The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-06-01

j llaumer & Forbes powder mill al Easi
Hartford, exploded this morning T@o
men we're killed.
James Montgome y.
The steamer brings the news Of the death
1T the poet Montgomery, who breathed ~
! last on Sunday afternoon, the 30th ut,
aged ~ Ile presided al the weekly board
Il the Iulirmury. us late us The day but one
before his death, and walked home, more
i than Il mile Mr. Montgomery was born
as long ago US l51l, at Irvine, III Ayrshire
! His father MAS q Motagian minister, who,
I leaving his son to be educated IN Yorkshire,
#went t. The West Indies, whore he and the
meets mother both died. When only IL
years old, the bent of the boys Eiind was
/ shown By the production OF several small
/ poems These indications could not saNC
! him, ut first, from the fate oil the poor, and
! he Was sent To earn his bread as an assistant
! ia chandler shop. lie thirsted for other
occupations, and one day set of, with mol
quite dollar il his pocket, t. walk = Lon
don t. seek his fortune. In biz first eil5ri
he brok down, and fer a while gave up hls
plan, and took service III another shop
Only FOR time, however, Was he content,
and a second effort to reach the metropolis
was successful, so far as bringing him to the
spot he lonaed for, but unsuccessful TO las
second hope--that at finding publisher fer
volume Of his verses. But the publisher
who refused Montgomery's poems, accepted
+ his ltbor, aal made MIN his shopman For
tune, however, a. She generally does, smiled
nnon the zealous youth and IN l792. h
gained post III the establishment Of Mr.
~ I'll. ,xF hat ~. IN A48A
syt up a newspaper called The Sheffield
Register On this paper Montgomery
worked con amorc, and when his master
bud ~ CIV from England, 10 avoid ImRrlson-
ment ior printing an article too hbefal iar
the then despotie government 4 England,
The young paet became be editor and pub
fisher Of the paper, the name q Which liz
changed % the Sheffield Iris In the
columns of this print, be advocated political
and r. ligs US freedom, and such conduct se-
cured hn the attentions uf the Attorney
general, vs. whom he was prosecuted, fined.
aud imprisoned, in the first instance for re-.
printing a song concentrating The Faji
o.. the Bastle,' IN the second ease inr a0
account BE- gave u 4 riot ia SheiiieH. -
Confinement could not crush cut hi w
II political justice nna on his second re.
lease, lie vent Of advocating the doctrines
Of freedom as fore, III bis paper andiu hjs
books II the lengthy pcrcd b tween
th5se times and the present, the beliefs
which James Montgomery carly pioneered
in England, have obtained general resogni.
ton. and d. men became more and more
lib raj, our poet gained more AID more
esteem. He contributed @ various maE-
1zincs, and despite atrefse criticism il tn
Ednburg Review, established his right T.
rank is a poet III 1877 a. published his
Prison Amusemcnts;" 1905, The Ocean"
In 1906, .'.'aae Wanderer III SWitz y!3u5;"
il 1902 The West ladies' aud III 1872,
The World before the FI5ol" By these
works, he obtained the chief reputation he
h4s since enjoyed Ia 1919 appeared
Greenland pesm 10 five cantasi and in
1898 The p,ican Island, and othar po-
ems" This venerable poet At his dralh,
enjoyed a well deserved Literary pension
ot GOO year.