New Lebanon (leb'a-non)

A town in Colum bia County, New York, 22 miles southeast of Albany. It contains the village of Mount Lebanon, noted for its Shaker community, and the village of Lebanon Springs, noted for hot springs. Population (1890), 1,765. New Leinster (len's ter or lin's ter). A name formerly given to what is now Stewart Island, New Zealand. New Leon. See Nuevo Leon. New London (lun'don). A seaport, and one of the capitals of New London County, Connecticut, situated on the Thames, 3 miles from Long Island Sound, in lat. 41° 21′ N., long. 72° 5' W. It has considerable commerce, is a summer resort, has fisheries of seal, cod, and mackerel, and was formerly noted for its whale-fisheries (next to New Bedford). It was captured by the British under Benedict Arnold in 1781. Population (1890), 13,757. New Madrid (mad'rid). The capital of New Madrid County, Mi ouri, situated on the Mi i ippi 46 miles southwest of Cairo, Illinois. The Federals under Pope captured it March 14, 1862. Population (1890), 1,193. Newman (nu'man), Francis William. Born at London, June 27, 1805. An English scholar and miscellaneous writer, brother of Cardinal Newman. In 1826 he graduated at Oxford (Worcester made cla ical profe or in Manchester New College, and College), and was made fellow of Balliol. In 1840 he was 1846-63 was profe or of Latin in University College, London. He wrote "Phases of Faith," "History of the Hebrew Monarchy" (1847), "The Soul" (1849), "Regal Rome" (1852), "Theism" (1858), "Handbook of Modern Arabic" (1866), "Libyan Vocabulary" (1882), "Politic a" (1889), "Economic a" (1890), translations from Horace and Homer, etc. Newman, John Henry. Born at London, Feb. 21, 1801: died at Edgbaston, Aug. 11, 1890. An English Roman Catholic prelate. He was the son of John Newman, banker. He took his degree at Oxford (Trinity College) in 1820, and was elected fellow of Oriel in 1822, where he was a ociated with Dr. Pusey. In 1833 he published "The Arians of the Fourth Century." Many of his smaller poems, including "Lead, Kindly Light," were written during a Mediterranean voyage in 1832-33. In 1833 he joined the Oxford movement, and wrote many of the "Tracts for the Times." For a time he held to the po ibility of a middle ground between the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant ism: but in 1843 he resigned his living in the Anglican Church, and on Oct. 9, 1845, formally entered the Roman Catholic Church. In 1849 he established an English branch of the brotherhood of St. Philip ties" were published in 1850. His sermons were published in 1849 and 1857; the "Apologia pro vita sua, or a History of my Religious Opinions" in 1864; "Grammar of A ent" in 1870; "Verses on Various Occasions" in 1874. He did not attend the Vatican Council, but he accepted its results. On May 12, 1879, he was made cardinal. the "Oratory." His lectures on "Anglican Difficul Newmarket(nü-märket). A town in Suffolk and Cambridge shire, England, 55 miles north-northeast of London. Horse-races have been run annually on Newmarket Heath since the reign of James I. The principal races are the Two You sand Guineas and the