St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 January 1887 — Page 1

VOLUME XII.

BECORD OF THE YEAR Important Occurrennss of a Twelvemonth Arranged in Chronological Order. A Brief Synopsis of the Most Notable Political, Social, and Financial Happenings. Necrology of 1886-Death s Busy Work in the Ranks of the World’s Distinguished People. The Casualty Record—A Catalogue of Accidents Involving Loss of Human Life. CHRONOLOGY. The World’s noteworthy Social and Political Happenings in 1886. JANUARY. In a gymnasium at Binghamton, N. Y., Wm. Pale swung 7-lt» Indian ulubs 4 hours 50 minutes. Ina bicycle contest at Minneapolis, Woodside ' covered 256 miles in ’.6 hours, Six bundled Arabs slain in battle with British forces near Kosheh. The twenty-fifth annivt rsary of Emperor William s acccssio i to the throne of Prussia was tt y common orated at Bi riin on the ■d. It was estimati d that .',OOO coal-miners of the Pittsburgh district, who had been on a four months' strike, lost in wages nearly >2, >OO,OJ); operators suffered to a la ge amount by the | prolonged suspension. Miss Sarah Althea Hill, of Sharon divorce notoriety, was married at Stockton, Cal., to Judge David S. Terry, who killed Senator Broderick in a duel iii IK>9. Austria spent 830,000,000 in arming her infantry with a new repeating rifle, the invention of a railway engineeer. Prince Charles of Mona o expelle I the Jesuits from his petty domain because they printed a list of suicides at the Monte Carlo gaming-ta-bles. A blizzard swept over the Eaß ern Mates on the 10th that was particularly sev< r■; eight vessels were driven ashore at I rovincitown and Truro. Mass.; snow fell to the depth of five feet in many places in Maine and Vermont, the tide along Cape Cod was the highest known for years, and it was estimated that more damage was done on that part of the coast in f< rtveight hours than for the previous decade. The Massachusetts Su. reme Court decided that the authorities could prohibit preaching on Boston Common. Six incnes of snow fell at Ualveutou, Texas, on the 12th, the greatest that had been witnessed in that vicinity since the foundation of the city in 1838; the mercury at Moretown, Vt., fell to 40 degrees below zero. Charles Bradlaugh, the atheist, was permitted to take the oath and qualify as a member of the British Parliament at its opening on the 12th. Pour children who were sent to Paris from Newark. N. J., to bo treated for hydrophobia by M. Pasteur, reached home safely and in good ht alth. A Russian ukase ordered the expulsion from that country of all persons not naturalized, numbering 101,00). Gold mine, yielding from Sts) to 8300 a ton, discovered at Leaky, Texas. The tunnel between Liverpool and Birkenuead, under the Mersey, 1,230 yards long, and ousting $5,000,0 0, was formally opened by the Prince of Wales on the 20th. Cincinnati theater man gers a reed to give no more Sunday performances. The Mississippi Biver was gorged with ice seventeen inches in thickness, from the mouth of the Illinois to Ste. Genevieve—a distance of sixty-five miles. _ FEBRUARY. The Ice Carnival was inaugurated at St. Paul with imposing ceremonies , there was a procession of uniformed clubs, numbering 5,000 per- - sons, the city was thronged with visitors, and much enthusiasm prevailed. Mr, Gladstone visited Queen Victoria at Osborne, on the Ist. kissed her hand, and was commanded to form a Cabinet. The great feat of telephoning a distance of 2,465 miles—the terminal points being Boulogne and St. Petersburg—was performed in Europe. Notices were posted in the cotton mills at New Bedford, Concord, Manchester, and Lowell of a general advance of 10 per cent, in wages. The lowa Legislature passed a bill authorizing Mayors of cities to solemnize marriage. MARCH. On the Ist inst., President Cleveland sent to the Senate a special message declining to furnish unofficial documents relating to suspensions from office, and claiming the right to destroy them. Owing to a threatenedboycott.il St. Louis street-car line advanced w ages of employes and reduced hours of labor. Owing to a strike of employes on Gould's Southwest lines of railroad, not a single car of freight crossed the St. Louis bridge for a week. The lowa Senate passed a bill making drunkenness a misdemeanor punishable wiih severe penalties. Employes of the Gould system of railroads in the Southwest engaged "in a strike which resulted in bloodshed at East St. Louis, 111., six persons being killed by Deputy Sheriffs who were protecting railroad property; as usual, innocent parties suffered, one of the slain bes g a woman returning from a shopping expedition. The King of Corea abolished slavery in his kingdom, where one-half the people had hitherto been held in bondage. APRIL. The steam-yacht Welcome airived in Chicago on the 7th, with clearance papers direct from Mobile, having made the trip via the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi and Illinois Bi vers. A number of the survivors of the steamer Sultana horror held a reunion at Toledo, Ohio, on the 27th, the twenty-first anniversary of the event; near Memphis, on the morning of the 27th of April, 1865, the boilers of the vessel exploaed, and 2,141 persons perished ; the ill-fated transport was loaded with released prisoners on their way home from Bock Island. John Dubois, of Dubois, Pa., who, in consequence of illness, retired from business, sold an estate valued at $15,000,000 to his neuhew, John E. Dubois, for fl. MAY, The rule that few office-holders die and none resign [has its ‘exceptions ; Clay Noblock resigned the Lieutenant Governorship of Louisiana. On the 3d silver in London reached the lowest quotation in the history of the metal—--45 15-16 pence per ounce. At Chicago, on the evening of the 4th, a squad of policemen endeavored to disperse a meeting or anarchists and socialists, when a bomb was thrown among the officers of the la>v, whereupon they' opened fire upon the incendiaries, the result being fourteen deaths—eight of them policemen, the other six being rioters or innocent'spectators ; about seventy-five were wounded. The Governor of New York signed the bill permitting women to practice law’ in the Empire Mate. President Cleveland decided that officers of the army found incapacitated for active service by retiring boards were not eligible lor promotion JUNE. The United Presbyterian General Assembly, in session at Hamilton, Ohio, settled a longstanding fight by voting in favor of instrumental music in ch -irch worship. The Supreme Court of Ind ana decided that a man accused of a capital offense cannot waive trial bv jury. Frosts in Northern Dakota and Minnesota, on the 7th, injured the w’heat crop 2> per cent. The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed a decision making the conducting of "bucket-shops" a misdemeanor. Mr. Gladstone’s home-rule bill defeated on second reading in the British House of Commons by a vote of 341 to 311. Physic ans examined King Ludwig of Bavaria, and reported him insane. Great excitement prevailed in Belfast, Ireland, over the defeat of Gladstone's home-rule bill, and the 1. yalists celebrated their victory by sacking t, e public houses, pouring liquors into the guttei s, and behaving in a riotous manner generally ; the constabulary, who sought to preserve order, were pelted with stones, and they in turn fired upon the rioters, the most daring of whom were factory girls; scores of lives were lost. Tne issue of secession was voted upon in Nova Scotia and resulted in the choice of 38 members of Parliament. 29 of whom favored annexation to the United States. The New York st tute regarding imprisonment for debt was amended so as to release all debtor prisoners who have been incarcerated over six months. Providence, R. 1., celebrated on the 23d inst. its 25uth anniversary. JULY. On Sunday, the 11th, C. D. Graham, a Penn•ylvanian, successfully “shot" the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls, in a wooden barrel of his own contrivance. James Julior, of London, was placed in a lunatic asylum for writing an offer of marriage to Queen Victoria end culling at Windsor Castle for an answer. A bootblack named Brodie leaped from the Brooklyn bridge into the East River, 120 feet, and was taken from the water almost uninjured. Thj steamer Waesland, when two days out from Antwerp, ■truck a ileeping whale eighty feet long, which

