Harris, and at once assumed here, as he had elsewhere, a leading position at the bar. In 1866, he was elected to the assembly from the central district of this city, having overcome, by his conceded fitness and popularity a democratic majority of 700. He was renominated last November; but, in the new apportionment, an additional democratic majority was thrown into the district, too large to be overcome. He was beaten by less than one hundred, although the antirepublican majority in the district is full one thousand. Mr. Cochrane was a man to be loved, generous, genial and noble hearted.― Journal......... Moses Fogel died.

6. Air, h. 32, I. 21...... Ellen Olena died, aged 75.

7. Air, h. 29, 1. 22.......... .........Margaret, wife of Edward Ryan, died, aged 40. Luther Morgan died, aged 21. William Lawless died, aged 45. Carrie E. Dodge died, aged 19. Jeremiah Toomey died, aged 88.

10. The ice disappeared in front of the city....... Ellen, wife of Jeremiah O'Connell, died, aged 18. Margaret Riley died, aged 48. Fanny L., wife of George B. Burrow, died, aged 28. Wm. Henry Jephson, formerly of Albany, died in New York, aged 85.

11. Nancy Lockwood, widow of Allen Brown, died at Ithaca, aged 82. She was the daughter of James Lockwood long a merchant on the dock, whose residence was the present site of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank, corner of Broadway and Exchange street. He died 23 of August, 1823, aged 65. Mr. Allen Brown came to this city in June, 1788. He was one of the founders of the New York State Bank, of which he was many years a director; of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he was trustee ; of the Albany Insurance Company; was inspector of pot and pearl ashes in 1800-1802. In 1802 he was married by Dr. Nott to Miss Lockwood, on her 16th birthday, who was through life a superior woman. He was president or treasurer of the Citizens' committee for the celebration of the opening of the Erie canal. He was one of the founders of the New York Steam Boat Association, which owned the Constitution, Constellation and Chief Justice Marshall, the great boats of their day. He was the intimate friend and adviser of Governors Tompkins, Clinton, and Yates. He was the second foreman of fire engine company No. 7 (his brother Edward having been the first), when the fire engines were manned by the first class citizens; was president of the fire department, and chief engineer of the same. He died 22d of April, 1852, aged 74......... Mary A. Hopkins died, aged 19.

12. Caroline Pepoon, wife of Thomas W. Olcott, died, aged 71. 13. Erasmus H. Robinson died, aged 22. Rebecca Monk died, aged 47. Philip Brady died, aged 69. Calvin Cooley died, aged 67.

14. Election of Young Men's Association, great excitement; of 2100 votes only 871 were cast, owing to the crowd, and delays arising from challenging votes, etc. The ticket headed by Edward De Forest for president, was successful throughout......... Ann, wife of Thomas Fayles, died, aged 62. Mary Jane, wife of Charles Rogers, died, aged 23.

15. Air, h. 24, 1. 16.........Joseph Henry Loughren died, aged 18. Harriet, widow of Louis Boyer, died, aged 44. Michael Quinn died, from the effects of a locomotive explosion, aged 33. Amanda Van Valkenburgh died, aged 67.

16. Air, h. 25, l. 17.........Elizabeth, wife of James Swartwout, died, aged 52. Mary Ann Fortune, wife of Richard Connick, died, aged 33.

17. Air, h. 27, 1. 23......... Wintry day, snowed over a vast region...... The Albany Sunday Arena, said to have been printed in Troy, was first offered for sale here, the File Brothers publishers...... Michael Lynch died, aged 25.

18. Air, h. 28, 1. 20.........St. Patrick's falling on Sunday, the Hibernian Provident society and the Fenians paraded the streets, and had a supper at Tweddle Hall in the evening.........The common council met in the evening and resolved to apply to the legislature for the passage of a law to annex a part of the town of Bethlehem to the city.........Hugh Ward died, aged 57.

19. Air, h. 26, 1. 20........ Richard Fisher died, aged 45. Elizabeth, wife of Patrick Quinlan, Sr., died, aged 53.

20. Air, h. 30, 1. 20 ........John Jennings died, aged 20. Archibald McIntyre died, aged 70.

21. Air, h. 33, l. 27....................... The Catholic congregations of Albany purchased the property of Joseph D. Badgley, immediately south of the Albany Rural Cemetery, as a burial place for members of that denomination. The property consisted of fifty acres of land, admirably adapted for the purpose. When properly graded and laid out, it was thought that it would fully equal the Rural Cemetery, which is not surpassed anywhere in point of natural beauty.

