Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-03
The Death.Ron Of 1872.

sIn6 DcatnoktOl1 Of 1871
The year which is just closing has
been one of the most remarkable in the
history Of the world, and specially so
for the large number of prominent per-
sons who have died in it. Journalism
has lost Horace Greeley, of the New
York Tribune James Gordon Bennett,
of the New York Herald Mr. Spald-
ing. of the New York World !; Edward
A. Pollard, formerly of the Richmond
Examiner Gen. Ambrose r. Wright,
of the Augusta CGa) Chronicle and
Sentinel Thomas B. Holcombe, for
merly editor of the Indianapolis Senti-
mel Rev. DIR. Amasa Converse, editor
of the Christian Observer, one of the
most widely circulated journals in the
South Adolph Geroult, editor of the
Paris Opinion Rationale and Theo-
phile Gautier, the celebrated French
feuilletonist. Literature has lost
Charles Lever, whose Charles 0 NAL
ley" attained g. world wide fame !;
D'Aubigue, the historian of the Re
formation Professor Hadley, the Yale
Professor, whose Greek and Oriental
writings are known among scholars;
Sir John Bowl ing, the Reform writer;
Fanny Fer" Parton; Norman Nc
Leod, who's theological writings are
very numer Ius; and Horace Mayhem,
the Enghs n novelist. Many great
names hav also been lost to SCIENCE
among til, m Professor Morse, the in
ventor Of magnetic telegraph; Feuer-
back, tb German speculative philoso-
pher; yAbinet, the French scientist;
DR.. Fir ncis Lieber, of New York; and
Mary omeryiIle, the English astrono-
Anann fhn r<o
died are Westmacott, the English
soul efor; Kensett; Sully; Ames; T.
Buchanan Read, both painter and poet;
and Robert S. Duncanson, who died
recently i'll al insane asylum. The
stage has lost Forest; Hackett; Miss
ONelll, the greatest tragic actress in
England fifty years ago; Eliza Logan;
Mexican Buchanan, the eccentric ira
gedian; Sedly Smith; Bogumil Dawi-
son, who died insane; and Emil Devri-
emit Not many eminent have
died, the only ones we can recall
being Hastings, the writer of church
music; Lowell Mason; and Henry G.
Chorley, the famous critic of the Lon
don Athen@um. The pulpit has lost
the Roman Catholic prelates Cardinal
Amat; Archbishop Spalding, of Balti-
more, Bishop McGill, of Richmond.
and Very Reverend Thomas Mulvey,
Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese
of Virginia; also Dr. Francis Vinton.
Rector of Trinity Church, New York !:
Peter Cartwright, the eccentric Metho-
dist; and Rev. Dr.. Henry Osrander, of
the Reformed Church at Saugerties,
New York. Among the great soldiers
who have died are Major Generals
Meade and Halleck, of the regular
army; Lieutenant Generals Ewell and
Patten Anderson, of the Confederate
army; Marshal Forey, of the French
army, who defeated the Austrians at
Montebello; and Field Marshal Sir
George Pollock, Constable of the Lon
don Tower, and an East Indian vete-
ran. Among Americans in political
life are Mr.. Seward; ex-Postmaster
General Randall; ex-Minister to Rus
STA Ingersoll Humphrey Marshall, of
Kentucky; ex-Senators Wall, of New
Jersey, Grimes, of Iowa, Walker, of
Wisconsin, Bragg, of North Car
olina, VanWinkle, of West Viz
ginia, and Garrett Davis. OF
Kentucky. Among foreign statesmen,
JuareZ, President Of Mexico: Earl
Mayo, the Governor General of India.
assassinated by a religious fanatic
Mazzini, the italian revolutionist;
Duke de Persigny, the favorite of the
Third Napoleon; Sir Henry Bulwer,
the brother of the novelist, and once
British Minister at Washington; Lord
Lonsdale, the late Postmaster General
of England; and the Duke of Bedford.
Royalty has lost King Charles XIV. OF
Sweden; Marshal Prim, Of Spain; the
Archduke Albrecht of Austria; the
Duke of Guise, Don Angel Iturbide,
son of the first Emperor of Mexico;
and King kamahameha, of the Sand
wlch Islands. Among prominent men
in private life in this country. who
have died, are David Paul Brown, of
Philadelphia; General Howard, author
Of 90 Howard's United States Supreme
Court Reports;'' James Fisk, Jr.;
Samuel n. Pike; Erastus Corning;
John A. Griswold; Joseph H. Scranton,
who founded Scranton, Pa; Paran
Stevens, and Simeon Leland. With
the single exception Of music, all the
other departments mentioned have
suffered a severe loss in their ne
crology; more severe, perhaps, than
during any other single year
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