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and Park Streets. Last summer M r. I ; 

 M;perintended tl.t- completion of one of tins 

 line-t buildings in lJitoii, erected on the site 

 of tin- tirm'.s nld warehouse, which \\as de- 

 stroyed ut tho (.Tout Huston fire. His city 

 n-Mdein-c. built on tho site of tho house of John 

 Hancock, la one of the most elegant dwellings 



-ton. 



Sept. . GLENN, JOSEPH, a journalist and 

 ncuspapcr publisher i.t' Cincinnati, for many 

 years one of tin- principal proprietors of tho 

 ( 'iiti-iitiinti <;<i;< tie; died in that city, aged about 

 ars. It was through his capital and per- 

 sonal management that it was converted from 

 a lilankct->heet into one of the ablest of the 

 'rn newspapers. He was a man of win- 

 ning personal traits, and of scrupulous integ- 

 Although connected for nearly half his 

 maturo life with newspapers, ho wrote com- 

 paratively little, but the matter he did furnish 

 was always marked by strong sense, exceeding 

 care as to details both of fact and style, and a 

 quaint humor, which often sent fragments 

 from his work for months through the press 

 of tho country. 



Sept. . HARRISON, BAZEL, a pioneer set- 

 tler of Michigan, and largely connected with its 

 early history ; died at Prairie Konde, Mich., 

 aged 104 years. He was many years ago a 

 judire of one of the first courts of the State 

 or Territory. He retained his faculties and 

 vigor to the last, and was present at the Pio- 

 neers' Reunion at Schoolcraft, in 1874. He 

 was long supposed to have been the " Bee- 

 Hunter" of Cooper's novel of that title, but 

 this is now said to be a mistake. 



Sept. . HEATH, Captain BYRON S., a skill- 

 ful railroad engineer from Chester, O., but 

 employed by the Peruvian Government in lay- 

 ing out and building railways in that country ; 

 died at the summit of the Oroya Railway, 

 which is nearly 14,000 feet above the sea, from 

 the effects of the rarefied atmosphere. 



Sept. . SADLIER, OLIVER, a Catholic pub- 

 lisher, bookseller, and one of the proprietors 

 of the New York Tablet; died in New York 

 City, aged 51 years. He was one of the part- 

 ners in the firm of D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 

 and was a man of culture and refinement. 



Oct. 2. WOOLSEY, Commodore MELANCH- 

 THON B., U. S. N., a gallant officer of the Uni- 

 ted States Navy ; died of yellow fever at Pen- 

 sacola, Fla., aged 57 years. He was born in 

 New York City, August 11, 1817, entered tho 

 naval service as midshipman December 24, 

 1832; was promoted to bo lieutenant July 16, 

 1847; commander, July 16, 1862 ; captain, July 

 25, 18G6 ; and commodore in 1871 . "While com- 

 manding the steamer Ellen, of the South-At- 

 lantic Squadron, he took part in the engage- 

 ment at the Wapper Creek battery, May 80, 

 1862; at Secessionville Creek, June 1, 1862; 

 and cooperated with the army in the attempt 

 to carry James Island by assault, June 3, 1862. 

 On the 28th of June, 1863, he was engaged in 

 the steamer Princess Royal, of the Western 



(.11 If Squadron, in defense of Donaldson, and 

 I Jut h-r, La., aguinwt the Confederates un- 

 der (iein -nils <;iv< ii and Taylor, and repulsed 

 them with a loss. Since tho war he had been 

 on act i vi; duty, and .was in command at the 

 Pensacola Navy-yard, where- ho fell a victim to 

 yellow fever. 



Oct. a. BISXET, JOE, a well-known inter- 

 : and guide with tho Cheyentios and Ara- 

 paln.es, who had long been a prominent actor 

 in Indian councils and treaties, and was n< ;<! 

 for his fearlessness in interpreting to the com- 

 missioners and Indians exactly what cither 

 said to the other, however distasteful the lan- 

 guage might be; died at Fort Laramie, from 

 the effects of a pistol-shot wound received in a 

 brawl near the fort, six years before. 



Oct. 8. PORTER, Mrs. MEHITAHLE M., a ven- 

 erable and accomplished lady of Farmington, 

 Conn., the widow of the late Rev. Noah Por- 

 ter, I>. D., of that place, and mother of Presi- 

 dent Porter, of Yale College ; died in Farming- 

 ton, aged 88 years. She had been, during the 

 many years of her husband's ministry, his 

 fajthful and efficient helper, and to her her dis- 

 tinguished son owes much of his extraordinary 

 powers. She was so gentle, yet so dignified 

 in her manners, as to be greatly loved and 

 honored by all who knew her. She retained 

 to the close of life, in large measure, tho pos- 

 session of her intellectual faculties, which wore 

 of a superior order. 



Oct. 5. LAMAR, GAZAWAT B., a merchant 

 and banker of Savannah and New York, promi- 

 nent in the late civil war ; died in New York 

 City, aged 76 years. He was horn in Georgia, 

 in 1798, and was engaged in business for many 

 years in Savannah. He had a narrow escape 

 from death in the shipwreck of the steamer 

 Pulaski, in which several members of his 

 family were lost. He was at that time a large 

 slaveholder, and became a religious man, it is 

 said, through the conversation of one of his 

 slaves. In 1845 he removed to Brooklyn, N. 

 Y., and engaged in business in New York, 

 being very active also as a ruling elder in the 

 First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. He was 

 very successful in business, and in 1860, and 

 for some years previous, was president of the 

 Bank of the Republic, in New York. His sym- 

 pathies were strongly enlisted on the Southern 

 side, and in the winter of 1860-'61 he shipped 

 large quantities of arms to Georgia in anticipa- 

 tion of the war. He also accepted the posi- 

 tion of financial agent of the Confederate Gov- 

 ernment, and in that capacity procured the 

 printing in New York of their notes and bonds. 

 Soon after the actual commencement of hos- 

 tilities he went to Savannah, and was largely 

 concerned in cotton speculations and blockade- 

 running during the war. Ho lost in the ser- 

 vice his only son, Colonel Charles A. L. La- 

 mar, who was killed in 1865. Soon after the 

 occupation of Savannah he was arrested by 

 order of the Secretary of War, and confined in 

 the Old Capitol Prison at Washington. A few 



