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his successor.
The estate of Thomas Holloway, the
famous English pil-maker, is valued at S25,
600, 900, and IL is all bequcathcd to charitable
institutions.
Mrs. Emma Molloy has been engaged to
conduct missionary work among the Chero-
KEGS, in Indian Territory, through the win.
ter, cancelling engagements in Nebraska and
other places in order to continue her labors
in the Territory, inaugurated few weeks
since.
John William Wallace the president of
the Pennsylvania Historical society, died at
his residence in Philadelphia on Saturday,
aged 60. lie was reporter of the United
States Supreme Court from 1864 to 1876,
and the author and editor of many legal
works.
A notable wedding was that at Montpelier,
Thursday noon, of Hon. James l.. Martin of
Brattlcboro, Speaker of the House, to Miss
Jessie Lilley Dewey, daughter of Hon. Ed
ward Dewey of Montpelier. The nuptials
were solemnized by Rev. Howard F. Hill
in the presence of large and fashionable
assemblagc, including number of promin-
ent persons from various parts Of the State.
| The bridal couple were attended to the chan
Gel by four bridesmaids, and the bridegroom
best man was John G. Martin, Esq, of
Manchester. After the ceremony was over
the couple and their immediate friends
partook of a wedding breakfast. The pres
ents to the happy pair were numerous and
| valuable.
The will of Julius Hallgarten, the New
York banker, bequeaths the interest of
$3.50, 900 to his wife, the income at her death
to go to his son Albert, and the principal to
60 TO his sons issue. To his son he be-
queaths the income from $7j0,000, to be
paid to him when he is 81, and the principal
TO be paid to him in 100000 yearly Install
ments after he is 90 years old. Should his
son die without issue, the two sums Of $3.50,
600 are to be divided into ~ parts, and
equally distributed to Yale, Harvard, Column
bia and Williams colleges, Cornell Universe
| ty, the New York free circulating library,
the American museum of Natural history,
the Nursery and child's hospital, the Mt.
Sinai hospital, the German hospital, the New
York infant asylum and the Metropolitan
museum of art The will also gives out
right $50, 900 to Dartmouth college, $50, 900
| to the University of the city of New York,
and sums ranging from $4,000 to $4,000 to
| almost every benevolent or charitable insti-
| ton in New York city.
Johann Peter Lange, the noted German
| theologian, whose body was found in canal
| near Hamburg, and who, it is thought, COM
mitted suicide, was born in 1909, became a
village pastor when he was twenty-four years
| old, occupied the chair of church history
and dogmatic theology at Zurich from 1S41
to 1854, and then went to the university of
Bonn as professor of systematic theology,
when in 1860 he was made councillor to the
| consistory. His many works of theology
and eXegesis have made him famous es-
pecially his Life of Jesus" in three
volumes heidelberg 1874 40, his treatise
on the existence OF Evil and Original SIM
QS46), his "History Of the Church in the
Period of the Apostles (ls53 3D., and his
notable MISREPRESENTATION Bible
werk,' which he planned throughout aud
edited, though much of the work was done
by other hands, and which appeared be-
tween 1851 and 1864 This work has been
given to the American public, in translation
with additions, as 'Lange's Commentary"
nnder the editorship of Rev. DR.. Philip
SchaH. In his own country, though not else
where, he has a reputation as religious
poet, being author and compiler OF many
books of verse.
Thomas Holloway, the famous pills and
ointment man, has just died in England,
aged "a. He was [genius in advertising
| the glores of his panaccas were painted on
the Pyramids, and the commander of the
first English assault on Canton wrote that
they had not occupied the city for an hour
before the walls were covered with flaming
pictures Of people entering lloloways tenn
pie of health emaciatcd and leaving it with
the elasticity of health. This enterprise en-
abled Holloway to amass a fortune of S25,
600, 900, - His charity was greater than his
medicine, and he will be remembered in
England for his princcy benevolencc in his
later years. lie gave over $1,000, 900 in
1873 for the establishment of an asylum for
the insane and the hospitals for incurables
and convalescents among the middle classes
a few years later he gave as much more and
promised $500, 900 further tor the endow-
ment of college for the higher education of
women; and English people who lived in
the neighborhood of any of his poor rcla-
tives-for he had many in the south of Eng
land-have long been fond of telling how
Holloway's generosity had enriched even the
most distant of them. He was, moreover
a liberal rewarder of any one who spoke o
good word for his specifies and, when
Gladstone once CHANGED to refer to them in a
public address, Holloway at once sent
$4,000 to hospital of which Mrs. Gladstone
was the president.
Recent news from Alaska announces Tho
death, at Sitka, on Dec. 3 ast, of William
Morton, the Arctic explorer Morton en-
tered the navy in 1913, and served almOs
continuously until c.day of his death. II'
was in the Mexican war and in the war o
the rebellion, and was present at the attach
on the forts below New Orleans, his ship
the Verona, sinking under him on that occa
sion. He was on the Monongahela when sh,
was carried inland by a tidal wave in 1867
and was one Of the forty who were left to &c
the ship a6oat. OF the party so left twenty
one died of yellow fever. In lS40 he wa
selected for the expedition then fitting GU
under the munifcence of the late Henri,
Grnncll in search of Sir John Franklin
being attached TO the brig Advance. Fo
his services in this expedition h
received the thanks of Congress. Soo
r after the return Of the Grinnel
expedition Dr. Kane determined l.
resume the search for Franklin, aud the frs
s person whose services he sought was Morton
who Immediately volunteered. 1t was dur
open polaP sea which had been the occasio
of so much speculation. When Dr. G. i
Hall was assigned to to the command of tn
Polaris, Morton accepted a place a
second officer Of the expedition. When
, was thought necessary to abandon the shr
it will be remembered that while engaged i
removing the stores to the ice it sudden
broke up, leaving Morton and few Of tn
crew in the ship. The party on the ice WEI
l finally rescued. For II long time the fat
j of those left in the ship was unknown, but
length it was learned that they had be
! picked up, after abandoning The Pularls an
u taking t" the sea in an open boat. The
y were rescued by the Ravenscrag, Scotc
: whaler which carried them into Iunde,
P Scotland, from whence the first news of the
d rescue was received.