first Napoleon. His writings under the pen-name of The Sage of Bloomingdale" attracted some attention.

SELIGMAN, JESSE, banker; born in Bavaria in 1825; died in San He was Diego, Cal., whither he had gone for his health, April 23. originally a pedler, then a clothing merchant, then, having made a fortune in the early days of California, a financier. He, with his brothers, founded the well known banking house in Broad street, New York City. Branches were established in many cities of Europe and South America and in the West Indies. Jesse Seligman was best known for his patriotism and philanthropy. It was during and after the civil war that, with his brothers, he entered He heart and soul into the financial policy of the United States. upheld the credit of the country, and became the trusted adviser of many of the secretaries of the treasury. It was mainly through the efforts of Jesse Seligman that heavy amounts of bonds were placed in Europe. Never for a moment, despite adverse criticisms, did he question the financial soundness of his country. Jesse Seligman was endowed with the highest qualities of a financier-quickness of perception, untiring energy, and, above all, an unimpeachable integrity.

SIMPSON, REV. BENJAMIN H., assistant professor of systematic theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School; died June 28.

SLOCUM, HENRY WARNER, soldier; born in Delphi, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1827; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 14. He was graduated at West Point in 1852. In 1856 he left the army to practice law in Syracuse. When the war broke out he was commissioned colonel of the 27th New York volunteers. He went to the front, and received a wound in the thigh at the first battle of Bull Run. At the close of the summer of 1861 he was commissioned a brigadier-general, and attached to the army of the Potomac. At the battles of Malvern Hill and Gaines' Mill he was conspicuous; and on July 4, 1862, he was raised to the rank of major-general of volunteers. He fought at In October, 1862, South Mountain, Antietam, and Second Bull Run.

he took command of the 12th army corps, and displayed much bravery at Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. In the last named battle he commanded the right wing, which turned the tide of battle. In 1864 he was in command at Vicksburg, and in August of that year he succeeded General Hooker in command of the 20th army corps under General Sherman, and went with him to At lanta and the sea. He commanded the left wing of Sherman's army until the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston. After the war ended General Slocum went to Brooklyn, where he continued to re side. He resumed the practice of law, and later became connected In 1882 a determined effort was with several financial enterprises. made to secure his nomination for governor of the state, but he was defeated by Grover Cleveland. The following year he was elected a congressman-at-large, and this was his last public service.

STOCKBRIDGE, FRANCIS BROWN, United States senator, lumber manufacturer, etc.; born in Bath, Me., April 9, 1826; died in Chicago, Ill., April 30. In 1847 he went to Chicago and entered the lumber In 1851 he rebusiness, being interested in sawmills in Michigan. In moved to Allegan county, Mich., to take charge of his mills. He was elected a United States 1871 he was made a state senator. senator as a republican, taking his seat March 4, 1887; and was reelected in 1893.

TACHÉ, MGR. ALEXANDRE ANTONIN, Roman Catholic archbishop

of St. Boniface, Man.; died in Winnipeg June 22. He was born in Rivière du Loup, Que., July 23, 1823, of one of the oldest and most famous families in Canadian history. He graduated at the College of St. Hyacinthe and studied theology in the Seminary of Montreal. He became a monk of the Oblate order and volunteered at once for missionary service among the Indians of the northwest. He reached St. Boniface Aug. 23, 1845, and was the first priest ordained on the banks of the Red river. In the following year he commenced his labors among the Indians who lived around the lakes several hundred miles to the north west. He went to France and was conse crated bishop of Arath in partibus in the cathedral of Viviers on Nov. 23, 1851. He returned to Canada in February, 1852. He set about founding new missions; obtained missionaries, male and female, to aid him; and many schools, convents, colleges, and chapels were built. He became bishop of St. Boniface June 7, 1853. He laid in 1869 before the Canadian government the grievances of the Métis, who ob jected to the negotiations for the transfer of the Red river country to the dominion, and he fruitlessly endeavored to get the government not to make changes in the political situation without consulting with the inhabitants of the Red river settlement. He sailed for Italy to attend the Ecumenical council soon after this interview with the government; and, during his absence, the political troubles came to a crisis in the first Riel rebellion. He returned in March, 1870; and was appointed archbishop of the metropolitan see of St. Boniface in

1871.

TEMPLE, REAR-ADMIRAL WILLIAM GRANVILLE, U. S. N.. (retired); born in Vermont in 1824; died in Washington, D. C., June 28. He served with distinction in the Mexican and Civil wars. In 1874 he took charge of the government's reception of King Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian islands, at Washington, for which, by permis sion of congress, he received a decoration from the Hawaiian monarch. He was captain of the New York navy yard from 1875 to 1877. He was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral in 1884, and in the same year was placed on the retired list at his own request.

