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of the British Navy, and in 1815 married 

 Wyndham Lewis, of Glamorgan, a gentleman 

 of wealth, and a member of the British Parlia- 

 ment. He died in 1838, and the year following 

 she married Mr. Disraeli, who had entered 

 Parliament for the first time two years before, 

 as the colleague of her former husband, repre- 

 senting the borough of Maidstone. Mr. Dis- 

 raeli had at this time written some of his best 

 novels, and acquired some political celebrity, 

 but his subsequent splendid fortune was largely 

 due to the social position and opportunities 

 afforded him by his wife's dowry. He grate- 

 fully remembered this, and, dedicating to her 

 one of his novels, termed her " a perfect wife." 

 In 1868 she received from the Queen the title 

 of countess, her husband having declined the 

 title offered him. It is said that he wrote 

 "Lothair" for her amusement. 



Dec. . MASSINGBERD, Eev. FKANCIS 

 CHAELES, M. A., Chancellor of Lincoln Cathe- 

 dral; died at South Ormsby, aged 72 years. 

 He was born in Lincolnshire, in 1800, educated 

 at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he grad- 

 uated in 1822, and was presented with the 

 living of South Ormsby in 1825, holding it un- 

 til his death. In 1847 he became a Prebendary 

 of Lincoln, and was appointed chancellor of 

 that cathedral in 1862. He had exerted him- 

 self in the cause of the revival of the active 

 powers of the convocation of the Church of 

 England, and had written a " History of the 

 English Reformation," 1857; "Law of the 

 Church and State," 1857; "Prayer for Unity," 

 3861; "Lectures on the Prayer-Book. Lent," 

 1864; and several letters, pamphlets, etc., on 

 religious questions. 



Dec. . McLEOD, Sir DONALD, an eminent 

 Scottish Orientalist and statesman ; died in 

 London. He had spent some years in India, 

 in the employ of the British Government, and 

 in later years devoted his time and talents to 

 the elevation of the poor and degraded in the 

 darkest parts of the city of London. His life 

 was an embodiment of Christianity, and, 

 although greatly gifted in theological and 

 ecclesiastical lore, he was always ready for 

 any practical work in the cause of humanity. 



Dec. . POL, VINCENT, an eminent Polish 

 poet ; died at Lemberg, Galicia, aged 65 years. 

 His songs of Janus, written during the Polish 

 insurrection of 1830, in which he fought as a 

 common soldier, gained a wide popularity, and 

 many of them are sung by the peasantry to 

 this day. Scarcely less popular are the "Song 

 about Our Country," and "Mohort," both full 

 of the fervid patriotism which is characteristic 

 of the best Polish poetry of the present time. 

 For some years he filled the chair of Ethnolo- 

 gy in the University of Cracow. 



OHIO. The general prosperity of the State 

 of Ohio, during the year 1872, has not been 

 exceeded by that of any previous one. The 

 returns of the assessors are not, however, com- 

 pleted in full until the year succeeding that to 

 which they refer : 



The balance in the State Treasury on the 

 15th day of November, 1871, wa! $748,176 27 



The receipts for the fiscal year ending No- 

 vember 15, 1872, were 4,757,797 95 



Total amount of funds in Treasury for the 



year $5,505.974 22 



isbursements during the year have been 5,058,435 38 



Balance in Treasury, November 15, 1872 $447,538 84 



On the 15th day of November, 1871, the pub- 

 lic funded debt of the State was $9,022,721 73 



The redemptions during the year were : 



Loan of 1860 $1,170 00 



Loan of 1870 413,912 99 



Loanofl871.. 2,100 00 



Loan of 1875 1,000 00 



Loan of 1881 20,992 37 



439,175 36 



Outstanding November 15, 1872 $8,583,546 37 



Of the amount outstanding on the 15th of 

 November, the sum of $102,015 had ceased to 

 draw interest, the holders thereof having been 

 notified to surrender their stock for redemp- 

 tion, thus making the interest-bearing funded 

 debt of the State $8,481,531.37. 



The funded debt is divided as follows : 



Foreign debt payable in New York City.. $8,581,881 37 

 Domestic debt payable in Columbus 1,665 OQ 



Total $8,583,546 37 



The local indebtedness of the State, on the 

 1st day of September, 1872, was as follows : 



Net debt of counties $3,756,436 03 



Net debt of townships, including debts cre- 

 ated by boards of education, other than 



for separate school districts 447,238 10 



Net debt of cities (first and second class). . . 11,495.591 04 



Net debt of incorporated villages 616,559 63 



Net debt of school districts (special) 1,274,723 17 



Total $17,590,547 97 



The amount of reimbursable debt, State 



and local, therefore, is $26.174.094 34 



To which add irreducible debt 4,023,475 03 



And we have aggregate debts in State $30,197,569 37 



In this statement the State debt is reckoned 

 to November 15, 1872, and local indebted- 

 ness to September 1, 1872. To the local in- 

 debtedness above set forth is to be added, for 

 debts created in aid of railroad enterprises, 

 under what is known as the Boesel law, up to 

 January 1, 1873, not less than $4,000,000 

 more. On December 23d it was $3,177,000. 



The Adjutant-General reported that there 

 were claims for reimbursement pending in the 

 Treasury Department at "Washington on ac- 

 count of expenses incurred by the State of 

 Ohio during the late civil war, amounting to 

 $117,747.24, of which, claims to the amount 

 of $49,512.79 were prepared and presented 

 during the year 1872. 



The following is a general statement of the 

 State's war account with the United States : 



Total presented for payment $3,198,966 79 



Total paid $2,826,247 94 



Awaiting settlement 117,747 24 



1 2,943,995 18 



Balance suspended and rejected $254,971 61 



The Governor informed the Legislature that 

 there was due from the General Government, 

 to the State's of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, 

 a very large sura of money, on account of 

 the five per cent, granted by Congress to the 



