaiah Rynders, who figured prominently in New York politics for fifty years, in his 73d year. Thomas FarreH, of St. Paul, Minn., aged 111 years. Rear Admiral PoweH, at Washington. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, in a passenger depot at Stillwater, Minn.; heart disease. Prof. Benjamin Silliman, of Yale CoHege. Edmond About, French journalist and novelist. Mrs. Julia A. Roberts, a sister of Gen. Phil Kearney; weU-known worker among the poor; found dead in bed at Washington. At Newburg, N. Y., Charles Downing, noted horticulturist, aged 82. Hon. Flamen Ball, at Glendale, O. ; formerly a law partner of Hon. Salmon P. Chase. In battle with El Mahdi’s forces, Lieut. Col. Fred Burnaby, who made the famous “Ride to Khiva.” George Kunkle, one of the pioneers of negro minstrelsy. Roswell Grant, uncle of Gen. U. S. Grant, at St. Albans, W. Va.; aged 85. In exile near St. Andrews, Can., Thomas Craig Fields, of Tweed ring notoriety. Wm. Leonard, a native of Ireland, aged 106, died at Portland, Ore., leaving a widow aged 96.

FEBRUARY. Gen. James Chesnut, who was U. S. Senator from South Carolina at the outbreak of the rebellion, died at Charleston. Other distinguished persons who passed away during February were: Baron Thomas O’Hagan, the first Catholic to be made Lord Chancellor of Ireland under British rule. Col. John W. Phelps, at Guilford. Vt., first officer to arm slaves in the rebellion. Dr. C. C. Graham, a famous practitioner of Louisville, Ky., aged 100 years 4 months. At Allentown, Pa., Dr. John Romig, who, in 1836, established in that city the first homeopathic school in America. Pinkney H. Walker, senior member Hlinois Supreme Court. Geo. W. Bowen, who vainly claimed the immense estate of Mme. Jumel as an illegitimate son; at Providence, aged 91. Joseph Grinnell, who secured a reduction of letter postage to 5 cents, while in Congress a generation ago; at New Bedford, aged 96. In battle with the False Prophet's adherents in the Soudan, Maj. Gen. Wm. Earle, of the British army. Judge Evart Van Buren, of Chicago, who was born at Kinderhook, N. Y., in 1803. On his plantation in Louisiana, Alexander Mouton, a son of one of the Acadians driven from Nova Scotia by the British ; was Senator and Governor of Louisiana in early days, and President of tho secession convention in 1861. In a Kentucky lunutic'iasyium, Colonel Thomas Buford, who murdered Judge Elliott because of an adverse legal decision. Dr. Leopold Damrosch, the distinguished musician. Francis A. Drexel, well-known Philadelphia banker. At Wilmington, 111., at the extraordinary age o$ 116 years, Mrs. Nancy Cass Wilmore, a native of North Carolina. At London, Mrs. James Russell Lowell, wife of tho American Minister to England. Of wounds received at the battle of Abu-Klea, Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, the hero of that bloody field. Francis S. Drake, eminent litterateur of Boston. In great poverty, at Chicago, Lady Ellen Fortesque, widow of Sir William Fortesque, of England; she was known in the Garden City as Ellen C. Williams. Dr. Joseph H. D. Rodgers, of Madison, Ind., who participated in the Texan war for independence. Andrew D. Potter, of Platteville, Wis., who helped to drive the Mormons from Nauvoo, HL, in 1840. Ex-Gov. Patton, of Alabama. Ex-Gov. Beriah Magoffin, of Kentucky.

