seamen are washed overboard and drowned. A passenger named C. L. Brady, formerly third mate of the ill-fated White Star steamer Atlantic, brings the Pennsylvania into port. Upon her arrival at Philadelphia, Capt. Brady refuses a tender of $1,000 from the company, and brings a suit for salvage.

MARCH.

mill, at Fall River, Mass., and loss of 20 lives, with an equal number severely injured.

22.-Severe typhoon at Hong Kong; over 8,000 lives, numberless junks, and many vessels lost, and over $5,000,000 worth of property damaged. ОСТОВЕК.

APRIL.

1.-Great fire in Millerstown, Butler County, Pa.; 69 buildings destroyed and 7 persons burned to death.

Explosion of the boiler of the steamer Tigress, late of the Polaris expedition, causing the deatli of 22 persons.

2.-The General Transatlantic Co.'s (French) steamer Europe, bound from Havre to New York, abandoned at sea in a sinking condition. The passengers and crew were taken off in safety by the steamer Greece.

14.-Sinking of the General Transatlantic Co.'s (French) steamer Amerique near the island of Ushant.

Colliery explosion at Dunkinfield, near Ashtonunder-Lyne, Lancashire, England, killing 53

persons.

18. Disastrous floods in Louisiana, caused by the Red river overflowing its banks. Twentyfive thousand people reported to be in danger of starvation, having lost everything.

25.-Great flood at Bagdad, caused by the overflow of the Tigris. Several persons drowned. MAY.

17.-Bursting of a storage reservoir on Mill river, Hampshire County, Mass. Four villages flooded, and 138 lives lost.

JUNE.

23.-The floor of the Central Baptist Church at Syracuse gives way during a strawberry festival, killing 13 persons and injuring 100 more or less severely.

JULY.

5. Great tornado. The long railroad bridge over the Juniata river at Lewistown blown down, and three persons killed. Two church steeples in the same town blown over, and four persons killed.

9.-M. de Groof, the "flying man," killed at Chelsea, England, while descending from a balloon.

10.-Erie Oil Works at Weehawken, N. J., struck by lightning and consumed. 60,000 barrels of oil destroyed.

14. Great fires at Chicago and Oshkosh. Loss at Chicago, $4,000,000; Oshkosh, $1,000,000. At Chicago 7 persons are known to have perished. 26-27.-Terrible flood at Pittsburgh and Allegheny City. About 200 lives lost. AUGUST.

5. The steamboat Pat Rogers burned on the Ohio river, one mile below Aurora, Ind. Over 40 lives lost.

SEPTEMBER.

3. Severe earthquake in Guatemala; two or three towns entirely destroyed, and over 200 lives lost.

11.-Railway collision near Norwich, England, killing 20 persons and wounding 50.

19.-Burning of the "Granite No. 1" cotton

20. During a severe storm in the North of England and Scotland, great damage was done on land and sea; over 50 lives were lost, mostly off the coast.

22.-Explosion of the boiler of the City of Brooklyn near Windsor, Ont.; 15 persons killed and several wounded.

NOVEMBER.

1.-Great damage was done to shipping by the hurricane in Jamaica.

13. Several houses were destroyed by an earthquake at Vera Cruz.

17. Three persons drowned, one killed, and several wounded, and a tug boat sunk by the explosion of her boiler in Hell Gate....Nearly 20 lives lost by the sinking of the steamer Empire at her wharf at New Orleans.

18.-Three men killed and two buildings destroyed by an explosion at the Mount Sterling (Ky.) Gas Works.

20.-Twenty-four persons killed by an explosion in a coal mine at Warren Vale, Yorkshire, England.

23.-A severe storm prevailed in the lake region and on the Atlantic coast; nearly half the town of Tuscumbia, Ala., was destroyed, and 12 or more persons killed.

29.-Severe storm off the west coast of England and Scotland, attended by great loss of life.

Obituary Record.

DECEMBER, 1873.

7.-Rt. Rev. William E. Armitage, Prot. Ep. Bishop of Wisconsin, 44, New York, N. YA.. John C. Underwood, U. S. Judge of the E. Dist. of Virginia, 65, Washington, D. C.

13. Samuel Nelson, ex-Associate Justice U. S. Supreme Court, 81, Cooperstown, N. Y.

14.-Louis John Rudolph Agassiz, naturalist, 66, Cambridge, Mass.... Elizabeth, Queen Dowager of Prussia, 72, Dresden, Prussia.

16.-John M. Parker, Judge N. Y. Supreme Court, , Oswego, N. Y.

22. Sir Richard A. Glass, maker of the first Atlantic cable, 63, Southampton, Eng. 24.-Johns Hopkins, merchant and philanthropist, 78, Baltimore, Md. JANUARY, 1874.

9.-James Hannay, novelist, 45, Barcelona, Spain.

11.-Gail Borden, inventor of condensed milk, 72, Bordenville, Texas.

15.-Charles Astor Bristed, 53, Washington. 17.-Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, 62, Surrey county, N. C.

21.-Euphrosyne Parepa Rosa, singer, 36, Maida Vale, England.

24.-Adam Black, publisher, 89, Edinburgh, Scotland.

28.-James Thompson, ex-Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 67, Philadelphia. FEBRUARY.

2.-N. S. Dodge, author, 63, Boston. 3.-William Lunalilo, King of the Sandwich Islands, 39, Hawaii.

6.-Baron Meyer de Rothschild, 54, London. 7.-James W. Gerard, lawyer, 80, New York. 8.-David Friedrich Strauss, theologian, 66, Berlin.

Herman Merivale, author, 68, Cornwall Gardens, England.

