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DEATH  OF  HON.  A.  CAETEE  WILDEE. 
The  sad  news  comes  to  us  that  Hon.  A.  C. 
Wilder,  ox-Mayor  of  Rochester,  and  formerly 
Member  of  Congress  from  Kansas,  died  in  San 
Francisco,  Deo.  lS2cL  Mi'.  Wilder  was  horn  in  ! 
Mendon,  Mass.,  March  18, 1828.  In  1850,  ho  ro- 
inovod  to  Rochester,  N.Y.,  and  in  1857,  to  Kan¬ 
sas,  where  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  pnrsnits. 
Ho  was  in  the  38th  Congi'ess  fi’om  Kansas,  and 
in  1866  rotorned  to  Rochester,  where,  for  several 
years,  ho  was  engaged  iu  newspaper  publishing 
withliis brother,  lion.  D,  W.  WlLDEa,  the  presont 
Auditor  of  Kansas.  Li  1872,  Mr.  Wildk.u  was 
elected  Mayor  of  Rochester,  which  position  he 
resigned  after  holding  it  a  year  and  a  half. 
DiU'ing  the  past  two  years  his  health  has  been 
poor,  and,  at  the  time  of  his  deatli,  ho  was  on  the 
Padfio  Coast  lu  hope  of  recovery. 
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HOME  NEWS  PAEAGRAPHB.. 
The  court  house  at  Camden,  Ai'k.,  one  of  the  j 
finest  in  the  State,  was  burned  Dec.  19th.  The 
books,  records,  and  all  the  papers  pertaining  to 
the  derk’a  ofiice  were  destroyed. 
On  Doc.  20th  the  Bice  Grammar  School,  on 
Dari  mouth  8i..  Boston,  Mass.,  was  accidentally 
sot  on  lire  by  the  janitor  while  thawing  a  steam- 
pipe  witli  a  red  hot  jwiker.  The  flames  ran  up 
the  ventilator  and  destroyed  the  upper  story  and 
a  part  of  the  second.  Loss  &25,000 ;  no  iiisiu- 
ance. 
Mr.  Peak  of  West  Troy,  has  an  old  ch.Tir,  I 
wliioh  was  tho  first  thing  taken  olf  the  first  I 
English  ship  captured  by  the  Americans  during  | 
tho  rovolutionai7  war.  An  old  sailor  by  tho  j 
name  of  George  Lewis  was  the  first  tu  lay  i 
hands  on  it,  bringing  it  safely  on  hoard  tho  I 
American  ship,  and  it  has  been  handed  down 
from  one  genor-ition  to  another,  tiiially  coming 
ink'  tho  hands  of  the  present  owner. 
Mexican  traders  report  80(1  Comanche  Indian 
warriors  at  the  canon  of  San  Kodgero,  40  miles  i 
above  Riraalo.  It  is  thought  that  tho  object  of  | 
the  gathaiang  is  to  make  raids  into  Texas.  ' 
Tho  Rev.  Dr.  ,8.  S,  Laws  of  New  York  City  has 
been  elected  President  of  the  University  of  the  , 
State  of  Missoiu’i,  to  succeed  President  Read, 
whoso  roaiguation  will  take  effect  July  4,  1876. 
About  2,000  tOn.s  of  mown  prairie  grass  are 
said  to  have  been  destroyed  by  lire  in  Brookiield,  | 
Ill.,  on  the  night  of  Dec.  20. 
it  is  said  that  Thompson,  tho  man  who  caused  i 
tho  Mosel  horror,  rented  a  store  in  South  Fom'th 
St.,  in  Philadelphia,  in  1861.  and  set  lire  to  it  for 
Iho  pm'poso  of  obtaining  insurance  on  fictitious  ' 
stock.  j 
P.  T.  Bamiira  is  said  to  be  making  arrange-  j 
monts  for  a  Centennial  enterprise  oh  a  gigantic  i 
scale,  but  the  exact  natui-e  of  the  venture  has 
not  yet  been  made  public.  I 
The  harbor  of  Grand  Haven,  Mich.,  is  to  he  I 
kept  open  all  winter  by  a  powerful  propellor 
which  has  been  chartered  for  that  pmpose.  j 
Dr.  Wales  M.  Huntington  of  Pittsford,  N.  Y,,  I 
died  Dec.  19,  aged  55  years.  Dr.  H.  was  born  in  ' 
Pittsford,  and  with  his  father,  also  a  physician  . 
and  some  years  deceased,  had  been  long  recog¬ 
nized  as  one  of  the  most  successful  and  esteemed 
physicians  of  Western  New  York. 
