Dr. Marcus Chappell ATKINSON is dead. When the doctor returned from his trip to California, with the progress of his insidious disease consumption unchecked, his friends and he himsef, became satisfied that recovery was not to be hoped for. Dr. Atkinon was of English descent. He was born at Baie Verte (West. Co.) N.B. on 7th January 1854 so that he was still a young man. For several years he taught school and then attended the Halifax Medical School and Dalhousie College, graduating M.D. in 1881. For one year he was house surgeon of Victoria Hospital, Halifax having won the competitive examination in 1880. In June 1882, Dr. Atkinson settled at Bristol (Carleton Co.) for the practice of medicine and shortly after married Miss STEWART of Antigonish, N.S. who survives him, as does a son ten years old. In 1884 and 1885 he was a member of the County Council. In 1886 he was elected a representative of the County in the House of Assembly and in 1890 he was again returned. In the general election of 1892 he failed to secure a seat, but at the election of 1895, after H.A. Connell resigned, he was returned without opposition. On Wednesday afternoon the mortal remains of Dr. Atkinson were laid to rest in the cemetery on the hill, just back of his late residence at Bristol, in which but a few days before his only daughter was buried. Court Sterling, I.O.F. of which deceased was a member had charge of the funeral. The pall bearers were Dr. SPRAGUE, Dr. ROSS, Dr. SOMERVILLE, John LINDSAY, C.H. PHILLIPS and D.W. KYLE. At the grave the funeral ritual of the Foresters was read. Three brothers of the deceased were in attendance, viz. Dr. J.G. ATKINSON, St. James (Charlotte Co.); Payson ATKINSON, Baie Verte; and Joseph ATKINSON, Aroostock Co., Me. D. McGaffigan, Florenceville was the undertaker and furnished the hearse.