Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-08
NEUROLOGICAL.
The Distinguished Dead OF 1875
From the Cincinnati Gazette i


ing, If we are to reckon by the wealth
and honors which his victims had ell
EOyed until he called them away
The grave is Il great levcler. and il
occupants are soon forgotten. eXcep
by the comparatively few who knew
and loved them, and by the student!
of literature. Out of sight out ol
mind, is Il provcrb which, sooner OF
later, will be applicable to the best O.
us.
4 Sovereigns are mortal, like thcil
subjects. Toungchi, Emperor O
China, aged 10, and William, ex
Elector Of Hesse Cassel, aged 73, dice
III JANUARY. The Empress of Chin;
followed her husband in April. The
Observation-Disclosures l., of Austria
expired i'll July. The ex-Duke oI
Madeira died in November, and TIL,
reigning Prince of Lippe Detwold in
December. The deaths of American
statesmen and public men have been
very numerous. Ex- Gov. Thomas
f. Bramlette, of Kentucky, died il,
January, aged 67; ex-senator and
Governor William A. Buckingham,
OF Connecticut, and Congressman
Samuel Hooper, of Massachusetts,
died i'll February ex-senator Jesse
D. Bright, in Indiana, and ex-Vice
President John G.. Breckenridge in
May Duff Green in June; f. p
Blair, Jr., and ex-President Andrew
johnson in July; eX-Congrcssman
Horace Binney, Of Pennsylvania, and
ex-Secrctary VIM. "A. Graham, OF
North Carolina, in August, the for
mer at the age of95; ;ex-Congressman
Henry L. Blow, Of Missouri, in Sep
tember; ex-Congressman Thomas A.
Jenckes, of Rhode Island, and Vice
President Henry Wilson, in Novem-
ber; aud ex-senator Ira Harris, OF
New York, i'll December.
Among other persons distinguished
III public life or eminent in literature,
science or rank, or conspicuous in
any way at home or abroad, we may
mention DR.. Peleg Clark, of Rhode
Island, sixty years a physlcirn, who
died OH the first day of the year at
the age of over ninety. During tn
same month there died Eber Ward,
the Detroit millionaire, whose spirit
ualislically-inspired will has occa-
stoned so much litigation j. w. 4 t.
tenshedt, nonogenarian naturalist, OF
Sweden; Emile Perier, the French
banker, aged IA; Charles Spraguc.
the banker poet, of Boston, aged IS
Maunsell Il. Field, of New York,
Judge and man of letters; Charles
Kingsley, the English author and
Broad church divine; George Trask,
the anti-tobacco apostle, of Massa-
chusetts; Francis Deak, the Hungar-
ian statesman; Patrick Lcahy, Roman,
Catholic archbishop, of Cashel, Ire
land Baron St. Leonards, ex-chan-
cellor OF England, aged "a, and better
known by his family lame OF Sugden:
DR.. Hitzlg, the heterodox theologian.
of Heidelberg, Germany, and Paui
Foucher,'a veteran dramatic critic OF
Paris.
The deaths for February include
those of Sir William Sterndale BEN
nett, the distinguished English musi-
cal composer; Nathan Sargent, "a
nous a generation ago as a Washing
ton correspondent under the name o;
Oliver Oldschool; NJ. Fould, a great
French banker; Rear Admiral Il. III. |
Boil, u. S. N; Sir Charles Lydoll, the |
geologist; j. w. Simcoe Kerr. Chict |
OF the Six Nations and q descendant |
Of the royal Governor of New York,
Sir William johnson and of James
Murphy, the Irish giant, seven feet
line inches tall, who died at Balti-
more, aged 50.
In March there died John limbs,
popular writer Oh English antiqui-
les cx-Adjutant General Loronzo
Thomas, U. S. a., aged II; Sir A.
hur Helps, author OF "Friends in
Councii;" )" Charles J. Matthew. artist,
ND the Oldest member Of the French
academy, aged 92; Lieut.. Gen. Sir
Iames Hope Grant; Cardinal Loren
o Rarili; Mrs. Henry NJ. Field, OF
Y. Y, woman whose admirable
emper and brilliant talents had
made for her very wide acqualnt-
nee; U. S. District Judge j. w
.ongyear, of Michigan; DR.. A. ID.
ord, formerly superintendent of the
)hio Asylum for the Blind; Dir. n.
). Keep, dentist of Boston, whose
estimony was the main evidence in
the identity of DR.. Park
lan's remains, and consequently of
onvicting DR.. Webster of his mur.
er; NJ. Seguin, aged SO, nephew of
ne aronautlc pioneer, MomtgoIpcr,
rst important railroad in France
aymond Brucher, once popu' Il"
rench novelist, hut latterly zeal
Is defender of the Church of Rome,
III Edgar Quinet, one of the leading
mixers of France.
There died i'll April Sir John GRAY.
i. r., and proprietor of the Dublin
feeman's journal; Commodore Le-
: Fitch, U. $. N; Cardinal Ami :!
lie Capoli John Harper, of Harper >
Bros; Wimwood Reade, the A fri II
n Traveller; Lord Hobart, Governor !"
the Madras Presidency; ex-Gover- n
'r "A. j. Hamilton, of Texas, and s IL
. Wells, the New York phrenolo- Ia ~
st. W
The deaths for May include those e;
T.. B. Stevens, the English sculp- "A
/; Mrs. f. b. Conway, the actress: "
'seph f. Babson, ("rOm Folio.,O -
erary man of Boston, noted as
Hector of The stray effusions of pc
eat writer's; Michel Levy, the Pari. III
blisher. 81 '' cA
we record for June the deaths OF "
ward Welby Pugim, the English 81
inject, son of the more disti,- L
isled "A. We!by Pugim; Samuel G. IN
axe, ---e-..,.I I,,,, "'
stoh !; the Hon. and Rev. {. ". y. 50 50
,ham, better known as the author 81. 90
a history of the Salem witchcraf ~
element than as a clergyman or 81
ngressman, and Mortime: Thomp- -,
/, once famous under the nom de =,
Ime of "Doesticks" -, ~
rhe dead of July include the Rev. ="
OF. j. f. Cairncs, the English DO
cal economist Lady Jane, widow ro
Sir John Franklin 4; Isaac NJ. Sin ~.
=, of sewing machine fame, and ST, -,
aries Locock, one of Queen Victo- f..
s physicians. %o
N August there die Gen. Alcxan. 10
+ Hamilton, aged 80, sou and name. 49,
re OF the great statesman Hans 90,
rlstian Anderson, the inimtabl so
nlsh novelist and story-teller G.. hi
Munnford. prominent telegraph fo
.ciai Gen. on Zastrow, a veteran do
ussian officer; ex-Presidemt G.. G. 10
iney, of Obcrlin; w. &. Ralston. hr
California banker, and Prof.
MADISON, ,aeronaut President Mon
;, OF Ecuador, (assassinatcd), and ",
Cyrus Mutt, of the jackson re,
tic University. m.
he September neurology includes he
* Campbell, wonderfully hu- yo
rous black man, of Madison, Ga, on
Il so, and prominent parsonage Mi
Major Jones' Ceurtship." The = /
'. DIR. E. Ill. GiiIct, author of Il RI,