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years resident in Bombay ; died at Orange, N. 

 J., aged 39 years. He was a son of President 

 Stearns, of Amherst College, and a gentleman 

 of tbe highest character and standing. While 

 in Bombay he was at the head of the eminent 

 house of Stearns, Hobart & Co., and on his 

 return to the United States he established a 

 house in New York for the same class of trade. 

 He rendered great services to the American 

 Board of Foreign Missions during the late 

 war in managing their foreign exchanges for 

 the salaries and expenditures of their mission- 

 aries in the East ; built a beautiful chapel for 

 Amherst College, and, as the personal friend 

 and correspondent of Dr. Livingstone, aided 

 largely in fitting out his last expedition. 



May 22. EVANS, Prof. EVAN WILLIAM, a 

 distinguished scholar and college professor; 

 died at Ithaca, N. Y., aged 47 years. He was 

 born near Swansea, in Wales, and, his parents 

 having emigrated to the United States when 

 he was a child, he received his early education 

 in Bradford County, Pa., and graduated from 

 Yale College in 1851. He studied theology 

 for a year at New Haven, and then became 

 principal of Delaware Literary Institute at 

 Franklin, N. Y. In 1855 he was recalled to 

 Yale College as a tutor, but in 1857 was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Natural Philosophy and 

 Astronomy in Marietta College, Ohio, where 

 he remained till 1864. He then occupied him- 

 self for three years in mining engineering, and 

 spent one year in European travel. He was 

 the first professor appointed in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, and occupied the chair of Mathematics 

 in that institution till 1872. His health fail- 

 ing, he resigned, went South for a few months, 

 and returned to Ithaca, where he died of con- 

 sumption. He bore the reputation of being 

 the best Celtic scholar in this country. 



May 22. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM GRAVES, a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and professor ; died in 

 Leavenworth, Kansas, in the 68th year of his 

 age. He was born in Goshen, Mass., Novem- 

 ber 2, 1806, fitted for college at Sanderson 

 Academy, Ashfield, and graduated from Am- 

 herst College in 1834. A large part of his life 

 was spent in teaching, thirteen years at Rich- 

 mond and Salem, Va. ; five years more in St. 

 Mary's, Athens, andDecatur, Ga. ; from 1852 to 

 1862 he was Professor of Natural Sciences, and 

 vice-president of La Grange College, Alabama ; 

 from 1862 to 1864 in the service of the U. S. 

 Christian Commission; from September, 1864, 

 to July 27, 1865, a hospital chaplain, stationed 

 at Memphis, and the next year at the General 

 U. S. Hospital and Military Prison at St. John's, 

 Ark. From February, 1867, to his death, he 

 was a resident of Kansas, first as pastor at 

 Marysville, and principal of the Public Graded 

 School there, and subsequently as chaplain of 

 the Home for Friendless Women, at Leaven- 

 worth. While teaching in Virginia he studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841, but 

 subsequently devoted his leisure hours to theo- 

 logical studies under Drs. Plurner and Hoge, 



and was ordained in Georgia in 1848. He was 

 an eminent scholar and a successful teacher. 



May 23. HOMANS, I. SMITH, Sr., a New 

 York publicist, editor of the Bankers' Maga- 

 zine and Bankers' Almanac, and author of sev- 

 eral works on banking and finance; died in 

 New York City, aged 67 years. He had for- 

 merly been a banker, and wrote on financial 

 matters with decided ability. 



May 23. MELLISH, DAVID B., an active 

 politician and member of Congress from New 

 York City ; died at the Government Asylum 

 for the Insane, in Washington, aged 43 years. 

 He was born in Oxford, Mass., January 2, 

 1831, received a common-school and academic 

 education, learned the printing business at the 

 office of the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, and taught 

 school in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Penn- 

 sylvania. He was a proof-reader in New York 

 two years, and while so engaged acquired Pit- 

 man's phonographic system of verbatim re- 

 porting. In 1860 and 1861 Mr. Mellish was 

 one of the general news and short-hand report- 

 ers of the Tribune, and was afterward official 

 stenographer to the Metropolitan and subse- 

 quently to the Municipal Board of Police in 

 New York City, nearly ten years, meanwhile 

 contributing articles to the press. In 1871 

 Mr. Mellish was appointed Assistant Appraiser 

 of the port of New York, and held that posi- 

 tion until elected in November, 1872, to the 

 Forty-third Congress, receiving a plurality of 

 773 votes. Mr. Mellish was for a long time a 

 member of the Eepublican Central Committee, 

 and a prominent supporter of the party in the 

 Seventeenth Assembly District. In the House 

 of Representatives he was a member of the 

 Committee on Invalid Pensions, and took an 

 active interest in the recent legislation on the 

 finances. Mr. Mellish was of a kind, cheerful 

 disposition, and popular among his political 

 associates. 



May 23. NEWTON, WILLOTTGHBY, a promi- 

 nent agriculturist, political leader, and member 

 of Congress from Virginia ; died in Westmore- 

 land County, Va., aged about 75 years. He 

 was an active Whig politician from the origin 

 of the Whig party, a member of the Virginia 

 Legislature for many years, and member of 

 Congress from 1843 to 1845. He was also 

 during many years an officer, and for several 

 years president, of the Virginia Agricultural 

 Society, and efficient in developing the agri- 

 cultural resources of the State. 



May 25. CARLISLE, RICHARD RISLET, better 

 known as "Professor Risley," a famous per- 

 former of feats of strength, agility, and skill ; 

 died in the lunatic department of the Blockley 

 Almshouse, in Philadelphia, aged 60 years. 

 He had run a singularly successful career, his 

 exhibitions being really wonderful, and bring- 

 ing in large sums of money ; but when he re- 

 lied upon the help of others to interest the pub- 

 lic his fortune deserted him, and finally, after 

 repeated and heavy losses, poverty, insanity, 

 and death came. He was born in Salem, N. 