Jacob  liabcrle  and  David  Ilastil,  both  young 
men,  were  drouTied  while  skating  on  Bound 
Brook,  near  Sixth  Avenue,  Newark,  N.  J.,  on 
Doc.  2l8t.  Botli  bodies  were  recovered. 
'  The  stockholders  of  the  Citizen’s  Steamboat 
Company,  lYoy,  have  resolved  to  build  a  now 
Hudson  River  steamboat  at  a  cost  of  liiGO.tKM). 
Already  ^43,000  of  the  stock  has  boon  subscribed 
for.  Tlie  now  IsTat  will  bo  wider  and  longor  than 
tho  Huunyside,  and  will  be  fitted  up  iu  first  class 
style. 
The  receipts  of  the  police  commission  of  the 
city  of  Albany,  fur  the  year  ended  November  30, 
were  $135,435,26,  and  the  exirenscs  $26,799.65 
less. 
The  lato  Joel  Parker's  bequest  to  Dartmouth 
College  provides First,  a  law  department.  For 
this  object  ho  has  left  projicrty  valued  at  from 
$90,000  to  $150,000.  This  is  for  constituting  three 
funds  in  supiwrt  of  tho  proposed  hiw  depart- 
nieut,  viz. : — An  instruction,  a  library  fimd,  and 
a  building  fund.  Kooond,  increase  of  Uio  Dart¬ 
mouth  College  Ubrary.  borne  tknc  ago  he,  witli 
liis  brothers  ostablishod  a  fund  called  the  “  Park¬ 
er  Fund,"  for  the  l>euefit  of  the  library.  In  his 
will  ho  adds  to  It  tho  sum  of  $12,600. 
Gen.  C.  A.  Aidhur’s  recent  reappointment  and 
conlirmation  as  Collector  of  tho  Port^  of  New 
Yoi'k  seems  to  give  great  satisfaction  to  both 
pi'css  and  people.  It  is  a  long  time  since  the 
Government  had  so  oflicient  and  faithful  an  ofli- 
cer  in  the  iwsition.  and  we  are  glad  to  note  the 
general  recognition  of  Gen.  A.’s  ability  and  in¬ 
tegrity. 
Tho  general  inajioction  of  the  military  of  Penn¬ 
sylvania  will  take  plaoo  during  the  mouths  of 
AprD  and  May,  next  year,  instead  of  in  tho  fall. 
Ex-Oov.  Clifford  of  Massachusetts  is  slowly  re¬ 
covering  from  liis  dangerous  illness. 
A  new  post  of  the  Grand  Army  of  tho  Republic 
at  Auburn  has  been  named  after  the  lato  Hecre- 
tary  Seward. 
Gi-aco  Greenwood’s  husband,  Dr.  l.ippincott, 
has  become  Chief  Clerk  iu  the  Laud  Office,  at 
Washington. 
The  late  Chailos  B.  Winn  of  Woburn,  Mass., 
bequeathed  $250,000  to  public  purposes  iu  that 
town. 
Ciioclt  Woug,  one  of  the  editors  of  a  Cliinese 
paper  at  San  Francisco,  has  declared  his  inten¬ 
tion  of  taking  out  naluralizatioti  papers  in  the 
United  States  District  Ooiurt,  which  will  test  tho 
question  of  the  right  of  Mongolians  to  become 
citizens. 
Prof.  F.  V.  Hayden,  in  charge  of  the  U.  8.  Geo¬ 
graphical  Survey  of  tho  Torritories,  has  boon 
elected  an  honorary  nienibor  of  the  ■'  Circolo 
Geografleo  Italiano  ’’  of  Turin,  Italy. 
Tlie  Trustees  of  Princeton  College  approved 
the  Faoulty’s  action  against  secret  societies. 
Bowdoiii  College  develops  a  sentiment  in  favor 
of  withdrawing  from  the  Rowing  Association. 
Cincinnati  proposes  a  pnbUc  inaugural  of  the 
Centennial  year. 
