Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-01-11
THE DEAD OF 1891.

these were known to a circle world
wide in extent, while others were
prominent in smaller circles.
Europe has lost some of its greatest
men during the past year. The list
includes Count Won Molte, the VEN
cradle warrior; Jules Grevy, ex-
president of France; Earl Granville,
liberal leader in the British House of
Lords; Gen. Boulanger, the cratic
French soldier of fortune; Charles
Stewart Parnell, the great Irish lead
er and agitator; Meissonier, the fam
Gus painter; Henry Cecil Raikes
postmaster general of Great Britain;
William Henry Smith, first lord of the
British treasury and leader in parlia-
m ent; Charles Bradlaugh, DR.. Wind
thorst, Kinglake, the historian, the
king of Wurtemburg, Edward Bull
wer Earl of Lytton, and Prince Je-
rome Bonaparte. Other noted for
eigners who have passed away with
in the period are Dom Pedro, exiled
emperor of Brazil, Kalakaua, king of
Hawaii, Sir John A. EacDonald, premi
er of Canada, and Sir Adam w. Viii
son of Toronto, ex-chief justice of the
Queens bench.
In the United States death has been
especially active among Of promi-
nence in political life. The death roll
includes ex-Vice President Hannibal
Hamlin, ex-Postmaster General j. A.
J. Creswell, ex-Minister to Portugal
Geo. B. Loring, Secretary Of the
Treasury William Window; United
States Senators Preston G. Plumb,
George Hearst and E. K. WILSON,; ex
Senators Joseph E. Mcdonald Of In
diana, Daniel Clark and Bainbridge
Wadleigh of New Hampshire, David
of Georgia, Frank Hereford Of West
Virginia, S. G. Pomeroy of Kansas
and T. A. Sawyer of South Carolina;
Congressman W G. WittehOrn and
Leonidas @. Houk of Tennessee, Fran
els B. Spionla of New York and M. Fl.
Ford of Michigan; eX-GOvernors
Hale of New Hampshire, Dillingham;
and Smith of Vermont, Sibley Of Min
nesota, Lippitt Of Rhode Island, How
ey of Indiana, Robinson OF New York
and Fowle of North Carolina; Minis
ter to Japan John T. Swift, and Gov.
Waterman of California.
Death has struck down Within the
year two of our great military men,
respectively the most distinguished
leaders of the Union and Confederate
armies that remained-Gen. William
II. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston.
Other military men who have died
are Gen. B. T. Kelley, Gen. Fi5zhugh
Lee, Gen. Robert McAllister and Gen.
Truman Seymour. The navy has lost
Admiral D. D. Porter, Rear Admiral
Geo. H. Cooper and Rear Admiral Al
fred Taylor.
Legal circles have lost ex-A Attorney
General Alphonso Taft Of Ohio, ex-
Chief Justices Lewis s. Dixon Of Wis
consin and John 4. Appleton OF Maine
Prof. William P. Wells of.the Ann Ar
Dor Law school, Judges Marcus Nor
ton and Charles Devens Of Massachu-
sets, Homer 4. Nelson Of New York,
Homer Il. Royce of Vermont, and Og
gen Holman OF California
The pulpit has suffered heavily in
the decease Of Rev. DR.. Howard eros
by OF New York, Rev. Henry Darling,
d. D, president OF Hamilton cCIlega, /
Bishop B. II. PADDED OF 1Iassachu-
sets, Richard Gilmour, Catholic Bfsh-
op OF Cleveland, Rev. Dr.. Samuel D. !
Burchard Of New York, Rev. Francis
n. Zabriskie of Princeton college. Ed
ward D. Prime, d. D, editor Of The
New York Observer, and others OF
note.
The literary world has lost some OF /
its most celebrated figures, among
them James Russell Lowell, George
Bancroft, James Parton, James Red
path, Dom Piatt, and jeremiah Col
burn of Boston, the well known anti /
quarian and historical writer. Among
the noted journalists who have died
are George Jones Of the New York
Times Major j. N. Bundy OF the New
York Nail and Express, w. ". CIapp
Of the Boston Journal, Walter r. Abel
of the Baltimore Sjse, Richard z.
Beirne Of the Richmond State, Her
man Raster Of the Chicago Staafs-
zeituag, and z. @. Allen of Maine, the
publisher. Science mourns
the death OF Alexander Winchan of
the University Of Michigan, geoIogist
and paleontologist, Prof. Julius e.
Hilgard Of the United States Coast
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