Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
NOTABLE DEATHS.

The notable deaths of the year 1887 did
not aggregate so many eminent names as
in either 1885 or 1856 But those who
were cut down by the irresistible reaper
were not less prominent in modern history.
The loss the Church sustained in the
death of Bishop Potter was one that was
deeply felt He died at the ripe age of
eighty-four, crowned by life of immeas-
urable good to his fellow men. Soon after
followed Bishop Lee at the age of eighty, a
man of great soul and blameless life.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher laid down life's
burdens at the age Of seyenty-four No
divine was more prominently before the
American public, and none of the deaths
of the year commanded more of the atten-
ton of the nation. The death of John G..
SAKE, the American humorist-poet, at the
age of Il, was peculiarly sad, his brilliant
mind and sparkling fancy having for some
two years Immediately preceding his death
been clouded by an insanity of the most
pitiful character. Mechanics and engineer
ing lost great opponents and leaders in the
death of Sir Joseph Whitworth, the dis
tinguished engineer, Alvin Clark, the
famous maker of telescope lenses, and
Alfred Krupp, the eminent gun-founder.
Authorship and journalism suffered the
loss of Ben Perley Poore, at 81 years John
Palgraye Simpson, so; Sir Charles
Young, the distinguished dramatic
writer Lady Ann Brassey the
authoreSs; j. 3. Beresford Hope,
the widely-known journalist at 81; Jean
Victor Durny, the French historian, at
rs; Michael Katkoff, the Russian Journal
list, 81; Dinah Mulloch Craik, at 81, the
eminent authoress, the record of whose
genius will illumine the pages of English
literature for all time, and Sergeant W.
Ballantine, the famous English author,
who died at the age of rs. In statesman
ship the worlds chief losses were Sir Stat
ford Northcote, 50 /; Cardinal Jacobini, 80 :;
Hannibal Hamlin, ex-Vice- President of
the United States, 90; Agostino Depretis,
20, Italian Minister of the Interior; ex-
Governor L. P. Blackburn, of Kentucky,
Il Elihu B. Washburn, II, whose distin-
guished diplomatic career reflected such
honor upon our country; Earl Lyons, 20,
the man whose ministerial career placed
him at the head of English diplomatists
Music, lost by Madame Jenny Lind Gold
schmidt's death at &c, perhaps the most
gentle and gifted artist whose name
has ever graced musical annals. The iu-
dietary suffered the loss of Chief Justice
Woods of the Supreme Court of the United
States at the age of 63 Other notable
deaths were those of Washington Bartlett,
Governor OF California, at the age of 63,
whose career and upright life are too we'll
known in California to call for words in
this place; General Charles p Stone, the
engineer who laid the foundations for Bar
tholdi's statue of Liberty, and who became
famous as Stone Pasha for military ability
and daring in the Turkish army ex-Gov-
ernor William Smith, of Virginia, aged
80; Benjamin Holiday, aged IS, whose
name is written into the history of the
country as the originator of the 'Pony
Express" the pioneer of the transconti-
mental railroads; John Taylor, 70, the
head of the Mormon Church, and successor
of Brigham Young Rear-Admiral J. R
NJ. Mullany, of the United States Navy, at
70; Ex-Governor W. B. Washburn, Of
Massachusetts,, 81; Rear-Admiral S. W. A.
Nicholson, of the United States Navy, at
the age of 81; Daniel Manning, ex-Secre-
tary of the Treasury of the United States,
aged 56, and j. s. MarmaduSe, Governor
of Missouri, at the ace of "a