Severus Lucius Septimius
a Roman emperor; born near Leptis Magna, on the coast of Africa, April 4, 146. After holding the highest offices under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, he obtained command of the legions in Gaul, and when in 193 news came of the murder of Pertinax, he was proclaimed emperor and immediately marched on Rome. Julianus, to whom the prætorian guard had sold was deposed and exethe imperial purple, was cuted. Meanwhile the Roman legions in Asia had proclaimed their general, Pescennius Niger, emperor. Severus overthrew him at Íssus in 194. After a successful campaign against the Parthians, returned but he to Rome, was soon engaged in a struggle with another rival, Clodius Albinus, whom he conquered at Lugdunum in 197. New campaigns in the E. were ended by the capture of Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital. Severus then spent several years (202-208) at Rome, gratifying the people by his magnificence, and distributing large donations to the troops. In 208, he hastened to Britain to quell a rebellion there. He died in Eboracum (York), Feb. 4, 211.
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Sevier, John
John (1745-1815), a native of Virginia. He was a famous pioneer and Indian fighter. He carried a rifle at King's Mountain, was governor of the proposed state of Franklin, and later represented Tennessee in Congress. He negotiated with the Creeks in 1815, and died in the same year near Decatur, Georgia. Sevier belongs to the period that produced Daniel Boone and the Clark brothers. See Teennessee
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Sevres
sa'vr, a celebrated kind of French porcelain. Its manufacture was begun at Vincennes in 1745. In 1756 it was transferred to the village of Sevres, midway between Paris and Versailles. In 1760 the manufactory was purchased by Louis XIII . It has been in the hands of the French government ever since. The present factory employs about 200 persons. Sevres is made of kaolin. The richest pieces are decorated with small bubbles of colored enamel, imitating rubies, emeralds, etc. The ware has the faculty of absorbing decorative colors, giving them a peculiar richness and softness much admired. The finest collection of this ware is to be seen in the museum of Sevres itself. See Porcelain ; Meissen; China Clay ; Pottery
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Seward
MOUNT, a mountain in Franklin co., N. Y.; is a summit of the Adirondacks, 14 miles W. of Mount Marcy, and was named for William H. Seward; height, 4,384 feet.
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Seward
FREDERICK WILLIAM, in Auburn, an American lawyer; born at N. Y., July 8, 1830; was graduated the Union College in 1849; admitted to in 1851; and for 10 years was one bar of the editors and owners of the Albany was sent to warn "Evening Journal." He Abraham Lincoln of the plot to assassiin 1861; was assisnate him in Baltimore tant Secretary of State in 1861-1869 and 1877-1881; accompanied Admiral Porter to negotiate West on the special cial mission India treaties in 1867; participated in of Alaska; was a member the purchase of the New York Legisla Legislature in 1875; State Commissioner at the Yorktown Centennial Celebration in 1881; and author William H. Sewof "Life and Letters of Cruise"; and ard"; "A West Indian numerous lectures, magazine articles, etc. He died in 1915.
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Seward (II)
WILLIAM HENRY, an Florida American statesman; born in , He Orange co., N. Y., May 16, 1801. practicing studied for the bar, and began in Auburn in 1823, but gradually drifted was elected a into politics, and in 1830 Dismember of the New York Senate. playing marked abilities as a politician, chosen governor he was in 1838 and 1840 of his native State, and in 1849 was United States Senate. He elected to the of President was the friend and adviser Taylor, and distinguished himself by his extension of slavery firm resistance to the . for the presi- In 1860 he was a candidate dency, but being defeated in the convenhe exerted himtion by Abraham Lincoln election. Lincoln self to secure Lincoln's afterward appointed Seward Secretary of discharged his State, in which post he showing notable duties with great ability, Great Britain in the tact in dealing with to with- "Trent Affair," inducing France effectdraw her troops from Mexico, and States by ing the cession to the United ). He was dan- Russia of Alaska (1867 gerously wounded in April, 1865, when assassinated, but President Lincoln was the same office under recovered and filled . He Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson accession of resigned his post on the President Grant in 1869. He wrote a "Life of John Quincy Adams"; his Correspondence, etc.,' "Speeches, appeared in 1869; and an "Autobiography," with continuation, in 1877. He died in Oct. 10, 1872. Auburn, Cayuga co., N. Y.,
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Seward Peninsula
the most western part of Alaska. It has an area of about 22,700 square miles. The coast the interior is low, but there are hills in of spruce which are covered with forests . re- It includes an important gold mining Creek, and gion, including Nome, Anvil almost Ophir Creek. The gold is obtained entirely from placer mining and over $70,000,000 worth has been taken from 1919 was the district. The production in near $6,000,000. The peninsula is divided Council, into five mining districts, Nome, Kougarok, Fairhaven, and Port Clarence. gold lodes have been dis- In recent years covered, and placer mining is being super- Cape York ceded. Tin is found in the not yet cede region. Coal also exists but has settlement been mined. Nome is the chief . Others are Candle, Deering, Teller, Wales, and Sinuk.
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Sewellel
the Haplodon rufus, a Amersmall rodent from the W. coast of ica. It is about a foot long, with a tail of an inch or an inch and a half, brownish apabove, lighter below. Its habits are DOG proximately those of the PRAIRIE Anisonyx (q. v.). It constitutes the genus of Rannesque, Aplodontia of Richardson, later and Ha Haplodon or Haploödon of type of writers. Lilleborg makes it the i a family Haploödontidæ.
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Sexagesima Sunday
the second Sunday before Lent, the one immediately before Shrove Tuesday, so called because it falls about 60 days before Easter.
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