Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac

COSMOPOLITAN CHRONOLOGY, 1890.

January.

1. Twenty-six boys suffocated by smoke at a fire in a paupers' school in London.-Summer palace of King Leopold, at Laeken, near Brussels, burned; the governess of the Princess Clementine loses her life.

3. The Colombian gunboat La Popa seizes two American vessels.-The Italian steamer Persia ashore on the island of Corsica; only six out of 139 passengers saved.

4. The epidemic of influenza at its height in the United States, the death-rate in New York being largely increased

5. Heavy floods in Southeastern Missouri. 9. Sub-tropical Exposition opens at Jacksonville, Fla.

12. Lord Salisbury sends to Portugal a note threatening rupture of diplomatic relations, and Portugal yields to England's ultimatum concerning Africa.

16. Rev. Lyman Abbott installed as pastor of Plymouth Church.

18. Señor Sagasta forms a new Spanish cabi

net.

20. Railroad traffic in the Rocky Mountains practically at a standstill because of heavy snowdrifts.

25. Nellie Bly makes a tour around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 12 minutes, arriving in Jersey City at 3:52 P. M. this day.

30. Miss Mary Bisland, of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, encircled the globe in 75 days, 12 hours, unaided by special steamers, tugs or trains.

31. Five Turkish war ships launched at Constantinople-one corvette, three gunboats and one torpedo boat.

February.

1. The Portuguese Consul in the Transvaal issues a proclamation declaring Portugal's sovereignty over northern Mashonaland.

2. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, N. Y., announces his intention of retiring on the thirtieth anniversary of his pastorate.

3. By the burning of Secretary Tracy's Washington residence, Mrs. Tracy, Miss Tracy and a French maid, Josephine Morel, lose their lives.

6. The Australian Federation Conference opens in Melbourne amid much enthusiasm, the Prime Minister of Victoria being elected chairman.

9. The people of Schenectady commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the massacre by the French and Indians.

10. The corner stone of Dr. Talmage's new Tabernacle in Brooklyn, N. Y., laid.

13. The women in towns near Lathrop, Mo., organize temperance crusading bands; a number of liquor men give up their business.

15. Costa Rica declares against a Central American confederation.

16. Great and disastrous floods in Australia. 20. In the German Reichstag elections the Government parties lose fifteen seats and the Socialists double their vote.

23. A reservoir dam bursts in Arizona; loss, about forty lives and nearly $1,000,000 worth of property.

24. The King of Dahomey's troops attack the French posts at Kotonu, Senegal, and are repulsed.

27. Prince Bismarck forbids the sale of any of the German West African Company's possessions. The State Council reassembles at Berlin to consider the labor question.

28. Mr. Labouchere suspended in the House of Commons for accusing Lord Salisbury of falsehood.

March.

1. Bedloe's Island selected by Secretary Windom as the new landing place in New York harbor for immigrants.

2. Pope Leo celebrates his eightieth birthday.

-Emin Pasha arrives at Zanzibar.-Dr. Heriera Obes elected President of Uruguay.

3. Eight men imprisoned in a burning mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Three men lose their lives and twenty-eight cars burned in a railroad collision near Mansfield, O.

4. The Prince of Wales opens the great railway bridge over the Forth, Scotland.

6. The French and Dahomans engage in battle; the latter beaten with heavy loss.-Major Wissmann attacks and routs the Arabs in East Africa. 8. Surveyors in the Colorado River Cañon report rich discoveries of gold, silver, copper,

coal and salt.

11. Herr Von Tisza resigns as Hungarian Prime Minister, and is succeeded by Count Von Szapary.

15. Revolt in Afghanistan; the Ameer, AbdurRahman, beheaded and his courtiers compelled to flee.

17. Prince Bismarck and Count Herbert Bismarck tender their resignations, that of the first named being accepted.-The British Consul at Mozambique raises the British flag over the Shiré district of Africa and salutes it.