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it cut nearly in two; the ship was backed to free itself from the carcass. A resolution was passed in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies proI viding that the Government free as soon as possible the remaining 20,000 slaves in Cuba. I ' o*. o°n, fitted with a patent steering and proI pelhng apparatus, made a journey from Cherbourg, I rance, to London in seven hours. AUGUST. Snow fell in New York and New Hampshire on the 3d. Rioting was epidemic in Belfast, Ireland, and in the pitched battles that ensued between the Orangemen and the Catholics the Killed numbered scores and the wounded hundreds. A Boston surgeon opened the abdomen of a patient, drew up and cut open his stomach, took therefrom a set of teeth which had lain there for a year, and sewed up the aperture with tine silk, the operation being completed in fortyI five minutes. P. J. Scott, a fisherman, sought to achieve fume l y swimming the whirlpool rapids of Niagara attired in a suit of cork; ho inade a “moist, unpleasant corpse” of himself instead. On the 23d Mrs. Cleveland, stopping at the Saranac Inn, among the Adirondack*, touched the electric button that set the machinery in motion at the Minneapoli., Industrial Exposition. A foot race nt London, England, distance one mile, resulted in a victory for George over Cummings, in 4:l2i’L the fastest time on record. Gov. Gray, of Indiana, offered a reward of SI,(DO for the conviction of any person engaged in lynching in that State. SEPTEMBER. A series of international races for the America’s cup took place over the New York Yacht Club's course betwi en the Yankee sloop Mayflower and the English cutter Galatea, resulting in a decisive victory for the former. Prince Alexander signed the deed of abdication and departed from Sofia, Bulgaria, on the Bth. Geronimo and other Apache Indians captured by the forces of Gen. Miles were placed in Port Marion, at St. Augustine, Fla. Excavators at Pompeii discovered near the eastern gate a new street of tombs. OCTOBER. Snow fell at Cheboygan. Mich., on the Ist; nipping weather throughout the Northwest was reported. The steamer Aime la made the run from Sydney to San Francisco in 23 days 0 hours 3J minutes—the best recorded time. Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, addressed a letter to Attorney General Cassidy on the action of the anthracite pool in advancing tne price of coal, and requesting him to move against it in court. Numerous letters received during the month by the Hydrographic Office at Washington from the officers of steam and sailing vessels bore testimony to the efficacy of pouring oil on the waters in storms, the billows being speedily reduced to long and heavy but harmless swells. The mercury rose to 80degrees in the shade in London on the sth, a temperature unknown in October for nearly half a century. J. Juvenet, of New Orleans. sent a bale of ramie to the Cotton Exchange and a bale of jute to the Produce Exchange, with letters stating that they were the first bales of these products ever grown in the United States. A constant rainfall from a cloudless sky was reported from Dawson, Ga. NOVEMBER. Lawrence M. Donavan, a New York pressman, leaped from the new suspension bridge at Niagara on the 7th; he descended 19i> feet in four seconds, and escaped without injury save the slight displacement of a rib. A meeting in Glas ow, Scotland, resolved to erect a monument to Burns' “Highland Mary" on Castle Hill, at Dunoon. Lieut. Gen. Sheridan's report showed that the standing army of the country consists of 2,102 officers and 23,946 men. The Vermont Legislature passed a law requiring all hotels and restaurants using oleomargarine for butt r t > post up largo signs of notification to that effect. A special train o i the Canada Southern track, carrying the Vanderbilt party to Chicago, coven d 107 miles in 93 minutes. The Austrian Government issued an order prohibiting the playing of poker in its army. George Hazlett and Sadie Allen, 18 years old. went through the Niagara whirlpool and rapids in a torpedoshaped barrel; they were in the rapids and whirlpool five minutes, and were taken out of the eddy on the Canadian side none the worse for their perilous trip The president of the Marquette. Ontonagan and Portage Road was credited with saving the lives of twenty-four men shipwrecked off Marquette in a storm ; he ordered the railway trad, cleared of trains, and appealed to the life saving crew at Portage City to travel 110 miles with a special engine and car, at the greatest speed possible; the imperiled sailors were taken from the rocks in a terriblegale. Eor the month of November tax was paid on 4,430,174 pounds of oleomargarine in the United States by thirty-four manufactories, DECEMBER. A bill providing for trial by jury was presented in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies. The proprietors of eight hotels or restaurants in Hartford were arrested for using oleomargarine on their tables without displaying the placard required by the law of Connecticut. I’he South experienced unusually severe winter weather during the first week of December; snow fell continuously for over sixty hours in North Carolina and Virginia: at Asheville, N. C„ the snow was twenty-seven inches deep on a level. Under the decrees of the Plenary Council at Baltimore, the Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia prohibited balls for charitable purposes. The Alabama Senate passed n local-option law. On the waters of Niagara River, Alphonso King walked one hundred yards in a huge pair of tin shoes of his own invention, on a wager of $3,000. A railway collision in Dayton, Ohio, sent a locomotive running wild through the city at the rate of a mile a minute ; it passed through the Union Depot at the highest known rate of speed, and exhausted itself at a point on the track ten miles in the country. A quarry of fine malachite, 150 feet in thickness, was discovered in Georgia. No more large steamboats with costly cabins will be built for the Lower Mississippi trade. NECROLOGY. Men Renowned in Statesmanship, War, Literature, Mechanics, and the Learned Professions Swell the Death Roll. JANUARY. Contributions to the necrology of the initial month of 1886 were : J. B. Lippincott, the veteran Philadelphia publisher. Dr. Robert Ramsay, a famous Masonic writer; in a Toronto hospital, aged 44. Gen. Hiram Hilliard, once Adjutant General of Illinois. N. M. Ludlow, the oldest actor in the country, and for many years'associated with