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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (ACLAND AHMED BEN MUSA.) 



and led an adventurous life till he finally settled 

 in business in New York city. In a few years he 

 accumulated a fortune. In the presidential cam- 

 paign of I860 he bought the New York Daily 

 News, and used it in support of Stephen A. Doug- 

 las. Mr. Wood was elected to Congress in 18(50 

 and 1862. He was what was termed a Copper- 

 head, and as such was offensive to the Union 

 men. The issue of the Daily News was sup- 

 pressed by the Federal authorities from December, 

 1801, till May, 18G3. In 1866 he was elected to 

 the New Y^ork State Senate. In 1880 he was 

 again elected to Congress. In April, 1867, he 

 changed the Daily News from a morning to an 

 evening paper, and in 1870 he began the German 

 Daily News, and in 1872 the German Sunday 

 News. These papers had a long career of pros- 

 perity. In November, 1898, he sold his stock to 

 his wife, but continued to perform the duties of 

 editor in chief till a week before his death. 



Young, Alfred, clergyman, born in Bristol, 

 England, in 1831; died in New York city, April 

 4, 1900. He was graduated at Princeton College 

 in 1848, and at the medical department of the 

 University of New Y'ork in 1852. In 1850 he em- 

 braced the Roman Catholic faith. He practiced 

 medicine for a year, and in 1853 went to Paris, 

 where he studied for the priesthood at the Semi- 

 nary of St. Sulpice. He was ordained a priest in 

 St. Patrick's Cathedral, Newark, N. J., Aug. 24, 

 1856. In 1857 he was vice-president of Seton Hall 

 College; he was afterward rector of the Roman 

 Catholic Church at Princeton, and later at Tren- 

 ton. In 1861 he was received as a member of the 

 newly founded Paulist community, and became 

 a missionary of great zeal. He was a musician, 

 and composed many devotional hymns; he was 

 enthusiastic in restoring the Gregorian chant for 

 the entire services of the Roman Catholic Church, 

 and trained a choir of men and boys to render it 

 in the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New 

 York city. He was the author of The Complete 

 Sodality Hymn Book (New Y T ork, 1863); The 

 Office of Vespers (1869); The Catholic Hymnal 

 (1884); Carols for a Merry Christmas and a 

 Joyous Easter (2 vols., 1885-'S6) ; Catholic 

 Hymns and Canticles (1888); and Catholic and 

 Protestant Countries Compared (1895). 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Acland, Sir 

 Henry, an English sanitarian, born in 1815; died 

 in Oxford, Oct. 16, 1900. He was a younger son 

 of a baronet of ancient family, and was sent to 

 Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, where he 

 took the degree of doctor of medicine in 1840. 

 He was elected a fellow of All Souls, was reader in 

 anatomy at Christ Church from 1845 to 1854, and 

 in conjunction with Prof. Beale gathered the col- 

 lection of physiological studies that now forms 

 part of the university museum which he and 

 Dean Liddell brought into existence. When the 

 School of Natural Science was founded he was 

 chosen an examiner, an easy office until the study 

 of science took root in Oxford. In 1857 he suc- 

 ceeded Dr. Ogle in the medical professorships of 

 tho university, the clinical and the regius. He 

 was also Radcliffe librarian and curator of the 

 Bodleian Library and of the university galleries, 

 being himself an artist. As an expert in sanitary 

 science he was appointed a member of the Royal 

 Sanitary Commission in 1869, having previously 

 worked on the Cubic Space Commission. In the 

 British Medical Association, the Social Science 

 Congress, and the British Association he took a 

 prominent part. He accompanied the Prince of 

 Wales on his visit to America, and was president 

 of the General Medical Council in 1874-'87. 

 He published a tract on Village Health, and con- 



tributed many articles to the press on hygienic 

 and sanitary questions. He took an active inter- 

 est in sending female physicians to India, in the 

 public health of Egypt, and in medical missions 

 in Asia and Africa. 