18. General Von Caprivi selected as Bismarck's successor as German Counselor.

21. The New York Court of Appeals decides that the Electrical Execution law is constitutional.

23. Colorado prairies on fire; 1,000,000 acres burned over.

24. A new extradition treaty between Great Britain and the United States officially published, and to go into effect on April 4.

27. Great storms and floods in the South; the lowlands of Mississippi and Arkansas flooded beyond control; many lives lost and cattle drowned. -Louisville, Ky., struck by a tornado, demolishing the city hall and a large number of buildings; many lives lost.

30. The City of Paris towed into Queenstown, after a delay occasioned by the breaking of the cylinder of one of the engines.

April.

1. Mormons are leaving Utah for Chihuahua, Mexico, where they have purchased an immense tract of land.

2. Emin Pasha to return to Central Africa as a German governor.-Dr. Peters and his party in safety.

5. The great levee at Catfish Point, Miss., broken, and 1,800 feet of the embankment swept away.

6. Bell Rock light, on the east coast of Scotland, extinguished by the premature explosion of a fog sigual, and the dome shattered.

7. About seven thousand carpenters of Chicago go on a strike for eight hours a day without reduction of pay.

9. The Chicago World's Fair Association incorporation articles filed.

15. The Welland Canal opened.-Emin Pasha fitting out an expedition at Bagamoyo to go into the interior of Africa.

18. The Pan-American Conference closes. 22. The French repulsed in Dahomey with a loss of fifty French soldiers and twenty natives. 26. Emin Pasha, with six hundred porters and large body of Nubian soldiers, starts again for the interior of Africa.

28. The United States Supreme Court decides that the Iowa law providing for seizure of liquor in "original packages" is unconstitutional. 30. A revolution with bloodshed breaks out in Paraguay.

May.

1. Great labor parades in Europe and America. 3. The carpenters and allied trades strike for an eight-hour day of labor and generally win their point.

7. The Germans under Major Wissmann capture Kilwa, in East Africa, driving out the Arabs.

COSMOPOLITAN CHRONOLOGY, 1890-Continued.

11. The Rothschilds inform the Austrian Emperor that unless oppression of the Jews ceases in Vienna, they will remove their banking house to Pesth.

12. Emin Pasha asks the Egyptian Government for seven years' arrears of pay.-General Middleton convicted by the Canadian Parliament of looting valuable furs while commanding the militia in the Riel rebellion.

15. Commander B. H. McCalla, U. S. N., suspended from rank and duty for three years for cruel treatment of seamen under his control.

18. A powder explosion in Havana kills thirtyfour persons and wounds over one hundred.

20. Great damage from heavy rains in New York and Pennsylvania.-In Baltimore houses unroofed.-A dam gives way in Maine.

24. The United States Government removes the garrison from Ellis Island, New York Bay, and leaves it in Commissioner Weber's possession, for immigrant purposes.

29. French marines land and destroy the nets of Newfoundland fishermen, and the people resolve not to pay taxes until their interests are protected.

30. The Garfield Memorial dedicated at Lakeview, President Harrison and others making addresses.

June.

1. Part of the city of Sofia wrecked by a tornado and many lives lost.

4. A tornado devastates a Nebraska village, kills twelve persons, fatally hurts eight and wounds twenty-one.-Mr. Turpin, of the Fourth Alabama District, unseated by the House, and Mr. McDuffie takes the oath of office.

8. The City of Rome, of the Anchor Line, runs on Fastnet Rock in a fog, and damages her prow; she proceeds to Liverpool.

10. The Legislative Assembly of Victoria unanimously approves the scheme for the federation of the Australian colonies, and appoints delegates to the convention for that purpose.

12. Southampton, L. I., celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.

14. Fourteen deaths from Asiatic cholera have occurred in Spain; the plague spreading.

16. The imperial palace at Gatschina undermined; a widespread conspiracy against the Czar of Russia's life discovered, and several arrests made.

