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182 but his master, to suppress his mania, as he called it, condemned hira to the heaviest work. A few of Malincourt's songs having in some way spread over the country, several rich citizens intervened in his behalf, "and when his master refused all offers for him they applied to the governor of the colony, who sent for Malincourt, and, on hearing his verses, ordered his enfranchisement and gave him a small annuity from the royal treasury. Malin- court returned to Griffon in 1741, and resided on a small estate that was presented to him by a few admirers. He composed many songs which are still popular in the colony. The verses are good, the style pure, and the composition almost fault- less, although Malincourt could never read or write, and was ignorant of the rules of poetry. His songs were published after his death under the title " Fleurs du champ de Cannes a Sucre " (2 vols., Basse Terre, 1759).

MALLALIEU, Williard Francis, M. E. bishop, b. in Sutton, Worcester co., Mass., 11 Dec, . He was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1857, received into the ministry of the Methodist Episco- pal church, and joined the New England confer- ence in 1858. For the next twenty- four years he had charge of many of the more im- portant churches connected with that body, and was highly esteemed both as a pastor and preacher. He was a member of the general conferences of 1872, 1876, and 1880, and in 1882 became presiding elder of the Boston district. He was elected bishop in 1884, and now (1888) resides in New Orleans. He received the de- gree of D. D. from the East Tennessee Wesleyan university, Athens, Tenn., in 1874.

MALLARY, Rollin Carolus, statesman, b. in Cheshire, Conn., 27 May, 1784; d. in Baltimore, Md., 16 April, 1831. He removed with his father to Poultney, Vt., in early life, was graduated at Mid- dlebury college in 1805, studied law with Horatio Sey- mour at Middle- bury and in Rut- land, Vt., and was admitted to the bar in March, 1807. He began prac- tice at Castleton, was secretary to the governor and council in 1807- '18, and state at- torney in 1811-13 and 1815-16. In 1818 he returned to Poultney, and was a candidate for congress against Orsamus C. Merrill, who was declared elected ; but at the ensu- ing session Mr. Mallary claimed the election, and the house, after a hearing, gave him his seat, 13 Jan., 1820. This controversy brought him into no- tice, and he was re-elected, and remained a member continuously until his death. In congress he was an advocate of the protective system, and was chair- man of the committee on manufactures. At the beginning of the 20th congress he was made chair- man of the committee on manufactures, and re- ported the tariff bill of 1828, and his efforts con- tributed largely to secure its passage. Mr. Mallary died while on his return from Washington.— His brother, Charles Diitton, clergyman, b. in Poult- ney, Vt., 23 Jan., 1801 ; d. near Albany, Ga., 31 July, 1864, was graduated at Middlebury in 1821, re- moved to South Carolina in the following year, and was ordained as a Baptist minister at Columbia in 1824. After preaching there for six years he took charge of the church at Augusta, Ga., and four years later of that at Milledgeville. He was an ad- vocate of missionary societies when his denomina- tion was divided on that question in 1835, and also expressed himself publicly in favor of the temper- ance cause and of Sunday-schools. In 1837 he re- signed this pastorate in order to become agent for Mercer university, and during three years of ener- getic labor did much toward securing the endow- ment fund. From 1840 till 1852 he was engaged in missionary and pastoral labors in middle and western Georgia, and in the latter year he retired to a farm near Albanj' on account of failing health. He was the author of a " Life of Edmund Bots- ford " (Charleston, 1832) ; " Memoir of Jesse Mer- cer " (Philadelphia, 1844) ; and " Soul Prosperity " (Charleston, 1860).

MALLERY, Garrick, jurist, b. in Middlebury, Conn., 17 April, 1784; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 6- July, 1866. He was graduated at Y^ale in 1808, and studied law at the Litchfield law-school and at Wilkesbarre, Pa., whei'e he was admitted to the bar in 1811. He was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1827, and three times re-elected, and was largely instrumental in developing the internal improvements and establishing the penitentiary system of the state. He was president judge of the 3d district in 1831-'6, and subsequently practised law in Philadelphia till his death. — His son, (Jarrick, ethnologist, b. in Wilkesbarre, Pa., 23 April, 1831; d. in Washington, 24 Oct., 1894, was graduated at Yale, received LL. B. from the University of Pennsylvania, and the same year was admitted to thebar of Philadel{)hia, where he practised law and engaged in editorial work until he entered the volunteer service as 1st lieutenant of Pennsylvania troops. 15 April, 1861. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel, and at the reorganization of the regular army in 1870 was commissioned as a captain in the 1st U. S. infantry, with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was twice severely wotmded, was kept for some time in Libby prison, and received four promotions by brevet for gallantry in action. During the reconstruction period, while on military duty in Virginia in 1869-70 as judge-advocate on the staff of the successive generals commanding, he was appointed to the offices of secretary of state and adjutant-general of Virginia, with the rank of brigadier-general. In August, 1870, he was the first officer that was detailed for meteorological service with the chief signal-officer of the army. He was long in charge of the Signal-service bureau, and was its executive officer tmtil Aug., 1876, when he was ordered to the command of Fort Rice, Dakota territory. There he made investigations into the pictographs and mythologies of the Dakota Indians, which led to his iaeing ordered, 13 June, 1877, to