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jy themselve*. Their industry and personal at- 



u to business soon guVo them abuiulatit 



:;t, andin 1 ring to Sloat Lane, 



. hud nine piv~-r> ill 



operation, and published occasionally on their 



nt. in isi-j David went to England, 



and brought back with him the secret of stereo- 



i ic brothers commenced this process, 



but found injiny ditlicult'iL's, which it required all 



t!uir ingenuity to surmount. The type of that 



day \v ith so low a bevelled shoulder 



thut it was not suitable for stereotyping, as it 



interfered with tlie moulding and weakened the 



pluto. '1 hey loiind it necessary, therefore, to 



casting their own type. They in- 



1, al.so, the planing machine for planing 

 the backs of the plates and reducing them to a 

 uniform thickness, and the mahogany shifting- 

 blocks to bring the plates to the same height as 

 type. Their lirst stereotype works were school 

 editions of the New Testament in bourgeois, and 



lible in nonpareil, published in 1814 and 



They subsequently stereotyped the earlier 



issues of the American Biblo Society, and a 



of Latin classics. In 1816 they sold out 



the printing business, and bought a building in 



Kldridgo Street for their foundery. Here, and 



<[uently in 1818 when they erected the 

 foundery still occupied by their successors in 

 Chambers Street, . George gave his attention, 

 ingenuity, and enterprise to the enlargement 

 and development of the typo-founding business, 

 while David confined his labors to stereotyping. 

 In IS-2-2 David's health failed, and the partner- 

 ship was dissolved. George soon relinquished 



typing, and gave his whole attention to 

 type founding, and introduced new and valuable 

 improvements into the business, cutting his own 

 punches, making constantly new and tasteful 



:is, graduating the size of the bodies of the 

 type so as to give them a proper relative pro- 

 portion to the size of the letters. In connec- 

 tion with his nephew, David Bruce, Jr., he in- 

 vented the only type-casting machine which 

 has stood the test of experience, and is now in 



il use. His scripts became famous among 

 printers as early as 1832, and have retained 

 their preeminence up to the present time. The 

 last set of punches which he cut was for a great 

 primer script. He was at this time in his 78th 

 year, but no other artist has approached this in 

 the beauty of design or neatness of finish. Mr. 

 Bruce was a man of large benevolence, of un- 

 flinching integrity, and great decision of char- 

 acter, lie was president for many years of the 

 Mechanics' Institute, and of the Type-Founders' 

 Association, and an active member of, and con- 

 tributor to, the Historical Society, St. Andrew's 



iy, the Typographical Society, and the 

 < ieneral Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. 



July C. MALI.ORY, Judge GABRICK, an emi- 

 nent lawyer, of Philadelphia, died in that city, 



^2 years. He was a native of "Woodbury, 

 ( onn., graduated at Yale College, in 1808, and for 

 some time after was principal of the academy at 

 Wilkesbao* Pa.; studied law at Litchfield,Conn., 



and was admitted to practise at TVilkesbarre 

 in 1811. In 1827 he was elected to the Legis- 

 lature of Pennsylvania, without party nomina- 

 tion, and was reflected in 1828-'2'J and '30. 

 From his position as chairman of th. 

 committees, he was largely instrumental in es- 

 tablishing the general improvement and p ni- 

 tentiary systems of Pennsylvania, In 18.'il he- 

 was appointed by Governor Wolf presiding judge 

 of the third judicial district of that State, which 

 position he resigned in. 1836, and in November 

 of the same year removed to Philadelphia, to 

 resume the active practice of law*. In this he 

 was eminently successful. For several years 

 past ho held the office of master in chancery for 

 the Supreme Court of his State. Judge Mallory 

 was at the time of his death the oldest practising 

 member of the bar of Philadelphia. To such an 

 extent did ho retain his vigor that, only six 

 weeks before his death, he conducted a most 

 important and hotly contested jury trial, lasting 

 more than a week. He received in 1840 the de- 

 gree of LL. D. from Lafayette College. 



July C. TOULMIN, Gen. T. L., a statesman 

 of Alabama, died at Mobile, aged 70 years. Ho 

 had filled various public offices, and was re- 

 elected for a long series of terms to represent 

 the Mobile district in the State Senate. 



July 11. GUILDS, Hon. SILAS D., a promi- 

 nent and philanthropic citizen of Utica, died 

 suddenly of disease of the heart. He was a 

 man of large liberality, and at his death be- 

 queathed $30,000 to Hamilton College, and 

 $60,000 to other benevolent objects. 



July 11. GEIEE, JOHN MASON, a prominent 

 lawyer and editor of Philadelphia, died in that 

 city, aged 34 years. He was a native of Ches- 

 ter, Pa. ; attended a partial course at Lafayette 

 College ; studied law and was admitted to the 

 bar of that State in 1854, and a few years later 

 was admitted to practise in the United States 

 Supreme Court. Having a fondness for jour- 

 nalism, he became connected with the Philadel- 

 phia " Register," and after that paper was dis- 

 continued, with the " Public Ledger." Subse- 

 quently he removed to Missouri, and commenced 

 the publication of a paper, which, by its advo- 

 cacy of freedom, brought upon him the hatred 

 of the people, who, upon the breaking out of 

 the war, burned his home, laid waste his fields, 

 and drove him East again. Upon his return 

 to Philadelphia he became at once attached to 

 the editorial staff of the " Evening Telegraph," 

 which position he held until the day of his 

 death. 



July 11. EAT, D. W., an editor of some note, 

 died at Jackson, Mich., aged 35 years. He com- 

 menced his newspaper career by editing a hor- 

 ticultural journal in Central New York, being at 

 the time engaged in the nursery business. He 

 next published the Albion (Orleans Comity, 

 ! %t Republican," and from that paper went 

 to the Rochester "Democrat," of which he was 

 local editor about three years. From that office 

 he removed to the local department of the 

 " Advertiser and Tribune," vL^o he remained 