J.  W.  L.  Bai'ues,  formerly  Deputy  Sergeant- 
at-Arms  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  has 
been  appointed  S|>ecuil  Agent  of  the  Ponsiou 
Bm'eau.  vice  Col.  0.  W.  Heaton,  who  has  been 
tende.^d  tho  position  of  Supeiintondeht  of  tho 
Census  of  Now  York. 
It  is  asserted  th,at  tho  $10,000,000  bridge  over  i 
the  Mississippi  at  Ht.  Louis  will  not  pay  interest 
on  cost  during  this  gouerntion. 
Tweed  is  in  Cuba,  according  to  last  advices, 
for  a  dispatch  dated  Havana,  Dec.  23d,  says :  •*  A 
report  is  cm'rent  that  Win.  M.  Tweed  arrived 
here  Doc.  17  on  a  .schooner.  Several  New  York¬ 
ers  who  knew  him  by  sight  say  they  saw  him 
yesterday  and  to-day  in  different  parts  of  the 
city." 
A  steam  street  car  just  completed  in  Pliila- 
dolphia  will  make  a  trial  trip  on  Atlantic  avenue, 
Brooklyn,  iu  a  few  days.  At  the  head  of  the 
cor,  winch  resembles  inside  an  ordinary  street 
cal',  ai'o  set  three  minors,  running  from  top  to 
bottom,  which  conceal  the  upright  bofler  from 
view  of  the  passengers.  On  the  outside  is  a 
circular  inclosed  platform,  where  the  engineer  is 
seated,  so  that  he  can  conveniently  feed  tho  fur¬ 
nace  and  keep  a  look-out  over  the  track  aliead. 
At  his  side,  in  compact  spa(.H-.  are  aiTanged  the 
coal-box  and  the  necessary  appliances  for  run¬ 
ning  tbo  engine.  All  the  machiuevy  of  tlie  en¬ 
gine  is  concealed  lieneath  the  car.  the  pistons 
work  noiselessly,  and  the  cax  runs  smoothly  over  | 
the  track  vvithout  jarring.  i 
The  White  Spring  farm  buildings  and  man-  i 
sionat  Genova,  N.  Y.,  owned  by  James  O.  Shel¬ 
don,  were  totally  destroyed  b}’  fire  Dec.  24.  The 
loss  is  .$50,000 ;  insuiance,  $26,000. 
Tho  fire  at  Red  Oak.  Iowa.  Dec.  23,  destroyed 
the  entii'e  east  side  of  the  public  square.  The 
buildings  were  all  of  wood,  however,  and  tho 
loss  will  not  bo  more  than  $20,000 ;  insiu'cd  in  j 
Western  companies. 
Gen.  Schofield,  of  San  Franciseo,  has  rocoivtsl  ! 
information  from  Gen.  Kautz,  commander  m  j 
Ai-izona,  that  the  Mexican  rebels  under  Gen.  Ser-  1 
rda,  lately  defeated  by  the  national  troops  in  j 
Sonora,  are  so  hard  pressed  that  they  are  about 
to  cross  the  border. 
Speaker  Kerr  spends  his  holidays  in  Philadel¬ 
phia.  j 
Henry  Stiles,  tho  first  white  person  born  in 
Cincinnati,  died  at  East  Bay,  Mich.,  on  Wednes¬ 
day. 
The  ooUego  catalogues  for  the  present  aca-  1 
demio  year  show  that  Harvard  has  119  instruc-  ; 
tors,  Yale  86  {  Harvard  776  undergraduates, 
Yale  582 ;  Harvard  1,278  studeuta  in  all  branches, 
and  Yale  1,0.51.  Tbo  number  of  students  to  an 
instructor  is,  in  Hai-vard  1.07,  in  Yale  12.2. 
FOREIGN  NOTES. 
At  Berlin,  ui  1878,  an  exhibition  will  bo  opened 
with  the  object  of  showing  Germans  what  Gor¬ 
mans  can  do,  and.  therefore,  in  what  points 
head  can  be  made  against  foreign  competition,  j 
The  exhibition  will  be  classirnjd  in  twonty-onc 
groups,  and  prizes  will  be  awarded  in  medals 
distinguished  as  for  production,  manufacture, 
commerce,  art,  science  and  education.  Work¬ 
men’s  medals  will  also  Ikt  issued. 
