Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-12
The Dead OF the Past Year.

said 70 love we're not numerous the
past tear, nor these Of dazzling brillian-
cy. Scarcely one of them viii leave .
footprint on the sands Of time that the
Hood Of years will not wash out. while
nearly all are condemned to that i'm
mediate oblivion which swallows alike
those who strut their brief hours upon
the stage as we'll as those who stand ID
the background. and. unseen and iu-
distlnguIshsble, do their fall share IN
carrying on the great drama " life. We
Will briefly run over the list of those
sufficiently veil known to recall, at the
meuiIon of their names, an intelligent
memory Of their lives and deeds.
In January died, al the are OF 10,
Caleb Cushing, and At 81, EspAtero.
the son OF 9 Spanish wheelxrIghi. who,
having by gambling male fortune Ia
South America returned 10 Spain 10
spend 1t. where. IN 1912 be was made
Regent If the kingdom, during Queen
lsabella's minority. and. If gossip may
be trusted, assumed more romantic and
scandslous relations with her.
IL February, Richard Henry Dana,
the elder. poet aud essayIsi, died IN
Boston at the age Of 81. aud General
Won Room, the eccentric old Field Mar
shal Of Germany, In Frankfort.
IL March, William Hewitt, the En-
glish author. died at Rome, at the age
OF -, aud ElIhu Burritt. The Learned
blacksmith" in New Britain, Connect
cut, at the age OF IS.
In April, General John A. Dix, at
the age of 81. died in New York. and F.,
IN baltimore, Madame Patterson Bona
parte, who Tsileyrsnd said would have
helped the great Napoleon hold his
throne, had he not made the mistake of
disavowing her marriage with his
brother Joseph.
The Hon. Asa Packer, one of the
most prominent and wealthy men of
Pennsylvania, at 70; General James
Shields, aged SO, and William Lloyd
Garrison, the notorious and original
abolitlonist, in his 10th year, died dur
ing the month of May.
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, Baron
and head of the great London banking
house, died at the age of II, early in
June, the same day on which the
young Prince Napoleon was killed by
the Zulus.
In July, ex, Governor William Allen,
of Chic, died at the age of 81; in Au-
gust, Fechter, the actor; Bishop Olen
heimer of New Jersey; Sir Rowland
Hill, "the father of the English penny
postage" aged 81; and General Hood,
stricken with the yellow fever at New
Orleans.
In September died Armada de Noe,
known as "Cham" the French caricatu-
rist, as famous in France as John Leech
in England or Mast in the United
States; and Daniel Drew, the notorious
Wall street Spectator, at the age of 50.
Henry G. Carey, of Philadelphia, the
well-known advocate of the protection
theory, aged Sc; the eldest of the
Blackwoods, the Edinburgh publish.
ers; Jacob Abbott, aged 76. the writer
of more than 200 books for children;
Fighting Joe' Hooker and the Rev.
Joseph P. Thompson in Berlin, died in
October.
Senator Chandler; the notorious Mrs.
Eaton, on whose account the cabinet of
President Jackson was disrupted; B.
w. Jenness, who escaped by one vote
being the candidate for President, and
probably President, in place of Frank
lin Pierce; the widow of Charles Dick
ems; the mother of x-Empress Eugene,
of France; Delane, the editor-in-chief
of the London Times; and Michael
Chevalier, the leading political econo-
mist of France. died in November; and
Calcraft, the English hangman, in De-
cember.
Nearly all the dead worthy of any
mention at all were over 60, many over
20, few were more than 80. At least
three deaths of persons in the United
States reputed to be over 100 are re-
ported: Mrs. Lucy Nichols, at New
Haven, 1O1; Mrs. Elizabeth Reuter-, at
Baltimore, Maryland, 113, and Michael
McNamara, los, at Chicago.-DetrOH
Press.