MARCH. Among those who passed away during the month were: Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, U. S. N. George L. Davenport, born at Rock Island, 111., in 1817, and whose father was tlie founder of that city. Mrs. Eliza Walker Blaine, only sister of Janies G. Blaine ; at Baltimore. T. 8. Arthur, of Philadelphia, writer and publisher, aged 74. Henry Stull, 105 years, at Batavia, O.; served in the war of 1812 at Lundy’s Laue and Chippewa. D. B. Sacket, Inspector General U. 8. A. In London, Eng., Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, native of Vermont and trustee of the Peabody fund, aged 79. Gen. Jos. H. Taylor, U. S. A., Adjutant General Department of the Platte. Sir Henry Parkes, British Minister to China. A daughter of J. Fenimore Cooper, aged 68, at Cooperstown, N. Y. Near Boston, of Bright’s disease, Joe Goss, pugilist, born in Wolverhampton, Eng., 1836. At Memphis, Tenn., Hon Jacob Thompson, who was Secretary of the Interior under President Buchanan; aged 75. Gen. Anson Stager, of Chicago, aged 60; during the war hod charge of the Government military telegraph lines. Perry H. Smith, ex-Vice President N. W. R. R., one of Chicago’s most substantial citizens. Prince Orloff, Russian diplomatist. APRIL, Eminent people who hade farewell to earth during the showery month of April were: Mrs. Ezekiel T. Cox, of Zanesville, Ohio, mother of Hon. S.S. Cox, Minister to Turkey. Richard Grant White, Shakspearean scholar and literary and art critic, aged 63. Rear Admiral John Marston, U. S. N., at Philadelphia, aged 90. At Boston, Emmons Hamlin, noted organ manufacturer. Rev. Henry Whitehead, who settled in Chicago when it was only a military post, and with his own hands erected the earliest Methodist Church in the Western metropolis, aged 75. G. Henry Shaw, Representative in the Illinois Legislature from the Thirty-fourth District, making the third death during the session, and the second on the Democratic side. Admiral Sir George Rose Sartorius, K. C. 8., who received the thanks of President Tyler and Congress for his efforts to save U. S. 8. Missouri from destruction by fire in Gibraltar Bay in 1842; aged 95. Christopher Bradford, who died at Pittsburgh, was one of three brothers who have rescued 532 persons from drowning; the family had a life-saving station at Atlantic City. Dan Mace, of New York, famous trainer and driver of trotting horses, aged 51; Bright’s disease. Rev. Dr, Taylor, of New York, whose centennial birthday was celebrated in December, 1884, and who graduated from Dartmouth College in 1809. Rev. Leonard Withington, of Newbury, Mass., the oldest Congregational clergyman in the United States. Hon. Conrad Baker, Indianapolis, who defeated Thomas A. Hendricks for Governor of Indiana in 1868; for several years he had been a law partner of Mr. Hendricks. Isaac W. England, for .eventeen y?ars the partner of Mr. Dana in the publication of the New York Su,n. MAY. Among the people of note who went to their reward during May were: Prince Karageorgewitz, claimant to the throne of Servia. Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell, U. S. A., at San Francisco, aged 67. Queen Dowager Emma of the Sandwich Islands. Ex-Gov. Gilbert C. Walker of Virginia, aged 52. Mrs. Catherine Main, of Kalamazoo, Mich., at the advanced age of 116 years. Sergt. Leffeman at Youngstown, N. Y., aged 88; a veteran of Waterloo, and served fiftyfour years in the United States army. Hon. T. Frelinghuysen, Newark, N. J., exSecretarv of State, aged 68. On the 22d, at Paris, in his 84th year, Victor Huge, the great poet and novelist; on his deathbed he declined the offer of spiritual consolation tendered by the Archbishop of Paris ; his funeral, at the expense of the state, was such as France had not witnessed for a century, and the day of his burial was declared one of national mourning. JUNE. On the Ist day of the month Judge Josiah McRoberts was re-elected Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, and on the morning of the 2d was found dead in bed at his home in Joliet. Other distinguished persons who joined “the silent majority” in the sixth month of the year were : Prince Charles Antoine of Hohenzollern, father of the Hohenzollem whose candidature for the Spanish throne brought about the Franco-Prussian war. Robert Treat Payne, a distinguished citizen of Boston, and a descendent of one of the Bigners of the Declaration of Independence. Sir Julius Benedict, London, famous musical composer. Archbishop Bourgeot, of Montreal. James Moncrieff Arnott, eminent Scotch surgeon, aged 92. In harness on board his flagship in the China Sea, Admiral Courbet. Prince Frederick Charles, nephew of the Emperor of Germany, who commanded the Prussian army which captured Metz in 1871 ;■ apoplexy ;.,aged 57. Orson S. Murray, of Cincinnati, an original anti-slavery agitator, aged 79. Field Marshal Baron von Mant uffel, Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, aged 79. Ex-Senator James W. Nesmith, of Oregon, in his 66th year. Richard T. Merricx, a distinguished advocate at Washington. The report of El Mehdi’s death on the 29th from small-pox, was confirmed

