Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-10
The Death Roll of the Past Year.

THE year now fleeting to its close has
been remarkable over most OF its 1mme-
diate predecessors for the number of per-
sons who have died in it who were of un-
usual prominence before the world. A
review of the death roll Of 1872 would be
interesting at this time. 1t 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 Spaiding, of the World. A celebrat-
ed French journalist, Adolph Gueroult,
editor of the Paris NGtSo'aaJe, and we'll
known American editor, Edward A. Pol
lard, formerly of the Richmond E10neS'aeT,
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 Ewel 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.
G. B., Constable of the Tower, veteran
oc 4, TrI nd
father, another British soldier of renown.
Among the American statesmen were
Seward, PostmasterG General Randall,
ex-Minister to Russia Ingersoll; Hum
phrey Marshall, the rotund and iovial Ken
lucky Congressman; ex-Senators Wall, of
New Jersey; Grimes, of Iowa; Walker, OF
Wisconsin; Bragg, of North Carolina;
Van Wrinkle, 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
native religious fanatic in that country;
Joseph Mazzini, the famous Italian agi-
tator, who was planning another revolu-
ton when death quieted 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 m onarch; the Arch
duke Albrccht, of Austria, known in his
torv as "The Victor of Custozza;" the
Duke of Guise, one of the younger mem
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'Malley" and score of other
Irish novels which have given delight TO
millions Of readers in both hemispheres;
D'Aubigne, the famous author of the
sHistory of the Reformation" Theophile
Gautier, the popular Partisan feuilleton.
ist; 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 ana phl-
osophy the deaths have been OF the NUS
trious Professor Morse, inventor OF the