Death Of A Distinguished Journalist

It is with inexpreBsible regret that the death is announced of John A. MacGahan, correspondent of the Daily News at Oonstantinople. The Netvs publishes an appropriate eulogistic sketch of Mr. MacGahan's career as si newspaper correspondent in Europe and Central Asia tor the New York Herald, describing his gallant work dnring the siege of Paris, his ride to Khiva, his campaign ■with Don Carlos in Spain, and his voyage on the yacht Pandora to the Arctic seas. He has acted as a Daily News correspondent throughout the recent campaign in Turkey, adding many successes to his former achievements. The News speaks in the highest terms of his great work in behulf of suffering humanity in describrcg to the world the Bulgarian atrocities, when he broughl the whole circumstances of thoso awfu' scènes home to the English public mind, as probably few distant events have beoü. Mr. MacGahan was bom in St. Louis, Mo., in 1846, and began the stndy of law in Brussels in 1868. His mother and brother reside at Toledo Ohio. - London Cor. New York Herald Tjme - night : Luna and several stars studding the blue vault. Youth anc maiden leaning over a gate ana lookiug at the heavenly orbs. Maiden, flllec with enthusiasm, points a taper fingu toward the zenith aud exclaims, i'Oh IJenry, let us study botany !"