Sol Smith (deceased) in theatrical ventures ; at his home in St. Louis, aged 91. Nahum Capen, LL.D , who was Postmaster at Boston under 1 uchanan, and who began the free deb very system. Hon. Ben,. Conly, ex-Governor of Georgia. Col. Edward Richardson, president of the late World's Exposition at New Orleans. Lottie Griffin (colored), w ho claimed to be over 120 years, died at Hannibal, Mo., leaving a daughter, aged 80. Goo. E. Pomeroy, founder of the express system in the United States ; at Toledo, Ohio, aged 79. James Cutshaw, last of the old-time stigedrivers in Ohio; at Lancaster, aged 87. Miss Kate Bayard, eldest d mghter of the Secretary of State, found dead in bed at Washington; heart disease. Mari Augustine, colored, ended her existence of 125 years at New Orleans. Rev. Henry Norman Hudson, eminent Shakspearean scholar, at Cambridge, Mass. At London, Joseph Mags, cele rated tenor opera singer. Dr. Thomas W. S eene, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, f 11 dead in Lis seat after making a speech Mrs. Anna Maria Greene, daughter-in-law of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame, breathed her last at Newport, R. 1., aged 10*. Ex-U. S. Senator James T. Farley, of California. Congressman Jos. C. Rankin, Fifth Wisconsin District. Col. Ashbel Smith, a veteran of the Texas war of independence, was buried with military honors at Austin, and his remains placed beside those of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. Coleman Freeman, born a slave in Virginia; at Windsor, Ont., aged 121. Ex-Senator David R. Atchison, of Missouri, who in 18 9 was Acting Piesident of the United Sta es for one day. Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary of State, aged 51. ExGovernor Neill S Brown, of Tennessee, U. S. Minister to Russia in 1850, aged 75. FEBRUARY. Death played sad havoc in the ranks of American men of war during the brief month of February, no less than three Major Generals answering the summons of the grim messenger —Winfield Scott Hancock, David Hunter, and William R. Rowley. Hancock served with distinction in the Mexican war, was second in command on the bloody field of Gettysburg, and in 18D was the Democratic candidate for President ; Hunter, also, was a veteran of the Mexican campaign, and presided over the military court that tried Mrs. Surratt ;and Rowley was the last sur iving officer of Gon. Grant s staff. Other deaths for the month were : George T. Lanigan, a versatile genius—journalist, poet, author, and translator; at 1 hiladelphia, from heart disease. George Lorillard, owner and breeder of Parole and other famous horses. Mrs. Sarah Leary, oldest person in Central Illinois; at Illiopolis, aged 106. John G. Thompson, ex-Sergeant-at-Arms U. S. House of Representatives, at Seattle, aged 53. George C. Bates, an eloquent law ver, known in the chain of great cities from New York to San Francisco, at Denver, aged 71. ExGov. Horatio Seymour, the venerable Sage of Deerfield, ended his eventful life at Utica in his 76th year. Sarah Taylor (colored) at St Catharines, Ont., aged 120 years 11 months and 8 days. In Philadelphia, from paralysis, John

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B. Gough, for forty years tho leading orator in the cause of temperance; born in England in 18'22. John Henry Payne, grandson of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, expired in Now York, apparently in extreme penury; he was believed to be worth between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, but only a few hundred dollars were found in the rags that covered him. W. 8. Meservey, nt Salem, Mass., member of the first party to cross the plains to California, and ex-Governor of New Mexico, Gon. John 8. Cavender, one of the original Free-State leaders in Missouri. MA RCH. The wife of Senator J. R. Hawley, of Connecticut, breathed her last at Washington, aged 55 ; deceased was a niece of Henry Ward Hei cher, and served as a nurse in the hospitals of Virginia during the war. Other deaths during the month : Gen. H. M. Nagle ■, veteran soluier and well-known viticulturist of Santa Clara. Cal., aged 73. Gen. John F. Miller, Senator from California. Mary Bleecker Seymour, relict of exGov. Horatio Seymour, at tho residence of her sister, Mrs. Hoscoe Conkling, Utica, N. Y. Hon. J. B. Chaffee, ex-United States Senator from Colorado. The wife of ox-Attorney General B. H. Brewster. Mrs. Mary Anagnos, daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, noted for her labors in educating the blind Ex-Gov. Michael Hahn of Louisiana. At Washington, the wife of George Bancroft, the historian. Ex-Gov. Wm. Irwin, of California. The venerable Earl of ( hichester. an active promoter of charities Capt. James I. Waddell, ex-commander of the Confederate cruiser Shetland mil. James Mahoney, a centenarian, who served under Pcrrv at tho battle of Lake I rie, also a veteran of the Mexican war and the war < f the rebellion. Miss Abigail Bates at Scituate, Mass , aged 89; one of two heroines who in the war of 1812 drove away the British from Scituate harbor by vigorously playing a fife and drum in the bushes. Dr J. H^Kane. who participated in his brother's arctic expedition. Hon, V ard Hunt, of New York, who resigned his place ns Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court in 1882. The Countess do Chnmbord, widow of the late head of tho surviving Bourbon family of France. James O Donnell, the noted oarsman of New Orleans. APRIL? Donald McLellan, whose grandfather was a follower of the famous Rob Kov, passed away at' Detroit in indigent circumstances, aged 106. lit. Hon. W. E. Forster, ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland, ag< d 69. Hon. Jolin Welch. Minister to England under President Hayes' administration. Elbridge Gerry, member of Congress in 1818, and a prominent anti-slavery agitator; at Portland, Me., aged 73. Thaddeus Fairbanks, tho scale inventor, who was knighted by the Emperor of Austria; at St Johnsimry. Vt., aged 91. John H Noyes founder of the Oneida Community, ut his homo in Niagara Falls ; born in 1811, and was a cousin of ex-President Hayes. Charles Mitchell, fatlv r of Maggio Mitchell, the actress, at Troy, N. Y., aged 83. ?' rs. Ella Hart, a pioneer of Sandusky, 0., aged 103. Father Abram J. Ryan, tho "poet-priest of tho South,’’passed away at Louisville ; a native of Virginia, aged 46. The widow of Wended Phillips, w ho had been an invalid over since her marriage, half a century ago, died in Boston. At Boston, H. H. Richardson, famous architect. MAY. Charles Franklin Robertson, Pr< testant Episcopal Bishop of the Pieces ■ of Missouri, died in St. Louis. Other em nent pc. pie who joined the innumerable caravan during the flowery month wore: David Fisher, ex M. C., Into whose arms Jolin Quincy Adams fell when he was stricken with paralysis on the floor Os the House George H. Butler, nephew of Gen. B. F. But! •r, formerly editorof U ilkrs Spirit. Gen. John I Lewis, an historical character of New Orleans, who served as a courier for Gen. Jackson in 181A, aged 86. Vico Admiral Lynch, of the Chilian navy. Mrs. Alice Pendleton, wife of the American Minister to Germany, was killed in Central Park, New York, bv being throw n from her carriage. Arthur Quartlav. a noted tmerienn marine painter, ended his days in New York Dr. Dio Lew is, author and hygienic reformer, aj his homo in Yonkers, N. Y. agedirt Stephen Pearl Andrews, the' apostle of spiritualism New