St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-12-29
Notable Deaths in 1852.

Among the politicians who have
gone to their last long home are the
following:
Aug. Ex-senator Benjamin H. Hill,
at Augusta, Ga, aged 80 years. July
"a Hon. George p. Marsh, United
States minister to Italy, at VallOmbrO-
sa, in his SD year. April 20-Charles
Robert Darwin, at Down House, near
Orpington, Kent, Eng, aged % years.
Nov. % -Thurlow Weed, journalist
and politician, in New York City, aged
81 years. Jan. l7-Ex-Gov. A. H..
Bullock, in Worcester, Mass, in his
Goth year. Dec. 5-Henry c. Murphy,
ex-member of congress and president
of the Brooklyn bridge trustees, aged
- years. March Hon. Milton S.
Lapham, ex- governor of California and
ex- United States senator, in New York
city, aged % years. May I4-Ex-GOv.
c. c. Washburn of Wisconsin, at Eu-
reka Springs, Ark, aged "a years.
March 2-HOn. Charles Hale, in BOs-
ton, in his 5lst year. May 3-ExPOst-
master General Horace Maynard, at
| Knoxville, Tenn, in his 6Sth year.
Jan. Hon. E. w. StOughtOn, eX-
minister to Rome, in New York, i'll his
ODD year.
The well known authors have been
decimated as follows:
Nov. 3-James w. Simonton of the
New York Associated Press, ut Napa,
Cal, aged 80 years. April 26-Ralph
Waldo Emerson, at Concord, Mass,
aged 70 years. March 24-Henry w
/ LongfellOw, in Cambridge, Mass, aged
StarhAnS
humOrist artist, at BayOnne, n. j., aged
founder of the Sheffield Scientific
school, Yale college, in New Haven, il
his Goth year. Jan. PROF. JOIN
William Draper, NJ. D., LID, in New
York, aged II years. Jan. 3-Dr. Isaac
l. Hayes, Arctic explorer and author
in New York, aged 80 years.
Death has been busy among the
; clergymen, as the following shows
, Feb. I5-Bishop w. NJ. Wightmai
of the Methodist Episcopal church
South Charleston, 5. c., aged ~ years
, Jan. 3O-Rev. DIR. H. w. Bellows, il
New York, in his 6Sth year. Jan. @
Rev. DR.. John Cotton Smith, in New
| York, in his 56th year. July l3-Lev
: Scott, ID. D., senior bishop of the Meth
odist church near Odessa, Del, in hi
SOth year. Oct. l5-Rev. ThOma
. Guord, in Baltimore, Md, aged 81
years. Oct. 20-Rev. DIR. Robert Paine
senior bishop of the Methodist Episco
pal church, south, in Aberdeen, Miss.
; aged % years. Dec. Prev. Dr.
, Alfred Stubbs, at Princeton, n. j., aget
8 ~ years. Dec. S-Rev. William Lev
erett, well-knOwn Baptist clergyman
at Newport, r. l., aged 81 years.
The bill to place Gen. Grant on tn
n retired list of the army, with the ranl
| he would have held had he not bee
= made president, is again agitated.
= The Cunard company in addition t
= its order substituting coffee for gro
has issued new prayer of $50 words
; prepared by the general assembly G
;. the church of Scotland, to be append
: ed to the regular ritual. An Office
: called it the most beautiful prayer h
e ever heard.
= Mrs Barker of Estelline, OAK, lef
three children aged six months, tw
= and three years in the house while sh
= did work at the barn. The childre
= played with hot Goals which set fire t
t their clothes. Before Mrs. Barker re
5 turned. two were charred cOrpses. i
d rescning the baby, which afterward
= died, the mother was dangerousl
burned