Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-07-06
FAMOUS MEN GONE.
Death Claims Prof. Huxley, Gen. Groom
Clay Smith and Ex-Presidcnt Peixoto.

LONDON, July1 Prof. Huxley is
dead. The close of the great scientists
life came at 3:45 o'clock Saturday aft
ernoon. Since early in the morning he
had been sinking gradually during
the first part of the day, but at noon
the decline was very rapid and then
it was known that he could not sur
vive more than a few hours. Some days
ago the great man apparently raj
lied and the belief was entertained
that possibly he might escape the dread
results experienced Saturday, but his
age and the nature of his sickness COM
bined to sap him of his vitality until
the case had TO be regarded as hope
less.
The death of Prof Huxley marks the
end of life OF remarkable accomplishment
His multifarous investigation in the realm
OF biological evolution have been due both to
a mind OF unusual acuteness and balance and
to assiduous labors in delving to the bottom
OF every subject on which he entered
He was born at Ealing in Middlesex, May 4. |
1925, and after mastering the rudmentary stud |
les In the local schools fitted himself for the |
medical profession under the tutelnge of
his brother-in-law and by attending |
| courses of lectures at the medical
school of the Charing Cross hospital
| His early ambitions had been to
| become o mechanical engineer. The special
adaptability which he felt for this was evi-
denced in his later anatomical and natural
| history researches, when the mechanical
aspects of his subject matter most impressed
| him.
After receiving his degrees in 1s45 Huxley
| passed few years in shifting assignments
surgeon to marine posts His travels en-
! ublcd him to obtain empirical knowledge
of many phases Of lower animal life OF which
his collections and deductions were made use
| of in the London scientific periodicals and
| brought him fellowship in the royal society.
The active years Of Prot HuXley's aggres-
sive exploitation of his doctrine, which
! should have been distinctive enough
to justify the coming of new
name with which to designate them,
were those of his professorship at the Royal
school OF mines. The appointment pro-
fessor of natural history and palaentol-
ogy was offered to him in 1854, and
was not relinquished by him un-
til 1885, when i'll health enforced a remittance
of his incessant labors AT first with little
realization of his subsequent success, he
struck off from his title the subject OF pala
contology, although this stunning OF the an
cient branch of his subject he did not long per-
sist in.
Although allying himself in many ways to
the creeds OF the free-thinkers, preceding and
, contemporary, he found the only unassailable
ground in what is apparently an unsettled
belief, agnosticism. This term and the ex-
phcation of what it implies is due to Hux-
ley OF 1t he said: when 1 reached
intellectual maturity and asked my
pantheist, materialist an
idealist, Christian or q free thinker, found
that the more l learned reflected the less
ready was the answer. So l took
thought and invented what conceived to be
the appropriate title of 'agnostic.'" y"
As the most eminent expounder OF evolution
and other advanced doctrines, Prof. Huxley in
evitably gain the disapproval of orthodox
Q adherents, who viewed him as an antugon-
ist OF the true faith Indeed, he was not SO
violent as many who felt themselves enfran-
chised after the oppression of superstition.
! or the Bible he once spoke as the magha
charta of the poor and the oppressed Yet
like others who feel themselves unwar-
' rantedly attacked for their opinions
= he sometimes retaliated with excessive
r bitterness in iconoclastic overthrow OF
e cherished beliefs. His protracted and some
r what acrimonious controversy with Mr. Glad
stone five six years ago on the miracle o
/ the swine will be recalled as recent illustra
: tioa of this tendencyl
r WASHINGTON, July 1.-Gen. Greer
8 Clay Smith, who was once the prohibi
d tion candidate for president, "a wal
p veteran, and in recent years well
d known Baptist pastor of Washington
II died at his home in northeast Wash
It ington at 1856 o'clock Saturday after
n noon. For several months he had beer
d in poor health and over a fortnight agt
n malignant carbuncle began to de
n velop on the neck. 1t rapidly increased
e and despite the efforts of his physician
T. blood poisoning set in. A biographical
d sketch of Gen. Smith was given recent
D. ly in these dispatches.
New YORK, July Marshal Flo
raino PeiXoto, eX-president of tn
e -,
dead.
- Zone OF the most prominent figures in tn
eventful history of modern Brazil has passe
a. away with the death OF Floriano Peixoto. Hi
to position was that OF II distinguished soldie
NJ and statesman who was always found equi
to the many sudden political emerger
le cies in his country. BY the resignatio
W November %, 1891, of President de For
of SEGA, Marshal Pelxoto became chic
is executive OF the republic. His admtnistrato
80 was chiefly devoted to keeping the two indom
Ut table rebels. De Mello and Da Coma, from ovel
e. throwing the government. The siege of RI
lie Janeiro by the insurgent fleet was perhaps III
an most interesting incident of Peixoto's admir-
y istration AS the date for the national ele'
as tion in Brazil approached, it was gene
lg ally surmised that PeiXoto would declal
Sc himself dictator and remain at II
ha head OF the government. PeiXotos cours
~ was, however that Of good citizen. Whe
as DR.. de Moraes was elected president Peixo
Is disappointed all the prophets OF eVil by peac
be fully turning over the reins OF governmel
va and doing all he could to make his successor
~ road an easy His health then falling u
sr ex-presldent retired from public lifel
er WAsHINGTGN, July 1.-The Brazilia
fa legation here is officially in ignorano
en- of the reported death of eX-presidel
iS' Peixoto, of Brazil. Minister MendonC
is out of town and his first secretary
legation, Mr.. Amaral, said that he NJ
h been advised as to the dedease of IL
ex-president.
no RUSSIA MASSING HER TROOP