The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-10-19
The English Vocabulary Secured for Words TO
III &c m, Editor IN uhiiuarY.

The other day one William Hagadorn, for
mcrly m editor III Troy, died III !; ripe old age
a piece Of good luck that falls TO but few OF
IN" profession. Being dead, his obituary had
10 hr written by the editor Of Sunday paper
IN Troy called the BUd9st That editor ex.
haustrd the subject he had in hand and if he
has copyrighted his production, no obituary
can BE- written without an Infringement. As
a piece OF composition, this is 4 novelty, and
one that should be put into the scrap books
for future generations TO peruse. We copy
below 4 part Of this obituary notice of the late
William llagaGorn:
The great wide cope of heaven has opened
and received the soul of the venerable William
Hagadorn, and its poise is now forever fixed
beyoud The stars. The body-the earthly ia
bernaclc-the souls eXteriority-of that green
old age has been laid away in the perishable
tenement of the tomb. Troy, where he was
known and sincerely appreciated, mingles its
grief with that of those who were consanguin-
ally near the departed scptuagenarian, be-
cause the extinction of his life was the termi-
nation OF an existence that had been both pro-
ionged honored and respected in our midst.
The earliest CLEAN and glow of the injury
found him preparing TO mould and direct pub
lie opinion from that sublime plinth whose
trunChcon he welded in his more indefectible
Years with something of unshackled power
the divan editorial. After 4 little more than
the ccntury's noontide, living years as Il social
ceuobile-hiS hoariest age spent III abluration
of all companionship and coterie lite-aenes-
rancp whose caducitv was the grecmeSt and
most indiSputable dorace-he is at last sarco-
phagated with the old men of all past time
and we mourn him rs we wall those who have
gone down 10 their mhumation III fulluess of
wears. and no scanlinesS of the AonOrs OF the
calling IN which he was both 4 Nrstor and 4
master hand.
The ineXIStcncc of which we write came 10
these Hudson hcadWatcrS III the year ISIS, and
identified himself by purchase with IN enter
prise whose advent upon this stormy world
WAS Svnchronoils with his own-thc late Troy
DGjly B"dg,t-whose demise he may be said TO
have uuickcned by contracting the venerable
sheer with the outgrowlhS of his OWN mental
macilencv-the result of his great age, and
consequent want of mcmorative vigor, so I'M
pcrativcly necessary TO the proper conduct of
ones relations 10 the world He came 10 the
BudQ.t somewhat before that impressive in
t.rr.gnum had preceded its almost celestial
rSc:llde 4 few months agone, ana the good old
colcy for 50 many decades the ancient and
houored epitome of all our progress, was al
most instantly stricken with IN atony, Il HI be-
luda-a paralysis from which ii ne'er again
recovered OF knew lis pristine power or glory
until its recent rehabilitation under one of its
earliest and ablest premises.
Nai"diction on thou. old man, who sought
earnestly and diligently 10 ennoble 4 magniii-
cent profession, always worthy of thy great
powers rare industry, and modest and sturdy
laborS. III times modified by an irrltablity
born of age, but never The neopotaSe of SEMI
ii;v. We implore Minos, IlEcus, and Rada-
manthuS, Judges of the souls OF the dead, TO
forgive whatever may have been amiss in thy
life" ana vote thee unanimously golden tripod
in the celestial, eternal edi torial, ElySan sane"
tum OF The great hereafter.