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GRANGER, GORDON. 



which had been plundered by Chinese pirates, 

 and which at one time threatened to lead to 

 serious complications, was also satisfactorily 

 settled. (See CHINA.) 



The prosecution of Count Harry von Arnim 

 before the court at Potsdam came to an end 

 on April 27th. He was found guilty of hav- 

 ing abstracted official documents in his ca- 

 pacity as embassador, and was dismissed from 

 the service, which sentence included the loss 

 of his titles and of his pension. 



The empire was visited during 1876 by sev- 

 eral severe disasters. In the latter part of 

 February great freshets inundated large parts 

 of the country, especially in Saxony and Sile- 

 sia. The Elbe burst the dikes near Magdeburg, 

 Kalbe, and Wittenberg, and the greater portion 

 of the district of Barby, fifteen miles from 

 Magdeburg, was submerged. In the extreme 

 oast of Prussia, the banks of the Vistula were 

 inundated for miles near Pless, causing a great 

 number of families to become homeless. The 

 Oder also overflowed her banks, producing con- 

 siderable suffering. A number of railroad em- 

 bankments were washed away, causing several 

 accidents ; the railroad from Posen to Thorn 

 being threatened at one time with total de- 

 struction. The Empress went in person to the 

 scenes of the disaster, to furnish aid. In con- 

 sequence of the heavy rains, a landslip oc- 

 curred at Caub, a small village on the Rhine 

 in Northern Germany, on the evening of March 

 10th. Eight houses and twenty-six persons 

 were buried, and, although detachments of pio- 

 neer regiments were immediately detailed to 

 aid in the extrication of the buried people, 

 only three were rescued alive. In December, 

 the Nogat, a tributary of the Vistula, broke 

 through the dam at Elbing, in the province of 

 Prussia, flooding the country for miles around, 

 and causing great loss of life and property. 



In April Queen Victoria paid a visit to Ger- 

 many, stopping at Coburg, where she was met 

 by the Emperor William. The purpose of this 

 visit was said to be the regulation of the suc- 

 cession to the throne of Saxe-Coburg, Prince 

 Alfred being the prospective heir of the duke, 

 who has no children. Nothing official, however, 

 was stated about the results of this journey. 



GLASSBRENNER, ADOLF, a German hu- 

 morist, born March 27, 1810; died September 

 28, 1876. In his twenty-first year he became 

 the founder and editor of Don Quixote, a hu- 

 morous journal, which gained great popularity, 

 but was suppressed by the Government after 

 an existence of three years. He then devoted 

 himself to the description of the humors of 

 popular life, in a series of papers entitled "Ber- 

 lin wie es ist und trinkt," "Buntes Ber- 

 lin," " Berliner Volksleben," " Leben und Trin- 

 ken der feinen Welt," " Aus dem Leben der 

 feinen Welt," etc. In these sketches he created 

 a number of characters which became prover- 

 bial in Berlin, and are still living among the 

 people, notably among them " Eckensteher 

 Nante." In 1840 he married Mademoiselle 



Adele Perroni, a celebrated actress, and for her 

 sake went to Neustrelitz. Having taken part in 

 the revolutionary movements of 1848, he was 

 banished and returned to Berlin. Besides the 

 works already mentioned, he published "Die 

 verkehrte Welt," " Komische 1001 Nacht," 

 "Gedichte" (a complete edition of his shorter 

 poems), and the juvenile books " Lacheude 

 Kinder," "Sprechende Thiere," and "Die In- 

 sel Marzipan." 



GOLTHER, LCDWIG VON, a German states- 

 man, born January 11, 1823 ; died September 

 17, 1876. Having studied in Tubingen, he en- 

 tered the service in Wiirtemberg. He became 

 Minister of Worship and Instruction in 1864, 

 and President of the Privy Council in 1867. 

 He contributed essentially to the promotion of . 

 public instruction in Wiirtemberg, organizing 

 the " Volksschulen," the " Fortbildungsschu- 

 len," and a number of secondary schools. The 

 relation of the Catholic Church to the state was 

 regulated during his administration by the law 

 of January 30, 1862. On this subject he pub- 

 lished in 1874 a work entitled "Der Staat und 

 die katholische Kirche im Konigreiche Wurtem- 

 berg," which gained considerable celebrity. 



GOSZCZYNSKI, SEVEBINUS, a Polish poet, 

 born in 1806; died February 25, 1876. He 

 studied at the University of Warsaw, where 

 he early showed a considerable talent for 

 poetry, taking Byron and Mickievitz for his 

 models. In 1830 he took part in the revolu- 

 tion in Poland, writing many patriotic hymns. 

 After the suppression of the movement he 

 went to France and Switzerland. His first 

 large poem, "ZamekKaniowski'' ("The Castle 

 of Kaniow," 1828), was a poetic narration, 

 having for its subject the terrible revolt in the 

 Ukraine in 1768, and in which he described 

 Cossack life with great truthfulness. In France 

 and in Switzerland he published some excel- 

 lent novels, among them "Oda," " Straszny 

 strzelec," and "Krol zamczyska." In "So- 

 botka" he described the celebration of St. 

 John's day in the Carpathian Mountains, and 

 under the title of "Trzy struny" (1839, 3 

 vols ) published a number of revolutionary 

 poems. His last large poem was "Poslanie 

 do Polski" (" Epistle to the Poles," 1871). 



GRANGER, General GORDON, died at San- 

 ta Fe, New Mexico, January 10th. He was 

 born in New York in 1823. He graduated at 

 West Point in 1845, and took part in the prin- 

 cipal battles of the Mexican War, being bre- 

 vetted lieutenant in 1847, and, soon after, cap- 

 tain. When the civil war broke out, he be- 

 came Colonel of the Second Michigan Cavalry. 

 He took part in the campaign in Missouri, and 

 distinguished himself at the battle of Wilson's 

 Creek, August 10, 1861. In 1862 he was made 

 brigadier-general, and commanded a cavalry 

 division in the operations under General Hal- 

 leek, which led to the fall of Corinth in May. 

 He became a major-general in September, 1862, 

 and in the spring of 1863 he was in command 

 of the Army of Kentucky. He distinguished 



