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bany, X. Y., on December 23, 1850, and her 

 fiiNt" professional engagement in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., in 1855. From 1850 till 1860 she was a 

 member of Laura Keene's Theatre in New 

 York. In 1862 she accepted an engagement at 

 Ni bio's Garden, and subsequently played with 

 Edwin Booth and E. A. Sothern. In 1867 she 

 was married to Robert Staples, and her last 

 appearance in New York was in " The Moth- 

 er's Secret " at the Union Square Theatre. 



WHITMAN, Mrs. SARAH HELEN, died in Provi- 

 dence, R. I., June 27th. She was bom in that 

 city in 1803. She was the daughter of Mr. 

 Nicholas Power, and the widow of John W. 

 Whitman, a lawyer of Boston. Among her 

 literary contributions may be mentioned an ar- 

 ticle on " Goethe," which appeared in " Brown- 

 son's Quarterly Review, 1 ' a collection of fugi- 

 tive poems published in 1853 under the title of 

 " Hours of Life, and other Poems," and "Ed- 

 gar Poe and his Critics," which was printed in 

 1860. The fairy ballads, " Cinderella," " The 

 Golden Ball," and "The Sleeping Beauty" 

 (1867) were the joint productions of herself 

 and her sister Miss Anna Marsh Power. Her 

 last production was an ode for the inaugu- 

 ration of the statue of Roger Williams in 

 1877. 



WILEY, Rev. CHARLES, died at East Orange, 

 N. J., December 21st, aged 69 years. He grad- 

 uated at the Auburn Theological Seminary, 

 was ordained to the Congregational ministry, 

 and for eight years was settled over the cele- 

 brated old church of Jonathan Edwards at 

 Northampton, Mass. For about ten years he 

 was pastor of a Dutch Reformed Church at 

 Utica, N. Y., when he became President of 

 the Milwaukee (Wis.) University. Soon after 

 he was settled at Geneva, N. Y., where he re- 

 mained for several years, and since then had 

 been engaged in teaching private schools at 

 East Orange and Montrose, N. J. He prepared 

 editions of Caesar and Virgil for the use of 

 schools. 



WILLIAMS, ALPHEUS S., died in Washington, 

 D. 0., December 1st. He was born in Say- 

 brook, Conn., in 1810. He graduated at Yale 

 College in 1831, and began the practice of law 

 in Detroit, Mich. He was Judge of Probate 

 from 1840 to 1844, and from 1843 to 1847 was 

 owner and editor of the Detroit " Daily Ad- 

 vertiser." He also served as Recorder of De- 

 troit, and in 1849 was appointed postmaster of 

 that city by President Taylor. He was a lieu- 

 tenant-colonel in the Mexican war, and on the 

 breaking out of the civil war he became a ma- 

 jor-general of militia, and was afterward made 

 a brigadier-general in the army. He served 

 on the upper Potomac, and had command of a 

 division at Winchester. He succeeded General 

 Banks as a corps commander, and commanded 

 the Twelfth Corps at Antietam. He took 

 part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Get- 

 tysburg, and accompanied Sherman's army in 

 the "march to the sea," during which he was 

 made brevet major-general. He was Minister 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Resident in San Salvador from 1866 to 1869, 

 and in 1874 was elected to Congress from 

 Michigan, being reflected in 1876. 



WILMER, Right Rev. J. B. P., died in New 

 Orleans, December 2d, aged 65 years. He was 

 born in Virginia, and was Bishop of the Dio- 

 cese of Louisiana. 



WOODRUFF, ISRAEL CARLL, died December 

 10th. He was born at Ewing, N. J., in 1815, 

 and graduated at West Point in 1836, where he 

 became Professor of Military and Civil Engi- 

 neering. After spending many years in engi- 

 neering service, he was appointed in 1858 as- 

 sistant topographical engineer at Washington. 

 He held this position during the war, "being 

 promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 

 1864 and colonel in 1869. From 1870 until 

 the time of his death he was engineer of the 

 Third and Fourth Lighthouse Districts, in 

 Philadelphia and New York. 



WOODS, LEONARD, died in Boston, December 

 24th. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., 

 November 24, 1807, graduated at Union Col- 

 lege in 1827, was ordained in 1833, and from" 

 1839 to 1866 was President of Bowdoin College. 

 The Legislature having granted the Historical 

 Society of Maine an appropriation to obtain 

 materials for the documentary history of that 

 State, he went to Europe in 1867 in order to 

 collect them. For some time he was editor of 

 the "Literary and Theological Review," pub- 

 lished in New York. He translated Knapp's 

 "Lectures on Christian Theology" and De 

 Maistre's " General Principles of Political Con- 

 stitutions." 



WOODSON, E. 0., died at Raleigh, N. C., 

 February 23d. He was born at Musgrove, Va., 

 March 9, 1841, and, after serving as editor on 

 several Southern papers, became city editor of 

 the "Raleigh Observer" in 1877, which posi- 

 tion he held at the time of his death. 



WORCESTER, Rev. THOMAS, died at Waltham, 

 Mass., August 14th, aged 83 years. He set- 

 tled in Boston in 1818, was the first Sweden- 

 borgian pastor in Massachusetts, and was for 

 many years President of the Convention of the 

 New Jerusalem Church. 



YOUNG, Rev. DANIEL P., died at Louisville, 

 Ky., June 30th. He was Principal of the Pres- 

 byterian Orphans' Anchorage of Kentucky, 

 and for more than twenty years was one of the 

 most successful Presbyterian ministers in that 

 State. 



YOUNG, Father DOMINIC, born in Washing- 

 tqn, D. 0., died there November 23d, aged 86 

 years. For a long time he had been engaged 

 in mission services in the West. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. ABDUL GHAFAR, 

 the Akhoond of Swat, born about 1790, died in 

 January, 1878. The son of poor peasants, he 

 was originally destined for a shepherd ; but, 

 having studied for several years, he soon gained 

 a great reputation as a holy man, and received 

 the title of Akhoond or teacher. His influence 

 among the Mohammedans of central Asia was 

 very great, and no important undertaking was 



