The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-24
Neurology of 1872.


The death-ron of the year just closed
includes the names of many persons
who acquired distinction in their respec-
tive pursuits. Journalism lost Horace
Greeley, founder of the Tribune, who
was mourned by the whole American
people; James Gordon Bennett of the
New York Herald, Mr. Spalding of the
New York World, Edward A Pollard,
formerly of the Richmond Examiner;
Thomas B. Holcombe, formerly editor
of the Indianapolis Sentinel; the Rev.
Amasa Converse, editor of the Christian
Observer; Adol lph Gueroult of the
French press; Joseph r. Lyman and
! VIM. T. Beers of the Tribune staff, and
! D. O'C Townley.
Literature lost Charles Lever, the
genial moralist; Theophile Gautier, the
French art critic, moralist, and poet;
D'Aubigne, the historian of the Refor-
nation; Prof. Maurice, Frederick Ger
staecker, Prof. Hanley of Yale, Sir
| John Bowring, the reformer, writer and
versatile linguist; Robert Pruitz, A. w
Fonblanque, Sara Peyson Parton, Gan
ny Fern;) Norman Mcleod, Mioritz
Hartmann, Scotch churchman and au-
thor; and Franz Grillparzer, who en-
r1ched German literature.
Many great names bave been lost to
science-among them Prof Lee, emil
nent in medicine; Maior-Gen Chestney,
the pioneer of the overland route to In
dia; Prof. Morse, the great electrician;
Feuerbach, the German speculative
philosopher; Babinet, the French sa-
want; DR.. Francis Lieber, the publicist;
Prof. Upham of Bowmer College; Mary
Somerville, the English astronomer;
M. Ponchet, the French psychologist;
DR.. W. Baird of London, and Prof.
Goldstrcker, the Psychologist
The pulpit has lost DR.. Francis Vim
ton of Trinity Church; the Rev. DIR.
Henry Ostrander of the Reformed
Church, Saugerties, N. Y; Peter Cart
wright, the Methodist backwoods preach
er; the Roman Catholic prelates Cardi-
nal Amat, Archbishop Spaulding,
Bishop NLcGill of Richmond, and the
Very Rev. Thomas Mu1roy, Vicar-Gen-
eral of the Diocese of Virginia.
Among the great soldiers who died
were Major-Gens. Meade and Halleck of
the regular army, Marshal Forey of the
French army, Lieut-Gens. Ewell and
Patten Anderson and Gen. Wright of
the Confederate army, Field Marshal
Sir George Pollock. Constable of Lon
don Tower
The death-rolI of artists includes
Kenseft, the landscape painter; Sully,
Ames, t. Buchanan Read, both painter
and poet; and Robert S. Duncanson,
and George Catlin, all Americans; and
Westmacott, the English sculptor.
The stage lost the veterans Forrest
and Sedley Smith; also, Miss O'Niel,
who was popular in England 30 years
ago; Eliza Logan, Mexican Buchanan,
Rogumil Dawson and Emil Devrient.
Few eminent musicians died; the art,
however, lost Hastings, the writer of
church music; Lowell Mason of New
England fame, and Henry G. Chorley,
the critic of the London Athenaeetna.
Among Americans in political life
who died were ex-Secretary Seward, ex-
Minister Ingersoll, ex-POstmaster Gen
eral Randall Humphrey Marshall of
Kentucky, ex-Gov. Bragg of North Car
Olina, Norman Eddy, Secretary of State
for Indiana; eA-United States Senators
Wall of New Jersey, Grimes of Iowa,
Walker of Wisconsin, Van Winkle of
West Virginia, Garrett Davis of Ken
tucky
Among the foreigners distinguished
in political life who died were Juarez,
President Of Mexico; Earl Mayo, Gov
efnor- General of India, assassinated by
religious fanatic; J. R. Thorbecke,
Dutch statesman; Mazxini, the great
Italian revelutionist; Duke de: :Persgny,
the ardent adherent of Napoleon Ill; |
Cont, another devoted friend of the
ex-Emperor: Sir Henry Bulwer, broth |
er to the novelist; Lord Lonsdale, once |
Postmaster. General OF England; and |
the Duke of Bedford.
Royalty and royal houses lost King |
Charles XIV. of Sweden, Archduke AL |
brecht of Austria, the Duke de Guise, |
Don Angel Iturbide, son of the first |
Emperor of Mexico; Prince Frederick
Albert of Germany, King Kamahameha
of the Sandwich Islands, Archduchess
Sophia of Austria
Among the men prominent in hus1- |
ness circles or well known III private life |
on last years death roll are David Paul |
Brown of Philadelphia; James Fisk, ir.,
Samuel n Pike, Erastus Corning, John |
A. Griswold of Troy; Joseph H. Scran-
ton. who founded Scranton, Penn,
Paran Stevens, Simeon Leland, Wis
countess Beaconsfeld. The legal pro-
fession lost Judges Pierrepont, Isham, |
Henry Hogeboom and Slosson, all of |
New York also James r. Whiting of
Philadelphia.