18. King Leopold appoints Henry M. Stanley Governor of the Congo State, he to enter upon the duties of the office in 1891.

21. Forty lives lost by a destructive cyclone in Illinois; Paw Paw almost swept away.

22. The new Constitution of Brazil goes into operation.

23. Port de France, Martinique, burned; five thousand people homeless and provisionless.

24. The New York Court of Appeals decides the Sugar Trust case adversely to the Trust; it also affirms the sentence of William Kemmler, upholding the constitutionalty of the Electrical Execution law.

26. Erzeroum in revolt; a number of Armenians and Turkish soldiers killed and wounded. 27-30. A period of intense heat prevails throughout the West; hundreds of persons die in Chicago.

July.

1. The Hendricks monument unveiled at Indianapolis in the presence of a large assembly and representatives from many cities.

3. President Harrison signs a bill admitting Idaho into the Union.

6. The four hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the burning of John Huss, of Bohemia, celebrated in Washington Park, New York, by the United Bohemian Societies.

9. A terrific hurricane at Muscat, Arabia, demolishes dwellings and kills over seven hundred

persons.-London letter carriers by striking, suspend the distribution of mail matter.

10. President Harrison signs the bill for the admission of Wyoming into the Union.

12. The marriage of Henry M. Stanley and Miss Dorothy Tennant solemnized in Westminster Abbey.

14. The Government of San Salvador declares the country to be in a state of siege.-The Peace Congress opens its session in London, Eng.

15. The new Croton Aqueduct opened to the reservoir in Central Park.

19. The Belgian Chamber of Deputies passes the bill which empowers the Belgian Government to purchase the Congo Free State within ten years, the other Powers having consented.

20. San Salvador soldiers and those of Guatemala meet in battle, the latter being defeated and losing their artillery.

22. War between Guatemala and San Salvador.

23. Revolution in Argentina, South America. 26. A tornado at Lawrence, Mass., wrecks about one hundred houses, kills from eight to ten persons and injures many more, besides doing much damage to railroad and other property.

29. A fire-damp explosion at St. Etienne, France, causes the death of 120 men and a number injured.

30. Quiet restored in Buenos Ayres; the revolutionary leaders agree to the terms of the Government, and a general amnesty has been granted.-Ninety-eight bodies taken out of the pit at St. Etienne, France.

31. General Rivas, with two thousand Indians, starts a revolution in San Salvador, attacking the capital in the rear of General Ezeta.-During the fighting in Buenos Ayres 1,000 men were killed and 5,000 wounded.

August.

1. General Rivas captured and shot, and peace restored at San Salvador.

2. Colonel Morales Bermudez proclaimed President of Peru, to assume the duties of his office August 10th.

4. Peking, Tung-Chow and Tientsin, China, submerged and business paralyzed.

6. William Kemmler executed by electricity at Auburn Prison, N. Y.

7. President Celman's resignation accepted, and Señor Pelligrini succeeds him as President of Argentine amid much rejoicing; a new Cabinet is announced, and harmony prevails.

8. The New York Central Railroad system blocked by a strike of the Knights of Labor. 10. The island of Heligoland in the German Ocean ceded by England to Germany, in return for German concessions in Africa.

13. The Teutonic lowers the Transatlantic record to 5 days, 19 hours, 5 minutes.

17. The Italian Government proposes to the Powers a convention to establish an international maritime service on the Red Sea.

19. A tornado in and around Wilkesbarre, Pa., kills 15 persons and injures 180 in that place, besides a number killed and wounded elsewhere.By an accident on the Old Colony Railroad near Quincy, Mass., 20 persons are killed and many others injured.

21. Peace signed between Guatemala and Salvador.

23. The cruiser Baltimore, with Captain John Ericsson's body on board, sails for Sweden after a parade and imposing ceremonies on the bay. 24. Eight deaths occur from cholera on steamer which arrives at Durban, South Africa, from Madras.

