Bailey, Gamaliel

born at Mt. Holly, N. J., in 1807. A journalist and abolitionist. Published (1836-44) the Cincinnati Philanthropist, and (1847-59) the Washington National Era, in which Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared. Died in 1859. Bai'ly's Beads, the name given to a phenomenon which is observed at the beginning and end of a solar eclipse. When the moon is pa ing on or off the disk of the sun the irregular, mountainous edge of the moon breaks up the thin ends of the crescent of the sun into separate spots of light, which look something like a row of beads. It obtained its name by being first observed by the astronomer Baily. The spots are really irregular in shape, but seem round to the eye. Baird, ABSALOM, born at Washington, Pa., in 1824. Graduated at West Point, 1849; brigadier-general of volunteers, 1862; commanded a division at Chattanooga and in the Atlanta campaign; brevet major general, 1865; inspector-general at various Dept. and Division Headquarters until his retirement in 1888. Baird, HENRY MARTYN, born at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1832; son of theologian ROBERT B. [1798-1863]; profe or of Greek at Princeton College, 1859, and later in the University of the city of New York. Wrote Modern Greece, 1856; History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France, 1879; The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre , 1883; The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes , 1895.