Many  British  manufacturers  and  other  employ¬ 
ers  have  lately  changed  pay  day  from  Saturday  to  ; 
Monday  for  the  sake  of  tlio  workmen,  many  of 
whom  have  been  in  the  habit  of  squandering 
their  wages  ui  dissipation  on  Simday.  A  similar  ^ 
change  is  talked  of  in  New  England. 
In  tho  Queboc-  Legislative  Assembly,  the  Gov- 
enunent  Railroad  bill,  the  amendment  to  the  ' 
Jjioenso  act  incroaiiing  the  coat  of  licenses,  ami  I 
tho  bill  to  prevont  all  conflicts  l>«t ween  religion « 
and  civil  authorities  In  regard  to  Uomnii  Uatlio- 
hc  CMjrpotcrios,  passed  their  Ihiiil  stageson  Dec.  20. 
Tho  British  War  Department  has  Imd  the  Ger¬ 
man  history  of  tho  campaign  of  1870-71  transla¬ 
ted  for  the  benefit  of  the  .service,  and  will  treat 
the.  fortiicoming  Rnssian  official  story  of  the 
Orinioan  war  in  the  same  way. 
An  exhibition  ol  inannscriiitM,  wins,  arms,  im¬ 
plements  and  other  objects  illustrative  of  tlie 
histoi'y  and  industi’y  of  the  East,  will  be  a  proin- 
inoiit  foatiu'c  of  tlic  meeting  of  Orientalists  to  be 
held  in  8t.  Petersburg  nexl  summer. 
The  Hub-Iherec'l  of  Hi.  Gmer,  in  France.  M. 
Ritt,  and  his  deputy.  M.  Vaneossel,  have  Iwen 
oondemuod  to  linos  of  100  francs  and  60  francs 
resjHsctivoly,  for  giving  orders  to  fire  at  a  lunatic 
who  hiui  escaped  froni  custody. 
Tlie  F.jiisia  says,  when  the  Oarlist  insuiTOotion 
is  suppressed,  an  efficient  aimy  will  bo  main-  | 
tained  in  (hiba,  as  a  luoasuro  of  procaiutiou,  and  I 
that  heavy  guns  will  be  placed  on  the  coast.  At  ! 
tho  Biono  time.  Kpain  will  tiropose  lo  llie  United 
Btates  a  new  and  mutually  advantageous  treaty 
of  commerce.  Siibscriptious  have  ah'oady  been 
opened  to  defray  tho  coat  of  manufaotm'ing  heavy 
guns  for  the  defense  of  Cuba. 
R1  Cronista.  the  ministerial  organ,  states  that 
the  Government  has  decided  to  send  heavy  roiu- 
foi-cements  to  Cuba. 
Borne  sixty  statuettes  in  clay,  taken  from  Tan- 
ara,  in  Greece,  by  MM.  Albert  Dumont  and  P.  0. 
Ghapclain,  after  a  long  voyage  iu  the  East,  have 
just  been  placed  in  tho  Gallery  of  Antiquities  at 
the  Louvre,  Paris. 
It  is  rumored  at  Cairo  that  the  Khedive  is 
negotiating  for  tho  sale  of  Egj'pt's  founders' 
shares  in  the  Suez  canal.  The  Government  of 
Groat  Britain,  and  Al.  de  Lesseps,  roprosontiag  ' 
a  combination  of  French  oapital,  are  tlie  bidders, 
llie  latter  has  offered  $9,000,001)  for  the  shares. 
ft  is  stated  that  the  principal  feature  of  the 
Great  Powers’  proposition  relative  to  reforms  in 
Tiu'key  is  tliat  the  ambassadors  of  the  neutral 
powers  at  Constantinople  shall  exercise  a  per¬ 
manent  oontrol  in  the  execution  of  the  reforms 
in  the  provinces. 
In  tho  Assonibly,  at  Paris,  Dec.  ?3d.  tho  Elec¬ 
toral  Districts  bill  was  under  consideration.  An 
amendment  proposed  by  the  Government  was 
adopted,  by  which  Paris  will  retiu'n  to  the  Lower 
Chamber  twenty  Deputies  iu-steady  of  twenty- 
five.  and  Lyons  six  instead  of  eight,  as  at  present. 
