. Gough, the famous temperance orator, died in
Philadelphia. He was attacked by apoplexy Monday, February 15, while
lecturing on "Peculiar People," in Philadelphia. When he arose to
address the crowded gathering he was feeling well, and for forty minutes
he spoke with his usual fire and eloquence. Then suddenly his head
dropped upon his chest, and he fell prostrate to the floor.

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Feb. 19.--Edward Learned, one of the most prominent citizens of
Berkshire county, died at his home, in Pittsfield, Mass., of disease of
the heart. He was sixty-six years old, and a native of Watervliet. He
was a Representative to the Legislature in 1857, and a Senator in 1873
and 1874.

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Feb. 25.--Death of John Smith, a well-known manufacturer of Andover,
Mass. He was nearly ninety years of age, and for years maintained a
personal interest in the town, in which place he first settled on
arriving in this country from Scotland. His detestation of the
pro-slavery preaching of the day led him, with others, to form the Free
Christian Church in 1846. He was also a generous supporter of
educational interests, and large sums went from his hand to the infant
colleges of the West, as well as to older institutions.

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Feb. 28.--Mary Jane Welles, widow of the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary
of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, died at her residence
in Hartford, Conn., aged 69 years. She was a daughter of Elias W. Hale,
who graduated at Yale College in 1795, and subsequently was one of the
original settlers of Lewistown, Penn. She married Mr. Welles in 1835.

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March 6.--The Rev. Henry Martyn Grout, D.D., pastor of the Trinitarian
Congregational Church in Concord, Mass., died in Boston after a brief
sickness. He was born in Newfane, Vt., May 14, 1831. He entered Williams
College in 1850, and was graduated in 1854. Dr. Grout entered the
ministry in September, 1858, when he was ordained and installed as
pastor of the Orthodox Church in Putney, Vt. After preaching there, at
West Rutland, Vt., and Springfield, Mass., he moved to Boston, and
became a member of the editorial staff of the _Congregationalist_, which
position he filled with great credit to himself and the paper during Dr.
Dexter's absence abroad. He had occupied the pulpit of the church in
Concord since 1872.