The Portland daily press., 1873-01-01

medical profession has lost DIR. Robinson of
Portland, DR.. S. F. Neal of Livermore, DR..
Charles Rowell of Fairfield, DIR. Hall of Cum
berl. nd, DIR. Thomas Child Of Bath and DIR.
Henry Seavy OF Bangor. Literature mourns
for Mrs. Louise M. Davidson of Augusta, the
poet, and Mrs. Evvie Barker Plummer OF
Bangor, daughter of Hon. Lewis Barker.
Journalism loses Oscar F. Watson of the
Biddeford Times.
To this uortuary list may be added the
names f Elias Thomas of Portland, Col.
Thorn Nickerson of Linneus, Col. VIM.
Garcelon, Col. Ebenezer Freeman of Non
mouth, Noah Prince, Buckfield, Joseph o.
Tompson of Standish, Joseph Treat, Liver
more, F. o. Sands, agent of the Lewiston
Mills. Beni. E. Lombard, Auburn, T eserved
B. Mills. Bangor. Ira Fish of Patten, A. K.
Wing IF Auburn, John r. Redman Of Els
worth, Jeremiah c. Cushing of Winterport,
Gen. Joseph Berry Of Bath, Solomon Par
sons of Bangor, Jediah Morrill, of Water
vile, Capt, John Bradford, jefferson, Mary
Desayes, Superior of the st. Xavier Convent
at Bangor and Betsey n. Hutchings, a prom
inent member of the Shaker society at Al
fred.
UNITED STATES. III
This country has lost during the year sew
eral of its most distinguished citizens, notably
Horace Greeley, W. FL. Seward, Prof. Nose,
the inventor of the telegraph, Gen. G. G.
Meade and Gen. H. w. Halleck. Of our lit
erary men and women we have lost Francis
Lieber, Lowell Mason, Edward A. Pollard,
Prof Jas. Hadley of Yale College, Prof.
Upham, G. P. Putnam, the publisher, T.
Buchanan Reed, Fanny Fern. OF public
men ex-Senators Garrett Davis of Kentucky,
]. W. Wall of New Jersey, Peter G.. Van
Wrinkle of West Virginia, and J. W. Grimes
of Iowa, ex-Congressam John A. Griswold Of
New York, A. W. Randall, ex-Pos.master
General. James Gordon Bennett is the only
prominent editor who has died during the year
except Mr.. Greeley. Gen. J. P. Anderson anC
Gen. Richard Ewell of the Rebel army, Com
odore VIC. Nicholson, Simeon Leland andPa
ran Stevens of New York, the great hotelp pro
prietors, Judge McCunn; Joseph Ell. Scranton
of Pennsylvania, for whom the town of Scran
ton was named, Archbishop Spaulding, Chic
Justice Sprague Of California, Gen. Humphrey
Marhall, the fat Confederate commander an(
politician, James Fisk, Jr., the adventurer
Geo, Catlin the artist, Osborne P. Anderson
the last of John Browns heroic band, S. N
Pike, the builder of opera houses, Edwin
Forrest, the eminent tragedian, young Jane
MillmOre the SCULPTOR and James Kenset
the artist, complete the sad list
FOREIGN NEUROLOGY.
OF the king, or rulers of countries we have
to name as dying since Jan. 1st, 1872, Kins
Charles V. ofSweden, Kamehameha v. King o
Hawaii Benito Juarez, President of Mexico
Jose Balta, President of Peru and Earl Mayo
Governor General of India. Mazzini, tn
Italian patriota King without crown, is al
so dead. Literature has lost Sir John Bow
ring of the Westminster Rerie,o, Charles Lev
er, the novelist, Rev. Mormon Mcleod, edi
tor of Good Words, Rev. F. D. Maurice
Theophile Gautier of France, Louis Mari
Feurbach, the German Philosopher, and j
Fl. Merle D'Aubgne, the historian Of th
Reformation. Of other promint mt person
we may name James F. Mcguire, M. p, ST
Henry Lytton Bulwer, the diplomatist,
brother of the novelist, Duke de Persigny
Arince Albrecht, Prussia, Vicountess Bea
consfield, wife of Disraeli, the Marquis O
Lonsdale, John Sansiield Macdonald, one
Premier of Ontario, and Lady SALISBURY
the philanthropist