This  reduction  is  effected  by  apportioning  one 
Jleputy  te  each  100,000  of  population  in  those 
cities,  instead  of  one  Deputy  to  each  arrondisse- 
meiit  coiitNining  under  100,000  inhabitants,  and 
two  Deputies  to  arroudissements  containing  more 
than  100.0(F).  as  in  the  rest  of  Prance. 
The  Ijeft  are  indignant  over  the  introduction 
and  adoption  of  the  amendment. 
.V  Rnssian  paper  states  that  emissaries  from 
Kliokand  had  incited  the  tribes  subject  to  Russia 
in  the  ueigliliorhuod  of  Urapete,  Turkestan,  to 
revolt,  ’.fhe  Russian  troops  attacked  thorn,  and 
were  at  first  repulsed,  but  subHequontly  obtained 
a  vitdory.  Tliree  hundred  insurgents  xvere  killed 
ill  one  engagement.  The  iusun-eetion  is  now 
suppressed. 
Queen  Victoria  has  bestowed  a  iieusion  of  $375 
per  year  uixm  each  of  tho  tliree  younger  childi'cn 
of  the  late  Mr.  Bircln  British  Resident  at  Perak, 
who  was  tiuu'derod  by  the  Miilnys,  and  tho  eldest 
son  will  bo  provided  with  a  iiositiou  iu  the  colon¬ 
ial  service. 
Ex-Empress  Eugenie  is  much  iu  the  condition 
of  the  boy  who  would  like  to  eat  his  cake  and 
keep  it,  too.  She  would  like  to  soli  every  bit  of 
her  laces  and  finery  in  order  to  give  the  Prince 
Imperial  a  lift  in  life,  and  at  the  same  time  she 
would  like  to  retein  them  for  the  adornment  of 
her  fifty-year  old  charnis. 
”  Aliparis  was  in  commotion  at  Dejazet’s  burial. 
Fifteen  thousand  tickete  had  liecn  issued  for  the 
Trinito  church,  which  could  only  accommodate 
one-fourth  that  number.  The  oUtc  of  the  artistic 
and  literary  world  were  present,  and  tlie  streets 
were  threnged  with  200,000  spectators.  Not¬ 
withstanding  the  intense  cold,  the  •windows  were 
all  open,  and  the  balconies  crowded  on  the  line  of 
tho  funeral  procession. 
Tho  Dutch  Government  will  show  at  the  Gen- 
tennhii Exhibition  a  collective  model  illustrating 
thojirogresH  made  by  Holland  in  hydraulic  en¬ 
gineering,  and  consisting  of  gronjis  of  iiiodols  of 
the  principal  groat  reclamation  and  otl  n  r  works 
undertaken  liy  the  State.  Among  them  will  bo 
sliown  tJio  Tlanrlom  drainage,  tho  now  canal,  the 
Dordrecht  steel  bridge,  the  Kuilenborg  railway,  a 
new  steam  pump,  i^upper  models  of  sluices,  relief 
map  of  tho  Zuj'der  Zoo,  Ac.  Tho  objccls  are 
now  Isiing  shown  to  the  public  before  being 
jiacked  for  Ameriea. 
According  to  an  official  report,  dated  1873,  the 
t  .'tal  force  of  the  Mexican  army  was  then  23,311, 
of  which  tho  infantry  absorbed  14,902,  the  c-nal- 
ry  1,813,  the  artUlery  1,479,  tho  engineer  corps 
969,  and  the  medical  corps  148,  There  was  also 
an  auxiliary  corps  of  626  men,  lu  addition  to 
tliis  national  force  tho  various  States  had  tlicir 
militia  averaged  at  10,00i)  per  State.  Hie  uctivo 
fighting  force  of  the  ooimtrynow  imdcr  arms  is 
estimated  at  60,337  men.  The  Minister  of  W.ar, 
Gen.  Tgnado  Mejia,  i.^  General-in-Chief.  There 
arc  four  generals  of  dirisioii,  ten  brigadior-geuer- 
hIm,  310  colonols  and  lieuienaut-colonclu,  and  1,359 
officci’s  of  lower  rank. 
A  I’ortngncHo  gunboat  has  been  ordered  to  the 
Island  of  Bt.  Tliomas,  in  the  Gulf  of  Guinea,  on 
wccminl  of  an  allogwl  insurrection  of  tho  negroes. 
