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New Orleans presented to her a service of 



l'l:it.-. M:>. chase remained in Tampico as 

 her residence until 1871, when IHT Imslmnd 

 . il liis |Misitiin and took up his abode in 

 15ro<>kl\n. During tho many years of bor 

 nco in Tampico, Mrs. Chase dispensed 

 with great liherulity a gracious hospitality to 

 all Americans who visited that city in naval, 

 military, or civil life. Upon her last voyage 

 In.iin- i the United States a little child sturn- 

 !>lcd ami u 11 down the hatchway of tho steamer. 

 With characteristic bravery and forgetfulnesa 

 of self, Mrs. Chase sprang to the rescue, and 

 ded in saving tho life of the child as 

 c\ci.ts pro\ed, at the expense of her own, for 

 she. tlu-n received an injury, disregarded by 

 her at tho time, which produced cancer of tho 

 l>rea>r, of which she died. Although her suf- 

 ferings were intense, she never murmured, and, 

 when informed that an operation had become 

 necessary, she said she was ready, and, refus- 

 ing aniBsthetics, submitted without flinching, 

 although the operation was unusually pro- 

 longed. 



]>-. 26. BYERLT, D. C., a Now Orleans 

 journalist, and former Confederate officer, shot 

 in a rencontre with ex-Governor Warmoth in 

 New Orleans, and died there in his 48th year. 

 Hi- was by profession a printer, and came to 

 New Orleans at the age of eighteen, where he 

 wns employed on several journals. He was 

 foreman of the old Commercial Bulletin from 

 1856 to 1861, and then went into the Confed- 

 erate army as a lieutenant. He fought the 

 war through, and at. Atlanta was four times 

 wounded. After the war, he was clerk of the 

 Third District Court for two terms, until 1872 ; 

 in February, 1874, he became business man- 

 ager and one of the principal owners of the 

 New Orleans Bulletin, of which he was also 

 one of the editors. He was strongly in sym- 

 pathy with the White League movement, and 

 had considerable political influence in his party. 



Dec. 26. CEOCKER, Colonel ALVATI, a large 

 manufacturer, railroad-manager, and member 

 of Congress from the tenth Massachusetts dis- 

 trict; died at Fitchburg, Mass., aged 73 years. 

 He was born at Leominster, in 1801, and at 

 eight years of age was placed in a factory. 

 He acquired a fair education, and engaged in 

 tho manufacture of paper at Franklin, N. H., 

 but in 1823 removed to Fitchburg, and from 

 small beginnings became eventually the most 

 extensive paper-manufacturer in the Union. 

 He was a member of the Massachusetts Assem- 

 bly in 1836, 1842, and 1843, and also served 

 two terms in the State Senate. In 1871 he 

 was elected to fill Governor Washburn's unex- 

 pired terra in Congress, and was subsequently 

 reelected by a large majority. He was a per- 

 sistent advocate of the lloosac Tunnel project, 

 and was identified with the railroad interests 

 of Northern Massachusetts. 



Dec. 27. GOETZ, MORITZ, a journalist and 

 teacher, of German birth, but resident in the 

 United States since 1855; committed suicide 



from want, in New York City. Tie wan a na- 

 tive of Col. lent/, (icrmany, highly educated, 

 and when he first came to the United State* 

 was employed on a Knit HIM. n- paper. In 

 he became one of the editor* of the \r y,,rt 

 i Zeitung, and in 1867 associate-editor 

 ( 1 t he New- Yorker Journal. Being very near- 

 M-hted, In: was run over by a street-car, and 

 lii- leu' fraetured. The Journal supported him 

 during the long sickness which followed, and 

 after hi* recovery, his sight failing, he relin- 

 quished new-paper- work, and gave private 

 instruction in the languages; but after a time 

 his pupils failed him, and he was without em- 

 ployment and without money, and in despera- 

 tion took hi* own life. 



Dec. 27. RUSSELL, Jonx, an extensive cut- 

 ler \ -manufacturer, of Fitchburg; died at (> 

 field, Mass., aged 77 years. He was born 

 in Greenfield, in 1797, removed to Georgia in 

 1816, was in business there till 1830, when he 

 returned, and in 1831 commenced the manu- 

 facture of cutlery at Fitchburg, importing Eng- 

 lish mechanics, and expending large sums for 

 machinery. Eventually the firm arrived at 

 such excellence that their cutlery took the 

 place of the English, and importation of that 

 class of goods virtually ceased. 



Dec. 28. CAMPBELL, Rev. ALFRED E., D. D., 

 an eminent Presbyterian clergyman, a brother 

 of Judge W. W. Campbell, and for a number 

 of years Secretary of the American and For- 

 eign Christian Union ; died at Castleton, Rens- 

 selaer County, N. Y., aged 72 years. He was 

 born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., in January, 1802, 

 graduated from Union College in 1820, in the 

 same class with W. H. Seward, Tayler Lewis, 

 Chancellor Kent, Dr. L. P. Hickok, and others. 

 He studied theology and entered the Presby- 

 terian ministry, preaching successively at Pal- 

 myra, Ithaca, etc., and finally becoming pastor 

 of the Spring Street Church, in New York. 

 From this pastorate ho went to the secretary- 

 ship of tho American and Foreign Christian 

 Union, which he resigned in 1878, and returned 

 to his country home at Castleton. 



Dee. 29. SMITH, Major-General MORGAN I... 

 U. S. Vols., a gallant and meritorious officer hi 

 the Mexican and late civil war, former United 

 States consul at Honolulu; died at Jersey 

 City, N. J., of congestion of the lungs, aged 66 

 years. He was born in Oswego County, N. 

 Y., and when yet young left his father's house 

 and enlisted in the army as a private soldier. 

 He was in most of the battles of the Mexican 

 War, and was made sergeant for his bravery. 

 After that war he returned to New York, and 

 was in business there and in the West for a 

 number of years. At the commencement of 

 the late civil war ho oflered to raise a regi- 

 ment of men from Illinois and Missouri, com- 

 posed of men who would never retreat nor 

 abandon the field under any circumstances. 

 The regiment was formed, and, in the words 

 of a Confederate general, "they fought like 

 devils, and they never knew when they were 



