The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22

able Archbishop Bouget, of Montreal.
DR.. lrenRus Prime, the Methodist ed
itor, traveller and critic, passed away on
July Is, followed on the Esd by the
Bishop of Salisbury, DIR. George Mo-
berly. The venerable DIR. Stephen
Tying, of New York, died September 8,
and the list closed with the name of DR..
j.. r. Woodford, Bishop of Ely, October
"a, and Rt. Rev. Marcus Beresford,
Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, who
died December &c.
Literature lost some of its lights in
the past twelve months. About, the
great French author, dying january IL,
followed by L. S. Arthur, the writer of
many charming sketches, on March z,
Susan Warner, author of the Wide,
Wide World, left it on March Is, and
Richard Grant White, author of Words
and Their Uses, died on April s, follow
ed by the great Victor Hugo on May q.
and Alfred Meisner, the Austrian poet,
on May 20. Helen Hunt jackson, the
III. H." of many tales, died July II.
Henry w. Shaw, Josh Billings" ceas-
ed to jest on October 22, and Stanley
Huntley, famous as the author of the
Spoopendyke papers, died July 81.
The year was fatal to three noted pub
lithers-George ID. Bennett, of the
Brooklyn Times, January3 8, w. M. Con-
nelly, of the Baltimore Herald, January
II, and /. w. England of the New York
Sun. The stage lost John Mccullough
on November 9, and the musical world
mourns the great song writer, Franz
Abt, April 2, Brinley Richards, the COM
poser of oratorio, May 4, DR.. Damerson,
the conductor, and Jules Benedict, the
anthem writer, on June 5, Col. Geo.
Nichols, the impressario and manager
of various musical enterprises, died
June 5. The dead among the artists
are Louis Haye, March 10, John j. Jen-
kins, March Is, and the famous All
phonse de Neuville, the French battle
painter, May 10.
Only three lawyers of wide reputa-
ton passed away: Richard T. Merrick
and Samuel G. Courtney in the East and
Emory A. Storrs, of Chicago. Among
the men of science the death roll is not
long, but it contains the names of
Charles Downing, the pomologist, JAN
uary Is; Charles A. Renter, the French
arch@ologist; DR.. John G. Draper, the
son of the great Psychologist and HIM
self an author of no mean repute; lie
Broste, the French engineer, and DIR.
Carpenter, perhaps the best authority
on physiology and its kindred topics
that the world ever knew.
Among those not subject to classified
ton are many well-known names. Myra
Clark Gaines, the famous New Orleans
litigant, died January 9; S. S. Merrill,
the New York railroad magnate, on
February z, and F. A. Drexel, the Phil
adelphia banker on February 16. Cor
nelius B. Garrison. the capitalist, died
on May 2, and j. H. Ritter, the New
York railroad manager, on June II.
III. b. Claflin, the New York merchant
and banker, was preceded to the grave
by Moro Phillips, the Philadelphia mil
llonaire, who died August 8. Sir Moses
Montefore, the Jewish philanthropist,
was mourned by thousands on July %,
while Ferdinand Hitler, the German
politician, died May IL. and Dan Mace,
well known in sporting circles, on April
10. w. A. Pond, the music publisher,
died August IL, while the deaths of VIM.
II, Vanderbilt on December 5, and
Charles Foster, the medium, on Decem-
Der 16, are too recent to need more than
the barest allusion to recall them.-St.
Louis Globe-D Democrat.