York, aged 74 Leopold von Ranke, emi nent German historian, aged 91. Gen Durbin Ward, one of the most noted Democrats of iihm. aged 68. Gen F N. Ogden, who led the White League revolution against the Kellogg State Government at Now th leans in 18,1 At r t Vital, On' . Mrs. Riol, widow of the Canadian rebel. John Q Bartlett, well known American author, and for mnnv years Secietary of State of Rhode Island, aged so. JUNE. John Kelly the renowned Tnmmnnv sachem and Democrat! ■ lead. r. w as caPed hence on the Ist inst., aged 64, Other notable contributions to the list of departures during the month w< re . Billy Emmett, a well-known minstrel and theatrical manage’’, of Chicago. Col. Hr bard M. Hoc, of New York, inventor of the famous Hoc printing-press sudd. nly. nt Florence, Italy. I udw ig. tho dtposed insane King of Bn varia, Buicidtd by drowning Dr. Gudden. attendant. lost his life in trying t > save the dethroned monarch. John J Presser, a famous hermit of Eastern Pennsylvania. Dim el Goerin. near Watertown, Wis., aged 109 Edwin P. Whipple. American < ssayist and author Bos ton. ared 68. Hon. Augustus Charles Hobart (Hobart Pasha, Marshal of the Turkish Empire ; an Englishman, son of the Earl of Buckinghamshire John Newman one of tho first white children born in that region, passed away in Sevi r County. Tenn"ssre, aged 117. Samuel Adams, a pioneer of California and a mt mber of the san Francisco vig lance committee in 1856. Moses A. Dow. founder of the II ivcrlij .Wtoamtne, of Boston. Hon. David Davis, formerly Justice of the C. S. Suprem ■ Court. Senator from Illinois, and ex officio Vice President of the United States; Bloomington, 111., aged 71. At, Wiesbaden, the widow of Meyerbeer, nt the age of 82. JULY. Col. Geo. b. Corkhill, who conducted the prosecution of Guiteau, passed away at Mt. Pleasant, lowa, from hemorrhage of the stomach. Paul H. Hayne, poet and litterateur, nt Augusta, Ga. Cardinal Guib rt, Archbishop of Paris. H. K. Brown, the sculptor, died at New burgh, N. Y. ; he was seventy-two years old. and modeled the first bronze statue ever east in this country. Rear Admiral Worden U. 8. N . the hero of tho famous victory of the ironclad Monitor over the rebel Merrimac in 1862, died at Newport. R. 1., aged 69 E Z. C. Judson, known to the storyre iding public as "Ned Buntline,'’ who had earm d 160,009 per annum with his pen, died of heart disease at Stamford, New York, in his sixty filth year : ho was n naval officer before the War of the rebellion, and carried twelve wounds received in battle or in duels. Hon. Wm. Hunter. Second Assistant Secretary of State, died at Washington, of old age and general debility; he was 81 years old, and had served continuously in the State Department fifty-one years, having been appointed by President Jackson. Hubert O. Thompson, a conspicuous leader of the New York County Democracy, aged 37 years. Abbe Franz Liszt, the celebrated pianist and composer, at Biureuth, Germany, aged 75. AUGUST. From the walks of statesmanship Samuel J. Tilden, ex-Governor of New York, was taken on the 4th. Cther eminent persons who departed during the month were ; Ex-( oa rnor John W Stevenson, of Kentucky, who had been Senator and Representative in t ongress; Dolores Fosta, widow of the famous Mexican General, Santa Anna; Mrs Ann S. Stevens, well-known novelist; at Newport. R. 1., aged 74. Professor C. E. Stowe, formerly President of Andover Theological S;minay, and husband of the author of “Uncle Tom's Cabin;'’ at Hart'ord, Conn., aged 81. Mrs Murphy, of Chicago, ut the advanced age of 198 yea’s. Amos Adams Lawrenco, prominent m reliant and philanthropist of Eo ton. Lev. James C. Beecher, of Connecticut, the youngest brotaer of Henry Ward Beecher, suicided at Elmira, N. Y., on account of failing health; age, 59 years. SEPTEMBER. Among the most notable contributions to the necrology of 1886 for September were : Gen. B. F. Cheatham, of NashviU •, who played a conspicuous part in tho bloody drama of 1861'5. Gen Lloyd Aspinwall of New York. George VandenholT, actor and reader. Asher B. Durand, an Aim rican painter of note. Andrew Lucas, bcm in slavery in Tennessee, where he was a servant of Ge:i Jackson, dr d at Brantford, Ont., at the supposed age of 1-8 years. OCTOBER. Captain John Plunkett, one of tho four survivors of the battle of San J acinto, died at Matagorda, Texas, aged 86 years. Other contributions to the necrology of October were: Hon. Austin F. Pike, U. 8. Senator from Now Hampshire; ex-Senator David Yulee, of Florida; James A. Grinstead, a famous Kentucky turfman ; Rear Admiral Edward T. Nichols, U. S. N.; Meyer Karl Rothschild, hea l of the great Frankfort firm of bankers ; Mike McCoole, the pugilist; Bacon Montgomery, once a Brigadier General in the Union army ; Col. Charles Whittlesey, of Cleveland. Ohio, geologist and scholar; Gen. J. A. Uhrich, commandant at Strasburg on its capitulation; Gen. Sir H. T. Macpherson, commander of the British army of occupation in Burmah ; Baron Frederick Ferdinand von Beust, distinguished German statesman ; Mrs. Cornela Stewart, widow of the lute Alexander T. Stewart, the New York millionaire merchant; Hon. Mason W. Tappan, Attorney General of New Hampshire; Hon. Walter B. Scates, ex-Chief Jnstice Illinois Supreme Court; the Earl of Stratford—family name, George Stevens Byng. NOVEMBER. Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey in the world, who rode the winning horse of “the

Derby" five different times, committed suicide in London "while in a delirium caused by typhoid fever. Other distinguished dead chronicled during November were : Rev. Walter Home, the "father" of the Church of Scotland. at Edinburgh, in his 89th year. ExPresident Chester A. Arthur, Bright's disease; aged 56. Ex-Governor John S. Phelps, of Missouri, aged 70. Hon. Charles Erancis Adams, grandson of the second President of the United States and son of the sixth President; at Boston, aged 79. Erastus Brooke, a veteran editor of New York, distinguished in journalism and politics, aged 70. DECEMBER. Among distinguished people who passed from the stage of life during Do, ember were : Congressman Wm. T. Price, of the Eighth Wisconsin District. John E. Owens, the veteran comedian, at his home in Baltimore; a native of England, aged 63. Isaac Lea, distinguished American natura'ist; Philadeli hia, aged 95. Representative Abraham Dowdney, of New" York, whose taking off swelled the death list of the Forty-ninth Congress to twelve. Ex-Gov. Chas M. Croswell, of Michigan. Gen Wm. G. Harding, a famous t; rfman of Tennessee, aged 78. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, one of the foremost pomologists of the United States: Boxbury, Mass., aged 86. James I). M airen, proprietor if the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, and a leader of the Republican party of the State of New York. E<-6oV. Pitkin, of Cololado. In Indian Territory, .Mrs. Susanna Warren, born a slave at st Aii-ustine in 17. 