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now at the other house. This day is the closing of the wedding fes- 

 tivities, which have kept both families in a state of unusual bustle and 

 excitement for fully a week. Everything now returns to every-day 

 order and regularity, the young couple usually taking up their abode 

 in a small back-room in the house of the young man's parents, and 

 putting off till the following spring the important business of setting 

 to build a house of their own. Dancing and feasting are now at an end, 

 and henceforward the earnest of life begins. Blackwood's Magazine. 



[ To be continued.] 



WILLIAM BABCOCK HAZEK 



By Peofessob CLEVELAND ABBE. 



THE sudden death of Brigadier-General William B. Hazen, Chief 

 Signal-Officer of the United States Army, which occurred on Sun- 

 day, January 16, 1887, deprived the country of one of its most distin- 

 guished officers, and the Signal Corps of a chief who took a broad view 

 of its duties and relations to the world of business and science. 



General William Babcock Hazen was the great-grandson of 

 Thomas Hazen, who was born in 1719, and who was himself great- 

 grandson of Edward Hazen, who emigrated from England before 

 1G49, and settled at Rowley, Massachusetts, where he died in 1683. 



The descendants of Edward Hazen include many names eminent 

 in business, theology, and war ; energy, industry, and strong convic- 

 tions characterize the members of the family on all sides. 



General Hazen was born at West Hartford, Vermont, September 

 27, 1830. While he was yet a child, his parents removed to Hiram, 

 Portage County, Ohio. In 1851 he was appointed from Ohio as a cadet 

 to the United States Military Academy at West Point, from which 

 he graduated July 1, 1855. He was assigned to the Eighth United 

 States Infantry, and spent the next five years in frontier service, more 

 especially against the Indians in California, Oregon, and Texas, in 

 which service he displayed an energy and bravery that have been char- 

 acteristic of his life. His record during these years embraces constant 

 fights and pursuits. He was twice severely wounded ; and, by virtue 

 of the latter, he was, in January, 1860, by the surgeon's order, granted 

 a leave of absence as being unfit for duty. In consequence of this, he 

 was at the North while his regiment was in Texas at the breaking out 

 of the rebellion ; the regiment having been captured and its officers 

 released on parole, he alone was unembarrassed by the parole, and was 

 able to offer his services to the Union army. He was at once assigned 

 as temporary instructor at West Point. In May, 1861, he became 

 captain of the Eighth Infantry, of the regular army, and in October 

 was made colonel of the Forty-first Regiment of Ohio Infantry in the 