The  French  steamer  Louisiana  was  sunk,  Dec. 
20,  iu  the  River  Gironde,  by  a  collision.  Sixteen 
Uves  were  lost. 
Bir  .Alexander  Gordon,  a  Consorvative,  has 
been  elected  a  member  of  Parliament  from  East 
Aberdeen, 
A  dispatch  from  Halifax,  N.  B.,  says  that  the 
Committee  apiKiinted  to  examine  tho  distress  at 
Gape  Breten  report  1,355  persons  requiring  as¬ 
sistance  in  the  various  mining  distiicts. 
Siiaiii  has  decided  to  send  heavy  reinforco- 
ments  to  Cuba. 
Tlie  British  troops  in  Malacca  have  arrived 
Ixjfor  Kim  tall. 
Tho  Prince  of  Wales  landed  ct  Calcutta  last 
weelt. 
Tho  Epoca,  of  Madrid,  says  that  when  the  Car- 
hst  insun’oetion  is  suppressed  a  largo  army  will 
be  nuiintaincd  in  Cuba  as  a  moasm'o  of  precau¬ 
tion,  and  that  Spain  will  propose  to  the  United 
Btates  a  new  and  mutually  advantageous  com¬ 
mercial  treaty. 
The  London  Times,  in  its  second  edition.  Doc. 
24,  has  a  special  telegi  am  from  Penang,  dated 
Dec.  24  to  tho  following  effect  :~Geueral  Colborne 
rejiorts  that  he  has  taken  Kiutah  without  any 
loss.  The  Mahiu  ajahs,  Ismail  and  Lek  fled  to 
Palano. 
The  eteanishii)  Konil worth,  Capuin  Piouse, 
which  left  Liverpool  on  the  1.3tli.  and  Queens¬ 
town  on  tho  following  day,  for  Philadelplua,  has 
retiu-ned  to  Queenstown,  haring  lost  her  pro¬ 
peller. 
The  liord  Mayor  of  London  lias  received  from 
Mayor  Stokely  of  Philadelphia  a  superbly  bound 
volume  of  the  latter’s  third  annual  message. 
Tho  book  is  bound  in  Levant  niorooi’o.  >rith  elab¬ 
orate  ornamental  silk  liniiigs,  and  is  inclosed  in 
an  elegant  morocco  case,  also  hued  with  silk, 
The  British  troop-s  in  Malacca  have  arrived 
before  Kartah.  where  tho  Maharajaha  Island 
and  Lola  opjjoscd  them  wit  li  considerable  force. 
The  princdpal  featme  of  the  great  powers,  pro¬ 
positions  rektivo  to  the  reforms  iu  Turkey  is 
that  the  ambassadors  of  tlie  neutral  powers  at 
Constantinople  shall  exercise  a  permanent  con¬ 
trol  in  the  execution  of  the  reforms  in  the  prov¬ 
inces. 
Sonora,  Mexico,  is  in  a  state  of  anarchy,  and 
Governor  Pesquiera  has  levied  a  special  tax  to 
carry  on  the  war. 
There  is  in  Ohina  a  remarkable  people  known 
as  “the  nameless  sect.”  They  profess  “an  old 
religion.”  which  prevails  more  or  less  aU  over 
China,  but  especially  in  the  province  of  Shan¬ 
tung.  Disliked  and  persecuted  by  the  civil 
authorities,  they  have  for  a  long  time  endeav¬ 
ored  to  keep  their  beliefs  and  practices  secret. 
Their  religion  is  said  to  have  come  from  tho 
West,  whence  also  they  i  xpect  a  deliverer.  They 
do  not  worship  idols.  At  the  atose  of  their  relig¬ 
ious  services  they  have  a  meal,  of  which  bread 
and  wine  form  the  greater  part.  It  is  thought 
that  they  may  be  the  remnant  of  the  native 
chiurohes  planted  ceutmios  ago  in  China  by  Nes- 
torian  missionaries,  whoaro  said  to  have  preached 
the  gospel  for  nearly  a  thousand  year.s  through 
Sonthern  and  KCddlo  Asia  with  marvelous  energy 
and  BUOCC68.  and  to  have  exerted  a  powerful  influ¬ 
ence  in  China  for  upward  of  si  s  bimdi'ed  years, 
from  the  seventh  to  the  thii'teeuth  centiuy. 
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