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menced preaching at Ticonderoga, K. Y. Sub- 

 sequently, be engaged in missionary work in 

 Troy, New York, Ponghkeepaie, Waterford, 

 Salem, and other places, organizing church- 

 es, and establishing a deep religions interest 

 wherever he went. In 1831 he was installed 

 pastor of a church in Champlain, N. Y., where 

 he was eminently successful. Subsequently, 

 be held a pastorate of three years in Bennin-- 

 tii, Vt., and in 1888 accepted a call to Darien, 

 Conn., where he remained for a period of 

 twenty-one years; the remainder of his min- 

 istry of forty-six yean was devoted to the 

 work of an evangelist 



Oct. 4. CARROLL, THOMAS Kiso, former 

 Governor of Maryland ; died in Dorchester 

 County, Md., aged about 80 years. 



Oet. 6. EVEBSFIBLD, CHARLES, M. D., Medi- 

 cal Director, U. S. N. ; died at North Conway, 

 X. II. He was a native of Maryland, and had 

 been appointed assistant -surgeon from that 

 State in 1843, and had resided for some years in 

 New York City, but latterly in Washington. 

 He was promoted to the rank of Medical 

 Director in May, 1878, after thirty years of 

 service. He had been for some years in charge 

 of the Naval Hospital at' Washington. 



Oet. 6. BOWMAN, Rev. F. II., D. D., an 

 eminent Presbyterian clergyman of Memphis, 

 Tenn. ; died of yellow fever in that city. Dur- 

 ing the prevalence of the epidemic he was 

 indefatigable in his devotion to the sick and 

 dvin?, and Ml at his post of duty. His 

 funeral services were to be held in his church, 

 but his congregation wero so scattered for 

 the time being that it was deemed best to 

 have the services conducted more privately, 

 and, while at the grave, nearly the whole rail- 

 ing of the chnrch in which they were to have 

 assembled, fell with a terrible crash upon the 

 floor beneath. 



Oet. 7. OLBMEST. Dr. Ksrr JUNOBOHN, a 

 Danish linguist and historian ; died at Ber- 

 gen, N. J. He was born in the island of Am- 

 rom, Southern Frisia, Denmark, December -I, 

 1808. He was educated at tin- I'niversities of 

 Kiel and Heidelberg, and became Doctor of 

 Philosophy in 1885. At the expense of the 

 Danish Government he took a tour of three 

 years through the British Islands and the Con- 

 tinent, and on his return to Denmark he be- 

 came a professor in the University of Kid. 

 Here he delivered courses of lectures on his- 

 tory, politics, economy, and criticism, which 

 won him (Treat reiimvn. Dr. Clement pnb- 

 lUhed twelve or thirteen elaborate works, his- 

 torical, linguistic, critical, political, anil de- 

 scriptive, and, though somewhat too much in- 

 clined to litarrt and improbable speculations 

 in his linguistic theories, he maintained a very 

 hlirh reputation as an author and scholar. He 

 hud taken an active pnrt in the question of the 

 Sleuwlck - Holrtcln duchies, and, when they 

 were given up, he emigrated to the United 

 States, where he had resided since 1860. 



Oet. 7. JAMISOX, Commodore WILLIAM, U. 



; died at Alexandria, Va., aged 82 years. 

 lie was born in that State in IT'.'l. and was 

 appointed midshipman from the District of 

 Columbia in 1811. During the war of 1812- 

 '14 he was in several engagements, and r. 

 his commission as lieutenant in 1*17. He at- 

 tained the rank of commander in 1837, and of 

 captain in 1844. He was faithful to the l'nk>n 

 cause at the outbreak of the civil war, and 

 wus commisioned as commodore July 16, 1862, 

 but, being disabled for active service by an af- 

 fection of the eyes, he remained at Alexandria 

 during the war, and was subsequently placed 

 on the retired list. 



Oet. 7. LAW, JOHN, an Indiana jurist ; died 

 at Evansville, aged 77 years. He was born in 

 New London, Conn., in 1796, where he ob- 

 tained his early academic education, and 

 studied law. Soon after his admission to the 

 New London County bar, he emigrated to In- 

 diana, and settled in Vinccnnes, the oldest 

 town in the State. Hero he entered upon 

 his profession, in which he subsequently won 

 success and position. He served one term 

 in the Legislature of the State previous to 

 the removal of the capital from Curydon, in 

 Harrison County, to Indianapolis, in 1824. 

 For many years he was judge of the district of 

 Vincennes. Ho afterward served two terms 

 in Congress, previous to the commencement 

 of the late war. In 1859 he was President of 

 the Indiana Historical Society, but, for several 

 years previous to his death, he hud retired 

 from public life. 



Oet. 9. CDMMIXO, ALFRED, a Southern poli- 

 tician ; died at Atlanta, Ga., aged 56 years. 

 He was formerly Superintendent of Indian Af- 

 fairs, and from 1857 to 1861 Governor of Utah 

 Territory, during a critical period of its his- 

 tory. During the civil war he served in the 

 Confederate army, and became a brigadier- 

 general. 



Oet. 9. MARRY AT, WILLIAM W., assistant- 

 ORtronoraer of Lieutenant Wheeler's Exploring 

 Expedition ; died at Bozeman, Montana, aged 

 24 years. He hod but recently gone thither, 

 and fell a victim to mountain-fever. He was 

 a yoiinu' man of fine scientific attainments and 

 high Christian character. 



"<(. 10. WILSON, OREGON, a distinguished 

 pninter ; died at Santa Barbara, Cal. He 

 early developed an artistic taste, rnd at the 

 age of fourteen years painted a picture of Mr. 

 Seward. At sixteen he won the Pennsylvania 

 State prize for crayon-drawing, after wliich he 

 went to Europe and spent five years in study. 

 Upon his return homo ho opened a studio in 

 New York, and painted many valuable piot- 

 iir. . 



a,-!. 10. WOOD, Rev. HENRY, D.D., Chap- 

 lain of the U. S. Navy; died at Philadelphia, 

 aged 78 years. He was a native of New 

 Hampshire, and entered the service as chaplain 

 in September, 1856. Ho had been stationed 

 at the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia for sev- 

 eral years past. For some years past ho had 



