OBITUARIES, EUROPEAN 



OHIO. 



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::i>, M. A., an 



_'vinaii ami author, died ut St. John's 



age, Leeds, aged 51 years. Ho was a 



his ancestors for four 



Buccejjaive irem-rations hud practised as phy- 

 sicians. Ho w. I at Harrow, and at 

 LTO, Oxford, where ho graduated in 

 1 he was ordained, and, after 

 a time the curacy of Harrow, was 

 pointed to tho incumberfcy of Har- 

 row Weald, which he held until 1860, when he 

 accei arage of St. John's, Leeds. At 

 Harrow Weal 1 he conducted a training college 

 rs, and candidates for holy or- 

 ders. In 18C2 ho was appointed one of the 

 preachers in the University of Oxford. 

 Ho was latterly an adherent of high church 

 principles, and was tho author of numerous 

 _'ical and other works, among which are 

 '' The Fulfilment of tho Ministry," " Reasons 

 secure in the Church of England," 

 "Daily Studies during Lent," "The Dark 

 River," "Tho Combatants," and "The Mid- 

 night Sea." 



Dee. 17. Hum, Rev. JOHN, M. A., F. R. 8.,. 

 an English clergyman, and author of mathe- 

 il text books, died at Cambridge, aged 70 

 years. He graduated at St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, in 1818. For a time he was fellow 

 and tutor of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 

 as tho author of works of great merit on 

 arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, differential 

 calculus, and arithmetical algebra. 

 Dec. 20. GILBERT, Mrs. ANNE, an English 

 writer for children, died at Nottingham, aged 

 84 years. She was the widow of Rev. Joseph 

 Gilbert, also an author, but was better known 

 in literary circles as Anno Taylor. She came 

 of a literary stock, her parents, brothers, and 

 sister, being well-known writers. One of Mrs. 

 (iilliert's first works was "Original Poems for 

 Infant Minds," prepared in connection with her 

 sister, Jane Taylor, and to this day a popular 

 favorite ; she was also the author of the admir- 

 able little poem " My Mother." 



Dec. 24. DICK, RonKirr, the scientific baker 

 of Thurso, Eng., died in that town. Though a 

 baker by trade, his love of science rendered his 

 business remunerative, and his shop was tho 

 resort of men of influence and education, who 

 considered him one of the highest authorities 

 upon certain scientific questions. Ho was a 

 prominent member of tho British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



Dee. 24. FIOANIERK E MORAO, J. C., Portu- 



minister to the United States, died in 



lyn, L. I., aged C8 years. He was bora 



t Lisbon, and was sent to this country in tho 



capacity of consul at Norfolk, Va., many years 



ago. After fulfilling the duties of this office 



acceptably for years, his government promoted 



him to the position of charge <T affaire* at 

 Washington, which ho held until tho usurpa- 

 tion of Don Miguel, when he resigned and re- 

 to a life of privacy. After tho expulsion 

 of the usurper from tho throne of Portugal, and 

 the reinstatement of tho lawful KOV> 

 nor do Figaniere o Morao was appointed Minis- 

 ter Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to 

 represent his country at Washington. This po- 

 sition he continued to occupy until his death. 

 Being tho senior representative of foreign gov- 

 ernments, he had for many years occupied tho 

 position of Dean of tho Diplomatic Corps. 



Dee. . FRANK, M. the oldest rabbi of the 

 Jewish Church in Germany, died at Wilna, 

 aged 108 yenrs. 



OHIO. This State is steadily advancing in 

 population, wealth, and general prosperity. 

 Since the close of tho war a new impetus has 

 been given to every department of industry. 

 Labor has been amply rewarded, and success 

 has attended business operations of every kind. 



The Democratic State Convention met at Co- 

 lumbus May 24th, nominating General Benjamin 

 Lefevre for Secretary of State, Thomas M. Key 

 for Judge of the Supreme Court, and William 

 Sarwell for member of the Board of Public 

 Works. The following resolutions were unan- 

 imously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Democracy of Ohio will adhere 

 in the present and in the future, as in the pat, with 

 unfaltering fidelity and firmness, to the organization 

 of the Democratic party, and to its ancient and well- 

 settled principles as enunciated by Thomas Jefferson, 

 the moral apostle of American Democracy, and as 

 acknowledged and accepted by the party from the 

 foundation of the Government, ana especially, of 

 equal taxation, and of representation of all States 

 subject to taxation. 



Resolved, That the one great question of the day is 

 the immediate and unconditional restoration of all the 

 States to the exercise of their rights within the Fed- 

 eral Union, under the Constitution, and that we will 

 cordially and actively support Andrew Johnson as 

 President of the United States in all the nei-' 

 and proper means to carry out his policy as directed 

 to that end, and especially in securing immediate 

 representation in the Senate and House of Repre- 

 sentatives to the eleven States from which it is now 

 unconstitutionally and arbitrarily withheld, unless 

 on the degrading condition of inferiority in the 

 Union, and of negro political and civil equality en- 

 forced by the Federal Government. 



Regained, That to accomplish the purposes above 

 set forth we will cordially cooperate at public meet- 

 ings, conventions, and at 'the polls, with all men, with- 

 out reference to past party position, who honestly, 

 and by their acts and votes, as well as by their pro- 

 fessions, suppo.H the President in his policy of res- 

 toration as now desired. 



The Republican State Convention assembled 

 at Columbus June 20th, and made the following 

 nominations: Secretary of State, William Henry 

 Smith ; Judge of the Supreme Court, Josiah 

 Scott ; Board of Public Works, John M. Barrel. 



The convention adopted the following reso- 

 lutions : 



Rttolttd, That the Union party of Ohio, baring 

 MiMaiued tho General Government, during four years 

 of successful war, against the united effort* of rebels 

 in the South and ihoir partisans in the North, v?<r 



