Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-23
THE DEAD
OF the First Six Months or This Year
asss-A Long Array of Illus
friOus Names

The Cincinnati Gaseae, reviewing the Ions
list OF the illustrious dead of the presen
| year, says that should the mortality of tbs
| last haiI OF the current year include yery
lew notable men, the number of this class
) who have passed away between the lst al
January and the LIST of July is very large.
Among the deaths in January were those Of
". ID. AInsworth, the novelist; Dr. J. w.
Draper, The scientific writer; c. C. CLAW. the
Alsbana ex-senator and secession leader.
Ex-GoVernor A. III. Bullock, Theophilus
Parsons and Judge j. p. Putnam, distiu-
guishei in the legal and political circles of
Massachusetts; Edmund Burke, ex-congress-
man flom New Hampshire; the Revs. ]. s.
Stone and John Cotton Smith, of the Epis-
copaiCAuroA;- Enoch Pond; Of the Congre-
gatioial, nonagenarian an, ana III. Beffows;
Of the Unitarian; Sir Daniel Macnee, presi-
dentof the Scottish Academy; Generals r.
3. Mitchell and Sias Casey; Chief-J ustice
Piepepont, of Vermont; E. w. Stroughton,
ex.ninisier 10 Russia, and Herman Schla-
genlweit the explorer OF Thibet.
Among the dead of February we're: Ber-
thold Auerbach, the German novelist; Bish-
ops p N. Lynch (Catholic), of Charleston,
and W.. NJ. Wightman, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South; Kokum Hua,
Chinese professor at Harvard College; L. J.
Martel, the French statesman; Edward c.
Marshall, of Virginia, last surviving son of
Chief Justice Marshall; the Rev. Henry Lit
tie, OF Indiana; Charles Hale, formerly
consul general to Egypt the Rev. Ezra Par
melee, aged 100, and Robert III. Pruyn, e1-
minister 10 Japan.
In March died the distinguished English
orientalists, John Muir and Thomas Jarrett;
Sir c. Wyatt Thompson, distinguished in
physical science; Revs. w. 7. Brantley,
James T. Champlin, Lyman Coleman and
Orville Dewey, eminent in the Baptist, Pres
byterian and Unitarian Churenes, and as
teachers; II. II. GARRETT a leading colored
Presbyterian minister, and at the time OF i1fs
death minister to Liberia; DIR. james Pan
coast, the distinguished Philadelphia physi-
clan; General Dorregary, OF Carlist fame,
The list OF April is shorter, but even more
than that of the preceding
month. II includes d. G. Rossetti, the En-
glish preraphaelite poet; Bruno Bauer,
noted skeptical theologiau Of Germany; j.
C. F. Zoellner, the artist, and Charles r.
Darwin and r. w. Emerson.
Among the dead of May were Joseph L.
Chester, one of the most distinguished gen.
ealogists of the century; w. B. Rodgers, the
Barnurd 9n and MsaniRRs ann.s q Rasslsn fame and
Robert F. Bowen, general grand high priest
Of Royal Arch Masons of America, an Office
neld in England by the prince of Wales; the
Rev. William Hanna, biographer of DIR. |
Chalmers. and himself prominent Scottish |
Irvine; Profs. H. J. Holtner, of Jena, and G. |
Murray, OF Columbia; Edmund Hoefer, the |
German novelist; the Rev. r. B. Claxton, an |
Episcopal clergyman and theological pro-
essor; Ex-Governor G. G. Washburn, OF |
and DIR. J. r. Wood, one of the |
most distinguished of New York physicians |
The neurology Of June contains no more |
llustrious name than that of Garibaldi, but |
here are other distinguished names. Among |
hem are those of William Dennison, Ohios |
irst war governor; John Scott Russell, tie
s1sous engineer; Archbishop Mahary,
of Moscow; A. E. Beard and
=. G. Jardin, distinguished French painters;
Prof. II. J. Rittner, the German historian,
nd NJ. A. Otero, congressional delegate from
Jew York.
July, belonging to the latter half of the
ear, does not properly come within our
limits, yet its record is already noteworthy,
ncuding as it does, General Michael
kobeleff; III. K. Browne, the artist, known
D all readers of Dickens as Phiz; Henry
tiles, celebrity in the fourishing period Of
opular lectures; Bishop Scott the senior
uperintendent of the Methodist Episcopal
'hurch; Ichabod Goodwin, veteran ex-
overnor and man of affairs in New Hamp-
hire; J. A. Hanson, inventor of the cabs
hich bear his name, and George Nichols,
proctor of the Cambridge, Mass, press,
hose scholastic attainments and unrivaled
ccuracy will give him fame in the annals
typography. Our list is a more than
rdinarily long one, yet additions mi ght
roperly be made to it.