TRUMBULL, MATTHEW M., soldier and writer; born in London, Eng.; died in Chicago, Ill., May 9. During the civil war he or ganized the 9th Iowa cavalry. For bravery he was made brigadier general. About twelve years ago he moved to Chicago and began a literary career which made him prominent in England as well as the United States. His contributions to periodical literature have been numerous and valuable. His book Free Trade in England created wide interest, and is used as a text-book in some institutions.

TUTTLE, HERBERT, A. M., L. H. D., professor of modern Euro pean history in Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; born Nov. 29, 1846: died June 21. He was a graduate of the University of Vermont. From 1869 to 1880 he was engaged in journalistic work. For several years he was confidential correspondent of the London Daily News. receiving private telegrams from Russia, which, from Berlin, he for warded to London. In Germany he enjoyed the friendship of Prince Bismarck and his son, and while resident there gathered materials for his History of Prussia, his chief work, three volumes of which have been published, the fourth being half finished. The military archives of Prussia were kindly loaned to him by Count von Moltke that he might consult them. Ex-President Andrew D. White met Mr. Tuttle in Berlin, and induced him to return to America, and for a time he lectured at the request of President Angell, of the Univer

sity of Michigan, upon international law, while the latter was absent in China.

VAN AERNAM, HENRY, M. D., physician and politician; born in Marcellus, N. Y.; died in Franklinville, N. Y., June 1. He served one term in the assembly before the war. He was one of the first to enlist in the 154th regiment New York volunteers, serving as surgeon of the regiment. He was elected to congress on the re publican ticket in 1864, was a confidential adviser of Secretary Stanton, and took a prominent part in the work of reconstruction. In 1866 he was re-elected. President Grant appointed him commissioner of pensions in 1869, and he served three and a-half years, instituting many reforms in that department, one of the most important being the establishment of the system of paying pensions once a month instead of once a year. In 1878 Mr. Van Aernam was re-elected to congress, where he served two terms.

VANCE, ZEBULON B., politician; born near Asheville, N. C., May 13, 1830; died in Washington, D. C., April 14. He was educated for the law; was elected to the 35th congress, and labored earnestly against secession, while warning the country against coercion of the southern states. When Fort Sumter was fired on, however, he left his seat and cast his lot with his native state. He entered the confederate army as a captain in May, 1861. Two months later he was made a colonel. He was elected governor of North Carolina, in August, 1862. In 1863 he addressed a letter to Jefferson Davis on the subject of peace, declaring that the only way of removing the discontent then prevailing in North Carolina was by making some attempt at negotiating with the federal government. In August, 1864, he was again elected governor. He was arrested after the close of the war, and imprisoned at Washington, but was honorably discharged. November, 1870, he was elected to the United States senate, but was not allowed to take his seat In 1876 he was elected governor for the third time. In January, 1879, after a long struggle, he was again nominated for the United States senate, and he took his seat in March, 1879. He was re elected in 1884, and again in 1890

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VAN ZANDT, CHARLES COLLINS, ex-governor of Rhode Island; born in Newport, R. I., Aug. 10, 1830; died in Brookline, Mass., June 4.

WALTER, JAMES A., Roman Catholic priest; born in Baltimore, Md., 1826: died in Washington, D. C., April 5. He attended Mrs. Surratt during her trial, and was on the scaffold when she was hanged.

WATERBURY, NELSON JARVIS, lawyer; born in New York City in July, 1819; died there April 22. He was a law partner of Samuel J. Tilden; judge of the marine court; assistant to Postmaster Isaac V. Fowler; district attorney; judge advocate general; and member of a commission to revise the statutes. He was anti-Tammany in his politics, but a personal friend of Richard Croker.

WHITNEY, WILLIAM DWIGHT, Ph. D., LL. D., educator; born in Northampton, Mass., Feb. 9, 1827; died in New Haven, Conn., June 7. He was graduated at Williams College in 1845. Devoted his attention to the study of languages, notably Sanskrit, was a special student at Yale, and afterwards pursued his studies at Berlin under Bopp and Weber, and at Tubingen under Roth. In 1854 he was ap pointed professor of Sanskrit at Yale, to which was added in 1879 the professorship of comparative philology. He made a number of Sanskrit publications of marked value, and was a contributor to

Böhtlingk and Roth's great Sanskrit dictionary, published in seven volumes at St. Petersburg, 1853-67. He also wrote many books on other topics, including French, German, and English grammars. and treatises on the philosophy of language. His last great undertaking was the general editing of The Century Dictionary.

