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Rh Mate. >iliceix were openly charged with a fraudu- lent over-issue of state bonds. Gov. Scott justified his course in a message to the legislature, and a resolution of impeachment was defeated in that body. Much excitement was also caused in this year by " Ku-klux " outrages, and Gov. Scott's ap- peal to the president to aid in suppressing them, which was done by the use of U. S. troops. Gov. Seotl afterward removed to Napoleon, Ohio. On 25 Dec., 1880, he shot and killed Warren G. Drnry. aged twenty-three years. Drury and a son of Gen. Scott had been drinking together, and while search- ing for the boy Gen. Scott met the former, when the shooting took place. He was tried, and ac- quitted on 5 Nov., 1881, the defence being that the discharge of the pistol was accidental.

SCOTT, Thomas, Canadian member of parlia- ment, b. in Lanark. Ontario, in 1841. He was edu- cated at the Perth high-school, became a journalist, and published and managed the Perth " Expositor," in the Conservative interest, from 1861 till ls?o, when he removed to Manitoba. He was elected mayor of the city of Winnipeg in 1877, and again by acclamation in 1878, and chosen to the legisla- ture of Manitoba in 1878 and 1879, but resigned to become a candidate for the Canadian parliament for Selkirk in 1880. He was elected, and was re- elected for Winnipeg in 1882. Mr. Scott has been for many years in the volunteer service, held a com- mand in the Ontario rifles in the Red river expe- ditionary force under Col. Garnet (now Lord) Wolse- ley in 1870, and led the second expedition to the Red river in 1871 to oppose the Fenians. He com- manded the 95th battalion during the campaign of 1885 against Louis Riel, and received a medal. Ik- was elected president of the Liberal-Conservative association of Manitoba in 1886, and was appointed collector of customs for Winnipeg in 1887.

SCOTT, Thomas Alexander, railroad-manager, b. in London, Franklin co., Pa., 28 Dec., 1824; d. in Darby, Pa., 21 May, 1881. His father, Thomas, who died when the son was ten years old, kept a tavern on the turnpike between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The boy worked on a farm, attended a village school, served in country stores, and be- came, on 1 Aug., 1841, clerk to Maj. James Patton, collector of tolls on the state road at Columbia. Pa. In 1847 he was made chief clerk to the collector of tolls at Philadelphia, and in 1850 he became connected with the partially constructed Pennsyl- vania railroad, was appointed its general super- intendent in 1858. and in 1859 was chosen vice- president. He soon became known as one of the most enterprising railroad men in the country. At the beginning of the civil war he was appointed on the staff of Gov. Andrew G. Curtin. and was very en- ergetic in equipping volunteers and sending them I 1 ' irward to Washington. On 27 April, 1861, he was asked by the secretary of war to open a new line from Washington to Philadelphia, which he did by way of Annapolis and Perrysville with surprising quickness. He was commissioned colonel of vol- unteers on 3 May, and on 23 May was given charge of all government railways and telegraphs. On 1 Aug. he was appointed assistant secretary of war, which office he was the first to hold. Col. Scott was sent in January. 1862. to organize transporta- tion in the northwest, and in March to perform the j same duty on the western rivers. On 1 June he ' resigned to devote himself to his railway affairs, but on 24 Sept., 1863. he entered the government service again for a time, and superintended the transportation of two army corps to relieve Gen. William S. Rosecraus at Chattanooga. This he did with remarkable speed, connecting different lines by improvised tracks, and sending out trains in inv.-ii numbers by every available route. Col. Scott was instrumental in furthering the policy by which the Pennsylvania road secured control of its western lines. In 1871, when a separate company was chartered to operate these, he became its president. He was also president of the Union Pacific railroad from March, 1871, till March. 1872, and in 1874 succeeded to the presidency of the Pennsylvania road. Failing health forced him to travel abroad in 1878, and on 1 June, 1880, he re- signed. To the energy, alertness, and sound busi- ness principles of Col. Scott may be attributed much of the prosperity that has been attained by the road of which he was an officer. Besides his connection with the Pennsylvania system, he was the projector of the Texas Pacific road, and for many years its president.

SCOTT, Thomas Fielding, P. E. bishop, b. in Iredell county, N. C., 12 March, 1807 ; d. in New York city, 14 July, 1867. He was graduated at Franklin college, Athens (now University of Georgia), in 1829, was ordained deacon in St. P'aul's church, Augusta, Ga., 12 March, 1843, by Bishop Elliott, and priest in Christ church, Macon, Ga., 24 Feb., 1844, by the same bishop. He became at this date rector of St. James's church. Marietta, Ga., and not long afterward of Trinity church, Columbus, Ga. He received the degree of D. D. from the University of Georgia in 1853. He was elected missionary bishop of Oregon and Wash- ington territories, and was consecrated in Christ church, Savannah, Ga., 8 Jan.. 1854. On his way to the eastern states, Bishop Scott contracted a fever in crossing the Isthmus of Panama, and he died a few days after landing in New York.

SCOTT, Walter, religious leader, b. in Moffat, Dumfries-shire, Scotland, 31 Oct., 1796 ; d. in Mays- lick. Ky., 23 April, 1861. He came of the same ancestry as the novelist. After an academic train- ing he was gradu- ated at the Uni- versity of Edin- burgh, and after- ward sailed to the United States. where he arrived, 7 July, 1818. He pursued his stud- ies and taught in New York and Pittsburg, and in the latter city in 1821 he formed an acquaintance with Thomas and Alex- ander Campbell, which soon be- came a lasting friendship. The three engaged in an earnest and critical examination of the Bible and of the earlier writers, by which they became convinced that the existing forms of Christianity were in wide departure from the simple discipline of the primitive church. In 1822 the Campbells and Scott had arrived at a harmonious agreement concerning a plan for the union of Christians; and. without desiring to form another sect, they endeavored to draw men together into the original denomination upon common grounds of orthodox religion. In pursuance of this plan, Alexander Campbell now began the publication of the Christian Baptist," which obtained a large circulation. Scott wrote for this periodical, and at once took