Obituary.

Gen. Samuel James Bridge, who presented to Cambridge the statue of John Bridge, which stands in the common, and to the University the statue of John Harvard, died Monday evening after a brief illness, at the Norfolk House, Roxbury, in his 85th year. Gen. Bridge was a direct descendant of John Bridge, the supervisor of the first public school in the colony which was afterward called Cambridge, and the leading spirit in the establishment of Harvard University in pursuance of the requests and bequests of John Harvard.

Gen. Bridge fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, but lack of funds prevented him from entering. He established himself as a commission merchant in Boston, and in 1841 was appointed Principal Appraiser of the port of Boston. This position he hied until 1853, when he was appointed Appraiser General at San Francisco, where he was head of the whole Pacific coast department. In 1871 he retired from public life. He was all his life a generous and active philanthrophist. To his native town of Dresden, Me., he gave over $12,000 for the promotion of its religious, educational and charitable interests.

His funeral took place yesterday afternoon at the Norfork House. Professor Dunbar and Dean Briggs attended for the faculty, and Dr. H. P. Walcott for the corporation.