22. Maurice McGrath died, aged 34. John W. Donahoe died, aged 36. M. rgaret Lyman, wife of Timothy Hennessy, died, aged 49. William Kiernan died, aged 43.

23. The fire and hose companies dismantled their rooms, which were furnished in the most splendid and costly manner, selling the furniture at auction, in consequence of the new fire law, adopting the steam engines......... Frederick S. Pease died, aged 63, thirty years bookkeeper in the Commercial Bank, and long treasurer of the Albany Institute. Patrick S. Quest died, aged 29. Orrin H. Robb died, aged 30.

24. The steam propeller John Taylor forced its way through the barrier of ice at Coxsackie and reached its dock in this city at an early hour in the morning.........Father Baird assumed his duties as pastor of St. John's Catholic church; Father Fitzpatrick removed from the city....... Ann Eliza, wife of John K. Van Buskirk, died, aged 30.

25. Patrick Downy died, aged 56. Mary Ann Dowd, died, aged 22. Patrick Kenny died, aged 63. Mrs. Russell W. Coney died, aged 30.

26. The St. John, the first of the regular night boats, arrived at her dock in this city.........Excluded from the Evening Journal, drowned out in the watery columns of the Times, denounced by journals of all kinds, and having no mouthpiece for reply, Thurlow Weed took possession of the New York Commercial Advertiser, and on this day blew his first war note through that old trumpet. The long resounding strain shows that the old trumpeter still retains the full power of his buccinator muscle.-Argus. .......Jacob G. Sanders died, aged 78. Mary F. Nott died, aged 31. 27. Thomas Powers died, aged 44.

28. Henry Stratton, died.

29. Air, highest 35, 1. 24......... For a long time a large flock of crows was seen every morning after daylight flying over the city from the east. It was found that they were attracted to a dense wood near the Schenectady turnpike, owned by Christopher Rapp. He leased the farm to a bone dealer, who purchased from all the bone gatherers in the city. At times,

immense quantities of bones were accumulated, which attracted crows to the spot. Imagine the surprise of Mr. Rapp, to find on the ground of the wood the bodies of about two thousand dead crows. In fact, the ground of that tuft of wood was literally covered with them. It is believed that the crows perched upon the trees of the wood; a snow storm set in, which covered the bones, and the crows lingered in the hopes of securing prey. A cold snap followed, and their death was the result.-Knickerbocker...... Catharine Crall, wife of Augustus Garloff, died, aged 40.

30. Air, h. 34, 1. 30.........Owen T. Owens, died.

31. Air, h. 44, 1. 36.......................Rev. J. S. Kennard preached his farewell sermon to the congregation of Calvary Baptist Church.........John H. Conners died, aged 44. Catharine Lee died, aged 44.

APRIL 1. Air, h. 51, 1. 47.

2. Air, h. 45, 1. 39......... For the first time in some years, the city crier for lost children, John Shepard, made his appearance on the street, bell in hand, in search of a lost boy. His appearance created as much surprise and amusement as did that of Rip Van Winkle, after his twenty years' sleep on the Catskills. Shepard had a crowd of rag-tags and bobtails at his heels all day.-Knickerbocker......... Magdalene, wife of Conradt La Grange, died, aged 90. Johanna, widow of Thomas Mullaly, died, aged 62. Wm. J. Clexton died at St. Louis, aged 41.

3. Air, h. 48, 1. 34.........John Cusick died, aged 60. Dr. John Brinckerhoof, late of Albany, died at Chicago, aged 63.

4. Air, h. 45, 1. 34.........Jacob Phillips died, aged 64.

5. Air, h. 60, 1. 41.........James W. Bell died in California.

6. Air, h. 42, 1. 35.

7. Air, h. 40, 1. 30.........Susan Clark died, aged 23.

8. Air, h. 51, 1. 37......... Honora Williams died, aged 32. Mary Wing, wife of Edward A. Frost, died at Rochester. Nancy, wife of William McRoberts, died, aged 54.

