The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-09
JOSEPH RORY M. D.

JOSEPH ROBY, ID.
From the Boston DailU Advertiser
Dr. Roby, who died in Baltimore on Sunday
June 8, was formerly practitioner in Boston and
afterwards Professor in the Medical Schools of
Dartmouth and Bowdoin Colleges. For the last
sixteen years he has been Professor of Anatomy
and Physiology in the University of Maryland.
Many persons have therefore come into relations
with him, and yet few men were less known. of
TIE very limited number that knew and loved him,
the writer of this notice one. 1t was his sin.
gular privilege to enjoy long friendship with this
remarkable, almost unknown man, to have lived
for time under the same roof with him. and to
have maintained correspondence with him for
more than twenty years. The peculiarites of Dr.
Roby were so much part of his nature that it
would be impossible to do him justice without first
mentioning of those which stood in the wav |
OF more general recognition of his high quail |
ties he was born with delicate, nervous and |
melanchoic temperament which BETRAYED itself in |
his slight, spare figure, his grave cast of features
his shadowy complexion, to which striking effect
was ADDED by exquistely arched, sharply pencilled
eyebrows, such as it would be hard to match on
any living face. When he first began the study
OF medicine with Drs. Jackson and Charming, he
soon distinguished himself as an Unsuitable reader
lt was not easy to find this silent youth books
enough to supply his demands. Laborious saga
eious exemplary, devoted to his profession singu-
iarly accurate as an observer, and shrewd
Judge of men, he came forward in the practice of
medicine with the highest intellectual oualifica-
tons One thing he lacked, the same quality
which he himself once pointed out as essential to
the ply sicians success. He did not heartily want
to get business He did not love patients as such as
the working physician must love them He was shv
BY nature; he was solitary by habit. He talked
too plainly from his convictions to be always harm
less lie regarded the face of less perhaps,
| than consideration for each others weaknesses
should teach us to do. He saw too keenly into the
minds and hearts of Others to be always as charia-
PIE as those whose good nature is in proportion to
the defect OF their vision. He felt himself that he
was not adapted for the practice of medicine and
very soon deserted it for the more congenial office
OF teaching. His great excellence in this capacity
was Immediately recognized. He clear, me-
thodical. exact, conscientious, aborious selfreli-
ant and thought of nothing but his duties while the
! lecture season lasted His knowledge extended to
various provinces of medical science, so that he has
! delivered the lectures Anatomy and those on
| Theory and Practice at the same Institution Asa
| lecturer in the department which he taught in the
| University of Maryland, he was acknow lodged to
rank among the first in the country. Though
| he rarely appeared in print, the many classes of
students whom he instructed formed n public for
him, and gave him a reputation more considerable
than is often awarded to medical authorship. DR..
Roby's health has been declining for some years
lie visited his early home in Boston during the last
summer, but only an invalid, and never resumed
his duties in the University after his return Some
months since he resigned his chair and received
the honorary appointment of Professor Emeritus
His death took place not Unexpectedly to his friends
| or himself According to his often expressed
wish, his body was brought to this city, and in the
presence of a very few friends and connections
committed to the earth in the spot he had selected
at Mount Auburn.
SICILY.-Siciy is the largest island in the Medi
terranean, about one hundred and sixty miles
long, and one hundred and thirty wide, separated
from the southwest extremity of Italy by the mar
row strait OF Messina, with the volcano of Etna
rising from the midst of its fertile fields and vine
yards, which celebrated now as in the classic
Gays OF old for their wheat and corn their oil and
wire. Sicily was supposed by the ancients to be
the same as the Homerick island Thrinicia said tn
be derived from the triangular form of the island
when the SicuE, driven from italy, crossed the
STRAIT and took possession of the island the name
was changed into Stella. Conquered at first sue
cessively by Carthagenians Romans and Cloths in
the nlnth century the Saracens became its masters
which rule made way for that of the Normans
winch IN ll94 was superseded by the Swabian Dv-
nasty, which in turn made way for the rule of the
French under Charles l., Duke of Aniou whose
! tyranny terminated by the massacre known "a
the Slcilian Vespers Princes of Aragon now be-
came its possessors; then the soveregns of Spain
until lnsurrecsion gave it to Austria who, in her
turn, was driven out by Spain. In 1886 the In
fant Don Carlos, came into possession, and united
| the island with the Kingdom of Naples, under the
name of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Spain
next coded the Island to the Pope in 1889, and in
1913 Napoleon made it a French station After
the battle of Waterloo, it reverted to the Neapoli-
tan sway, under which government it remained
until the outbreak of 1S4S when, after a little
uiedthlDS speli, IL came under the cruel of
the treacherous and infamous Bomba, whose histo-
ry is too well known to need recapituaton.-
York Courier.
