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IDE, GEOEGE B. 



ILLINOIS. 



Trefort was appointed Minister of Public In- 

 struction and Worship. 



The meetings of the cis-Leithan and trans-Lei- 

 than delegations took place during the year 

 at Pesth. They were opened on September 

 17th, and adjourned on October 24th. The 

 proceedings were harmonious and satisfactory. 

 In the Austrian delegation, the president, 

 Herr Hopfen, stated that the common expendi- 

 ture of the empire for 1873 would be only 3,- 

 500,000 florins in excess of that of the previous 

 year, the cis-Leithan quota being even 1,000,000 

 less. He pointed out also that, in accordance 

 with the declarations of the Government re- 

 specting the normal budget for the following 

 year, no increased demands upon the country 

 were to be expected for the requirements of 

 the army. Count Andrassy, in his parting re- 

 ply to the Austrian delegation, was able to an- 

 nounce that all the resolutions agreed upon by 

 the two delegations would at once receive the 

 sanction of the Emperor. 



On December 2d the president of the Hun- 

 garian ministry, Count Lony ay, in consequence 

 of very violent personal attacks made upon 

 him in the Second Chamber, chiefly by Czer- 

 natony, a member of the Left, tendered his 

 resignation, which was accepted by the Em- 

 peror. After an interview of the Emperor 

 with Deak, M. Szlavy, the Minister of Com- 

 merce, was charged with the reconstruction 

 of the ministry. Even before the real crisis, 

 two of the ministers, M. Iverkapolyi, Minister 

 of finance, and M. Tisza, the Minister of Pub- 

 lic Works, had repeatedly expressed an inten- 

 tion to withdraw, but they were both induced 

 to remain fft* the present, so that the new cab- 

 inet, with the exception of the late Premier, 

 Count Lonyay, comprised all the members of the 

 old one. In place of M. Szlavy, Count Joseph 

 Zichy, Governor of Fiume, was summoned to 

 take the ministry of Commerce and Agricul- 

 ture. Before going to Fiume, he had occupied 

 a prominent position in that department. 



IDE, Rev. GEOEGE BAE-TON, D. D., an emi- 

 nent Baptist clergyman, scholar, and author, 

 born in Coventry, Vt., in 1806 ; died in 

 Springfield, Mass., April 16, 1872. His father, 

 Eev. John Ide, had removed from New York 

 into Northern Vermont, in 1800. His early 

 opportunities for education were very good, 

 notwithstanding the sparseness of the popula- 

 tion. He grew up with the determination to 

 be a lawyer, and in his eighteenth or nine- 

 teenth year commenced the study of the law 

 in Brandon, Vt., teaching school in winter in 

 his native town, to help himself in the expenses 

 of a professional education. While thus en- 

 gaged, and avowing skeptical tendencies, he 

 met with a change, during a revival in Coven- 

 try, which modified his whole subsequent ca- 

 reer. He now became convinced that it was 

 his duty to prepare for the ministry, and, after 

 a short period of study, entered Middlebury 

 College, whence he graduated in 1830, with 

 the highest honors of his class. During his 

 college course, he preached occasionally, and 

 soon after his graduation he was ordained, it is 

 believed, at Derby, Vt. He was settled' for a 

 short time at Passumpsic Village, and thence 

 removed to Brandon, Vt., in 1832, and was 

 called thence to Albany, N. Y., late in 1834. 

 His reputation for eloquence and power in the 

 pulpit was such that Albany was not suffered 

 to retain him long, and at the close of 1835 he 

 was installed pastor of the Old Federal Street 

 Church in Boston. He was not quite at home 

 in Boston, and, in 1838, accepted the call of 

 the^First Baptist Church in Philadelphia to be 

 their pastor. He remained in Philadelphia 

 fourteen years, and ranked in scholarship, elo- 

 quence, and efficiency, as the peer of any of the 

 clergymen of that city. In 1852, being desir- 



ous that his church should remove up-to\ 

 and finding some of his people were reluctai 

 to do so, he accepted a call, which he had just 

 received, to Springfield, Mass., where the last 

 twenty years of his life were spent in a most 

 successful and efficient pastorate. Dr. Ide was 

 a hard student all his life. His library, of 

 somewhat more than 5,000 volumes, all bound 

 with his own hands, was admirably selected 

 for working purposes, and was diligently used. 

 He was a vigorous and polished writer, using 

 language with great precision, and with a re- 

 markable lucidity and logical power. He was 

 somewhat averse to writing for publication, 

 though, in the course of his forty-two years' 

 ministry, he had published a considerable 

 number of volumes. Of these, a few were 

 polemical, several were Sunday-school books, 

 which are models of their kind, more were oc- 

 casional sermons and addresses, of which not 

 less than twenty-five or thirty appeared in 

 print, and three series of " Bible Pictures," or 

 "Life Sketches of Life Truths," embracing 

 vivid pen-portraitures of the lives and deeds 

 of Christ and his Apostles. He was a very fre- 

 quent contributor to the religious periodicals 

 and reviews. His death was very sudden, and 

 was said to be from disease of the heart. 



ILLINOIS. The adjourned session of the 

 Legislature of 1871 did not come to a close 

 until the 9th of April. That portion of its 

 work falling within this year was of a miscel- 

 laneous character, having only a local impor- 

 tance. The act relating to the sale of intoxi- 

 cating liquors, of which mention was made in 

 the preceding volume of this work, called forth 

 considerable opposition, chiefly among manu- 

 facturers and sellers of the liquors. A State 

 convention of those interested in this busi- 



