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ized, with him as vice-president. A canal was 

 constructed at great cost, of which Mr. Day 

 became the owner. The enterprise was not a 

 financial success, and the canal was sold ^ to 

 satisfy mortgages which had been made on it. 



DEBKEUL, Very Rev. JOSEPH PAUL, died in 

 Baltimore, April 20th. He was born at St. 

 Etienne, France, November 12, 1814, entered 

 the theological seminary at Lyons in 1833, and 

 the seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris, in 1836 ; 

 and became a novice in the Society of St. Sul- 

 pice at Issy, where he was ordained priest, 

 May 24, 1839. He held the chair of theology 

 in the seminary at Orleans for the first ten 

 years of his ministry, and was appointed Vice- 

 President of St. Mary's College in Baltimore, 

 Md., arriving in that city March 20, 1850. Be- 

 sides being Professor of Moral Philosophy and 

 procurator of the college, he was appointed 

 vice-rector of the seminary in 1860 and its 

 rector on September 29th of the same year. 



DE LUNES, Rev. CHAELES, died in New York 

 City, aged 73 years. He was educated at the 

 Theological Seminary of Paris, and was or- 

 dained priest in 1830. A few years later he 

 came to America, and was made professor in 

 the Catholic Seminary of the diocese and St. 

 John's College at Bardstown, Ky. In 1841 he 

 entered the Jesuit order, and in 1846 went to 

 New York, where he assisted in founding the 

 College of St. Francis Xavier. 



DEVIN, THOMAS C., died in New York City, 

 April 4th, where he was born in 1822. He 

 was commissioned captain in the First New 

 York Cavalry at the beginning of the civil war, 

 and afterward colonel of the Sixth New York 

 Cavalry, holding the latter position until the 

 close of the war. In 1866 he was appointed 

 lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth Cavalry U. S. 

 A., which was sent to the Rio Grande. He was 

 afterward promoted to the colonelcy of the 

 Third Cavalry. He was a member of the New 

 York Commandery of the Loyal Legion. 



DION, CYEILLE, a well-known Canadian bil- 

 liard-player, died in October. His first public 

 appearance as a billiardist was at a tournament 

 in Montreal, July 12, 1865, where he won five 

 games and lost none, thus winning first prize 

 and the championship badge. He afterward 

 played on many public occasions with great 

 success, in New York and other cities. 



^Dissxox, HEXKY, died in Philadelphia, March 

 16th. He was born at Tewkesbury, England, 

 m 1819, and came to this country in 1833. He 

 was the maker of the Disston Saw, and the 

 first who successfully rolled steel plates in 

 America. 



DowLTNo, Rev. JOHN, died at Middletown, 



. i., July 4th. He was born at Parensey, 



ex, England, in 1807. At the age of 



twenty-one he became instructor in a classical 



:nte in Buckinghamshire, and in 1829 



established a school near Oxford, which was 



continued until 1832. He was ordained a 



minister of the Baptist Church in the latter 



rear, and accepted a call at Catskill, N. Y 



where he remained two years. After preach- 

 ing for two years in Newport, R. I., he be- 

 came in 1836 pastor of a congregation in New 

 York City, and in 1844 of the Berean Church 

 in Providence, R. I., where he remained eight 

 years. He then preached in Philadelphia for 

 a time, but resumed his labors at the Berean 

 Church in 1856 ; continued there nearly twelve 

 years, and afterward held pastorates in New- 

 ark, N. J., and in New York City. His prin- 

 cipal works are : " History of Romanism," 

 "Powers of Illustration," "Nights and Morn- 

 ings," and " Indoor Offering." He also con- 

 tributed to various religious magazines. The 

 Transylvania University conferred upon him 

 the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1846. 



DYEE, Dr. 0. V., died in Chicago, 111., April 

 24th, aged 71 years. He was a noted aboli- 

 tionist, and was appointed by President Lin- 

 coln Judge of the International Court for the 

 Suppression of the Slave Trade, which was 

 held at Leona, Africa. 



EASTMAN, HABVEY G., died in Denver, Col., 

 July 13th. He was born in Marshall, Oneida 

 County, N. Y., November 16, 1832, opened a 

 commercial school in St. Louis in 1855, and 

 four years later started the Eastman National 

 Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Be- 

 ginning with one pupil, the list of students in 

 a short time included 1,600 names, and the 

 college now includes five large buildings and 

 more than sixty instructors. In 1871 he was 

 elected to the New York Assembly, and served 

 on the Committees on Cities and Education. 

 He declined a renomination in 1872, but was 

 again elected to the Assembly in 1873. He 

 served three terms as Mayor of Poughkeepsie. 

 Many of the public improvements in that city 

 for the past twenty years were due to his en- 

 ergy, and he was successful in various railroad 

 and commercial enterprises. He was Presi- 

 dent of the Poughkeepsie Bridge Company, 

 and held the office of State Commissioner of 

 Charities for several years. 



EGAN, W. B., died at Shreveport, La., No- 

 vember 28th. He was Associate Justice of 

 the Supreme Court at New Orleans. 



EVAETS, WILLIAM, son of William M. Evarts, 

 died at Washington, D. C., April 26th, aged 

 27 years. He graduated at Yale College, and 

 afterward went to China, where he entered 

 the American house of Russell & Co. 



FABGO, WILLIAM C., died at Syracuse, N. Y., 

 March 16th. He was born in New London, 

 Conn., in 1791. In the war of 1812 he en- 

 listed in the arrny, and was stationed at Niag- 

 ara. In October of the same year he was one 

 of those who captured the enemy's batteries 

 on the heights. He was the father of William 

 G. Fargo and J. F. Fargo, of Buffalo, and of 

 James C. Fargo, Superintendent of the Ameri- 

 can Express Company. 



FAEEELLY, PHILIP, died at Passaic, N. J., 

 March 3d. He was Secretary of the Ameri- 

 can News Company, and had been connected 

 with it since its establishment. 