26. Fire destroys the city of Tokay, Hungary. 29. The British assume possession of the Shiré Highlands, Mozambique.

31. San Domingo demands of Hayti a restoration of lands seized as a reward for helping General Hyppolite defeat General Legitime.

COSMOPOLITAN CHRONOLOGY, 1890—Continued.

September.

1. England proposes to the Powers the formation of a confederation of the Balkan States, including Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro and part of Albania.

3. The Moldau River overflows its banks; much damage is done to property, and thirty persons are drowned at Prague.-The Drave River overflows its banks, and vast tracts of land in Carinthia are laid waste.

7. The celebration of Admission Day begins in San Francisco.

8. Dock laborers, coal porters, sailors and firemen strike in Southampton, England, against the employment of non-union men; much rioting ensues.

9. New Zealand rejects the federation scheme. 11. A revolution breaks out in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, because of difference over the revision of the Constitution.-New South Wales declares in favor of the federation of the Australian colonies.

14. The body of Captain John Ericsson transferred from the Baltimore to the authorities at Stockholm, with imposing ceremonies.-Extensive petroleum fields discovered along the Arthabaska River in Manitoba.

15. The work of destroying the Iron Gates on the Danube begins.-The dock companies at Southampton institute a lock-out against the laborers in their employ, and work on the docks is entirely suspended.

16. The Palace of Alhambra, in Granada, damaged by fire; loss, £50,000.

19. The Turkish man-of-war Ertogroul founders, and its crew of five hundred lost.

23. Three-fourths of Colon, Isthmus of Panama, destroyed by fire; looters fired upon by soldiers, and several killed.

26. The new national park, containing the gigantic trees in Tulare County, Cal., named The Sequoia National Park."

29. The Slater-Cotton Centenary at Pawtucket, R. I., begins with a cotton exhibition.

October.

1. President Harrison signs the McKinley Tariff Bill, and it becomes a law.

3. Germany obtains the coasting trade along the east coast of Africa on the payment of 4,000,000 marks to the Sultan of Zanzibar.

5. A treaty of peace concluded between France and the King of Dahomey, France to have possession of Kotonon and a protectorate over Porto Novo.

12. A Socialist Congress opened at Halle, Germany.-The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia and the King of Holland both declared insane.

15. The Rev. Dr. Gregg, of Boston, called to succeed Dr. Cuyler as pastor of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn,

24. Another mutilated body of a woman found in Whitechapel, London, renews the excitement about" Jack the Ripper."

28. A series of popular uprisings occur in the Canton of Tienio, Switzerland, and also some fighting in the Canton of Friburg.

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30. The Sugar Trust incorporated as American Sugar Refining Company," in New Jersey, with a capital of $50,000,000.-The large schooner, Cornelius Hargrave, runs into the

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steamer Viscaya off Barnegat, and both go down; about 70 persons drowned.

November.

2. The government candidates in the elections in Brazil receive 300,000 of the 400,000 votes cast. 3. The Canadian Government decides to reduce postage from three cents to two cents throughout Canada and the United States.

6. Prof. Koch announces his discovery of a method to cure consumption by means of an inoculating lymph.

8. Public agitation throughout Belgium in favor of an eight hour working day and universal suffrage.

12. Queen Emma appointed Regent of Holland during the illness of King William.-The Prussian diet opened by Emperor William.

14. Reginald Birchall hanged at Woodstock, Canada, for the murder of F. C. Benwell.

15. Financial crisis in London; a guarantee fund of $50,000,000 raised by European bankers to save Baring Brothers from bankruptcy.

16. Signs of warlike feeling among the Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge agency, South Dakota. 17. Salvador and Guatemala sign a treaty of peace.

20. Parnell refuses to resign the leadership of the Irish party despite a revolt against his authority in consequence of the result of the Shea trial.

