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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



He was a native of that town, and was the in- 

 ventor of many ingenious machines, for which 

 he received prize medals. In 1845 he began 

 his public career as a conjurer, and for seven 

 years amused the Parisians, at his hall in the 

 Palais-Royal. The Government sent him in 

 1856 to Algiers, in order that he might en- 

 lighten the Arabs on the pretended miracles 

 of their marabouts. He wrote several inter- 

 esting books. 



June . MAILLARD, Louis Amis, an emi- 

 nent French musical composer ; died at Mou- 

 lins. He had taken refuge in that town during 

 the civil war. He was the author of many 

 operas, among which his setting of Lord 

 Byron's "Lara" is best known. It had a long 

 run at the Ope"ra Comique in Paris. Another 

 of his popular works was his "Drag6ns da 

 Villars." 



July 1. ABELL, Mrs. ELIZABETH, nee BAL- 

 COMBE, an English authoress, companion of 

 Napoleon I. at St. Helena ; died in London. 

 She was the author of several works, among 

 which was the " Memoirs of the First Napo- 

 leon," which was published nearly thirty years 

 ago, and enjoyed a remarkable popularity. 



July 17. MTJNDT, Hon. SARAH, a daughter 

 of Lord Rodney, and widow of the late Gen- 

 eral Mundy ; died in London, in the 92d year 

 of her age. Her father, the admiral, was born 

 as far back as 1718, only four years after the 

 death of Queen Anne. She married, November 

 27, 1801, General Godfrey Basil Mundy, of 

 Shipley, and became a widow in 1848, having 

 had issue one daughter and four sons. 



July 17. TAUSIG, KARL, a young German 

 pianist and musical composer of extraordinary 

 ability; died at Leipsic, aged 30 years. He 

 was born in Warsaw, and his career, though 

 short, was brilliant. As a performer he was 

 entirely unsurpassed, except by Liszt, who is 

 said to have remarked " He will cause me to 

 be forgotten." His compositions were very 

 fine, but he had a strange aversion to publishing 

 them. Negotiations were in progress between 

 Tausig and Theodore Thomas for a tour in 

 America during the summer, which the failing 

 health of the young artist defeated. 



July 23. FRASER, JOHN, a Scottish lay mis- 

 sionary ; died three days' journey from Bagdad, 

 Persia, aged 39 years. He was the son of the 

 late Provost Fraser, of Inverness, Scotland, 

 and was educated for the Presbyterian min- 

 istry, but did not seek ordination. As a 

 missionary he was not connected with any 

 organization, but acted upon his own respon- 

 sibility. His chosen work was to serve as 

 a pioneer, pushing forward into arduous fields 

 and among neglected populations. Among 

 the Highlands and Lowlands in Scotland, his 

 labors were abundant. At Cairo, Egypt, he 

 became somewhat acquainted with the Arabic 

 language. Thence he removed to Beirut, 

 where he taught for some time in the Syriac 

 Protestant College, making excursions into 

 the region of the Lebanon, and not only 



preaching in villages, but reading the Greek 

 Testament in the Maronite and Greek Catholic 

 convents. In Bagdad, his last station, he la- 

 bored among Mohammedans and Jews, and 

 cast wistful eyes toward Persia, but his sud- 

 den death prevented the consummation of his 

 wishes. He was accompanying the quarantine 

 doctor on a visit to a plague-stricken district, 

 and sank under exhaustion produced by ex- 

 cessive heat. 



July 28. HUXTABLE, Right Rev. CONSTAX- 

 TINE, D. D., Bishop of Mauritius ; died there, 

 aged about 60 years. He was appointed ia 

 1870, succeeding Rev. Dr. Ryan. 



July . CAVADA, FREDERICO, a Cuban pa- 

 triot; was executed at Santa Cruz, aged 39 

 years. He was born at Cienfuegos, island of 

 Cuba, in the year 1832. His mother was a 

 native of Philadelphia, and he was sent to 

 that city to be educated, and was there grad- 

 uated at an early age. He became a civil en- 

 gineer, and followed that profession until the 

 outbreak of the war, when he at once of- 

 fered his services to the national Govern- 

 ment, receiving a captain's commission on the 

 staff of General McClellan. He afterward at- 

 tained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and \vns 

 placed on the staff of General Graham. Sub- 

 sequently he became colonel, and was at the 

 battle of Gettysburg, where he was captured 

 and sent to Libby Prison. When released, Oa- 

 vada published a book narrating the hardships 

 endured by himself and his fellow-prisoners. 

 He soon rejoined the army, and served until 

 the close of the war. He then returned to 

 Cuba, and, settling at Cienfuegos, was in a 

 short time appointed United States consul at 

 that port. But, as he had renounced his alle- 

 giance to Spain, and was an American citizen, 

 the Spanish Government complained that his 

 appointment was an act of discourtesy on the 

 part of the United States, and refused to rec- 

 ognize him as an American official. Not long 

 after receiving this appointment, the Cuban 

 revolt commenced, and Cavada at once ten- 

 dered his services to Cespedes, who warmly 

 received him, and at once made him colonel in 

 the Cuban army. His conduct in the field was 

 admirable, so much so, that in a short time he 

 was promoted to the rank of brigadier, and 

 not long afterward to that of major-general. 

 When General Jordan retired from active ser- 

 vice in Cuba, Cavada was named general-in- 

 chief of the Cuban armies, and held that posi- 

 tion only a brief period, as the Cubans deemed 

 it advisable to relieve him and leave each of 

 the departments under separate commanders. 

 When captured, the general held no command, 

 but was on the eve of leaving the island for 

 the United States, where he intended, it is 

 said, to have made an effort to raise troops for 

 the Cubans, and return to wage war against 

 his country's oppressors. He was imprisoned 

 at Santa Cruz, a place on the north coast of 

 the isle. 



July . HETOES, Rev. WILLIAM, Professor 