0. Alden Goldsmith, famous trotting horse breeder and trainer; Blooming Grove, N. V., aged 66. CASUALTIES’ Railway Disasters, Fire Horrors, Mino Explosions, and Other Accidents by Land and Water. JANUARY. A bad beginning was mule at Detroit, the new year be n; ushered in by a conflagraf6 n which laid an entire square in ashes ; Terry A Co.'s mammoth seed house. Whites Grand Theater, and the Wesson 810 k were consumed ; Fire Captain 1 ilbin was killed bv a falling wall; value of property destroy*d, C.’,‘ o',ooo Other notable disasters of t <> initial month of 1886 were: Burning of the So thorn Hotel at New Oilcans, formerly occupied by Gen. Banks as his headquarters; a musician perished. Two families, numbering seventeen persons, drowned near Pano, ( hili, by the capsizing of a boat. Seventy Jives lost by wrecks in the Bay of Colon The steamer Citv of Nassau. from Philadelphia to Jacksonville, Fla . was lost, with her crew of seventeen men. Damage bj floods m the vicinity of Williams ]«>rt. Pa . amounted to $2,000.0 i lames ori inuting at Arnott s mill, at Phlhid. Iphin. spr a l over ten blocks, d< s roving propertv valued nt SI,OO 1,000. Fifteen p rsons perished in a burning spuming mill nt Xixia Chapell France. A storm which swept over Texas, lusting from 7th to 12th. was without parallel in the h Merv of the State in s verity the loss in cattle from the intense cold was imniense Eleven M> xi run officers and nineteen so diets were killed by a rail way accid* nt at \aldivia. Jack Frost ruined the orange groves of Florida and his visit to the State was reported to ha e caused, directly Mid indirectly, a loss of $ O.isO OXf. Twenty-four persons perished in Kansas by a blizzard; a huge number were report'd missing. Fire-damp in a mine nt Ahnv, Wyoming, killed tbir e n men Fmtx five pi rs ms were killed by a i explosion of tire d imp in the Oriel . oal mine nt Newburg, W \a. A hurricane that raged tot three days on the Pin-tile coast reached a vehs itv of eg miles hour at San 1-rnncisco on the 'Mh; build ngs. spir, a, and chimneys wt re blown down, ami plate gln<s windows blown in. Nearly all of Europe was covered with snow on the continent th" winter was the severest known fora long period . 1 ondon bad not seen so much snow for fonrtei n years, and there wns great suffering in eons-, quen e. An overflow and the breaking of a levee submerged 16 JUKI io e- of wli at and orchards at Stockton, Cal., Hie loss I cim; placed at 859),(W0. — —— 1 EBltl 1 KY. Cell weather killed large number* of fi»L in the Gulf of Mexico M till 11. Thirty Ove persons *-r> 1 irned to death or •nrimmiy injured by a» * rflax drying hum ? nt Cels, in German v. Hcav snowfalls in bile sia buried several villm.es ; five chil lrenw. v fro. in to death while i: dug to school. I rth ■ seventh time the Imbbin factory of Billington A Co., Pldlndelphia. was destroyed by tin Tliv Sandwich Islands were the scene of teinhle volcanic and earthquake convulsion tin weight of snow < rushed the roof of a theater in the Japanese town of H< n mnl. kill! r in r ously injuring 15 > p-r* n- V ins | wn~ wn < ked at Baku Ruskin by an explosion of pi tro.eum. and the entire crew if thirteen persons perished. t I KI 1.. Floods in the So> t ern states were nttende I by eui-iderab e 10-. t life: 2> p. r ons were drowned in Alabama; in the vicinity of Montgomery the flood reached tile highest mark ever snow n. thousands of cattle and hogs being carried away. A train on the Fitchburg Railroad jumped tue track near West Deerfl Id. Mass , the cars tumbling down an embankment feet in height, some of them fall ng into the riv r; 29 persons were killed mil 50 injured. The steamer Tam hi w as wrecked off the coast of New Zealand, with the loss of 29 Eves. Portions of < entrd Minnesota were laid waste bv a cyclone on the I tth that occasioned t e E ss of 190 lives, twice as many injured an 1 three times that number of houses wrecked ; of a wedding party that assembled at Rice Ft ition. Minn , the groom. minister, and eleven others were ins'an tly killed ; about seventy lives were lost at Saul; Rapids, St. Cloud, and Rice Station; the terrible power of tin l storm was evidenced bv the fact that the sign “Sauk Rapids, "on the Manitoba depot, and a casket of books were found in Ric ' Station, fifteen miles distant; a suit of clothes was carried sixty miles and a tombstone three miles. The Gali "inn t iwn of st r y was almost totally destroyed bv tire, 600 houses being burnt d ; 68 charred bodies were taken from the ruins and 20 invalids died in the fields after bi irg rescued from the flumes—total number of deaths resulting from the conflagratior. P2B. The village of East Lee, Mass., was inundat d bv the giving way of a dam at Mount tin Lake ; eleven persons were drowned, and several factories wrecked. including two paper mills. At Montreal 7,422 families, embracing 30,900 ; e ■ sons, were driven from thtir homes by the flood ; some of the streets that were covered by water had not previously been indundated for sixty years. MAY. Kansas City was struck by a cyclone on the 11th, which caused the loss of twenty-five lives. A hurric ne which swept across the central portion of Spain killed seventy-three persons mMa rid alone. A storm that was far-reach ing in extent ravaged portions of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio on tne 11th ; sixty persons were killed and two millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed in th • rich farming r gions i f Central Ohio. Up t > May I>, over one hundred and sev< nty lives were lost by tornadoes and cloud-bursts in the West. By the wreck of the steamer Lydeemon in Australian waters seventy persons were drowned. Fire loss s dur ng May in the United St it.is and Canada aggregated $7,009,909—51,990,000 below th i May average for years. J I NE. Terrible cloudbursts and hailstorms were reported from Thuringia, in Germany. Famine m Corea caused the death of 0 i persons in a single city ; Coren had not I ad a good liarv r est in seven years, it was said. Many lives were lost by an earthquake, followed by a volcanic erupt on, at Tarawera, New Zealand. A hurricane, accompanied by torrents of rain, swejt over Galveston, Texas, on the 14th, flooding the lower section of tho city, and washing away two ni'les of the Gulf and Santa Fe Railroad ; a shift of the wind saved the city from 'being inundated. Fire nearly destroye I Vancouver, B. C.; a dozen persons perished in the Hames, and the money losses reached : 1,90 >,'l m. At Prague, Bohemia, a ferryboat capsized while crossing the river, throwing fifty persons into tho water, oxer half of whom wire drowned, f orty persons petished in a mine explosion at Hochamp, France. During June the tire losses in the United States and Canada aggregate ! 89,751,000, being 50 per cent, gi eater than the average losses for June in several years JULY. Terrible sufferings from famine by the fishermen and na*ives of Labrador and Newfoundland xvere reported by dispatches from St. John ; cold and hunger did their work so effectually in some districts that half the population was swept away. By the burning of the theater at Tcnnevelly, British India, 1(H) Hindoos ost their lives. The July tire record in the United States and Canada showed a loss of property valued at $10,000,000—20 p u" cent, greater than tho average loss for twenty years. AUGUST. At Eggleston, Minn., an elevator on the C., M. & St. P. It It. was destroyed by fire ; the heat warped the railroad tracks and a passing freight train was derailed and burned; four unfortunate tramps stealing a ride were roasted alive in one of the cars. Ravages of cholera in Yokohama and Tokio, Japan, wore reported appal ling, deaths in the former city from the disease averaging about fifty n day ; Weather the hottest experienced there in fifteen years. F ierce fo."est fires raged in Central Wisconsin ; ho lies of horses, cows, and other animals were found along the roads over which the fire passed, and thousands of acres of grain were devastated;

