The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-24

The new year was ushered j.
amid worldwide lamentations upe /:
the deaths of Tischendorff, TIL
great biblical orientalist,o of Leipsi,
Germany; Ledru Rollin, the Frencl
Republican, who figured prominent
ly in two revolutions; and Ger ).
Smith, the great American rhilai
thropist, who has just passed awa, ,
with the expiring year.
The Rev. Israel HI. Diehl, not,
as an oriental tourist and explore,
and who few years ago lecture q
throughout this country on BIB
Lands" died near Gettysburg, Pr
Jan. 4.
friedrich William l., ex-Elect, !.
of Hesse Cassel, died Jan. I.
Emile Periere, the noted Frenci,
banker. who constructed the s
German Railway, died Jan. Z, ag, Il
IS years.
The Emperor of China died Ja,
-, aged nearly 10 years.
Ex Governor Bramlette. of Ke,.
fucky, died at Louisville, KY, jar
II.
The Rev. p. +. johnson, one
the most effective and useful mil
listers OF tho Ohio Conferenc,
Methodist Church, died at Jeffe:
sonville, Ohio, Jan. Is, aged neariy
50 years. He entered the COME.
ence, in 1868.
VIM. II. Aspinwall, an emincn'
New York merchant, founder
the Pacific Mail Steamship Cor.
pany and the Panama Railroad,
died Jan. 18. aged 81. years. Fc
was Christian man. OF gi eat lii.
erality- did much for the poor, fos
missions. for theological seninaries
and for gospel work generally.
The Rev Samuel Rinke. Senioi'
Bishop of the Moravian Churcl
died Jan. IL, at Bethlehem, Pa, il.
his 18th year.
Lorin Andrews, another primo,
merchant of New York, died ia,
%, aged 65 years. He, too, wnf
noted for hberality in public anc
private charities. He built and
maintained a church in then des,
titute part of the city, gave 500,
600 to found professorships in tn,
New York University; and whe,
the Atlantic Telegraph Compan,
welo almost despairing of the sue.
cess of their grand project. be
cheerfully contributed 100000 to
the enterprise. thus insuring tn,
success cf an almost hopeless un
deriaking, and which has since.
even in his lifetime, SO gloriousl,
blessed the world.
Mansell b. Field, OF New York,
who was Assistant Secretary of the
United States Treasury under
Secretaries Chase, and Fessenden,
and McCulloch, and who was
known as a tourist and author,
died Jan. "a. aged "a years.
The Rev. Charles Kingsly, Canon
of Westminster, England, died Jan.
"a, in his seth year. He was
the author of numerous works, re-
ligious and philantropic. He is
recorded as one of the noble com
pany Of English clergymen who
devoted their lives and energies to
the elevation of the poor. He
visited this country some two years
ago.
The Rev. George Trask, the
celebrated and indefatigable anti
tobacco apostle, died Mt Fitchburg,
Mass, Jan. 25. aged 7S years
The Rev. G. Fillmore, a veteran
minister Of the Nj. T.. church, in
Western New York, died Jan. 26,
aged S5 years. It is said that he
organized the first Methodist
church in Buffalo. n. Y
Rev. John Gown, NJ. D.. men,
Der of the New York Conference of
the Methodist church, died al
Canarsie, Long Island, Jan. "a.
Samuel Jarrold. of Norwich,
England, an honored and successful
pioneer worker in the temperance
cause, died Jan. %, aged 50 years.
For the last quarter OF century he
had been engaged in the publication
of tracks on all phases of the NOV
ment, which were supplied on such
liberal terms as to be very freely
used in every city, town, and ham
let in the nation He was not only
a leader in the temperance cause,
but very jealous promoter Of
primitive Methodisin Many church
es were built for that denomination
mainly through his liberality.