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 IICRD HURLBUT 77 travelled in Greece and the Levant, and in 1C25 was married at Scio and engaged in com- merce. At 82 years of age he was appointed consul of Venice at Smyrna. His habits were regular; he drank no fermented liquors, ate little, and chiefly of game and fruits, never smoked, and went to bed and rose early. He was sick for the first time in 1701, when he had a fever which lasted 15 days, and he re- mained deaf for three months after his re- covery. At the age of 100 years his hair, beard, and eyebrows, which were white, be- came again black. At the age of 112 years he had two new teeth, but lost all his teeth be- fore his death, and lived on soup. He suffered in the last year of his life from the gravel, and died of a cold. He was five times married, and had 24 legitimate and 25 illegitimate chil- dren. By his fifth marriage, which took place in his 99th year, ho had four children. He left a journal of the principal events of his life. Ill IU>, Richard, an English prelate, born at Congreve, Staffordshire, in 1720, died at Har- tlebury in 1808. He was the son of a farmer, and was educated at Cambridge, where lie be- came a fellow of Emmanuel college in 1742. He continued to reside at Cambridge till 1757, when ho became rector of Thurcaston. He was preacher to the society of Lincoln's Inn in 1765; archdeacon of Gloucester in 1767; bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in 1775 ; pre- ceptor to the prince of Wales and the duke of York in 1776 ; and bishop of Worcester in 1781. In 1783 George III. offered him the archbishopric of Canterbury, but he declined it. His principal publications are : " Commen- tary on Horace's An Poettca" (1749); "Dia- logues" (1758); "Select Works of Abraham Cowley" (1769); " Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies " (1772) ; several volumes of " Sermons " (1776-'80) ; " Works of Bishop Warburton" (7 vols. 4to, 1788); "Life of Warburton " (1794) ; and " Addison's Works " (6 vols., 1810). There is a collection of his works, with an autobiography (8 vols., 1811). IHRinVAR, a town of British India, in the province and 100 m. N. N. E. of the city of Delhi ; pop. about 5,000, besides many fakirs or members of the mendicant order, who dwell in caves. It is a celebrated place of pilgrim- age, beautifully situated at the foot of the Him- alaya mountains, and on the right bank of the Ganges. Immense multitudes annually assem- ble here at the vernal equinox to bathe in the river, the religious ceremony consisting only in immersion ; but the desire of being among the first to plunge into the water is so strong that the crowding on the narrow passage leading to the bathing spot has often been attended with riotous disturbances. Every 12th year is re- garded as especially holy, and as many as 2,000,000 pilgrims are said to assemble on such occasions. The fairs held at the time of the pilgrimage- are renowned. HI RLBKRT, William Henry, an American jour- nalist, born in Charleston, S. C., July 3, 1827. lie graduated at Harvard college in 1847, and at the Cambridge divinity school in 1849. After preaching for some time at Salem, he went to Europe in 1849 and attended the lec- tures of Bitter, Von Raumer, and Ranke at Berlin, and returning to Cambridge in 1851 studied during the two following years in the law school. In 1855 he went to New York, joined the staff of "Putnam's Monthly" mag- azine, and was dramatic critic of the "Al- bion." From February, 1857, till after the presidential election of 1860, he was on the staff of the New York "Times." In 1861 he was a delegate to the peace convention at Al- bany. In June of that year, having gone on private business to Charleston, he was arrested as a suspected emissary from the north, and without trial was sent to Richmond, where he was imprisoned 14 months, but made his es- cape through the lines to Washington in Sep- tember, 1862. In October following he joined the editorial staff of the New York "World," and is still (1874) connected with that journal. He has been an indefatigable traveller, and in the discharge of his professional duties has visited at different times, nearly every part of Europe, has been three times to Mexico, and has made extended tours in Central and South America. In 1867 he attended and reported for the "World" the celebration of the 18th centenary of the martyrdom of St. Peter at Rome, and in the same year the meeting of the emperors of Austria and France at Salzburg ; in 1869 he was present at the opening of the Suez canal and the subsequent fetes at Con- stantinople ; in 1869-'70 he attended the open- ing and session of the oecumenical council at Rome; in 1871 he accompanied and re- ported the proceedings of the United States commission to Santo Domingo; and in 1873 he described in a series of letters the first pas- sage by steam of the higher Andes of Bolivia, and wrote fully concerning the earthquakes of San Salvador. He has written numerous po- ems, including hymns that hold a place in Unitarian collections ; has published " Gan- Eden, or Pictures of Cuba," written during a health trip to that island in 1853 (Boston, 1854, and London, 1855), and " General Mc- Clellan and the Conduct of the War " (New York, 1864); has contributed to numerous peri- odicals in the United States and Great Brit- ain; and is now (1874) preparing a work on the Pacific countries of South America. Ill KLIilT, Stephen Augustus, an American soldier, brother of W. 11. Hurlbert, born in Charleston, S. C., March 24, 1815. He served as adjutant of a South Carolina regiment in the Seminole war in 1835, and practised law in Charleston till 1845, when he removed to Belvi- dere, 111. He was a delegate to the state consti- tutional convention in 1847, and subsequently was repeatedly elected to the legislature. In May, 1861, he was appointed a brigadier gen- eral of volunteers, commanded at Fort Donelson after the capture, commanded the 4th division