i 700 families wcie rendered homeless, nn<l property losses exceeded 51,C00,000. Near Eri •, l'a , Mrs. Kreider and her three daught is were drowned while doing the family washing in a creek; the youngest fell into the stream, an I ; the others wero lost in the endeavor to rescue i her. Forty lives were lost by an explosion m I the Woodend colliery, Lancashire, England. Two hundred lives were lost by the burning of | a steamer on the River Vo'ga, in Russia On ; tlie 21st Texas was visited by the most destruei tivo storm ever known there; the wind atl tained a velocity of 75 mih s an hour, and continued for ei^ht hours: every town along the western Gulf coast suffered severe v ; total loss was: 38 lives. 81,0 0,000 to crops, j 83.5 0,0 0 t > uroan property, and 81.000.000 to shipping. San 1 raneisco was visit dby a tire which laid waste acres in the 1 usine >s distr ct; loss. 8‘,0)0,003. A loss of 8>,C0).0 O was oec is lone I at Mandalay, Burnish, by the bursting of an embankment of the Irrawaddy River; 0.0.0 people wi re rendered homeless, while it was estimated 1.0 0 lives W’i re lost. The isles of Greece were visited by an earthquake which destroyed the villages of I’yrgo and Phi iatra, on the west c >ast of Moren, w.th too loss of 3)0 lives ; every housu in Zante, one of the lonian Islands, was damaged. An earthquake < riginating in the southwestern part of the United States passed over a wide expanse of the conn try on the night of Aug 31, extending us far north in .Milwaukee and west to San Fr. n iseo; general consternation and panic was caused at theaters in CL'xelnnd and Cincinnati and nt hotels in St. l ouis and Indianapolis; Charleston, S. ('., was nearly destroyed, sixty Hies being lost, less than a hundred houses being left intact; the money loss exceeded 810,0 hi,Op). Fire losses in the United t-tat s and Canada during August amounted to 813.000,000, 80 per cent, above the usual August average. SEPTEMBER. By a collision of two trains at Silver Creek, N. Y., a score of lives were lost. Japan advices reported 6 i.no) cholera eases i i that country, of which >7.000 ended fatally Hailstones six inches in circnm ereoce fell at Madison, Wis , on the 2 Id, breaking 10,0)0 panes of glass, and denuding trees of leaves and twigs; in some instances iron roofs were riddl <l. Hetwe n Sept. 16 an I 2> there were 9,0) new eases if cholera reported in Japan, and 6,200 deaths occurred. F. rty-tlve persons w'ere killed and sixteen mjm d brim explosion of fire-damp near Sehalke, Germany Between Aug 28 and Sept 5, inclusive, 13,31 H now cases < f cholera were re]>orted in Japan, the deaths num ering 8,G2; over 60 per cent, of those attacked died : the wells of Tokio wer" examined, and 71' out of 1,177 were e< n lemned as unfit for drinkin purposes. Ihe September tire loss in the United states an I Canada was " , no,o> ). a slight decrease from the average Sept‘inber I ss of previous year. In the last year twenty-seven vessels belonging to the Gloucester fishing fleet were wrecked and 116 lives were lost. OCTOBER. Up to Oct. 1 the aggregate tire waste in 188.5 was “H3.(X)0,000, against s, i.y O.KM) for the same period of 1885. Violent shocks of eurthipiake oc erred in central Germany. Thirty-one earthquake shocks occurred nt Charleston, S. C . between Aug. 27 and Oct i. \n explosion in n colliery near Wakefield, England, caused the loss of twenty four lives Evert village on the is'aml of iapu. one of the Friendly group, wa< destroyed by an earthquake. By the explosio I of the steamer Mascotte, n ar Cape (lira dealt. Mi .. twenty lives wire lost. Ihe most disastrous gale since the war prevailed on the Gulf const be we u New Orleanx mid Galveston on th ' 11th and 12th ; many pool le wi re driven from their homes, levo s were it m dished, and the rice rod other erm s were ruined, liter 'O'i persons p. risked during a hurricane at Sabine Pass, Texn >, on the 13th NOV UMBER. The steamship Norm niton' foundered off Pa-h nri, Japan, in d sixty lives were lost. V railway accident occurred at Eisti rton. I ranee, by which nine pi ruins wore killed and twe ity injured I rimstom Sw it erlund, win destroyed by tire, and a number i f the inhabitmis pel i'll di n tie tin me-. V gall' t hat sw> । t over the > n nt hikes on the 18th Was one of G e mo-1 de trm tile ex pei iem e ! in years; it was nceompame I I y numerous wrecks and gr at less of lif. the number of those who foun 1 a watery grave rm edmg fiftv, and the money loss t । u-.i'l owm is looting up a half million dollar-, tlm value of the cargoes probably double I that amount A ship crowded w ith mitrtv lnl"<r< m returning from Qiu en-laml. Au -• t alia founderv 1 in the I’m i lie Ocean inl II > lives wen lost. Uininnnati hid it s.iio. 1 si f re. w bich consume J two large cb th ing hous s I mtr-twu men were burned bx an expl sion of fne dump m the < > nw gham shaft of the Delaware and Hude >n Company, twelve of whom diol. two.Abers worn blown i .to a p t contain ng thiity f of of wa’ r and drown' d. Ibnnc. sw- ]t way thru l i levators at Uulutti, with their contents of nearly a million bushels of grain, mi l leodted m th • I iss of three lives. The Novel: tier tire losses in the United Stub's and Canada were Blu,i o,' o <ne thir 1 greati r than the November average s nee the great Boston tire Ilie tire loss in the United States for tlie eleven months ending November io was • 1 15.' HO.W l. Uli EMBER. The ancient Church of St. Mary Magdalen, in 1.. udon, wi h f uir warehouses on the same street, was destroyed by fire; loss, 8500,0X1. Thirtv men wer killed in a coal-mine explosion in Durham. England. During a cyclone near Algiers, th I rin.'ll sto nnr Chandi rung re, with I, co troops on Ina d. foundered and all hands wi re l-.-t. loi t x two lives were lost by a co.lisioti m twin n two steamers in Australian w ati rs. By the h s oi a lite loit w hile endeavoring to relive a distressed vessel ut southport, England, thilt en men perished Great 1 ss of life and property by Hoods was reported from India. 'lhe Mississipißiver steumbo it J. M. White, running between Vicksburg and New Orleans, was destioved by lire m nr Bayou Sara. Ea.. nnd between t fly nnd sixty live- lost, principally w men and ehil r. n The w hal ng 1 a-k Atlantic was wrecked near Sun Francisco, and twenty-seven lives were lost. A Georgia Si liool readier. The publi ■ school system of Georgia is an impoverished institution. It contracts with its teachers for a term of sixty-five days at five cents per day per capita, and settles with them at about sixty-five cents on the dollar. The teacher must accept this or persuade the kind-hearted patron to pay the remainder. Any one enjoying the ludicrous can spend a healthful half-hour at certain of these examinations, especially when the commissioner; as in this case, possesses a natural vein of humor. The applicant was a man of about forty, with a cheap cast of features and a body half as broad as long. He said he didn't claim to know all—wasn’t a graduate, etc.—but he did know enough to teach them heathen down at Shake Hag, ’cause he’d teached thar four years, and they didn’t know nuthin yit. The ollicial said he’d ask a few primary questions, and began with: “What is a letter?” “A thing crooked sometimes and sometimes ’tain’t.” “W hat is a syllable?” “Hit’s a word split in two.” “How many parts of speech?” “Three —coarse, fine, and superfine. “What is a verb?”

