I:AII.EY, SILAS. 



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Catholic Bisliopofthf hiocese of Portland, M.-.; 

 born in Ur.H.klvn, N. V., in 1H14; died in St. 

 \inreiit'- Hospital, Xi'W York, November 5, 

 11.' ivcehed an excellent classical train- 

 ing in tlie New York Catholic schools, whence 

 lie proceeded t .Mount St. Mary's College and 

 Seminars, lOniiiH-ti-lninr, Md., and having com- 



I his course returned to New York, where 

 IK- was ordained l>y Bishop Dubois in 1888. 

 II" was a man of remarkably fine personal 



nee, an accomplished scholar and gentle- 

 man, and, soon after his settlement as pastor 

 of the rhmvh of the Assumption in Brooklyn, 

 he had attained to a greater popularity than 

 any Catholic clergyman in Brooklyn. He was 

 unwearied in his efforts for the extension of 



atholic Church in that city, and, though 

 his own congregation was the largest by far in 

 Brooklyn, he was not satisfied until he had 

 purchased the land and erected the Church of 

 St. Mary, Star of the Sea, at the corner of Court 

 and Liniueer Streets, the largest and most com- 

 modious church edifice in the city, where he 



;>astor during the last years of his resi- 

 dence in Brooklyn. In 1855 he was conse- 



1 bishop of the newly-created Diocese 

 of Portland, Me., which embraced the two 



of Maine and New Hampshire. His la- 

 bors here were unremitting, and attended with 

 great success. At the commencement of 1874 

 there were in the diocese 58 churches, and 6 

 were in course of erection, 52 priests, 20 eccle- 

 siastical students, 4 female religious asylums, 2 

 male asylums, 6 female academies, and 20 free 

 schools, with a Catholic population estimated 

 at 80,000. When he took charge of the dio- 

 cese the number of churches was very small, 

 and there were no charitable institutions. His 

 con-taut labors had so thoroughly impaired 

 his health, that in August, 1874, he found it 

 necessary to make a voyage to Europe for its 

 restoration, but it was too late for him to be 

 benefited. On his arrival in France he was 

 obliged to go immediately into the hospital at 



. where he remained until he was carried 

 on board ship to return, and, on his arrival in 

 New York, November 4th, was carried at 

 once to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he died 

 the next evening. 



HAILKY, Rev. SILAS, D. D., a Baptist cler- 

 gyman and college president; born in Massachu- 



about 1812; died in Paris, June 11, 1874. 

 Dr. Bailey was educated at Brown University, 

 whence he graduated with distinction in 1834, 

 and, after taking a theological course at New- 

 ton Theological Seminary, was for a time a 

 pastor in Massachusetts. lie was called from 

 this duty to become Principal of Worcester 

 Academy, about 1840, and, after several years 

 of active service there, was elected President 

 of Uranvillo College (now Dennison University), 

 (Jranville, Ohio, where he remained for about 

 ten years of severe labor, complicated by the 

 lack of sufficient endowment for the college. 

 From Granville he went to Franklin, Ind., and 

 soou after became president of the young col- 



lege there. He was measurably successful in 

 building up this college, attracting to it many 

 students by his ability as a teacher, but the 

 same difficulty insufficiency of endowment 

 confronted him there as at Granville, and, 

 finding his health failing, he resigned and ac- 

 cepted the pastorate at Lafayette, Ind., where 

 he remained for three years, winning golden 

 opinions from all who knew him. But teach- 

 ing was bis true vocation, and, being called to 

 the professorship of Theology at Kalamazoo 

 College, Mich., he embraced the opportunity, 

 in the hope of training up young men for the 

 ministry in the West. After four or five years 

 of teaching there, his health again failed, and 

 he returned to Lafayette, where a wealthy 

 friend and admirer gave him a life-lease of a 

 beautiful homo and grounds near the city for 

 one dollar rental per annum. Here he recov- 

 ered his health, and engaged in some literary 

 labors ; but the death of his wife and only 

 daughter, in quick succession, broke up his 

 home. Some months later, he received the 

 intelligence of the death of a brother who had 

 left him a large property, and he determined 

 to go to Europe, having married a second time. 

 He had but just arrived in Paris when he was 

 taken suddenly ill, with a return of his old 

 malady, and died in about a week. Dr. Bailey 

 (he received the degree of D. D. from Madison 

 University in 1849) was a profound scholar, a 

 most diligent student, a vigorous and elegant 

 writer, an impressive speaker, and a man of 

 rare executive ability. Though he had written 

 much, he had published but little a few ser- 

 mons, addresses, baccalaureates, orations, es- 

 says, and reviews. He had accumulated a fine 

 library, which he left to Franklin College, In- 

 diana, the scene of his former labors, together 

 with $13,000 for its care and increase. 



BALLEVIAN, ADOLFO, President of the 

 Republic of Bolivia ; died at Oruro, February 

 14, 1874. Sefior Ballevian had been, for many 

 years, prominent in political life in Bolivia, and 

 was greatly esteemed as one of the purest and 

 best of the Bolivian statesmen. The long suc- 

 cession of revolutions which had made the 

 state notorious, and which had been promoted 

 by ambitious generals, who, backed by their 

 troops, seized the supreme power, in defiance 

 of the Constitution, had ceased with the death 

 of Melgarejo' in 1871 ; and General Morales, 

 who succeeded Melgarejo, was the first regu- 

 larly-elected President for some years. On his 

 death, in February, 1873, Setter Balleviau was 

 elected, and commenced his administration in 

 April, 1873, in such a way as to win the ap- 

 proval and confidence of the citizens of the re- 

 public, but his sudden death, after an adminis- 

 tration of ten months, caused wide-spread re- 

 gret, and excited great alarm lest a revolu- 

 tion should be precipitated, and anarchy again 

 prevail. 



BAPTISTS. The American Baptist Year- 

 Book gives the following statistics, for 1873, 

 of the Baptists throughout the world : 



