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gallant officer of thelate war ; shot himself fatal- 

 ly in a fit of insanity, at Dayton, O. He was 

 commissioned captain in the Second Ohio In- 

 fantry, August 31, 1861 ; was promoted to ma- 

 jor, December 24, 1862 ; and the same month 

 to lieutenant-colonel, and was honorably dis- 

 charged on account of wounds, February 1, 

 1864. In March, 1865, he was appointed lieu- 

 tenant-colonel of the One Hundred and Nine- 

 ty-fourth Ohio ; promoted to colonel, October, 

 1865 ; and the same month was mustered out 

 with the regiment. His brevet rank dates 

 from March 13, 1865. He afterward received 

 a lucrative employment from President John- 

 son in the internal revenue service. 



j) eCf 7. PIKE, SAMUEL N., a real-estate 

 speculator, and distiller; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., aged 50 years. He was born in that city, 

 of Hebrew parentage, was in business in Flori- 

 da, Richmond, Baltimore, and St. Louis, and 

 in 1848 began the business of rectifying and 

 distilling whiskey in Cincinnati, where he 

 built up an enormous trade, manufacturing at 

 one time 12,000 gallons per day. Much of the 

 money made in this way he invested in real 

 estate in that city. Some of the handsomest 

 buildings in Cincinnati were built by him, in- 

 cluding the opera-house which bore his name, 

 and which was burned a few years later. In 

 1863 Mr. Pike removed to New York, and 

 went into business. He built the Grand 

 Opera-House at Twenty-third Street and 

 Eighth Avenue, and, in a little more than a 

 year after its completion, sold it to James Fisk, 

 Jr. At the time of his death, Mr. Pike was 

 one of the largest real-estate operators in New 

 York City, and was also a large manufacturer 

 and dealer in whiskey. 



Dec. 7. W ATKINS, GEORGE 0., an eminent 

 jurist of Arkansas ; died at Little Rock. He 

 was for many years Attorney-General and 

 Chief-Justice of the Court of Appeals in that 

 State. 



Dec. 8. CKAIG, ROBERT H., a brilliant actor ; 

 died at St. Louis, Mo., aged 31 years. He was 

 born in New York, March 24, 1842, and made 

 his first appearance on the stage at Barnum's 

 Museum, September 10, 1860. He subsequent- 

 ly acted at the Boston Howard Athenaeum, 

 under Mr. E. L. Davenport's management. 

 For several years he was connected with the 

 Arch-Street Theatre, Philadelphia, where he 

 began to rise into public favor as a comedian. 

 In 1870 he came forward at the Boston Muse- 

 um, and made a signal success as a burlesqne 

 actor, and with remarkably clever imitations 

 of noted players. His last appearance in New 

 York was made at the Grand Opera-House, as 

 Prince Fridolin, in " Le Roi Garotte " a part 

 that did not admit of the display of the talent 

 peculiar to the man, but in which, nevertheless, 

 he was efficient and pleasing. He was said to 

 be a painter of respectable talent, and the au- 

 thor of burlesques on the subjects of " Faust 

 and Marguerite," "Don Juan,'' "Hamlet," and 

 "Oamille." 



Dec. 9. CONVERSE, Rev. AMASA, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and veteran religious 

 journalist ; died at Louisville, Ky., aged 77 

 years. He was, we believe, a native of Vir- 

 ginia. He was educated at Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, whence he graduated in 1822. After 

 completing his theological course, he was for 

 some years in the pastorate at the South, 

 whence he came to Philadelphia, and founded 

 the Christian Observer, a Presbyterian weekly 

 journal, old-school in theology, and Southern 

 in its sympathies. He was a very able, though 

 somewhat dogmatic editor, and, when the late 

 civil war commenced, removed his paper to 

 Richmond, Va., and, after the war, to Louis- 

 ville, Ky., where it had continued to be the 

 organ and exponent of the Southern Presbyteri- 

 an Church. Mississippi College conferred the 

 degree of D.D. upon him in 1846. His facul- 

 ties and his power and vigor as a writer were 

 retained to the very last week of his life. 



Dec. 10. SEEMULLER, Miss ANNE M. CEANE, 

 a Baltimore authoress ; died at Stuttgart, Ger- 

 many. She was a native of Baltimore, and 

 was better known by her maiden name, Anne 

 Moncure Crane. Her principal works were, 

 "Emily Chester," " Opportunity" (1867), and 

 some brilliant stories and poems in the Galaxy 

 and Putnam's Monthly. 



Dec. 11. LANDER, Miss SARAH "W., an 

 American artist and authoress ; died in Salem, 

 Mass. She was a sister of the late General 

 Lander, and a woman of fine literary ability 

 and taste. Of her series of sketches of foreign 

 countries, published under the title of " Spec- 

 tacles for Young Eyes," nearly 55,000 copies 

 have been sold. 



Dec. 13. MARLEY, DANIEL, the largest 

 dealer in antiques and articles of vertu in this 

 country; died in New York City, aged 63 

 years. He came to New York from England, 

 about forty years ago, a friendless and penni- 

 less youth, and after some time, having earned 

 a hundred dollars, he bought a lot of old goods, 

 chiefly furniture, and opened a shop in Ann 

 Street. One day Mr. N. P. Willis, the poet, in 

 search of a desk, entered the shop, and, ad- 

 miring the taste of the collector, made a notice 

 of him in the Mirror, which drew attention to 

 Marley and his wares. From that date his 

 business flourished. He enlarged it from time 

 to time, and, g"oing up into Broadway, estab- 

 lished himself, where his store became a great 

 museum of elegant and costly antiques. 



Dec. 14. ROOT, Rev. N. W. TAYLOR, an 

 Episcopal clergyman, and an accomplished 

 writer ; died of small-pox at the hospital in 

 Portland, Me., aged 42 years, He was a native 

 of New Haven, Conn., and son of Rev. David 

 Root, of that city ; graduated at Yale College, 

 and for several years subsequently was em- 

 ployed on the editorial staff of the New Haven 

 Register. During the" late war he was chap- 

 lain of a Rhode Island regiment. He was a 

 traveller of considerable experience, having 

 visited Europe no less than eight times, during 