WILSON, THOMAS S., jurist; died in Dubuque, Iowa, May 17. In 1838 he was appointed judge of the Iowa supreme court by Presi dent Van Buren. The appointment was renewed by Presidents Tyler and Polk, and he continued on the bench until 1847. He served several terms in the state legislature and also as district judge.

WORKMAN, JOSEPH, M. D., for a quarter of a century superintendent of the Toronto asylum for the insane, and the first president of the Ontario medical council, died April 16, aged 89.

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ALBONI, MARIETTA, celebrated contralto singer; born in Italy in 1824; died in Paris, France, June 23. She was a pupil of Mine. Bertoletti in Bologna and of Rossini; made her first appearance at the age of fifteen in Bologna, which led to her securing an engage. ment at La Scala, in Milan. Here she established her reputation firmly. Mme. Alboni first appeared in London in 1847, at the height of the Jenny Lind fever, and formed a potent counter-attrac tion to that popular singer in the rival opera houses. Her success was uninterrupted from one end of Europe to the other. Soon after 1850 Mme. Alboni visited America, and here her triumphs were no less distinguished than they had been on the other side of the ocean. She retired from the stage in 1863.

BONAPARTE, LOUIS CLOVIS, grandnephew of the first Napoleon; died in London, Eng., May 16. He was the son of the late Prince Lucien Bonaparte, but was not acknowledged by him until a short time prior to the latter's death. Previous to that time the young man was known as Louis Clovering Clovis. He was a civil engineer, and resided in England.

BOWEN, LORD, born in 1836; died in London, Eng., April 9. He was counsel to the English treasury from 1872 to 1879, sat on the bench of the high court of justice from 1879 to 1882, and was a lord justice of appeal from the latter year until 1893.

BROWN-SEQUARD, CHARLES EDWARD, physician; born on the island of Mauritius in 1817; died in Paris April 2. He received the degree of M. D. in Paris in 1840, and devoted himself to physiologi cal experiments. On all matters pertaining to the brain, nerve centres, and nerves he became a high authority. He came to America and accepted the post of professor of the physiology and pathology of the nervous system at Harvard. Returning to France in 1869, he became a member of the faculty of medicine in Paris. From 1873 to 1878 he was settled in New York as a practicing physician, and editor of a medical journal. He then succeeded Claude Bernard in the chair of experimental medicine in the College of France, which place he occupied during the remainder of his career. Besides his lectures, which were numerous and were published in periodicals and in book form, he was the author of many essays and memoirs, chiefly dealing with affections of the nervous system. Some years ago a great but transient sensation was caused by his announcement of the discovery of a so-called "elixir of life." This was an elaborately prepared extract of certain animal juices and tissues, the injection of

which into the veins of men would, he claimed, largely restore the vigor of youth to the aged and enfeebled. The outcome of numerous experiments with it did not justify the extravagant expectations which had been hurriedly formed. But his investigations in connection with this matter led less directly to results of undoubted scientific value.

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BRUDENELL-BRUCE, GEORGE WILLIAM THOMAS, Marquis of Ailesbury; born June 8, 1863; died in London, Eng., April 10. fore succeeding to his title and estates, he was known as Lord Saversnake. His mode of life involved him in debts, to discharge which he sought recently to dispose of the historic Saversnake forest. The succession now reverts

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COLERIDGE, JOHN DUKE, Lord Chief Justice of England since 1880, born Dec. 3, 1820; died in London June 14. He was the first person to be known as lord chief justice of Eng land. his predecessors having been described in their patents as "lord chief justice of the court of queen's bench " Lord Coleridge was the eld est son of the Rt. Hon. John Taylor Coleridge, of Heath's Court, Ottery St Mary, and a nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple on Nov. 6, 1846, and went to the western circuit, of which he soon became the leader. In 1855 he was appointed recorder of Portsmouth, and held office till 1865, when he resigned; and in 1861 he was created queen's counsel and soon afterward nominated a bencher of the Middle Temple. He sat in the house of commons from 1865 till 1873. When Mr. Gladstone came into power, in 1868, Mr. Coleridge was selected for the office of solicitor general, and knighted. In November, 1871, he was appointed attorney-general. Soon after the chief justiceship of the court of common pleas was made vacant, and the ministry conferred the post on Coleridge, who took office on Nov. 19, 1873. He was raised to the peerage as the first Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary, in the county of Devon, in December, and was also made a privy councillor. remained at the head of the court of common pleas until he was made lord chief justice of England. In 1884 Lord Coleridge visited the United States, and was entertained with great ceremony by society people in many cities. He presided at the famous baccarat

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