The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-01-12
THE DEATH ROLL OF 1874

the more prominent individuals who
fell during the year just past. Ger
tainly Death made a rich harvest
Of it:
Savants. Sir John +. w. Her
schell, May II, aged 10; Sir Roder-
lex l. Murchison, England, October
20, aged rs; Dennis Mahan, Pro-
fessor of West Point Academy, com
mitted suicide September Is.
Authors.-Alice Cary, New York
February II, aged so; Phoebe Ca
ry, Newport, July 81, aged As; G.
Ticknor, Boston, January, aged so;
Alexander Dumas, novelist France,
December y, 1870; Charles Paul
deKock, novelist, France, aged II ;
George Gottfried Gervinus, histori-
an, Heidelberg, March, aged Sc;
George Grote, author of the History
of Greece, England, June, IS, aged
| II.
Publishers.--Richard Bently, Lon
don, October, aged so; Robert
Chambers, Edinburgh, March II,
aged 60; David N. Chambers, Lee,
England, March q, aged %; Chas.
Scribner, head of the firm Of Serb
ner g. Co., New York, Lucerne,
Switzerland, August 2G, aged 80.
Military Men.-Gen. Louis Ben
edek, Austrian Army, Vienna, Oct.
20, aged 81; Gen. Juan Prim, as
sassinated in Madrid, December 81,
1870; Gen. James Totten, United
States army, Sedalia, No., October
2; Gen. Robert Anderson, Nice,
October 20, Gen. ThOs. j. Rodman,
U. S. Army, Rock Island, ILL.,, aged
so, inventor of the Rodman Gun
Gen. S. Bankhead Magruder, Tex
as, February 10; Brcvet Brigadier
General Maynadier, United States
army, Washington, July 4; Gen.
Louis Nathinel Rossell, shot by order
of the French Government, Novem-
Der %, aged 28; Omar Pacha, (Mi-
chael Lattas), Turkey; schamyl,
chief of the Circao,ians, Russia,
March, aged IA.
Actors.-Waltcr Montgomery, Lon
don, September, aged IA; Peter
Richings, Media, Pa, January is;
Thomas II. Robertson, dramatist,
London, February 2; John. Fl.
Hackett, New York, December, age
y.
Journalists, Public Men, &c.-Ed-
win CroswelI, Princeton, N. J. juno
IL, aged 70; Clement L. Vallandig-
ham, Dayton, Ohio, June l6; John
Slidell, London. July, James NJ Ma
son, Clarens, Va, April; Vanok
Pratt, Bergen, N. j., April 8 Thos.
S. Alexander; N. j., Dec, aged 81;
Thos. Ewing, Lancaster Ohio, Oct.
2G, aged 81 John Covode, Harris
burg, Pa, January Il; FRANCHISE
Delsarte, Paris, August 3; Jules
Miles, banker, France, June, aged
60; Earl of Chesterfield, England,
December Prince Henai de la Tour
d'Auvergne, France, April, aged As !;
Andrew Jackson Donesou, Mem
phis, June 26, aged 70; Murillo
Gonzalez Bravo, Spanish Statesman
and diplomat ; Perry Fuller, prOmi-
nent politician, Washington, d. c.,
Jan. IL; Lewis Ellis, ex-Chief JUS .,
tice of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
March 10, George II. Miles, Pro-
fessor of Bellies Lettres at St, Mary's
College, Maryland, at Thornton,
Maryland, July "a; Thomas Perry,
ex member of Congress from Mary
land, at Cumberland, June p; Chas.
S. Todd, Minister to Russia, under
President Taylor, at Baton Rouge,
May II; John c. Carter, Commo-
dOre in the navy of Brooklyn, No
vember %; James Glynn, Commo
do:c L. s. n, =. New Haven, Nag
Is Capt. II. Nelson Page, U. S. N.
at Broad Creek, Va, jane % /;
Commodore Geo, 5. Blake. U. S. N.
at Longwood, Massachusetts, June
%; Peter Turner, Commodore U. S.
N. at Philadelphia, February 80;
Georges Darboy, Archbishop of Par
is, murdered by the Communists
May "a, IS years old Rev. Robert
j. Breckenridge, Kentucky, Decem-
Der, 1871, aged u; Carl Wilhelm,
author of the music of "Dio Watch
un Rhein, Died April the %.