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to benevolent purposes during Ins life more 

 than $600,000. In his will, he left one-ninth 

 of his estate (which is supposed to amount in 

 all to about $900,000) to found a scientific 

 school in Newburyport. 



Sept. 27. FOSTER, WILDER D., a political 

 leader of Michigan, a member of Congress 

 from the Fourth (or Grand Rapids) District of 

 that State in the Forty -second and Forty- 

 third Congresses; died at Grand Rapids, aged 

 64 years. He was a native of Orange County, 

 N. Y., born in 1819, but had been, for nearly 

 thirty years, a resident of Grand Rapids, where, 

 for twenty-five years, he was an enterprising 

 and hard-working merchant. 



f. 28. EVANS, AuocsTusO., a journalist 

 and politician ; died in Hoboken, N. J,, aged 42 

 years. He was born in Binghamton, K. Y., in 

 1831, and at twenty years of age came to Brook- 

 lyn, and was employed in a subordinate capa- 

 city on the Few York Tribune, and finally as re- 

 porter of New Jersey news. Finding his resi- 

 dence in Brooklyn inconvenient, he removed to 

 Hoboken, and soon after took charge of the 

 Hudson County Democrat, of which he retained 

 the proprietorship until March, 1873. Mr. Evans 

 occupied the position of City Clerk of Hoboken 

 for one or two years, was elected to the Assem- 

 bly of New Jersey in 1855, and again elected 

 in 1866, when he was chosen as Speaker of 

 the House. 



Sept. 28. STRICKLAND, Colonel LEE, Eighth 

 Regiment of Maine Volunteers, and, since the 

 war, a prominent politician of that State ; died 

 in Maine. 



Sept. 29. GiBBUfS, JAMES, a prominent Irish 

 citizen of Philadelphia, for some years past 

 President of the Fenian Brotherhood ; died in 

 that city, aged 75 years. 



Sept. 30. BALDWIN, Colonel Jons BROWN, 

 a Virginian politician, political leader, and law- 

 yer, born in Staunton, Va., January 11, 1820; 

 died in Richmond, aged 53 years. He was 

 educated at Stannton Academy and the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, admitted to the bar in 

 1841, gained reputation as a lawyer, but, like 

 Southern lawyers generally, soon drifted into 

 politics. He was elected to the House of Dele- 

 gates in 1846, but, differing from his constitu- 

 ents on gome questions, was not returned for 

 a second term. For several years following 

 he devoted himself very sedulously to his pro- 

 fession, though taking a sufficient interest in 

 military matters to become colonel of militia. 

 He was a candidate for Judge of the Court of 

 Appeals in 1859, but was defeated by a small 

 majority. Though a determined Unionist up 

 to the secession of Virginia, he decided, like 

 many other Virginians, to go with his State; 

 was Inspector-General of Virginia troops, then 

 colonel of the Fifty-second Virginia Regiment, 

 and later a member of the Confederate Con- 

 gress. After the war he was returned to the 

 Virginia House of Delegates, and chosen Speak- 

 er of the Honse. He was subsequently Presi- 

 dent of the Virginia Conservative Convention, 



and was a member of the National Democratic 

 Convention of 1868. He declined the nomina- 

 tion for Governor in 1868, and since that time, 

 from impaired health, had mingled little in 

 public life. 



Sept. . MILLEB, JULIA A., a lady of Lan- 

 caster, N. H., of partially Indian descent ; died 

 there. She was a descendant, in the sixth gen- 

 eration, from King Philip, on her father's side, 

 and of the fourth generation, on the mother's 

 side, from Metallnc, chief of the St. Francis 

 or Abenaka tribe of Indians, whose hunting- 

 grounds were in the region of the Magalloway. 



Oct. 1. WOODRUFF, Lieutenant EUGENE A., 

 U. 8. A., Corps of Engineers ; died of yellow 

 fever at Shreveport, La., aged about 29 years. 

 He was a native of Connecticut, and served as 

 a volunteer during the late war, was appointed 

 to West Point from Iowa, and graduated sec- 

 ond-lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, July 18, 

 1866. The following October he served as 

 assistant-engineer in the construction of the 

 defenses of San Francisco Harbor, Cal. He 

 was promoted first-lieutenant, March 7, 1867. 

 Since the settlement of Louisiana, there has 

 been an obstruction of the Red River for a dis- 

 tance of many miles above Shreveport, called 

 the Red River raft, which yearly caused the 

 overflow of some of the best cotton-planta- 

 tions of Louisiana. Early in the year 1873, 

 Lieutenant Woodruff, by order of the Govern- 

 ment, superintended the removal of the raft, 

 and succeeded in making a passage wide enough 

 for a single boat through more than forty miles 

 of these obstructions. On the 10th of Septem- 

 ber he arrived in Slireveport from the scene 

 of his operations, without having received any 

 warning of the epidemic that was then raging 

 there. He found the people panic-stricken and 

 fleeing from the city, leaving the sick to suffer 

 and die without nursing or medical attendance. 

 A few humane citizens had formed themselves 

 into a " Howard Association," but their num- 

 bers were so small that they were able to re- 

 lieve but a small part of the suffering. Instead 

 of returning to the raft, where there had not 

 yet been a single case of yellow fever, he at 

 once joined the Association, and, although he 

 was not acclimated, devoted himself to the care 

 of the sick. At the end of a week he was strick- 

 en down with the fever, and survived but a few 

 days. 



Oct. 2. KIDNEY, Rev. EZRA D., a Presbyte- 

 rian clergyman and evangelist ; died at Darien, 

 Conn., aged 75 years. He was born at Fort 

 Ann, Washington County, N. Y., September 

 7, 1799, and, after the death of his father, re- 

 moved to Granville, where he was apprenticed 

 to a blacksmith. His conversion occurring 

 when but little over sixteen years of age, he 

 bought his time, and commenced studying in 

 preparation for college, graduating from Mid- 

 dlebury College in the class of 1825. His 

 health failing, he made a brief trip to Europe, 

 and immediately upon his return entered upon 

 his theological studies, and, in 1826, com- 



