604 OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



OHIO. 



guage and Literature at University College, July 10, 1835; died March 31, 1880. After re- 

 London. In 1854 he became Secretary-in- ceiving a musical education in Paris, he ap- 

 Chief of the Board of Health. The functions peared in concerts at the early age of seven- 

 of this body were eventually transferred to the teen, and afterward achieved a reputation in 

 Local Government Acts Office, which in its hoth hemispheres as one of the greatest violin- 

 turn was merged in the Local Government ists of the age. In 1872 he came to the United 

 Board. The office held by Mr. Taylor was thus States with Rubinstein. 



abolished (1872), and, in recognition of the OHIO. The debt of the State on November 



many services he had rendered in the way of 15, 1880, was as follows : 



sanitary improvement, a liberal pension w r as Foreign debt, payable in New York : 



bestowed upon him. In the mean while he had ^J^* 1 * 16 July *' 1868 ' 0t bearing ta " * 2 on 



gained a prominent place among men of letters Loan payable' alter 'June so, issiVbekring 



as a dramatist, critic, biographer, and humorist. 6 per cent, interest 4,012, 640 30 



Tn flip rlrama IIP rWntPrl himaplf with nnr Loan P a y able after December 31, 18S6, 



10 tile drama ne devoted nimseil Wltn pai- bearing 6 per cent, interest 2,400,00000 



ticular ardor. From 1846 to 1875 he contrib- 

 uted in rapid succession m ore than one hundred _. M f J forei ^ n d t e ^ $6,475,140 80 



r ,, ., , . Domestic debt, payable at Columbus : 



pieces to the stage, the majority being adap- Canal loan, not bearing interest 1,66500 



tations of, or indirectly derived from, French 



plays or stories. His plays were generally dis- Local M ^ n ^^ sfateV $M76 ' 8 5 



tinguished by depth of interest, effective de- Debts of counties $2,858,356 99 



velopment of plot, and well-defined characters. 



mi* i- j.i f A m * j j j_ j_i T T jjeois 01 vultures yt>4,.)yo DO 



I akmg his theatre in its entirety, the London Debts of townships 300,801 14 



"Times" pronounces him the first and most Debts of special school districts 1,155,907 7T 



successful dramatist of his time. He wrote a Total local debts. ... .. $41,297 745 68 



"Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon" (3 vols., Funded state debt $6,476,805 so 



1853), and completed the account begun by C. In ' educi b le state debt jM^3,oo5j30 ^ ^ ^ ^ 



R. Leslie of the " Life and Times of Sir Joshua ! 



Reynolds/' His early passion for acting con- Aggregate public debts in the State. $52,107,556 58 



tinued unabated to the last, and in 1879, when The following figures show the comparisons 



"As You Like It" was played at Manchester between the grand duplicate of taxes of 1879 



in memory of Mr. Charles Calvert, he played and 1880: 



Adam with unusual effect. From the time of Acres of land, 1879 25,376,264 



his arrival in London he was associated with In 188 25,461,785 



"Punch," and about seven years ago, at the increase 85,521 



death of Mr. Shirley Brooks, he became the Value of lands, 1879 $ 70582ml 



editor of that periodical. 



WAGNER, RUDOLF JOHANNES VON. a German Decrease $10,200,868 



Chemist and technologist, born in Leipsic, Feb- Va^ of real estate in cities, towns, and ullages, ^ 



ruary 13, 1823 ; died October 4, 1880. Hebe- In isso!!!.'.'.'.'.'.'."!.'.'.'.'.'.".".'.'...' 89&28&T 



came in 1851 Professor of Chemistry in Nurem- increase $18 571 390 



berg; in 1856 extraordinary, and in 1858 ordi- Personal property,' i 879 '.'.".'.!'.'.'.'.".!!'.'.'.!'.'.".!'.!'. $442^979,885 



nary Professor of Technology at the Univer- inisso 456,166,034 



sity of Wurzburg, which position he retained increase.... .... $13,186,149 



until his death. In the same year he was ap- Total increase $31,757,539 



pointed inspector of the technical schools in Total decrease 10,290,363 



Bavaria. His authority as a technologist was Net increase $21,467,176 



generally recognized. He wag a member of the The total value of real property, as returned 



juries at the International Exhibitions of Lon- ^ tne assessors and placed on the grand du- 



don. Paris, and. Amsterdam, and a member of p ii ca t e for 1880, was $1,102,049,931. The 



German Imperial Commissions at the Interna- decennial Board of Equalization subsequently 



tional Exhibitions of Vienna (1874) and Phila- re duced the amount to $1,097,920,000. 



delphia (1876). For his work on the Exhibi- The valuation of real property exempt from 



tion of Vienna the King of Bavaria conferred taxation in the State, as returned by the sev- 



upon him the Order of the Bavarian Crown, era j coun ty auditors to the Auditor of State 



with which the personal nobility is connected. f or use O f State Board of Equalization, is as 



His chemical and technological works are very follows: Total valuation exempted, $77,068,- 



numerous. His "Handbuch der chemischen ^43, classified as follows : 



Technologie " (eleventh edition, 1879) has been colleges and academies : 



translated into almost all living languages. He Number in state 227 



was the editor of the highly-valued " jahres- ^Jjs^::::::;:::::::::::::::::::: 



bencht tiber die Leistungen der chemischen 



Technologie" (vols. i-xxiv, 1856-1879). One Total value ....... 



of his last works was a " Report on the Chemi- *^TJlSto!. ^. ^ n,768 



cal Products of the Centennial Exhibition of Value of lands 



Philadelphia." Value of buildings _ 



WIENIAWSKI, HENRY, a Polish violinist, born Total value $14,4-22,582 



