Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-10
The Death Roll Of the Past Year.

The Death Roll OF the Past Year.
THE year now fleeting to its close has
been remarkable over most Of its imme-
diate predecessors for the number of per-
sons who have died in II who were Of un-
usual prominence before the world. A
review of the death roll of 1872 would be
at this time. IL would GER
tainly recall many mournful thoughts in
spired during the year, by the sudden
taking off of this or that conspicuous
public character, and which in the hurry
and whirl of our busy lives were necessa-
rily transitory. The great names which
naturally occur TO US the moment we be-
gin to think of deaths doings for the past
twelve months are those of Greeley, Sew
ard and Morse. These were our own
countrymen, and It is worthy OF notice that
the Old World has no losses of equal
value and distinction. 1t is curious CO.
incidence that the founders Of three lead
ing metropolitan journals should die with
in five months of each other--Greeley, o.
the Tribune, Bennett, of the Herald
and Spalding, of the World A celebrat-
ed French Journalist, Adolph Gueroult,
editor Of the Paris Ndti0n1le, and we'll
known American editor, Edward A. Pol
lard, formerly of the Richmond Examiner;
also passed away. Among the distin-
guished soldiers who died were Major
Generals Meade and Halleck, of the reg
ular army, both of them very conspicu-
Gus commanders in the late war. Lieu
tenant-Generals Ewell and Patten
Anderson, of the Confederate army;
Marshal Forey, of the French army, the
man who beat the Austrians at Montebel-
10; Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, @.
G. B., Constable of the Tower veteran
of the Indian wars. and General PeDne-
father, another British soldier of renown.
Among the American statesmen were
Seward, -Postmaster-G General Randall,
ex-Minster to Russia Ingersoll; Hum
phrey Marshall, the rotund and iovial Ken
lucky Congressman; ex-SenatoTs wall, OF
New Jersey; Grimes, of Iowa; Walker, OF
Wisconsin; Bragg, of North Carolina;
Van Winkle, Of West Virginia; and
Senator Garrett Davis, Of Kentucky, over
whom eulogies were pronounced last
week in the Senate. On the roll OF for
eign statesmen were Juarez, the President
of Mexico; Earl Mayo Governor General
of India, who was assassin ated by n
native religious fanatic in that country;
Joseph Mazzini, the famous Italian agi-
tator, who was planning another revolu-
ton when death uuieted his restless
brain; the Duke of Persigny, the Third
Napoleon's favorite and right hand man;
| Sir Henry Bulwer, formerly British
Minister at Washington, and recently
created Baron Dalling, and brother
to the novelist; Lord Lonsdale,
late Postmaster General, and the Duke
of Bedford. Royalty suffered in
the loss of King Charles XIV, of Sweden,
a wise and illustrious monarch; the Arch
duke Albrecht, of Austria, known in his
tory as "The Victor of Custozza;" the
| n,,Ir 0fG G,,ic nf ha cra m
bers of the Orleans family, and Don Angel
Iturbide, the son of the first Emperor of
Mexico. Among the noted writers of
books were Charles Lever, author of
| "Charles O'Malleyn and a score of other
Irish novels which have given delight to
millions of readers in both hemispheres;
D'Aubigne, the famous author of the
"History of the ReformatiOn;" Theophile
Gauticr, the popular Partisan feuilleton.
list; Professor Hadley, of Yale, the Greek
and Oriental scholar; Sir John Bowring,
| who wrote on reform; Fanny Fern
Parton; Norman Mcleod, the theological
author, and Fullom and Horace Mayhem,
the English novelists.
In the department of science and phi
osophy the deaths have been of the illus
trious Professor Morse, inventor of the
magnetic telegraph; Feuerbach, the Ger
man philosopher; BabiHet, the French
scientist, and DR. Francis Lieber, of our
own country. Divinity has parted with
the Roman Catholic prelates, Cardinal
Amat, Archbishop Spalding, of Balti-
more, and Bishop McGill, of Richmond;
the Episcopal DR. Francis VinGon, rec
tor of Trinity Church, in this city, and
the eccentric Methodist, old Peter Cart
wright Among the actors who have
died are Forrest, the "Nestor" of the
American stage; Hackett, the greatest of
Falstaffs; Miss O'Neill, the greatesttragic
actress in England fifty years ago, who
died Lady Wrixon Beecher; Eliza Logan,
Mexican Buchanan, and William II.
(Sedley) Smith. Two eminent German
tragedians, Bogumil Dawson and Emil
Devrient, died in Dresden during the year.
The former visited this country in 1863.
Among the artists were Westmacott, the
English sculptor; Kensett, Sully, Ames
and T. Buchanan Read, who was also Gel
ebrated as a poet. The dead lawyers
were David Paul Brown, of Philadelphia;
General Howard, author of Howard s
United States Supreme Court Reports" ="
and James r. Whiting, Robert James
Dillon and John Il. McCunn, of this city.
The composers of music were Lowell
Mason and Henry G. Chorley; the mill
iOnaires and speculators, James Fisk, Jr.,
Samuel N. Pike, Erastus Corning, John
A. Griswold and Joseph H. Scranton, the
founder of Scranton, Pa. Last, and not
least among the useful members of socle-
ty were two great hotel proprietors-Pa'
ran Stevens and Simeon Leland.-Neac
York Meas.