“Hit’s suthi i’ that tackles onto suthin’, or shows that suthin’ tackles onto hit.” “What is reading?” “Hit’s talking from a book.” “How do you to ich reading?” “Sometimes by coaxin’ and sometimes by a board.” “Whoi is geography?” “Hain’t no classes in that.” “But you might have. How would you teach it?” “By askin’ 'em questions.” “What are the fundamental rules of arithmetic?” “Funda what?” “Fundamental rules.” “Don’t know him.” “I had no reference to an individual. I meant the principal rules of arithmetic.” “You mean the way how?” “Yes.” “Can’t jis’ remember.” This, of course, is an except’onal subject of ignorance, but the publicschool teachers in the (leorgia backwoods are not proverbial for their much learning. There are some good schools, however, and this county has two or three of a higher grade.— Charleston News and Courier

DEATH OF GEN. LOGAN. End of the Busy and Brilliant Life of the Illinois Senator. The Gallant Soldier Passes Away Painlessly After a Fortnight’s Illness. The Last Sad Scenes—A Biographical Sketch of the Deceased Statesman. [Washington special.] Gen. John A. Logan. United States Senator from Illinois, died at his residence in this city on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 20, after an illness of only a fortnight. Gon. Logan appeared in the Senate for the last time on Fridr y, Dec. 10. On Sunday he Kept the privacy of his room, rheumatism making its first approaches. He grew rapidly worse. Dr. Baxter prescribed the remedies that had before been efficacious, and before the week ended there was every indication that the disease had been counteracted. Then a slight cold was contracted, and the rheumatic torture returned with greater acuteno s. The suffering Senator was unable to turn in his bed. He hud lost control of his limbs. Fever developed, and a sequence of the complications was delirium. This subsided for a time and u semi-comatose condition ensued. Ho was tr ated with alcohol bath-—an heroic remedy, whose employment when discovered A - too® by friends first suggested his dangerous condition and the feebleness of his system. But such baths had been used in the previous attack, and thus the intimation they couv.yid was modified again. On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 25, Drs. Baxter | and Hamilton called in Dr. Lincoln The result । of their examination for the first time warranted : a change in the current of popular impression i as to lien, lagan's illness. It was felt that the ' chances were against his rallying, and that his I life would fade out. The watchers by his side last night were Surgeon General Hamilton, ' Representative Symes, General Beale, and ' the family They begun their faithful vigds I with the flush of a new hope. At 9 o'clock ; tho patient rallied wonderfully, until the im- । provument seemed substantial and indieafive that the ciir ha I been passed, and nl- I timute recov' r might bo induh ed as -r ‘ hope not too sanguine. l!u- aft< . m dnigbt lie ■ relapsed into the unconscious condition which has marked bis malady. Tho doctors' instructions were to arouse him from his lethargy at least every fifteen minutes. Ho was thus aroused and given m< dicine and nourishment. During the hours of his apparent chnm.o for bett r ho had regained the use of ..is limbs and readily turm d himself in bed. He was not allowed to talk, but did articulate distinctly a few phrases. At about two o'clock the doctor again sought to wake him into consciousness by merely speaking to him. Finding it impossible, Mr Symes spoke to him in his usual loud and rather gruff voice, Gen. Logan responded to the call, opened his eyes, and gave a look of recognition Then there flitted over his face an expression that was seemingly to be translated that he comprehended that h.s end was near and that the doctor sought to inform him of the fact. To this silent self-translation of an idea that had not been conveyed to him, Gen. Logan said: "I have very little to say; if the time has come, let it be that way.” This was the last of tho clear and certainly the longest of all i f the sentences the dying man spoke. At 3 o'clock the doctor bent over the prostrate form and could detect no beating of the heart. Respiration had apparently ceased, and the family hurried toward the bed, believing that death had stalked in unawares. But presently life was again perceptible, but there was no subsequent rally. All through the morning hours the patient lay in unbroken coma, except for one grateful moment of slight consciousness during which the devoted wife gained a glance of recognition. All the morning it was hopeless, without a ray to dispel the gloom. There was nothing in tho afternoon hours to bring encouragement. At 2:57, unconscious and painless, the heroic sufferer died. Just before the last spark of life flickered out the Rev. J. P. Newman had concluded a prayer at the bedside. The approach of dissolution was plainly foreseen at noon. There were presest in the room when death came Mrs. Logan, her daughter, Mrs. Tucker and Maj. Tucker, and the only son, Manning Logan, Gen. Beale, Senator Cullom and daughter, Gen. Henderson of Illinois, Represetative Thomas, Dr. Powell, an old Chicago friend, Gen. Green B. Baum, Daniel Shepard, a former secretary and intimate friend, the Rev. J. P. Newman, Miss Mary Brady, and Messrs. Taylor and Hall, private secretaries of the dead Senator. Tho death chamber is at the southeast corner of the second floor of Calumet place, the quaint and cozy home whose comforts have been so often told. From its windows the day’s aspect w as bleak, and when the bulletins of death had been posted down in the city and people began caliing to condole, the snow commenced laying its bleaker mantle over the hillside home. Carriages came rolling up the heights in uninterrupted succession. Within an hour alter the sad nows had become known, prominent men, with their wives, were crowding the lower apartments of the residence, conversing in hushed tones of the traits of the dead, the grief brought upon a loving family, and the loss the country had suffered in the latent addition to the remarkable necrology of 1886. BIOGRAPHICAL. A Career Crowded with Incident. John Alexander Logan, soldier and statesman, was born in Jackson County, Illinois, Feb. 9,1826. His fattier, Dr. John Logan, who came from Ireland to Illinois in 1823, served several terms in the State Legislature. His mother was Elizabeth Jenkins, a Tennessean. He was indebted for his early education to his father and to such schools as were maintained for short periods in the new settlements. When the xvar with Mexico occurred he volunteered as a private, but was soon chosen a lieutenant in the First Illinois Infantry. Ho did good service as a soldier, and for some time W’as adjutant of his regiment. Aiter^his return from Mexico ho began the study of law with his uncle, Alexander M. Jenkins. In 1849 he was elected Clerk of Jackson County. In 1852 he graduated at the Louisville University, was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of his profession. His popularity and success led to his election to the State Legislature in the fall of that year, and in the year following as prosecuting attorney for the Third Judicial District—a position he held till 1857. He was elected a member of tho Legislature again in 1853, and was re-e’acted in 1856 and 1857. He was a Presidential elector in 1856 on the Buchanan and Breckinridge ticket. In 18 8 lio was elected a Representative from Illinois in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Douglas Democrat, and was re-elected to the Thirtyseventh in 1860. In tire Presidential cam ign of that year he earnestly advocated the ok - lion of Stephen A. Douglas, but on tho first intimation of coming trouble with the South he did not hesitate to declare that, in the event of the election of Abraham Lincoln, he would “shoulder his musket to have him inaugurated.” In July, 1861, during tho extra session of Congress called by President Lincoln, fired by tho enthusiasm of tho hour, he left his seat, overtook tho troops that were marching Out of Washington to meet the enemy, and fought with distinguished bravery in the ranks of Colonel Richardson’s regiment at the disastrous battle of Bull Run, being among the last to leave the field. Returning home the lat-

