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the American department of the Vienna Expo- 

 sition of 1873. In 1876 he attended the Cin- 

 cinnati Convention as a representative of the 

 New York Reform Association. A short time 

 previous to his death, he was nominated by 

 President Hayes as Collector of New York, 

 but the nomination was defeated in the Senate. 

 SANFORD, General CHARLES W., died at Avon 

 Springs, N. Y., July 25th. He was born in 

 Newark, N. J., in 1790, and was a lawyer by 

 profession. For more than thirty years he 

 was commander of the First Division of the 

 New York militia, comprising all the _ com- 

 panies in the city of New York. Early in the 

 war he commanded a division of volunteers 

 under General Patterson, and was in command 

 at Harper's Ferry at the time of the battle of 

 Bull Run. 



SHERMAN, Mrs. SARAH MARIA GIBSON-, the 

 widow of the late Watts Sherman, and a daugh- 

 ter of the late Henry B. Gibson, of Canandai- 

 gua, N. Y., died in New York City, March 10th, 

 aged 63 years. She came to New York in 

 1851, where her home was the resort of culti- 

 vated and distinguished people. As a means 

 of furthering the cause of Italian liberty, she 

 translated and published Guerrazzi's novel 

 " Beatrice Cenci." 



SIMONS, THOMAS YOUNG, died in Charleston, 

 S. 0., May 7th. He was born in that city in 

 1828, graduated at Yale College in 1847, and 

 began the practice of law in Charleston in 1850. 

 From 1854 to 1860 he was a member of the 

 State Legislature. In 1860 he was a delegate 

 to the National Democratic Convention held 

 in Charleston, and was a Presidential elector. 

 He was a member of the Convention which 

 passed the ordinance of secession, and was an 

 officer in the Confederate army. From 1865 

 to 1873 he was editor of the Charleston "Cou- 

 rier." He was a delegate to the National Dem- 

 ocratic Conventions in 1868 and 1872, and 

 from 1872 to 1876 was the member from South 

 Carolina of the National Democratic Executive 

 Committee. He was a leading member of the 

 Taxpayers' Conventions of 1871 and 1874, and 

 in the latter year appeared before the Judiciary 

 Committee of the House of Representatives at 

 Washington in support of the memorial of the 

 Taxpayers' Convention. 



SLADE, EDWARD, a well-known ship-builder, 

 born in Somerset, Mass., died there February 

 16th, aged 91 years. He was a member of the 

 Massachusetts Legislature from ,1820 to 1829. 



SLEEPER, JOHN S., died at Boston Highlands, 

 Mass., November 14th, aged 84 years. He was 

 formerly one of the editors and proprietors of 

 the " Boston Journal." He was Mayor of Rox- 

 bury in 1856-'58, and was elected to the State 

 Senate in 1876. 



SMITH, Dr. ALBERT, died in Peterborough, 

 N. H., February 22d. He was born in that 

 town June 18, 1801. He graduated from Dart- 

 mouth College in 1825, and from the Medical 

 School of that college in 1833. In 1849 he 

 was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and 



Therapeutics in Dartmouth College. He re- 

 signed in 1870, and was made Emeritus Profes- 

 sor. He also lectured at the Vermont Medical 

 School in 1857, and at the Bowdoin School in 

 1859. He received the degree of LL. D. from 

 Dartmouth College in 1870, and the honorary 

 degree of M. D. was conferred on him by the 

 Rush Medical College of Chicago in 1875. He 

 was an honorary member of the New York Med- 

 ical Society, and was for several years a Rep- 

 resentative in the New Hampshire Legislature. 

 Besides publishing several lectures on medical 

 topics, and articles in medical journals and in 

 the "Transactions" of the New Hampshire 

 Medical Society, he wrote a commemorative 

 discourse on the death of Dr. Amos Twitchell, 

 and in 1877 published a history of the town of 

 Peterborough, N. H. 



SMITH, FRANCIS GURNET, died in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., April 6th. He was born in that city 

 March 8, 1818. He graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania in 1840, was appointed 

 Lecturer on Physiology by the Philadelphia 

 Medical Association in 1842, and became Pro- 

 fessor of the Institutes of Medicine in the Uni- 

 versity in 1863. In 1859 he became one of the 

 attending physicians at the Pennsylvania Hos- 

 pital, in which position he continued for six 

 years. For nine years he was an editor of the 

 " Philadelphia Medical Examiner " ; was one 

 of the compilers of the popular text-book " The 

 Compendium of Medicine " ; edited the Amer- 

 ican editions of Carpenter's and Marshall's 

 works on physiology ; and was the first Amer- 

 ican translator of Barth and Roger's " Manual 

 of Auscultation and Percussion." He also con- 

 tributed frequently to various medical periodi- 

 cals. 



SNOWDEN, JAMES Ross, died at Hultneville, 

 Bucks County, Pa., March 21st. He was born 

 in Chester, Delaware County, Pa., in 1810. 

 He was Speaker of the State Legislature from 

 1842 to 1844, State Treasurer from 1845 to 

 1847, Treasurer of the United States Mint from 

 1847 to 1850, and Director of the Mint from 

 1853 to J861. Besides writing many pam- 

 phlets on coins, he published "Descriptions of 

 Coins in the United States Mint " (1860) ; " De- 

 scriptions of Medals in the United States Mint " 

 (1861); "The Mint at Philadelphia" (1861); 

 "Coins of the Bible" (1864); "The Corn- 

 Planter Memorial" (1867); and an article on 

 the coins of the United States in the "Na- 

 tional Almanac " of 1873. 



SPTCER, WILLIAM F., died in Boston, Novem- 

 ber 29th, aged 57 years. He entered the navy 

 as a midshipman in 1839, and was made a lieu- 

 tenant-commander in July, 1862, and a com- 

 mander in the following January. From April, 

 1863, to May, 1865, he served on the Cambridge 

 and Quaker City in the North Atlantic block- 

 ading squadron. He took part in the action 

 at Fort Fisher. From 1867 to 1869 he was 

 with the Dakota in the South Pacific, and for 

 the following three years was on duty at the 

 Charlestown Navy Yard. He was made cap- 



