He was one of the original members of Bryant’s Minstrels in New York, opening February 23, 1857. In 1864 he was with Hooley in Brooklyn, and had been associated in minstrel ventures with Cool. Burgess, Archie Hughes and D. C. La Rue. He retired about a year previous to his death, which occurred in Utica, N. Y., March 6, 1869; age 39 years. ALBERT JONES (Silcox) was a good comedian and general performer; in Boston and Chicago, he was especially well known, having been connected with prominent companies in those cities. He died in Boston, Mass., November 25, 1866; age 36 years. WILLIAM N. SMITH at the time of his death was considered one of the greatest bone players in minstrelsy. He had played many engagements with various companies. He was the first to give imitations of the snare drums with the bones. Owing to an accident, he was compelled to retire from the profession, which he did April 18, 1867. He died in New York, February 4, 1869. MIKE O’BRIEN, an old-time banjoist and ballad singer, who had been with Sanford’s and other minstrel companies, died at Algiers, La., April 28, 1869. EDWIN HOLMES, a popular minstrel tenor, who was with Duprez and Green’s and later Duprez and Benedict’s Minstrels for about six years, commencing in 1862, died in Boston, Mass., July 11, 1879. NED GREENLAND was one of the best beloved characters in theatredom. Though many years dead, his praises are yet sung to-day. He was treasurer and business agent for Hooley’s Minstrels in Brooklyn, N. Y., for several seasons. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 4, 1883. MIKE KANANE, a famous dancer in the good old minstrel days, died in San Francisco, Cal., December 7, 1886. STEPHEN B. BALL was a famous vocalist of Ordway’s Aeolians in Boston as early as 1851; he retired about 1856, and became director of the choir of the Old School Street Church in that city. He was a fine singer and vocal teacher. He died in Boston, Mass., September 27, 1881. HARRY LEHR. Of this famous minstrel’s talents and abilities there was no divergence of opinion; manager, critic and performers were unanimous in their verdict that he never had a superior as a comedian. One manager, John L. Carncross, went further and declared that he never had an equal. His first professional appearance was with a small minstrel company in Camden, N. J., February 22, 1846. At the age of 16 he organized a troupe of his own. In 1852 he was with Kunkel’s Nightingales, and subsequently with Rumsey and Newcomb’s Minstrels, with whom he remained until the Spring of 1861. Subsequently he became a member of Hooley’s Minstrels in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1864 joined Carncross and Dixey’s Minstrels in Philadelphia and remained there for seven seasons. In 1871-72 he was with Simmons and Slocum’s Minstrels, also in Philadelphia. In 1872 he re-joined Carncross and Dixey, and continued with them until November, 1875, when he made his final stage appearance.