THOMAS CAMPBELL ARRESTED FOR HIGH TREAsoN.-
In an article on "Redding's "reminiscences and
Memoirs of Thomas Campbell" in the last North
British ReUielo, the following curious circumstance
is related. Campbell having reached London for
the first time, after a short tour in GERMANY had
been soon recalled, by the death of his father to
Edinburgh:
''He found his mother seriously alarmed at ru-
mors which had previously reached himself that he
was to be executed for high treason! The report
appeared to be sufficiently credited to induce him
to call on the Sheriff of Ednburg to refute the
absurd story. To his establishment that functiona,
ry announced to him that the report was true that
warrant was actually out against him for conspi-
| ring with General Moreau, in Austria, and the
Irish at Hamburg, to get French army landed in
| Ireland. But the Sheriff added that the authori-
| ties were unwilling to press the matter and he
! begged him, therefore, to keep quietly out of his
way. The conclusion of this little episode was
equally melodramatic. The indignant poet refused
| the cruel mercy and insisted an examination;
and he was examined-he had box full of papers
| which had already been seized, and in which tue
plth OF the treason was naturally expected to be
| discovered. The box was opened and ransacked,
and among other things they found the MS. of Eye
Mariners of England"
POISONING CAsE.-The Pittsburgh IN. W Ee-
press and Sentinel relates poisoning case recent.
ly brought to light in the town Of Saranac, which
occurred year ago. 1t appears that Mr. St.
John and his wife, with family of five or six
children, lived on small farm in secluded place;
| that unmarried Irshman named James Greed
was employed by them, and lived at their house
some three years, when Mr.. St. John discovered
| that an improper intimacy existed between them.
He therefore discharged Greed and forbade him
| from coming into his house. Greed, however, re-
manned in the vicinity, and frequently met with
Mrs. St John. Finally the latter sent to Platts-
burgh by stage driver for asenic and croton oil,
and on the next day, May 18th, 1853, Mr.. st. John
died A while afterward Greed and Mrs. st. John
were married. Since then it has been suspected
that the husband was poisoned, and his remains
were found, upon investigation, to contain arsenic.
Both the suspected parties are in Jail.
A MODEL FIRE-EsCAPE.-Imm after the
terrible tenement house fire in Elm street last
winter, Assistant Fire Marshal Baker invented a
fire-escape, which is said to be a most simple and
effective way of escaping from burning building
The invention consists of permanent balconies
the outside of each story of the building with stairs
reeled up and secured beneath. By lifting a trap
in the balcony, which be done by child six
years of age, the stairs lower from balcony to bal
cony, and as the stairs lower folding balustrade
opens, and the escape is ready for The model
is at the office of the Superintendent of Buildngs
in Cooper Institute. where it can be examined
~. Y. Courier.
THE LONG BRIDGE.-That unfortunate ''Long
Bridge" on the Potomac, at Washington, has again
fallen down. The Alexandria Sentinel of Thursday
evening says:
:, The span of the Long Bridge which adjoins the
Virginia shore, fell into the river this afternoon
about two o'clock, breaking about midway between
the supporting piers. buggy containing two lit
tie boys was crossing at the time, and went down
with the bridge. Fortunately the boys were res
| cued with nothing than terrible fright
We suppose this accident will help Congress to a
conclusion OF some sort on the bridge question.
SERIOUS ILLNESS OF GEN. JEssUP.-The Washing
ton Star of last evening says: We regret to state
that, this morning. Major General Thomas S.
Jessup, U. ). Army, was struck with paralysis at
his residence in this city, and at the hour at which
go to press his friends fear that he will scarcely
survive the going down of the sun. This sudden
illness of this distinguished and universally es-
teemed veteran has cast gloom to-day over the
army officers now in Washington, which will be
shared in wherever there may be a man of ''the
service
The post-offce at Rehoboth, Somerset county,
which was discontinued a short time since, is re-
established by order of the Postmaster General.
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