OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



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ton, Governor of New Jersey and Speaker of 

 the House of Representatives; died inPaterson, 

 N* J., in the 70th year of his age. He had 

 practised law at Paterson for many years, prin- 

 cipally as a Chancery lawyer, and was formerly 

 a State Senator and Public Prosecutor of the 

 Pleas for Passaic County. He was also Vice- 

 Governor of the Society for Establishing Use- 

 ful Manufactures, and at one time acted as 

 governor of that society. He was esteemed 

 for his probity in his profession, and for his 

 generous social qualities. 



Aug. 27. DURIVAGE, J., an active journalist 

 and author ; died at Memphis, Tenn. He was 

 a native of Boston, a versatile and agreeable 

 writer, and a gentleman of amiable manners 

 and kindly disposition. 



Aug. . GRIGG, JOHN WARNER, a wealthy 

 citizen of Philadelphia, son of the late John 

 Grigg, publisher; died at Philadelphia, aged 

 about 50 years. He bequeathed the following 

 sums to the various charities of his native city: 

 the Pennsylvania Hospital, $50,000; the Charity 

 Hospital, $10,000 ; the Foster Home Association, 

 $10,000; the Northern Home for Friendless 

 Children, $5,000 ; the Merchants' Fund Society, 

 $10,000; the House of the Good Shepherd, 

 $10,000; the first troop of Philadelphia city 

 cavalry, $10,000 ; the Union Benevolent Society, 

 $5,000 ; to each of the seven soup societies of 

 the city of Philadelphia namely, the Northern, 

 Central, Western, Kensington, Spring Garden, 

 Moyamensing and Southwark $1,000, $7,000. 

 Total, $117,000. 



Aug. . HARASZTHY, Colonel AGOSTFN, an 

 enterprising and energetic Hungarian explorer 

 and pioneer, born in Hungary in 1812 and 

 educated there ; emigrated to the United States 

 many years ago ; lived for some years in Wis- 

 consin, Iowa, and Texas ; came to California 

 in 1850; was Superintendent of the Mint 

 at San Francisco 1853-'57; afterward engaged 

 largely in the culture of the grape, was Super- 

 intendent of the Buena Vista Vinicultural So- 

 ciety's Vineyard in Sonoma County, and was 

 sent in 1864 to Europe by the State of Cali- 

 fornia, to investigate the culture of the grape 

 there and procure European varieties ; he re- 

 turned with large supplies of the best European 

 kinds, and published in 1865 a large and valuable 

 treatise on grape culture and wine-making in 

 Europe and in California; in 1867 he went to 

 Nicaragua and obtained from that government 

 the right to manufacture distilled liquors for 

 twenty years; while exploring near Leon, he 

 fell into a stream, and was devoured by alli- 

 gators. 



Sept. 2. BOOLE, FRANCIS I. A., a New York 

 politician ; died in the Insane Hospital at Uti- 

 ca, N. Y., aged 49 years. He was born in 

 Nova Scotia, May 21, 1820, came to New York 

 in his youth and learned the trade of ship- 

 building. He first came into notice as Com- 

 mon Councilman for all the districts of the 

 Eleventh Ward, New York City, about 1858. 

 He was subsequently elected Alderman of the 



same ward, and in 1802 was appointed City 

 Inspector by Mayor Opdyke. In the autumn 

 of 1863 he was nominated for Mayor by Tam- 

 many Hall, but was defeated by C. Godfrey 

 Gunther, coming out of the canvass with less 

 votes than either Mr. Gunther or Mr. Blunt, 

 the Republican candidate. On the creation of 

 the Board of Health in 1865 the office of City 

 Inspector was abolished, and, Mr. Boole's great 

 popularity having sensibly waned, his mind 

 became affected, and he soon manifested symp- 

 toms of softening of the brain. 



Sept. 2. OSBORNE, THOMAS B., LL. D., a law- 

 yer, judge, and political leader of Connecticut ; 

 died at New Haven, Conn., aged 72 years. He 

 was born -in Fairfield County, Conn., in 1797, 

 educated at Yale College, graduating in the 

 class of 1817, studied law, was judge of Fair- 

 field County for several years, and represented 

 the Fourth Congressional District in Congress 

 from 1839 to 1843. In 1848 he removed to 

 New Haven, was law professor in the Law De- 

 partment of Yale College from 1855 to 1865, and 

 in 1856 received from Wesleyan University the 

 degree of LL. D. 



Sept. 3. OXENDINE, Rev. ARCHIBALD W., a 

 Baptist clergyman and Revolutionary veteran ; 

 died at Benton's Creek, Phelps County, Mo., 

 aged 110 years. He was born in South Caro- 

 lina, August 26, 1759, was one of Marion's 

 men during the Revolution, and had been very 

 many years a minister of the Baptist denomina- 

 tion. Although he had been unable to walk 

 for the last three years, he retained his sight, 

 hearing, and intellect, up to the last hour. 



Sept. 5. PALMO, FERDINAND, an Italian 

 cook, confectioner, and founder and manager 

 of an opera-house in New York City; died 

 there, aged 85 years. He was born in Naples, 

 Italy, in 1784, emigrated to the United States 

 in 1802, and, after spending four or five years 

 at the South, came to New York City in 1807, 

 and, by skill, industry, and ec'onomy, was able 

 soon to open a small restaurant and confec- 

 tionery of his own. After a number of years 

 he built the large restaurant, which for many 

 years occupied the corner of Reade Street and 

 Broadway, known to old New-Yorkers as the 

 Cafe des Mille Colonnes, and made a fortune 

 there. In 1835 he determined to sell this, and 

 to build and manage an Italian opera-house, and 

 erected what was afterward known as Burton's 

 Theatre, now the United States Court Rooms, 

 in Chambers Street. He opened this for the first 

 regular season in 1844, and in a very short time 

 lost his entire fortune in the enterprise. He re- 

 turned to his old profession, but he was past 

 sixty years of age, and soon the failure of the 

 house by which he was employed threw him out 

 of employment. The theatrical and opera man- 

 agers and actors, to whom he had always been 

 a kind friend, hereupon established a fund for 

 his support, by which his last years were ren- 

 dered comfortable. 



Sept. 5. WORTH, JONATHAN, a leading poli- 

 tician and Unionist of North Carolina ; died 



