Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-12-31
A REQUIEM FOR THE DEAD.
The Crtm Feaper's work for the Year
a Startling List of Noted Charac-
ters Called to the Great BE,
yOnd.

WAsENGToN, Dec. 3l.-The year tina
comes to an end tonight has proved one
continuous harvest to the grim reaper
| Almost from its first day to its last there
is an uubroken record of the passing away
OF men a0d women who have lett theil
impress On the histories, either OF the
worlI, Or Of their respective countries. Ii
Sas beer very many years since so many
who have gai0ed name and fame have
passed in a short twelve months to the
great beyond. The mortuary record o1
this country especially has been re-
markahiy large. From the field o1
national politics there have gone Will
lam Window, secretary of the treas
ury ex-Altorney General Charles Devens,
Alonzo Tat, ex-secretary of war; ex Vice
Presidel Hannibal Hamin; United
States Senators Wilson, Hearst and
Plumb; ex- Senators Mcdonald and Pome-
roy Governor Hovey, OF Indiana, was the
only state executive to die in harness.
The stage, too, has lost many of its
shining lights Sweet Emma Abbott is
no more. Lawrence Barrett is numbered
with the dead of the year. Other names
on the re i are those OF the great and only
PhIHeas =. Barnum, j. X. Emmett, W.
j. Florence, Samuel X. Murdoch, and
Edmund s. Conner; the two last being
links bet reen the past and the present
generations Of play goers.
The immortal Sherman heads the list
of those who made name and fame by
fighting Ehe battles of their country.
Next on the scroll comes that of Admiral
David & Porter, Rear Admiral Alfred
Taylor, Near Admiral Carter, Rear Ad-
miral Cooper, and Commodore William
RouckenSorff. OF the prominent ones
that wcE2 on the "other side" Gen.
Joseph Jshnstor is no more.
But thtse are but few of the noted
dead. FGrther down the roll are the
names OF George Bancroft, historian Dr..
Howard Crosby, Humanitarian Bishop
Gilmour, 4lologian Charles Pratt, phian-
thropst, pr. Joseph M, Saylor, the oldest
clergyman in the United States; DR..
Fordyce Barker, the eminet physician,
and Monseignor Preston, who, had he
lived, would have been the next arch
bishop OF New York.
The worlds of letters and journalism
have suffered heavily. James Russell
LOWELL lS Dub uenOig. bOu ldIt,
James Rddpath, Amos +. Learned, Rev.
DR.. Prime, DR.. B. J. LOSING, George
Jones, MAJOR j. M. Bundy, James Parton,
w. W. Clspp, and Tom S. Applegate, all
authors or journalists of national reputa-
tiou, have passed to the great beyond.
The record of the great de.l CT other
lands is likewise memorable one. King
Kalakaua, CT Hawaii; King Carl, of
WGrtembefg; Dom Pedro II, once OF
Brazil an Prince Baudouin, heir appar.
ent of Bel ;ium, have exchanged their
royal surroundings on earth for place
near the q eat white throne. France has
been Gale, upon to mourn the loss of one
of its OK Presidents, Jules p. Grevy, while
the erra,lc Boulanger has been removed
IRON is pc iLical field.
Others WAC are no more include W. II.
Smith, leader Of the conservative party in
The house OF commons; Charles Brad
laugh, Meissonier, the famous painter;
Ludwig, the Catholic leader of Germany;
Sir John Mcdonald, prime minister OF
Canada Charles Stewart Parnell, Earl
Lytton and Count Won Moltke.
The list of noted women that have de-
parted this life during the year is not a
long one. Mrs. Allen W. Thurman, Mrs.
Cyrus w. Field and Madame Blavatsky,
the leader of the theosophists, were
among the best known.