23. The King of Holland dies.-The accession of the Duke of Nassau to the Duchy of Luxemburg proclaimed.

24. Queen Regent Emma of Holland issues a proclamation declaring the Princess Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands.

27. Seventy fishing smacks wrecked in a gale off the cost of Norway and their crews lost.

December.

1. Opening of the second session of the Fiftyfirst Congress.

3. The House of Representatives passes an International Copyright Act.

5-8 Germany and Spain recognize the Republic of Brazil.

10. Thirteen consumptive patients inoculated in New York with Dr. Koch's lymph.

12. Thirty Indians killed in a contest to decide whether Short Bull or Two Strike should be chief of the Sioux at Pine Ridge agency.

14. Mr. Parnell goes on an electioneering tour in Ireland; several bitter fights occur.-Twelve hundred deaths from cholera in the city of Guatemala in four weeks.

15. Sitting Bull, the notorious Sioux chief, and his son, Crowfoot, with others, killed in a fight with Indian police in South Dakota.

19. Emin Pasha recalled from the Soudan by the German authorities for disobeying orders.

22. The Parnellite candidate, Mr. Scully, defeated in the Kilkenny election by Sir John Pope Hennessy.

26. A National Indian congress opened in Calcutta.

29. Hostile Sioux and United States troops engage in battle at Wounded Knee Creek, and 60 soldiers and 200 Indians are killed.

31. Charles Stewart Parnell, William O'Brien and others hold a conference in Paris concerning Irish affairs.

Water Pipe in Brooklyn.

Laid for the supply and distribution of water from 1859 to January 1, 1891.

Pipe taken up. Total length in

use...

4-inch, 6 inch, Feet. Feet.

Length 8-inch, 12-inch, 16-inch, 20-inch, 30-inch, 36-inch, 48-inch, in Feet. Feet. Feet. Feet. Feet. Feet. Feet. Miles.

3,871 1,472,379 396, 472 187, 431 1,766 1,332 1,572

11,179 99,680 30,916 45,174 33,483 431.925 884 3,871 1,470,623 395, 140 185, 859 11,179 99,680 30,916 45,174 33,483 431.041 0.733 278.524 74.835 35.200 Total number taps driven, 89,491.

Miles....

2.117 18.879 5.855 8.544 6.343 431.041

THE WORLD'S NECROLOGY, 1890.
January.

1. In Paris, France, Commander William Starr Dana, U. S. N., aged 51.

2. In Philadelphia, George H. Booker, ex-U. S. Minister to Turkey and Russia, aged 66.

6. In Concord, N. H., Jonathan E. Sargent, exChief Justice of New Hampshire, aged 73.

7. In Berlin, the ex-Empress Augusta of Germany, aged 79.

8. Ex-Senator Elbridge G. Lapham, aged 75.— Rear Admiral William Radford, U. S. N., retired, aged 78.

9. In Washington, ex-Judge William Darrah Kelley, Congressman, aged 75.

11. In Munich, John J. Ignatius Dollinger, German theologian, aged 91.

14. In London, Lord Napier of Magdala,. famous British soldier, aged 79.

15. In Washington, Walker Blaine, son of the Hon. James G. Blaine, aged 32.

17. The Duke of Aosta, ex-king of Spain (Amadeus), aged 43.

20. In Munich, Franz Lachner, famous German composer, aged 85.

28. In New Haven, Conn., Chester S. Lyman, Professor of Industrial Mechanics in the Sheffield Scientific School, aged 75.

February.

6. In Baltimore, Rev. Robert M. Lipscombe, a noted minister of M. E. Church South, aged 82. 7. In Heidelberg. Professor Otto Becker, famous German ophthalmologist.

8. In Rome, Cardinal Joseph Pecci, brother of Pope Leo XIII.

16. Hon. James McAlpine, noted American civil engineer, aged 78.

17. In Brooklyn, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, well-known compiler of law works, aged 59- Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, aged 71. 18. Count Julius Andrassy, the Hungarian statesman, aged 67.

