The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-01-29
INTERESTING EVENTS.
s.~. ~ the N.,.d Dead er 1889.

,u. M thu Onm,S of prominent tnuN iuualS
.ho died during the year lssl. we compile
/. % following, belonging 10 the Unlted s'a'es'
poLiricNL WORLD.
Adolph Y. i,oric, cx-Sccrctary Oh 'hi''"
States Navy: Hon. willsm A. Howard ""''
rrnnr Of Dakota: Richard B.Conholy. cx-oo'ni''
,gp'lrr oi New York City; ex-governor h''
ward Clark, Texas; cx-Nay"r Gcorgc o'a!h"'
New York; Ex-Governor Albert u. Bro"n'
N, .sisslppl. Ex-Governor John a. Campoe'',
Wyoming Territory; ex-governor hcroef""
Iulssi,ur; Goyrrnur Williams OF Indiana;
Ex-Governor Wr,trn,t. ~ Flo ilt; cN-u"Nerh'
or Henry :. rultr. Tennessee; eS-iioN"rn"r
NJ Ii.,Iim. OF MichisIn Benjamin h. Phelps. |
unItd states District Attorney. Ne" ioih
Cry.
LX.YCuUElis on CoNGht'S.
General John i.r.h.n, Penn ylrmia: SAM ,
ucl q, Arnold, Raoic islnl Willrm ". war |
rem, Massachusetts,; III ,m.s +. i,ayir'l, Della |
ware: Joseph ScSlr, Virginia; John hOoo.Ao'
Pennsylvania: Ezra Is. frcnh N,inc; }. Is.
Howell. Iowa; jacob lirinse.aof, ONO. do
scph X. ChIuicr, Penn yiHahIa; Villain DIX
Ter. Penn y,Nania; James AlrNaiio' Hc'l'"
virgina; ilcrscirl V. Johnson. Georgia: Len
Butiolomcw. New jersey: Robert Mcoici'
land, Michigan: Il. &. Ritter, kent"chy'
Charles Albright, Pennsylvania Fayetic Me-
Mullen, Virginia: Eyarts W. farr, New iiamp'
shire: Percy Walker, Aabinii; t. ID. conn.,
Ohio: Charles Knapp, New York; LaiayettcS.
Poster, Conn.ctic.i; Henry ID. Foster, REM
syiyania.
UNITED STATES ARMY.
Brcy Of. Major-G cncral George sykes, Major
General Hector TyndaIc, General Joseph W.
Revere, Major-Gcncral Hcntzclman. General
Ainrt }. Mycr (Oli Probahaticsh General
Alfred rorbcrt, General Kichir! s. Sattcrlce.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
Commodore lomerC. Blake, Captain John
| Carson, revenue marine; Isaiah Nanscom,
Chief of the Bureau of Navigation: Commo-
! dorc Edward Barrett, Rear. Admira! Thatcher,
| Chcf.Engnccr John =. Albert, Commodore
Lowry, Kcar-Admirai q. X. Stribling.
! THEOLOGY.
Bishop Gilbert Haven, N. 4. Church. Nal.
den. Mass: Jacob Idle. ID. d., COngrc gational,
west Medway. Mass; William McAllster,
Methodist, New York City: Rev. u. 5. Nc
Muriic. Director of the Theological Seminary,
Emmcttsbur No.; Rev. Adplph Baltzcr,
President German Evan.flical Synodot North
! America, st. Louis, Mo-; Rev. +. ". Kennedy
editor Southern ChristtW .idr"cd'e, Maeoh'
Ga; Rev. jeremiah B.Jc,er, ID. d., Baptist,
Richmond, Va; Prof. d.. !. Trcssicr, u. De-
President Lutheran College, Carthage, ILL;
Rev. Robert l.. Dashicll, ID. d., Methodist
Episcopal Church, Newark, n. j.: Rev. George
Puncharl, Congregational, Boston, Mass;
Rev. Br. Osgood, Episcopalian, New YORK;
bishop Pcllicier, Roman CATHOLIC, San An
tonic. Tex; Prof. Actln Ter Macwhor'cr,
Presbyterian thcOlogian. New navcn, Conn.
! DIR. William Matthews, Presbyterian, Louis
| vile, Ky.; Rev. DR.. William Adams, New
Yosk: Rev. DIR. o. T.. Daggctt, Professor 81
Divinity, Yale College; Rev. s. ID Dennison
ID. d., White Plains, N. j.; Rev. William
Plu,rcr, D. d.. Baltimore, Md; Bishop Davit
! $. Dapgctt, Richmond. Va: Thomas II. New
ton, D. d., Petersburg, Va; Rev. John Nc
/. ClOskcy, President Mount st. Marys College
. Emmittsburg. Md: llev. John :. Phelps. Meth
. odist, Trenton, N. j.; Rev. Dr.. Edwin II
chaplin, New York.
