Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-01-09
RECORD OF 1891.
Notable Deaths, Disasters and
Crimes of the Old Year.
The Grim Reaper Kept Busy with Ills
Keen Sickle Victims OF Disasters,
War and Pestilence- Fires, Hang
lngs, Lynchlngs, Etc.
DEATHS HARVEST.


The neurology for the year 1891 en-
braces a record of famous names in
the various departments Of the worlds
work which has not been equaled for
many years, whether in their number
or in the eminence of the position
which they occupied.
Politics.
From the field of national politics
there have gone William Window, Sec
retary Of the treasury; ex-Attorney
General Charles Devens, Alonzo Taft,
ex.secretary of war; ex- Vice President
Hannibal IIamlin, United States Sena-
tors Wilson, Hearst and Plumb; ex-
Senators Mcdonald and Pomeroy and
Gov. Hovey, of Indiana.
..,....,..v.s..s..~..-sT The Stage. e
The stage, too, has lost many OF its
shining lights Sweet Emma Abbott
is no more. Lawrence Barrett is num-
bered with the dead of the year. Other
names on the roll are those of the
great and only Phineas II. Barnum, j.
X. Emmett w. j. Florence, Samuel X.
Murdoch and Edmund s. Conner the
two last being links between the past
and the present generations of play.
goers
The Army.
The immortal Sherman heads the list
of those who made name and fame by
fighting the battles of their country.
..rAl1 DIN trni
David G. Porter, Rear Admiral Alfred
Taylor. Rear Admiral Carter, Rear
Admiral Cooper and Commodore VII
liam Rouckendortf OF the prominent
ones that were on the "other side
Gen. Joseph Johnston is no more.
Literature.
The worlds of letters and journalism
have suffered heavily. James Russell
Lowell is but a memory, Don Piatt
James Redpath, Amos +. Learned
Rev. Dr. Prime, DR.. B. J. LOSING
George Jones, Maj. j. NJ. Bundy
James Parton, W. W. Clapp and Ton
S. Applegatc, all authors or journalists
of national reputation, have passed tt
the great beyond.
In Other spheres.
But these are but few of the noted
dead. Farther down the roll are the
names of George Bancroft, historian
DR.. Howard Crosby, humanitarian
Bishop Gilmour, theologian; Charles
Pratt, philanthropist, DR.. Joseph NJ
Saylor, the oldest clergyman in th'
United States; DR.. Fordyce Baker, th'
eminent physician, and Monseignol
Paxton, who, had he lived, would have
been the next archbishop of New York
Noted Women.
The list of noted women that hav'
departed this life during the year i
not a long one Mrs. Allen &. Thur
man, Mrs. Cyrus W. Field and Nine
Blavatskv, the leader of the theosoph
lists, were among the best known.
In Other Countries.
Great Britain has lost Alexander "
Kinglakc, historian; Charles Brad
laugh, the radical leader; Earl Gran
Vile; Thomas Barring, the banker; Rt.
Hon. William Henry Smith, first lor
B. OF the treasury; Charles Stewart Par
nell, the home rule leader; Edwar
Bulwer-Lytton; Madison Morton, tn
dramatist. France has mourne
the loss of Emil Won Marcke, the an
nal painter; Cecile Montaland of tn
Theater Francaisc; Baron Haussmann
the beautiiier of Paris; Leo Delibes
the musical composer; Joseph Thee
dore Deck, the manager of the Sevre
works; NJ l.. Jules Grevy, expires
dent; Gen, Boulanger, Albert Wolf
the eminent critic. The prominen
men of Germany who have passed ava
ure. DR.. Ludwig Windthorst, TIL
clerical leader; Field Marshal Cour
Won Moltke; Carl llaupt, the orga
composer; King Karl l., of Wurten
berg. Besides these the list include
Kalakaua, king of the Hawaiian is
ands; Abdul Rahman Khan, ameer {
Afghanistan; Prince Jerome Napoleo
('Plon Plon"O; Sir John Macdonald
premier of Canada; NJ. Henri Littol
the Polish composer; Balmaceda, pres
dent of Chilli; Dom Pedro, eX-empert
of Brazil