Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-09

Gus pool1c character, and which In the
hurry and whirl ofour busy lives were
necessarily transitory. Tho great
names which naturally occurs to &c the
moment we begin to think Of deaths
doings for the past twelve month";,
are those of Greeley, Seward, aud
Morse. These wero our own country
men, asd It 10 worthy of notice that
the Old World had no losses of equal
value and distinction. It Ia q Curl
Gus coincidence that the founders of
three leading metropolitan Journals,
should die within i've months Of each
other-33reeley Of the Tribune, BEN
nett OF The Herald, and Spalding ofthe
World. a celebrated French Journal
lot, Adolph Gueroult, editor of the Par
10 NotSoRale, and well known Amer
lean editor, Edward A. Pollard, form-
erly Of the Richmond Erami,,ey. also
passed away. Among the Distinguish
ed soldiers who died, are Major Cen
erals Meade, and Halleck Of the regu-
lar Army, both Of tnem very conspic-
nous commander in the late war,
Lieutenant Generals Ewell and Pat
ten Anderson, Of the Confederate
army. Harshal Forey, ..of the French
army, the man who beat the Austriane
ct Montebello /; Field Marshal, Sir Geo,
Pollock, +. G. B., Constable ofthe Tow
er, and 3 veteran OF the Indian war.
and General Pennefather, another Brit.
ish soldier Of renown. Among Amer
lean statesmen, were Seward. Ex-P Post.
master General Randall, ex-A Minister to
Russia, 1ngersoll Humphrey Marshall,
the rotund and jovial Kentucky Con.
gresham ex-senator Wall, OF New
Jersey; Grimes, of Iowa; Walker, Of
Wisconsin; Bragg, of North Carolina !:
and Senator Garrett Davis Of Ky, over
whom enlogies were pronounced last
weak In the Senate. On the roll OF
foreign statesmen, are Jaurez, the Pres
ident, Of Mexico Earl Mayo, Govern.
or General of India, who wa aseassi-
mated bya religious fanatic Of that
country; Joseph Mazzini, the famous
Italian agitator, who was planning
another revolution when death uiet.
ed his restless brain; The Duke OF
Persigny, tho Third Napoleon's favor
lite, and right hand man; Sir Henry
Bulwer, formerly British Minister al
Washington, and recently created Bar.
on Dalling, and Bulwer, brother of the
novelist: Lord Lonsdale, late Post
master General, and the Duke of Bed.
ford !; Royalty suffered In the loss OF
King Charles XIV Of Sweden, q wise
and industrious monarch; the Arch.
duke Albrecht, of Austria, known IN
history 40 the "victor of Custoxsa = the
Duke Of Guise, one Of the younecst
members Of the Orleans family, and
Don Angel Iturbide, the son of the flrst
Emperor Of Mexico !; among the noted
writers Of books, were Charles Lever,
authof Of "Charles O'Malley," and 1
score Of other Irish novels which have
given delight 70 millions of both
hemispheres; ..D'Aubigne, the famous
author Of ''The History of the Refor.
nation )" Theepolis Gautier, the popu.
lar Paraeian feuilletonist; Prof. Had
ley, Of Yale, the Greek and Oriental
scholar; Sir John Bowring, who
wrote on reform; "FAnny Fern" Par.
ton Norman Mcleod, the theological
author and Fullom and Horace Nav.
hew, the English novelists.
In the departments of science and
philosophy, deaths have been OF the
illustri0us, Prof. Morse, inventor OF
the magnetic telegraph, Fuerbach, the
German philosopher; Babinet, the
French scientist, and DR.. Francis Lie.
ber Of our own country. Divinity has
parted with the Roman Catholic pre-.
lates, Cardinal Amat, Archbishop
Spaulding, Of Baltimore, and Bishou
McGill, Of Richmond. The Episcopal
DR.. Francis Vinton, rector Of Trinity
Church, New York, and the eccentric
Methodist old Peter Cartwright
AmOng TIE eetOtD VINO nave died
are Forrest, "Nestor" Of the American
stage Hackett, the greatest Of Fal.
stats; Miss O'Neil, the greatest tragic
actress in England, fifty years ago, and
who died Lady Wixon Beecher; Eliza
Logan, Mexican Buchanan, and WIN,
(Eedley) Smith. Two eminent Ger.
man tragedians, Bogumil Dawson and
Emil Devrient died in Dresden dur.
ing the year. The former visited this
country in 1869. Among the artistic
were Westmscott, the English sculp.
tor, Kensett, 6ully. Ames, T. Buchan-
IN Reid, who was also celebrated q q
poet. The dead lawyers are David
Paul Brown, Of Philadelphia General
Howard, Author Of "Howard's United
States Supreme Court Reports !"
and James r. Whiting, Robert
Dillon, and James H. McCunn, Of this
city. The composers of Music were
Lowell Mason, and Henry G. Cholrey
the nillionaires and spectators, Jas.