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION.
!. Prot. William Livingston, Lombard College
J, Galcsburg; Prof. Samuel Gardiner, electrical
md inventor, Buffalo, N. y; Prof. L. o. ChaI
/, man. Mount Union College, Ohio: Prof. F. 4!
Allen, Principal Pennsylvania Normal Schoo
l. Prof. Frederick Peck, botanist, Washington
d. co. II. English, schOol-boOk publisIe
Pittsburgh, Pa; James Lenox founder of Z!
II Lcnox Library New York; Prof. James Da
:, comb, Obcrln College, Ohio; d. X. Jones, II
% ycutor Of lucifer matches, Chillicothe, O
}" David NJ Lord, editor Literary and Thso'ogc
Journal, New York; Prof. John e. Bull, Anne
le lean Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Hartfor
=. Conn; Rev. Barnas Sears, cx-President
:. Brown University: Prof. Hiram Collyer. n
~ braska State University; John Il. GordO
- Professor OF Mathematics, Fayetteville, Arb
Z. Jacob Ball 9eologiSt, Texas: Benjamin Piert
Professor of Mathematics, Harvard COLES
IN Massachusetts; Prof. James &. Watson, {
:. tronomer, Madison, Wis.
JOURNALISM.
Herman ROOs, SWedsh american, Chicae
en George ". Bliss, Mineral Point Wis., Tribm
u. Frank Leslie, New York City; Thomas
il Grant, Evening NcWs, Detroit. Mich; l..
Plummer, Tribune, Minneapolis, MINI; "
~ lam II. Brewster, Traveller, Boston, Mas
George D. Hebard, Galipolis Ledger, Ohio;
C r. Lee Shafer. Montgomery IN. " Stdndd'
re Charles Smith, Kcokuk Ha.) Constitution; c.
ur Taylor, Philadelphia Times; John F. Wheel
Fort Smith tArk.l independent; John Nuge
nj San Francisco Herald; james j. Ross, Ma
-. vile (KyD Bulletin; T. W. Echelbers,
~ MOincs (lOwa) State Register; Chauncey NJ
III ton, Cincinnati Ohio, Enquirer; Sidl
zen Andrews, correspondent, Washington, d.
Samuel X. Glenn, New York Herald; Geo
aSs Brown, Toronto Globe; Edwin A. Tuck
;n- Hartford Uonn.) Erening Post; George L
80, ley, New York Tribune; David L. Phill
~" State Journal, Springfield, ILL.,; j. Bradbu
100 New York World; Alexander W. Rock, ri
burgh Dispatch; Robert Lourie, Auburn
" Courier: GcrmOn FOss, Woonsocket tR
Patriot; Scion Robinson, New York Trib,
william Stenxe, Hesiche Post, st. LO
at Hiram Fuller, New York; Charles W. W
ec. ple. Louisville Commercial; Charles Il. Sn,
i'm Cincinnati Gazette; Edward Lloyd Ford, CT
~. ti0n Union, New York: Jerome Il. Stills
~. New York Herald: John .Nugcnt, San Frar
MO 60 Herald; Gerard stith, New Orleans Picav
LITERATURE.
~ Richard rockingham, historian, BOs
, on Mass; Mrs. May Agnes Fleming, move
w,. Brooklyn, N. Y; DR.. Edmund Bailey o.
rI- laghan historical writer, New York; l.!
-" Maria Child, Weyland, Mass; f. d. Mansh
New Haven, Conn.,; George Merriam, Spr
'teu field, Mass, publisher Wcbster's Dictional
,, A POOr.HOuse Horror.
DOVER, N. H., January
o"s ADlsAsrER without parallel in this sec
TIC bcfcll the STAFFORD County Poor-ll0usc,
ated about four miles north of this city, {
,rk. early hour this morning, whereby th!r
,o, paupers and lunatics lost their lives. AT
o'clock fire was discovered In the fur
room of the main building, 4 thrcc-s
ILLS edifice Of brick, in which lived one hun
ling and sixty-four persons besides the physit
hort and attendants. In some way the wood
,f;,n near the furnace caught fire and b'
e through one story before it was discovere
wv" was then burning furiousiy. and in the abs
of facilities for sQuechng the flames Their
re- nothing to do bat to save the inmates,
ndor were Immediately in fearful state of G,
,Io,, ment. Many OF them were old. imbccile
helpless. and the spectacle as they r,