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he brought out several pantomimes, and he 

 afterward became manager of the Old Bowery, 

 and later was associated with Lingard, at the 

 New Bowery Theatre. His most celebrated 

 part was the clown in " Humpty-Dumpty," 

 which he played for several months at the 

 Olympic Theatre, in New York. In 1876, 

 while playing at Booth's Theatre, he was 

 stricken with paralysis. As a pantomimist he 

 ranked first in this country, his acting being 

 remarkable for its versatility and abundance of 

 animal spirits. 



FRANCIS, LEWIS, died in Dublin, Ireland, 

 in August. He was born in New York City, 

 August 24, 1814. Since 1847, he had been a 

 member of the firm of Francis & Loutrel, 

 prominent dealers in stationery. He was the 

 inventor of Francis's " Manifold Letter Writer," 

 "Printers' Rollers," and " Copying Ink." 



GALLAHER, JOHN S., formerly Third Auditor 

 of the Treasury, and well known as a journal- 

 ist, died at Washington, D. C., February 4th, 

 aged 81 years. 



GALLAUDET, Mrs. SOPHIA FOWLER, died at 

 Washington, D. C., May 13th. She was born a 

 deaf mute, in New England, in 1798, and at the 

 age of twenty became the pupil of Thomas 

 H. Gallaudet, the father of deaf-mute instruc- 

 tion in this country. Subsequently she be- 

 came his wife, and was ever after a hearty 

 promoter of the cause which is indissolubly 

 associated with his name. In 1851 she was 

 left a widow with eight children, and in 1857 

 she, with her youngest son Edward, who was 

 then twenty years of age, removed to Wash- 

 ington, D. C., where they were invited by Mr. 

 Amos Kendall to take charge of the proposed 

 school for mutes and blind, of which he was 

 the projector. For twenty years Mrs. Gallaudet 

 was identified with this institution, and her son 

 has become permanently associated with it. 



GARRISON, Major A. F., was born in New 

 Jersey, and died at Hermosillo, Mexico, August 

 5th, aged 70 years. He was senior United 

 States Vice-Consul at Guayinas, Mexico. He 

 served his country during the Seminole War, 

 the war with Mexico, and the late civil war. 



GIFFORD, C. L. 0., died in Newark, N. J., 

 March 29th. He was born there in Novem- 

 ber, 1825, and graduated from the Yale Law 

 School in 1844. In 1850 he was admitted to 

 the bar, and for four years was deputy collec- 

 tor for the port of Newark. He was elected to 

 the House of Assembly in 1857, was appointed 

 State Senator in 1858, which position he held 

 for two years, and was chosen President of the 

 Senate during the second year. In 1862, al- 

 though a Democrat, he received the Republi- 

 can nomination for mayor, but was defeated, 

 and from 1872 to 1874 was Presiding Judge of 

 the Essex County Court of Common Pleas. 



GILBERT, Prof. GEORGE A., a prominent ar- 

 tist in water-colors, died at Hartford, Conn., in 

 December, aged 62 years. 



GRACE, FBEDERIOK J., died April 2d. He was 

 a pioneer telegrapher, and had been sdltor 



of The Journal of the Telegraph for several 

 years. 



GREENE, Colonel ENOCH W. C., publisher of 

 the Sunday Transcript, died in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., December 27th, aged 55 years. 



GREENE, NATHANIEL, died in Boston, No- 

 vember 29th. He was born in Boscawen, N. 

 H., 1797. He became a printer ; in 1821 found- 

 ed The Massachusetts Statesman, which became 

 the leading Democratic journal of the State. 

 He was at different times connected with sev- 

 eral other papers, among which were The Con- 

 cord Gazette, The New Hampshire Gazette, 

 The Hanerhill Gazette, and The Essex Patriot. 

 He was Postmaster of Boston from 1829 to 1841, 

 and from 1845 to 1849. In the latter year he 

 went to Europe, and resided in Paris until 1861, 

 when he returned to Boston. He published a 

 "History of Italy" (1836), translated from the 

 Italian; "Tales from the German" (2 vols., 

 1837) ; " Tales and Sketches from the German, 

 Italian, and French" (1843), and "Improvisa- 

 tions and Translations " (1852). 



GREGORY, Dr. H. H., died in New York City 

 in May. He was a prominent Mason and a 

 Knight-Templar. 



GRENELL, GEORGE, died November 20th. 

 He was born at Greenfield, Mass., in 1786; 

 graduated at Dartmouth College in 1808, and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1811. He was a 

 member of the State Senate from 1824 to 1827, 

 and of Congress from 1829 to 1839, and was 

 Probate Judge of Franklin County from 1849 

 to 1853. He received the degree of LL. D. from 

 Amherst College in 1854. For more than twen- 

 ty years he was a member of the board of trus- 

 tees of that institution. 



GRIFFETH, Captain JOSEPH E., died at Iowa 

 City, Io., July 7th, aged 37 years. In 1862 he 

 enlisted as a private in the Twenty-second In- 

 fantry Regiment of Iowa Volunteers, and in 

 1863 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. 

 He graduated at West Point Military Academy, 

 and was then promoted in the army to be sec- 

 ond-lieutenant in the engineers, afterward serv- 

 ing as assistant engineer on the survey of the 

 northern lakes. 



HAGUE, Mrs. SUSAN, was born in Pennsylva- 

 nia, and died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 5th, 

 aged 106 years. 



HAINES, DANIEL, died January 26th, at Ham- 

 burg, N. J., aged 73 years. In 1847 he was 

 elected Governor of New Jersey, and was one 

 of the Judges of the Supreme Court for many 

 years. He was President of the Sussex County 

 Bible Association, a member of the Prison Re- 

 form Association, and a trustee of Princeton 

 College. 



HALL, EDWARD, died in Warrenton, N. C., 

 December 3d, aged 80. In 1840 he was ap- 

 pointed by the Governor one of the Judges of 

 the Superior Court of the State. 



HALL, Rev. EDWIN, D.D., Professor of Theol- 

 ogy in the Auburn Theological Seminary, died 

 September 8th. 



HALL, EZRA, was born at Marlboro, Conn., 