19. In London, Joseph Gillis Biggar, Irish home ruler and Parliamentary obstructionist, aged 62.

March.

2. In New Haven, Conn., James Edward English, ex-Governor of Connecticut, aged 78.

4. In Cleveland, O., Edwin Cowles, American journalist.-In Leipsic, Franz Delitysch, eminent biblical commentator, aged 77.

7. In Jersey City, Judge Bennington F. Randolph, well-known lawyer, aged 73.

11. In Ipswich, Mass., Rev. John Phillip Cowles, scholar and author, aged 85.

20. In Paris, Raymond Deslandes, French dramatist, aged 65.

21. In Chicago, General George Crook, U.S. A., noted soldier and Indian fighter, aged 62.

23. In Washington, General Robert Cumming Schenck, soldier, author, diplomat and man of affairs, aged 81.

31. In New York, David Dows, millionaire grain merchant, aged 76.

April.

6. Vice-Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, U. S. N., aged 80.

8. At Monte Carlo, Junius Spencer Morgan, well-known American banker, aged 77.

13. In Washington, Samuel Jackson Randall, famous Democratic statesman, aged 62.

14. In Brooklyn, Alexander Campbell, inventor of the Campbell printing press, aged 68.

15. In Brattleboro, Vt., Jacob Estey, organ manufacturer, aged 76.

16. Richard H. Mather, Professor of Greek in Amherst College, aged 55.

27. In New York, John J. O'Brien, well-known politician, aged 48.

May.

2. In Paris, General Henri François Xavier Gresley, soldier and statesman, aged 71.

3. In Washington, James Burnie Beck, American Senator and lawyer.

7. In London, James Nasmyth, inventor of the steam hammer, aged 92.-In Evanston, Ill., Dr. Joseph Cummings, president of Northwestern University, aged 73.

10. In Brooklyn, the Very Rev. William Keegan, Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Brooklyn aged 67.

13. In Albany, N. Y., Judge Amasa J. Parker, aged 83.

15. In New York, Oliver Bell Bunce, American man of letters, aged 62.

17. In Brooklyn, Ripley Ropes, well-known man of affairs, aged 70.

27. In Berlin, Victor Nessler, German composer, aged 49.

June.

2. In New York, Matt Morgan, artist and cartoonist, aged 46.

3. In Paris, Viconte de Gartaut-Biron, French statesman.

4. In New York, Hugh Farrar McDermott, American author and editor, aged 57.

19. In Winthrop, Mass., Judge Edward Greeley Loring, American jurist, aged 88.

23. George W. McCrary, ex-Secretary of War of the United States, aged 55.

29. At Healing Springs, Va., Ransom Bethune Welch, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Theology at Auburn Theological Seminary, aged 65.

July.

9. In New York, General Clinton B. Fisk, wellknown Methodist layman and lawyer, aged 62. 13. In New York, Major-General John C. Fremont, U. S. A., pioneer and explorer, aged 77.

18. In Cairo, Egypt, Eugene Schuyler, American author and diplomat, aged 50.

19. In Clinton, N. Y., Christian Henry Frederick Peters, astronomer and scientist, aged 77. 26. General Gilman Marston, lawyer, politician and soldier, aged 80.

28. In Brooklyn, Rev. Samuel Sheffield Snow, Bishop Snow, of Mt. Zion," aged 83.

31. In Newport, R. I., George L. Schuyler, well-known man of affairs, and the last survivor of the owners of the yacht America, aged 79.

August.

2. In New York, John H. Draper, noted real estate agent and auctioneer, aged 49.

4. Edouard Gregori, Flemish composer and writer on musical themes.

9. John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-American poet and journalist.

10. In Edgbaston, England, Cardinal John Henry Newman, aged 89.

12. In Switzerland, Rev. Charles T. Bruce, founder of N. Y. Children's Aid Society, aged 64. 20. Edwin C. Bailey, American journalist and politician, aged 61.