9. Air, h. 59, I. 49.........Charter election, about 1,600, a gain of 1,000 since last election. aged 41. Henry E. Mullaly, died.

democratic majorities, Thomas Carney died,

10. Air, h. 59, 1. 35.........Elizabeth, widow of Alexander Gray, died in Chicago, aged 73.

11. Air, h. 49, 1. 40.

12. Air, h. 46, 1. 32.........A new kind of rail road car made its appearance here, called the Pullman sleeping car. It was 65 feet long, mounted upon 16 wheels, being nothing less than a hotel upon rollers, having kitchen, wine cellar, parlors and sleeping rooms..........Joseph M. Lovett died in Brooklyn, aged 50.

13. Air, h. 54, 1. 38.........There was another trial of the extraordinary fire quencher in front of the City Hall. A very large crowd of persons were present to witness its wonderful achievements. The most amusing portion of the programme was to see Mayor Thacher strap one of the machines to his back and attack the flames. He performed the work nobly and extinguished a roaring fire with as much ease and grace as did Mr. Levey himself. The mayor was loudly cheered. Somebody said he was 66 a bully boy with a glass eye." -Knickerbocker.

15. Air, h. 51, 1. 53.......................Elijah Simmons, died aged 52. Edward Lawson died, aged 54.

16. Air, h. 65, l. 57.......................Charles D. Brown died, aged 42.

17. Air, h. 59, 1. 48.........Two mail bags lost in January were found by dredging the ferry slip at the foot of Maiden lane.........The stores on the dock and pier were inundated.........John Leonard died, aged 45

18. It was now the fashion for young ladies to wear their hair done up in huge knots upon the tops of their heads, where their hats used to be, and their jockies were pitched down upon their noses......... Edward K. Johnson died, aged 35.

19. Air, h. 50, 1. 33.........The demolition of St. Mary's Church, corner of Chapel and Pine streets was begun.........John McGinnis died, aged 62. Michael Hogan died, aged 52. Ellenor D. Hand, wife of Parker Sergeant, died at Binghamton, aged 64.

20. Air, h. 50, 1. 42.........The legislature adjourned.........Catharine, widow of Peter Owens, died.

21. Air, h. 55, 1. 46.........The new chapel of the Penitentiary was dedicated...... .Peter V. Bennett died, aged 26.

22. Air, h. 54, 1. 41......... Eliza Sloot, wife of Noah S. Dean, died, aged 56. W. J. Campbell died, aged 35.

23. Air, h. 54, 1. 38.........Mary, widow of Stephen Schuyler, died, aged 62. Ellen Hays died, aged 45.

24. Air, h. 41, l. 35.........The steam boat Drew made her first appearance, the most magnificent boat that had ever been seen here. Length of boat 400 feet; breadth 80 feet.........James W. Radley died, aged 57. Robert Boyd died, aged 91. Edwin C. Bounds died, aged 37. 25. Air, h. 42, 1. 37 ........Ellen, wife of Edward Maher, died, aged 41. Mrs. N. Treadwell died, aged 81. Ann Duffy died, aged 60. Catharine, wife of Richard Harker, died.

26. Air, h. 48, 1. 34...... .Lawrence Smith died, aged 36.

27. Air, h. 58, 1. 42.

28. Air, h. 48, 1. 30.........Capt. Levinus Dobbs was drowned by the sinking of his vessel at Helgat.

29. Air, h, 42, 1. 31.........Elizabeth Binier died, aged 38.

30. Air, h. 45, 1. 39........... .Anne, wife of James Guman, died, aged 30. George R. Vanderlip, late of Albany died at Menominee, Mich., aged 73.

MAY 1. Air, h. 55, 1, 48.........Messrs. Roessle & Son, who had occupied the Delavan House 18 years, vacated the premises and were succeeded by the Messrs. Leland.........John Shepard died, aged 87. Catharine Tracy died, aged 38.

5. Air, h. 61, 1. 40.

3. Air, h. 50, 1. 59.........Fredina Vincent Lanthaum died, aged 40. 4. Air, h. 44, 1. 29.........J. W. Netterville died, aged 65. Susan Wiley died, aged 62. Patrick Mohan died, aged 60. Marion wife of Jacob Roberts, died.

5. Air, h. 52, 1. 39.........Mrs. Jane Wilson died, aged 60. Schuyler Osterhout died, aged 39. James Schermerhorn died in New York, aged 43. 6. Air, h. 52, 1. 43........Erie canal opened, Champlain not ready. Mrs. Margaret Ward died, aged 53.