The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-02-10
MISS DOROTHEA DIX
BY Her Noble Work, She Added New
Beauty to the Name of w oman.
[Dr. Eugene Grissom, in report of n. c. In


lDr. Eugene Grissom, in report of n. G. In
sane Asylum.
The death of Miss DOrOthea L. Dix has
removed from her labors one of the no
blest workers in the great field of human
charlty-has yelled one of the brightest
stars in the heaven of philanthropy For
more than half a century she stood in the
vanguard of humanity, working valiantly
and increasingly for the stricken insane
Difficulty never stopped her, distance
never wearled her, opposition never dau1-
ted her, refusal never subdued her, pleas
ure never tempted her, ease never lured
her, fame never attracted her. Her OBJ
jects were the wretched insane-her field
was the world-her thought the relief of
the suffering-her success was their re
demption, and her crown shall be the gift
of Him like whom she 'went about doing
good"
In her half century of unparalleled la
bors, she glided like an angel of mercy
through the dark portals of the prisons
and penitentiaries and poor houses of al
most every State from the Atlantic to the
trans Mississippi. She labored with the
zeal of the martyr and the inspiration of
the prophecies, until she saw the asylums
for the insane of more than thirty States
brought into existence as the fruit largely
of her labors. Nor did she ever cease to
watch over their progress with motherly
solicitude until the weight of well nigh
ninety winters brought her to the end of
her mighty task.
Nor were Ler labors confined alone to
her own country. She even crossed the
ocean, into foreign lands, to repeat the
story of a crusade, at once more daring in
its inception and effective in its results
than any enrolled in the annals of time
The beautiful story of her visit to Scotland,
the Investigations of the sufferings of their
insane, the want of sympathy of the rep
resentative of the Crown, her consequent
visit to the Premier of England, her story
to him of her rebuff in Scotland, his sum-
mons of the Lord Lieutenant to his pres
ence and the apology he was compelled to
make together with the recognition by
Parliament of her great services, the con-
Guiding address of member of the House
of Lords in these words, to-wit: ''My
Lords, to our great modification and hu-
initiation the sufferings of a part of the
dependent classes of this empire have been
brought to our notice by a foreigner! and
this foreigner an American! and this
American a woman! and this woman a
dissenter'- '-all this constitutes an episode
perhaps unparalleled in history.
Her visit to other parts of Europe, es-
pecially to Rome, and her influence with
the Pope in the erection of hospital for
the insane, was no less successful.
This Institution is one of those that
form the coronet of her glory. After the
lapse of nearly forty years since her eff
North Carolina at that day were crowned
with success, this Asylum remains to do
its appointed work, and over her death
couch to cherish its obligations, under the
providence of God, to her, and its vener-
alton for her memory.
And he who lays this wreath upon her
grave begs to add his grateful recollection
of her kindly sympathy, her valuable
counsels, and her never failing interest in
the work committed to his hands, for
nearly twenty years past. Earth bids
farewell to this great spirit, who has given,
if possible, new beauty to the name of
woman, and new splendor to the deeds of
charity.
She is added to the company of the immor-
''Who shed great thoughts
AS easily as an oak looseneth its golden
In kindly iargess to the soil it grows on;
Whose rich dark ivy thoughts, sunn'd DER
Flourish around the deathless stems of their
names;
Whose names are ever on the worlds broad
tongue,
Like sound upon the falling of force;
Whose words, if winged, are with angels
wings,
Who play upon the heart as harp,
And make our eyes bright as we speak OF
them"
....Messrs. Wallace Bros, have lately
prepared an exhibit of medicinal roots,
herbs and plants from their herbarium for
the museum of Harvard College, Cam
bridge, Mass, and will shortly begin the
preparation of similar exhibit for the
museum of the University of North Caro-
lima. [Statesville Landmark.
80. Mr.. Solomon Simpson, of Iredell,