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ter part of August, he resigned his seat in Congress, believing he,could serve his country better in the field than in the legislative h Ils. Ho organized the Thirty-first Illinois Infantry, and was appointed Colonel September 13. His first encounter with the foe was at Belmont, in November, when he led a successful bayonet charge, and had a ho;so shot under him. He led his regiment in the attack on Fort Henry, and at Fort Donelson, while gallantly leading the assault, he was dangerously wounded, which incapacitated him for active service for some time Reporting again for duty to General G ant, at Pittsburg Landing, he was, March 5, la 2. made a brigadier-general of volunteers. Ho took an important part in the movement against Corinth, and subsequently was given the command at Jackson, Tenn., with instructions to guard the railroad communications. in the summer of 1862, his constituents urged him to become a candidate for re-election to Congress. In a letter declining, he said: “I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.” During General Grant’s Northern Mississippi campaign, General Logan commanded the Third Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps, under General McPherson, exhibiting a skill and bravery which led to his promotion as Major General of Volunteers, dating from Nov. 26, 18/2. He participated in the battles of Fort Gibson, Raymond. Jackson, and Champion Hill. In the siege of Vicksburg he commanded McPherson's center, and on June 2 > made the assault after the explosion of the mine. His column was the first to enter the captured city, and he was made its military Governi r. Ho succeeded Gen. Sheridan in the command of the Fifteenth Army Corps in November, 1'63, In May, 1.-6 , he joined Gen. She>man’s army, w hich was preparing for its march into Georgia, led the adv nice of the Army of the Tennessee in the fight at Resaca, repulsed Hardee’s veterans at Dallas, and drove the enemy from his line of works at Kenesaw’ Mountain. At Atlanta, July 22, where Gen. McPherson fell in the hottest of the fight, Gen. Sherman says, in his report otthat battle: “Gen. Logan succeeded him, and commanded the Army of the Tennessee through this desperate battle with the same success end ability that had characterized him in the command of a corps or division.” After the fall o’ Atlanta, Sept. 1, 1854, he went home and took a prominent part in the Presidential campaign of that year. He rejoined his troops, who accompanied General Sherman in his famous “march to the sea,” at Savannah, and remain d in active service with Sherman's army till the surrender of the Confederate forces, under General Joseph E. Johnston, April 26, 1865. On May 28, he was appointed to the command of the Army of the Tennessee, but as soon as active servive in the field was over, he resigned his commission, stating that he did not wish to draw pay when not on active duty. He was appointed Minister to Mexico by President Johnson, but declined. In 1866 he was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, ai d served as on? of the managers of the impeachment trial of President Johnson. He was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, and did good service us ( hairman of the Commitrce on Military Affairs in securing the passage of an act for the reduction of the army. Ho was re-ele. td to the Forty-second Congress, but before that body convened 1 e was chosen by the Illinois Legislature a Senator of the United States for the term beginning March 4, 1871. He succeeded V ice President Wilson as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Mili ary Atla rs at the beginning of the Forty-second Congress, Dec 2, 1872. After the <xj iration of his term of service, March 3, 1877, he resumed the practice of law in Chicago. He was again returned to the United States Senate, and took his seat on the convening of that body in extra session, March 18, 1879. He was re-elected in 1385, his term of sen ice not expiring until March 3, 1891. Loth in the House end Senate he maintained his reputation for brilliancy and success gained in the field. While a R< pn sentative his most important speeches were: “On Reconstruction,” July 12,1867; "On the Impeachment of President Johnson." February 22, 1868; “Principles of the Democratic Party,” July 16, 1868; on a resolution introduci d by General B. F. Butler protesting against counting the electoral vote of Geir Ta, February 12, 1'69; “Removing the Capital,” January 22, 1870. In the Senate his most noted speeches have been: “Vindication of President Grant Against the Attack of Charles Sumner,” Juno 3, 1872; a reply to Senator Gordon < n the ‘ Kuklux in L< uisiana,” Jim 13, 1875; “On the Equalization of Bounties of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines,” March 2, 1875; “On the Power of the Government to Enforce United States Laws,” Juno 28, 1879. On June 6, 1880, ho delivered an able and eloquent speech on the “Fitz John'Porter Case,” which has added greatly to his reputation as a forcible and effective speaker. In the Presidential canvass of 1880 he favored the nomination of General Grant, but did most effective service for General Garfield in the campaign. In 1831 he was presented by his State as a candidate for President. On the nomination of Blaine he was made the candidate for Vice President by unanimous vote. « General Logan was a man of fine presence, rendered striking by his jet black hair and trongly marked features. He possessed in a high degree those traits of character which win success—a strong personal magnetism, undaunted courage, and untiring industry. Nov. 27, 1855, he was n atried to Miss Mary S. Cunningham, a daughter of Captain Cunningham, Regist t of the Lund Office at Shawneetown, 111. She is a lady of superior education and rare so 'nil qualities, who has taken a. deep interest in her husband's career, and has done much to aid in his advancement by her genial intercourse with his supporters, and the care with which she has attended to his large correspondence. HIS HOME LIFE. The General’s Devotion to His Family— Logan a Poor Man. [From the Chicago Daily News.] Gen. Logan's home life was always attractive, and his political campaigns were conducted from the family circle. His wife and his daughter, to whom he was always devoted and toward whom he always showed the most affectionate demonstrations,were his confidantes in political matters, and always participated act vely in his campaigns. For fifteen years, and until he purchased his new home on Columbia Heights, he always lived in the same board ing house on Twelfth street and occupied the same rooms—a modest parlor and bedroom. The new house cost h>m §16,009. He bought it of a syndicate interested in suburban property, who gave him a price much less than it was worth, as they knew that his residence there would attract people to the neighborhood. He gave his notes for §15,000, payable in five annual installments, and borrowed §I,OOO from Don Cameron to make the cash payment. The house is fully worth §20,000 and perhaps more. The General was always poor. Ho was never successful in business enterprises, and has lived on his salary. His honesty in legislative life was proverbial. There was not a lobbyist in Washington who dared approach him. When the bill to distribute the remainder of the Geneva award was pending in the Senate, Gen. I,ogan w r as favorably disposed to the claims of the insurance companies, and one of the attorneys for them went to his rooms to talk on the subject. The General received him very coldly, and when the man asked to see him in private a few moments, he ilew into a passion and ordered him out of the rooms. There were rumors that pecuniary inducements were being offered to the supporters of the bill and the General supposed that the man had come to make some proposition to him. Whether it was t ue or not, he resented the suspicion by opposing the bill that he was inclined to favor. Ho once narrowly escaped riches. Some years ago John L. Routt, formerly of Illinois, but now of Colorado, came to Washington to raise money for the development of the Evening Star Mine, of Leadville. General Logau subscribed for some of the stock, and paid a small assessment. The outlook was unfavorable, and when the second assessment was made on the stockholders, Logan refused to pay it and surrendered his shares to Routt. Within a few months a rich load was discovered and the stock sprang from less than nothing to away above par. It made big dividends, and was finally sold at an enormous figure. Routt and all those interested with him were made rich, but Logan got only his original investment, which was refunded to him. He leaves no property worth speaking of. Hisiesidence in Chicago is mortgaged for its full value, and the little property be has in Southern Illinois, and on which h sunk some money in prospecting for coal, is c mparatively worthless. A year or so ago a life-insurance agent asked him to take out a policy. The General said that ho had no insurance on his life, and always thought he ought to take some for the benefit of his family, but did not feel able to pay the premium, as’ he had draim d his resources fixing up his house. The agent said that if he would take a policy for §20,01X1 he would arrange for the acceptance of his note fir the premiums for two cr three years in advance. Logan thought over the matter, but refused what was an unusually generous offer, as he did not wish to involve himself in any further financial operations. His daughter is married to Major Tucker, an officer in the army, and John A. Logan, Jr., his only other living child, is in the real estate business in this city. He is expecting soon to be married to a daughter of Chauncey Andrews, of Youngstown, Ohio, one of the wealthiest men in that State.