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of the Oriental Savings-Bank, was active to 



Simday-sclii.eil ell'orts, ami was m>tr<| Tor his 

 fltrict integrity un<l uprightness in all business 

 mutters. 



July 27. SIIKBIIAN, JAMES M., a lawyer, 

 antiquarian, hook-collector, ami scholar, Lorn 

 in Ireland, ami educated there, but for twenty- 

 ears a resident of Now York City; died 

 there, aged 48 years. He was an accomplished 

 classical scholar, and had a special fondne-i 

 Meeting rare books and manuscript-, r--l- 

 ativo to his native country. His library of 

 valuable Irish and Anglo-Irish books and man- 

 uscripts was said to be the most complete in 

 in this country. 



Jnly 81. VAN THUMP, PHILADELPIIUS, a 

 journalist, lawyer, judge, and M. 0. of Ohio; 

 died in Cincinnati, aged 64. He was born in 

 Lancaster, Ohio, in 1810, where he learned the 

 art of printing, and edited a newspaper for 

 several years. In 1888 he was admitted to the 

 bar, becoming the law-partner of II. F. Stau- 

 bery, with whom he studied law. Mr. Van 

 Trump was a Whig, and was a member of the 

 Baltimore Convention of 1852, which nomi- 

 nated General Scott for President. After being 

 throe times nominated for the Supreme Court, 

 he was elected in 1862 a Judge of the Court 

 of Common Pleas. In 1866 he resigned that 

 office, and was elected on the Democratic 

 ticket to Congress in the twelfth district. In 

 the House of .Representatives he served on the 

 Committees on the Pacific Railroad and on 

 Manufactures. 



Aug. 2. SOUTIIWORTII, Rev. TERTIUS DUX- 

 NINO, a Presbyterian clergyman and author; 

 died at Bridgewater, N. Y., in the 74th year 

 of his age. He was born in Rome, N. Y., ed- 

 ucated at Whitesboro' Academy, Hamilton Col- 

 lege, and Auburn and Andover Theological 

 Seminaries, graduating from Hamilton in 1827, 

 and from Andover in 1829 or '30. He preached 

 for a time at Sauquoit, Oneida County, N. Y., 

 then for four years at Claremont, N. H. ; and in 

 1838 was installed as successor of the celebrated 

 Dr. Nathaniel Emmons at Franklin, Mass., 

 where ho remained eleven years. In 1850 he 

 resigned, and was for the next nine years a stated 

 supply, his health being impaired. In 1859 ho 

 moved to Pleasant Prairie, Wis., where he 

 preached for nine years, and then came back 

 to Bridgewater, N. Y., the homo of his child- 

 hood, where in failing health and great suffer- 

 ing he spent the last six years of his life. Mr. 

 Southworth was an able and eloquent writer, 

 as his published sermons and addresses, and 

 especially his funeral discourse on Rev. Dr. 

 Emmons's death, abundantly testify. 



Aug. 8. HASKIX, Lieutenant-Colonel and 

 Brevet Brigadier-General JOSEPH A., U. S. A., 

 a brave and gallant officer of the Mexican and 

 late civil wars, a graduate from West Point in 

 1889 ; died at Oswego, N. Y., aged about 57 

 years. He was horn in New York, and ap- 

 pointed from that State to the Military Acade- 

 my, and entered the army as second-lieutenant 



of the First Artillery. Ho wa on daty in 

 Maine (hiring the "disputed frontier" i-ontro- 

 IV. .m 1MU to 1845, afterward in Floiida 

 and Louisiana, and during thu Mexican War 

 took part in all the battled under General Scott, 

 losing an arm at the storming of Chapultepec; 

 was subsequently in garrison and fortress duty, 

 on the frontiers and elsewhere, lie-coming eap- 

 tain in the. First Artillery, ui 1851; was 

 pelled to surrender Baton Rouge Arsenal to u 

 \a-tly superior force of insurgents in the win- 

 1; served during the civil war, iu 

 Washington, at Key West; in command of the 

 northern defenses of Washington, 1862-1864; 

 as Chief of Artillery in the Department of 

 Washington from 1864-1866; and subsequent- 

 ly atdirlerent fortresses, having been pnn: 

 to be major in 1862, lieutenant-colonel of stall' 

 the same year, and lieutenant-colonel First Ar- 

 tillery in 1866, and brevet colonel and brevet 

 brigadier-general, March 18, 1865. He was 

 retired in 1872, and had since resided mostly 

 at Oswego. 



Aug. 8. SPALDI.VO, Rev. II. II., a Presbyte- 

 rian clergyman and missionary of the American 

 Board among the Indians of the Northwest 

 coast ; died at Lapwai, Idaho, aged 70 years. 

 He was born near Prattsburg, N. Y., in 1804, 

 and, amid intense poverty and innumerable ob- 

 stacles, fought his way to and through Western 

 Reserve College, and Lane Theological Semi- 

 nary, and in 1836 was appointed by the A. B. C. 

 F. M. missionary to the Nez Perec's Indians, and 

 crossed the continent with his wife amid great 

 hardships the same year, establishing himself 

 on the Lapwai River, while his associate, Rev. 

 Dr. Whitman, settled in the Walla Walla Valley. 

 They remained in the field till November, 1847, 

 when, through the influence of Jesuit mission- 

 aries connected with the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany, Whitman and all those attached to his 

 post in the Lapwai Valley were massacred by 

 tho Indians, and Spalding and his family at 

 Lapwai, ninety miles distant, were in great 

 jeopardy, and were finally obliged to escape 

 to the Willamette Valley. There he remained 

 for about fourteen years, laboring zealously 

 among the Indians who could be reached from 

 that point, and making use of the translations 

 of the Scriptures in the Nez PercCs language, 

 which ho had reduced to writing, and in which 

 he had printed portions of tl\o Scriptures. In 

 1862 he reentered his work on the Lapwai, 

 and remained, for several years, till h. 

 recalled to the East, to lay before the Govern- 

 ment the facts relative to the massacre, which 

 had been misrepresented, and to give evidence 

 of the great services which Dr. Whitman and 

 himself had rendered to the GoTcrnment. This 

 accomplished, he returned to his missionary 

 work, this time under the direction of tho 

 Presbyterian Board of Missions, and remained 

 in tho country of the Nez PercCs and Spo- 

 kans in Northwestern Idaho and Northeastern 

 Washington Territories till his death. I1U 

 labors among these tribes had been very sue- 



