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Conn., aged 63 years. He was a native of 

 New Jersey, of German or Swedish ancestry, 

 and early developed remarkable ingenuity in 

 every department of mechanical invention. 

 He made himself thoroughly familiar with 

 every branch of the machinist's art, and what- 

 ever he attempted to invent he always per- 

 fected and made a success for somebody ; 

 though not usually for himself. He was best 

 known by the rifle which bears his name, and 

 which twenty years of experience have proved 

 to be the most simple, admirable, and practi- 

 cally efficient and serviceable army-gun ever 

 invented, and also one of the most valuable 

 for large game on the Plains. He removed to 

 Hartford in 1854 to superintend the manufact- 

 ure of this rifle, and subsequently invented 

 several other fire-arms of great value, and 

 scores of articles and machines for other pur- 

 poses than war and bloodshed. He was an 

 enthusiastic sportsman, and had fitted up at 

 Vernon an establishment for the propagation 

 of trout. His death occurred from a sudden 

 and severe haemorrhage from the lungs. 



March 17. JONES, J. PEINGLE, a Pennsyl- 

 vania jurist; died at Beading, Pa. He was 

 for some years president judge of the Circuit 

 Court in the Reading district. 



March 18. HAHT, OSSIAN B., Governor of 

 the State of Florida; died at his residence in. 

 Jacksonville, Fla. He was of Northern birth, 

 but had resided for some years in Florida. He 

 was appointed Associate Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court of Florida by Governor Reed in 

 1868, and in November, 1872, was elected 

 Governor, receiving a majority of 1,599 votes 

 over the Democratic candidate. He entered 

 upon his duties in January, 1873, and in his 

 first message urged the Legislature to improve 

 the election laws and adopt a sound financial 

 policy. 



March 18. VEEREIT, Rev. ANTOINE, D. D., a 

 French Protestant Episcopal clergyman, for for- 

 ty-five years rector of the Church du St. Esprit, 

 New York City ; died there in the 73d year of 

 his age. He was born in the city of Marseilles, 

 in France, in 1801, received his early educa- 

 tion at Marseilles, and completed it at the 

 Theological College at Geneva. In 1825 he 

 was ordained as a minister of the gospel in 

 Switzerland, and shortly afterward obtained a 

 cure at Ferney, on the banks of Lake Geneva, 

 and celebrated throughout the world as hav- 

 ing been the residence of Voltaire. In the 

 year 1829 he came to New York. When he 

 first arrived, the French church was situated 

 in Pine Street, near where the Sub-Treasury 

 at present stands. Subsequently a handsome 

 edifice was built in Franklin Street in 1835, 

 but which, after being twice burned, was sold, 

 and, with the money received, the present 

 church in Twenty-second Street, near Fifth 

 Avenue, was erected in the year 1857. 



March 19. COLEGROVE, BEIA H., M. D., 

 one of the most eminent physicians and sur- 

 geons in We'stern New York ; died in Sardinia, 



N. Y., aged 77 years. He was born in Cov- 

 entry, R. I., in 1797. He supported himself 

 by teaching while acquiring both his classical 

 and professional education; attended lectures 

 in the New Haven Medical School, the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, and the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 

 graduating M. D. from the latter. He com- 

 menced practice in Sardinia in 1820, and his 

 remarkable abilities, both as a physician and 

 surgeon, his assiduous and thorough investiga- 

 tion, and his untiring industry, soon gave him 

 a reputation far beyond the bounds of his vil- 

 lage or town. For nearly fifty years he was 

 recognized as the leading surgeon and physi- 

 cian in Western New York or Northwestern 

 Pennsylvania. His manifold gifts, both as a 

 speaker and writer, led to repeated attempts 

 to draw him away from his profession into 

 politics or literature, but he uniformly refused 

 to leave his professional duties. His entire 

 freedom from all petty jealousies, and his 

 cordiality toward every struggling physician, 

 won him hosts of friends, in the profession as 

 well as out of it. 



March 19. SHIMEALL, Rev. RICHARD C., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and author; died in 

 New York City, aged 71 years. He was born 

 in New York, in 1803, graduated from Colum- 

 bia College in 1821, and from the General 

 Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in 

 1824; was ordained priest the same year, and 

 commenced his labors as rector of St. Jude's 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, formed through 

 his zealous efforts. He continued with St. 

 Jude's for ten years, receiving no compensa- 

 tion for his services. Some years later he 

 transferred his membership to the Reformed 

 (Dutch) Church, and still later joined the New 

 York Presbytery. He had been pastor of sev- 

 eral important churches. Mr. Shimeall was a 

 very profound Biblical scholar; his knowledge 

 of the Greek and Oriental languages was both 

 thorough and critical. He had adopted many 

 years since substantially the views of the Eng- 

 lish Millennarians Gumming, Bickersteth, and 

 others and most of his numerous works were 

 upon subjects connected with the prophecies 

 and their interpretation. The following are 

 his principal works : " Age of the World as it 

 is founded on Sacred Records " (1842) ; " The 

 End of Prelacy," 8 vo (about 1845); "Illumi- 

 nated Scriptural Chart ; " " Our Bible Chro- 

 nology, Historic and -Prophetic. First Series," 

 royal 8vo (1859); "Christ's Second Coming: 

 is it Pre-Millennial or Post-Millennial ? " 8vo 

 (1865) ; "Political Economy of Prophecy, with 

 Special Reference to the History of the 

 Church " (1866). We believe a second series 

 of " Biblical Chronology," and one or two of 

 the other works, were published in 1871-'73. 



March 22. DENT, Louis, a lawyer and poli- 

 tician a brother of Mrs. Grant, wife of Presi- 

 dent Grant ; died in Washington, D. C., aged 

 52 years. He was born in St. Louis, in 1822, 

 and received a liberal education in that city. 



