The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-11
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The Death of Charles Dickens.
Our cable dispatches announce the death
of this eminent man, nj his home near
London, on Thursday evening from an
attack of paralysis. lie was born On the
eth of February, 1915, and, consequently,
was in his 5Oth year We had very lately
seen notice of his ailing somewhat, but
were not prepared for the melancholy
tidings sent us this morning.
Perhaps no announcement could bO so
universally regretted throughout the read
ing world as this news of the death OF
CHARLES DICKENS. No author in uIiy
language, not even WALTER SCOTT, has
been so universally read and admired
throughout all his writings, and
no one has more deeply i'm
pressed himself upon his own day and
generation. His career was one Of won.
dcrtul and uninterrupted popularity from
the outset. Years ago We heard il said
that tho poor of this earth should con-
tribute by penny subscription to build a
monument to the man who by his pen
cmancipatcd them from countless wrongs
and sorrows. 1t was the fortune OF
DICKENS to be the portrayer Of life among
the lower millions OF England, and SO
personal and sympathetic did his cham
pionship become, by reason Of his deep
enlistment in their cause, that he cstNb.
lishcd at length, us it were, magnetic re-
lations with the whole human race. Was
there ever such dclincatOr Of the woes
of children among the poorer classes
Was there ever such another story Us that
of poor DAvY COPPERFIELD? Or another
one like that Of NICHOLAS NIoKLEBY?
But why partiCularize these! The same
cxhaustlcss humor and pathos run through
all his writings, from the first chapters Of
BOZ" down to the unfinished numbers OF
EDWIN brood. Like great worker he
died amidst his work, and leaves, MS
THACKERY LETT, Il fragment TO bcperpctual'
| ly regretted. We shall soon read able and
elaborate tributes TO his memory from the
first writer's of our own and his own coun'
try. England would scarcely lament her
rood Queen more sincerely. Even MACAU.
LEY was not laid to rest a few years since
with so cnviable and universal q follow
ing rs that which, absent and present, will
honor the mortal remains of CHARLES
DICKENS. ,...... ~. NJ. p.
No writer Of fiction ever appealed so
directly to the better feelings of human
nature as DICKENS. None ever described
the death Of children (whom he loved ST.
prcmely) with such consummate touches
of beauty. No more touching story was
ever told than that of little PAUL DoM'
hey, unless, possibly, it be that saddcr
one of"Dcar, gentle, patient noble LITTLE
NELL" in the Old Curiosity Shop; and SO
long as English literature endures, will
these lie read in every household, in
every land, with swelling hearts and over.
no,,;u, oro, Had O,crrxs written
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nothing but these Two soT0wluI Stories
he would still have touched n responsive
cord or,l have bcrn embaImed in millions
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AT last the master hand That maShe'l"cu
the world with its touch has been stillcd
In that death which Il 90 oi,en and beau.
,.c' Ill., ,Io,a.;,,oJ uov.horo MORO hoor,i.
Ihu1Iy uescr'ue"-"o" 'e.' 'n''. "" ,,
fully and iceIlngIy than III INC Two Drle'
extracts which we copy here, ms illustrat'
irv ,hot hourdlcss svmpathv with purity,
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fresh and loving in heart rs Il child. nc
has followed "thc old, old fashion that
la ror,rove hcrc in such gentle, fearful
~ r. "H ~ IA c.,,;o, Do,,np
"o''S- t'' ",u ~, VI" ''' n'', ,,,,s"'',,..
only totHke OIL, like little Paul, tlat oluer
fashion yet Of Immortality" r....
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'SheswlS uchH. E S,, S'ccP , ~ ' sn;, sn
anu CAM so lEcc Ioin .I"CC VI i".u, So
MIR 10 look upon. 0hE s t, Clo'tH.1
fresh from tile hann Oh you, anu ", MaT I,n I
Tor INC OTeNtR OF ne nO' Gmc Maan ! I'M,
lived, ana slileretl aeatn. ? i1er COUCH "ns
dressed win mere anu tneFc S1m.c w' ~ 7
berries anu green leaves gAtncFe .l,,l ~ u
spot she nag Deen .Iscu 10 SSor ,o " ne aa
me' put near me- son 'nNt nat l" !,
loved the liSSht, anu nag Ihc sky "ooNe II
always. 'FhosG were IN lier VOLTS o.;,.,
she wins acau; Dear seMI,uT, PM. LS y
noble NeIl WIS acIu der ..'' ~ o t;DTor
poor Snght tnnE inc ltCssuic VI u i t,E,I,,
would have crushed, was SURFING hiIlDly