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cessful ; several thousands had been civilized 

 and brought to lead industrious lives, and over 

 one thousand became professedly Christians. 



Aug. 4. FAULKNER, Colonel S. C., a promi- 

 nent citizen of Little Rock, Ark., well known 

 as a journalist and humorous writer ; died in 

 that city, aged 71 years. He was the author 

 of the " Arkansas Traveller," and other sketch- 

 es exhibiting the broad, rollicking humor of the 

 Southwest. 



Aug. 8. BOLLES, Rev. AUGUSTUS, a Baptist 

 clergyman and journalist ; died at Montville, 

 Conn., aged 97 years and seven months. He 

 was born in Ashford, Conn., in January, 1777; 

 was a brother of the late Rev. Samuel Bolles, 

 JD. D., and the late Matthew Bolles, Esq., an 

 eminent banker of Boston. He entered the 

 ministry of the Baptist Church about the be- 

 ginning of the present century, was prominent 

 in the founding of the Connecticut Baptist 

 State Convention, and from 1830 to 1838 was 

 the editor of the Christian Secretary, the or- 

 gan of the denomination in Connecticut. He 

 subsequently spent some years in Illinois, but 

 returned in 1843 or 1844 to Connecticut, and 

 passed the remainder of his life in Colchester 

 and Montville, Conn. He was a man of fine 

 intellect, and wide general culture. 



Aug. 8. BEIGGS, AMOS, a prominent citi- 

 zen, manufacturer, and former State Senator, 

 of Schaghticoke, N. Y. ; died at Newport, R. I., 

 in the 80th year of his age. He was born in 

 East Greenwich, R. I., in 1795, and removed 

 to Schaghticoke in 1820. He had done much 

 to build up the town, by his energy, enterprise, 

 self-reliance, and public spirit. He had been 

 engaged in manufacturing there for more than 

 fifty years, and had been throughout the whole 

 period a trusted counselor, a wise and judi- 

 cious manager, and a kind friend to his fellow- 

 citizens. He had been often elevated to re- 

 sponsible positions by his townsmen, and had 

 more than once represented his district in the 

 State Senate. He had also been prominent 

 and active in religious matters in the town. 



Aug. 8. GOULD, Jony STAXTOX, an active 

 and intelligent farmer, reformer, and philan- 

 thropist of Columbia County, N. Y. ; died at 

 Hudson, N. Y., of congestion of the lungs, in 

 the 64th year of his age. He was a member 

 of the Society of Friends, and had received 

 a very thorough education, especially in the 

 physical sciences, and was well known as an 

 industrious student, and popular essayist and 

 lecturer on scientific subjects. He had an ad- 

 mirably conducted farm in Columbia County, 

 and took an active part in agricultural im- 

 provement, being for several years president 

 of the State Agricultural Society, in which 

 position he was very efficient. He was an 

 earnest temperance advocate, and though in 

 earlier years a Whig, and a member of the As- 

 sembly from that party in 1846, and subse- 

 quently acting generally with the Republicans, 

 he held his temperance principles above party 

 allegiance, and had been recognized as a pro- 



hibitionist. He was very much in earnest, also, 

 on the subject of prison reform, and was for 

 many years one of the directors and executive 

 officers of the New York Prison Association. 



Aug. 9. SMITH, THOMAS U., a prominent 

 merchant and banker of New York City ; died 

 there, at the age of 60 years. He was a native 

 of Centre Island, Oyster Bay, L. I., born July 

 2, 1814. He entered into business-life in New 

 York City early, and became a member of the 

 firm of Henrys, Smith & Townsend, while yet 

 a young man, remaining in the firm till their 

 failure in 1861. He then connected himself 

 with the firm of Robert L. Maitland & Co., 

 with which he remained until he was elected 

 .president of the Mercantile Trust Company. 

 He had been for many years a trustee of 

 Princeton College and of the Princeton Theo- 

 logical Seminary, to which he was a liberal 

 benefactor, and had been elder of the Fifth 

 Avenue Presbyterian Church since 1845. In 

 1859, when the Equitable Life Insurance Com- 

 pany was organized, he was chosen a director, 

 which position he retained until his death. He 

 was considered a man of strict integrity, pos- 

 sessed a wide business capacity, and had been 

 very successful since his failure, before the late 

 civil war. 



Aug. 11. NASH, ALANSON, an eminent ad- 

 miralty lawyer of New York City ; died there, 

 aged 67 years. He was a native of Vermont, 

 and came to New York City in 1828, and stud- 

 ied law in the office of John A. Morrill. His 

 greatest ambition seems to have been to make 

 himself thoroughly master of the whole sub- 

 ject of maritime law, and for this purpose he 

 acquired all the languages, ancient and mod- 

 ern, which had any treatises on the subject. 

 He became an authority on all questions of 

 maritime jurisprudence, but practised only as 

 a counselor. 



Aug. 13. BAIRD, Rev. WILLIAM S., a cler- 

 gyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 South, and for some years past the editor of 

 the Baltimore Episcopal Methodist, their lead- 

 ing organ ; died on his way to Baltimore from 

 some of the Virginia Springs. He was widely 

 known and highly esteemed. 



Aug. 15. FISHER, Colonel SAMUEL S., an 

 able and distinguished patent solicitor and law- 

 yer, of Cincinnati; drowned in the Susquehanna 

 River, in Luzerne County, Pa. He was a mem- 

 ber of a family eminent for talent, being a grand- 

 son of the late Rev. Samuel Fisher, of Borden- 

 town, N. J., a nephew of the late Rev. S. W. 

 Fisher, D. D., LL. D., the eloquent president of 

 Hamilton College, and others of less note. He 

 had been for many years engaged in the man- 

 aging of patent causes, and had the reputation 

 of being one of the ablest patent lawyers in 

 this country. In 1869 he was appointed, by 

 President Grant, Commissioner of the Patent- 

 Office, but resigned early in 1872, to devote his 

 attention wholly to private business. In the 

 summer of 1873 he had spent some months in 

 Switzerland, and in 1874 was following tho 



