The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1873-01-09
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"A review of + death roll Of 1872
rouid BIO Interesting at this time. 1t
Hould eeftSinly recall many moornfhl
thoughts inspired during the year, BY
the sudden taking OF OF this or that
eoaspicaous public character, and which
In tho hurry and whirl Of our busy lives
xet7 1Sceasirily transitory. The great
naises which naturally occur to us the
snoment wc begin to think OF deaths
. dvings for the past twelve months are
sbov RI Greeley, Seward, and Morse.
To- Rero our own countrymen, ana II
s Il worthy Of notice that the old world
bod % losses of equal value and dis
tinCeion.
Il 10 . curious coincidence that the
founders Of three leading metropolitan
Journals should die within five months
ofSaeh othcr-Greeley of tho Tribune /;
Bennett, of tho Herald, and Spalding OF
thSs W6s1d. A celebrated French jour
nalist Adolph Gueroult, editor OF the
Paris Rationale, and . we'll known
An61fican editor, Edward A. Pollard,
formerly of the Richmond Examiner,
alSo passed away.
Among the distinguished soldiers who
died were Major Generals Meade and
Halleck, of the regular army, both Of
them very conspicuous commanders in
tho late var; Lieutenant Generals Ewell
an Pattcn Anderson, of the confeder-
ate army; MARSHAL Forey, of the French
army, the man who beat the Austrians
1t Nontcbcllo Field Marshal Sir George
Pollock, F. C. B., Constable Of tho Tow
or, . veteran of the Indian wars; and
General Pcnncfather, another British
soldier of renown.
Among; American statesmen were
Eeward, cx-P Postmaster General Randall,
cx.Minister TO Russia Ingcrsoli; Hum
phrsy. Harsball, the rotund and joviai
kentucky Congressman; ex-senator
Wall, Of Now Jersey Grimes, Of Iowa; ;
Walker; Of Wisconsin Bragg, of Nor,I,
Carolina; Van Wrinkle, of West Virgin.
IN and Senator Garrett Davis, Of Ken.
lucky. On the roll Of foreign states
men were Juarez, the President of Mex
leo; Earl Mayo, Govcrnor-Gencral u,
India, who was assass,aated by native
rd1lN6lb fhEatic in that country; Joseph
MkExi1i, tho famous Italian agitatOr,
who was planning another revolution
whom death quoted his restless brain,
the Duke Of Persigny, the Third Napo-
Icons favorite and right hand man; Sir
Henry Balwer, formerly British Minis
ter 1t Washington, and recently created
Baron Dalling, and Bulwer, brother OF
the novelist; Lord Lonsdale, late Post
master General and the Duke Of Bed
Sdrd. k5ss
Royalty suffered in the loss of King
Charles XIV. of Sweden, q wise and in
duetrious monarch the Archduke Al
brcht of Austria, known in history rs
" Tho Victor of Cuctoza," the duke Of
Guise, one of the younger members OF
of the Orleans family, aud Don Angel
lturbide, the son Of the first emperor Of
Mexico.
Among the noted writer's Of books
were Charles Lever author of "Charles
O'Aalley" and q score of other Irish
novels which have given delight to mil
lions Of readers in both hemispheres !;
D'Aubigne, the famous author of the
History of the Reformation ;" TheO-
phile Gautier, the popular Parsian fcuil-
lstonist; Prof. HadIey, of Yale, the
Greek and Oriental scholar; Sir John
Bowring, who wrote on reform Fan
ME Fern" Parton; Norman Mcleod, the
theological author, and Fulton and Hor-
ace Mayhem, the English noveiists.
In the departments of science and phi
lcsophy, deaths have been of the
illustrious Prof. Morse, inventor Of the
magnetic telegraph; Feurbach, the Ger
meS ~l,Sln.nvho~. Eourcach <ho E,.ounb
scientist, and DR.. Francis Liber, Of our
own country.
Divinity has parted with the Roman
Catholic prelates Cardinal Amat Arch
bishop Spalding, of Baltimore, and
Bishop McGill, Of Richmond the Epis-
copal DR.. Francis Vinton, rector of
Trinity church, in New York, and the
ecesutric Methodist old Peter Cart
wright.
Among tho actors who have died arc
Forrest, The "Nestor" of the American
stage; Hackett, the greatest Fa!staff;
Miss O,Neil tho greatest tragic actress
ID England fifty years ago, who died
Lady Wrixon Beecher; Eliza Logan,
Mexican Buchanan and William II.
0edley) Smith. Two eminent German
tradiciahs, Bogumil Dawson and Emil
Devricnt, died in Dresden during the
year. Tho former visited this country
IN 1869.
Among the artists were Wcstmacott,
tho English sculptor; Kensctt, Sully,
AmeG and T. Buchanan Read, who was
also celebrated as q poet. The dead law
vera were David Paul Brown, of Phil
delphia; Gen. Howard, author Of How
ards United Suites Supreme Court Re-
ports" and James r Whiting, Robert
james Dillon, and John McCunn, of
Ne1 York. The composers of music
were Lowell Mason and Henry G. Choir
ley; the millionaires and spectators,
Jsaes Fisk, Jr., Samuel N. Pike, Eras-
tbs Corning. John A. Griswold aud Jo-
seph H. Scranton. the founder of
Scranton, Pa. Last and not least among
s III usofal members of society, wcre two
grsst hotcl proprietors-Paran Stevens
and Simeon Leland.