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The old scyth bearer has been unusually busy in harvesting among professional during the past few days. From England we learn of the death of Thomas Wilson under peculiarlt out of an express train, and impulsively he jumped out after her. The child was only bruised, but the father injured his spine. He was a pautomomimst of repute and a farcical actor of promise, and was under contract to the dramatic company of Mrs. George Crowe (our Kate Bateman) for next season. Charles Octavius Wood, son of the English scenic artist Charles Wood, and himself scenic artist at the {Tyne?} Theatre, Newcastle, has been drowned while boating and bathing. Many circus performers now among us knew Walter Beckett, bandmaster of John Henry Cooke's Circus, who has died of consumption at Dundee, Scotland. Paul and Alfred Martinetti, who are as well known here as upon the other side, have in Charles Wilford, who in private life was Charles Williams Dukes, lost one who was a valued member of their company of the pantomimists. England also records the death of Charles Garland, under which name he will be recognized by not a few in this country, although abroad, where he was an advanced tenor both in concert and in English opera, he bore the professional desiguation of Joseph Plerpoint. He should not be confounded with Bantock Pierpoint, an English bariton. The cable on July 6 announced the demise of Lindsay Sloper. A pianist of rare excellence and a composer whose work showed tasteful discrimination, he will, more because of his years than in spite of them, be missed in English