Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-03
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NEUROLOGY OF 1870.

The following compilation of the dead
for 1870 we find in the columns of the
Portland Press.
UNITED STATES.
In the neurology of this country for the
past year, the most prominent and saddest
feature is the disclosure of the fact that
death is rapidly removing the military and
naval heroes who have cast lustre upon
the history of their country. Farragut,
the foremost naval commander of the age.
Gen. George II. Thomas, the hero of
Chickamauga, Franklin, and Nashville,
who died untimely, before his fellow-citi-
zens had fairly begun to appreciate his
modest worth, Admiral DahIgren. whose
name will be long remembered in connec-
ton with his inventions, Gen. Joseph A.
| Mower, formerly leader of the Twentieth
Corps and Commander OF the department
of Louisiana, Gen. E. A. Hitchcock, Com
missary-General of prisoners during the
war, Gen. VIM. L. II, Brooke, Commo-
dore Meade, and many more less conspic-
uous officers of the army and navy have
died since January, 1870. Commodore
Richie and Commodore Champlin, dis
tinguished in the war of 1912, are to be
! added 20 the list. Gen. Il. Z. Lee, COM
mander of the Confederate armies, and
Gen. Wilcox of the same service, who
was killed by the falling of the floor of the
Richmond Court House, are also to be
mentioned
The list of our public men Is longer, but
not so distinguished. Ex-Governors Cony
of Maine, Packer of Pennsylvania. Trim
BILE of Ohio, and Price of Missouri; Gov.
Washburn of Vermont; DavidG. Burnet,
first President of the Republic of Texas;
ex-Senators Durkee, and James s. Green
of Missouri, and Senator Norton of Min
nesota; Arson Burlingame, who was cut
off in the prime of lite and in midst of
great work George Ashmun of Massachu-
sets, who presided over the convention that
first nominated Abraham Lincoln; Judge
Grier, Horace Binney. B. Is. French, and
Hiram Walbridge j. l.. Dawson, author
of the homestead law, and the notorious
Pierre Soule are the best known names.
The church has lost Bishops Chase of
New Hampshire, Kemper of Wisconsin,
and Thompson of West Virginia; the lat
ter belonging to the Methodist communion.
! None OF the foremost names in Ameri-
can literature have been taken this year
from the list of the living. Wm Gilmore
Slmms, the Southern author, DIR. John
McClintock, who is so well known to theo-
logical students, William Willis, our own
amiable and accomplished historian, Rev.
Albert Barnes, auther Of Barnes notes."
George d. Prentice, A. ID. Richardson,
Anna Cora Richie (Mowatt), Henry C.
Sweetsir, Cornelius Wendell, Gulian c.
Verplank, Nathan Willis, Fitzhugh Lud-
| low, James Harper, and Elakim Littell
make up nearly the full list.
jerome Bonaparte, famous merely be-
cause he tcas Bonaparte, John Radway
of the ''R. K. R." fame, Seth Boytlen, the
inventor, and Samuel May, the Boston
merchant, are all that are left to mention.
FOREIGN.
Among the foreign literary men who
have died during the year are Charles
Dickens, Mark Lemon, editor of Punch,
Dumas, senior, and Paul de Cassagnac,
who was taken prisoner with the Emperor
at Sedan.
vi military men we may mention Major
General Evans of the British Army, who
commanded the forces that sacked Wash
ington during the war of 1912, Count
Flahault, one of the First Napoleon
soldiers.
| Balle. the composer. Sir James Clark,
physician in ordinary to the Queen, Sir
James Simpson, who claimed the discovery
of chloroform as his own, Dr. Copeland,
another very distinguished English phys
ician, Maclisse and Pyne, two celebrated
English artists are to be added to the list
| OF the illustrous dead.
Or men prominent in political life, wo
may mention Earl Clarendon, English
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Marquis
of Westminster, richest man in England,
Baron Tenterden, celebrated English
Judge, Prince Henri de Bourbon, Killed
by the Duke of Montpensier in duel,
Duke de Broglie, Marquis de Olinda, re-
gent OF Brazil during the minority of the
reigning sovereign; Leopold II, ex-Grand
Duke OF Tuscany, Lopez, Dictator of Para
quay, Salnave, President of Hayti, Proves,
Parodol, French Minister to Washington,
and a very distinguished literary man,
Montalembert, Baron Nathaniel Roths-
child, Gustave Struve, n German Demo,
crat, who engaged with Hecker, Blind
and Schurz in the revolutionary move
ments of 1913, and DR.. Rolphe, who was
prominent in the Canadian insurrection
of 1887.
CAUSES OF SUDDEN DEATH.