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 @. John A. McDoueali. once famous artist and friend of Poe, Willis, Irving and oth' CTS. at Newark, N. J., aged s7. I. Joseph Holt, formerly cabinet officer and judge advocate general under President Lincoln, at Washington: aged 6. George Inness, noted American landscape painter, in Scotland; aged CD G Ex-Gov.. Austin Blair. Michigan's war governor" at Jackson; aged 76. 8. Joseph P. wightman, an early settler at Burlington, Ia-, in Chicago; aged o4 lA John Quincy Adams, son of Charles Francis Adams and grandson of President Adams, at Quincy, Mass. aged 6l. l7. Charles Robinson, the first governor elect. ed by the Free State party of Kansas, at Lawrence; aged 76 IS. Col. John Arkins, editor of The Rocky Mountain News, at Denver; aged 52 Burton 0. Cook, lawyer and statesman of Illinois, at Evanston; aged 75 23- Judge Norman L. Freeman, the oldest court reporter in the United States at Springfield, Ills.
 8 Mrs. Celia Thaxter, poet, at isle of Shoals; aged 5S.
 1. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, a distinguished Union soldier, at waltham, Mass. aged 7S. Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's war governor, at Des Moincs; aged Sl 8. Judge A. H. Douglass, a prominent lawyer
 
 and soldier, contemporary with Davy Crockett at Memphis: aged 4 &- James M Adsit, a veteran banker of Chi cago. in that city; aged S5. 5. Gen. George Stoneman, ex-governor of California and nt one time chief of cavalry in the Army of the Potomac, at Buffalo; aged 72.
 6. Sen. Henry Eugene Davis Union vet. eran, in New York city; aged 50. & The Count of Paris, head of the French f,, I ssi Prof. HerInan Louis Ferdinand Helmholtz, celebrated German physiologist and phy sician, at Be"'u.: aged i2 g. Gen. P. s Levin, a Union veteran, in To ledo' aged =. 10 Prof Heinrich Karl Brugsch eminent phil. ologist and Egyptologist, at Berlin; aged 6s. II. Joseph $. Cone. a noted California pioneer, at Red Bluff: aged 72 lA Rear Admiral Edward Y. McCauley, U. s. N, retired, at Jamestown. R. l.: aged e %. Mnie. Fursch- Madi, noted dramatic SC prano who created the title role of Aida, at Mount Bethel, N. J. ; aged 47 8 Gen. Willard Slocum, Union veteran, at Ashland, O.; aged "A a. Gen. Thomas Seir Cummings noted Amer ican artist, last surviving founder of the National Academy of Design aged %. G. Launt Thompson, noted American sculptor. at Middletown, N. Y.; aged 6l. 8 William Allen Shephard well known Cana, dian journalist, printer and manager, at Toronto; aged 64.
 OCTOBER g. Prof. David Swing, noted college professor and minister, in Chicago; aged a. g. Prof. Vincenzo Botta. well known linguist, in New York city; aged T2. z. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Boston; aged S5 Andrew O. Curtin, war governor of Pennsyi. vnnia, at Bellefonte; aged n. 20. James Anthony Froude. the historian. in London; aged "a. 2l. Ex-Mayor Monroe Heath of Chicago. at Asheville, N. C.: aged G. Ex-Gov. Joseph Dorsett Bedle of New ter sey, in New York city; aged 63 2S Mary A. Woodbridge, secretary of the W. o. T. U., in Chicago.
 Commodore William E. Hopkins, U. s. N. retired, in San Francisco; aged a 8 Rev. Alexander Herberton, prominent Presbyterian minister. in Philadelphia, aged e2
 Gen. Amos Beckwith. U. s. A. retired. at St. Louis; aged 09 #z-. 2. Hon. David Wills, organizer of the Nation al cemetery at Gettysburg in that town; aged 63
 1. The Czar Alexander III of Russia; aged <e Samuel Hancock, a prominent Methodist and apioneer, in San Francisco; aged e7 8. Duncan H. Campbell, noted inventor in shoe machinery, at Pawtucket. R. l. aged 6. Philip Gilbert Hamerton. the well known English artist and author in Paris; aged 60.
 8. William Moseley Hall Chicago pioneer in New York city; aged s2. 10. Theodore R. Davis, war artist of Harper's Weekly, at Asbury Park, N. J. aged 54 II. Col. John A. McCahll. the opera manager at Greensboro, \. O l4 Charles F. Strong, a prominent newspaper man of Chicago, in that city; aged 59. IS. Iron Nation, head chief of the Brule Sioux {; aged %
 l7. Rev Dr. James McCosh, president of Princeton college from 1888 to 1888 at Princeton, N. l.; aged s3. Rev. W. G. T. Shedd, theological teacher and writer, in New York city; aged 74 Robert Charles winthrop, n lineal descendant of John Winthrop the colonial governor and a noted orator and statesman, in Bos- ton; aged S5.
 IS. Thomas D. Gilbert, prominent citizen and pioneer of Michigan. at Grand Rapids; 90. Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein the Russian pianist and composer, at St Petersburg; aged 4 21. C. s. Kaufman. one of the oldest iron mas ters of Pennsylvania, at Columbia; aged oS p. Gen. William Harvey Gibson. at Tiffin, O.; aged 72
 25. Jean Victor Duruy. well known French historian, at Paris; aged ss. H. Princess Bismarck, wife of the German ex- chancellor.
 30. Joseph Emerson Brown, ex-governor of Georgia and ex-United States senator, at Atlanta; aged 7S.
 DECEMBER 1. Rev. Dr. Henry M. Storrs, prominent Presbyterian minister, at Orange, N. J.; aged e. (. Leon Abbett ex-governor of New Jersey, in Jersey City; aged 5s.
 Victoria vokes, the last of the famous yokes family, in England
 Oden Bowie. ex- governor of Maryland, at Bowie, Md. aged GS 6, Dr. J. Bernard Brinton. eminent physician, war surgeon and botanist, in Philadelphia; aged O.
 z. Gen. Eliakim Parker Scammon, Ameri can veteran of three wars in New York city aged 78
 Ferdinand de Lesaeps, in Paris; aged 7p