10.-Jules Michelet, man of letters, 76, Paris. 11.-N. P. Trist, 74, Alexandria, Va.

12.-Sir Francis Pettit Smith, inventor of the screw propeller, 65, Kensington, England. 18.-Ex-Senator Lewis T. Wigfall, 50, Galveston, Texas.

23.-Henry Smith, President of the Board of Police, 53, New York.

Shirley Brooks, editor of The London Punch, 58, London.

25.-Rev. John Bachman, naturalist, 85, Charleston, S. C.

MARCH.

2.-Elder Jacob Knapp, revivalist, 74, Rockford, Ill.

Neil Arnott, M.D., inventor, &c., 85, London. S.-Forbes Winslow, M. D., distinguished writer on insanity, 63, Brighton, England. 5.-Jane McElhenny Noyes (Ada Clare), actress, 88, New York.

8.-Millard Fillmore, ex-President, 74, Buffalo. 10.-Aimée Desclee, French actress, Paris. 11.-Charles Sumner, Senator, 63, Washing

ton.

19.-Owen Jones, architect, &c., 64, London, 23.-Rev. Henry Slicer, D. D., 78, Baltimore. 24.-John Phillips, geologist, 73, London. 27.-Rev. John N. McLeod, 67, New York. Mowbray Morris, late manager of The London Times, 56, London.

28.-John II. Griscom, physician, 64, New York.

30.-Jonas C. Heartt, ex-Speaker of the N. Y. Assembly, 81, Troy.

MAY.

1.-Charles Farrar, merchant, 70, Brooklyn. 4.-Beriah Green, reformer, 80, Whitesboro, N. Y.

7. John Hecker, merchant and philanthropist, 61, New York.

15.-Edwin Hoyt, merchant, 70, New York. 16.-Major-Gen. George L. Hartsuff, U. S. A., 44, New York.

18.-Rev. Thomas De Witt, D.D., 82, New York. 21.-Charles H. Doolittle, Judge N. Y. Supreme Court, at sea.

10.-John Carter Brown, manufacturer, 77, Providence.

11.-Eliza Sharpe, water-color painter, 78, England.

18.-James Miller McKim, reformer, 74, West Orange, N. J.

14.-Sir Charles Fox, engineer of the London World's Fair building of 1851, 64, Blackheath, England.

19.-Jules Janin, critic, 70, Paris.

Manchester, Conn. 20.-Charles Cheney, manufacturer, 77, South

26.-Howard Staunton, chess player and Shakespeare scholar, 64, London.

28. Marshal Manuel de la Concha, general and statesman, 80, killed in battle.

30.-Henry Grinnell, merchant, and originator of the first Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 75, New York,

JULY.

1.-George B. Upton, merchant, 70, Boston. 4.-M. de Goulard, statesman, 66, Paris. 5.-Henry Stephens, author of the "Book of the Farm," 79, Bonnington, England.

6.-Earl of Dalhousie, English statesman, 73, Brechin, Scotland.

11.-Tod R. Caldwell, Governor of North Carolina, Hillsboro, N. C.

13.-Agnes Strickland, authoress, 69, Southwold, England.

18.-Samuel Williston, philanthropist, 79, East Hampton, Mass.

James Winslow, banker, 59, New York. 27.-Baron Anselm de Rothschild, banker, 72, Vienna.

31.-Charles T. Beke, African explorer, 73, Beakesbourne, England.

AUGUST.

8.-John Stanton Gould, 63, Hudson, N. Y. 10.-Henry John Whitehouse, P. E. Bishop of Illinois, 72, Chicago.

16.-M. de Forcade de la Roquette, French minister of Finance, &c., 58, Paris.

18.-William Fairbairn, civil engineer, 82, Farnham, England.

24.-William Henry West Betty, the "Infant Roscius," 82, London.

Kenny Meadows, artist and illustrator of Shakespeare, 86, England. 25.-John E. Gavit, engraver, 58, Stockbridge, Mass.

27.-Mark Smith, comedian.

John Henry Foley, R. A., sculptor, 55,

London.

SEPTEMBER. 2.-Gen. John G. Foster, U. S. A., 51, Nashua, N. H.

The Rev. Thomas A. Morris, Senior Bishop of the M. E. Church, 80, Springfield, Ohio. 4.-Prof. Jeffries Wyman, anatomist, 60, Bethlehem, N. H.

6. Michael Banim, author, 81, Ireland 7.-Frederick B. Conway, actor, 53, Manchester, Mass.

12.-Francois P. G. Guizot, statesman and historian, 86, Val Richer, France.

Francis E. Anstie, 40, London. 14.-Charles Vandevoort, Grand Master of the Odd Fellows, 54, New York.

15.-Ex-judge Benjamin R. Curtis, 64, Newport, R. I.

22.-Charles Swain, poet, 71, Manchester, England.

27.-John A. Hows, artist, 43, New York. 28-John Ganson, lawyer and State senator, 56, Buffalo.

30.-Gardner Brewer, merchant, 68, Newport.

Samuel B. W. McLean, of The Enquirer, Cincinnati.

Isaac Butts, journalist, Rochester. 22.-Fortuny, artist, 35, Spain.

26. John Richard Dennett, journalist, 37, Westborough, Ma 23. -Jonathan S rges, merchant,78, New York. 29.-John M. Reart, ex-Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 78, Philadelphia.

Charles N Talbot, merchant, 72, New York. 30.-William F. Havemeyer, three times elected Mayor of New York, 70, New York.

Nathaniel G. Hichborn, shipbuilder, 55, Stockton, Me.