Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-02

sk1nc name. The ConETcss Of TINS
country lost Hon. Heister Clysner, In
Pennsylvania, Ia Jnnc. ard asneng other
cx-sneInbsrs Of the House. John Hill, OF
New Jersey, in JAY, while the Cabinet
lost Secretary FoIgcr.
Among the clergy the number Of
names was not great, bnt the lack m
number was more than made up by the
prominence Of those who died, among
them being DIR. r. II. clarkson, Bishop
Of Nebraska Bishops II. II. Kavanaugh
and George r. Pierce, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and Bishop
Matthew Simpson, Of the M. Il. Church
The list Is also increased by the names
Of Ezra Abbott. Of Massachusetts,, and
DR.. Charming, the nephew Of the cele-
bratcd Unitarian divine Of the same
name. The army has lost Generals
Terrell and Afford. and the pavy Com
manders fillcbrown and Gregory, and
Rear Animals Georgc +. Simmons, A.
A. Harwood and Alexander Murray.
During the same time Russia lost General
Francis +. Todlebcn, who defended Sc
bastopol. while the list Of departed sol
diers also comprises the names OF Gem
erals Wimpffen, Jean Paul Schramm,
and Hicks Pasha, who persisted in the
Soudan.
Science has lost Professor Guyot, OF
Princeton; Professor John Gustavus
Droysen, Of Berlin; DR.. Woodward. OF
the United States army; Augustus
yoelcker. of Berlin; DIR. Grimm, the En-
peror Williams surgeon. and DR.. Sam
uel ID. Gross; while literary circles
mourn the death Of Jane Gray Swiss
helm. Mary Clcmmer Ames. Charles
Reade. Blanchard Jerrold. Henry 1.
Byron. the dramatist. and Henri Laube,
the Austrian poet. Several noted eii-
tors have died. among them w. +. Sto-
rev. of the Chicago Times Thomas
Chenery, of the London Times, and
Thomas Kinsella, Of the Brooklyn
Eagle while the publishers who also
went the way of all the earth were
Nicholas Trubner and George Henry
Bond. both Of London; Thomas G.. APP
pleton. of Boston. and Smith Sheldon.
Of New York. Closely connected with
literature is the name Of Robert NJ. Hoe,
who died in September, after having de-
voted life Of seventy years to perfect
ing his celebrated press.
The noble Of the earth have lost sew
eral of their number, the more proml-
nent being Prince Leopold, Duke of Al
bany. who died at Cannes in March ; the
ex-Empress Anna of Austria; the
Prince of Orange; Arthur Richard
Wellesley, the second Duke of Yelling
ton: Sultan Pasha. the great Egyptian
statesman, and Lord Ampthill, the
English ambassador TO Prussia. Sew
eral Judges Of prominence and ability
died III the last twelve months, among
them being Judges Nelson Poe, of Ma
ryland: Amos Morrill,. Of Texas Ro-
bert L. Chambers. of Indiana ; Thatch-
er, of Colorado, and Swayne, of the
Supreme Court. Brignol left the opera
forever, aud Maria Taglioni, the great
dancer, died last April, at the ripe age
of eighty years. Frank Chanfrau, the
actor. and John Evers. the scenic artist,
are both lost to the dramatic profession,
while music lost Sir Michael Costa and
Hullah.
Besides these, number of notables,
who in one way or another made them
selves famous, have passed away.
Charles Delmonico, the New York ca
terer; Allan pinkerton, the celebrated
detective; the Chevalier Henry Wy
cOff, the lobbyist Sam. Ward, James
Watson Webb, General Tom Worth
ington; Colonel Claiborne, the histo-
rian of Missississippi; Fawcett, the
blind political economist and Postmas-
ter-General W. A. Beach, Tilton's
lawyer in one of the greatest suits OF
modern times Thomas Shannon, who
covered himself with glory at ChicSa-
manga, together with Royal Phelps,
John j. Cisco, and Ralph Sellow, the
millionaires.