Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-01-23
Helena, Montana, Thursday, January %, 1873
The Death.R0 oil Of 1872.
(From the Chicago Tibune]

The Death-Roll Of 1872.
(From the Chicago Tribunel
The year which is just closed has been one
of the most remarkable in the history of the
world, and especially for the large number of
prominent persons who have died in it. Jour-
nalism has lost Horace Greeley, of the New
York Tribune; James Gorden Bennett, of
the New York Herald; Mr.. Spaulding, of
the New York World; Edward A. Pollard,
formerly of the Richmond Erami,,er; Gen.
Ambrose II. Wright, of the Augusta ga.
Chronicle and Sentinel; Thomas 3. Hol-
combe, formerly editor of the indianapolis
Sentinel Rev. DR.. Amasa Converse, editor
of the Christian Observer, one of the most
widely circulated journals in the South ;
Adolph Geroult, editor Of the Paris Opinion
Nationale; and Theophile Gauticr, the cele-
brated French feuilletonist. Literature has
lost Charles Lever, whose ''Charles O'Mal-
ley" obtained worldwide fame; DAu-
bigne, the historian of the Reformation !;
Professor Hadley, the Yale Professor, whose
Greek and Oriental writings are well known
among scholars Sir John Bowring, the Re-
form writer; "Fanny Fern" Parton; Nor
man Mcleod, whose theological writings are
very numerous; and Horace Mayhem, the
English Novelist. Many great names have
also been lost to science, among them Pro-
fessor Morse, the inventor of the magnetic
telegraph Feuerbach, the German specula-
tive philosopher; Babinet, the French sci
enlist; DR.. Francis Lieber, of New York {;
and Mary Somerville, the English astrono-
mer. Among the artists who have died are
Westmacott, the English sculptor; Kensctt !;
Ames T. Buchanan Read both painter and
poet and Robert s. Duncanson, who died
recently in an insane asylum. The stage has
lost Forrest, Hackett, Miss O'Neil-the great
est tragic actress in England fifty years ago,
Eliza Logan, Mexican Buchanan-the eccen-
trio tragcdian, Sedley Smith, Bogumil Daw-
sOn-who died insane, and Emil Devrient.
Not many eminent musicians have died, the
only ones we can recall being Hastings, the
writer of church music Lowell Mason and
Henry G. Chorley, the famous critic OF the
London Attenaeum. The pulpit has lost the
Roman Catholic prelates Cardinal Amat; |;
Archbishop Spalding. of Baltimore; Bishop
Mulvey, Vicar General of the Catholic Do
cese of Virginia; also, DR.. Francis Vinton,
Rector of Trinity Church, New York Peter
Cartwright, the eccentric Methodist; and
Rev. DR.. Henry Ostrander, of the Reformed
Church at Saugerties, n Y. Among the
great soldiers who have died are Major Gen.
erals Meade and Halleck, Of the regular
army; Lieutenant Gonorale EWell and Pat
ten Anderson, of the Confederate army
Marshal Forey, of the French army, who
defeated the Austrians at MOntebellO; and
Field Marshal Sir John Pollock, Constable of
the London Tower, and an East India vet
eran. Among Americans of political life arc
Mr. Seward ex-POstmaster General Randall;
ex-Minister to Russia Ingersoll; Humphrey
Marshall, of Kentucky; ex-Senators Wall,
of New Jersey; Grimes, of Iowa; Walker,
of Wisconsin Bragg, of North Carolina;
Van Wrinkle, of West Virginia; and Garrett
Davis, of Kentucky. Among foreign states.
men are Jaurez, President OF Mexico; Earl
Mayo, the Governor General of 1ndia--as-
sassinated by q religious fanatic; Mazini, the
Italian rcvOluti0nist; Duke de Persigny, the
favorite of the Third Napoleon Sir Henry
Buiwer. the brother of the novelist and once
British Minister at Washington Lord Ions
dale. the late Postmaster General of England;
and the Duke of Bedford. Royalty has lost
King Charles XIV, of Sweden Marshal
Prim, of Spain; the Duke of Guise; Don
Angel Iturbide, son of the first Emperor of
Mexico Archduke Albrecht, of Austria and
King Kamahameha, of the Sandwich Islands.
Among prominent men in private life in this
country who have died are David Paul
Brown, of Philadelphia; Gen. Howard, au-
thor of Howard's United States Supreme
Court Reports" James Fisk, Jr; Samuel
NJ. Pike; Erastus Corning; John a. Girls,
void; Joseph H. Scranton, who founded
Scranton, Pennsylvania Paran Stevens !;
and Simeon Leland. With the exception OF
music, all the other departments have suffer-
ed severe loss in their neurology; more Sc
we're, perhaps, than during any other single
year.