Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-01
DISTINGUISHED DEAD.
Men of Prominence Who Have Been Gath
cred in During 1889.
st. Louis Globe Democrat,

cred in During 1889.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
"Man dieth and wasteth away Yes,
man giveth up the ghost. and where is
he?" asked Job of old, and the same
question has been asked during the last |
twelve months over the remains of many
OF the wise and good, tie evil and the |
foolish, the rich and the poor, the learn
ed, and the ignorant and the powerful |
and the obscure of mankind. The great
reaper's crop is always ripe and always
of full size. There is little difference
between successive years in the number
of names of those known to fame placed
in the annual neurology; but no year can
pass unnoticed which includes on its
roll of .honored dead such men as Carl
baldi, Skobelef, Darwin, Emerson,
Draper, Marsh, Longfellow and Pusey.
The last month of the year has been
signalized by the death of one of the
better-known English novelists, An
thony Trollope, who, though not story
teller of the first class, has left mark
in fiction that will endure for little
time. He died on the 9th inst, while
another novelist of somo distinction,
Berthold Auerbach, departed this life
February s.
The catalogue OF poets taken from us
contains at its head II. W. Longfellow.
one of Americas most famous writers of
verse, if not, indeed, the laureate, who
died ct Cambridge March oath. Less
than three weeks later an English poet
of inferior power, but possessed of GER
tain striking elements of personality,
Dante Gabriel RossetG gave up the
ghost. In prose literature the world
mourns Richard h. DAM, whose most
famous publication, product of his
early life, 1.-TWO years before the Mast" )"
gave him worldwide reputation; and
. also George P. Marsh, who died in Italy,
July "a, as United States minister, at
the age of 50, but who will be remem.
bered as an author long after his name
as diplpmast will have faded from the
recollection of men.
Scientific circles mourn first of all theil
leader and chief, Charles Darwin, whose
S busy and useful life terminated at Orp.
!. ington, England, April 20. Distinguish
q ed like him in science, though in differ.
= ent fields, and also in philosophy and let
I ters, was Prof. John w. Draper, who
8 died in New York at II, two year,
younger than Darwin, on January
Within few days there has been re
corded the demise of his son, Prof. henry
Draper. whose ability as a scientific
Q investigator was also recognized. ,Bu
' as one whose life and thought has lef
: the clearest impress on philosophy, OF
culture and on the progress of the age il
i intellectual matters, Ralph Waldo Emer
!, sor, who died at Concord April q, stood
' pre.eminent among Americans, and out
= ranked all the great men thus far men
toned with the single exception of Dar
win. Emerson is the one American
l. whose departure will in future years b.
+ referred to as distinguishing this coun
try's neurology in 1892.
The political world has been .bereft O
many eminent figures both at home anC
: abroad. Here the decease has been reg
istered Of e. w. Stoughton, of New York
January Z; ex-Govs. Bullock, of Massa
chusetts, January II; Lapham, of Cali
q fornia, March 4; Washburn, of Wiscon
It sin, May IA; and Denison, of Ohio, June
, Is; Ex- Congressman @. N. Potter, of New
York, January %, and Representative
Orth, of Indiana, few days ago; Gen. s
A. Hurlbut, United States minister K
l. Peru, March q; Ex-Postmaster.G Genera
o Horace Maynard, of Tennessee
: May =, and Senator B. H. Hill
August 16. Our military ant
= naval rosters have lost Rear Admira
8 John Rodgers, May 5; Gen. j. G. Barnard
Q May IA, and Gen. g. K. Warren, Angus
4 8. Other deaths worthy of more than
passing glance, either in themselves O
9 the memories which they call up, hay
q been those of Joseph E. Sheffield, th
l. New Haven philanthropist, February II
\ the widows Of Daniel Webster, Februar
: 26, and of Abraham Lincoln, July l6, an,
u Adelaide Phillips. October 4.
e In Europe the places in public an
n military life which have known ther
= hitherto will know no more Gen. Kaut]
mann, whose death was announced Ma
q 16; Garibaldi, the Italian patriot, who's
D. spirit abandoned the little isle of Caprer
ls June 2; Gen. Skobeleff, the impetuou
! Russian, whose mysterious, death o.
!, Cured July 6; Gen. Ducrot OF Franc
u who died August II, and the fiery con
3. mun'st, Louis Blanc, who ceased to plf
y December 6. At the opposite. pole {
- thought from the last named was I'll
" venerable Rev. DR.. e. B. Pnnahy,, VII
ls died in Ergla I'd, September l8,s and d
ID Tait, archbishop o. Canterbury, who,