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own life, at the age of seventy, in a fit of melan- 

 choly occasioned by a sense of slighted merits 

 and wounded dignity. General Uchatius won 

 his advancement from the ranks to one of the 

 highest positions in the army through his in- 

 ventive genius. He served as a cannoneer from 

 his nineteenth to his thirty-third year, when he 

 was rewarded with a commission. In 1866 he 

 was appointed superintendent of the gun-foun- 

 dry, with the rank of major ; a year later he was 

 made a colonel, in 1874 major-general, and in 

 1879 lieutenant field-marshal. He was com- 

 mandant of the artillery arsenal since 1871. 

 While a lieutenant he invented a new fuse, and 

 paved the way for his improvements in the 

 manufacture of cannon. He used balloons for 

 casting bombs at the siege of Venice in 1849. 

 For the testing of metals in the arsenal, he con- 

 structed new apparatus. In 1856 he devised a 

 new method for the production of steel, and 

 from that time devoted his attention to increas- 

 ing the strength of guns. He first constructed 

 cannon with concentric metal bands. In 1874 

 lie perfected the invention of steel-bronze, 

 which in popular speech bears his name and 

 which has rendered it illustrious. The whole 

 of the Austrian field artillery was cast anew 

 from Uchatius bronze. 



UHBIOH, General, the defender of Strasburg, 

 who received at first extravagant praise, and 

 then unqualified blame, retiring into private 

 life after the severe judgment passed upoji him 

 by an investigating commission in 1873, died 

 at Paris, October 24th, aged seventy -nine 

 years. 



VERBOECKHOVEN, EUGENE, a Belgian painter, 

 born June8, 1799 ; died January 20, 1881. His 

 father, who was an excellent sculptor, wished 

 him to follow his profession, but he devoted 

 himself almost entirely to painting. He ex- 

 hibited his first work, an Amazon, in the Salon 

 of Brussels in 1821, and soon became one .of the 

 most popular painters of animals. He took an 

 active part in the War of Independence of 

 1830, immediately after the close of which he 

 painted a picture representing the Belgian 

 lion bursting his chains, which was lithographed 

 and had a large sale. One of his best paintings, 

 a flock of sheep surprised by a storm, is in the 

 Modern Royal Museum in Brussels. His pict- 

 ures were eagerly sought for and commanded 

 good prices, particularly in England, Russia, 

 and America. He also occasionally devoted 

 himself to sculpture, exhibiting at an histor- 

 ical exhibition at Brussels, in 1880, a colossal 

 lion. 



VIEUXTEMPS, HENRY, a Belgian violinist, born 

 atVerviers, February 17, 1820; died at Algiers, 

 June 6, 1881. At the age of six years he played 

 on the violin in public with so much success, 

 that the King of Holland granted a pension 

 for the completion of his musical education, 

 and he at once entered on a complete course 

 of study under M. de Beriot, the most brilliant 

 soloist of that period. In 1838 he made his 

 first trip to Germany, and while in Vienna 



studied the theory of music with Sechter. 

 After a short trip to England, he went to Paris, 

 where he received lessons in composition from 

 Reicha. From this time on he was constantly 

 traveling, except for six years when he was 

 first violin soloist to the Emperor of Russia. 

 He made several visits to America. He was 

 also a composer of great merit, and his works, 

 no less than his playing, were remarkable for 

 combining the vigor of the modern school of 

 music with the purity of the classics. 



WEBER, KARL PHILIPP MAX MARIA VON, a 

 German railroad manager, was born April 25, 

 1824; died April 19, 1881. He was a son of 

 the great composer Karl Maria von Weber, 

 and was educated at the Polytechnic School 

 at Dresden, and, after having traveled through 

 the different countries of Europe and parts 

 of Northern Africa, he entered the service of 

 Saxony in 1850, which he exchanged for tfie 

 Austrian service, and subsequently entered the 

 Prussian Ministry of Commerce in 1878. He 

 was the author of a large number of works on 

 railroads, among which are *' Teehnik des Eisen- 

 bahnbetriebs " (1854) ; " Schule des Eisenbalm- 

 wesens" (third edition, 1873), which was trans- 

 lated into nearly all the languages of Europe ; 

 " Telegraphen- und Signalwesen der Eisenbah- 

 nen" (1867) ; and " Nationalist und Eisenbabn- 

 politik " (1876). He also wrote a biography of 

 his father, which was highly prized. 



OHIO. On the 15th of November, 1880, the 

 public debt of the State was $6,476,805.80, of 

 which all but $1,665 was foreign debt, payable 

 in New York. Of this amount $2,500 was a 

 loan payable July 1, 1868, and not bearing in- 

 terest, and $4,072,640.30 loan payable after 

 June 30, 1881, bearing 6 per cent interest. 

 During the first half of the year redemptions 

 were made, by cash payments and the can- 

 cellation of State certificates, as follows : 



Loan payable July 1, 1S68, not beat-in* Interest |2,500 00 

 Loan payable after June 80, ISbl, be*r<cg 6 per 

 cent Interest 1.87^,64080 



Total payments $1,276.140 80 



Total outstanding July 1, 1831 $5,801,6 00 



The sixty-fourth General Assembly author- 

 ized the Fund Commissioners to place a loan 

 of $2,800,000, bearing date July 1, 1H82, with 

 interest at 4 per cent, payable semi-annually, 

 and maturing in installments as per statement 

 below. The loan was placed at a premium of 

 $105,000, thaa securing it at a rate of interest 

 of about Sfa per cent. The fact that this 

 loan was secured at a rate of interest less than 

 has yet been paid by any State, or by the United 

 States, attests the high financial standing of 

 the State. The loan was applied to the pay- 

 ment of a like amount of BtaU- certificates 

 which, with $1,275,140.80 from the sinking 

 fund, paid and canceled $4,075,140.30 of fund- 

 ed debt due July 1st. 



On the 15th dny of November, 1881, the 

 public funded debt of the State was $5,201,- 

 665. This sum consists of the following loans : 