Adenis de Colombeau, Jules, a French dram- 

 atist, born in Paris, June 28, 1823; died there in 

 1900. He was educated at the College Bourbon, 

 and entered upon a mercantile career, which he 

 soon abandoned for dramatic writing. His first 

 work was a piece in one act, Le Fils du Bonnetier, 

 played at the Theatre Comte, Paris, in 1841. He 

 wrote generally in collaboration with others, and 

 the titles of his principal works are: Une Nuit 

 Orageuse, first played at the Vaudeville, Paris, 

 Sept. 18, 1852; Ne Touchez pas a la Hache, 

 Folies-Dramatiques, April 15, 1854; O! le Meilleur 

 des Peres, Varietes, June 23, 1854; Philanthropic 

 et Repentir, Varietes, April 25, 1855; Trop Beau 

 pour Rien Faire, Boutt'es, Feb. 9, 1856; Une 

 Femme qui n'y est pas, May 3, 1856; Une Bonne 

 pour Tout Faire, Dejazet, March 16, 1860; La 

 Bouquetiere de Trianon, Theatre St. Germain, 

 Nov. 24, 1864; La Folie Fille de Perth, Theatre 

 Lyrique, Dec. 26, 1867 ; L'Officier de Fortune, 

 Ambigu, Sept. 11, 1874; and La Fee des Bruyeres, 

 Alcazar, Brussels, Feb. 27, 1878. He was also 

 author of several novels. 



Adye, Sir John Miller, a British soldier, born 

 in 1819; died in Rothbury, Northumberland, Aug. 

 26, 1900. His father and grandfather were officers 

 of artillery, and he was sent to Woolwich at an 

 early age, and entered the corps of royal artil- 

 lery in 1836. In 1843 he was appointed adjutant 

 at Dublin. In 1848, when in command of the 

 artillery detachment at the Tower, he prepared 

 for a Chartist uprising in London. He was bri- 

 gade major in the Crimean War, and when Gen. 

 Cator's health failed it fell to him to discus&n 

 artillery maneuvers with Lord Raglan. He was- 

 promoted major, and took part in the battles of^ ; 

 Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman, and in the siege 

 of Sebastopol. On the outbreak of the Indian 

 mutiny in 1857 he went out as assistant adjutant 

 general, saw plenty of fighting, and when it was 

 over he remained nine years, commanded the artil- 

 lery in Bombay, was in active service on the 

 Afghan frontier and in the Bhutan campaign, and 

 in the intervals of warfare enjoyed the sports of 

 India. He was appointed director of artillery at 

 the War Office four years after his return to Eng- 

 land, was associated with the changes in admin- 

 istration and the conditions of service made by 

 Lord Cardwell, received the order of knighthood 

 in 1873, and in 1875 was made governor of the 

 Woolwich Academy. In 1880 Mr. Gladstone ap- 

 pointed him surveyor general of ordnance, in 

 1882 he left the War Office to serve as chief of 

 staff in Sir Garnet Wolseley's Egyptian expedi- 

 tion, the success of which was partly due to his 

 assistance. After filling the post of Governor of 

 Gibraltar for four years, he retired from act in- 

 service. He published accounts of some of I lie 

 campaigns in which he had a part, also a volume 

 on Indian frontier policy, and in the leisure of 

 his later years he produced a book of Recollec- 

 tions of a Military Life. 



Ahmed ben Musa, Grand Vizier of Moron 1 ", 

 died May 13. 1000. His father was a Grand Viz- 

 ier, and he himself in the reign of Mulai el Has- in 

 held the post of Lord Chamberlain while Ni'l 'l 

 Haj Amaati was Vizier. He had freer aeee>s \ 

 the Sultan at all times than the Vi/ier. \Vlieii 

 the Sultan died while on an expedition airai) -' 

 revolted tribes, he and a few slaves knew of tin 1 

 death, and he brought the corpse back 1" the 

 coast in a closed palanquin, issuing orders to the 





