KERR, MICHAEL 0. 



KLEIN, JULIUS L. 



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Retolotd, That we unite with the Democracy of 



Ohio in the ru'iuest time tliu National Committee 

 call a Nutiitiiiil Convention ; uiul, in response to tlie 



.if tliu Democracy of Indiana, tlie chairman 

 of tliis convention is directed to appoint a com- 



n I'Vdcrul relation*, to consist of nine mern- 

 bors, to whom power is (riven to select delegates to 



it Kentucky in anv convention that iiiuy l>u 

 called, an I to dike such other steps as the exigencies 

 oi' tlie times may require. 



>' lut we look with apprehension upon the 

 resort to unusual tribunals for the settlement of the 



as now in issue; and wo believe that the firm 

 je of its constitutional powers by the House 

 of Representatives will result in the proper adjust- 

 ment of the troubles now threatening the country. 



General Green Clay Smith, the Prohibitory 

 candidate for President of the United States 

 in 1876, is a native of Kentucky, and a resident 

 of Frankfort. He was born July 2, 1830, and 

 graduated at the Transylvania University, at 

 the age of nineteen. He continued at the in- 

 stitution throe years longer, as a student of 

 law, and for some time practised in that pro- 

 fession. He served in the Mexican War, and 

 at tho beginning of the civil contest in 1861 

 commanded the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry. 

 In 1862 he was commissioned as a brigadier- 

 general, and subsequently promoted to major- 

 general. He was elected a Representative to 

 the Thirty-eighth Congress in 1863, and in 1864 

 was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention. 

 He was reflected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, 

 and in 1866 was appointed by President John- 

 son Governor of Montana Territory. Since 

 that time he has become a Baptist preacher, 

 and a prominent lecturer on temperance. 



KERR, MICHAEL C., died at Alum Springs, 

 Va.. August 20, 1876. He was born near 

 Titusville, Pa., March 15, 1827. Having ob- 

 tained a moderate education, he studied law, 

 and about 1852 removed to New Albany, 

 Ind. In 1854 he became city solicitor, and 

 in 1835 was elected prosecuting attorney of 

 Floyd County. He was elected to the Legisla- 

 ture in 1856, served two years, and in 1862 be- 

 came reporter to the Supreme Court, in which 

 capacity he published five volumes of reports. 

 In 1864 he was elected a Democratic Repre- 

 sentative in Congress, where he served on 

 the Committees on Private Land Claims, and 

 on Accounts. He was reflected in 1866, 1868, 

 and 1870, and served on the Committees on 

 Elections, Roads and Canals, Civil Service, 

 Judiciary, Ways and Means, etc. In 1872 he 

 was defeated as a candidate for Congressman 

 at large by Godlove S. Orth. In 1874 Mr. 

 Kerr was again elected to Congress. At the 

 beginning of the session in December, 1875, he 

 was chosen Speaker, which position he held at 

 the time of his death. 



K1IOKAN. See TURKISTAN. 



KINDLER, ALBERT, a German painter, born 

 in 1833 ; died April 4, 1876. He pursued his 

 artistic studies at the Academy of Munich, and 

 in 1856 went to Dusseldorf, where he became 

 a pupil of the celebrated artist Prof. Rudolf 

 Jordan. He made several journeys through 



Upper Bavaria, the Tyrol, and through Spain. 

 In 1859 he painted his first largo picture, the 

 " Wedding Procession on the Rhine," which 

 became widely known throughout Germany 

 by means of a good engraving. Among hu 

 other large works are the " ( jetneinderath*- 

 sitzting " (Session of the City Council), "Go- 

 ing to the Dance," and the " Brautexamen " 

 (Examination of the Bride). But he was 

 chiefly known by his clever little genre pictures, 

 for which he found the subjects in his travels. 



KINGSLEY, 1 1 KM: Y, a British journalist and 

 novelist, brother of Rev. Charles Kingsley, 

 born in 1880 ; died May 24, 1876. He was edu- 

 cated at King's College, London, and Worces- 

 ter College, Oxford, which he left in 1858, 

 when he went to Australia, returning in 1858. 

 He contributed to the North British and Fort- 

 nightly Reviews, and to Fraser^s and Mnf.mil- 

 larfs Magazines. In 1870 he laid aside, for a 

 time, his novels, and assumed the editorship 

 of the Daily Review, the org.-tn of the Free- 

 Church party in Edinburgh. Being unable to 

 get a suitable war correspondent, he went him- 

 self to France, in 1870, and was the first Eng- 

 lishman in Sedan. He retired from the editor- 

 ship after having held it for eighteen months, 

 and a^ain took to his old work of novelist. His 

 best-known works are : " Recollections of 

 Geoffrey Hamlyn " (1859), " Ravenshoe " 

 (1861), "Austin'Elliot" (1863), "The Hillyars 

 and the Burtons : A Story of Two Families " 

 (1865), "Leighton Court: A Country-House 

 Story" (1866), "Mademoiselle Mathilde" (in 

 the Gentleman's Magazine), " Stretton," " Het- 

 ty" (1871), "Old Margaret" (2 vols., 1871), 

 "Hornby Mills" (2 vols., 1872), "Valentine: 

 A French Boy's Story of Sedan" (2 vols., 

 1872), and "Reginald Hetherege" (8 vols., 

 1874). 



KLEIN, JITLITJS LEOPOLD, a German dram- 

 atist and literary historian, born in 1804 ; died 

 August 8, 1876. He was born of Jewish 

 parents in Hungary, who gave him a good 

 education. After passing through the gymna- 

 sium at Pestb, he studied law and medicine at 

 the University of Vienna, after which he acted 

 for a time as tutor in several prominent fami- 

 lies, during which time he entered the Catho- 

 lic Church. He then went to Berlin, where 

 he continued his studies, and afterward de- 

 voted himself entirely to literary pursuits. His 

 dramas, which at first met with little success, 

 are much in the style of Shakespeare, of whom 

 he was an ardent admirer. Among his best- 

 known works are the dramas "Maria von 

 Medici," "Luines," "Richelieu," "Maria," 

 "Konig Albrecht," "Strafford," "Zenobia," 

 and "Heliodora," and the comedies "Die Her- 

 zogin " and " Voltaire." Among his works on 

 the historv of literature the most important 

 are : " Geschiohte des Dramas " (8 vols., 1865- 

 '66), of which the first two volumes treat of 

 the Greek and Roman drama, and the third of 

 the non-European drama ; " Geschichte des 

 italienischen Dramas" (4 vols., 1866-'69); 



