Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-13
DEATH OF JOSEPH HENRY.
A GREAT AND NOBLE MAN GONE !
HIS LIFE AND SERVICES.


the Smithsonian Institution. was circulated
throughout the city yesterday, and prayers for
his recovery were offered at many of the
churches, morning and evening. We have to
give now the painful Intelligence of his death
at noon today. He took a serious cold on his
trip North last fall, in connection with
the Fog Signal service, and his
illness developed into an acute at
taSk is sn OF Brights disease of the kidneys
HIS feet began to swell, showing the active
progress of the disease, and 1t has been evi-
dent for some time that there was no hope of
recovery, despite the medical skill brought to
his aid. His physicians were Drs. Lincoln,
Woodward and Tyler, with DR.. Weir Mitch
ell, OF Philadelphia. as consulting physician.
Inc dangerous nature of his disease did not
interfere with his cheerfulneSS. and he died in
iull consciousness and intelligence. His
family. and physicians and one or two imme-
date friends were present at his death bed
whom is an invalid.
Joseph Henry, l.. L. D., was born at Albany,
\. y, December IL, 1897. He was educated in
the common schools of that city andin the Al
bany academy where in 1896 he became pro
lessor of mathematics, and in 1927 as stated
by Prof. Barnard in "JohnSon'S CyclOpedia.'
commenced series of Investigations which
were continued for number of years and re
suited in highly important discoveries in elec-
ulclty and electrOmagnetiSm. Though pre-
Vl0usly TO these investigations the electro
magnet was known in certain sense, it was
nothing more than phiOsOphic toy, on which
feeble magnetism was excited by cur
rents of low intensity and short circuit
The means of developing. in soft iron
OF producing such an effect at a
distance IN any, appreciable degree were un-
known. Prof; Henry's first success consisted
called; an exceedingly important invention,
which no subsequent Improvement has essen
TALLY modified: He next demonstrated that
me dlf1culty OF exciting magnetic energy at
distance which al i'm fn
nounce the idea of an electric telegraph to be
..chimerical," may be completely overcome by
the use of an intensity battery, provided the
receiving electro magnet be constructed with
many turns of single wire. He also showed
that large iron bar may be powerfully mag
i, netized by Quantity battery. if sur
short circuits; but that if the wires of these
helices be so united as to form single contin-
uous circuit, battery of intensity is required
to produce the effect 1t was the invention of
telegraph a possibility. In communication
made to the american Journal OF Science in
1881, describing some of his experiments, Prof
Henry called attention to the practicability of
applying the intensity magnet to telegraphic
uses. During the same year he produced the
first mechanical contrlvance for maintaining
continuous motion by means of eectrO-mag-
netlsm, and another by which signals at a
long distance could be made by the same
means. He also devised scheme for pro
duclng large mechanical effects at a dis
lance, lance, ny causing heavy weights to fall in
consequence OF the rupture of electric cur
rents Some OF the electro magnets con-
structed by him at this time were of enormous
power One prepared for Yale College sus-
tanned weight exceeding ton. la 1882 he
made the discovery of the secondary currents
produced in long conductor by the induction
OF the primary current upon itself; and also
burg, he produced the electric spark by
means of purely magnetic induction. These
discoveries embraced the germ of the science
from which received
development, and of which the ~ recent
practical applications are so numerous
and important. In 1882 he was elected profes-
Jersey, and his earliest lectures at Princeton
demonstrated the feasibility of an electro
magnetic telegraph with experimental illus
tratiOns. He visited Europe in 1881, and in
London held interesting interviews with Prof
WheatstOne, the inventor of the needle mag
netic telegraph, to whom his discoveries were
already well known, and whom he acquainted
WITH wit his plans for producing not only signals
put large mechanical effects at distances in
dennltely great, by means of electromagnetic
ism: ism; In !s46 he was elected Secretary OF the
cumbent of that office, a position which
he held at the time of his death. In 1S49 he
was elected president OF the American Asso-
fssGa es 6a Ier s1nst Inc Of science n
academy OF Sciences and was present at the
business sessions of its recent meetings.
though feebleness prevented him from presid.
made chairman in 1871 of the Lighthouse
Board of the United States, an important bu.
Ieau OF tne treasury Department: and i'm this
catpiacity 6as been engaged. Of late years, in
honorary degree of doctor of laws, from Union
College, in 1929, and from Harvard University
IN IN lsn: ne published Contributions to Elec-
tributed numerous papers of greater or less
extent, in various scientific Journals. and i'm
the annual reports of the Smithsonian InStitu
tiOn from its foundation.
DOMESTIC TRoUBLE.-On the 4th of last
month Robert II. Robinson. jr., filed bill for
charging her with committing adultery with
one John King. She now files her answer
Denying IN toto the charge, and says she has
always been faithful, chaste and affectionate
some time in February, 1873, discharged from
The Post Ofice department for opening mails
&c; that from that time he has abSented him
self from her without any cause on her part.
ana has been ever since living in aduterOuS
intercourse with one Josephine Carr, i'm the
city OF Baltimore, and in the state of Virginia
DIVORCED. On Saturday in the Equity
court, t Judge n g MacArth9r, decree of divorce
Chas: E. Dudley. These parties were married
in 1854 and have children nearly grown, and
plaintiff charged that he committed adultery
Win one agnes NaTQ Josephine Strld6r, her
sister and others. The plaintiff was repre-
sented by Mr.. H. H. Willard, and Mr.. &. G.
LovejOy took the testimony.
THE GRAND JURY to-day presented an in
dlctment against Jonathan Taylor for present
Ing false claim, for work on PENNSYLVANIA
avenue east against the District for s. 1925
The witnesses are Wall Phillips, John Grant,
\. SandersOn, Lieut. HOxie, and VIM. Tindall,
Also one against Reuben Robinson and John
AlOySluS, alias Levi, larceny. The grand Jury
was discharged for the term today. The next
term commences on June 18th.
A TRAMP BAKED TO DEATH.-A tramp
known at the western police station, where he
has often applied for lodging, by the name of
Ben ozark, was found dead yesterday morning
by Police OFFICER kinSel1a on the top of lime
Kiln in Baltimore county, beyond Fayette
easily, but all of his body and limbs were so
changed by the extreme heat that they did
not look like human beings at aIl-IBat.
american. 18th.
A MURDER MYSTERY CLEARED UP.-Last
August Timothy Mccarthy disappeared from
ShOdiac, New Brunswick. and the Osborn
family were arrested on the evidence of a girl
named farkef, who accused them of murder
ing him. The body was found on Saturday in
the Scoudac river, near the place pointed out
by the girl.
THE DISCOVERY having been made that
Pope Leo has diseased liver, the able agent
of the Associated Press in Europe will Occa-
bellgerent empires and give us an old fash
iOned paragraph about the health of the pris.
Oner of the Vatican.