JULY. Hon. Rueben Ellwood, M. C. Fifth Hlinois District, was numbered among the victims of the dread disease, cancer. Comrpander Henry H. Gorringe, U. 8. N., who brought the Egyptian obelisk to New York, was stricken with spinal disease. Other prominent deaths during July: Mrs. Henry W. Sage, widely known for her connection with charitable institutions of New York; killed by accident in a runaway at Ithaca. Hiram Dixon, of West Brighton, N. Y., one of the founders of the Adams Express Co., aged 76. At his home near Independence, Mo., at the age of 111, Christopher Mann, a' companion of Daniel Boone, and the oldest man in Missouri. At Youngstown, 0., Mary Clemens, 103 years 2 months; her father and mother lived to the age of 106 and 110, respectively. James G. Wintersmith, of Louisville, Ky., Doorkeeper of the National House of Representatives. Rev. Irenffius 8. Prime, for forty-eight years editor of the New York Observer, Judge T. Lyle Dickey, of the Hlinois Supreme Court. On the ,23d of July, Gen. U. S. Grant, winner of many battles and captor of many foes, encountered the King of Terrors, and became a captive to the universal enemy at Mount MacGregor, N. Y., his deathbed being surrounded by all his family; his end was peaceful and without evident pain. Judge John W. Okey, of the Ohio Supreme Court. Sir Moses Montefiore, the famous Jewish philanthropist of England, who celebrated the 100th anniversary of his birth in October, 1884, died in London on the 28th. Hon. C. B. Stewart, one of the signers of Texas’ declaration of independence, was interred at Montgomery, Tex., at the age of 91. Henry A. Pierce, ex-Minister to Honolulu, died at San Francisco, at which place he arrived in 1828. • AUGUST. Judge James Garland, who served in the war of 1812, and had been in the Masonic fraternity seventy-three years, died at Lvnchburg, Va., aged 95. Cholera in Spain carried off the Archbishop of Seville. Other distinguished people gathered to their fathers during the month were : Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton), poet and critic, London, aged 76. James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California, aged 74; near Placerville, in extreme poverty. At San Francisco, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, authoress. In Salem, Mass., aged 85, Gen. Henry K. Oliver, the venerable composer of tho psalm tune “Federal Street.” Lord Vane Tempest, an English nobleman who served with distinction in the Union army during the rebellion. Near Vicksburg, Miss., Ann Hogan, a colored woman reported to be 100 years old. At Osceola, Mo., Waldo P. Johnson, a prominent lawyer of that State; member of the U. S. Senate attho outbreak of the war, and expelled for disloyalty. Ex-Gov. Julius Converse, of Vermont. Sir Francis Hincks, former Premier of Canada. In London, Admiral Kennedy, who served in the civil war in America. The wife of ex-Gov. B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri. Ex-Gov. Reuben E. Fenton, of New York. Ex-U. S. Senator Edgar 8. Cowan, of Pennsylvania.

SEPTEMBER. Prominent people called hence during the month were: Ex-S?nator Gwin, of California, aged 80. Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, the veteran clergyman, author, and editor, of Irvington. N. Y., aged 85. Judge John R. Eakin, of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Major Aaron Stafford, last surviving officer of the war of 1812, at his residence in Waterville, Oneida County, N. Y.,in the 99th year of his age. Judge George W. Clinton, Vice Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents. Edward A. Rollins, of Philadelphia, formerly Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Col. James B. Walton, of New Orleans, who commanded the Washington Battery, bf Louisiana, during the war with Mexico, aged 72. Sebastian Boughner, a soldier who fought at Lundy’s Lane and Fort Erie, aged 90. Rear Admiral John W. Livingston, U. S. N.. aged 81. Christian Cooper, of Columbia County,-N. Y„ at the advanced age of 111 years 10 months 15 days. Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago, widely known by ' his brilliancy as an orator and his abilitv as a lawyer and advocate. Col. George Ward Nichols, President of the Cincinnati College of Music ; during the war he served on Gen. Sherman's staff, and wrote •‘Sherman’s March to the Sea.” Henry R. S Iden, ex-Lieutsnant Governor and ex-Judge of the Court of Appeals, of New York. Prof. John Campbell Shairp, eminent English scholar and writer. George Wilkes, of New York, famous as an authority in sporting mutters. Moses Marrenellah, a Christian Jew, in a poor-hoase at Poughkeepsie, aged 105, and a resident of this country tor seventy years. Judge Waldo Colburn, of the Massachusetts Supremo Court. OCTOBER. The Earl of Shaftesbury, noted as a devoted religionist and reformer, passed away on the Ist, aged 81; his long record as a philanthropist earned for him tne name of “The Good Earl.” Other notable deaths during October were : Fred Hassaurek, of Cincinnati, well known as a Ger-man-Amerfean writer, editor, and speaker. ExGov. Talbot, of Massachusetts, at Lowell, aged 77. His eminence Cardinal John McCloskey, at his residence in New York, aged 75. Sir. H. W. Shaw (Josh Billings) of apoplexy at Cal. Baron Strathnairn, prominent in English diplomatic and military circles, and a leading figure in the suppression of the Sepoy rebellion in India. Rt. Hon. Hugh Henry Rose, Field Marshal of the British army, and at one time commander-in-chief in India Capt. Alexander Haley, the only colored man who ever commanded an ocean trade vessel, at Baltimore, aged 86. Chas. Leland, well-known hotelkeeper, in New York City. Caspar Butz, German poet, writer and politician, at Des Moines, aged 60. At Pittsburgh, Hon. Malcolm Hay, ex-First Assistant Postmaster General Rev. Dr. James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, Eng., of tho Established Church of England. Mrs. Mary Auue Booth, mother of Edwin, J. Wilkes, and Junius B. Booth, at New York, aged 83. Dr. James R. Woodford, Bishop of Ely, Eng. ExGov. Page, of Vermont. Bridget Farley, in West Stratford, Conn., aged 104 years 2 months and 5 days. Gen. George B. McClellan, one of the prominent military leadersTn the late civil war, and a candidate for President of the United States in 1864, at his home in New Jersey, of neuralgia of the heart, aged 59. Iftsar Admiral J. C. P. De Kraft, U. S. N., at his residence in Washington. At Amityville, Long Island, Geo. F. McDonald, an actor, founder of the Order of Elks, aged 46. The Duke of Abercorn, in London, aged 74; he had twice served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and was the head of the illustrious house of Hamilton. NOVEMBER. Rev. Thomas Tenant died at Evansville, Ark., at the age of 115 years; he had served as a Methodist minister fer ninety years. Other distinguished persons who passed away during the month were: John McCullough, the tragedian, at Philadelphia, from paralysis in the muscles of the neck, aged 50. Ex-Judge Albert Cardozo, of New York. Ex-Senator Wm. Sharon, of Nevada. Horace Brigham Claflin, the New York dry-goods merchant prince, aged 73. Mrs. Rhoda Howard, of Bath County, Ky., aged 116 years; she smoked tobacco during the greater portion of her life, and never took a dose of medicine. Elizur Wright, of Boston, famous as o reformer, journalist, insurance expert, and free-thinker, aged 81. King Alfonso of Spain, at Madrid, of consumption, aged 28. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice President of the United States, at Indianapolis, of heart disease; he was born in 1819, near Zanesville, Ohio. Marshal Serrano, Spain’s illustrious political and military leader,iaged 75. The Duke of Somerset (England), a Liberal in politics and an atheist in religion. DECEMBER. Charlotte Wickliffe, a negress of Louisville, who passed away at the age of 117 years, claimed to have handed George Washington a cup of water at the battle of Yorktown; she left seventy-five children and grandchildren, the oldest being nearly 100 years. 'Other deaths during December were: At Melbourne, Australia, Clarence Whistler, noted wrestler. Rt. Rev. Dominick Manucy, Catholic Bishop of Mobile. William H. Vanderbilt, the most conspicuous figure in the railway world, died suddenly at his home in New York City, of paralysis of . the brain, aged 65. Ex-Gov. B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, candidate for Vice President on thdjf Horace Greeley ticket in 1872, Patrick O’Rourke, who loaned Horace Greeley 81,060 to aid in starting the New York Tribune, and who had ever since had charge of the press-room in that establishment. Commodore Chas. Lowndes, U. 8. N., retired list, aged 87. At Santa Fe, N. M., f Gen. Gustavus A. Smith, formerly of Decatur, ’ Hl. Prince Ferdinand, father of the King of , Portugal, from facial cancer. Ex-Senator Robert Toombs, of Georgia, aged 76. A Sandors, captain of the hold on U. 8. 8. Swatara, fell dead on the streets oL Portsmouth, Va.; he entered the service fortyJyears ago, and was tho first colored man ever! enlisted in U. 8. navy. Bishoix F. X. Krautbaudr, of the Catholic diodeso of Green Bay. Ex-Congressman J. H. Defrees, of Indiana. Hon. Wm. Pitt Lynde, ex-Congress-man from Wisconsin. Ex-Gov. Ryland Fletcher, of Vermont, aged 90. Stephen Barker Guion, founder of the Black Ball line of ocean steamers. Ex-Gov. Hiland Hallfof Vermont. A married daughter of Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott; of paralysis, in a Baltimore hospital, aged 60.