The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1889-01-12
EMINENT DEAD, 1888.
Many Proninene American states
men Numbered Among Those
who Have Gene.

that, ~ nccroloSlcAl stnst, 1903 uiutfs CO.
sentlally from ordinary years. Death has
dealt with unusual yigor with princes and
presidents I'm the year which n expiring, but,
aside from this. its roll OF departed notablcs
contains fewer great names than that OF 1899,
for instance, upon tho mortuary list OF
which year were Rufus Choalc, A. @. II. dc
TocqucVille, John Brown, w. A. Aicott,
Thomas DE Quincy. Thomas X. IIeryey,
Henry Hallem, Alexander Won Humboldt
Leigh Hunt, Horace Mann, Prince Won
Mettcrnich, Washington Irving. William IL.
Prescott. and Thomas Ii. Macaulay. still,
the death records OF the year hold many
names with whom the world has long been
familiar.
The death list of rulers Is more than ordi-
narily long and notable. William j, OF Ger
many, the oldest monarch In years OF which
there i any authentic rcaorI; his son, Fred
crick ILL., the famous Crown Prince OF the
quarter Of century Immediately preceding
his accession 10 the German throne; Sir John
A.. Brand. President OF the Congo Free state;
president Solomon, OF Hayt, and NJ. Helm
stein, President OF switzerland, have during
the year laid down the sccpler OF power ut
the bidding Of the Great Ruler OF the uni
verse.
Among tho statesmen and publicists who
have died within the past twelve months were
Roscoe Conklng, TX. :. spofford. 'Long
john Wentworth, John 4. King, tho oldest
cx-member OF the United States senate;
Horace Fairbanks, Ex-Governor OF Vermont;
ID. A. White, OF Pennsylvania, ono OF the
founders OF the Republican party; William
johnson, Ex-Governor OF Kentucky; General
Abram Merritt, formerly United States Con-
sui General mt Liverpool; Thomas Carney,
Governor OF Kansas during the first two
years Of the war; o. Il. O.. Clark, ex-Com-
missioner of Pensions; joel Parker, jurist
and Ex-Governor OF New Jersey; William
Dorshclmcr, at ono time Lieutenant Cover
nor Of New York; w. u. Smith, formerly
a.
United states, and John Il. Hoffman, who
was Governor OF New York during tho days
when that state was dominated by William
NJ. Tweed and his fellow conspirators.
The years death roll Of jurists contains the
names Of Morrison X. Waite, Chief Justice
OF the supreme Court; Benjamin Harrison
Brewster cN-Attorncy General OF the United
states Jonn Turnkey, OF the Supreme Court
OF Pennsylvania; John Burns, Chief Justice
OF the superior Court OF Idaho; Richard A.
Jones, Chief Justice OF Washington Terri
tory George w. McIlyaine, ex-Judgc OF the
Ohio supreme Court John W. Bacon, OF the
Massachusetts supreme Court; Charles :.
Bradley, Chief Justice OF tho Supreme Court
Of Rhode Island; William Il. McAllster,
Judge Of the Superior Court OF Chicago
samuel Evans, Of Pennsylvania, the oldest
practiclng lawyer Of the United States;
Adm Thaycr, OF Massachusetts,; George Il.
Ihoatc, OF New York; Thomas Settle, OF
North Carolina; Sir Henry J. ;. Maine, the
author Of Roman Law and Legal Educa-
tiol,0 early Law Customs aud other
wcllknown works on legal subjects aud
I.eoni Levi, also an Englishman, and the au-
thor OF many notable books on commercial
law.
The "hcalIng art has contributed such
names rs these TO tho mortuary roll of 1883
Cornelius Agncw, Edward G.. Loring,
Henry u. sands, Clcmence sophia Lozicr.
Howard Pinckney, and A. Y. i. GarnetL
cx-Prcsidcnt Of the American Medical
Association and ox-Surgcon General OF the
Confcderacy.
OF the eminent artists, +. O. barley, the
designer and illustrator; Robert lIerdman,
the Scotch painter; Felix August Clement,
the French painter; "Claude Nignon," the
Gallic female sculptor; 9. q. Thompson, tho
American portrait painter; Sign0r Amendola,
American scenic artist, have been cut down
Ivy the grim reaper within the past twelve
months.
Music figures In the years mortuary
record bv the names OF John X. q. Hazard,
tho critic; Anne Scguin, William III,
shuttle, oliver Dltson, the publisher;
stephen Heller, tho German pianist Mary
Bastla, tho italian prime donna, and Helene
Jrossmond, the prma donna and daughter
OF Rachel, tho distinguished tragcdicnna OF
a third OF century ago.
The historic art, too, is well represented
on the death list OF 1888. ON Lester Wallack,
William Warren. George Griffith, Mrs. Asia
Booth Clarke, Lizzie Kelsey, Lillian Olcott,
Thomas A. Dow, Mrs. Knowles, widow OF
James sheridan KNOWLES; Henry Vandcn-
Mortimer vokcs, Mrs. W. n. ChIffendalc,
John Clayton, and William r. Dayidgc,
Times curtain has been rting down.
On The years roll OF dead playwrights and
dramatists are seen The names Of BARLEY
Campbell, OF the United States, and Auguste
ataI Inn md -
Death has not spared the literary ccicbri-
ties. A. Bronson Alcott the Philosopher,
and his more eminent daughter. Louisa NJ.
Alcott, David III. Strothcr ("Porte Crayon'),
Matthew Arnold, StephenJ. Mcany, the Irish
patriot and author; y. l.: Roe, Mary Hewitt,
John Savage, Michael Hcllpin, the critic;
Harry Macarty. author OF the Bonnie Blue
Flag@ Ludwig Stcub, a wcll.known writer
OF Germany; Laurence Ollphant, the writer
and traveller. and Manuel Fernandez Con
zales, the spanish novelist, have, during the
past year, laid down their pens forever
Conspicuous among the publishers who are
enrolled on the death list OF 1883 arc found
tho well-knOw names Of A. :. Barnes Of tho
United states, and Robert Chambers and
George Routlcdge, Of Grcat Britain.
Journalism has furnished TO the necrologI-
cal list OF 1883 the wcll-known names OF ID.
II. Locke ('Pctrolcum v. Nasby''), OF the
Toledo Blade; Thomas McElrath. formerly
OF New York Tribune; II. NJ. pulslfer OF
the Boston Herald; Napoleon l.. Thicblln
l"RIggolo'), OF the New York sun; Joseph
NJ. Levy, proprietor OF the London Tcle-
graph, and Sidney Howard Gay.
The scientific world during the year has
boon called upon TO mourn the demise Of
Richard A. Proctor, the distinguished as-
tronomcr: Asa Gray, tho botanlst; Seth
Greene, the pisciculturlst Major Bartellot.
the gcographer and explorer, who, while In
command AZ iambuga Of tho base of sup
plies OF the Stanley expedition, was murder
cd by one OF his Arab soldiers; Mr.. Jameson,
the naturalist, who died from fever while in