31. Moses C. Richardson, veteran journalist of Lockport, N. Y., aged 79.-Louis Poupart Daryl, French dramatist, aged 58.

September.

2. In Lancaster, Pa., Rev. Alfred Nevin, D.D., Presbyterian minister, aged 75.

3. Alexander Chatrian, the French novelist of the "Erckmann - Chatrian " collaborateurs, aged 64.

4. In Cincinnati, Judge E. F. Noyes, ex-Governor of Ohio, aged 57.

8. Isaac P. Christiancy, ex-Senator of the U. S. from Wisconsin, aged 78.

9. In London, Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., D.C. L., Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, aged 61.

10. In Piermont, N. Y., Rev. Horatio Nelson Powers, D.D., Protestant Episcopal minister and author, aged 64.

18. In New York, Dion Boucicault, playwright and actor, aged 68.

27. In New York, General Abram_Duryee, the famous commander of "Duryee's Zouaves" in the civil war, aged 75.

THE WORLD'S NECROLOGY, 1890-Continued.
October.

9. At Trenton Falls, N. J., Thomas Hicks, American painter, aged 67.

13. In Washington, General W. W. Belknap, U. S. A., ex-Secretary oi War, aged 59.-In Oxford, Eng., James E. Thorold Rogers, Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University.-At Bar Harbor, Me., Professor Austin Phelps, of Andover, father of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, the novelist, aged 70.-In Washington, Justice Miller, of the U. S. Supreme Court, aged 74.

16. In Brooklyn, the Rev. Joseph Fransioli, well-known Catholic pastor, aged 73.

20. Captain Richard Francis Burton, English soldier and traveler, aged 69.

31. In Munich, Johann N. Nussbaum, celebrated German surgeon and oculist, aged 61. November.

8. In Washington, Major David B. McKibben, U. S. A. (retired), aged 59.

13. In Boston, the Rev. Henry Martyn Dexter, D. D., editor of The Congregationalist, aged 69.

14. In Paris, John Louis Brown, a noted French painter of military subjects, aged 60.

20. In Philadelphia, Pa., Rear-Admiral O. S. Glisson, U. S. N. (retired), aged 81.

21. In Brooklyn, Samuel B. Whiteley, wellknown organist, aged 45.

24. In New York, August Belmont, banker and diplomat, aged 74.

30. In Newburyport, Mass., George W. Colby, a former abolitionist, aged 71.

DEPARTMENT OF ARREARS.

The following table shows the amount of business transacted by the Arrearage Department for the past fifteen years:

December.

8. In Cincinnati, Washington McLean, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, aged 74.

9. In Norwalk, Conn., Captain and BrevetMajor Thomas W. Walker, U. S. A. (retired), aged 62.

10. In Lowell, Mass., Benjamin F. Shaw, inventor of the seamless stocking loom, aged 58.

12. In London, Joseph Edgar Boehm, famous sculptor, aged 56.In Buffalo, N. Y., the Rev. Robert Dick, well-known lecturer and publisher, and inventor of the Dick mailing machine, aged 76.

14. At The Hague, William III., King of the Netherlands, aged 88.

15. In South Dakota, Sitting Bull, the notorious Sioux Indian chief, aged 53.

16. Major-General Alfred H. Terry, U. S. A., aged 63.

17. In Turin, Emanuel Bieletta, Italian composer, aged 62.-In Paris, Louis Eugene Charpentier, French painter.

21. In Copenhagen, Niels Wilhelm Gade, the greatest of Danish composers, aged 73.

25. Rt. Rev. and Hon. William Thomson, D. D., Archbishop of York, aged 71.

27. In Naples, Dr. Heinrich Schliemann, antiquarian and explorer, aged 68.

29. In Paris, Octave Feuillet, French novelist and dramatist, aged 78.

31. In Jacksonville, Fla., Gen. Francis Elias Spinner, ex-Treasurer of the U. S., aged 88.